Rabbit Hole

I skipped class again today; I hate Monday classes, they are always so boring and full of stuff I don’t pay attention to anyway. So because of this I am able to sit here with you today and talk about how my weekend went. The first thing one should know is that I broke my keyboard. I attempted to clean it, then got lazy and cut corners… to make a long story short; water + keyboard + power = short. I am borrowing a keyboard from the Gaming Centre until A) They ask for it back or B) I get a new one. Me not having an XBOX 360 kinda turned out to be a good thing. I ended up getting 91.5% on my midterm, second highest mark in the class. Still not as high as I expected, so I am going to look over the test in her office.

So lets get on with it shall we! Let’s get on with the games.

Mass Effect started much before the weekend, in fact I didn’t play Mass Effect at all this weekend, but I’m 5 hours into it. The game is awesome! It comes out this week and for those who liked KOTOR or KOTOR2, it’s definitely well worth it. However, if you are a completionist like me you will be stuck listening to A LOT of audio and reading A LOT of text! After four hours of game time I only had 15 minutes of action. It’s a good sit down and do nothing game where you can just mellow out for a little bit and learn. It gets the brain juices flowing. I’ll let you guys know how my adventures in Mass Effect continue!

Next we have Kane and Lynch! I played this for an extended period with my cousin on Saturday! And I have to say it’s the best CO-OP game I have played since Sven Coop. The characterization in the game is something I have never seen before; you are teamed up with each other, but Lynch is really your enemy who is soon convinced that hes working for the wrong people. A little mysterious, but REALLY fun. Definitely not recommended for children though seeing as there is TONS of swearing and mindless violence. Kinda hard to play a game like that in a Gaming Centre, but we got through about half of it. We were going to finish the rest of the game Saturday night, but I guess I got back later than Tyler though I was coming back and he left Oh well… I am getting the PC version so we can probably try to hamachi it anyway.

Crysis… oh Crysis how I love thee. Since Tyler didn’t show up Saturday night I took it upon myself to take advantage of the excellent computers the Gaming Centre has and play Crysis for a couple hours. I was originally going to play BlackSite Area 51, but I realized I only got the first CD (which was 7gigs) and there were still another 7gigs to go! That is one HUGE PC game. Crysis is so fun, reminds me of farcry with special abilities. Good game over-all your standard run of the mill shooting, but with excellent visuals, graphics and game play elements. I wasn’t able to play this game for too long, because they closed the WGC early, but I did get my taste.

Assassins Creed, Blacksite Area 51, Soldier of Fortune, and Cabellas Big Game Hunter are all games I plan on playing this week, or when I get my XBOX 360 power supply back. Here’s a little update on that part of my life. I had to send the defective power supply back to DiviNeo (I had to pay for shipping), and apparently the package still hasn’t made it to its destination. So I still have to wait for it to get there, then for them to send me a new power supply Jeeze this was a bad mistake; expect the FULL story after its all said and done so I can flame DiviNeo to no end.

The rest of my weekend went pretty good, went to Detroit, hung out with my girlfriend most of the time. All in all it was a really really good weekend. I also was able to get a hold of rockband, which means I pretty much already have all the new games that come out this week; gives me time to catch up so to speak

It’s the end of the week and even today we are still seeing new releases for the week. My desk is cluttered with copies of Jericho (which we now have for the PC AND 360). I would have to say this game is the best game for 360 I have ever played.. a little mature, but still awesome. Also I can’t wait to get my hands on Bleach Shattered Blade and Zack and Wiki Quest for Barbaros Treasure for the Wii. There is also a Japanese Wii game that I would like to check out… Ghost Squad; it too came out this week. So enjoy minions!!

PC:
Hard Truck Apocolypse - Buka Entertainment (Apocolyptic Racing Action)
Age Of Empires III Asian Dynasties - Microsoft Ensemble Studios (Real Time Strat)
Clive Barkers Jericho - Codemasters (Demonic First Person Shooter)
Battlestar Galactica - Sierra (Top down Space Combat)

360:
Final Fantasy 11 - SquareEnix (MMORPG)
Need for Speed Most wanted - EA Games (Street Racing)
Need for Speed Carbon Collectors Edition - EA Games (Street Racing)

Wii:
Avatar The Burning Earth - THQ (Action)
Bleach Shattered Blade - Sega (Fighting)
Ghost Squad
Rayman Raving Rabids - Ubisoft (Adventure Mini Game)
Rockstar Games Table Tennis - Rockstar Games (Sports)
The Legend of Spyro Eternal Night - Sierra (Adventure)
Zack and Wiki Quest for Barbaros Treasure - Capcom (Adventure)