Doggy gets the Evil Eye...

Haha...I loved this video, made my day for some reason

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Game Review

I just got done playing the X-Men Origins: Wolverine demo on my Playstation 3, and I thought I would write a review about it. First off, I really enjoyed the demo. It had a lot of meat to it, unlike other demos (cough, cough, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2). The in game cinematics looked good. Thought it was kind of weird how the game started in the not so distant future, but whatever. After watching the first cinematic, then looking at the in-game menu, I started hacking and slashing my way through typical machete wielding, gun totting mercenaries. After a while, I felt like I was playing God of War, which in any way isn't bad. After a while, I come up to a scene where Logan lunges onto a helicopter, pulls the pilot out, and shoves him up into the propeller so just his head gets sliced. I was kind of amazed at that, I didn't think that their would be so much gore in this game, seeing as the movie is PG-13. The game moves on a linear path, which is kind of upsetting. I tried to jump onto a cliff to look around, but couldn't because of an invisible wall. I'm not to crazy about invisible walls, especially if they implement a path finding mechanic, such as feral mode. When you activate feral mode, your vision changes and you see a blue sort of wave pointing you in the direction of the next check point. Why do I need something to point me in the direction of the next checkpoint, if the path is linear to begin with?

A little later I came across a machete wielding man who was on fire, sort of. He kind of had lava skin, so he was a machete wielding lava man...I guess. Anyways, that character is tougher to beat the the regular bad guys, but all I did was lung and hit heavy attack until he died. A little later Logan has to fight his way across a rope bridge with enemies coming at him both ways, and enemies cutting the ropes to the bridge behind him. So, you plow on ahead and the bridge breaks, and Logan holds on to the bridge, and that bridge comes to rest on the face of a cliff. So you begin to wall climb, hacking up at enemies that held on, or grabbing and throwing them off the side of the cliff. After that, you kill some more bad guys, grab a Jeep and send it crashing through a big King Kong like gate, kill some more bad guys, learn about berserk rage orbs, then see a gigantic lava creature come storming through another huge gate, and then the demo ends.

Hmm...maybe I'm bad and writing reviews. Oh well, guess I need to practice my writing skills. I liked the demo, it was fun, but not really original. I guess it's tough to say that because what is original these days. Every new game, or new movie, or new comic book takes various bits from other games, movies, comics or what have you that inspire the creators and writers who make whatever that new thing is. X-Men Origins: Wolverine may feel like God of War, but I don't think I'd want it any other way. That type of fighting mechanic just works. I'll probably rent this game, maybe buy it. If I had to rate it, I'd say a solid B.

If anyone reads this, leave me some comments and tell me what you think.

My feet just got cold...

I think hell itself just froze over. My Mom and I where just texting. What is this world coming too? A couple of weekends ago I talked my sister into upgrading her ancient Motorola Razr to a BlackBerry Storm. Since Verizon was having a buy one, get one free deal on Blackberry's, my Mom got the other Storm that came with the deal. She's wanted a Blackberry for a while, lord knows why. She can't even operate XP or Vista, and she now has a Blackberry Storm. I swear to god, if she buys a mac book, I'm done (she wants one because the commercials are cool...seriously). I tried teaching her some things, but I can't keep my cool long enough to get anything through to her, so I give up. Some guy where she works has a Storm and has been teaching her how to use it. You know what I have to say to that, thank god! More power to you man! Now we'll see how long she uses it until she gives up on it, like the desktop, the laptop, the Wii, and countless other electronics my parents buy. It's kinda nice sometimes actually, because what they don't use sometimes trickles down to me. Now if I can only talk them into buying a 360 Elite...

Speaking of Microsoft, they have a new Elite bundle coming out (should be out now actually). I'm sure you've read about it. They're calling it the Game of the Year bundle. It's an Elite with Halo 3, and Fable 2.

I planned on picking it up this month some how, but think I'll have to wait. Microsoft says that their will be a limited supply of these bundles, so I have to figure out quick how to get $400 for the bundle, and an extra $60 for Left 4 Dead. I've really been wanting to play that game, and with my low end PC, I can't get the PC version. I'd rather play a game like that on console anyways. Just sucks that Valve hates the Playstation 3. Oh well, there are other reasons I want a 360 anyways. The 2 games bundled with it are a couple, streaming Netflix would be nice, and just having the other major console would be nice. I'd like to be well diverse in my gaming.

I picked up Motor Storm: Pacific Rift today. I turned in my Best Buy awards to get it. It was either that, or Killzone 2, but I'm still trying to get through the 6 FPS' I already have. The arcade racer feeling of Motor Storm I think is a nice change from the other racing games I have. I haven't really found anything I don't like about it yet, but after racing through 2 tracks, I found myself wanting to put in Burnout Paradise. I don't really think it has anything to do with Motor Storm, it's just I'm having fun with Burnout. I got my Burnout license a couple of nights ago, and I am 70 wins away from getting my Elite license. I just want to keep playing, unlocking the 15 cars left in the game, and getting enough wins to get that final license. After all that is said and done, it's on to the expansion packs. The cops and robbers expansion just came out yesterday, and Big Surf Island should be coming soon.

I haven't really been playing anything else. I play Little Big Planet, and GH:Metallica sometimes on my PS3, Professor Layton (the first one), and Pokemon Diamond on my DSi, Scott took the Wii, and my PSP hasn't really been touched. Besides playing some games, I've still been looking for a good job, and I've enrolled at my local community college to start my Bachelors in Computer Science up again. We'll see how that goes, more on that later. I have to find a new place to live soon. Moving means I also have to buy a new TV and surround sound system, since Scott will be taking his. Hey, once you have experienced playing games on a 37" LCD with surround sound, you can't go back.