i dont like you either!  (name that movie)

no one wants to shake his hand, i wouldn’t either. no ones scared of him starting a war in their country anymore so now the true feelings come out. (love the song - from charlie brown crimmis)

well, with crimmis right around the corner, tons of triple A games are hitting the market. Amongst some of the junk, theres a few gems out there, heres my breakdown of whats hot, according to me.

• gears of war 2 - i’ve put more than a couple of hours in on this one since my roommate picked it up. umm, i dunno, i’m not impressed. sure, the game is fun, its nice having some new levels and challenges to shot your way through, but, theres nothing new. Everyones fawning over the graphics, but, its all bump maps, atmospheric effects and general visual effects hiding low poly models (nerding!). Sure, they’ve discovered that there more colors in the world than red, brown and gray.
• mirrors edge - i was really really stoked for this game. if you haven’t heard of it, your a ‘runner’ (aka courier) who must deliver packages from point A to B while avoiding the cops. heres the twist, its all based around jumping in, around, and off of buildings parkour style. In one level, i ran through a lawyers office, through ventilation shafts, slide down glass roofs right before i jumped off of it onto another building.
  another bonus for me was having the option to avoid killing, or even hurting the persuing cops. on one level, i just worked my way around the guy standing in front of me, only to be cut off by another cop right after that. That cop, on the other hand, ended up getting his gun grabbed from him, then thrown away, as i ran off. Finally, a game where i DON’T HAVE TO KILL TO WIN.
  heres the downside, its hard. Sometimes your inches from landing a jump, sometimes you just jump off the wrong side of the building. Once you’ve ran through the level once, sucessfully, you can pretty much nail from there on out. thats when it gets fun, you start to discover alternate routes, and you find your ‘flow’.
  heres a trailer for the game, alot of the ‘first person’ clips are actual gameplay footage, and that is exactly what it looks like. did i mention i love the style of the game, minimalist, colorful? i’m tired of all the browns and grays that most games depend on, gears, i’m looking at you.
• Left 4 Dead - last, but most definately not least, i’m not too into the zombie survival horror genre. But wow, this game had me hooked, even though we were getting demolished playing it on ‘expert’. The whole point of the game is you got 4 live players, playing as a team, trying to get from point A to point B, while trying to not get killed by hordes of zombies. when i say hordes, i mean HORDES… there was times where 8-12 zombies would bum rush a room we’re in turning it onto chaos. Thats just from the demo too. Other times, you’d be in a quiet alley, and a single zombie will sneak up on a team member who you’ve gotta help out, before they get zombinated (i like making up words).

theres been other games out recently, but nothing notable, GTA IV was alot of meh, San Andreas is my favorite, Fable 2 doesn’t grab my attention, and Fallout 3 seems a lil too involved and time consuming.

my pictures, let me show you thems.

ah, the sweet feel of something FINALLY going right.

ok Obama, we put you in office, don’t let us down.

Palin, don’t you have a hockey game to go to?

all this on my birthday none the less.

vote.

thats ma pic.

hole set hear

i mean, equal time right?

comes out monday for wii

***update - 10.9.8 ***

how stoked am i… milano fixed and hipster nascar posted the pic, thanks guys!

***update - 10.10.8 ***

Fixed Gear Blog posted it too…!!!

***update 10.15.8***

w00p w00p! posted again…!!

Tokyo Jitensha-jin, Hardcourt Bike Polo, and Ethan Laek House thanks guys!