Sorry for the lack of updates. Finals coming up, which include certification exams. Kinda stressful. Website put on back burner. Though you guys deserved an update (all two of you).

Well I got Unreal Tournament 3. A little dissappointed. Just a little.

The worst of it is the menus though, which aren't part of the gameplay. The menus look like they were designed for a console. The menu for Unreal 2004, was so nice. I select a graphical drop down box and select from "low, medium, high" and now I have giberish that I need a computer game design degree to understand. Exageration, maybe. Plus you have to create an online account to login to single player? What's up with that. And people are having trouble with that! It's horrible.

Then the story. They actually tried to make a story of unreal tournament. That's laughable. The worst is capture the flag stories. You have to capture the enemies FLaGs (which stand for something that I don't care about) and it'll shut down the generator. The reason you can't take the "FLaGs" in vehicles is because the electricity in the "FLaGs" intefere with the vehicles. Hahahahaha. The lamest excuse in the world. It's rediculous.

And then for some reason if you have X-fire running you don't get sound during cut scenes (which don't really help the story out).

Luckily those were the only bad things about the game that I have run into. The gameplay is still Unreal Tournament. I love it. The hoverboard is an awesome addition to vehicles maps. And coop for the campeign makes the game more enjoyable, since you actually have an intelegent teammate.

I guess one more bad thing is that the difficulty settings for the bots have been reduced down to 3 difficulties. There is a noticable difference between hard and normal. For one, hard is actually tough for the campeign, and I can barely stay ahead. Usually I don't stay ahead. Normal, however, is too easy. I loved the difficulty settings for 2004. I found the just right difficulty for me.

Back to the good. It's a lot prettier. Warfare replaces the Onslaught mode. It adds a few things to it, and it's better in my opinion.

Unreal Tournament is a great game, but the menus are just horid. Epic has said that they are going to patch it and create better menus.

Kinda an odd week in video games this week. The merger of Vivendi (owner of Blizzard Entertainment) and Activision, is one. They will form Activision Blizzard, and will be the biggest third party publisher. I think this is a good thing. For one, Activision has some pretty good games (Call of Duty, Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero). Plus, they said that they will leave Blizzard alone. They said we won't see an Activision logo on any of their games. And looking back, Vivendi didn't either. Check your old starcraft and diablo cases. Even Warcraft III. I don't know about World of Warcraft, but I imagine that they didn't. Blizzard has said that business will go about as normal.

Hopefully this will make EA makes some quality games now. EA clearly doesn't understand the video game business anymore. All they know about is $$$. At least I'm hoping that EA will have to step it up, since the merger will make Activision Blizzard the biggest third party producer. So I think it's a good thing.

Jeff Gerstmann, an ex reviewer for Gamespot.com, was fired from Gamespot this week. This has people in an uproar because people think he was fired because he gave a 6 on Kane and Lynch. People are saying that the people of Cnet (who owns Gamespot) are just money makers and the game publisher paid for a lot in advertising on Gamespot, and wanted a higher score. This rumor came up because Kane and Lynch ads were removed from the site after the review, and Jeff was fired. Makes sense.

I don't know what to think. I'm pretty sure that is the case. People are boycotting gamespot and their advertisers. Frankly, I've always taken reviews as a grain of salt. I kinda look at what they think the game was like, compare user reviews, and look at other review sites. I can kinda get my own idea then.

Personally I like Gamespot. I can generally find news on upcoming video games. I especially go there during events such as E3. To all the boycotters out there, welcome to Capitalism, where you can buy anything *wink, smile, and thumbs up*.

Here's a rumor for you. They may change the graphics of Starcraft 2! That would make me happy. If you want to know more, I found this rumor at www.blizzplanet.com. That's my #1 source for rumors from Blizzard. It's also the place that keeps my pitiful dreams of Starcraft Ghost alive. *sigh*. I miss stuff.

I'm gonna go do something else.