The Dark KnightHello. I'm back for some more news.

First off, I've listened to Decyfer Down a lot more. My favorite songs are "Burn out the Sun" and "Fight Like This." Both great songs. really the entire CD is good. Looking forward to the release of their new album in September.

I've listened to Breaking Benjamin's Phobia and Three Days Grace's One X somewhat. Again preoccupied doing something else but from what I've heard they sound good. After I spend some more quality time with Decyfer Down, I'll move on to Phobia.

So yeah. That's where I'm at on the music front.

Video game wise, I rented the game Viking: Battle for Asgard for PS3, and that's a fun game. It had mixed reviews, and no downloadable demo. So I had to go to the video store and rent it.

I love it personally. The story isn't bad; it just isn't great. The game is a free rome game, and your map holds your objectives. There's things called Leystones, which teleport you to other Leystones that you have found. So it makes traveling pretty nice. Sometimes it can be frustrating because the game saves at these leystones, and if you die you go back to your base where your army is at. So you use the leystone there to go to the leystone closest to where you die and have to walk back to where you died.

Sometimes it isn't too bad. I mean it's the death penalty in the game. But it can be frustrating when you are near the end of your objective and far away from a laystone and you accidently fall off a cliff and die. It has happened to be a few times. At one point there was a fence that you can hop over if you go against it, and a cliff on the other side. I was sneaking around by it and accidently rubbed against it and my character decided to hop over it and die. It was kinda funny the first time. The second and third times it sucked.

The combat is where this game shines. I love it. You learn new moves by paying gold at the training arena. You can also buy magical moves like fire, ice, and lightning. You activate them and your "magic" slowly goes down and your blades are enchanted with the element of your choice.

Stealth also plays a role in the game. You can do stealth kills which kills an enemy instantly if you sneak up on them. You can also do finishing moves which includes decapitation, cutting off of limbs, or a combination of the two. There's like 5 to 10 different animations for finishing moves. It's cool. If you do finishing moves, you get more magic. So yeah.

Then there are large scale battles. You attack a fort with your army at times in the game. This is fun. Your army actually does stuff. You have to kill the champions and shamens, but your army can take care of the hundreds of legion attacking. It's cool. Before you attack the fort with your army, you can sneak in and find skulls, which is just fun to do. You get an achievement on the 360 version of the game.

It's a really fun game. I suggest you rent it to see if you like it. It's only 40 bucks now so I think I'm gonna go pick it up since the game is due back to the rental store today.

Speaking of which, I also rented Batman Begins to refresh my memory of it and the characters. Still a great movie. I don't know why I didn't buy it.

I went to see The Dark Knight the other day. Great movie. Heath Ledger did a fantastic job as the Joker. Makes me sad that he won't play the Joker ever again. Just the little quirks like licking his lips a lot, was just astounding. It made the Joker. I won't ruin the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it but I have to say that it is a MUST see movie.

Two face was also in the movie. Awesome. All the actors were awesome in this movie actually. They all did a great job.

It's rated PG-13 which is kinda odd. I don't know if I would take your kid to see this movie. If you are a parent, I would go see it without the kids and see if you think they can take it. Plus it's worth watching more then once.

I'm redoing my downloads page [link removed]. I'm gonna work on that when I have time though. I'm redoing my fanily reunion site and that's a priority. Um yeah. That's all. I'm gonna grab some lunch and work on that.

Tah tah.