So we actually made national news up here. Very bad blizzard. We're all good. I'm used to it. Kinda enjoy it actually. Nothing like over 9 inches of snow, and snow drifts taller than you. Good times.

The roads were so bad that the closed my school yesterday at 4 o'clock, and today it was closed. That hasn't been done for 11 years. Because of snow anyways. I had a pretty good day off. I got Resistance 2 on Tuesday, so I got to spend quality time with that.

I have some things to say about the second game in the series. The graphics are awesome. The first one kinda had a small color palette. Lots of greys and browns. Resistance 2 has lots of colors and looks great. I remember in the second level, San Fransisco, you reach the surface (because you were under water) and you see a stunning site. You see the Golden Gate bridge being torn apart, and chimeran ships flying in the air, and explosions going on. It looked great and was awesome.

We also got some new controls. They switched the default controls up a bit, and it is pretty good. You can still customize it, but crouching is done differently from the first game, and so is zooming in with a weapon, so you needed the control change. My only grip was with the sniper rifle. The alternate fire zooms in through the scope, and slows down time. Well the alt fire is R2 and the primary fire is R1, so you have to have two fingers going on that side. I got used to it.

The guns are still amazing. I love having an alt fire on every gun. The old guns have been improved, and you get some new ones that are also fun.

One example is the Splicer. This fun little gun shoots saw blades that follow an enemy and rips them to shreds. Lots of blood going on, but doesn't seem to do as much damage as it should. On one enemy, I can melee them once and they die, but with the splicer, i have to send 3 or 4 blades after them to kill them.

The Magnum is also a very fun gun. Its primary fire is very powerful (like any magnum in a video game) but it's alternate fire is what makes it fun. After you shoot an enemy, the bullet stays lodged in them, then the alternate fire blows up the bullet. It's a good time. The magnum usually kills the weeker enemies in one shot, but that leaves the other enemies around them still alive. Have no fear, because that explosion will take them out.

You also have your returning guns, like the Carbine, Lark, bullseye. With the new aiming system, these guns just feel more powerful though.

A few gripes about the game though. The story is pretty weak. Personally, i loved how they told the story in the first one through Parker. The story seemed more interesting in the first one too. I haven't beaten the game yet in the second one, but I'm almost done. It's pretty short, i hear. About 7.5 hours, and I'm almost at that point. Plus what's going on in the story hints at it almost being over.

Anyways, I don't think Resistance 2's story is as good as the first one because it tells the story differently. Instead of telling it from a third person perspecitive, it's through Nathen (the main character). It just doesn't fit. The first one, he said two things: "No!" and "Uh!." He may have actually said one sentence, but to me, that made him an awesome character. In Resistance 2, he talks too much. Maybe it's just me. The story is actually pretty good, but how it's executed, just doesn't seem right, in my opinion. So yeah.

But the AI is awesome. So is the setting. I hate Titans in this game. Titans in the first one were pretty easy to kill after you figured it out. But in the second one, these things seem like they can only be killed with the Lark (a rocket laucher). I had to fight one without a rocket launcher, and it wasn't fun. It would not die, and I died several times. And this is on "Causual" which is easy.

The enemy is smart, and they come in large numbers. Most of the gun fights usually have more than 10 enemies on screen at once. Even when fighting Titans. I once fought 2 Titans and about 30 Rollers. Yeah the rollers are weak, but their annoying when fighting Titans.

I found a glitch in one fight that I was getting frustrated with. Alright, there's this tiny room with no cover in it, and when you approach the door to get out, about 10 enemies pop out. I remind you that their is no cover, and no grenades for me. The kill me pretty much instantly. Well After a few tries, i'm like "Let's just run through the door and ignore the enemies, even though they stand right in the middle of the door. So I did, and got through and predictably died. Well, I got a checkpoint by doing that apparently, and when the game loaded that check point, the enemies were not there and I was through the door. Yippy!

The mood of the game has altered from the first one. The first game was kinda scary. Well this game is actually scary. I'm afraid of pigeon noises now.

Why? Well there's this new enemy called the Cameleon. It's called that because it's invisible. If one of these things are near you, the make pideon sounds. If you get a little closer to them, you hear a zombie moan. If you get a little more closer, you hear a stampede and then you see a "cloaked" figure that's about the size of a bear coming at you, and you are so scared that you don't react and you die in one hit. After a few times of fighting these things I don't get scared but I still go "Ah man" and continue being very cautious for fear of being pumbled.

Then there's the Grim. These little things are basically zombies from the movie Land of the Dead. Meaning they are very fast. They were once human, but they've been tranformed into Chimera by being put into cacoons. The explode from these cacoons when you get close to them which can scare you. Usually does. Especially this one part wher eyou are running through a extremely dark building, that is an apartment clompex with small hallways and it's infested with Grims. Scares you seeing these things through a flashlight. Scares you when they roll dead bodies down the stairs too. So yeah, the developers were going for scary moments, and they succeded.

I'm not done. There's also 8 player online coop campeign. It has its own storyline, which is cool. I haven't played it yet. The game also features a 60 player online matches. They put you in small squads to complete different objectives so there is still tactics and not all out chaos. Sounds fun. Haven't gotten around to it yet though.

Alright, that's enough about Resistance 2 for now. Let's move onto Fallout 3. So I finally played that today. It's pretty fun. I'm not very far into it. I can only play this game on the PC because I have to use cheat codes. That's right, I said it. I have to. To enjoy a game like Fallout 3, I have to. It's just me. Me and RPG's don't mix usually, unless there's cheat codes involved. I'm having fun with it. I'm trying to be good in the game. Not send mini nukes into a town or anyting like that. So far it's good.

Well I'm gonna go because I can't sit in front of my computer any longer. I need a new chair.