Repo!

2009 is an interesting year for video games for me.

Wii will probably continue being the top selling console, and it probably won't get a price cut this year. The 360 will probably be in a far second place, and we could see another price cut from them, and maybe they'll stop selling the Arcade version. The Playstation will follow a close third (vs a far third) and we will see a price cut from Sony. I think Sony will actually make a profit this year. I hope anyways.

I think the Playstation 3 is an awesome entertainment system. Not to mention it has more exclusives this year over Microsoft. 2009 game lineup makes me look at Microsoft and laugh, because their exclusive list is weak. It consists of Halo, and Halo, and another game. If you really want to see a list of upcoming games for the 360 and PS3, Edge has a great feature for the Playstation 3 here, and for the 360 here [links removed]. Now the lists do not contain just exclusives.

Anyways, so Sony shows some promise this year. That doesn't make this year interesting though. What makes it interesting for me is the games I'm interested in this year. Lots of Wii titles actually. Games that have not had a lot of spotlight so far. Games that I don't know if they still exist. Games like Sadness, Project H.A.M.M.E.R., MAG, Heavy Rain, Section 8, I Am Alive, and Edge of Twilight. I also have some that I know are alive and going to be release like Damnation, Resistance Retribution, Dragon Age Orgins, Madworld, and God of War III. There's more, but that's for another time.

I'll have another "Games to the Video" at the beginning of February. So I'll tell you about the games that will be released the first half of this year that I am looking forward to. It's about 10 games that will make the first of this year. I'll have another one around Julyish it looks like. But for the one for the first half of the year it looks like I only have 3 games with solid release dates. The rest are Q1 and Q2 stuffs. I have some release dates from Gamestop, but they can't be trusted to be accurate. So yeah. Get ready for that. I'll start typing stuff on the games today.

Still enjoying the Metal Gear Solid series. I'm almost done with the second game. It's an awesome series. I don't know why I never got into it before. Kinda glad i didn't. Four games are out right now, so I don't have to wait to get questions answered. Yay!

I took a long break, so let's move on to a totally unrelated topic. I picked up Repo! The Gentic Opera on Blueray. Watched it with some friends. It's very good. I enjoyed it.

If you don't remember, it's a rock opera from the producers of Saw. You can tell from the guts and gore in the movie, but that's about the only thing related. The movie is a musical, so be warned. So there are no spoken parts, just sang lyrics, and it has that musical vibe to it. But it is a rock opera, which means most of the songs are very heavy rock.

But I liked it a lot. The voices were wonderful. Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, and Anthony Head all had great voices for their parts, especially Sarah Brightman who played Blind Mag, a singer who is a slave to Genco. Even Paris Hilton played her part well (although it wasn't much a stretch... the daughter of the owner of Genco who is $loaded$).

The music was stunning. I liked the heavy rock style. If you are wondering what kind of music is in this show, visit the website and check out "Zydrate Anatomy." You have mostly rock, but you also have opera, and jazz styles in there too. I'd say it is atleast a renter if you are still skeptical.

It has a comic book style for some flash backs. Works very well. They were done by the writer of the film, Terrance Zdunich, who also plays Graverobber, a kinda narrater to the movie. Graverobber is the guy singing in "Zydrate Anatomy." He steals and sells Zydrate illegally.

Anyways, I'm tired so I'm going to bed.

Nights all.