Hello.

Just popping in to talk about a few things. I haven't gotten any of the games from "Games to the Video 6," yet. A few have been released.

I don't know why I havent' gotten Batman, but I probably will.

Section 8 got ok reviews, and people liked the multiplayer a lot. I don't know about that one yet.

Wet sounds like something to pick up when it's discounted. I'm hearing fun, but really no depth. For 60 bucks, fun is good, but it's repetitive fun, so that goes down to like a $30 purchase in my book. I can play the demo over and over again if I feel like playing it.

Darkest of Days flopped. I figured it would. Sounded good, but no hype. In Xplay's review, Adam made the comment, "Some games are so bad they are good, like Earth Defense Force 2017, and some games are so bad they are bad." I liked that Earth Defense Force comment because the game was very badly done, but it was very fun to play. I love playing that game, and if I had a 360, I'd buy that game. Anyways, yeah.

October is when my video game meter goes into overload. Four for sure buys. Brutal Legend is one, Uncharted 2, is the second, Borderlands is the third and Torchlight is the fourth.

Brutal Legend is a must buy for me. I've seen a lot of videos for it (including the awesome opening cinematic found on XPlays website) and I'm phsyched. You can see Tim Schafer's humor in the dialogue for sure. And it mixes perfectly with the heavy metal setting.

Then you have Borderlands. The trailers for the game are awesome and funny. Lots and lots of guns. The weapons, enemies, and areas are randomized in Diablo II fashion, which will be good. You got your first person shooter action, which is good. And you have four player coop, jump in and jump out awesomeness. Loving it. Oh, and the coop is for split screen, lan, or online. That's one thing that I'm glad they covered all the basis. Call of Duty doesn't allow split screen multiplayer when you are playing via LAN, which made us mad once.

And Torchlight. My little $20 dollar game made my Runic games. Their publisher has exclusive rights to sell it only through their website for 30 days. Since I don't know much about how Perfect World's distribution system works (such as if I accidently delete the game, can I still redownload for free?) I might have to wait until they distribute on Steam (which they plan to do after 30 days). I'd feel better about that. Plus with Borderlands and Brutal Legend so close to that release date, I might not have time to play it in the first month. They have said that the game will be released as an unlockable demo. So you download the demo for free, the you purchase a code that unlocks the full game. So I'll probably find myself downloading that demo and at least playing that before it gets distrubuted via Steam.

Then Uncharted 2: Among Theives. The first game was awesome, so I told you... I think. Yes I did. Xplay already reviewed Uncharted 2 (it doesn't come out until October 13) and they had nothing but praise. It was awesome because they were goin on and on about the single player, and then I went, "but wait, there's more with multiplayer" and then I heard, "But wait, there's more." They really liked the multiplayer, and said that Naughty Dog spent an equally amount of time and polish as they did with the single player. It got a 5/5 and I'm looking forward to it.

Gosh, November is a big month as well. The God of War Collection for PS3, Assassin Creed games, New Sumper Mario Bros Wii. Just a ton of games. Luckily December is completely emtpy. Not even "maybe" games. So December will be good month to blow through some games. Short paragraph.

In waiting for October 13th to roll around, I picked up Grand Theft Auto 4 for $35. I'm glad I didn't pay full price. It's fun to play and all, but it's not my favorite GTA. I've played GTA 1, GTA 2, GTA Vice City, San Andreas, and now GTA 4. Vice City is my favorite. San Andreas had too many RPG elements like eating, working out and stuff like that. GTA 4 got rid of that luckily, but they expanded the "dating" stuff. You can build friendships and date in the game. You'll get calls from friends or girlfriends to go do something. It's annoying. If you don't, your relationship goes down. If you do, it goes up. You get perks if you keep your relationship with certain people up, but it's a feature that I don't like.

Also, there's really no point in doing extra stuff like collecting hidden packages (killing pigeons in this GTA) or vigilante missions, except that it counts towards 100% completion. No money or cool perk from doing them. I feel like I wasted my time hunting down all 200 pigeons. I don't even want 100% anymore after doing that. I just want to get the story missions done.

I might do a post on the "perfect" GTA game for me. But it's pretty much Vice City. I liked buying property, I like getting perks like can't start on fire, and infinite sprint for doing side missions. Or weapons spawn at your house when you collect hidden packages. Not impressed with 4, but I'll finish the story missions and maybe goof around a bit.

Today I bought Zombie Apocalypse from the Playstation Network for 10 bucks. I believe it is on XBox Live as well. It's a top down shooter fun time. I call it a mix between Left 4 Dead and Contra, but that's kinda inaccurate because it's not a 2d sidescroller.

Basically you kill lots of zombies and try to survive the day. There are 55 days. I got to Day 11 before I ran out of lives. It has up to four player coop and you can play online. It's a good time. You have a chainsaw and gun with infinite ammo. You can pick up guns with limited ammo that are more powerfull, like a minigun, shotgun, and more. You get more points for saving survivors. You also can throw a teddybear, which is like a pipebomb in Left 4 Dead. The zombies run for the teddybear and then the bear explodes. It says some funny phrases. It's a great way to pass some time.

I'm gonna go now. I'll keep you posted on games and more.

"I'm filled with love... and C4!"
-- Teddybear, Zombie Apocalypse