Now I know this blog is more than a week late (I got it last Saturday - 22/09/07 or 09/22/07 depending on where you're from) but I've been tied up in my new toy...well, okay, tied up in Oblivion then. I'm very pleased with the 360, obviously, and even more pleased with Oblivion that I'm borrowing off Tom (that game has become my second life...actually, my real life is my 2nd life; Oblivion comes first). I'm not pleased with Call of Duty 3, however. Call of Duty 2's singleplayer was amazing, and the multiplayer good. With CoD3 it seems the singleplayer sucks and the multiplayer is the same. Actually, not all of the SP sucks and I've pinned it down to one problem: The American levels are awesome and the tank battles are a welcome change of pace but the British Commando levels are pitifully awful. Now I know that it's all about raiding supply lines and fuel plants and things with the SAS but now I can really see why the Jerrys lost the war; they keep leaving all their bloody explosive barrels next to their fortifications!

"Sir? Where should we put all these barrels?"

"Spread them out evenly near those sandbags, those blockades and those tanktraps, leave all the others in a big pile in the barracks where all the men sleep. It'll be fine I promise."

Now I understand it when there's explosive barrels a-plenty in games like Half-Life and James Bond games and Timesplitters and things of that nature - they're supposed to be action films so it all works well. But when CoD tries to pass it's self off as "as close to war as you'll ever get", or something like that, the whole explosive barrels thing just seems stupid. And even worse is one driving sections where you must escape the fuel depo you planted charges on, it's like a really corny James Bond scene with cockny accents shouting at you and random explosions and things falling over and poorly acted screaming enemies flying through the air for no apparant reason. Just plain stupid.

Expect a review for that soon (and a re-write of my CoD2 review) and mabye, in a few years time a review for Oblivion. :)