Ok I'm gonna have to jam alot of stuff into this blog so let's get the competition answers out the way first. The correct answers are:

• D - Driver (specifically Parallel Lines)
• I - Hitman
• M - Mass Effect
• A - Mario Bros. (not Super Mario Bros., but the original Mario Bros.)
• N - Kane & Lynch (can't believe no one got this)
• I - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• C - Assassin's Creed
• U - Onimusha (again, no one got this)
• S - Wii Sports

The winner is, with 4/9 (not great) is:

NatendoWhiskey64

So you win +1 cred, so make sure you remember that, but if you don't, I will cos it's the only one so far.

Next on the agendo is my rant on the Virtual Console, the new addition of the Commodore 64 section, currently with 2 games on hand.

The 2 games out at the moment are International Karate and Uridium, for 500 Wii Points. Uridium looks interesting, but I'd be lying if I said I was overjoyous at this selection.

And now my rant on films, this may require some space so I shall give it it's own title:

The Worst Sequels Ever

Well, recently I have been dwelling in and out of rating sequels on my list, and almost every single sequel, I have rated lower than the original, and as is the case for almost every other reviewer too. I will list just a few of the most extreme cases. The first is the big three 4's, Batman & Robin, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Jaws: The Revenge, each the forth in a prestigious series, they have almost exactly the same tale behind them. I've ranted plenty about them, so I do not need to again. My next two examples I may not have covered before, the first is Son of the Mask. Sure, we all know Jim Carrey doesn't reprise his roles in a sequel (except for Ace Ventura), but they could have at least made a watchable film. I'm not sure what else to say about the film, apart from it blows. The final example is the most extreme of all. It does not share a common title with it's predecessor, and I'm glad people would not associate them. If you were alive in the 70's (or even are a fan of films in the 80's or 90's) you WILL have seen the original film. Nowadays you will only see the likes of High School Musical, but back in the day, before HSM, before even Grease!, there was one, Saturday Night Fever. The sequel was released half a decade later, only with a few obvious changes. Whereas the original was directed by John Badham, the sequel was directed by none other than Sylvester Stallone. Ok, so that's not that bad, some actors going into directing, for example, William Shatner and Kevin Costner; but Star Trek V and Waterworld sucked! And so does Stallone's sequel to SNF. Sure he directed the good Rocky's (2 and 3) along with 4, but it was Alvidsen who directed the original and the unfortunate Part V. Stallone also directed Balboa, and the new Rambo film, Rambo, which was surprisingly good. Ok enough Stallone bashing, onto the film. The film is none other than Staying Alive. Yep, you guessed it, after the Bee Gees song, which features prominently in the original. Staying Alive is terrible, only because it is rated PG whereas the first one was an 18 (?! have you ever seen a sequel with such a lower certificate than that!?), it's because it almost totally overlooks the character development of the original, and, although bringing back Travolta, it's just Travolta dancing on stage in a loin cloth. Well, here's to you Sly, you certainly killed the vibe the SNF gave every single viewer.

Why hello GameSpot it's been too long, about 20 hours, but here I am with the first of probably couples of competitions for you. The prizes for each competition range from credibility to free games (along the lines of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell on the original Xbox, nothing fancy), and the prize for this competition is:

Credibility +1

The catch is that aquiring 3 units of credibility will earn you a cool pic via email, and earning 6 units will win you that precious copy of Splinter Cell. So, how can I be in with the chance to win? If you read my previous blog (which quite a few of you did, so thank you) then you will probably know.

The goal: Figure out what each letter from my banner is from, each is from a different game. The FIRST COMMENT that gets all 7 correct will win, and if no one gets 7, then whom ever gets the most right will receive the point.

How to answer: Please post in the following fasion, to make things easier:

• D-
• I-
• M-
• A-
• N-
• I-
• C-
• U-
• S-

So good luck to all who participate. Answers will only be accepted through a comment on this blog and not through PM, only answers in the above format will be counted. Well that's all the formalities out the way, so good luck, and just imagine the precious copy of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell at the end :P

* Please note that users outside of the UK may have to reach a compromise for the ultimate prize. Also note this isn't the time to do a rhyme.

Recently there have been only about 2 users regularly commenting on my blogs, the most regular being Foolz3h (thanks :) btw) and I hate going through the effort of typing in this incredibly slow and tedious GameSpot text editor. Why not use Wordpad or notepad you ask? Shut up I say. Well anyway, I shall resume in the usual fasion, regardless if anyone comments.

Well today I was walking down the street whilst doing a merry jig, and it occured to me, "Dude, buy some flowers!" So, following this advise, I went to the nearest flower shop and was about to buy a nice bouquet of white roses, our county's proud plant, but as I was about to hand over my precious Sterling, I decided, "Dude, these would go great with a new game!" So I left the shop with the flowers and heading toward Zavvi, a game shop in Meadowhall, and bought Devil May Cry 4 for just £23! It was either that or Viva Pinata and Party Animals for almost the same price. So far, I think I made the right choice. On the way home with my flowers and game, I bought some socks. I am still enjoying all my products.

If people comment (and find something to comment about on this blog :?) that would be appreciated.

Also, the chance to win a virtual hug.

If you take a look at my banner you will notice that each letter is ripped from a different game logo, if you can match each letter with the appropriate game you could win a virtual hug in the form of an email with the words "You are win, virtual hug" on it. Woo! Good luck.

Yeah I don't get the title either, but the point of this blog is to highlight my favourite bands and songs. Reason: boredom. So we'll start number 5:

• 5. Adam and the Ants
• Defining song(s): Prince Charming / Stand and Deliver
• 4. Jason Donovan
• Defining song(s): Too Many Broken Hearts / Any Dream Will Do
• 3. Depeche Mode
• Defining song(s): Route 66 / Personal Jesus
• 2. The Ark
• Defining song(s): Hey Kwanongoma* / Deliver Us From Free Will
• 1. A-ha (a-ha)
• Defining song(s): The average fan would say Take on Me, but I won't. Love is Reason* / You Are the One

* - Sorry there are no better videos.

Yup, The Ark and A-ha are my favourite bands ever. A-ha are Norwegian and The Ark is Swedish, so yeah, I got a thing for Scanads :P I have every album of A-ha from 1982 to present. Morten Harket (vocalist) is a legend, and the vocalist for The Ark (Ola Salo) also a legend. Well that's enough from me.

Now, the title of this blog might contain quite a few innuendos, but they actually convey a point, a point about the videogame Army of Two. My point about the game is that it feels incredibly stripped down, a confined version of Mercenaries, even. On the other hand it looks beautiful, the character models are nice and chunky, the water looks sublime and the guns look menacing. Although this should be expected due to the frequent load times and horribly small environments. Now, I haven't finished the game yet, and I want to squeeze most of the achievements out of it before I'm finished, but I seem to be having a small problem. I have a friend who is on mission 3, whilst I am on mission 5, and he has earned enough money to unlock all masks and has earned alot more kills etc. than I have. What is my problem? Am I doing something wrong? Probably. But until I earn at least 900GS on this game I'm not going to stop trying.

As the title says, I have decided to write a blog about the recent events that have happened in my life. Any products that can be purchased shall be highlighted in bold so that it looks like I'm actually going somewhere with this.

OK, so to start of with, I traded in some of my games, including The Orange Box, Mario Party 8, Resident Evil 3 etc. so that I could put something toward getting a new game. I traded in 7 games, and for that amount I usually get £20-£40 of shop credit, but to my amazement £72.93, which is the second highest I have ever received from trading in games (the most I have received is £126). So with £72.93 of shop credit I browsed the shop (GameStation) for a while (this is rather unusual as I usually trade games in at GAME) and eventually I decided to buy Bully: Scholarship Edition, Lost Planet (after borrowing it from my friend and wanting to complete it before the Colonies version comes out) and Just Cause (I bought it for my friend). Whilst I was at the shop I found something that changed my life. An Umbrella Corp. umbrella! If your a Resident Evil patron, you will know of Umbrella. Well anyway, the umbrella was £7.99, and I didn't want to squander my precious £20 note since I needed to buy a sandwich from Subway and my shop credit had run out. So I shall return this week to purchase the umbrella. Never before (and probably never again) have I been this hyped about an umbrella.

We also went to HMV, where I was contemplating purchasing some horror films, but unfortunately, almost every horror film is an 18, especially all the Friday the 13th's (excluding Jason X which is a 15) and I need to purchase parts 5 to 10. Sigh, only 7 months till I'm 18 and can legally purchase the alcohol and cigarettes I need to survive. So instead of purchasing a mature horror film, I bought a cIassic, The Raven, starring Boris Karloff and, my hero, Béla Lugosi, for just £3. My friend bought a film called If..., mainly because it came with some postcards. I await his opinion so I can make harsh judgements on the film too, despite it being billed as one of the greatest films of all time by the BFI. Once we left HMV we went to Subway so my friend could ask if they were hiring. They are, and are very desperate to. But, unfortunately, my friend has no CV and no work experience, so making a CV will be difficult, as will aquiring a place their. Whilst there I bought two meatball marinara sandwiches and two drinks, since they don't do refills! After we left Subway, we went to HMV again so I could buy Now 69, mainly because I wanted Chasing Pavement by Adele. It was only £5.99 (very cheap) so I didn't feel bad about getting it over the umbrella. We left HMV and went to Primark so I could buy some socks, boxers and a new shirt, and when we were there, a guy came up to me and said that the shirt matched my shoes (which are red) and said I was a medium as opposed to the large I was trying on. I didn't know how to feel. Was this guy gay He was with another guy. I do not make assumptions like that, but my friend found it weird. But I appreciated his help and bought the shirt. After Primark we went to the bus station and we headed to my place where we would admire the Legend of Zelda sticker, keyring and badge I had purchased for 99p.

Well it's been a while since I bought a Wii game, the last one I bought was Ghost Squad and there are only two titles I want right now until Okami arrives soon. The first of which is Super Paper Mario which I have wanted for eons. The second title is a little unusual for me, and it's because of this. Last night I was watching TV, and I couldn't find my remote and my TV has no buttons on it (lousy Goodmans television sets) and so I was stuck with watching Naruto. Now if you know me, you will know I despise anime, the only anime I have ever condoned is Dragonball Z, and that got to Japanese by the Majin-Buu saga. But there I was, watching Naruto. It might as well have been silent because I couldn't understand a word that was said, but I did enjoy it a little. I will watch another episode when it's next on just to make sure it wasn't a fluke, but needless to say, I want Naruto: Clash of the Ninja Revolution on Wii, despite the lukewarm reception by critics.

Well that pretty much brings us to the present, me watching Gordon's Kitchen Nightmares USA, the USA edition is alot more exciting since these Americans are extremely arrogant and very agressive, and it's great to see Gordon kick there ego's into the drain. Well I've typed enough, now I shall shut up and see if anyone comments on this.

Ciao for now.

Ok, I know I promised Xbox games, but in the end, the PS1 is alot more interesting:

The first Crash Bandicoot game, and my close personal favourite (beaten closely by Crash 2). To this day I find the graphics passable, and this is 12 years on from the games release.

I first played this game as a demo, and I loved it so much, as did my dad, we decided that we needed to get this game. I really miss the time we spent together. And when I read the GameSpot review I was mortified. A 2.7 does not do this game justice! It just doesn't!

Ok, in all fairness, this game freaked me out on a few occasions, especially the second dinosaur level when it's raining, that monster in the lake made me question stepping foot outside in a puddle. Oh well, great game though, weird controls.

Yes I am well aware of taste, but I shoveled plenty of leaves to earn some money for this game, and it was well worth it.

At this point, I would fill up 3 spaces for Spyro, Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer and Spyro: Year of the Dragon, but instead I'll keep 'em together. The order would be Spyro 1, 2 and 3, the reason being is that 3 was a little too easy for me.

Wonderfully chilling and adrenalin rushing. The Resident Evil of the dinosaur world.

The best Gex game, better than the original, and much better than it's sequel, Undercover Gecko.

Some people have opinions, and mine is that they both rock. Too bad Munch's Oddysee wouldn't retain the awesomeness of these two.

Yup, you saw it. My most played game on PS, but not number 1? Strange, well what could number 1 be?

I don't care what you say! Reetesh will agree with me here! Tombi RULEZ!!!

I know it's a but late, but I want to show my respects to Vampira, Mail Nurmi, who died on January 10th 2008. If you don't know who she is then I suggest you hit Wikipedia now! With Vampira gone, there are only 2 survivors of Plan 9 From Outer Space, Gregory Walcott and Conrad Brooks.

Well to find someway to overcome the crushing boredom in my life I have decided to make a series of Top 10 Games blogs, starting with the PS2. I had my PS2 from 2003 to 2004, just over a year, and here are my Top 10 Games on the PS2 for the brief era in which I had the console:

• 10. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
• 
• I found this game to be immensly fun (it was the first PS2 game I got, along with The Sims) and, while it's not the best of the GTA 3 saga, deeply involving.
• 9. Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
• 
• So how the hell did this get higher than Vice City? If you were me, you'd understand. I pwned the hell outa this game (reached 100% eventually) and loved 98% of it.
• 8. Futurama
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• I was (and still am) a huge Futurama fan, and when the game was released I hyped so much and bought it along with Kingdom Hearts. The game was fun, yet incredibly difficult in the later stages.
• 7. The Getaway: Black Monday
• 
• It was very close between this and the original, but it went to this because of the much added replayability of additional characters in free-roam, even though there was still nothing to do.
• 6. Escape From Monkey Island
• 
• Damn Monkey Kombat sucked, but everything else in the game rocked, and, while Monkey Kombat hampered my progress for a while, I managed to complete the game. Shame about the ending, almost as bad as the end of MI2.
• 5. James Bond 007: Nightfire
• 
• I [heart]ed this game and the multiplayer kept me and my friends occupied for weeks. This is the best Bond game since GoldenEye and will remain the best until Everything Or Nothing (which may appear in the Xbox countdown).
• 4. Medal of Honour: Frontline
• 
• I bought this alongside Rising Sun, and this was better by a mile. I loved this game so much, the opening level is more than enough to make your forget about all of the games shortcomings (those being minimal). The Arnhem level is my favourite and will remain my favourite level in a WW2 shooter until Call of Duty sets a mission in the south of France.
• 3. Dog's Life
• 
• My Ja! This game was fantastic! Terrificly original and I gurantee there will be no game like this ever again, The Dog Island doesn't even come close.
• 2. The Sims
• 
• It may not have been glamerous, but The Sims occupied 160+ of my hours, mainly due to my lack of a PC at the time so I couldn't play The Sims on PC, but still, I loved this game. Bustin' Out and The Urbz weren't nearly as good.
• 1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• 
• You all knew this would be number 1, and so I don't need to say much.

Well I'm done, next Top 10 countdown will be the Xbox (original).

As some of you maybe aware of, my GOTY Award for 2007 went to The Darkness, a rather unconventional choice. It is now I snatch the award from The Darkness and give it to another game of 2007. The reason for doing this is that The Darkness, while a brilliant story, did indeed lack certain things, for example the gameplay was clunky and sometimes overly difficult. While those are not necessarily bad things, they do bring down the game in comparison to myy new GOTY.

So WTF is the GOTY Award going to you ask? Well, here are the finalists:

• Eternal Sonata for the Xbox 360
• Mass Effect for the Xbox 360
• Clive Barker's Jericho for the Xbox 360
• Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii
• Medal of Honour Heroes 2 for the Wii
• Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition for the Wii

So, from the list above of obvious choices (and MOH Heroes 2 and Jericho), what has won the GOTY Award that they have nicked from The Darkness? *sigh* it's

[spoiler] Super Mario Galaxy [/spoiler]

Well there you have it, my GOTY for 2007, following Mercenaries for 2005 and Oblivion for 2006. All hail!