First off, EA has almost no support as it is, but now they have none. This new blow to gamers signifies the downfall of part of the indusrty. For all who supoorted EA, may you burn in the flames of the slowly degrading Ubisoft, and the others who have yet to come. Goodbye to Ghost recon, rainbow six, splinter cell, prince of persia, beyond good and evil, XIII, Burnout, and all others who names will soon be a fading memory.

Now time to bash the Gamespot awards.

Shooter award: Halo 2 gets the best score and looses to Half Life 2 , even though HL2 only got a 9.2, where Halo 2 got a 9.4........anyone else confused?

Action award: GTA SA wins...but its not really an action game (its an alternate genre game/platformer), and even if it was, Ninja Gaiden should have blown it away.

Fighter Award: DOAU gets an 8.8 and has the best graphics of any game on the xbox, but MKD pulls out a win with a score of 8.5, now im really confused...

Well we are almost there, almost knowing who wins the most prestigeous award a game can win. The only real contenders at this point are Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Half Life 2. Lets Analyze this.

Halo 2 (My pick) - Of all of these games, Halo 2 is considered to be the most famous and the most popular, selling over 11 million copies in 2 weeks, and 2.5 million in presales. Its the best reviewed, best selling and most popular videogame of all time. That being said, theres speculation over Halo 2. Since the plot was kept such a secret, the result was that the hype ended up being to much for the game's short and somewhat disapoingting campaign to live up to. Despite the disapointment from gamers, the campaign is only half the game. The multiplayer and xbox live connectablility, which was the only thing that people really knew about initially, roke out and became the bigest success of the franchise. Within a single day, Halo 2 was already the most popular online game ever, with 2 billion people playing it on xbox live all across the globe. The multiplayer featured fast, classic Halo action that even went into a completely new and near flawless matchmaking online system. This new technology has already changed the way online games are played. Sadly, not everyone has xbox live, and without it, you are missing out on what Halo 2 really got right, and why it should be this years GOTY pick.

GTA: SA - GTA is a best selling series, and although its no where near Halo 2 in sales, its made a solid name for itself in the gaming world. GTA SA is the 5th game in the GTA series, and although its a blast to play, it relies a bit to heavily on its predecessors to make it work. Thats not necesarily a bad thing, but it was also true with GTA Vice City. GTA SA trys to sell itself by adding in numerous side quests, mini games and assorted other goodies that add gameplay. However, your overall expereince will still be enjoyed mostly through playing in the streets. You get to play as a california gangster in 5 unique and somewhat similar cities across what looks to be California. This new and more ghetto theme fits the GTA series like a glove, despite being somewhat controversial. In the end however, you will probably begin to see that although enjoyable, GTA SA is a clone of GTA 3 with a few touch ups, but not even a conmetic lift. This is a great game, but for a 5th in the series, it looks and plays too much like the past 2 instalments, time to upgrade the graphics, sound and maybe do something outrageous with the gameplay.

Half Life 2 - Of all the PC games this year, this is numero uno, and its not hard to see why at just a glance. Half Life 2 has the best graphics and sound of any game this year, or ever for that matter. It makes it easy to see how clones of Half Life were pratically their own genre of games at one time. Half Life 2's true greatness lies in the gameplay, and why? because its flawless, theres just nothing wrong with it. So why doesnt it win over Halo 2? easy, replay value in Half Life 2 = 0. Even if you got CS Source wiht HL2, it doesnt count as HL2 for replay value, tough. HL2 puts out a spectacular campaign with brillant AI and mind numbing graphics, but once the short lived campaign is over, thats it. The recently added deathmatch maps for online are pretty good, but still nothing to kill for. The real HL 2 experience is played alone in the campaign, and after its over, you will want mroe, and find nothing. I was crushed when I discoverd that my time with HL2 was over, becuase I knew that I was probably never going to play it again, it just couldnt hold me anymore. Close, very close, but Halo 2's multiplayer and online smoked HL 2 for good.

MGS 3 - O how I love thee MGS 3. Easlily winning over SC2 as the best steath action game around, MGS3 features awesome levels with brilliant detail, incredible sound and flawless control. Theres little more I can say besides that if this game had a multiplayer, Halo 2 would be in trouble. The campaign is flawless and I mean flawless. No problems, few glitches and nothing that really disturbs the gameplay. Replay value is hurt becuase theres no multiplayer, therefore it falls just shy of Halo 2. If the put in a SC 2 esque multiplayer online type system with MGS3, look out world.

Fable wasnt as good as it was cracked up to be, but it was excellent none the less. Goldeneye Rouge Agent was a cheap rip off of a near perfect game, that was the real letdown.

Even though its probably gonna suck, you cant say no to cleavage

heres some cool stuff I bet you didnt know about final fantasy:

1. There is a man named Cid in every FF game, even crystal chronicles and FF tactics

2. There is a moogle in every FF game

3. The main character is always a sword weilder

4. The secondary main character is always a magic weilding girl

5. All FF games have an animal of sorts that play with your team (Kamari, XIII)

6. There are chocobo in every FF game

7. Atleast one main character dies in every FF game

8. There is an airship in every FF game, even in FF tactics (one of the shops has an airship to transport goods)

I cant wait till 2005, its like reliving the glory of fable and halo 2 all over again becuase we get so many great new games. Heres a list of must have games for 2005 games:

GC: The Legend of Zelda, Fire Emblem, Star Fox Assault, Resident Evil 4, DK Jungle Beat,

PS2: Final Fantasy XII, Tekken 5, Gex, Tenchu Fatal Shadows, Gran Turismo 4, Resident Evil 4, Killer 7, Project Snowblind

Xbox: Conker Live and Reloaded, Starcraft Ghost, GTA SA, 25 to life, Black, Doom 3, Unreal 2: Liandri Conflict, Starwars Republic Commando, Mercenaries, Avent Rising, Project Snowblind, Jade Empire

PC: Matrix Online

DS: Metriod Prime Hunters, Wario Ware Touched, Pokemon Dash, Mario DS, Goldeneye DS, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Final Fantasy 3, Yoshi's Touch and Go, Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing DS

PSP: Metal Gear Acid, Death Jr., Need For Speed Underground Rivals, Gran Turismo

Multiconsole: Starcraft Ghost, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Rainbow Six 4, Destroy All Humans, Half Life 2 (console version possibly), Unreal Tournament 2005, Hitman: Blood Money, Madden 2006, The Godfather, Playboy: The Mansion, Pariah

My xbox game collection isnt huge, but its probably the best you will ever find for a limmited number of games. I have shooter, strategy, RPG, fighting, Action, Online, Multiplayer, Stealth Action, Military and so on. But no matter how many games I have, I always come back to my 2 favorite games: Halo 2 and Fable. I just cant get enough, Sure Fable gets old, but its the one game that gets fun again after you take a break for as little as a week. Halo 2 can get old, but when you have xbox live, its nearly impossible to get tired of it. The addiction factor is huge, and as far as Halo 2 anf Fable go, Im hooked for life.

its not really the GOTY awards, but whatever those awards were, they got it all wrong. Chronicles of riddik got GOTY instead of Halo 2, thats bad. I think for GOTY, Halo 2 and Half Life 2, GTA SA although it won, it just was too similar to GTA 3 to really stand out, it was good, but ive seen better

Yes it might just be true. My dad told me that microsoft may be interested in having Techmo release a 2nd Ninja Gaiden game for its consoles. If ninja gaiden 2 passes for production, look for it to release around winter 2006 with full xbox live multiplayer capabilities.

Possible story themes right nowa re vgue and unlikely, the only one that seems that it might be legit is the rumor that NG2 takes place 2 years after the fall of the vigoor empire, and a new dark lord is looking to uncover all the shards of the ddragon sword to resurrect a black dragon. The ninjas wage war on the new empire and thats all I know for now. Chances that this is the real plot are very slim, but that wouls be sweet if it was.

ya I knew that would reel you in