Any game that quotes George Orwell is Ok in my eyes.

I've just completed Call of Duty 2, it's quite scary how far video games have developed when you play a recent FPS and then go back to the best one from 4 years ago. Playing COD 2 has been great though, I've really enjoyed it and found it to be very rewarding (and I don't just mean the 1000 gamerpoints). I decided to play it through on Veteran from the beginning and was amazed at how intense it was, admittedly the graphics and the AI seem pretty weak compared to the modern day equivalents but overall I found this installment of the series to be as good as 4 and World At War. COD 2 seemed to feature a lot of siege/last stands that really managed to emphasize your vulnerability in battle. If you haven't played it I would thoroughly recommend tracking it down, you can probably find it for £10 or so on Ebay. Whilst playing this game I decided to overcome the trepidation that I felt about how Far Cry Instincts : Predator would hold up, my thinking was 'If COD 2 is still playable, surely Far Cry is worth giving a go' - It isn't.

In other news, I have recently started playing Fable II and I'm enjoying it a hell of a lot more than I thought that I would, I don't think that it is as immersive asFallout 3or Oblivion; it's a bit too superficial and shallow for my liking but the writing is solid and it looks good. I quite enjoyed being a blacksmith and I've already started to build up my property empire; I particularly enjoy the real time element of the profits that you can make in the game (I can imagine that I will continually revisit the game with the first intention of just checking my 'bank balance' before getting embroiled in some bigamistic adventure). So yeah, I think that I was wrong to dismiss Fable II so quickly after being so disappointed with the original. I was planning on buying the original when I bought my 360 but i bought it on XBL instead but I didn't really see what all the fuss was about, I mean, if I wanted to make a smell in front of a group of strangers I would stand around my town centre outside McDonalds with the rest of the 'yoof' of today.

Footnote- The buggy nature of Gamespot is really winding me up at the moment, I'm strongly considering migrating to a different site, one that lets me use the word 'class' in html links, one that doesn't block the word 'sni-gger' and finally one that has a bit more of an accessible and easy to navigate blogging system. Gah!