Hey guys, guess what? I'm doing a blog this week! I know, I'm as surprised as you are. Since Christmas I've been playing all my new games although I've played more of Rock Band 2 and Fable 2 than anything else and less of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption than my other games. I really have been playing a ridiculous amount, I've hit a record of 55 achievements in 9 days. 55!

My only dissapointment is that I seem to have a damaged Soul Calbibur IV disc. It took more than 45 minutes of wiping the disc first time round for the 360 to even read it but I'm still having problems; sometimes levels won't load on hard mode or the game crashes during the opening cutscene. I'm gonna have to return it asap. I've also got a lot (emphasis on a lot) of things to unlock on Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I knew I had a lot to unlock but I'd kind of forgotten all the trouble I went to getting 1000 KOs, completing the Subspace Emisiary, etc. Still, I suppose unlocking it all is half the fun.

Rock Band 2 has been awesome to play. It doesn't stray far from the original and you really feel that when you see all the old characters and venues start popping up again but new features like the ability to so world tour solo, the challenges and the battles of the bands separate it from the first game. The little visual changes to the interface are also nice to look at and the soundtrack is as great to play through as you's expect. Unfortunately the blue pad on my old Rock Band drums stopped working earlier this week, I opened it up to have a look and I found one damaged wire and one completely snapped wire. How that can happen drumming I don't know but it looks like I'm gonna have to cough up for a new drum kit. I also need to pay for the liscence to export all my Rock Band 1 songs but that doesn't cost much.

Fable 2 is also seriously addictive. It's great to have a bit of a different RPG experience and I haven't found a game like this which I felt so comfortable getting into, my problem's been whenever I looked at an RPG I've thought "will I really have the time to get into this" but Fable 2 is a really satisfying and enthralling game. One thing that really stood out in that game for me was the sequence in The Spire, but the whole of Albion is a wonderful world to quest in and explore.

Thanks everyone for reading and should there be anything to blog about I'll return next week. I'll leave you with this, the first episode of Halo 3: Make Love Not War, in which a team of people attempt to enter random Halo 3 matchmaking games and make peace with the other players, with amusing results. Happy new year everybody.

-Gamer_152