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Reviews, ugh

I sure everyone has experienced it. People review things they haven't experienced. I'm telling you, nothing makes me more angry than people writing reviews, and putting scores on things they have not purchased, played, watched, etc. Especially since many people try to base whether or not they will pay real money for these things on the average ratings. I mean, I could go to Fandango right now and look at movies slated for the fall and for christ's sake, they already have 1,200 reviews! Some of them say the dumbest things like "Looks like it will be great" or "I can't wait". It all comes down to my biggest pet peeve: people going on about things they know nothing about. Anyway, now that that's over with on to the current events.

Starting play Modern Warfare again. Damn World at War is such a let-down. I mean, the weapons are all crap. I suppose they're all from WWII, but still I mean come on. The only good weapons in the game are the Garand and the MP44, which is ironic since the one in CoD 4 was terribad. Tanks are crap, no one should ever put tanks in a CoD multiplayer...ever. And then if that's not enough, they've got snipers using a PTSH as an anti-infantry rifle. I mean, utter butchery of history. It's a weapon designed for a two-man team to take out lightly armored vehicles. If you could find the person on Earth who can carry that weapon at the hip and stand while firing it, I would love to meet them. Then again I shouldn't expect much from Activision, they are practically the new EA Games. The Guitar Hero franchise has gone to **** since they took over. I mean, it's not like the songs aren't any good, but their hardware is utter crap. I had to buy a new Guitar Hero 3 controller after only a year of use, because my original no longer worked. And I was lucky the first time around apparently, because the second one crapped out within a month. And again with Guitar Hero World Tour, the new guitar had lots of cool features like the ability to slap note, sythisize effects, blah, blah, blah. All that would have been great if the controller worked for more than a couple months. I'm telling you Activision needs to take notes from Harmonix who clearly know a whole lot more about quality control. I used the same Rock Band guitar all the way up until I bought the sequel with no problems whatsoever. And again, with Rock Band 2, I ravaged that new shiny wireless controller until my fingers were raw, but it is still working perfectly. I even used my Rock Band 2 controller to play Guitar Hero, since it's more responsive and always works, knock on wood. Overlord II turned out to be as great as the first, better even thanks to new included features, though it was nowhere near perfect, see my review for details. Codemasters pulled some cheap crap on me though with their whole eStore. Join our club the said, here's a birthday discount they said. And after all of that it turns out they have an eStore for ever country EXCEPT the United States. Customer services says they are currently working on making an eStore for the U.S. and in the meantime, any applicable discounts are not usable in the supported US retailers. I love it when someone tells me I get a 20% discount and then says, oh but you are live in America, so you aren't eligible. But that didn't stop them from asking me to join and sending me birthday discounts and whatnot. Whatever, at least Overlord II was only 39.99. Finally, as I am sure all you Blizzard Fanboys and Girls are aware, Starcraft 2 is just on the horizon. At least there is one video game company that has never let me down, not once. Blizzard Entertainment forever, Activision-Blizzard be damned. At least it was some sort of merger and not a takeover like EA did right before they ruined 3 different game franchises in the same year. Speaking of EA, at least it sounds like they are beginning to get the picture. They have returned to their roots and apparently we should be expected Battlefield 3 any year now. I hope to god they have got their **** together, because despite a rocky start, Battlefield 2 was the **** back in the day. From what I hear about Bad Company, it sounds like they may have done just that. For all the malice I hold for EA, I am willing to give them a second chance.

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