It looks like it wasn't to be. As quick as my hopes were risen over the GRAW demo, they were whisked away from me. I know the game was goin to require a hefty peice of kit to run on high, but i never imagened it would need a hefty machine to run on low. Just at the site of the game loading up, my graphics card managed to unscrew it self, wriggle itself free from the AGP slot and burst through the side of my case running out of the room wheeping and in a ball of flames. That's right, even on all low settings, my machine couldn't run the game at a stable enough frame rate.

Obviously this was a heart crushing time, unable to play the one game i'd chose to have in 2006. But what was more upsetting was the fact that my machine couldn't handle it. Don't get me wrong, i know my machine isn't what it used to be, but i honestly thought i'd be able to scrape through this year with games running on low/medium settings. But looks like it's not to be. I'll have to look into doing a full system overhaul in the next few months, as E3 open my eyes to a wide selection of system demanding games that made me lick my lips.