A few weeks ago I discovered (via GameSpot) this site called Raptr.

For those of you who are unawar, Raptr is a site that you sign-up to, and then enter your online ID's for 360, PS3, Wii, GameSpot, XFire and more, then it compares everything with everyone else and your friends.

None of my friends want it though, and I was just wondering if any of you guys had it? If you haven't, GET IT NOW!!! It's awesome.

If you have it, tell me your username on it and I'll add you (mine is the same as mine here)

Ok, so yesterday I decided to go out into town to buy a couple of games - PES6, NHL 2K6, and maybe one other. That would come to £13, and three games for £13 is pretty cool.

But I checked out the other shops into town just to check if they had any good deals on, and, God they did! Gamestation and GAME both had lots of 99p games, and I came home with, wait for it, 8 games! For £13!

I got:

FIFA 06: Road to the FIFA World Cup

FIFA 07

Moto GP '06

NHL 2K6

Project Gotham Racing 3

PES 6

Rockstar Table Tennis

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07

Unfortunately PES 6 doesn't work so I'll be cleaning the disc later, and if that doesn't work it's going back, but I was really chuffed at finding all those bargains. So that's me done with new games for a couple of months! :P

I'll probably go rate those games now :D

Hi everyone

In today's blog I'm going to be talking about a few different things, but first of all I'd like to talk about split-screen multi-player in video games.

Back in the PS2 days, I would spend ages playing split-screen Medal of Honor, and loads of driving games with a friend. The beauty of split-screen was that even the worst games, which cost about a £1, were made brilliant as we could laugh at it together, and play through it together. Then, after we'd completed it, back it went to the shop and we got another one out, completed it, brought it back. God, that was brilliant. How I wish I could do that now.

I was looking at my catalogue of Xbox 360 games earlier, and could only find one or two that had split-screen multi-player. Why is there no split-screen in DiRT 2? Or DiRT 1, for that matter? Those games would be up there with the very best if only they'd put in split-screen.

I was going to tell you one game which I think has amazing multi-player with a friend. Halo 3. I H-A-T-E the online multi-player when I play on my own, mainly because I suck at it. No idea why, seeing as I'm decent at the Call of Duty games, but there you go. But when I have a friend round, we'll play for ages in Forge mode, and Custom Games. And if someone on my Friend's List wants a game we can both play at the same time so no-one's left out! Woo!

And the game in my collection I think has the most room for improvement in multi-player? Call of Duty 4. Yes, Call of Duty 4. Not the normal multi-player, Team Deathmatch, SND, FFA etc, but the rest (although they could be improved). For starters, there's absolutely no co-op campaign. WHY? Imagine doing Mile High Club in co-op. Or the AC-130 gunship mission. One man on each gun. Everything in that game would be so much better if it was in co-op. Sure, you can play 1vs1, but, er, the maps are too big and Shipment is the worst map in history.

Halo 3 is so perfectly designed it's amazing. If Call of Duty just took a leaf out of Halo's book then it would have, quite simply, the perfect multi-player.

Secondly, I wanted to talk about what games I'll be buying. At the minute, I'm trying to upload some videos to YouTube, which unfortunately needs some decent equipment (upwards of £200) like a microphone and HD capture card. My username on YouTube is TopGearGaming2010 by the way for anyone who wants to check my video (just one at the minute) out and support me. I'm also looking to buy a headset for about £40 and the Band Hero instrument bundle. Expensive. And all of that means that unfortunately I won't be able to buy too many 360 games, so I decided to turn back and get a GBA SP (to replace my current GBA, which is the original) as well as a new controller for my PS2 to replace the one that I made a dent in one of the analogue sticks with my fingernail (playing FIFA with a friend, God that was annoying). All of which means more expense, but hopefully it'll be worth it in the end. Check out my wishlist for all the PS2, Xbox games I'm gonna get, and I'll try and upload some more reviews!

To finish, I'm just going to say something about Halo 3: ODST which I picked up for £35 from Tesco. A bit expensive, but I think it was damn worth it. The campaign is brilliant (although I've only played 2 missions) and the atmosphere is brilliant. Sometimes stealth is the way to go, if there's a group of brutes. The health packs are just annoying though. There's always enough around, but when the game reloads sometimes you'll have very low health and you'll die lots of times as you try to hunt some down. But onto Firefight. This is BRILLIANT, and the best co-op experience I have ever played. Every game is different, with different skulls, maps, characters, and every game me and my mate try to keep a different base. We get a vehicle (like a Warthog) and get one in the back on the turret, and one driving. Whenever a new Warthog spawns, we leave our base temporarily and get there with one guy driving, one on the turret then drive both of them back to the base. The weapons drop is also very useful. Pistols are actually quite useful. One headshot to take down a grunt, and then when a Chieftain comes along we kill him, and move the gravity hammer into our base. At the end of the round we hold it so it doesn't disappear. This method is so effective. The second disc, which comes packed with every Halo 3 map from all the map packs and the original disc is great, and Custom Games, Forge mode, and Theater are all present and correct. A definite must-buy in my opinion.

I'll see you guys later!

So in my Amazon order I got two games: Gran Turismo PSP and Red Faction Guerrilla. Here are my opinions on them:

Gran Turismo - This is in my opinion, the best game yet. That it released with the PSPgo is no coincidence: this is the very definition of a pick up and play game. The lack of a single-player career is in my eyes, the best thing about it. You just select a type of race, laps, car, and track and away you go. Even if you only have 3 minutes to spare, you can still get somewhere. Every two days (when you exit to the title screen, it adds a day) it changes the 4 dealerships, with a max of 10 cars in each. Now, I would be very happy with this if it wasn't for the fact that after just 20 days (so 10 sets of dealers) I've seen Mazda no less than 5 times, yet I still haven't seen Ferrarri. So, a solid game let down by one quite big flaw.

Red Faction Guerrilla - AMAZING. I got this game for just one reason - the destruction. I just love games with destruction, and this is my favourite yet. Mars looks like you think it would if we did colonize it, and you also think maybe there WOULD be two rival factions. Us humans are greedy at the best of times. Having said that, I still don't want to play through the campaign. Reason? Even on recruit, it will be a challenge for the average gamer to get through. And, annoyingly, you have to play through to unlock all six areas of Mars. The areas aren't that big, but I have half of Mars at the moment. Online I haven't yet tried, but it looks brilliant, and so does Wrecking Crew (pass-the-controller game) and the achievements are good as well.

So you know I was telling you about selling my Wii? Yeah, Mum bought it for £90. I went on Amazon yesterday and bought:

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Strategy Guide

Call of Duty World at War Strategy Guide

Burnout Paradise Strategy Guide

Batman Arkham Asylum Strategy Guide

Gavin & Stacey Series 1-3 and 2008 Christmas Special

Gran Turismo PSP

Red Faction Guerrilla

All that cost about £100. The other money from Wii games/accessories will go to the iPod Touch.

OK, you know I said I was getting a iPod Touch in Japan, then decided to get a PS3 in England? Yeah. Well, I'm getting the iPod Touch again. After looking through the list of PS3 games, I would only have about 10 games for the console ... just not worth it IMO.

The iPod Touch I'll have to get in England though, as in Japan they only have 8GB, 32GB, and 64GB, I want a 16GB. ANNOYING.

Anyway, my Mum has agreed to buy the Wii off me (with the bundled stuff like Wii Sports, remote, nunchuk) for £90. She says tonight she'll discuss with me what games she'd like to buy for it, the rest I'll try and sell to my friends, and after that eBay. Then after that they go for free to a friend. No way I'm trading a game in ever again. Rip-offs.

So, I was looking at getting a bulk lot of stuff off of Amazon (mainly strategy guides, maybe one game) so here is what I've got ATM: CoD 4 Guide, CoD WaW Guide, Halo 3 Guide, ACII Guide, Batman AA Guide, Burnout Paradise Guide, Gavin & Stacey Series 1, 2 & 3, and one game. About £100. Which means I need to save up £65 if I get £200 for all the Wii stuff, which I should get. So tonight I'm straight on Amazon to get those stuff.

Any good books I should get (related to gaming of course :P) while I'm at it?

Hi, sorry it's been a while since I posted on my blog but I really haven't had much to talk about.

My Dad's driving again after his operation, so today I'm going into town to get Battlefield: Bad Company and some rewritable DVD's. I would go on my own but seriously, the only ID I have is my passport. I wouldn't be able to buy it.

Battlefield - I want this because it's a great game, good single-player + multi-player and yesterday I saw most of the achievements would be pretty easy. So I'm gonna get it.

DVD's - I'm going to create a YouTube account called (if it's available) TopGearGamer. OK, I'm going to create my own Top Gear shows, lastiing 15-30 minutes once every two weeks, on Forza 3, and, when I get it, Gran Turismo 5.

But apart from laps, races etc I'm buggered when it comes to what I should include in the videos. Any ideas folk?

I started playing season 2 of 1vs100 when it started, end of November I think. I played it quite a bit, but then fell off.

Wait, I'd better tell you what it is. Basically, it's a live quiz show hosted by Microsoft, and every Tuesday and Friday there is a two-hour long live play mode, where 1 person out of 7,000 or so is chosen to be in with the chance of winning Microsoft Points, and XBLA games. However, 100 other of the top players out of the 7,000 are out to put that right. If they get a question wrong, they're out and the One gets closer to the next amount of points. If they stay in longer than the One, they will get a fair share of the points as well as an arcade game.

Anyway, so I suddenly started playing it again early this year when my friend downloaded it. I quickly got some achievements are started improving my tactics, using safeties which can be exchanged for correct answers at the right time. Last week, I got picked for the 100. I got 9 questions in a row right, then got a question wrong with only 20 guys left in the mob. 9 got it right, the 1 got it wrong. And that was it. No prizes, and 9 guys had won. Back in the crowd. Chance over.

But I decided that for this weeks first live show (Tuesday) I would try to get in the mob for the first round. Yesterday, I played 15 questions of General Discussion, getting about 10 right. I played Sports, and finished in the top 500. 50,000 points. Then I played World Football and was in the top 10 after 33 answers, all right. Then I messed up but still finished in the Top 100.

So today I will enter the game ASAP to try and get in The Mob with the highest weekly score.

BRING IT ON!!!!!!

I won't be able to get an iPod Touch. The only reason I would have got it was if I could get it cheaper in Japan. But after looking at it, I would have to get a decent job and do that in just 2 and a half months. Absolutely no chance whatsoever.

I still wanted to save up for something though. Laptop? Nah. It would take me about two years of buying nothing to get a good one, and Mum + Dad would only pay £100 of it for B'day/Christmas. So that was out of the question. iPhone? Nope, same as iPod Touch, in a way. Just a phone, like I've already got. TV? Why the **** would we need one of them? We've already got three old tube TV's sitting disused in a corner. Although once I get back into my original Xbox, PS2, and Gamecube, those won't be unused. One in my bedroom, with the PS2. Downstairs, I'll have the Wii and 360 for GC and Xbox games. I finallly realised what I wanted - a new console. Still two options though. DSi, or PS3.

And that's my problem. PS3 controller is better for some games and of course the PS3 has some great exlusives coming up. But the DSi would be a great alternative to the PSP. I don't know what it is about the PSP, but even in the car on a long journey I'll take it - but will I play it? Nope. The sooner I get the new PES games for PSP, the better :P

What would you suggest I get?

So, tonight there's 1vs100 Live and Man City v Man Utd on TV. Tricky. Especially with only one tv? what was that? There's a portable TV upstairs? With a spare aerial cable?

Damn, tonight's gonna be brilliant! :P