Condemned 2 is tight. I have been playing this for the past couple of days and am loving it. It is not as scary as I want it to be but it is good enough. It has been getting a little more creepy because I am trying not to get slaughtered and you have to be careful. I am on the third mission and just started it. I think I will be loving this game for a while. It is such a improvement from the first which I loved. I dont know why it is not scaring me like the first one did.

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There was one part when I opened a mirror to get some health and had done this a few times but this time I shut it and right when I turned around a junkie was right there and scared the pee out of me. The junkies are wearing underwear only and looke like they have been shooting meth into their eyes.

I traded in Dark Sector today. It was just something I needed to do. I started to play Condemned 2 again yesterday and it is sweet. The only problem I have is it really is not as scary as the first one. That really is a huge bummer. I am having loads of fun playing it and there are plenty of new creepy games on the way and i amd sure I will get enough scares to be satisfied. So now I have R6V2 to play but there are new maps for COD4. What the heck man. I dont think I will be playing too much COD4 though. I know it is great I just like to play more campaign games for now. That will change with time.

I have been playing this time on brutal and I cant decide if I should finish it. I want to get the most bang for my buck if I buy a game. I just am not feeling it too much. I am thinking about R6V2. I know most of you say go get it. I think I might. Should I hang on to dark sector for a while first or just get it and trade dark sector? Should I keep on with dark sector, I am half way through it for the second time? What do you think?

This is a movie that you would really like if you were home sick and was just watching anything that comes on tv. It is entertaining enough to sit through but in all is quite typical. Cowboy cop is suspended, bad guy enters stage left, bad guy will only deal with cowboy cop, why? There were several times in the movie that I just thought out loud, this person is really trying to act. If you watch it a good example is the bad guys girl friend wanting her lawyer. I really dont like any of the actors in this movie anyway. So the story is a typical action thriller. It plays out in a way to keep you from figuring out what the real outcome is, but it does it in a terrible way. They will show a scene a few times throughout the movie and then add in a part of the scene that was key to understanding the really half @$$ plot that just gets worse. Then adds one twist that most movies would not do, I wont tell you exactally what but it happens it is when people are running out of a house. Then I began to think cool at least they could move away from the typical hollywood ****of crap making. Then like I was predicting, because this movie was too lame to add a nonlame twist, it added the cheesy outcome of the twist. The worst part of the movie was the cheesy score. It was the elevator music of movie soundtracks. I am not joking around it was like a prepackaged action movie score. In all it was generic at best but it is just one of the latest ones so it might interest you. Wait till your sick in bed to watch or rent it. Want to watch a good action movie get Live Free or Die Hard.

I watched this movie last night. It was recommended by my Canadian wife's best friend. Her friend said that the world would be such a better place if Al Gore was president, And she just bought a green eco house. The house is cool but it is not eco at all, it has the same appliances as my house does.

So anyway her friend is great I really like her we just live in different mindsets. We rented the movie last night and I saw that Sean Penn had a big part in this. Not acting but the making of it. Sean Penn is a super liberal, I mean insanely liberal. If you dont know what that means I will give you my view of it. Liberals are the type of people that think the government should take care of the people because they dont know how to. To do this the way the government would have to pay for everything from education to health to housing, and much more. Also they need the government to make things equal for everybody, from income to name calling, and regulate it all. Basically the final outcome is no responsibility is on anyone and only on the government, nobody can do better than anybody else because it is not fair and there are no boundaries of morality because it is different for everybody even child molesters. This concept gives the government control of every aspect of your life and that means government has to be a big entity. When in my conservative mindset government is the problem.

So this movie starts as a political hit and a bust on society. Which is fine society is screwed up. But it takes a typical stereotypical wealthy, white, Christian family and show them as materialistic pro war "republican" one at that. This is such a stereotype. The family also mocks that type of family by making it dysfunctional to make the point that this is how a "perfect American family is". It shows this kid as ANGRY at the world thanks to society, parents, money, government, and religion. So he decides to get rid of his identity and give up everything to live on his own survival skills answering only to the wild. The first half of the movie is boring and self righteous, like a stereotypical liberal. He basically is a self made boy scout.

He runs across three major characters, and a few minor ones. This is where it gets good. While he still runs into the society that is easy to mock at takes major hits at "white authority" this kid begins to change. He comes across the funny guy in the wedding crashers that teaches him about working and a few other important things that break him down a little from his self-righteous high horse. He runs into a couple that is the hippie type that travel around in their camper. The woman has not seen her kid in 2 years, about the same as the kid in this movie and she sort of really becomes attached to this kid. Then he also runs into this 16 year old girl that wants him and he positively influences her. At the end which is the best he runs into a older man who has lost his family and makes a living working on leather which is something of a hobby. Now as far as this last guy is concerned he is wondering why he has not done the standard go to school get a job type thing. His reason is that it is not living life. the kid introduces him to the natural beauties of the world and the kid also reveals his strong feelings about God that he found on this journey.

In all the movie is boring and pretty lame. It does touch on a few things that I think are good for everyone, as long as you can see them in the movie. Some of the positive things which are minimal in this movie, and contradict most of the purpose of the film, are morals, that come in a natural sense that the liberal movement seeks to destroy saying morals are religious. Family in a sense that it is obvious how they have been hurt by the selfishness of the self-righteous kid and the other woman. Also in the way of the older man that has lost his. Government idiocy by the ways they control all aspects of life and of nature and the human spirit. Materialist wants which is a great lesson to everybody. You may think this is a hit at the rich in a way but it is also a hit at the people that live by the hand of the government if you understand human greed. Example that is overlooked in the movie, is you have the so called poor people that live off the government that everybody else is forced to pay for. The government does not help. They dont solve the problem at all, the solution is not to spend other peoples money on others but to get the people from having to use other peoples money. It is that simple. They actually only show a bunch of black people hanging on the street. That seems pretty degrading to blacks and puts a anti "rich white" theme to push on you. It all reinforces the harm put on society by the kids parents. You have the old man that puts a positive outlook on God in the mix to contradict the "rich white Christian" parents version of God. None the less it is a great spiritual message.

Anyway if you watch this movie do it with open eyes and dont let it lead you because it is meant to.

I am such a hip hop fan and a techno head. They really dont mix in the mind of most people. Anyway I also cant stand either one of them when it comes to what most people listen too. There is a small percent of techno that is good and if you look at the percentage of it that is it would be about 0.5%. So it is really hard to find good stuff and it has been a year since I have found enough records worth buying. I have found about 15. That is huge. Out of the thousands of records that come out each week to find 15 is huge. Although 13 of them are more than a year old. Like I was saying they are hard to find. So I am pumped to be able to find some techno worth buying. Also I found a hip hop record that I never thought I would find. It is Project Polariod. It is Kool Keith and Tom C. I would guess you have no clue what I am talking about. I am 32 years old so I am a old schooler. I cant stand the new stuff unless it goes back to the roots of hip hop that was inspired by originators.

This is the deal. I have beat Dark Sector, I have Condemned 2 and have only played the first level, and R6V2 is out. The decision I need to make is, do I get R6V2? Since I beat Dark Sector I can replay it on brutal difficulty. So I think I should get the most out of it and have restarted it. It is better to play it on this difficulty because it make you take advantage of the glaive more. You need to grab guns to kill soldiers that are shooting you from out of the reach of the glaive. You also dont want to kill all of the ammo you have in your weapons. So it is pretty cool. Also I would like to get the Achievements that I may not have recieved the first time around. I am thinking that I should wait on R6V2 til I atleast replay the game again. I am afraid if I dont then I wont replay it again. The I have to consider Condemned 2. I want to play that game but I have to do it at night. So R6V2 could be a day game. Then if I pass R6V2 up and play Condemned 2 then Alone in the Dark will be released right after that. That will be a night game also. So I am not sure I should get R6V2 yet because it may drop a little in price by the time I would get a chance to play it with all of the other games. Then again it could be a day game and it could be nice to break up all of the dark creepy stuff. I know it will be a good game but I think I can wait on it. There are a lot of things I need to do this month also. I will be replacing all the windows in the house and the inlaws are coming to town and we will build a deck. So there is a decent amout of things going on and another thing. I have Metroid, Mario Galaxy, super paper, all on the wii and have not even got into any of them at all.

As for this game being something you will want to add to your collection, I say no. As for a game you should play, yes. The reviews make sense to me now. The hard part about this game is that it has huge potential but did not use it.

One example is the weapons upgrades. First you have only a very small choice in weapons to buy and a small basic choice of upgrades. You search for these upgrades throughout the game but there is no challenge to it at all. You really have no need to actually search around the environments. The glaive is one of the best weapons ever in a video-game. They did not fully use the potential of this weapon. This weapon is killer. You can shoot ammo boxes from across the room and grab the ammo with it, which is really cool in a gun fight and you run out of ammo. It can really pick up the pace in action of this game but there is rarely a need. The AI in the game does not even make a real attempt to be offensive when it comes to the soldiers which would be the perfect place to do this. It is insane to throw the glaive at somebody and then start to plug them with bullets at the same time. That is great, I mean it is really great. This technique is really only good for the creatures in the game, since they are the only things that may attack you or come after you. It works great in that case but the soldiers are where the greatest potential comes into play it lacks hard. The soldiers are always on defense except for shielded ones. They will give you a chance to do this. Now when I say the "greatest potential" I mean since the soldiers are on defense you can just sit there and hit them with the glaive why run around. If the soldiers were a bit more on the offense to a point to where you would have to run around from cover to cover and use the glaive to get ammo or other weapons while fighting it would have been OFF THE HOOK.

All of these things are kept at a minimum to the point of playing guns as a kid and pretending to be a army man rather than the danger of being killed. The use of different guns is not as important as how bad @$$ the guns feel to use. They really are great but limited choices and not so important upgrades. The upgrade thing is nice in general but lacks substance. All the upgrades are the same for every gun, and you get multiples of the same thing the whole game. It would be cool for a arcade game but it feels half right at most for this game. You do get a shield in this game but it really lacks purpose. You only need it to get a achievement. It could have been a great feature but almost unnecessary. Back to the glaive. Great weapon. Used very well in this game but again not to potential. You can grab ammo, weapons and elements from across the room which is nice. You can also search around corners to see what lies ahead. you can throw it through tight spots to hit somebody or grab something. All of this is sweet. I just would have liked to see more depth with it. Like using it to go through tunnels to hit levers to open doors or find hidden treasures. All of this stuff is right there in front of you. There is no reason to search or figure out how to advance to the next level in a serious way. They do this in a very minimal way though and it feels watered down. The element aspect of the glaive is great not too much there to complain about.

The enemies in this game are alright. It is on par with most good games. There are times where there are seemingly never ending single file lines of them. There are multiple **** of AI which is great although there it becomes boring to shoot things that stay in the same place and dont move around.

The sound in this game is really good. They tell you this in the other reviews. Very true, it sounds very good. Actually the sound and the glaive are the greatest part of this game and they are really great. The graphics and environments are very good also. Like in other reviews they do get a little monotonous. There are great effects throughout the game and the colors are nice, the characters are very good looking especially in the cut scenes. As for being dark, Dark Sector is dark, real dark. Not as in evil as much as lack of light. You do get a flashlight but it is good for nothing. You will need it if you want to see where you are going at times, but other than that nothing. The items you collect throughout the game flash like a arcade game. Again no need to search, they blink.

So The infamous story. There is none. It is true the story is nothing but a vague insert to break the action. The breaks look good and are well placed though, I have to give it that. Another great thing about the game is it actually has some boss fights. They are pretty good also. There are certain ways to kill each one and a few are really cool. So the boss fights are a plus.

One last aspect of the game that is really important is the game-play. The game play is very good but it needs to be fine tuned. You have cover and can hug walls but can only do it if you are walking up to it not if you are right in front of it already. When switching cover you dont hug the next cover, which is fine except to have to back up and walk up to it to take cover. Walking up to ammo and weapons to pick them up is a problem. You are much better off stopping and shooting your glaive at them to pick them up. Otherwise you are trying to line yourself up to hold down the x button until you pick it up. There is no blind fire. Finishing moves, not as great as they say but not bad. They are pretty cool for the most point but I would like to choose which one I want to use. All of that said, and I hope it helps, It is a good game to play once. A broken game that has insane potential to be incredible.

So I am at work and will be playing this game after I leave. So far I have played a few levels and I can say the game is fun. Although being fun, it is not all of that. I cant decide if it is worth a purchase yet. I am not disappointed but was hoping for it to be a step up. I am having a good time and have not played it enough to give it a thumbs up or down. So with that said if you have bought it already you will have fun but I have not made up my mind for sure if it is worth the buy. I would almost say borrow it from a friend, but that is not the verdict yet.

I just popped it in yesterday and only got through the first level. So I am going to get into it more today so I can give you some other feedback. I am going to stop playing Bioshock for a while to get into the two new games I bought. So I will start with Dark Sector. So far I just played the first level and it is not bad. It does play like GOW and it seems like the first level is a get used to the controls level. So as far as the controls, they are pertty good. I need to get it down a little better because all of the games I have played are much different. It does not seem like it will be a problem. The only thing I can say about it is that the cover system is like GOW but when you switch cover from one thing to the next you just hide behind the next thing you do not hug it. That can actually be a plus if you get into crazy situations. It will just take a little getting used too. The only thing that bothered me is picking up ammo is a pain in the butt. It seemed like I had to get in the right spot and hold down the button for a little too long. Other than that seems good but I am playing it with the mindset of is it good enough and trying to pick everything apart. This next level will actually give me more to go by as far as graphics and gameplay and story. So far the story is simple which is fine by me. I am pretty in the dark about much of it but it is not a setback, or much of one.