I got a PS2 from by brother last Christmas, and I've been working my way through the tip of my 6-years-of-brilliant-games iceberg ever since. Most recently I've been playing Jak II. My initial impression wasn't as good as with the original Jak and Daxter. It just didn't pull me in like the first game did. But having made it about 50-60% of the way through, it's grown on me.

It's a great game, in a different way than J&D was. But I think they went a little crazy with the free-roaming-city element. It doesn't significantly add to the gameplay and just boils down to you spending a lot of time going from Point A to Point B. Anyway, I've got to a point in the game where the mission tree-path collapses to one possibility. I have to destroy those 5 hover tanks to move on, and it's ridiculously hard. I thought the part right before that where you had to get past the unending horde of Crimson Guard troop transports was hard... Jeez!

So, I'm taking a break. I think I'll start Ico, or maybe a nice RPG. Before Jak II, I finished off God of War. I never got around to writing a proper review, but wow! That game is simply amazing! It's a rarity for me to play a game and not find anything wrong with it. I also played through with a friend on God mode, and we made it as far as the part where you have to protect your family from the Kratos clones... Yeah, that's just obscenely hard! I have to raise my eyebrow in skepticism now whenever anyone tells me that they got past that...