I had FEAR 2 on preorder and picked it up on Friday the 13th (yeah that was the launch day here) and have completed the single player. The game took me just under 6 hours to finish which is shorter than the original. If I were to pick out two obvious things to compare the original with 2 they would be

a. It is much easier than the original

b. Also less scary than the original.

It was still a decent game, the slow motion combat is still good fun and they did spend some time getting the pacing right. Levels are probably better, because they are more open but still on the bland warehouse / office ****if you didn't really like that in the original. I haven't tried multiplayer but I will be. I think if you liked the original you'll like this one though, the story is definitely more obvious (and for me the ending was predictable)

Short gameplay vid (no spoilers): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1jmpVG20w

I did see Slumdog Millionaire this week, and I have to say that the positive reviews from people (like biggest loser) are completely justified, it's a very clever feel good movie, I enjoyed the themes and the links. It's the best movie I've seen in quite some time and I'm usually a big sci-fi action fan.

On the movie front I did also catch Screamers: The Hunting. I didn't even know about this until I saw it on imdb. I was a pretty big fan of the original. The original is based on a novel by the same guy that wrote story that Blade Runner is based on, He's a pretty good sci-fi writer and I think Screamers is an underated film (the special effects are very poor) but the premise is cool. The hunting is not as good sadly so unless you love screamers avoid it :P

Own Unreal Tournament 3? Well you can now register your retail CD Key with Steam. When the update comes March 5th, Steam will simply update it and you can get the steamworks achiemvents. I recommend installing the game first, then copying the files over to commonUnreal Tournament 3 in your Steam directory and it should only update a few files to save you download time. Anyway I'd like to see more companies use steam and let people register games on steam. Maybe Epic are pretty happy with Steam sales if they went out of their way to introduce these new features?

Finally I have completed a review for Left 4 Dead. Posted over at the site (New Game Network) I mentioned in my last blog. I will be posting it up on gamespot in a few weeks time as I did with Prince of Persia review

Also I hope Shepard doesn't die for real in Mass Effect 2 he and me were pals :(