I completed a review for New Vegas. A great game in its own right that has more mature quests and mature characters with plenty of options on how to complete quests. You can simply go for aggression or deception. You can win trust with speech or convince with science. My approach was generally find out everything about the situation and decide who best to kill.

I also thought the main story quests were good with a few exceptions. Exploration is still good fun in a similar way to the Stalker games. Disappointed that the performance is at times horrendous and a few crashes and glitches hurt the game. If you liked Fallout 3 for the side quest stuff then New Vegas is highly recommended.

Finally finished the main campaign in Halo 2. One word to describe the entire experience would be: dull. It is true that the game doesn't have extreme laborious repetition like Halo 1 had in sections. But there is still excessive repetition. They copy 3 smaller sections / rooms and then change to another layout and copy that 3 times. Then mix in a vehicle section and do it all again. It's like they decided to push the absolute limits of copy and paste without annoying people, well I still got annoyed.

If I had to guess the amount of actual unduplicated content (minor changes aside) the game is really only half the length. Took me about 8 hours to grind though the game. I'm thankful the game didn't get worse and although the ending was no shade on Halo 1s end sequence it was still fun enough to keep my rage down.

It's hard to get over how ugly the game looks, it feels like a game from 2002, not 2007 (or 2004 for xbox) but graphics aside the campaign was just tiring and lifeless. The whole duel wiedling thing just meant I used two guns 90% of the time and spammed grenades the rest.

Haven't tried multiplayer yet but I enjoyed Halo 1 mp on PC so maybe I can get some enjoyment out of that.

Quick update on Medal of Honor multiplayer which I feel is just as broken if not more than single player. Not really techincally broken (apart from the stupid ragdolls) as it runs great and looks fantastic. Gameplay is broken with awful spawning, poor movement and absurd chokepoints. DICE wanted something like modern warfare 2 but only managed to get halfway there and I don't think it works. I may finisha review for it at some stage in the near future.

Black Ops comes out tomorrow and although I don't know much about it I'm still looking forward tomy preorder arriving.I'm just about due for another good mp game with my l4d2 addiction fading away. It may be the last new game release that I'll be getting for the year although depends on when GT5 comes. Analysts predict it will sell 18 million copies, insane numbers for Activision.