Well, compared with last year's, there was a shotage of new games... But there were a few, and I'm here to tell you about what I felt about some of them... Very brief. Detailed impressions will come later...

HellGate London: Demoed on DirectX 10. It's a nice looking game, and an even more fun one at that. Playing single player, the best way to describe it is like Diablo in 3rd or 1st person, your choice. Yes, you can switch from 3rd to 1st person mode with the flick of a mouse wheel. I demoed the Summonor class for a bit. The summoner initially can summon (o rly?) a creature to help attack enemys and such for you. The little I played, I was able to level up to allow for 2 creatures to be summoned at once. Pretty cool.

Like Diablo, when you die, you have to go and find your tombstone, or you can pay a cost for ressurection. The summoner had an interesting weapon initially, and I wasn't able to find anything else in the 15minutes of me playing (playtime was not limited, I just didn't want to be that annoying guy who doesn't give anyone else a chance...)

But then, it was off to Crysis...

Crysis... Direct X 10, at max glory was... beautiful. The lighing, water effects were just stunning. how did it play? Well, this one I got a very short playtest, but it looks like it will be a really fun game... I can't detail much about this one such as what things were called, etc, but do know that this game just might live up to the hype... The design of the tropical area was just beautiful. The physics engine in motion was amazing... You just have to play it when it comes out (if you didn't get a chance to try it yet)... I just hope the greatness lasts through the entire game... The gameplay so far (of what I played) was standard FPS fare, but with the unique twists we were told of. It's those little twists that make the game fun, and I can't wait to see how it all will come together...

Eye of Judgement ... I'm a fan of TCG's (mainly Magic The Gathering) and this game was cool. You play a TCG against a friend, the CPU, or over PSN. The goal is to occupy 5 spaces with a creature, which can be killed before the end of the turn you summon the 5th... Each tile has an element. Summoning creatures with the same element on those tiles will boost them up, while opposite elements will break them down... There's a card that can flip the ground and reveal the underlying element (displayed n the bottom right corner of the tile) among other things...

Basically, the Eye Toy reads the card you placed on the mat, and the game reacts accordingly. I happend to win my first match, and I had a blast playing. There's a few action cards that you place to tell the game what you want to do in some cases. An action card lets you use an action (usually attacking) of another creature by placing the card over the creature card. End turn card does just that. Cancel card undo's silly mistakes. Status card can tell you info about a specific creature you place it over, or the game in general. Creatures you summon can have activated abilities that take place once something happens, or if you summon it on a certain terrain type...

I'm a MTG fanatic, so expect this to be the first game I fully write about... Heck, it almost makes me want to get a PS3...

Gears of War PC: It's like Gears of War 360 (down to the fact that you can use the 360 controller) only prettier, and more stuff to it... That's all really...

Finally, I'll get to Guitar Hero III. There's nothing much to say other than it's a great sequel. Controller feels good, song selection seems like it's going to be awesome this time around. And with 360, Wii and PS3 getting it (I do hear PC support as wsell, but we'll see) everyone has no excuse not to get this game...

Well, that's all for now... Expect a detailed Eye of Judgement preview from me soon...

Sometimes I feel like I'm the lucky one when it comes to systemwars...  I mean, you see people ranting and raving about how there's only once console to rule them all while I'm here and loving every console and many, many more games than they are...

I appreciate power, and appreciate innovation and change.  Maybe both are because I'm majoring in engineering (computer engineering to be exact), or maybe it's because I don't care where it comes from, but fun is fun...


Enjoy your arguments and one track minds, I'll have fun with every good game (notice I didn't say great...) released on all consoles... 

Oh sure, I'll have to play with friend's consoles since I don't have them all yet, but money >>>>>> buying game consoles

I'm going to be picky with reviewing games. I'll review games that stand out to me or that recieved contravertial reviews (and I played it) or someone begs me to review a game I played to completion, whether good or bad, and even if I claim it's good, that won't stop me from giving it a bad score based on what it does wrong...

So if I claim I love a game on the forums, but you don't actually see me review it, that's because of either what I said above, or that I'm just lazy...

Since I don't own a 360 yet, but play it often, I might do a few 360 reviews, but I might hold out on some until I get one of my own...

I won't review Gears, since the GS review got everything right. And I would be repeating everything they said, word for word... I will review Sonic, since I'm an uberSonicfanboy... You probably won't like the results...

Also, I will only add the games I review to my collection.  So I may own games that I don't claim I have...  I may change this stance someday, but I have too many games to actually post up my collection, and I plan on reviewing all the new ones I get...

No, I won't always post something like this, but I finally finished the most hyped game of the year...  Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess...  And I wrote a review...

Is it perfect?  No.  Is it epic, yes.  So how can I give it a "non-epic" score? 

Simple, it has flaws...  Stuff that as a fan of Ocarina and Majora's Mask it was missing, namely the timewasters.  Very, very few random side quests, probably about 3 mini games...  No real use for the spider bombs, and the fact that some items become pretty much useless (other than for menial tasks) later on.

Other than that, the story was excellent, the art excellent, and the soundtrack (oh, I complained about the midi tracks too) top notch, but would have been epic if orchestrated.  Guess I'll have to wait for OCremix for that...

I'll start posting more interesting stuff later on.

Well, I welcome myself to the Gamespot communtiy, even though I've been lurking here for years, occasionally posting...  Since I've been bored at other forums recently, here seemed to be a lot more interesting...

I loved the System wars board on GS... Very interesting, very hilarious, etc.  So When you see me on those boards, I'll range from being fanboyish to sane..., but mostly fanboyish to whoever I feel like at the moment...    Fun, great, I know... 

BTW, I've got more cores than the PS3 and 360 combined, I'm writing this, posting, and digg -ing at the same time, while yelling at my brother for doing something stupid in LOZ:TP... again...

Moving on:

I eventually want all of the nex.. I mean current gen consoles, I already have a Wii, and I love it.  I'm awating my own 360, though I've played it many, many times... It's great to have friends...  Especially ones who appreciate games, regardless of what format they're played on...  From PS2, GC, Xbox, 360, PS3 Wii, I've played them all and love them all.

Oh, and I played the Wii and PS3 before most people got to, and saw the 360 in person before most people got to as well. 


Another thing:  I'm an uber sonic fanboy...  I'll bash the games to death on the basis of them being bad games, but I'll love them regardless of their suckiness...  Don't ask, it's a stand alone complex...  (thanks to the fangamming community)

I hope I enjoy my stay.

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