I had an interesting week to say the least.

 

Without going into to much detail, I got into a "situation" earlier this week and while it didn't turn out as bad as I thought it would, it still turned out bad. 

 

ONe thing that Anna taught me was to never trust anyone, and that includes myself to a certain degree.  It was a bad idea for me to listen to myself in the since that I havent' taken my medication for awhile and for the lack of a better word "relapsed".  Oh well, things happen and i'm eager to move on and put this behind me.  As embarassing as the whole mess was, i'll learn from it (and I have) and i'll move on.

 

Now on to the games.

 

For the first time ever, i'm interested in a GTA game.  This offcourse being GTAIV.  I"m picking it up tonight at midnight and i'll be leaving my impressions shortly after.  Other than that i've wrapped up Dark Sector and Viking Battle for Asgard and i'll be giving impressions of that soon as well.

 

Until then, happy gaming.

I have a lOT of gaming stuff to cover, which i'll do tommorrow because it's late, i'm tired, and more importantly i'm playing Halo3

Gears of War 2 looks freakin amazing, better than any game i've ever seen.

 

FYI, for those of you asking about  Cortana, don't.

 

I"ll post more later.

Having the dubious honor of being if not the first, one of the first "next-gen" games shown, Dark Sector is a really good game.

 

D3 has been sitting on this one for a long time.  Innitially, the game was supposed to have a real sci-fi spacey edge to it, and for the most part, I was intrigued.  Admittedly, once the game had under went a massive shift from it's intiial concept I like many other gamers no doubt, had given up on the game ever coming out and was shocked when not only did the realese the game,...

 

But it's good.

 

The best way to describe DS would be to call it a mix between Gears of War and Resident Evil IV.  Gameplay is centered around one central (and awesome) weapon called a glave. 

 

The Glave looks like the fantasy ninja star thingy from the 80's movie, Krull.  Simply tossing the bladed boomarang like weapon at an opponent wreaks awesome rewards but it's the cool things you learn to do with it that makes it stand out and in turn effects the overall gameplay itself.

 

For example, you can throw the glave into fire, and it will take on the poperties of said fire allowing you burn things etc, and open new avenues previosly unavailable to you for game progression.  The levels themselves are laid out kinda like a puzzle that alllows you to find your own way thru yet being linear enough to keep you moving at a steady pace.  Sometimes a combination of elements will be required to progress thru said stage and my only problem so far is that it sometimes is hard to find ones way.

 

On a visual level, this game looks as good as Gears and in some spots alot better.  You would be mistaken to think that the engine is Unreal Engine, albeit its key to note that some of those who worked on the game are former Epic guys (Digital Extreme) and it shows.  It's not the art that wills impress you as it more or less, standard faire but from a technical standpoint, it's amazing.

 

More to come once I finish the game.