Video Games

I was back at work today, but don't have much to say. A few video game notes? (Not gonna get into Rock Band just yet...just say that it looks fun, but $200 fun? You can almost buy a Wii for that much. We'll see...)

I'm way late on the bandwagon, but Dance Dance Revolution for XBox360 is a pretty good time. Especially if you're into shit like Chris Brown and Cascada. My favorite, perhaps, is Pendulum by Slam (or Slam by Pendulum...can't remember) I just love how it starts pretty slow and normal then suddenly kicks up into this wild lil frenzy. Anyway, it's as good a workout as advertised. The games got a pretty steep learning curve and it starts out really hard, but I'm getting better.

Big thumbs down for the critically acclaimed The Darkness. Maybe the story gets better, but the controls are dumb and the whole concept is pretty lame. The idea is that your little supernatural alter-ego powers up in the dark...so you walk around shooting out lights the whole time. A neat concept in theory, but shooting out light bulbs is hella boring! And its got a checkpoint safe feature, so you get stuck playing the same section over and over when you die. Having to take 5 minutes every time after reloading to shoot out all the dumb lights was killing me. I returned it after like 3 days for...

Ninja Gaiden Sigma! This is a good game! It's like Resident Evil or Metal Gear solid, but with better controls and no guns. I like that it's such a throwback to an old school beat em up fighter. The story is merely serviceable, but the locales and levels are fun, the power up system is simple enough for me and the gameplay just feels right. It's hard, yeah, but just fun. When I die I feel like it could have been avoided if I was more careful. Only shortcoming is it should have co-op 2 player on the same screen, but I'm okay with that these days.

One other recent impulse was Singstar POP for PS2. It's really not that great a game, but the song list cheesy and amusing enough that I'm sure I'll get my money worth over time. Singing Lifehouse and Hinder songs at the top of your lungs at 2AM is way more fun than you'd imagine.

So what else is new? Play a lot of MLB 07: The Show still (which is a great baseball game. 100x better than the Sega Sports alternatives this year.) I haven't touched my Wii in months. They gotta get a new game out for it of something...

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