My Monthly Wish List (Critic Scores)

November:
Call of Duty 4 (9.5)
Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga (8.0)
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (8.1)
Rock Band (9.4)

December:
Nights: Journey of Dreams (8.1)

January:
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (Jan. 21)

February:
Devil May Cry 4 (Feb. 5)
Assassin's Creed PC (Feb. 12)
Dynasty Warriors 6 (Feb. 19)
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Feb. 19)
Dragon Quest Swords (Feb. 26)

March:
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Mar. 9)

• 7Aug 08

  Slight problems...

  Hey everyone! Sorry about the absence, there has actually been a reason for it. My next project, i plan on making a video of myself playing rock band to upload to GS for all of ur viewing pleasure lol. Unfortunately everything that could possibly go wrong is, so yeah. I want to show a video of me doing vocals and guitar but since I don't have a mic stand, i had to settle for taping the mic to the guitar, it looks funny but it works . Other than that, i'm trying to figure out a good song to do and a cool way to video tape it. K so just so you know. The video will be up before i'm off to U of M on the 15th. Peace friends!
  • Posted Aug 7, 2008 12:39 pm PT
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• 17Jul 08

  Journey to the Center of the Earth Impressions

  Hello everyone! Just a quick blog telling you all what I thought of Journey to the Center of the Earth, the new family-friendly movie that came out based on the book by Jules Verne. The movie, featuring Brendan Fraiser as the main character, has a professor, his nephew and a mountain guide venture into the center of the earth, to find a wonderful prehistoric world. Now, remember first of all that this is a family-friendly movie so cheesiness is a definite. However, the actors all do a great job of minimizing these scenes. The action itself can be entertaining but sometimes simply stupid. A lot of the time you will be thinking to yourself, there's no way someone could survive that or do that. But if you refuse to think realistically, the plot will entertain you for about an hour and a half.

  For me, I can relate it to the movie National Treasure, don't think about it and it's kinda fun. Start thinking logistically about it, and it's absolutely ridiculous. Overall, JthCotE (woah for long acronyms) is a fun movie to see once but probably not something I would see again.

  There you go. Random movie review for the week . Hope everyone's doing well, peace!

  • Posted Jul 17, 2008 5:47 pm PT
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• 14Jul 08

  Stupid Internet... (Rock Band 2 info here! Won't find on GS)

  Don'tcha just love it when your internet just decides it doesn't want to work anymore?? SO DO I!!! YAY!!!! So sorry about the noticable absence over the past week, that's the cause of that.

  Anyway, on to more pleasant topics such as E3!!! YAY!! So I haven't looked at everything there is to see yet but I did look at two games in particular. Being away from Gamespot for so long had its consequences. I honestly had no idea some of this stuff was coming out. A new Banjo-Kazooie game? Rock Band 2's coming out in the fall?? FOR REALZ??!! Guitar Hero: Metallica??? (actually got that one from Game Informer but whatev's ;P) I checked the stuff on Banjo Kazooie 3 and Rock Band 2 just now and I like what I see.

  Banjo Kazooie 3 is taking a completely new spin on platformers (a favorite genre of mine) by making it almost like a racing platformer. You must make vehicles by adding together pieces you win by completing missions in the game. The missions are things like push the snowman's head up the mountain. To do that you must find the parts for a tractor and use that tractor to push the head up. It sounds really fun. We'll see though how it ends up.

  The thing I'm even more excited about is all the new information on ROCK BAND 2!!!! OMG!!! Amazing! So i'll compile all the info i've found out here. First of all, new game modes. They're getting rid of the linear solo quest thing from the first game and allowing players to do the World Tour solo. Freaking awesome in my book since World Tour is the best thing you can do in the game. Also, brand new solo bass tour, that's pretty cool for all you bass players. Also, the character development area has been completely revamped so that you have far more latitude for stuff to do and the characters you make will be able to play any instrument whereas in the first one, you had to make a seperate character for a different instrument. This is really nice since my friends and I switch a lot between vocals, guitar and drums (we've got a great bass player who stays static). The World Tour system has been revamped as well so that instead of winning employees, you can now actively hire them with the money you've saved up (thank god since the moeny hardly did anything in the first game). There is also a new challenge mode which sets you up with a tough setlist that will get harder as you go on. These can be particular decades, artists or just fun songs but this is really awesome since it remakes the challenges whenever you get new downloadable songs!

  As far as individual instruments go, the equipment is all getting revamped completely. A new look for the guitar as well as the necessary changes (no more crappy strum bar, quieter fret buttons). For the drums, they are softer and quieter and, an optional addition, you can add bonus cymbals to the drum set to make it more realistic (these are alternates for already present buttons. So you can have a blue drum and a blue cymbal). There's even going to be limited edition drum sets that, if you plug them into speakers, will work as a real electronic drum set. Freaking sweet! But if none of this appeals to you, you can stick with your Rock Band 1 stuff too.

  Which brings me to the songs. The full list is right here on GS but what they don't tell you is that all the songs you had on Rock Band 1 will be transfered over to Rock Band 2 automatically! This means any songs you loved from Rock Band 1 (Dont Fear the Reaper, More than a Feeling, etc., etc.) will be transferred over so you don't have to downgrade back to the original to play those awesome songs again. Incredibly cool. If you don't feel like checking the list of songs, there are 84 songs that come with the game and 20 that will be free to download the day the game comes out. Harmonix has also announced that in a year, there will be over 500 songs. That's spectacular. Better than Guitar Hero: World Tour if you ask me . Unfortunately, I won't be able to play this amazing game until at least christmas since I'll be at college. One last tidbit of information is that for a while, the game will be 360 exclusive. Harmonix said the other systems will be released before christmas.

  • Posted Jul 14, 2008 4:19 pm PT
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