Dedicated to Bean Bag Boy.

rate [2.5]

This game was just too easy. Not much of a challenge. The graphics were good, and the game itself enjoyable, just seemed to be all over far too quick. If you can't get to the final level of this game without cheating, then you should hand back your Xbox controller immediately and go back to your Nintendo 64. The only section that I really got stuck on in this game was the final level/boss. As with all games of this type, the final boss (Heinrich) takes a bit to bring down. There is no secret to it, it's just trial and error. Stock pile weapons before hand, the bigger the better!

The three attacks of Heinrich (the final Return to Castle Wolfenstein Boss):

1. Heinrich has a massive sword that he'll try and dismember you with. Dismemberment is not something you are looking for at this stage of the game! If your hit, your health will most definitely suffer.
2. Heinrich's second attack is another of the standard style 'boss' attacks. He looks like he beats the ground causing an earthquake type thing. You'll lose your footing and maybe get hit by some rubble. This won't hurt as much as the dismemberment (see attack 1).
3. The third attack is the standard 'annoying' boss attack. Yup, the third attack is the one where the boss summons henchmen to distract. In this case Heinrich summons zombie like things (I'm not really sure what they are so I'm going with zombies!). The zombie are much of a threat, but they will distract you enough so that Heinrich can get a couple of swings of his sword.

I found the third attack to be Heinrichs weakness, and the key to beating him easily. Run around a lot, kill a zombie henchman, and when Heinrich is busy summoning a replacement zombie, go on a rampage and hit him hard. Repeat until your satisfied that he's dead (again!). If your not sure whether he's summoning a replacement zombie or not, check out his face and body language. If it screams constipation, then it's time to attack!

Overall, graphics and gameplay were ok. I didn't find the aiming etc to be as good as the Halo games or Doom3, but it was adequate. I'd rate this game a 6/10, slightly better than average, but not much.

Next: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

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There have been rumours of a sequel to 2004's adequate 'Alien vs Predator' film for quite some time now. It now seems that the wheels are in motion. According to Online Horror Magazine - Fangoria:

"ALIEN VS. PREDATOR: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST will begin shooting in Vancouver, British Columbia on September 23 and wrap December 14, Fango has learned. AVP’s Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis of Amalgamated Dynamics, veterans of the first AVP (pictured) and all the previous ALIEN sequels, will encore on the creature FX. The Shane Salerno script places the battling extraterrestrials on U.S. soil (the Midwest); FX pros Colin and Greg Strauss make their feature directorial debuts on the December 21, 2007 Fox release."

I haven't read anything official about the plot outline yet, but I did find a brief snippet on bloody-disgusting.com:

"In this follow-up to the worldwide hit ALIEN VS. PREDATOR, the iconic monsters from two of the scariest film franchises ever, wage war in an American Midwestern town - with the residents caught in the middle."

An 'American Midwestern town'? This just doesn't sound like such a great setting for 'iconic monsters' to be doing battle. Are they going to carve up a Quik-E-Mart? Will the Predators engage in some Grand Theft Auto style drive by shootings on gangs of Aliens? Hopefully I'm proven wrong and it turns out to be a good movie and a vast improvement on the first 'versus' film, but to be honest, I'm not holding out much hope. If this is a stinker, I think that Predator and Alien nerds like me can kiss goodbye the idea that Predator 3 or Alien 5 will ever see the light of day.

Four freaks... I mean... Four engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body. One said, "It was a mechanical engineer, just look at all the joints." Another said, "No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections." The third said, "It was obviously a chemical engineer, just think about all the reactions taking place each second in the body."

The last one said, "You're all wrong, it had to have been a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?"

My sidekick, Bean Bag Boy, and I were playing 'Hunter: The Reckoning: Redeemer' last night and I suggested that it would make a great movie. We were waist deep in zombie scum at the time so the thought drifted out of my head as quickly as it had arrived. The thought returned today, so I thought I'd do a quick search of the web to see if a 'Hunter' movie was in the works. It took me about 30 seconds to find some rather disturbing information contained in a press release posted on the White Wolf website. » Read the rest of the entry..

I found this small snippet on the Dark Horizons website:

"Universal Pictures has apparently acquired film rights to Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Choke" with Paul Bernbaum ("Hollywoodland") tapped to write. The novel concerns Victor Mancini, a young man who scams people by, literally, choking in restaurants in order to keep his mother in St. Anthony's Care Center while he goes to sexaholic meetings to get some action & at the same time lusts after his mom's nurse".

Chuck Palahniuk is probably my favourite author, and I've been waiting for a film adaptation of 'Choke' for a long time. If you haven't read 'Choke', or any other Chuck Palahniuk book for that matter, you should do so immediately.

1. Try and figure out how to make the site a little more adsense friendly. Might have to learn more about wordpress. Completed
2. Record the song that's playing in my head. I have the intro, the kick ass main riff, and the outro, just nothing to link the bits and pieces together.
3. Finish Hunter: The Reckoning: Redeemer with my associate Bean Bag Boy. Completed
4. Record Bean Bag Boys debut single.
5. Find or start another band.
6. Iron out the rusty tennis serve.
7. Watch last weeks episode of Battlestar Gallactica. Completed
8. Lose 9 more kilograms (might need some muscle milk).
9. See Snakes on a Plane.
10. Think of 10 more top 10 things I need to do.