Alright, sorry guys but this is one game i wasnt able to bring myself to beat. I try and make it a habit to beat at least the single player (if there is one) before a review a game, but like metroid i just cant finish it.

First off I want to talk about the graphics of "No More Heroes" which is a rather hard topic to go about reviewing. "No More Heroes" goes off of a very stylized visual approach, going for anime like characters rather than detailed character models. now theres a point where you kinda just wonder what the developer was doing...and this game make me cringe while i played it. This game is the ugliest thing i have ever played. the mass ammounts of jaggies in this game keeps me from enjoying the style of the game. its like they didnt even try to make the game look smooth or nice, they threw on the characters, threw of some blan backgrounds that look like they came from the N64, add boxy cars that make legos look sleek and futuristic and you have "No More Heroes". Thats really dissapointing ya know, the game's art style is amazing underneath all the visual problems of the game. travis would probably be a bad ass looking character if it wasnt for his entire body being jaggies. this game is all style but doesnt use any of the wii's power at all. final fantasy 7 doesnt even look this bad on my HDTV. ill give them kudos for the art style, but its ruined by a bad performance on a wii. (not blaming the wii, Mario and Metroid look like ps3 titles next to this piece of visual vomit).

2/10 for graphics, style that gets lost in this technical downfall of this game.

next up, gameplay! now this is one of "No More Heroes" good points. the combat handles really well. even tho your mashing "A" to attack, being able to quickly change from a high to low stance almost gives you the feeling of fighting. that being said...thats the gameplay right there. walk over to a guy, point up and down to change your stances and mash "A" thats as deep as the gameplay really goes. you throw in some finishing moves here and there and a few wrestling moves, but the combat system never seemed to get deeper...which is fine i guess. i loved kingdom hearts, but while kingdom hearts reqarded you for killing enemies, travis only gets money for killing enemies and combat quickly looses it's shine. Now here is what killed "No More Heroes" in my book, and took it from a "yeah pick it up" title to the "biggest waste of money, right after legendary edition of halo3" (which was about 60 dollars of pure wasted money) and that is the city. theres nothing to do there. you walk around find kolikoff balls, and search trashbins for t-shirts. theres no wandering bad guys to kill, you cant kill innocent bystanders, nothing...you have a bike, and trash bins. people defend the game saying "The city is jsut meant to be a hub, not an area to play in" but god damn it! this is a game, i dont want to have to do X, Y, Z to finally get some where to kill some doods. i want to walk out of my hotel and decapitate the first punk i see, not checking to see if theres a trash can with a t-shirt in the area. this hub is ugly, theres little going on there...theres like 2 people on screen EVER, and its really really ugly.

5/10 for gameplay, good combat...but everything else sucks.

Sound was good, not a whole lot to comment on, some very 8-bit sounds in there.

Boss battles were fun and challenging

right, well i dunno what to talk about now. i went on my rant about this "AAA" wana be for the Wii

final verdict 5/10

This is Microsoft's Second console to hit shelves, and already Microsoft has shown it knows how to play the game. Microsoft started the console war alone, letting the 360 take shelves a year before the competition was ready to launch. they were able to build a user base in the clear, but being the only console on the market the 360 also had no where to hide in failures such as the RRoD. then one of the best things happened for the 360, it finished its first year with a bang, the launch of the much hyped and antisipated Gears of War along side the competitions first string of lack luster in most cases, launch titles.

microsoft then started off 07 with just a little momentum, gears of war was still pushing the console through the early months of 07. then Microsoft started to put its pieces into play. they started to release games from all genres, adding to the 360s liberary. then Microsoft got to the later half of 07, where the 360 had one of the best holiday lineups in gaming history, having heavy hitters like halo3 and Call of Duty finishing off the year with a bang. theres no denying the 360s holiday lineup.

now Microsoft enters into 2008, still with the momentum of the holiday season that just past. then at the game DEVELOPER confrence where the competition was talking about tools, and things of that nature to work with their system, MS throws out two big announcements. first of which was the user created XNA titles, this opened up MSs gaming console to all sorts of things, taking the library of titles that could be avaliable for the console to new heights. GDC was pretty quiete lots of talk about tools to develop (like XNA for the 360). MS had a good 08 line up of titles...a few titles for every one, but there wasnt that AAA heavy hitter the 360 had in years prior. Sony quiet, letting the users hype the games coming out for the PS3...and like that MS instantly built up the hype on the 360 again with the announcement of Gears of War 2.

MS doesnt take it easy, they are constantly putting on the pressure. in an instant MS once again got its user base buzzing with excitement. man...MS sure does know how to play the game.

revised blog from me gametrailers account

hey well its a new year, and as of late...glass Dominion got a little boring especially on XBL, how people confuse glass DOMINION and glass DOMINATIOR is beyond me...so its now Solid System. for my friends birth day i bought him XBL for a year, and we went with a theme. the discussion started out about MGS and the diffrent snakes, and well at the end we discussed how each of the snakes were a diffrent state of matter, solid liquid. so i picked Solid System, and he picked Liquid System. NOW WE SHALL PWN MULTI TEAM AND TEAM DOUBLES ON HALO3!.

ill probably change my PSN as well...and well its a little harder to change forum names...

alright eveyone, im switching over to diffrent versions of "Solid System"

XBL: Solid System

PSN: SolidSystem

gametrailers: SolidSystem