Go look for BIGMercenary on my friends list and add me again if you want to. Once that's done you can go ahead and delete this profile, or not. It's up to you since it'll take me some time to transfer reviews to Word so I can rewrite them all.

In the meantime...

Keep Playing.

Brand new. Not second-hand. And I registered it a couple days after I bought it (kept slipping my mind). At least if this one breaks I know I can send it in.

I, of course, got the Arcade version. With the 20G HDD that I had with the last one, storage is no problem. What I like about it though is that it comes with the built-in memory, which means the Jasper chipset.... which means that there's a very low chance of RRoD? I'm sure you've heard of it.

The games it came with have caught some flak on Gamespot, but they're decent. I still have my previous games. Well... the ones that weren't eaten by the last 360.

Uhh... I'm playing on a bigger TV with stereo sound? Albeit the TV is very old and fuzzy.

Oh let's face it: without an HDTV and constant high speed internet connection this was pretty much a waste of my money. Everytime I get on Live no one else is on. And if someone's on they don't care enough to talk.

The only game I'm looking forward to is Prototype, that shouldn't be a let down.
(I fear I may have just cursed the game... bullocks.)

Dah well, if you want to add me and not talk, you know where my gamercard is located on this page.

Keep Playing.
Even though I might not for very long.

I picked up Oddworld: Munch's Odysee a few weeks ago at Play N Trade. After playing it twice I was supremely disappointed. The game seems to be nothing more than a tech demo for the Xbox, showing off graphical and AI capabilities. The gameplay is horrid, the storyline uninteresting, and right now the game should only be bought by a true lover of Oddworld or a collector.

If the Xbox had not advanced in several areas, if the latter of the console's games resembled Munch's Odyssee, I would have never thought the Xbox would make it next to the next generation.

Luckily, later on in the cycle we got games such as Forza, Unreal Championship 2, Black; the games that used and even pushed the limits of the hardware.

Fast forward to today, or at least a few years ago, YOU GET THE POINT! With the release of Crysis finally came the next generation of games. Large areas and limitless possibilities. I know I'm singling out when I name Crysis, but it WAS the game that forced PC gamers to upgrade and gave every console gamer a glimpse of the future.

So at some point we had to go through the previous ages to get to where we are today. From Driver on the PS1, with its few yards of sight radius, to FUEL, which earned the Guinness Book of World Records title of "Largest Playable Area In A Console Game." (Suck it GTAIV.)

If the same is true for this generation, then Crysis was just the beginning. Imagine what the games will look like just before the next age of consoles is released. Keep in mind, we've already got "Largest Playable Area In A Console Game."

So what's next?