Whatever you may celebrate, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah or something else , Happy Holidays and have a great new year. Sorry if i misspelled anything though. On other news I FINALLY beat CoD4 on veteran which completes my wish of beating CoD4 on veteran before new years. Took me about 3 days to beat safehouse-no fighting in the war room. Of course i didn't continously play though but i did get frustrated at times. Also my wishlist of games i want to come out in 09 but won't are Starcraft II and Final Fantasy XIII. MY wishlist for a game that will be out next year so far is CoD:Modern Warfare 2. And a title i want to see get announced is another Jet Set Radio game, COME ON SEGA!!

Ok before i say anything bad about it, gears 2 is an awesome game definetely AAA material but there are some things i just hate about it.

One, the shotgun is HORRIBLE. Sometimes when i quick aim (LT then RT quickly after) bullets dont even shoot out. Although this is occassional its screwed me over some kills. Also the blindfire is made useless in this version its time to go abck to standing still and aiming with the shotyy ehh?

2, You can't play one gametype anymore. If you want to play warzone you have to pick the elimination playlist and hope you get warzone and then 6 other ppl vote the gametype so you can play it.

3, In multiplayer you cant check your war journal.Remember in CoD4 where during multiplayer you could click barracks and check the leaderboards or your challenge progress? Yea in gears 2 you can't check your stats or achievement progress in your war journal unless you back out, go to the main menu and look at it. Not a big deal but it would be nice if you could look at it.

Ok well if you guys haven't noticed if you're on my friends list for xbl, i've been playing he beta for cod:waw. And although my k/d is technically better in WaW than in cod4 1.63-1.53, WaW just feels so different than cod4. The gameplay seems a lot slower paced at least for team deathmatch. I could usually finish a team deathmatch game in like 8 minutes in cod4 but in this game it almost always goes down to the last few seconds of the game. Secondly, hip fire isn't that great anymore it's pretty inaccurate even with steady aim. The roundhouse glitch will be fixed so i won't go into it. And i swear i can't aim in this one! There are so many times i've aimed at someone ,shot them first and died in the outcome. Oh and dogs are way too beefed up and artillery is absolutely useless. And btw i used a silenced mp5 in cod4 i'm used to iron sights, iron sights isn't my problem for this game. Besides even if i used rds i could always use appeture sights, the "black dot sight"