its been a lonnnng time since my last blog post thing, just been gettin bored with gamespot lately i guess.

anyways, ive played tones of games since then.

Mass Effect is an AMAZING game. i beat it pretty quick, but story is so in depth, graphics are amazing, plot choices are gut-wrenching, characters and theme is so strong. i love it all.

I bought cock of duty 4, and the single player is awesome but the multiplayer blows, mindless sprinting, spray and praying, crapping out live grenades when you die, tons of random airstrikes, and AI controlled helicoptors that get kills for you.

I beat turok, and its a solid game, story is ok but not very in depth, and doesnt do much to make it unique, but but its at least decent and manages to keep your interest. i must say killing dinosaurs and people with a large variety of knife kill animations is always satisfying. Overall, its a very generic shooter, but not a bad one by any means.

I haven t beat the orange box yet completely. I ahve completed portal and its amazing in every sense. team fortress sucks tho, it is way too traditional class based, and the gameplay is weak. plus, you can only play certain gametypes on a certain map, which of youve played halo 2 or 3, force gametypes on a forced map just doesnt work anymore.

HL 2 games are very good, but i lose interest in them after awhile, cause sometimes you'll go for a long time with no music or dialogue, not to mention gordon freeman never says a freakin word. some may say that his complete silence helps you feel like YOU ARE freeman, but it doesnt, because you yourself cant choose what to say, and you cant choose what freeman looks like, but your supposed to be him and feel like him?

i also beat stranglehold, great game i must say if you like bullet-time shooters, it definetly lives up to the John Woo name.

no matter how many games i beat, i always find myself drawn back to halo 3 or gears of war, because they are among the best out there. Halo boasts such a great story and multiplayer, same with gears, and those are packages that are tough to beat.