This month in review is brought to you by poorly-coded trainwrecks, carboot season and possibly the only film in history to give away the ending on the poster.

Gridlock's Month in Review: August 2008

The Damage: New Acquisitions

GameBoy

GameBoy Color

GameBoy Advance

GameCube

NES

PlayStation

PlayStation 2

DVD

The On-Going Quest: Game Progress

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (PC)

Time spent to date: 1 hour

I've literally just started on the expansion pack after a brief session of Hunt The Disc, more commonly known as Where The **** Did That Blasted Sibling Of Mine Put The Game I've Been Itching To Play? So not much done. Is that a gravity gun I spy? Puh-lease.

Dungeon Siege (PC)

Time spent to date: 20 hours

To be honest I've not spent much time gaming this month. There's nothing quite like having your dreams crushed to put a damper on your day. Throw in a glitchy game that crashes every ten minutes and I'm ready to give up.

Grandia (PS)

Time spent to date: 36 hours

I got back into this for a while and I've been playing a little every few days. One day I'll sit down and just finish the damn thing. I've got such a massive backlog of games to play right now! Anyway, I've just done the two optional dungeons in the Zil Desert... my memory is hazy but I don't think there's too much left to do. Ten hours, maybe.

The Final Victory: Completed Games

Doom 3 (PC)

Time spent: 10 hours

I'm sure it was a longer game last time I played it. Huh. Anyway, not much to say here other than it's still a decent enough shooter with some brilliant bits thrown in that sadly tries too hard to be one of those horror action games that replaces good storytelling with The PDA Experience(TM). In my mind any person who wanders around unauthorised areas stealing keycards, breaking into safes and reading other people's mail deserves to get eaten by demons.

Odds 'n' Sods

Picture of the Month

Just a cuteness pic to balance out all the accumulated crap of late.

Question of the Month

If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

Sorry.

I'm off now.

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I'm still knackered from Manchester Pride and have a lingering urge to redecorate everything in RAINBOW. Cripes.

2003

Game of the Year:

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

(Xbox, 15/07/03)

Setting Knights of the Old Republic 4,000 years before any cinematical outings into the Star Wars universe created the perfect sandbox for Bioware to play in. And what a castle they've made. They've even done the little turrety bits. George Lucas may have embarked on a one-man mission in 1999 to destroy his own creation, with increasingly dire results, but at least somebody's got the right idea.

Honourable Mentions:

Hardware:

- Nintendo GameBoy Advance SP.
- Nokia N-Gage.

Other Stuff That May Have Happened...

UK No. 1 on My Birthday:

Evanescence - "Bring Me to Life" (video)

Eurovision Winner:

Sertab Erener - "Every Way That I Can" (Turkey) (video)

Best Albums:

Best Films:

Escap-pay!

Double back in time: 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992 - 1991 - 1990 - 1989 - 1988 - 1987

I went to the doctor this morning. I've had this on-again off-again ear infection that's been driving me nuts for months so I went to get objects poked in my ear (again) and what may or may not have been bleach poured into my head (again) and ear goo samples sent off (again) for whatever analysis ear goo samples undergo. Hopefully when the results come in (again) the doctor will finally agree with me that it's those damn pesky aliens (again).

While this was all going on my lovely local quack commented that I looked run-down. Well duh. Her advice? The usual: drink lots of water, have more sleep, get some fresh air, eat in colours. Colours? Yes. She said I should fill my plate with bright colours: green, red, orange, yadda yadda. Pfft.

She was right, though. I went home and ate a whole packet of Skittles and now I feel much better.

2002

Game of the Year:

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

(PC, 01/05/02)

Forget Oblivion. Oblivion is boring. Oblivion is a pleasant open-world RPG set in a pleasantly pseudo-Medieval fantasy realm with nary a shred of originality in either the setting or the plot. Morrowind may not be nearly as refined in terms of gameplay, graphics or stability, but it has a mass transit system involving giant insects. I think that's worth getting stuck in a bush a few times.

Honourable Mentions:

Other Stuff That May Have Happened...

UK No. 1 on My Birthday:

Elvis vs. JXL - "A Little Less Conversation" (video)

Eurovision Winner:

Marie N - "I Wanna" (Latvia) (video)

Best Albums:

Best Films:

Scorcese can bite my shiny metal ass.

Double back in time: 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992 - 1991 - 1990 - 1989 - 1988 - 1987