Wow, I have been on a roll lately with games. Last one I tried out for a couple days was Afro Samurai. For me it was fun for the first couple of hours, the cell animation looked really cool and Samuel Jackson as the storyteller was kinda interesting. But after a couple of hours it just was fighting the same guys over and over with nothing too different to shake things up. But what really frustrated me was the camera in the game. I was forever fighting with it to look in the right direction and face my attackers. Also the perspective can get real funny and for about 5-10 minutes I got stuck hovering between two rocks, if they want a platformer where you have to hop from rock to rock with some precision a bad camera and some glitchy spots really doesn't work. May be fun for a rent but I wouldn't really shell out $60 for it. Also while Samuel Jackson as the storyteller was interesting it also got on my nerves with the constant swearing and yelling at Afro. After death and between loading...

I loved the Lord of the Rings books and later the movies that came out but never got around to playing a Lord of the Rings video game until Lord of the Rings Conquest. I really wasn't impressed by the game and was pretty bored with it quickly. I think I played thru half of it and stopped at the evil retelling of the story. It just was a lot of running around and mashing on buttons and once and awhile getting to play as one of the hero's from Lord of the rings. Even that was underwhelming and playing as Argon or the Warrior class didn't feel too much different from each other. I wouldn't even say this was a good rental and certainly not a buy. If your a Lord of the Rings fan I won't say you should pick it up just because of what it is. It's just a sad grab for some more cash.

I was pretty excited to get Operation Anchorage DLC for Fallout 3 since I loved the game enough to play it for about 70 hours and getting 1000 gamerscore. But I have to say the DLC was less than expected for a couple of reasons. First is that since I have downloaded it I have had quite a few times now where the game just stops working, never seemed this bad before and now it did that about 3-4 times in the first hour. And my second reason is the add on was only about 2 hours long and seemed like a linear shooter. Instead of scrounging for food and water you get health from big red canisters evenly spaced thru the module. It just didn't feel like the same game and I know it was a computer simulation from the story but they should have stuck to what worked before. Anyway $10 bucks was a little much more like $5 and I would have no issues with it. Guess I have to vote with my Microsoft points or not next month...

Lately on Halo 3 the only times I have been getting on is during the double exp weekends with special game types. My favorite so far has been 3 Ball which I played a lot of this week. The only thing is that the respawn rates seem to be longer than other types of games and I cannot stand getting stuck short a man right before the game starts. Pretty much gonna lose unless you get very lucky. I wish Halo 3 could take a clue from COD World at War and a game doesn't start without a full group and they add as the game goes along. Well one can hope when ODST comes out they make a few tweaks to the multiplayer...