Currently playing: EVERYTHING

Ok, so all in the space of one day, I bought Crysis Warhead, Yakuza 2 and The Force Unleashed, and to top it off I still have Heavenly Sword on the backburner. And all of these games are pretty awesome. I am actually having a hard time deciding what to play. What a problem to have, eh? The crazy thing is that after some time with all these games, Yakuza 2, a PS2 game, possibly has me the most excited. It has this cinematic flair to it, with a pretty convoluted but interesting gangster story with interesting characters, and Japanese VAs that really make it feel authentic, which was kind of lacking in the last game. It got released at 30 euros too, so it's a steal. Even if you haven't played the first one, I really recommend picking this one up, it covers the events of the first one pretty thoroughly. Be prepared to watch a lot of cut scenes in the first hour or so though. It runs fine on software BC on the PS3 as well and supports 16:9.

Crysis Warhead is more Crysis, that's all you need to know. Except it's a little rougher around the edges. I've run into a couple of weird physics bugs, like suddenly standing on top of a building I was backpedalling into, and getting killed by walking into a stationary crate. Yeah... Also, on one ocassion, it crashed right back to the desktop. Grrrr. Let's hope it doesn't happen again, as the game is pretty awesome, especially if you like explosions. Man, this game has the BEST explosions. And a lot of conveniently placed oil barrels. But I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.

The Force Unleashed, then. Only played the first two levels, but I'm liking it so far. The powers at first are very limiting compared to the demo and Vader's awesome repertoire, so you're mostly flinging stuff around and hacking dudes up, but it's good fun. And man, does this game look good. The environments are amazing. Character models slightly less so, but perfectly fine nonetheless. We'll have to see if I run into any frustrating issues some reviews mentions. I'm planning on reviewing all these games, probably.

Alright, back to playing games.