1st December...

It's the first already. 23 and a bit days till Christmas. Well, I'm getting an Nvidia Geforce 8800GT for Christmas, so I'll be set up for the next big line up of games coming out. Yay me!

I went on an all night gaming session last night. Playing lot's of Supreme Commander, Company of Heroes and Crysis. Crysis is great fun on LAN. The nano suit adds a whole other element to game play. You can activate speed and run and jump like the million dollar man, activate shield and become bullet proof to a degree, Stealth and become a chameleon, and Strength, which makes you the equivalent of Chuck Norris on Steroids. The strength enhancement is great fun. As an enemy jeep is hurtling towards you, jump out the way and punching out it's back tire, then watch it hurtle out of control over a cliff is very satisfying.

Company of Heroes is good fun too, although multiplayer consists mostly of, rapidly click the build infantry button, tell them to stand outside the enemy base, then whore artillery for the rest of the game. It kinda takes away the tactical element, and turns it into a game of who can get their units outside each others base the fastest.

Supreme Commander was quite funny. The normal Real Time Spamming guy's didn't like it as much since they didn't like the idea that 1 unit actually cant take on the biggest super power in the world and win hands down. In this, you really have to plan your base well, since if you don't, your mass and power will go into the red whenever you build, and something which should take 10 seconds to build ends up taking 10 minutes to build. The engine is very well made. It can handle upto 1000 units without any slowdown(if your running at least dual core, but it still runs well on a single core cpu), and the units can be huge. There's these flying fortress', which I like to call "doom doughnuts", which hover around and fire sprinkles at enemies. there's also some pretty cool spider things which stomp around and look really menacing until some air units come along and start shooting it, which is quite concerning. This is, after all, very far in the future, and this is my army's best weapon ever built, yet it has no kind of air defense on it what so ever.

I played some more Stalker. That's fun on LAN too, if a bit unbalanced. You get no money until after you spawn, which to buy things, you need to buy it before you spawn, which is pointless. To level up and get better guns, you have to die loads. Meaning if you're a really good player, with lots of kills, and you want to keep your K/D ratio up, you can't. If somebody gets a good sniper riffle, and gets to a good tower, he's guaranteed to win, since the good sniper riffles are one shot kills. Never the less, if you can stay live to get some kills, you'll have fun playing it.

Apparently Guitar Hero 3 is out on PC now, so I'll be swiftly scooping that up. I really like Guitar Hero. I played it on 360 at Video Games live, where I was the first person to play it, EVER! I liked it, but the controller is a bit different. The strum bar is longer, but it sticks out less, so you slip off it much easier. The frets are smaller, which reduces fatigue alot, however, the stickers on them make them sticky, which is a bit strange when playing. The guitar is a bit heavier, Which is nice. It feels alot stronger and well built. It also doesn't creak when you move it too fast, unlike the old one. It's a good fun game. The Pc version doesn't have the nice new Les Paul guitar, it has the old explorer, but I guess it doesn't really matter, I'm more interested in the game than the guitar. I think it'll be best on Pc, since there's bound to be a mod community spring up for it. Custom songs for it will be much appreciated. I used to play Frets on Fire a while back. It's a Guitar Hero clone which comes with 3 songs, but you can add your own, and rip the Guitar Hero song's from the disk. It had a huge community, with loads of custom songs for it. So I'm hoping the community will welcome GH3 too.