Scatter Shot! +50

Metal Gear: Peace Walker has been announced to release in North
America on May 25,2009. Guess where I will be. Alone, with my PSP
sitting in the Ruby Tuesday attached to the mall after I pick up my UMD
copy because I refuse to get a PSP Go. I have been so excited for this
game. My level of excitement has been through the roof since of that
tease of a Japanese demo. I had a hard time figuring out what was going
on because I can't read or speak Japanese. I love the idea of a 2-4
player co-op mechanic. I am also eager as hell to get the story of what
goes on between Snake Eater,Portable Ops and Metal Gear; who the hell
Master Miller is/was and why I should have cared in MGS when Liquid
posed as him. "Do you like my sunglasses, Snake?" and why Big Boss had
to do what he had to do. My only concerns; none of my friends have PSP
or care to play Metal Gear, and I won't be able to find any one to play
Co-op with.
Regardless, this is a release day pick up for me. I will be planning my
work schedule around picking up this game. Look for me playing PSP in
Ruby Tuesday, sitting alone in a corner, ashamed, and nursing a beer and
eating a burger because I won't be able wait to get home to play.

I was able to get some heavy MW2 game time in the past few days as well.
I have been roller coastering in my abilities (or lack of). Late Friday
and Saturday night after a few beers I was dominant. I think I had a
string of three or four 30+ kill / 10 deaths or less matches. However, I
sucked ass most of Sunday. After being well rested, and before liquidly
dulling my senses I was getting tooled 20 deaths or more a match and on
the verge of tears because I couldn't get more than 10 kills. I am 20
levels away from my 1st prestige, a respectable 1.03 ratio, and have
hours upon hours of entertainment under my beer gut smothered belt.

With Christmas and my birthday coming up, I only made a short list of
PS3 games on my wish list.
Batman: Arkham Asylum really grabbed my attention after I played the
demo months ago. I never got around to purchasing it,and this close the
gift giving holiday its a no brainer to ask for this. I have not heard
anything negative about this game and every review sold me on the game.
Elements of games I love are supposedly implemented perfectly. I can't
wait to check this game out.
I asked for Uncharted 2 out of skepticism, and curiosity. I have the
mentality of "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." I want
to like this game. I played the first one and was not too wild on it. I
know I will commit to beating the game and spending time in multiplayer.
I think Uncharted 2's multiplayer is a bigger selling point to me vs
Modern Warfare 2's. Uncharted 2 seems to be the golden child of PS3 for
2009. I was (and still am) excited for the full Modern Warfare 2
experience. Uncharted 2's intrigue is the online modes. Sure, a good
story and phenomenal voice acting make for a positive gaming experience,
but I am not a big adventure sort of gamer,nor do I dig too deep into
voice acting. Poor voice acting is just as entertaining as good voice
acting, just in a different way. FFX HA HA HA HA!. Maybe its because it
is a new sort of genre to me. I'd rent it for single player, but I want
to join up with friends when I sign into PSN and see "Uncharted 2"
underneath a majority of names.
The last game I am crossing my fingers for is Little Big Planet GOTY
edition. I played LBP as much as I could. It was my roommate's copy,
then he traded it in for Hellboy 2 or Kane and Lynch or something
shitty. I would have bought my own copy, but I felt at the time I had
gotten a satisfying experience out of the game already and was willing
to wait for a better, more fiscally sound opportunity to reacquire the
game; such as used on the cheap, as a gift or borrowing/trading some one
else's copy.

I also have gifts to get primarily for my brother, a Xbox 360 owner. He
has been playing both Modern Warfare games pretty much exclusively. I
asked him if he had any other of the big titles. He has Gears of War 2,
still in the shrink wrap. He borrowed Halo 3 and has 0 interest in it. I
want to give him a game that strays from the Modern Warfare type. I can
surf the used market and bargain bins and get him something just to get
him a game,but I rather get something with some depth. I think I can cover
both by getting him something like Oblivion. I saw it used at Gamestop
for $10.00. He was a Elder Scrolls Morrowind player on PC back in the
day, maybe he'd appreciate Oblivion.

I found Pimp My Ride for Ps2 the other day very cheap. Holy shit what
a find. Imagine Crazy Taxi + Driver + Quick Time / button press events +
Cheesy stereotypical voice acting and you get this game. I will have a
write up full coming soon after I get some more time with the game.

Tonight our buddy Bill is coming over my house for some PS3 antics.
UFC, Legends of Wrestlemania, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, MW2 and im
sure some other online multilayer capable games. We will be playing
under my PSN: Rozzy50 , send me an invite anytime after 7:00 pm EST