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Gamespot reviews Burnout Legends for PSP

All in all, Burnout Legends is pretty much exactly what you would want from a handheld Burnout game. The marriage of all the best aspects of the first three Burnouts into a single package makes for a deep, lasting game that also manages to be a consistently challenging and exciting endeavor pretty much the entire way through. While the PSP isn't exactly suffering from a dearth of quality racers, make no mistake about it: Burnout Legends is the best racer the PSP has to offer, and any PSP owner should definitely check it out.

*Drools*
Eyes soon to be bleeding, but this time on teh bus

Bomber out

2 Movies from the Gattaca guy and Dave gets a good talking to

AICN ran a review on a movie that looks very promising; Lord of War. It’s a morality play with Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke and Jared Leto, written and directed by the Genius that gave us Gattaca and The Truman Show (ok, and S1m0ne but you can’t have everything). This is enough to get me drooling, frankly. Even if it’s not SciFi. AICN rank the movie but dis the credits;

“And what frustrates me about Lord of War is that the other 99% of the film is just so damned good. Truly inspired, fascinating work.”

Also, you don’t call movies about blowing things up “work” so I will have to engage my brain while watching. Another upcoming from the same director is the very interesting looking Paani which looks to be borrowing from JG Ballard’s The Drought but set in Bombay. Unfortunately there seems to be a romance involved, so it can’t be an adaptation but hopefully there will be things blowing up and I am immediately enamored of any movie not set in the USA.

Sorry to here about Dave getting sick and being declared too unhealthy to be alive (serves you right for letting the doctors have a look up there mate.) Hope you get better soon so you can stop being moralized at by doctors. It’s just a bit of puppy fat mate.

I have an old school mate going to Oz soon, not sure if he’s just there for a holiday or something more permanent. I told him to pitch up on the blog and start hurling abuse and he should get a Barbie invite before long but we’ll see what happens.

In the immortal words of Shonen Knife;

One week, One week, One week, One week, One week, One week, One week … has … seven … days

Bomber out

Penultimate trip to China

 

Bus timetables etc etc. Not much to say about the place really except it’s hot, sweaty and I don’t like it. Nothing new there then. Lunch brought a new experience; I ordered a burger and they served it with a side plate on top of which was a plastic glove. The world is truly going mad, let me tell you.

 

Bubble’s settling in well in Brussels. She went to her first beer festival last weekend. There’s another this weekend… I think I’m going to like this town.

 

Went PS2 game shopping last week and picked up Kill all Humans, TW golf ’05 and God of War. These were on “Special Discount” 140HK for the three, but you don’t get a case … or instructions … err … and the discs are cunningly disguised to look like a DVD-Rs.

 

Now then, TW golf is what I expected, a more sophisticated version of the PSP game I already have. This will make for some fun afternoons in Brussels with a crate of beer and the projector.

 

Kill All Humans I picked up because I liked the concept; essentially, you are a gray and you invade the earth using your trusty zap-o-matic, mind control and the indispensable anal probe. The gameplay isn’t really up to much though so I didn’t get very far before getting a bit bored and popping in God of War. The next thing I knew it was 2 am and I’d been playing for 6 hours.

 

What a fucking brilliant game GoW is. Based in Ancient Greece, you play a Spartan warrior turned pawn of the gods name of Kratos. Kratos’ main weapons are a pair of axes anchored to his wrists by 10’ chains. The chains make for a myriad of combo moves but key mashing also brings much satisfaction. Axe fight anyone? Fucking right! The game is a little like Devil May Cry (Horror movie camera angled 3^rd person, jump around, kill impossibly big monsters while getting extra points for viciousness and style) but GoW is much more puzzle based and puts less priority on combo-wielding talent (although still quite a lot) which is good coz I found DMC fucking impossible. GoW is about my level, key mashing wise and the puzzle stuff is always entertaining. So far I especially like the moving blocks around on a conveyor belt (with a bone crushing spiked wheel blocking the downstream end of the conveyor, of course) while fighting zombies. I’m enjoying this so much I might just pick up Code Veronica X and DMC for another try when I get to Europe. I always found the 3^rd person viewing angle bloody impossible before but either GoW has got it tuned just right for my (lack of) co-ordination or something’s clicked with me and I can do it now. Probably the former but you never know… Oh yeah and there’s axe fights so TONS of gore

 

Nuff for now, on the bus back to HK at 6 (etc etc) so more time wasting before I slope off

 

Bomber out

 

Wedding fashion

Dunc sent me some pictures of some of his family at a wedding, or something. He said I should post them. I agree; the world needs to see these;

Isn't she lovely? Not sure if dad's got the shot gun with him, but I'm fairly sure he's had a few sharpeners this morning already...



Ahh the lovely bride's maids. Ooh Err don't fancy your's much etc etc. As for the Groom; is that confetti or a swarm of albino dung flies?



No sign of a meringue, no siree. I can't work out if she actually is 12 months pregnant or if the dress is just supposed to make her look that way. Dad obviously had a couple more cans of Super during the ceremony



What a fine pair of lads. Question; will he call the bloke in the silly hat standing in front of him Father or Your Honour? These things can get so confusing...



Weddings wouildn't be weddings without "hat people". Hat Sluts, on the other hand, we could do without.



Class.
"Shirl; does my bum look fat in this?"
"Course not shaz, does my air look big in this?"
"Nah, but everyone can see yer gibbon"
"yeah, good innit?"



The little mermaid costume was about to win the prize...



Then mum turned up and stole the show



A late entry by the lime green little mermaid was headed off by mum



And here they are, in all their glory.

Bangers was great at the weekend, although we didn't meet any one as sleazy as that lot (believe me, we looked). Sunday's BBQ included a steak to rival the monster I devoured round at Dunc's back in July (not quite finished digesting that one yet)

2 more weeks and I'm out of here (in case you didn't know). The White Stripes are on October 30, for any interested in tickets. Let us know and we'll try and sort some out.

Bomber out