It's still terrible.

This game is so wrong and so bad on so many different fronts, I don't know where to start.

So I won't.

I will say this, though. After playing on it for only 20 minutes, its made me question my fondness of FPS's.

Stay away from it, please.

Uh Oh Spaghettios!

It's official - no one cares about Pudsey any more. Children in Need last night only managed to make £18 million by the end of the night (and what a dire night that was as well) and looking at the stats below, the little bear seems to be on a downward spiral.


2005 - £17,235,256

2006 - £18,300,392

2007 - £19,089,771

2008 - £20,991,216

2009 - £20,309,747

2010 - £18,098,199

The solution? Don't make it annual! The reason Comic Relief is so successful, not just because it's far more fun and entertaining, is because it's held every two years meaning when it finally comes, there's excitement for it. However, I'm sure this will never happen, Terry Wogan seems obsessed to keep his little charity drive annual and he shall face the consequences...

Please note:

I am currently playing the Halo Reach campaign because there's nothing else to do on the Xbox and actually quite enjoying it.

Variety of gameplay. Damn intelligent AI. Nice cinematic cutscenes. Interesting storyline.

I guess you can't judge a book by its cover...or a game by its online multiplayer.

Remember this?

"At the moment I'm still not completely sold on buying this, but no doubt if my chums do on x-box, I will to. Maybe the campaign and/or other features we sell it to me, but at the moment all eyes are on Halo Reach!"

Well it turns out I couldn't be more wrong. Firstly, I have absolutely absolutely no inclination to buy Call of Duty: Black Ops. The campaign and/or other features, to me, seem pointless, unnecessary and generic. So much hype surround the game and now it's finally out I can't wait for the moaning to begin. Campers. Guns. Boosting. All that delicious stuff.

Of course, the game is different, but not different enough for me to warrant forty-odd pound to buy it. In general the gameplay is the same, the maps are the same, the guns are the same which all means it could boil down to DLC for Modern Warfare 2 and nothing more. Now, I must admit, I haven't played Black Ops, but surely if I have no lust to play the game, it has failed at it's purpose?

For those who have the money/time/patience to buy it, play it and not get annoyed by it (for the first couple of weeks anyway), good for you. But personally, the Xbox has seemed a bit lackluster lately. Maybe I'm not trying hard enough but all I want it a nice, original, interesting, absorbing game to play whilst everyone else is nuking, bombing, bow and arrowing, RC driving, knifing, sniping and n00btubing their way into frustration.

Oh, and the second point that is wrong in the quote is that I find Halo Reach to be truly one of the most disappointing titles in a long, long time. Sorry Bungie.

It think it's time for some expansion on here...

Expansion into what? I don't know...

What I do know it that things around here (when shakily updated) are getting a bit stale so here are some remedies to take twice daily...

• More posts - this is quite obvious but the more I do in here, the more varied and more interesting it will become...right?
• Make use of the other pages - as you can go see now, I haven't done this yet.
• Experiment with the limitations of blogger (which I much prefer over tumblr or wordpress).
• Other things...

I know this isn't the most interesting of posts (how ironic!) but to be honest this is more for me than it is for you...and whoever 'you' are, thank you for actually reading it!