summer=hawt

Not much new to add, I'm still trying to work in time to finish Halo2 since I bought it dirt cheap from Ebay ($12 for a new unboxed copy). For the most part it plays well with only the occasional "overlay image burn in" that is fixed by visiting the main menu and reloading where you left off.
The game looks great in HD and looks better than some native 360 titles.

I was planning on buying Prey (probably because I'm tired of my current 360 titles) but after playing the demo for a bit I just can't consider it yet. The single player is pretty good, I really like the voice acting and storyline but it just didn't draw me in and make me want to finish the demo. The multiplayer while interesting just felt "off" and again after a few matches didn't make me want to continue playing. I don't really like the Doom3 engine, I really hate games that use tons of darkness and the main characters look like plastic. I liked Quake4 but not enough to actually purchase the game, similar to Prey I guess.


Thankfully LoTR:BFME2 (yes that is the game's name) comes out this week and I'm pretty confident I'll be buying it. I really want to play RTS games on the 360.
Chromehounds too appears on the 360 shortly but I just didn't like the demo enough to warrant buying it. (Good Japanese games for the 360 seem pretty hard to find.