Challenge Update

Going to make this quick since I pretty much covered everything in the last post, few more games completed and bit more gamerscore but that's about it. With the new releases dying down hopefully can start working on the back log of games again and completing some of these challenges.

1. Complete two JRPGS! - Not started
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100% - Not started
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below - 3/14 (21%)

• Prince of Persia
• Half-Life Orange Box
• Lost Planet
• Naruto The Risa of a Ninja
• Uncharted
• Resistance fall of Man
• Resistance 2
• Killzone 2
• Alpha Protocol
• Dark Void
• Halo 2 (PC)
• Gears of War (PC)
• Batman AA GOTY (PC)
• Tombraider Underworld (PS3)
• Metal Gear Solid 4
• Mobile Suit Gundam (PS3)
• Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations
• Apollo Justice
  
• Bioshock
• Bioshock 2
• Alan Wake
• Star Wars Lethal Alliance
• Dynasty Warriors 6
• Borderlands
• C&C Red Alert 2
• Fallout 3
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
• Stranglehold
• Spiderman Web of Shadow
• Too Human
• Rise of the Argonauts
• X-men Wolverine
• Elderscrolls Oblivion
  

4. Complete five of the new games off the list below - 1/5 (20%)

• Castlevania
• Bloodstone
• God of War Collection
  
• Transformers War for Cybertron
• Fallout New Vegas
• Dragon Age Origins
• Majin Forsaken Kingdom
• Spiderman Shattered Dimension
• Red Dead Redemption
• R.U.S.E
• Miles Edgeworth
• Pokemon Soulsilver
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Enslaved Odyssey to the West
• Starcraft 2

5. Complete at least 50% of the new 2011 releases I buy - 24% currently
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360 - 110,354 (29,646 to go)
7. Hit level 12 on the Playstation 3 profile - Currently Level 10
8. Gain five more platinum trophies on the Playstation 3 - 0/5 (0%)



I've also got another update, If you think back I did say one of my reader as decided to join me in the challenge and so here is an update with how he's doing.

Dragaknight

1. 40 Platinums by the end of the year - 5/40 (13%)
- Dead Space 2
- Killzone 3
- Sly Racoon 2
- Sly Racoon 3
- Assassin's Creed 2
2. 20 Platinums by June - 5/20 (25%)
3. 20 100% Playstation Network Games - 2/20 (10%)
- Sly Mini Games
- Back to the Future: It's about time
4. 10 100% Playstation Network Games by June - 2/10 (20%)

Dragaknight decided to increase his challenge by added PSN games completions to the list, some serious gaming this year. So far he's on track and I'm amazed how fast he's going through this challenge, would not shock me if he's done before the year is over.

Better Late Then Never

Good morning all, I've decided to do the blog posts first since I've got the day off and I'm planning for a huge gaming session with several movies in between. Hope you all had a good week and Friday launch day was a good day for you, buy anything nice? give a shout on the comments would love to hear.

Once again for me I had a huge spending spree and now a proud of owner of a Aqua Blue 3DS, also did pick up Samurai Warriors Chronicles for it as well (was the only game on the line up I liked). Had a mini go on Friday and that was it so need to get some time in today on it, bet you wondering why I've not played on it much. It's called Lego Star Wars the Clone Wars, not been able to stop playing it. Loving every minute of the game and really impressed with how its turned out, will do a review later once I've finished it. I've also got Crysis 2 sitting wrapped on my desk waiting to be played, my friends on twitter are raving on about how good it is so I'm quite looking forward to giving it a bash.

So that was my launch day and the week before was a bit of a waste, I did pick up Homefront last week and traded it in on Monday lol. Completed the story and it was just ok, nothing special which is a shame really but I will go into detail again later in it's review. In fact I just realised I've got a huge list of games I keep saying I'm going to review, think it will be a busy week. Anyway back to the story, so the reason I felt it was waste was because I kept putting off gaming since Lego and Crysis where coming out. Thanks to my job I can pick up games early and I did not want to start something that would be put on the shelf again when these new games come out, of course my luck ran out and was not able to get the games until Thursday night.

But there was a silver lining in the clouds, on Thursday I decided to go through the collection and see if I had any games to finish off with a few levels and one stood out. I remembered I was on the last level of the story for Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 (actually found out I had two levels) so I dusted it off and after a few hours I had another clocked game for my list, so happy days. And that was it for me this week, boring really but now everything is out it dies down now from the looks so hopefully a few weeks/months of catching up is in order.

Time to end this post, again give a shout with your updates and keep checking back for more updates. Before I go here is the up to date stats for my 2011 progress, next post will have the challenge details so stay tuned.

~Iznic

P.S. Sent back Gray Matter, it's not a bad game but it was looking to be a very long game which I really don't have time for right now. Will rerent it later on or buy it when the price drops.

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
4. Ghost Trick (DS)
5. Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
6. Plants VS Zombies (Xbox 360 Arcade Live)
7. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
8. NHL 2K6 (Xbox 360) - 1,000 Gamerscore
9. Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
10. Transformers War for Cybertron (Xbox 360)
11. Resistance Fall of Man (Playstation 3)
12. Call of Duty World at War (Playstation 3)
13. Bulletstorm (Xbox 360)
    
14. Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard (Playstation 3)
15. Batman Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition (PC)
16. Homefront (Xbox 360)
17. Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 (Xbox 360)
    

Gamerscore Earned This Year
3,240

Trophies Earned This Year
3 Gold
20 Silver
81 Bronze

Games Working On
Lego Star Wars Clone Wars (X360)
Dawn of War 2 Retribution (PC)
Shogun 2 Total War (PC)

2011 Releases Completed
- 4/17 - 24% -

1. Ghost Trick (DS)
2. Mass Effect 2 (PS3)
3. Bulletstorm (X360)
4. Homefront (X360)
   

Tomorrow!

Time does fly I've got to admit that, I cannot believe tomorrow is the 3DS launch day. I will be picking mine up after work tomorrow and will be popping to the stationary store to get my AR cards blown up to A3 (looks so much better). My work is doing a midnight launch but I would struggle to get home if I stayed to pick mine up at that time, besides its great but I would not be up in the early hours of the morning playing.

Still debating about picking up a game, so far only Samurai Warriors Chronicles as my attention. The other games won't be out for a few more months which is a bit disappointing when I think about it but least there is a few mini games on there, the face raiders and AR will keep me occupied for the time being (hopefully).

Of course it's not just the 3DS launch, tomorrow also sees Lego Star Wars 3 and Crysis 2 launching. Two games I've been looking forward too for a long time, so no doubt the next week will see me engrossed in these two games. But the best thing about tomorrow is that it's the last day of the mad Q1 launches, after tomorrow it dies down quite a bit to one game every few weeks. Seriously the developers need to space things out to give us time to catch up lol my back log of games to play is huge, need a year off work.

Anyway that's it for this short post, hope everything is going good for you all. By the way who's getting the 3DS and what games if any? will you be picking up any new releases on the other consoles since there is a few out tomorrow.

Batman Trailer!!!

October cannot come quick enough! love the open world gameplay and the music for the trailer is spot on. Going to be one hell of a story as well from the looks, espically after hearing about the Riddler setting up puzzles that will kill citizens if you fail to complete them (Saw ripoff). Anyway I can see this being game of the year at this rate


Source: IGN Youtube Channel

Golden Key Challenge Update

Decided to put the post into two from now on, reason being is that one of the readers as decided to join the Golden Key Challenge.

Dragaknight as decided to set his goal of 40 Platinum trophies this year, 20 by half the year (need to find out if that's June or 6 months after joining the challenge).

Now that is a challenge and to be honest I did have a slight doubt he could not do it until I got a message the day after saying he got the platinum in Dead Space 2 then week or so later again for Killzone 3. So I'm very impressed right now and got no doubt that he probably could blitz this and then some if he keeps up that pace.



Now for me, well I've slacked the last few weeks so I need to pick up the ball and get back into the game. Espically now that I've realised I've got 12 games for 2011 (13 if I like the rental game Gray Matter) and only completed 3 lol. Only thing to change is I did one more game off the old game list (Batman AA GOTY PC) and increased my gamerscore slightly, nothing to report really.

1. Complete two JRPGS! - Not started
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100% - Not started
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below - 2/14 (14%)

• Prince of Persia
• Half-Life Orange Box
• Lost Planet
• Naruto The Risa of a Ninja
• Uncharted
• Resistance fall of Man
• Resistance 2
• Killzone 2
• Alpha Protocol
• Dark Void
• Halo 2 (PC)
• Gears of War (PC)
• Batman AA GOTY (PC)
• Tombraider Underworld (PS3)
• Metal Gear Solid 4
• Mobile Suit Gundam (PS3)
• Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations
• Apollo Justice
  
• Bioshock
• Bioshock 2
• Alan Wake
• Star Wars Lethal Alliance
• Dynasty Warriors 6
• Borderlands
• C&C Red Alert 2
• Fallout 3
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
• Stranglehold
• Spiderman Web of Shadow
• Too Human
• Rise of the Argonauts
• X-men Wolverine
• Elderscrolls Oblivion
  

4. Complete five of the new games off the list below - 1/5 (20%)

• Castlevania
• Bloodstone
• God of War Collection
  
• Transformers War for Cybertron
• Fallout New Vegas
• Dragon Age Origins
• Majin Forsaken Kingdom
• Spiderman Shattered Dimension
• Red Dead Redemption
• R.U.S.E
• Miles Edgeworth
• Pokemon Soulsilver
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Enslaved Odyssey to the West
• Starcraft 2

5. Complete at least 50% of the new 2011 releases I buy - 25% currently
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360 - 109,914 (30,086 to go)
7. Hit level 12 on the Playstation 3 profile - Currently Level 10
8. Gain five more platinum trophies on the Playstation 3 - 0/5 (0%)


So that's it for another update, give me a shout with what you been playing would love to hear how things are going for my readers.

Finally an update

Every day this week I've been trying to do this post, either something got in the way or I was being lazy. So here it is finally! basically Sunday just gone I decided to have a lovely day of gaming and see if I could finish something. In the end I tried my rental game Gray Matter (need more time before I give an opinion), played some World of Warcraft and Rift. But most of my the day was dedicated to finishing Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY PC, and after seven to eight hours I finally clocked it.

Least I've got a game clocked for this month, really have slacked compared to January and February where I did six games and eight games. Although there as been a lot of new games that have kept me busy, technically for example I've completed Dawn of War 2 Retribution but I wanted to play through with all six races before saying I've finished it (currently on the third race).

This week I've not really worked on anything since I want Homefront and did not want to start anything when there is a game about to come out that I really want to play. Although I did start Killzone 2 the other week so I really should continue with that but I have not got the motivation to work on it right now. Anyway I'm rambling! going to post below the stats for the year so far then do the Golden Key challenge on another post since we now have a reader doing the challenge! (hooray).

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
4. Ghost Trick (DS)
5. Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
6. Plants VS Zombies (Xbox 360 Arcade Live)
7. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
8. NHL 2K6 (Xbox 360) - 1,000 Gamerscore
9. Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
10. Transformers War for Cybertron (Xbox 360)
11. Resistance Fall of Man (Playstation 3)
12. Call of Duty World at War (Playstation 3)
13. Bulletstorm (Xbox 360)
    
14. Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard (Playstation 3)
15. Batman Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition (PC)
    

Gamerscore Earned This Year
2,800

Trophies Earned This Year
3 Gold
20 Silver
81 Bronze

Games Working On
Gray Matter (X360)
Killzone 2 (PS3)
Dawn of War 2 Retribution (PC)
Shogun 2 Total War (PC)

2011 Releases Completed
- 3/12 - 25% -

1. Ghost Trick (DS)
2. Mass Effect 2 (PS3)
3. Bulletstorm (X360)

Batman Arkham City Dated!!!

Now this is the type of news I like to come back too on the weekend. Batman Arkham City will be coming to the UK on 21st October and 18th October for America. Seriously the end of this year is going to be amazing, so we got Gears of War in September and now Batman in October then finally well everything else (Uncharted 3, Resistance 3, Mass Effect 3, Elderscrolls 5) in November (hoping some of them be moved about to give more time to play them).

Anyway back to the point, mark your calendars for Batman because it won't be that long away!




Source: good old xbox360achievements.org

I'm still here!

Don't panic I'm still here, I know I've been quiet the last week but work as given me weird shifts which left me with little personal time. So in the way's of gaming I did not get much done so that's why there as been no updates on my challenges and progress this year. I have been playing Dawn of War 2 Retribution and finished the story for the Space Marines and Tyranids, basically the game as six races and you playing the same story for each just with a different ending and slightly different turn of events through the game. Won't be classing I've finished the game until all six races are done, love the game that much!

Anyway so yeah I am around and will be updating again when I can, got this Sunday off so planning to have a huge gaming day to catch up. Thinking trying to get a good chunk finished on Batman AA GOTY for the PC done in the morning, jump over to my rental game (Gray Matter) to start that since I've had it for a week and half. Then on the evening switch over to some MMO action, thinking World of Warcraft and I've got Rift waiting to be unwrapped, Sounds like a good plan to me.

How's everyone Else's week been? any good gaming been happening?

Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim

I've never finished Oblivion, every time I start a new game I usually get distracted by another game. But I've got to say it's amazing, even to this day its one of my favourite fantasy games and still blows me away on how huge the game is. Always go rob the jewellery store on my first night in the game, don't know why I just do.

Anyway back to the point of the post, OMG the trailer looks amazing!! look at the graphics! seriously can you imagine an open world with those graphics. And the locations I cannot wait to visit and of course dragon fighting! dragon fighting! Ok I'm sold now.

Cannot wait to see what they got lined up for this game

End of Month Update

Well it's the last day of February so thought I would do another update on my stats for 2011 and the progress towards my Golden Key challenge. Been quite an increase since last time thanks to my two rental games and I've got to say I'm impressed with myself. Completing 6 games in Janurary and now 8 in February is an achievement for me since as I said before it use to be one a month barely.

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
4. Ghost Trick (DS)
5. Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
6. Plants VS Zombies (Xbox 360 Arcade Live)
7. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
8. NHL 2K6 (Xbox 360) - 1,000 Gamerscore
9. Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
10. Transformers War for Cybertron (Xbox 360)
11. Resistance Fall of Man (Playstation 3)
12. Call of Duty World at War (Playstation 3)
13. Bulletstorm (Xbox 360)
    
14. Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard (Playstation 3)

Gamerscore Earned This Year
2,300

Trophies Earned This Year
3 Gold
20 Silver
81 Bronze

Games Working On
Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition (PC)
Pokemon Soulsilver (NDS)


2011 Releases Completed
- 3/7 - 43% -

1. Ghost Trick (DS)
2. Mass Effect 2 (PS3)
3. Bulletstorm (X360)
   

Playstation as the most love the last few weeks but I have got Batman back on the works again so the gamer score should be seeing some love soon. Think the main reason the playstation is getting the most love is the fact I've got ton of exclusives unplayed and sequels for all them are coming out end of the year. Add in the fact the trailers for these sequels look amazing just makes me want to finish them off so I can get them.

With February ending it means we now in the crazy launch peroid which my the 2011 completion rating as started to show, going to take quite a knock by the end of the month that's for sure. Bank account going to take a knock too! lol

Anyway on to the Golden key Challenge progress

1. Complete two JRPGS! - Not started
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100% - Not started
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below - 1/14 (7%)

• Prince of Persia
• Half-Life Orange Box
• Lost Planet
• Naruto The Risa of a Ninja
• Uncharted
• Resistance fall of Man
• Resistance 2
• Killzone 2
• Alpha Protocol
• Dark Void
• Halo 2 (PC)
• Gears of War (PC)
• Batman AA GOTY (PC)
• Tombraider Underworld (PS3)
• Metal Gear Solid 4
• Mobile Suit Gundam (PS3)
• Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations
• Apollo Justice
  
• Bioshock
• Bioshock 2
• Alan Wake
• Star Wars Lethal Alliance
• Dynasty Warriors 6
• Borderlands
• C&C Red Alert 2
• Fallout 3
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
• Stranglehold
• Spiderman Web of Shadow
• Too Human
• Rise of the Argonauts
• X-men Wolverine
• Elderscrolls Oblivion
  

4. Complete five of the new games off the list below - 1/5 (20%)

• Castlevania
• Bloodstone
• God of War Collection
  
• Transformers War for Cybertron
• Fallout New Vegas
• Dragon Age Origins
• Majin Forsaken Kingdom
• Spiderman Shattered Dimension
• Red Dead Redemption
• R.U.S.E
• Miles Edgeworth
• Pokemon Soulsilver
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Enslaved Odyssey to the West

5. Complete at least 50% of the new 2011 releases I buy - 28.5% currently
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360 - 109,414 (30,586 to go)
7. Hit level 12 on the Playstation 3 profile - Currently Level 10
8. Gain five more platinum trophies on the Playstation 3 - 0/5 (0%)

Pokemon Black & White Wi-Fi Event

Now got one more reason to buy the game (like you need another reason), on the launch day (4th march) until 22nd April you can download the legendary Pokemon Victini a Fire/Physic pokemon (first time these combos have been used according to the report).

I'm already hyped about this game with all the new features so having a legendary on day one to go with them is great news!

So who's getting the game? and what version? me I'm going for Pokemon Black







Source: Nintendo Magazine Website

Just a Week Away (Part Four)

Sorry it took so long to continue but had things to do, people to see and games to play! So anyway where was I, oh yes the final release date of March and the one I'm dreading the most, why? console release of course.

25th March
3DS Handheld Console
I'm really looking forward to it, at first I was bit iffy on the subject since it was 3D without glasses but after having ago on one I'm now very excited to see what they bring out on this baby. I love face raiders the built in game and augmented reality looks amazing, wish I could see an actual game playing on it. But still I'm sold on it! Will be trading my DSI in for it

Samurai Warriors 3D
Think this will be the only game I'm getting for the time being until they release some of the Zelda's, RPG's, Marios etc. I'm a huge fan of the Dynasty Warriors as I said before so having one on the handheld will keep me busy for hours on end

The First Templar
This game does have my interest but I can see it being just a rental game, basically its a hack and slash game based on the origins of the Templar Order (big fan of the Templars, love reading books about them and looking up the history about them).

Lego Stars Wars 3 The Clone Wars
It's a lego game do I need to give a reason? lol these games are always awesome, I know should rent them since I just play to clock the game fully then trade them back in. But they are so fun and it takes ages for Lovefilm to send them to me, cannot wait for Pirates of the Caribbean Lego later on as well.

Crysis 2 Limited Edition
Originally I was not going to get this on the day but all the trailers I keep seeing make me want to buy this game. The multi player trailers look so much fun, I like the idea the suit can be tech'd out to your style of playing. Story campaign looks stunning with the graphics engine and it does have my interest unlike the first one. So I see this being a day one purchase as well


Well there you have it, the next several weeks of huge games and I know April is already filling up with new releases as well. Think the developers need to give us some time off so we can catch up! Until next time have a good one

Fare Well MyGamerCard.net

If you looked at the blog this morning you would notice my gamercard as vanished and in replace a thank you message. Basically MyGamerCard.net as closed the site and it's a sad day indeed. It was amazing site where it kept track of every ones gamercard, there was leader boards for the world, countries and genres of games. You could make your own custom leader boards and it would list everyone who had the 1,000's in each game. It was a great site and in fact one of the reason I started this blog to record my adventures.

It will be missed, so fare well MyGamerCard.net hope everyone who worked on it have a great future and Microsoft take notice, this is how it should be done!

MyGamerCard.net Final Message

Review Transformers War for Cybertron

This as to be the best Transformers game I've played but saying that doesn't mean it did not have some flaws. Combat is simple and fun, transform at a click of a button with no having to hold down anything (thank you!). Graphics are amazing and several times I've had to stop to take in the sights.

You see two sides to the story, Decepticons are first showing the events leading up to the end of the war and the reason why they leave their world. Then you switch over to Autobots to see their side at the end and why everything happened. Sorry the explanation is rubbish but I don't want to do any spoilers.

Overall I did enjoy it but as I said at the start there are several faults I hated, boss fights lack ammo and health which can mean several deaths. One fight I found myself going around the room in vehicle form with thrusters on full to dodge attacks while waiting for health, if I get hit it's over and the painful 10 minute fight starts over again.

It's worse on hard mode since you receive more damage, in fact I turned it off half way through the Autobots campaign. I was doing a protect end mission which nearly broke my controller. Allies do barely any damage and the enemy just ignore them, Ratchet (who you are protecting) is sitting in the middle of the room in full open. If he goes down you have several second window to revive him, of course usually there is six enemy's around him blocking your attempt meaning end game. Maybe an extra checkpoint in the last wave would had helped for the lack of health/ammo.

As I said it needs more ammo and health drop's in the boss fights, and better ally A.I to make this game great. But I would still recommend this game to anyone to give a try, I did enjoy it when I was not doing the boss events. So I give it a 9 out of 10



Transformers War for Cybertron (Xbox 360)
Score: 9 out of 10
Gameplay: Average
Graphics: Good
Story: Good
Length: Decent
Controls: Good

Review: Resistance Fall of Man

I picked this game up on day one and barely played an hour before It was put on my shelf to gather dust for several years. I don't something at the time didn't interest and with plenty of new games coming out it's not shocking I ignored it. So jump back to the present and I've decided to work my way through some of my old games, I thought this would be a good start since I have both one and two on the shelf, also throw in the fact the third one is coming out end of the year thought it was time to begin.

I got say the first levels are slightly dull but after that the game really keeps you entertained, it's a very under rated game. Story isn't the best but at the same time it does keep you interest, I would like to know about how the events happen and finding myself wanting to crack the second one open to play on to see what happens.

Controls I did find a bit confusing at first since they differ to most FPS but after 5-10 minutes you catch on. Graphics and game play mechanics are good, no real problems to talk about to be honest. Overall it's a good shooter and I know it can be picked up for less than £10 so would recommend it to anyone.

In fact I have been thinking about playing it again to unlock all the Intel so I can learn more of the story, although could just look the Intel up on the Internet but where's the challenge in that!
Anyway I give this game full marks

Resistance - Fall of Man (Playstation 3)
Score: 10 out of 10
Gameplay: Good
Graphics Good
Story: Good
Length: Decent
Controls: Good

Update time!

Time for an update, I was meant to be updating the stats every week but I was so close to finishing two games I held off the updating until I was done. Since the start of the year I been trying to do the rule of three (think star wars rule of two), basically one major game and one minor game. The third game is reserved for handheld titles since I do stay over the girlfriends on a weekend meaning no big consoles.

So last week I decided to play some of the games on my golden challenge list, hopefully to clock them in time for the end of week. Reason for that being its the start of the new releases this week (see my week away posts and you will understand), of course this did not go to plan since Lovefilm sent me two game rentals so now I'm overwhelm with games and time as run out. So here is what I picked and what was sent.

Batman AA GOTY on the pc was my first choice, it was on the list of old games and would easily give me 600 gamerpoints to my xbox score, add in the fact I love the game it was a solid choice.

Second game I picked Resistance fall of man, this game as been sitting on my shelf since day one. I played for a like an hour on launch then never bothered with it since, end of this year sees the third in the series being released so I thought it was time to finish it so I could get on with no. 2 (which is also sitting on my shelf). Again it was another game on my challenge list but no trophies, shame but it would be nice to get another old game finished.

Finally the third game is Pokemon Soulsilver, with the release of Black and White soon I had a craving to play some Pokemon, that and the fact I cannot find my Phoenix Wright cartridge did not leave me with much choice.

Then as I said Lovefilm threw two games at me, both on the Playstation 3 Call of Duty World at War and Eat Lead Return of Matt Hazard. Two easy games but both would take their time to finish, but on the plus side both give plenty of trophies.

So I'm in the middle of those right now but I did divert from the plan on Sunday and finished the last few levels on Transformers War for Cybertron. I suddenly remembered I was close to finishing the game and by doing that it was one more game clocked, one more knocked off the challenge list, some more gamer points and a game to trade in towards the new releases. Not a great game to be honest, better than the other transformers game out there but still not good. I will do a review later for it and go into detail why, the good news is that the trade in price is higher then I paid so woot!

Anyway last bit information before I finish the post with the stats, I just finished Resistance fall of man the other day. It is amazing, very underrated game that's for sure. Again like Transformers I will be doing a review later and I'm now looking forward too playing the second one. So onto the good stuff, the stats, first up the 2011 details so far:

Games Completed In 2011

1. Fable 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight (PC)
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)
4. Ghost Trick (DS)
5. Batman Arkham Asylum (PC)
6. Plants VS Zombies (Xbox 360 Arcade Live)
7. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
8. NHL 2K6 (Xbox 360) - 1,000 Gamerscore
9. Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)
10. Transformers War for Cybertron (Xbox 360)
11. Resistance Fall of Man (Playstation 3)
    

I just realised that I've completed six games in Janurary and five in this month so far, that's really impressive for me since I barely do one a month normally.

Gamerscore Earned This Year
1,970

Trophies Earned This Year
1 Gold
8 Silver
60 Bronze

Playstation as been getting a lot of love lately, glad it's starting to get some use. Just need to play more Wii more then once a year and I will be happy.

Games Working On
Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition (PC)
Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard (PS3)
Call of Duty World at War (PS3)
Pokemon Soulsilver (NDS)


2011 Releases Completed
- 2/7 - 28.5% -

1. Ghost Trick (DS)
2 Mass Effect 2 (Playstation 3)

The new releases have come out and now my completion score as dropped, need to pull that back up so I can complete my challenge goal and not have another stack of unfinished games on my shelf.


Finally the Golden Key challenge information

1. Complete two JRPGS! - Not started
2. Complete one JRPG to the 100% - Not started
3. Complete fourteen old games off the list below - 1/14 (7%)

• Prince of Persia
• Half-Life Orange Box
• Lost Planet
• Naruto The Risa of a Ninja
• Uncharted
• Resistance fall of Man
• Resistance 2
• Killzone 2
• Alpha Protocol
• Dark Void
• Halo 2 (PC)
• Gears of War (PC)
• Batman AA GOTY (PC)
• Tombraider Underworld (PS3)
• Metal Gear Solid 4
• Mobile Suit Gundam (PS3)
• Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations
• Apollo Justice
  
• Bioshock
• Bioshock 2
• Alan Wake
• Star Wars Lethal Alliance
• Dynasty Warriors 6
• Borderlands
• C&C Red Alert 2
• Fallout 3
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
• Stranglehold
• Spiderman Web of Shadow
• Too Human
• Rise of the Argonauts
• X-men Wolverine
• Elderscrolls Oblivion
  

4. Complete five of the new games off the list below - 1/5 (20%)

• Castlevania
• Bloodstone
• God of War Collection
  
• Transformers War for Cybertron
• Fallout New Vegas
• Dragon Age Origins
• Majin Forsaken Kingdom
• Spiderman Shattered Dimension
• Red Dead Redemption
• R.U.S.E
• Miles Edgeworth
• Pokemon Soulsilver
  

5. Complete at least 50% of the new 2011 releases I buy - 28.5% currently
6. Hit 140,000 gamerscore on the Xbox 360 - 109,084 (30,916 to go)
7. Hit level 12 on the Playstation 3 profile - Currently Level 9
8. Gain five more platinum trophies on the Playstation 3 - 0/5 (0%)

Gears of War 3 dated

I need to book a week off, Gears of War 3 is coming out world wide on the 20th September 2011. It's a good time to release it, christmas already as a long list of triple A titles so fitting it in after the summer holiday and just before the october rush is a good idea. Anyway I'm off to go mark my calendar's and book time off lol

Cannot wait for this game!




Source: Xbox360achievements.org

Battlefield 3 Trailer

Just look how amazing the graphics are !!!!

Pokemon Wi-fi Event Final Part

Well it's the last week of the shiny Johto legendary dogs downloads, this week you can now get Suicune. The last day is this Sunday (27th February) so make sure to download while you can. You can transfer the Pokemon over to the new versions Black and White to help unlock Zoroark and the download can be done on any of the versions below:

• Platinum
• Pearl
• Diamond
• Soulsilver
• Heartgold

This download event only applies to Europe, America and Australia

Just a Week Away (Part Three)

Blimey there is a lot of games I want, think my bank manager is panicking lol. So done the first two weeks and now hitting the eye of the storm, the quiet period.

11th March
Dragon Age 2
Since I've not completed or really put the time into the first one, the sequel was going to wait for a price drop. Of course then they announced the Sig Edition, basically loads of extra weapons, armour and an entire dlc content all for the same price as the normal edition. Now that's a deal! so of course I've now got that on order, shame the special edition can no longer be ordered. If you missed out the dlc content is meant to come out a month later, you just won't get it for free sorry.

15th March
Shogun 2 Total War
Yes a Tuesday release and one of my favourite games, I've never finished the story campaigns on any of the Total War games I just love playing skirmishes. So what's making me look forward to this version? samurai are back! and the A.I looks amazing in the game play trailers. I can tell that I'm going to be wasting hours on small battles, cannot wait!. Also I've got the GAME special edition on order that also supplies you with some exclusive clan dlc and a full chess set made out of bamboo and hand painted. Score!

18th March
God Eater
It's not often I find a game I want on the PSP, God Eater is basically anime style monster hunter game. Watch the trailer, it looks amazing! your weapon can transform into melee, range and predator (some kind of form that eats the monsters/gods). Looks action packed and the story looks pretty solid with you chasing after some kind of boss god that is causing destruction, wasn't paying attention since I was glued to watching the fights lol. Hopefully got another gem for the PSP.

Homefront
Another game I was not going to get straight away, in fact it was going to be a rental. But the more I see about it the more I want to play it. Basically North Korea as become stronger and taken over most of Asia to become a super state, then in the name of peace they launch a satellite that in fact is a weapon that takes out all electronic devices in America. This begins the invasion and the story folds around you a resistance fighter, it looks good and I hear you can choose to be either the Korean forces or American in the story. The game play trailers look good and the multi player seems to be ok as well. Maybe I will pick it up, will see closer to the date.


Well that's it for another post, the next one contains the 25th March a huge launch day! So see you soon