Completed Call of Duty

Well I spent to much time on the PS3 this weekend and completed the single player campaign mode of Call of Duty:Modern Warfare. I enjoyed the experience, the story was well told, the action was intense, the visuals were excellent.

After completing the campaign I decided to try my skills online. And as The Son was quick to point out... I got owned. No kills in my first game as I was dumped into a game in progress with very little time left. I did earn a kill in my second game but realized that I have a long way to go to become an expert. As of today I have leveled up three times and I'm averaging two kills per match. I'm thinking that I'll try the campaign again at a higher difficulty level in order to gain some practice.

The PS3 game collection grows

When I last posted about the PS3 The Son had purchased 2 games [MotorStorm and Burnout Paradise]. Since then we have added UEFA Euro 2008 and Call of Duty:Modern Warfare.

UEAF is your typical soccer game from Electronic Arts. If you already have FIFA 2008 I wouldn't bother buying UEAF as the two games are very similar. The Son was not happy when he discovered that the Netherlands team did not have his favorite player. Since it is the only soccer game that we have for the PS3 it will have to do. I've only played three games but I enjoyed the experience. I beat The Son 1:0 in the first, lost 2:0 in the second and lost 5:0 in the last one. I guess he has had more practice than I have.

Call of Duty:Modern Warfare, of course was named Game of the Year by many publications. I have to agree that the gaming experience is tons o' fun. I have only played in campaign mode so far, I thought I would get some experience before venturing online to battle all those hard core gamers.

UEAF is rated E for everyone
Call of Duty:Modern Warfare is rated M for Mature

New EntreCard ad

I was doing my daily EntreCard drops and ran across one of my own and decided it was time to make a custom ad. I've been using the generic orange and black with text ad that EntreCard has available if you don't have a 125 x 125 advertisement. Decision time should I make the advertisement PSP related or PS3 related. Any thoughts?

PS3 purchase Day 2

The second day having a PS3 was spent, in part, setting up the wireless connectivity. I didn't realize that I had my router locked down as well as I did. I spent quite a bit of time running up and down the stairs checking settings on both the PS3 and my router. I finally opened up the MAC filtering and it worked. I then closed the MAC filtering and it still worked. Must be something with the PS3 because I have never had to open and then close the filtering when adding laptops to the router's configuration.

It is Day 2 so there must be a second game. Courtesy of Wal-mart's gift card. The Son's choice was Paradise Burnout. Why another racing game? I don't know. I do know that Day 3 will not bring a third game because the gift card is all used up. I would like to get a second controller so more than one person can play at a time.

My brother was over and setup my main computer as a media server so we can stream music, pictures and video to the PS3. I don't know how he did it, I wasn't watching. But the album view for the pictures is pretty cool. The pictures scroll across the screen and you can use the controller to zoom in and out as well as move back and forth to see pictures you may have missed.

PS3 purchase Day 1

Well my son did it again. As you may recall in my first post on this blog he had purchased a PSP in December. This time he saved up and purchased a PS3 [the 40GB version] from Wally World [they had a $100.00 gift card which came with the purchase]. I wasted no time and attached it to our 42 inch plasma that is in the rec room in the basement. That first night was a MotorStorm race fest. Obviously MotorStorm was the first game purchased with the gift card.

After the MotorStorm racing came to a close [I did not do to well] we watched the Blue Ray trailer disc that came with the PS3. WOW!!! It really showed the visual capabilities of both the PS3's Blue Ray player and our Samsung TV. The word of the night was luscious. Quite a few of the game trailers had deep, rich graphics that we referred to as luscious.

Speaking of visuals, the MotorStorm game has some awesome graphics that really utilize the PS3 capabilities.

I decided to call it a night at 12:15 am. Day 2 will bring a new game and wireless configuration.

CentSports wagering contest

Ok this is a little off topic but I thought that I would share with everyone a sports wagering contest that is being held by a sister blog. Just follow the link for more information. You could win actual cash. The amount is unknown at this time but more participants means more money. As of right now there are three people vying to win the prize.