MW2 kill streak

I've been playing COD:MW2 online quite a bit recently. I'm not the best player in the world so my best kill streak had been sitting at eight. Not real great but not the worst I've seen either.

Yesterday I was playing the Domination game online. The point of this game is for your team to capture and hold the three flags on the map. You team earns points based on the number of flags held until one team earns a total of 200 points. I selected my sniper class where I use the Intervention sniper rifle as the primary weapon and a shotgun as the secondary weapon. I started out very slow and died six times in a row. That's when I got going.

My first kill was a long shot that took out a sniper on the other team. I was moving around some wrecked vehicle near one of the flags that my team was holding. I noticed two guys moving towards the flag, since they were still pretty far away I was able to take them out with my sniper rifle. I then called in a UAV which enabled my team to see where on the map the enemy team is located. With the UAV up I saw another enemy moving towards the same flag but he was pretty close so I switched to the shotgun and pumped to rounds into him. Earlier I had set a claymore mine at the flag. And someone set it off pushing my kill streak to five. I was now able to call in a sentry gun. So I ran behind a shed near the edge of the map and waited for the sentry gun to be dropped. Once I recovered the sentry gun I placed it near the flag and then returned to the area behind the wrecked vehicles. The sentry gun killed a couple of people and I was able to snipe one more from behind the cars. Next up I called in a harrier strike. One kill from the bombing run but the hovering harrier made significant progress on my kill streak plus I sniped several men as they tried to shoot down the harrier. As the game ended I had twenty kills and the six deaths that started the game with.

I wonder how many kills I could have strung together if the game didn't finish when it did.

Modern Warfare 2 trailer

Modern Warfare 2

The newest addition to my PS3 game collection is Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 2. Wow!!! The game play is similar to the other COD games.

The player is given three options: Co-op, single player, and multiplayer.

Co-op allows two players to play together with a common goal. The single player mode offers an exciting storyline that the player works through. And multiplayer mode pits you against other players either in your living room or on the other side of the world.

In my opinion it is one of the top games this year.

Coming soon to a PS3 near you

In a recent announcement by Sony and Netflix we have learned that streaming movies will be available soon on the PS3. Netflix currently has streaming through several devices including the XBox 360. So I'm glad to see that the PS3 is going to have the same ability. Not that I'm a current Netflix customer but maybe someday I'll sign up for their $9.00 plan [the cheapest plan that allows streaming movies].

I think it would be cheaper than renting movies from the local Blockbuster. Plus I wouldn't have to get in my car and drive to pickup and return the DVDs. The downside would be I would have to watch the movies on the TV to which the PS3 is attached. Not that it would be awful but I like to have choices when it comes to entertainment.

An interesting component of the announcement is the fact that Netflix will send you a Blu-ray disk that will access the Internet and activate Netflix services so you can locate the movies you would like to stream.

Hmmmm....I think I should become a Netflix affiliate so all my readers could join and I could earn the resulting fees. Give me a couple of days to get it in place before you go and join Netflix. Or not.

Weeding out my links

Today I'm taking time to check all my links and making sure they all work. Deleted one so far. I'm also checking links to make sure my reciprocal links are still in place on the other site. Deleted one of those too.

So I have space for a couple of links...anyone interested in reciprical links? Just add a link to this site and let me know about it and I'll recipricate with a link back to your site.

Monopoly City Streets

Warning!!!! Non Playstation post alert!!!!

I signed up for the Google/Hasbro Monopoly mashup called Monopoly City Streets last night. It is an interesting concept where Hasbro takes the Google Street API and creates a global game of street ownership.

They start you out with $3,000,000 to purchase streets and buildings. My first purchase was the street that I grew up on, way back in the dark ages before Google or even the Internet. Then I spent to much on a building that I placed close to my childhood home. I quickly learned from this mistake [maybe it wasn't a mistake...I'll find out over the course of the game]. I ended up a couple thousand dollars short when I wanted to by a more expensive street. I ended up with six streets with buildings on four of them.

My $3,000,000 bankroll was gone pretty quick. Now I have to wait until tomorrow for my daily $1,000,000 Monopoly allowance plus any rent that I might earn.

More Monopoly City Street posts will follow.

My thoughts on the new PS3

The good:
Smaller-size kinda matters
Cheaper-I love to save money
Reduced cost of ownership-it runs with less energy..."greed is good"...oh wait...I mean green is good.

The bad and the ugly:
Buttons-what is up with those buttons?
Matte finish-I like the older shiny version better
Ugly-come on look at it!

New PS3 announcement

Replaying Fallout 3

After hearing about the DLC for Fallout 3 I decided to start playing again. I had finished the game earlier this year but didn't finish several quests. This time I'm focusing on the quests that are not in the main storyline.

I've already completed one quest that I hadn't finished last time. Now I'm working on a quest that I started last time but never finished. Unfortunately I'm stuck in the same spot as I was last time.

I guess I'll give my brain a rest and work on a different one.

Modern Warfare 2:Prestige Edition

Ok I can't wait for Modern Warfare 2 to be released. But have you heard about the "Prestige Edition?" It will be a collector's edition that should retail for $150.00.

What do you get for your hard earned money? A fully-functioning pair of night-vision goggles to start with. This special edition will also include a head-shaped display stand for the goggles, an art book, and limited-edition packaging.

Personally I've always wanted a pair of night vision goggles. But I'm not sure about actually paying for them. They will carry the MW2 logo and look super cool. I guess it depends on if you are willing to spend the money for the special edition or not.

Extra content for Fallout 3

I just heard that Bethesda will be offering extra content for the PS3 version of Fallout 3. The first add-on will be named "Broken Steel." This downloadable content (DLC) will allow the player to continue on past the main quest and advance to level 30.

The player will assist the Brotherhood of Steel eradicate the Enclave from the Capital Wasteland in the "Broken Steel" download.

Other downloads will follow the "Broken Steel" DLC. Finally Bethesda has created additional content for the PS3 version of Fallout 3!

Happy 4th of July

Enjoy the holiday.

Infamous game footage

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Two weeks no games

Hello my name is Surfin' Sid and I'm a video game addict. It had been 15 days since my last gaming session. Welcome to VGA -video gamers anonymous.

Just kidding. Although it has been 15 days since I've played a video game. The first seven were because I was on vacation with the beach bum gang in Myrtle Beach, SC. I could have taken the PS3 but decided against it. The second week of no games was due to the fact I didn't have much free time. I had a lot of catching up to do.

But I'm back playing COD:WAW just in time for double XP weekend. Good timing I guess. So if you need to level up now would be the time.

Guitar Hero-World Tour

The newest acquisition for the PS3 is Guitar Hero-World Tour. After loading the game and putting the "instruments" together I decided to give the guitar a try. Some how I was able to strum my way through the first gig in career mode. Just as I was completing the gig my son and a friend arrived and wanted to get in on the action. So I was moved from guitar to singing. We rocked for about two hours straight. Lots of fun!

I highly recommend this one. Fun for all.

I've played a couple of times since. Twice with my son and his friends and once by myself. It is a good game to play with a group. Just as long as you don't mind getting made fun of when you stink up a song.

CoD 4 prestige

I finally made it to prestige in Call of Duty 4. I got a bit of track playing Fallout 3 and Call of Duty 5. But recently I went back to CoD 4 because I was sooooooo close to prestige. After playing about three games I accumulated enough experience points to advance to prestige. YES!!!!



So then I promptly loaded up CoD 5 and resumed killing Nazis.

2nd Christmas money game

Little Big Planet, another top shelf game, is a puzzle platformer with an adorable entity named sackboy [or sack girl if you prefer]. You guide sack boy through the different levels unlocking more levels as well as costumes and decorations. You can play in two player mode which makes collaboration necessary to obtain certain unlockables.

The levels that you navigate include puzzles, dangers, and races.  The basics are similar to other platformers but the creativity factor as well as the online community/multiplayer are what takes LBP to the next [pun warning] level.  The "main menu" is accessed through the sack boy pod. This is where you decide what level to play or if you want to play online/community levels.  I actually ended up in some else's pod.  Of course I couldn't access their menu structure and I think I kinda pissed that person off...they emphatically asked me to leave!!!!  lol....so I left.

LBP is available on the PS3 only.  LBP has won tons of awards like the Edge's Best Game, Eurogamer's Best Game, Gamepro's Game of the Year and Spike's Best PS3 Game.

Rate E for Everyone

1st Christmas money game

Fallout III, the post nuclear RPG based in and around Washington, D.C. in an alternate reality where the United States has been bombed by the Chinese. Fallout III takes place 2277 which is 200 years after the bombing.

The player takes the persona of a teenager who was rasied in Vault 101 and is suddenly left alone by his father.  The player then must exit the Vault and experience the Capital Wasteland.  In the Wasteland you will discover settlements where humans have tried to piece together an existance. Usually a very meager existance.  Upon meeting various people you have the opportunity to help them out by completeing a quest.  One such quest is to find your father.  

As you travel through the Wasteland or even Washington, D.C. you will encounter Super Mutants, ghouls, a variety of animals, raiders, slavers and soldiers from an organization called the Enclave.  They are all going to try to kill you.

Although I enjoy the game [which has received lots of accolades] I would hope that 200 years after a nuclear attack we would have created a better society than Fallout III has placed us in.

Rated M for mature.