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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.

The strange Christmas at the PSX Gamer house

Well the strange part is no games were exchanged for Christmas.  I'm sure that you are all thinking "how does this guy call himself a gamer if he doesn't even give his son a video game for Christmas."  Well with the economy in the dumper and PS3 games generally running between $50 and $60 I decided that more practical gifts were the prudent option.

I know that you can find games for the PS3 for less that $50 but we have been enjoying COD:WaW and I didn't feel the need to take attention away from that game since it is still fairly new and my son has not grown bored with it.

Well during different Christmas celebrations [my family/her family] he received a large amount of cash gifts.  Obviously his relatives were feeling generous this year.  Three guesses what the boy wanted to buy with this windfall.

You guessed it... games.  Anyone hazard a guess what game(s) he ended up with?

My Internet problems

Recently I moved some stuff around in my kitchen. This is where my main computer is located and the move included the computer and all the associated peripherals. Two of the key peripherals are the cable modem and the router. I had coaxial cable running up through the floor at the computer's old location but the connector was to large to be pulled back through the hole.

Out came the drill to make a larger hole right next to the existing hole. In hind sight this was a bad idea. I nicked the coaxial cable when I drilled the new hole. Whoops.

After reconnecting everything in the new location the Internet connection was a bit unreliable. I attributed the issue to the nicked cable. Darn it! I moved the modem and router to the basement and connected to the cable down there. The PS3 [which is located in the basement] is now connected to the router by Cat5 cable instead of via wireless. The main computer is now connected by wireless and my daughter is without Internet on her computer that is in her room. Sorry missy.

COD : World at War

My son just had to have the new Call of Duty game. He saved his allowance and bought it a few days ago. One feature that I love is the coop game play. I can finally play with my son instead of against him. Very cool!!!!

COD 5 also has trophies. So far I've earned three of them. I was playing in solo mode and all of a sudden the trophy message popped up on the screen. This is the first game that we purchased that has the trophy system. I think that it will give the solo mode more meaning.

So far the online play has been pretty tough. I have worked my way up to level 10 though. So far I have enjoyed the new features on COD 5.