Every year (or at least i think its yearly) Microsoft/XBOX hold a game preview event in Toronto will all the upcoming titles set for a fall/holiday launch. Last year X07 was held in Liberty Village and this year X08 was held at Circa nightclub.

There were a number of games that I want to test drive but couldn’t because of the number of people wanting to play them. Although I did get to play two of the most anticipated games of the year. Gears Of War 2 & Rock Band 2. I’m not the best at playing multiplayer because I stink but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to play Gears 2. This game is going to kick ass when it comes in November of this year. I was a huge fan of the first Gears and am planning on pre-ordering Gears 2.

Rock Band 2 was the other game that I was able to play and it rocked! I’ve purchased the past two Guitar Hero’s and was satisfied. However, seeing the track listing that Rock Band 2 will have is incredible. I don’t even want the instruments (since I don’t have anymore room in my basement for a third guitar or a set of drums). I just want to be able to rock out to tunes that I grew up listening to! This will also probably be on my pre-order list along with Gears 2.

I didn’t get a chance to play FIFA 09 or NHL 09 but did get to watch others play it and they look amazing. The graphics were so crisp (I guess a HDTV/Plasma screen will have that effect) and from what I’ve read the game play has also been improved.

Anyways I’ve written a more in depth blog about X08 for work with contributions from my co-workers. Check it out here.

Enjoy!

Posted by: alberto
Posted on: August 29th, 2008
Tags: circa nightclub, fifa 09, gears of war, gears of war 2, guitar hero, microsoft, nhl 09, rock band 2, x07, x08, xbox 360
Categories: Video Games
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Too Human

A about two weeks ago I got my hands on Too Human, which was developed by a Canadian company Silicon Knights. This RPG (role playing game) is full of action from the start. You play as Baldur who is one of the Norse gods which are basically enhanced humans. Baldur’s duty is to protect the human race from being attacked by machines that are determined to eliminate all humans.

Now onto the gameplay. Too Human is a third person RPG that has unique controls and cameras. I found that a lot of games are using the right analog stick as camera point of view but in Too Human, the right analog stick is used for combat. The camera is controlled by the AI and you can center the camera angle back if it gets too out of place.

As Baldur you are what the machines are after. So far I’ve noticed that when you are being attacked by the enemy’s, they are always firing at you. You do have backup team that is trying to defend/protect you from being attacked but since their is such an onslaught it proves difficult and you end up doing your best to kill off the enemy. Baldur is equipped with dual pistols which can be shot at the same time and at the same target or you can aim them at different targets. It’s a tad difficult a first but once you get into action you pick it up quickly. The same goes for Baldur’s second weapon, his sword. The sword is control by using the right analog stick and is really easy to use. After playing it for a few days now I’ve come to enjoy the game and look forward to finishing it.

Posted by: alberto
Posted on: August 27th, 2008
Tags: too human, xbox360
Categories: Video Games
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About two weeks ago I wrote about my troubles with my iPhone and last week I told you that it was getting repaired. Well today i’m going to tell you that all is back to normal with my iPhone it turned out that my communications board needed to be replaced. I picked it up on Friday afternoon and have been using wifi on it non stop! I’m writing this post on my iphone using the worspress app in apple’s app store. Everything is working great and 2.0 has it advantages & disadvantages. One of the disadvantages is that it gets a tad slow at times and a simple restart of the phone should slove that. Anywho I just wanted to give an update on my situation.

Posted by: alberto
Posted on: August 7th, 2008
Tags: 2.0, app store, fixed, iphone
Categories: Random
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