Level 44

I should be this level within several hours after this blog is done.

Crysis 2 demo impressions

The Crysis 2 demo only on 360 is ok, though it reminds me of Call of Duty with the fast pacing, killstreaks(3 kills to detect enemies, 5 kills to jam their radar and 7 kills to call in a gunship) and the kill cam in both how you die and who gets the last kill. The nanosuit powers(armor, cloaking) makes it interesting and you can upgrade them, which is the best part of the demo. It controls like Bad Company 2 but the input lag is noticeable as you somehow tend to miss because the controls aren't as responsive as you would hope making for awkward gunfights. The matchmaking is poor as it can take a few mintues to get into a game even with only 12 players. With some more polish it could be great. There would need to be more to the multiplayer to keep me playing though, I'm definitely playing the single player.

Yes, there's a demo coming to PC as well, awesome news to test out my GTX 460 which I will talk about soon. I'll probably post pics.=p

Bulletstorm demo Impressions

Bulletstorm is actually fun and I love the many different ways to kill enemies, something lacking in most shooters these days, even better is that it's not serious at all, along with it being very colorful for a genre known with brown/gray nowadays. While the enemy a.i. isn't the greatest, they are pretty much there for you to kick ass, hopefully there would be harder settings. Being able kick enemies even into environmental hazards and use a leash to grab, pull and slam enemies into the air while finishing them off is win and provides different ways of handling situations. There's nothing more awesome than grabbing an enemy, shoot an explosive that's timed, kick that enemy into other enemies and see that enemy exploding on to other enemies because of the explosive. If there's more varitry like this throughout the campaign, then we could have a really fun game here.

And if you buy this game you get early access into the Gears 3 beta.

Geforce GTX 460 impressions

Guys, girls, I love this video card. The fact that I can do Crysis at 30-40 FPS on high settings made me shed a tear in my eye. I can do Just Cause 2 demo maxed out at 30 FPS, 60 FPS on default settings, Black Ops runs far better with 30-90 FPS more often, The Witcher does 30-80FPS, Tomb Raider Legend goes over 100 FPS a lot of the times, LOL, and I can barely get to 30 in the Arma 2 demo. This card is so quiet that even at 50 fan speed I can't even hear it, and the overclocking is insane, any game I can do will be at 30FPS and higher regardless what it is. Buy this card, or save up for the 560.:P

However, as great as it is, the cpu I have is holding it back. My cpu will be 4 years old this year, it's a AMD Phenom X4 9600 with only 2.3 ghz, and it shows in age and how it can't keep up with my card. That will change soon, there's no point in having such a great card and poor and old cpu that bottlenecks my card, because of that, to really see how much better my GTX 460 can get, I need to upgrade that cpu, it will come within a week or 2, I will have more impressions on this card when I get that new cpu, stay tuned for that.