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Pure and frakking simple you have to play this game. BioShock is easily the best game I have played in a long time.
For the the uninitiated, BioShock is a crazy story that takes place in an underwater city named Rapture along with all the crazy genetically altered psychos. Basically, (possible spoilers) you start out as the unnamed protagonist surviving a plane crash near a lighthouse in the middle of the ocean, upon entering said lighthouse the chaos ensues and you learn of all matter of plasmids (like throwing lightning or fire or a swarm of bees) and hacking of course, too. All this is just the means to the end of getting off the island alive.
Easily one of the most interesting interactions in the game is with the so called “protectors” a.k.a. the Big Daddys and the “gatherers” a.k.a. the Little Sisters. The Little Sisters go around collecting adam (which is what you collect to upgrade your skills) and have the Big Daddies there to protect them from the denizens of Rapture. Along with the little sisters there is the seemingly controversial choice of saving them (and thus returning them to non-zombie form for a lesser amount of Adam) or harvesting them (for maximum Adam, but killing them in the process). All in all the game is frakking amazing and you owe it to yourselves to go out and buy the game now.

The first two real packs of downloadable content are now out (and no, the 4 new skins don’t count). Go grab it now!
The first one up is the “Free-for-All” download pack. First off is the Keys to the City mode, which basically is a mode where you can run around the city and spawn any of the cars in the game, exploding barrels and you can turn on God mode and the like as well. And one thing with the mode is that Achievements and the leaderboards are turned off for obvious reasons.
The other pack is the really good one (though it costs 800 points). The “Getting Busy Bonus Pack” is the one with all the real goods. Three new vehicles (the buggy, advanced racer, and armored vehicle), street racing over live, and some new weapons and game types.
Anywho, that’s my little summary and if you want more check Here.

Back when I picked up Virtua Tennis 3 I also picked up Viva Piñata, so here’s a mini-review.
For those who don’t know, Viva Piñata is a game where you build up your garden to attract new piñata to come and visit, complete a certain set of goals and then they become “residents” and stay in the garden. In a way it’s kinda like Pokémon, except instead of having to attack and capture new creatures, you attract them to your garden to become residents and then build them a house and then they “mate”. You mate your piñata by running through a little mini game by guiding your creature through a maze to its mate, and then poof, along comes an egg, it hatches and you’ve got a new piñata to play with.
So far it’s been fun messing around with it, the bad guys are annoying, but it’s a game, you have to have something annoying in it for a challenge, right? Anyways, if your having reservations about buying it (which I suggest you do, go buy it), then you can download a demo on the Xbox Live Marketplace now, Hell, I did before I bought the game.

Hot damn, this game is fun! Sure I played the demo already (in fact I have yet to delete it), but the full version is a million times better. I’ve only had it a few days but I’m already to the Shai-Gen (the most advanced of the 3 gangs). But Honestly it’s a lot of fun to run around the world just jumping from building to building and throwing crud around the world. And once you upgrade your driving skills the Agency vehicles get a huge bump in every way. One place this game definitely excels is with the achievements, not only are there a lot of them, but they are well integrated in the overall experience of the game. So in a lot of ways Crackdown raises the bar for future games not only in terms of achievements but also with the multiplayer co-op over Xbox Live. Go out and pick it up already!

So I haven’t posted in a while, what with work and some new games I seem to have neglected to set aside anytime to post for all my voyeurs.
So I have yet to get a Wii, sadly, but recently got both Rainbow 6 Vegas and Smackdown Vs Raw 2007 for my 360. One’s freakin’ awesome, the other is good but has problems.
First the good. Rainbow 6 Vegas is a blast in both single and multiplayer. And everything you’ve heard (or maybe haven’t) about the graphics being insanely cool is true. It’s a very good looking game, and plays as good as it looks. Now I realize I’ve kinda said the same thing twice over now but it deserves to be said as such. Multiplayer is well thought out and implemented. While playing Co-Op over Xbox Live I didn’t really have any lag, but when I was trying to versus the game were usually around 10-14 people and they got really laggy, not so fun.
As far as Smackdown goes, they did a pretty good job with their first next-gen effort. But as with pretty much every game that they’ve done since the original Smackdown on the PS1, all of Yuke’s games have had absolutely abysmal load times. It’s sad really, that an otherwise great game is hampered by constant loading. Hell, after each wrestler’s intro it has to load another 5-10 seconds, then again before the match begins. And finally once the match is over, it goes to another loading screen before it shows the wrestlers celebrating. Maybe, just maybe next years game will cut back further on the loading time, but I’m not holding my breath.
Lastly I also got the Rambaldi Box-set of all five seasons of Alias. Today I finally got started with season 5. It’s kinda weird watching it as season 5 wasn’t on that terribly long ago, and I still kinda remember various bits and pieces of the episodes more-so than any of the other seasons. But it’s great to have all the seasons right there at your fingertips because the storyline for the series is pretty serial so you need to see them all to get the whole picture. And if you haven’t ever seen Alias, now is the perfect time to get ‘em all.