Left 4 Dead

This game reminds me a lot of the "Dawn of the dead" 1978 version. A story evolves around four survivors immune to a virus infection that has spread around infecting and turning people into bloodthirsty zombies.
There are are 4 maps in total and not really linked. Each map is split in 5 chapters. You basically play as one of the survivors trying to get to safety. One of the strongest side of this game is AI. Zombies will spawn and behave unexpectedly so each map will always play different.
In terms of weapons you can use pistols (one or two), shotguns, riffle, semi and sniper. You will also find molotovs and pipe bombs.
The game is great on it's own but it really gets better when played with friends. Players can join and leave as they please without effecting the game. You feel like you need to go a get a drink of water so you can calm down your fear Very Happy, press start and choose take a break and bot will take your place.
Even better then co-op is the multiplayer versus. Mpas are the same as single player and co-op and you can have up to 8 players in the game. 4 will start as survivors and the other 4 as specially infected. Infected can respawn but survivors once dead they can't respawn for that segment. Each chapter players alternate from being survivors to being zombies and vice-versa. There is a lot of sneaking, tactics and strategy involved as zombies can choose where to spawn and they can see survivors all the time.
Hard to find any negative features but if one wants to be picky I could say that I wish there were more weapons and more maps available. Animations of zombies and other survivors is great but I don't like the character you play movement much as it feels to me like you're gliding rather then walking/moving (similar to Half Life 2).
All in all great game SP - 7/10; MP - 10/10
Final score 8.5/10

Guitar Hero World Tour

There are many games I’ve been playing and never had a time to write about them. So here we go, I'll try and write abit about each the next few days.
Firstly I got Guitar Hero World Tour with a guitar bundle. I guess you could argue that it is a matter of taste but there are far les songs in this game that I really like than in Rock Band and there are far more songs that I dislike too. You’d think that after the big Rock Band success they would go a put some effort in making this game better a notch but in fact I find it worse and unattractive. Not really major differences just little things like the screens – the way the score etc is displayed, the star power in drums, ugly loading screens, etc. In my opinion if you don’t have any of the “band” games get Rock Band 2 or Rock Band and only consider Guitar Hero World Tour if you want to appreciate the Rock Band games more. The guitar on the other hand is brilliant. I like the size, shape, weight, the buttons and the strum key. So on the hardware area Guitar Hero have done very well probably better than Rock Band. So ideal solution would be getting Rock Band (1 or 2) game with Guitar Hero World Tour controllers.

Gears of War 2 - Game of the Year IMO

Where do you start with this game. Brilliant graphics, brilliant story, sound effects and above all brilliant game play. Big guys with big guns sorting out some big problems. Managed to finish the story on co-op with a friend (thanks TL) and feel like starting all over again. It is a bit hard to explain but there many bits and pieces that make the game very enjoyable - the maps, the guns and creatures. Details such as the tip of the gun getting red if fired for a longer time. Maps with impressive atmosphere. Head shots, executions, achievements, variety of weapons and the easy of using them are just some of the features that Gears 2 got it spot on, better then any other game I ever played. I think every one that like shooter games should get this game.

Gears of War 2 and 1 map differences

Wondered how will maps compare between the two Gears games and found this great video that shows some of the differences. Haven't received the game yet (3 hours to go until I get home) but it looks great so far so me well excited :).

Modern day Rapture

I was reading an article in the BBC website 'The Retalin express' and thought where are we going; will it ever end and if it does where does it end? If young people today use performance enhancing drugs what will their children use? Will we get new types of drugs that will allow people to use telekinesis maybe :) Are we heading towards the same destiny as Rapture in Bioshock? How is the world going to look like many years after we have gone?