I can’t wait for Alan Wake: The Writer DLC

October 12th the DLC for Alan Wake “The Writer” is scheduled for release.  This DLC will wrap up the Alan Wake story for now and there are no further plans for DLC.

I plan on purchasing this DLC as soon as it’s released and will pray that a sequel/prequel will be release to continue the story.

I love Halo: Reach

I’ve finished the single player Halo: Reach and am impressed with the good combination of solid game play and good story telling moments and some decent characters.


The controls are responsive for a console game, I’ve been primarily a PC gamer, and the fact it takes a while to whittle down an opponent helps keep the frustration down.  I especially liked the space combat portion, being an old player of Wing Commander and Freespace it was something great. There are several well composed cut-scenes to expand on the story. As for characters, my favorite is Jorge as he seemed to be the most human in contrast to the least sympathetic Emile who I really don’t have any feelings for at all.  I did find the Campaign to be a bit on the sort side, but I would rather have a good short Campaign rather than a drawn out one where you feel like you are visiting the same places over and over like the original Halo.

I’ve also completed a Campaign Co-Op play though of the game at Heroic difficulty and been paying online in various modes (mostly the “Runble Pit” types). I have yet to meet anyone I find truly objectionable playing Reach unlike other games.  Also as mentioned before you don’t get the really objectionable insta-kill moments where you get hit with 1-2 shots and are dead.

Over-all a really great game, and well worth the $40 that it cost as a pre-order ($60 less $20 gift card).

Well Halo: Reach will be released tomorrow!!

Well the first Halo game I’ve purchased will be released tomorrow and it’s supposed to be waiting on my doorstep tomorrow.  I’ve played the original Halo on the Xbox and was not impressed.  I also have played co-op on Halo 3 on a friends copy, it was significantly better with somewhat sane controls and much improved graphics & environment.
I’m was impressed by previews and pre-release reviews of the game. To pre-order the game, I’m not expecting story telling on the level of ME or some RPGs.  So tomorrow night after I get the youngest to bed you can bet I’ll be playing Reach, possibly Co-Op with my Older Daughter.

Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC for Mass Effect 2

Downloaded the “Lair of the Shadow Broker” DLC for the 360, at 800 MSP it was a pretty pricy download, but it was a big DLC at 1.5GB.

The game play was really good, there are two big bosses in the game.  The big highlight to this DLC is having Liara as a squad mate and being able to continue a relationship if you had her as a Love Interest in the first game.  The story elements fills in the space between ME1 and ME2 if you happen to not have read the ME:Redemption comic.  The dialog is highly slanted toward the assumption that you are completing this after completing the suicide mission.  Like the Pinnacle Station you end up after successfully completing it with a new place you can hang out.
Overall I would say this is at least a 4 out of 5 in my opinion.