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I'm on some crazy late nights at the moment, so I have a Sky+ box full of stuff to watch, including, but not limited to, Entourage, No Heroics, multiple Daily Shows and Colbert Reports ("Multi-Grain"), Heroes and Fringe.I saw the Fry in America thing and, while I enjoyed it I can't help but feel they've hacked a 26-part series down to three or four episodes. He seemed to whizz through half-a-dozen states in an hour and it all felt a bit rushed and perfunctory.

You've just reminded me of my old copy of The Getaway which contained a bug that made it impossible to complete the first mission.I only paid three quid for it, so it went in the bin rather than inflict the same disc on another poor unsuspecting gamer.

It'll surely be noteworthy to nobody but myself, but I finally achieved my first Guitar Hero 3 goal on Saturday by getting 100% on One on "easy". For a malcoordinated gimp such as myself, this is quite an achievement.

i wonder how many peoples entire list of 15 made it into the top 50?

Naming no names, I managed five in the top 50 and a further three in the "just missed out" list.How did everyone else score?

someone who hated him made this theme music

Someone with no discernible musical skill either, seemingly.

Does anyone else play N64 games with a PS2 pad? How do you have it set up?

D pad - D padAnalogue stick - left analogue stickB - squareA - XC-down - circleC-left - triangleC-up - R2C-down - L2R - R1L - L1This works perfect for the AKI games - couple of games to get used to using the shoulder buttons to enter and exit the ring etc and you'll be away.

Cheers, boss. I'll give that a go.

There are USB adaptors for N64 pads around, Ebay and Amazon are your friend.

I have one. It takes the PS2 pad in one side and the N64 one in the other. Mine, however, has some dodgy soldering that gives random phantom input on the N64 side (and I've tried several controllers), so I gave my N64 controller to my mate and play with my one remaining PS2 pad (which was previously used for SNES gaming on my Mac). If the N64 bit worked properly, believe me, I'd use it.When we finally get a TV in our new office, I might suggest to my colleague that we nip up to CEX and get an N64 for lunchtime GoldenEye.

I've been reliving some N64 classics thanks to Project64 on my XP partition. Mario 64 is still superb, No Mercy and VPW2 are still the best wrestling games ever made and Perfect Dark is impossible to control with a PS2 pad.At the moment, the Dualshock's D-pad is the N64 D-pad, the let analogue stick is the N64 analogue stick, "X" is "A", Square is "B" (may swap them as I can't remember the N64 layout), L2 & R2 are "L" & "R", R1 is the Z trigger and the C buttons are mapped to the right analogue stick. I think Perfect Dark & GoldenEye will need their own setup as, after years of Halo and TimeSplitters, I just end up flailing all over the place. I think it's because turn and strafe are in the "wrong" places.The AKI wrestling games may need reconfiguring as well, if only to move the run/whip control onto a button rather than on the analogue stick.Does anyone else play N64 games with a PS2 pad? How do you have it set up?

Having missed out on it first time around, and after spotting it on the 360 back compatibility list, I purchased Shenmue II for the princely sum of

I'm two thirds of the way through Casshern and tying to decide if I can be arsed with the rest of it. It looks very pretty in places and I'm sure there's a cracking story fighting to get out, but I have very little clue what the hell's going on.

 

In my "to watch" pile: Hellboy, Maltese Falcon, Broken Flowers, Cloverfield, Dog Soldiers, The Host, Big Fish, Shoot 'Em Up, Crank, The Myth and all three Bournes. And that's just off the top of my head. Oh, for the time...

When I'm not getting destroyed in Big Team Social on Halo 3, I'm trying to find someone, anyone to play Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo online. Anybody?

I know I'm waaaay behind the curve, but I've just started watching Red vs. Blue. I'm two-thirds of the way into Season 2 and I love it. Great characters and some outstanding writing. Even my non-gamer missus is really enjoying it.

To drag this one back from the depths...I played Guitar Hero III on my mate's Wii the other day. Awesome fun. It definitely helps to play along with songs you know. For example, I was better at "One" (one of the tougher songs) than "Slow Ride" (the first song) purely because I know it so well.When the 360 version is less than sixty quid, it will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine.

Dead Rising is one of the few 360 games that appealed during the first six months of the console's life and I'd been meaning to pick it up for a while. Got it for

Went back to Halo 3 for a quick blast this morning after a couple of weeks of solid Forza and finally conquered the bit I'd been stuck on. It's part of the "rescue the soldiers in the barracks" mission. You start behind a blast shield and there's a truck and some grav platforms. Tip: ignore the fancy hardware and just hide and shoot. Fun.

 

As much as I love it, Bioshock is getting a rest for a bit. Dead Rising is on hold till my HD TV turns up so I'll be able to read the fucking font (!). Mass Effect can wait until I've finished Bioshock as I only have the mental capacity to be drawn into one large, absorbing story at a time and I haven't even opened The Orange Box yet...

Has anyone played Stranglehold? the John woo game i just downloaded the demo and was surprised how much fun it was very simler to the Punisher game on ps2 but with a bit of Max Pain as well.

I've been playing the demo as well. It is essentially Max Payne Goes To Hong Kong. I'm a big John Woo/Chow Yun-Fat fan, so it's great fun.I'm told the full game is pretty short-lived, but if you want to commit to the full thing, hmv.com seems to be cheapest at the moment (

After discovering that my Dead Rising disc is scratched and unplayable beyond the first half-hour (it's going back today), I fired up Bioshock.Wow!Immersive, exciting, atmospheric, scary and beautiful to look at and listen to. I was hooked within the first fifteen minutes and consistently blown away by some element of the graphics, the design or the story. The only thing I don't like is the ocncept of "Vita-Chambers". "Don't worry if you die, you'll be brought back to life in the last "Vita-Chamber" you passed..." Really? Why haven't the corpses I've been stumbling across (and indeed looting) been regenerated in the last Vita-Chamber they passed? A dumb plothole, but not enough to ruin an awesome game.

And the new Burnout LOOKS good, Other half reckons that its 'just fine.' and he tells me that you need the crazy speed to crash well.

Crazy speed certainly helps. If you crash less horrendously, you can get a "Driveaway" which lets you... erm... drive... away. Somehow yesterday it let me do this even though the roof had been completely compressed down into the body of the car.Dove into Forza 2 as well yesterday. It's just like Gran Turismo, but, y'know, fun. GT to me is just Pokemon with cars and there's nothing remotely interesting about the unforgiving races. With Forza, you can skip all the "must collect/tune/repaint the cars" nonsense (although you can do all that if you wish) and just enjoy some close-fought racing. Battling my way up from 8th to a very close 2nd in the final two-thirds of a lap on the New York track was immensely satisfying.This may also be the game that gets my missus into "regular" gaming (she already like splaying Wii Sports), when she saw I'd downloaded her favourite car ever... a Renault 5. :DIn related news, I ordered a new HD TV to play all this wondrousness on... then went into Sainsbury's with my sister and saw that they were selling the bigger version for only an extra

Assassins creed is possibly the best game of 2007.Imagine Prince of Persia, but 10,000X better, with lots of blood, guts and drool worthy graphics.

Man that sounds incredible. I've been putting off buying it because I still have lots (and lots) of games to finish, I am really tempted though.

I've seen nothing but disappointed reviews for this game. I think I'll rent before making a decision.This week I have been mostly playing Boom Boom Rocket, Pacman Championship Edition, Halo 3 and the Burnout Paradise demo. Gems, every one.Burnout Paradise is so fast and detailed, my eyes nearly fell out of my head. There's times (actually, pretty much all the time) when there's nothing you can do but react to something that happened milliseconds before. It's quite the adrenaline rush. Having the freedom of a city to tear around in, with non-compulsory, user-triggered "event" races, rather than jumping from on preset race track to the next is very refreshing.I think the full version may need to be purchased when it's out.

The 360 has arrived...

 

...and I can't play it because the Mrs. is watching Gok bleeding Wan.

 

"Tomorrow, tomorrow, there's always tomorrow..."

Currently running around after The End in MGS3.Again.

The old fucker? Easy. Either:-1) Snipe him in his wheelchair earlier in the game out side Ponizovje Warehouse straight after a cutscene, or...2) Save during the fight with him, reset the PS2, pop the machine's clock forward a week or so and reload your save. He'll have died of old age. I'm not kidding.Also, try to capture his parrot. You can eat it later. :DApart from the occasional burst of Vice City Stories before I chuck my PS2 to make way for the 360 I'm still waiting for, all I'm playing 'round here is Space Commando, which is the fun little on-rails 3D shooter that came on my LG Viewty phone. It's a pretty neat way to pass a dull commute.

My usual deaths for him of choice, however seeing as i hadnt played it for a good few months i thought it was best to do it properly....Tranq the bastard and get his camo! and CAGE the parrot

Good show.I might have to have another run through this game before the PS2 finds its way to CEX. There goes the weekend.

Currently running around after The End in MGS3.Again.

The old fucker? Easy. Either:-1) Snipe him in his wheelchair earlier in the game out side Ponizovje Warehouse straight after a cutscene, or...2) Save during the fight with him, reset the PS2, pop the machine's clock forward a week or so and reload your save. He'll have died of old age. I'm not kidding.Also, try to capture his parrot. You can eat it later. :DApart from the occasional burst of Vice City Stories before I chuck my PS2 to make way for the 360 I'm still waiting for, all I'm playing 'round here is Space Commando, which is the fun little on-rails 3D shooter that came on my LG Viewty phone. It's a pretty neat way to pass a dull commute.

What do you call the song that is used on the GAEA commerical on TWC?It has the lyric "Yesterday's hero"Many thanks.

"Rock Your Love Away". It's Meiko Satomura's theme.

Anyone know who did some of the original score for Bret Hart: Wrestling With Shadows? I know there is a soundtrack out, but it is nothing to do with the score from the actual documentary. I am keen to track down some of the original music though, much of it is by a female accoustic performer it seems. Any names would be appreciated

IMDB says:-

Original Music byTim Clement Colin Cripps Keith Scott Russell Walke

Whatever happened to Ice Train? I've been watching 1996 Nitro's (what a bag of shit, but that's besides the point) and he had a teeny bit of potential as a big man, although he pales in comparison with Big Scott Norton. When and why did he leave WCW and what did he do after that?

Train with the utter shits when he debuted in 1993. He did get significantly better though. Somewhere I've a shockingly good match pitting him & Norton against The Steiners.

Finally played Psi-Ops (I'm behind the times, sue me). It's not bad. It's pretty much Second Sight on steroids.Nabbed the PS2 Transformers game (the old one based on Armada (I think), not the new movie one) for a fiver and it's pretty swish. Some of the controls are infuriating (L1 to jump? Which demented fool thought that was a good idea?) and I'm finding the second level, Antarctica, pretty tough going, even on the easiest dfficulty setting, but there's plenty of fun to be had and the graphics are lovely; the cutscenes especially so.My local CEX also has the other two Prince of Persia SP2 games for