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Forgot about the three year warranty. It does help ease the worry!

My main concern regarding the red ring of death, besides the inconvenience, is the worry that I would get back an older refurbished model. I understand this is how the failures start mounting.

My paranoia aside,  it's the library of games you're buying into and it really is a good 'un.

Oh, The Force Unleashed looks amazing (if Star Wars is your thing)!  

-hex

Beware the red ring of death!

This problem seems much more widespread than MS will have you believe; two of my friends have experienced it (myself being the exception - mine's only a month old!). They all had launch systems though and since then the components have been made smaller and less power consuming,  resulting in less heat.

My advice: make sure you are getting a recent model, the most recent being the "falcon" board.

As for the games: CoD4 is awesome, online and off, The orange box is amazing too (though some of it will be old news to a lot of you). I'm enjoying Halo 3 but not nearly as much as I hoped. If you haven't played Oblivion and like RPGs then I would consider it essential.

Plus, you can now download Ikaruga, the greatest 2d shooter evah!

-hex

Regarding the freeloader, I've heard that future system updates might gub the existing one. Not sure I would be happy taking the risk.

-hex

Always loved this scene:

Last of the Mohicans

At the end when Chingachgook fights through the Huron and easily kills Magua.

I loved the lack of "showdown" - he gets to him and kills him. Very unconventional for Hollywood and whole lot more powerful for it.

-hex

Be sure to bring up the subject of the bum love promptly and use the phrase "don't beat about the bush" for comedy effect.

-hex

Recently I liked The Descent and Switchblade Romance.

Switchblade wasn't any particularly new but it was a real roller-coaster ride (though the twist ruins repeat viewing).


-Hex

Body Harvest on N64. An obvious Grand Theft Auto 3 forerunner, but with massive aliens. You could run about anywhere you liked, jump into any vehicle you liked (monster trucks, biplanes, tanks, speedboats etc.) , and all the (huge) worlds were dotted throughout time.

It had some really annoying bugs due to it's ambition but on the whole a very enjoyable game.

a quick search on wikipedia shows its GTA heritage (ie: Made by an ancestor of rockstar)

 
-Hex

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Harvest" target="_blank">body harvest

I'm pretty sure they do the water jug thing wrong in the movie. I baffled me so much at the time i worked out a couple of methods.

Alternatively:

Fill the 3, pour all into the 5.

Fill 3 again and use it to fill 5 to brim, leaving 1 in the 3

Empty 5 and use the 1 and then a full 3.

However, I heard that 4 is pretty fun. Looking forward to it.

hex

Agree with most of those comments, however:

Perfect Dark is f*cking awesome. Completely disagree.

And I had never played Halo until very recently. In my opinion it is completely overrated. I found it a very generic FPS with added annoying features (eg: 'realistic' weapon carrying capability). And about three different enemies. Maybe I didn't give it enough time, I dunno.

hex

"All Star Superman. Writer & Artist."

Colourist Jamie Grant is Scottish too, unless Im mistaken.

-hex

Another for the 'america and some of europe' column

http://www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedCountries/worldmap?visited=USATBEFRDEITNLNOESUK">
Venice travel guide

-hex

There have been quite a few of these popping up - there's one on IGN and another on silverbullet. All positive. Definitely get this one tomorrow

-hex

>>First two books are pretty darn good, the third I found disappointing and sometimes annoying.

My frustration at the belligerent anti-religious stuff was building throughout the first and second books - the third killed it for me and I just stopped reading. I couldn't adam and eve it (pun intended). I thought books were actually pretty exciting and well written but I can only take so much preaching, and that's the point...it all got  too pot and kettle. If you're against the indoctrination of the church then why write a series of kids books doing just that. Plus, I found some of the thinly veiled attacks (eg: the church kidnapping kids and stealing their innocence, oops sorry, 'daemons') a bit repulsive.

I had a pretty tough time explaining this to my 'liberal' friends who thought, given that I am a bit anti-religion myself, that I would love the books. I may have used the term (*shudder*) 'liberal fascists'.

However it's just my opinion, like.

-hex

That's right, I meant me AND mangamax.

*ahem*

-hex :o)

Im the only one who rates Greg Staples?

-hex