again, been a while. played several games since last time.

went through the 3 dead rising games in order (#1. case zero, #2).

the first one was rather hard to get into at first because of its unusual design aimed at playing it through more than once....and its save system which caused me to die a lot and have to repeat my steps many times. but i eventually devised a scheme to get the uber mega buster gun, and restart the game which made things much more enjoyable and easier.

case zero was very short and is simply a paid demo of the 2nd game, but it does give achievements and allow you to carry through levels and stuff onto the main game.

so when i did start the main game, i was a bit better prepared. it was much more easy to get into compared to the first. although there were no super weapons like the first, the levels seemed to come easier and the combo weapons provided some extra killing ability. and the pre order dlc ninja costume which made zombies pretty much ignore you also help. i had finished it and was in the process of trying to get a few more achievements when i fucked up my xbox and had to send it back to get repaired.

since then, i have been playing a few other games with eugene.

namly left 4 dead 2 which i got last christmas and am finally getting round to. not terribly different to the first, but not a bad thing. same old zombie killing action.

we also played lost planet 2 which was surprisingly amazing. i was expecting a simple 3rd person shooter, but the sheer scale of operations and epic-ness of some of the encounters blew us both away....some highlights included going inside an alien the size of a warehouse and shooting its heart apart, taking out an alien worm the size of a village with a railgun the size of a large house mounted on twin trains, and going inside of an alien the size of a small island to kill it from the inside and then dropping an orbital laser built into a large asteroid into its mouth and then firing it again causing an explosion covering roughly 1/3 of the planet. unbelievable stuff....

also finall played alien hominind with phil. pretty hard, but good old skool shooter action.

also played lego batman and lego harry potter with eugene. didnt finish harry potter, because it was too....weird and different and we had no idea what was going on. lego batman was much more like the rest and more fun as we got to beat everyone up