Mahjong Man

Once again, another piece over at Ripten - NBA Ballers: Chosen One preview.

Found this awesome pic on Kotaku and had to put it up here. This game of "sexy mahjong" was too much for this Japanese guy.

Funny.

Got my copy of Condemned 2 Friday and from what i've played so far it's kind of a mixed bag. It is truely gruesome and scary if played in the right setting (dark room), but the combat is fairly repetitive which is a shame as other parts of the game work really well; the investigations for example. They'll be a review of it up somewhere in the next couple of days, i'll let you know.

COD4 map pack has taken up the bulk of my time this week. Generally the maps are good and make a welcome change from the bleak settings of the original maps. Having not played COD regulary for a few weeks, these maps rekindled my interest. Already though i'm dreading the though of going back to those other maps, so when the new ones get integrated into the whole multiplayer i dont think i'll be playing much after that. Seems like one of the main reasons i stopped playing was i got bored of those original maps - Bloc and Vacant are just dull to look at and play.

Creek is an interesting one. It has a good design in theory but the spawn locations and the position of objectives (in objective based game-types) are just plain biased. However starts on the high ground will generally win, which sucks. IW need to change up the spawn locations on that map fast.