The thing is – isn’t it realistic to require that in order to disarm an opponent who is bigger and stronger than you, you need to get the timing exactly right?

In self defense classes for women, where the entire ‘technique’ is find the nuts and kick them hard, timing does matter!

I wanted to give Treyarch a second chance because people were saying COD3 sucked because they were rushed into making it in under 1 year. Well this game proves my worst suspicions – Treyarch is a bunch of talentless hacks relying on movie franchise games and the names of other successful games to crank out utter crap.

COD WaW is mostly suck. The Russian campaign was particularly awful, and whoever wrote the script for that should be banned from writing and shot. The tank and airplane gunner missions were pretty bad too, and yes you are LUCKY you got to miss most of the tank mission due to a glitch.

The only interesting part of the game was the Pacific Campaign, which I thought should have been 100% of the story. It was the first WW2 game to attempt to do it properly, and they should have made it longer. They didn’t even do Iwo Jima or the Allied campaign in Burma. WW2 really defined the US Marines and made them a larger and more prominent part of the US Armed Forces. There were so many awesome stories and campaigns they could have used from the Pacific Theater War but instead they wasted their time on a totally stupid Russian campaign.

Flamethrower – the weapon is cheap. Unlimited ammo? Please. If they are going to make it so overpowered, they should at least make it easier to kill you when you use it, and have a cool exploding death that kills guys around you too.

I’m so glad I avoided the Far Cry series. I knew as soon as I saw it that it would be another generic shooter.

Although I have to say, one aspect that sets video games apart from movies, TV, books, or music is the interaction. None of those other media allows the audience to participate in the progression of the story and making decision to alter the outcome of an event. For that, video games will likely to continue be the center of controversies because someone will always point and say “you’re training the kids to become a killing machine/sex maniac.”

So yes, let’s ban video games from our children’s life!!

The story is definitely interesting. But I think the game pace is a bit too slow for my liking. Plus, like I said before, the AI on PS3 sometimes is border-line non-existent. “I just killed another guard in front of your very own eyes… now I’m slowly walking towards you like a scholar… you’re next!” and the guard just stands there like an idiot waiting for me to end his life… *sigh*