AndrewTS

The current bane of my playing: ****ing son of a ***** man-eating plants! I was owning metric ****loads of dust-filled mummy ass until I had to battle more of those ****ers. The difficulty probably varies depending on what level sections you take. Mission 1 just takes a bit of practice. Each section I've taken seems kinda reasonable, but there is a difference in difficulty. Mission 2 isn't insanely difficult once you have the zombie patterns wired (plus the zombie transformation gives you an awesome weapon), but if you hit the ice cave, you're in for a rough time on the way back, because there's a good bit of enemies and the Elephant Slug doesn't exactly haul ass. Mission 3 is easiest if you take the subs after going in the first warp gate. The section with a ton of soldiers on levels above and below you can take a toll on you, though, if you don't know exactly where to be. However, I have a hell of a time getting that last hostage before the boss--reaching the platform is obviously the trick, because you can't rescue him from shooting below. The Mission 3 boss is hard mainly because of the tons of fast missiles he shoots out when he's near death. Other than that, you just need to be in the right place to avoid he laser and avoid having the platform knocked out from under you.

"Obviously this is a strong sign of the current state of the Smackdown brand, which Jim Ross termed as in a 'transitional period' last month during an appearance on the WWE.com Byte This Internet show." Transitional period = JR speak for "the show is sucking **** right now, and expect it to for a while...then we'll do a ridiculous over-the-top angle to 'get ratings.'"

Is that where you get to play a decent game for a minute, then watch 9 hours of cut scenes, then you have to talk to a legion of obsessed Squeenix fans? To live up to the Sega classic or Mutant Apocalype, this better be damn good and playable to boot.

"Last week's WON said none of this happened." Good.

"if all this is true then Hiroko has a good head on her shoulders and ain't no meek sterotypical Japanese woman. Definately the makings of a Diva. Good for her to look out for her husbands well being when he can't speak a word of english." It means we get another shitty wrestler getting a big push on Smackdown, and at least another shitty feud revolving around Playboy. Whoopie.

Oh, a little thing to be wary of--there are suicide bombers in Mission 4. After they die, their bodies explode, so you have to keep your distance. Damn if that isn't politically incorrect--just like old school games tend to be (Sunset Riders, too). Oh, and this one has a T rating, so the guys actually bleed blood instead of milk.

I have--I only got to play it in the arcade once, in NY, because no such machines exist near where I live. I've been waiting for it to come out since last year when the US PS2 version kept getting delayed, delayed, and eventually canceled. It actually was a big reason I got an X-Box. Finally got it and it's a blast. Hard as hell, though. However, I've heard some say it is as hard as Ninja Gaiden, although I haven't played enough of NG to know. Mainly it's the continue system that's rough. 5 lives per continue, having to restart the whole mission after losing a continue is rough, although I've gotten up to Mission 4 with a little help from a friend. (I'm not going to bother updating my sig until I can beat that robot solo. Funny thing is, my friend just ran out of lives until I got in a couple more shots on that bot, then he died. Hm. For the un-modded PS2 owners, I laugh at j00 since you'll only get 4 and 5 instead of this one. Still will be buying the MS double pack, though, and probably the GBA Metal Slug. Incidentally, we came so damn close to beating Sunset Riders. Richard Rose's cronies just litter the screen with bullets, though.

Victoria and Molly's for certain jiggle, but that's not a reliable criteria anyway, because as we've seen Trish has her's pushed WAAAY up (compare to Raw X, where they weren't and frankly looked much better to me that way). I'll take a stab in the dark and say that Gail's are real, too.

No, I hate the whole genre. So I assume no not only don't watch the show, but have never been to Wal-Mart. That stupid f*** shills the store on their closed-circuit TV.

Here is a secret of business - If something consistant sells well, they don't give a shit about the quality. Anytime you hear a company say, "Well, its not important if it made us lots of money...WHAT DID THE REVIEWS SAY?" they are bullshiting. Thing is, I'm pretty sure that how the game sells doesn't really matter. Once the game developer pays their licensing fees, WB doesn't get any more. There may be a cut of each x units sold, but just the way I think it is. That's because they're stupid. I'll admit I've bought licensed games merely because of the license....back when I first started playing games...and was 12 years old. What's the excuse of all these stupid jackasses? Uh, no they won't, at least not from me. As I said, all this means is that developers will at least need to make their game mediocre. That doesn't mean quality. Of course, because the game company bears the risk. If they sell the license to them and the game bombs, WB won't care since they got their money. This could be a positive step but until it's proven this will have any teeth, it's just lip service. However, if you remember correctly, back in the 16 bit days when WB licensed to Konami, nearly all their games kicked ass.

"Damn good movie?!" I'm weeping inside.

"This was worse then Pearl Harbor, suffering from much of the same problems, such as a massive loss of life playing second fiddle to a simple love story. Also, some of the sequences are fucking laughable." Emmerich out-sucked Michael Bay? I'm impressed.

You're clearly unqualified to give movie opinions ever again. Michael Bay is perhaps the only big-budget director around who can suck just as bad as Emmerich and Schumaker. Always a terrible, damning statement. I didnt have to "leave my brain at home" for Jaws, Predator, etc. A shitty film is a shitty film.

--because I'm so sure that Warner Bros. Interactive is run by the same people as the whole Warner Bros. empire. Seriously, that's probably as tough as they could get because the higher-ups may have only been talked into going that far.

Succubus, remember? Succubus. Why the hell did they do an interview with Heidenreich?!

Oh no, that IS his special power, he shoots seamen. Ahoy, matey. ...and then they bukkake Miss Jackie. They'll also have punny names, like Seaman Staines.

No, it isn't. Under the common law of contracts, there has to be a valid offer, acceptance, and consideration. In these contracts, the offer wasn't intended to be to the secretly signed. Plus, usually verbal contracts have already been made by the wrestlers, and the "contract signing" is a formality that is just used for beatdowns and for wrestlers to illegally sign contracts. As for Shane buying WCW, Vince said he'd be glad to sign the contract later. IIRC, since the sum in question exceeded 10,000 dollars, I believe it would have to be in writing to be valid. However, the offer may have needed to be made to all interested parties and the first to respond could become the valid acceptor. If Turner just made the offer to Vince, Shane overheard it, and accepted, Shane's purchase of WCW may not have been a valid contract. At least those are my best guesses based on my business law classes. Therefore, HBK superkicking Benoit and signing his contract was bullshit. Bisch could have declared it invalid and wrote up another contract for HHH and Benoit to sign. Only if Turner communicated the offer to Shane AND Vince, otherwise I don't think so.

Spoiler for next week: Torrie wins the bikini contest.

Still the number one Torrie hater, then? Proudly so, but she wasn't the only one at the center of such a feud.

Considering the show he's on, the second lyric would kinda fit.

And I can't wait for the next Conker game, that was the best game for N64, followed closely by No Mercy, then Goldeneye. Was I the only person who thought Conker SUCKED SHIT? Was that a bonus level? And no, you aren't alone. That's about the time Rare starting to suck, putting out that crappy DK64 and Conker, and since then they put out Star Fox Adventures (ugh).

Maybe they can hire DiBiase to try training him more. It's much more likely for DiBiase to return to the ring than Bradshaw become a good worker.

Grapefruits?

No, as far as we know it hasn't gotten that far yet. Just something rather unnecessary being added to the game, methinks. Your results may vary.

"I'm not sure exactly how games are liscenced, but do WB (and various other companies) pay the video game companies to make the games, or do the video game companies have to buy the rights to make the game from WB (or whoever else)? I thought it was the latter, though I'm not really sure." The game companies pay for the right to use the licenses in their games.