A few things...

Been a while since my last update, mostly because my internet is currently capped, so I just didn't bother, and that I've been playing a shit load of games, while enjoying the cricket. It's all thanks to Valve/Steam, that I blew pretty much all of my bandwidth allowance for a month in 12 days. The main culprit being buying Call of Duty 4 over on Steam. The game that Steam informed me that was fully pre-loaded, turn out wasn't complete, so I had to download the missing 2gb or so file. But it didn't stop there, the game refused to activate eventhought everything was in my hard drive and offically released on Steam. So I checked the forum for 'fixes' and it all went down hill from there. I think I have probably downloaded the game twice, in a 10 hour gap. The file size is around 6.25gb. So the result? I kissed my normal 230kbps download speed goodbye for the rest of the month.

However, Call of Duty 4 is a fantastic game, it was the Call of Duty style that I enjoyed when I played the series for the first time. Single player is as intense as it could possibly be, and had a good story. The story alternate from the point of view of a British SAS and American USMC sergeant. The non stop action drives the linear story combine with a nice relaxing level call 'Death from above'. It's being said that it is the most realistic video game moment in history so far. You basically take a point of view from a gunner in an aircraft, with one of those black and white infra-red vision one would often see when you watch the news coverage on modern warfare. The music is scored beautifully by Harry Gergson-Williams, his style of music is a perfect match for this game. Althought I have not play the multiplayer component much so far, mostly because of my onboard soundcard caused multiplayer to run at 10 fps. I had to remedied with calling someone with Skype before I load a multiplayer map (as insane as it sounds, it's actually true and works for me).

Now onto Crysis, which I just finished not long ago, it's by far, have the best single player campaign of any FPS I've ever played. From the open sandbox style at the early levels, to the action packed more linear story telling in the latter stage, they are all designed so perfectly. Boy, I would love to have one of those Nanosuits. It is a system killer, there is no doubt about it, quite literally. The graphic is by far the best there is right now. My high end computer was running it at quite acceptable frame rate with high settings, except right at the final boss fight where I most needed it to perform, it cluggs along quite baddly.

To my own surprise, I found myself enjoying Carcassonne on Xbox 360, a Live Arcade game, maybe because it was free. It's quite a nice and relaxing game to play in between of all those action packed FPS.