Firstly the thing about things with zombies in is the characters never think “oh crap a zombie, run”. They always seem to have stupid deaths because of it. Fiction of zombies in fiction doesn’t seem to exist. That aside;
Zombies = Yes
Big Brother = Meh
The word zombie was of course never used, but of course “getting them in the head” was discovered and so far no cause of outbreak has been revealed, very zombie cliched. I guess it’s enjoyable but typically zombie related things are movies and not TV shows, which kills the pace a bit adding adverts and splitting it up over 5 days, but cliffhangers make you want to watch the rest. I’m a big fan of zombies and after hearing about this show for weeks I decided to watch it. It was fairly decent above all and I will be watching the next part.
Lazy Sunday afternoon sat around looking for good prices to preorder games at I come across this. Intrigued by the price of £59.99, I Googled around looking for what this could possibly contain. I stumbled across this. So for an extra £20 compared to the standard edition you get, a COD: World at War branded canteen, FG 42 Machine Gun unlock (Usually a Level 45 weapon), a week of double XP and a coloured clan tag plus a metal tin. I also find the picture in the link humorous as they put the disk and manual on show to pad it out.
Now in the USA it costs $79.99, which Google informs me “79.99 U.S. dollars = 46.1916036 British pounds” which is almost £14 cheaper, another example of ripoff UK or are Game planning something extra, unlikely.
I usually have an interest in Special/Collectors Editions but this one just doesn’t appeal to me, especially not at that price. Sure the case and canteen are nice little extras to add to your collection but for that price, it’s hard to justify, perhaps it’s easier for the Americans. The gun you will get if you play for long enough anyway, providing you don’t quit in annoyance before hand due the that fact people with too much time on their hands are already at top rank because of double XP for a week, unlocking better guns and perks faster. Hopefully the rock, paper, scissors nature of perks that even people in the low ranks have can help counteract this. Coloured clan tag? Doesn’t interest me in the slightest seeing as I gave up on clans years ago.
Giving fools with too much money an advantage over either poorer people or people with common sense, nice…, ruin the game, I’m sure though it will eventually even out over time. Of course exception is made to die hard fans in this.
The PS3 version of Bioshock has recently been released, in the extras section there is a teaser trailer for the sequel, Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams. In the attached YouTube video comments indicate the video is unlocked after completing the game.
I’m loving the very crude looking Big Daddy doll, a corkscrew for the drill.
I am looking forward to the next game, I have just recently finished the first one on 360 and loved every minute of it, well apart from collecting the tapes a bit of a pain when I realised I’d missed a few.
Update: I was curious about the music used, I figured it out to be “Dream (when You’re Feeling Blue)” but I’m not sure who it was by, it seems to have many covers/versions. The song at least fits the name of the new title.