I had a chance to load up Boom Blox last night for the first time and I must say I was very impressed.  The overall polish and presentation of the game alone are enough to keep you drawn in.  The very intuitive menus made it easy to go in an quickly run through the tutorials in under 5 minutes.  Immediately after the tutorials I dove into some quick multiplayer games with my girlfriend who was also extremely impressed with the game even though I would not consider her to be a gamer.

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Super Smash Brothers Brawl is possibly the most anticipated Nintendo Wii title of 2008 and why shouldn’t it be? This fan service on a disc has a ridiculous amount of content for the Nintendo obsessed. The Japanese version of Brawl known as Dairanto Smash Brothers X was released a few weeks ago and I finally got my hands on it. Here are some impressions after taking it for a quick spin. Note that Brawl is a rather large game with plenty of modes to choose from. So where does one start? Subspace Emissary and classic multiplayer Brawl modes seemed appropriate and thus this preview will just touch on those two modes.

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There is no logical reason as to why I spent so much energy beating Super Mario Galaxy to 121 stars with Luigi as fast as I could. After it, I didn’t have anything else that I really wanted to play. I guess that’s the mentality I have developed towards video games these days: Play through any and all single player content as fast as possible, then relax and ease into a nice multiplayer experience if there is one available. Perhaps this is why I have such a jaded early impression of Umbrella Chronicles. I have only played two levels thus far, and at first, I was not very impressed. When you begin, you choose to play as either Rebecca or the other guy (Joel I think). Of course, I chose to play as Rebecca in case they happened to slip a sex scene in there somewhere, but unfortunately and unsurprisingly this did not occur. Yet I did have some hope as some games nowadays do slip them in like The Witcher which apparently has a cut scene with the main character boning his co-star in the first 30 minutes of play. But alas, I digress.

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