Some TV adverts just do more than there purpose in life

I recall back in April 2007 seeing this advertisment thing going on with LYNX, the last one Lynxplayers.com was good as you get to meet Kelly Brook if your a player, lol As I would love to meet that woman and then drool for god knows how long, it aint gonna happen.

Anyways, I saw some recent commericals and it sounded annoying kinda like Crazy Frog sounding like a complete retard with helium up its ass making the small bones in my ear vibrate to the shit that comes from his mouth. Now, I keep hearing people doing this boom chikka wow wow thing and its realllllllyyy f**kin me off.

I had this one guy at work today, he did a continuious loop of “Boom Chikka Wow Wow” briefly saying Mayfair as in fags but he got closer to my face and also got louder making me almost throwing a fist at his fat chubby face with the sweat of being in the fucking summer’s weather in which he could do with a damn wash. That was the most annoying thing someone has ever done to me in a good while but please don’t let me catch you saying it because I’ll hate you for the rest of your life and I’ll do a Dane Cook and put an ice cream and smash it into your face.

Anyways, advertising has hit a new low, that U Switch thing is painful to hear with the Gospel singers and there was that Frosties Kid who happened to act and sing like a complete prat with his braking voice (urghhh). The PLAYSTATION 3’s “This Is Living” commercials are fucking strange too, the American advertising campaign is much better and they know how to do it right but the one single advert that takes the fucking crown is Sheila’s Wheels. They promote Car Insurance for Women and then in one of their commercials their not wearing safety belts whilst singing, having a dog driving the car and also scarring my brain with that god awful song.

Personally I don’t which is worse. Being on the bus overhearing some passenger’s ghetto tunes on his shitty fuzzy compression shit phone of his or listening to Sheila’s Wheels? Well I think Sheila’s Wheels is worse as I can understand what they’re saying as with Gangster music, they simply bastardize the English with words which rings the “What the fuck did they say!?” Bell in my head.

We must be greatful for the BBC who despite seem to create weird ass characters and fucked up storylines for EastEnders does a very good job of not allowing advertising….PERIOD! Which is great news for Formula 1 fans in the UK as it is returning to the BBC so you can rest assured you can watch ALL OF THE RACE without any interruptions!

Feature: PLAYSTATION©3 40GB Model – it’s somewhat stupid but its okay!

Being the proud owner of a 60GB Japanese PS3 I love my console. Its the best SKU available and it plays my PlayStation©2 games. Now heres a sum for you. What do you get when you add

60GB PLAYSTATION©3 – Memory Card Slots – 2 USB Ports – PS2 Backwards Compatibility – 20GB from the Hard Drive?

The answer is a 40GB PLAYSTATION©3. Yes, its aimed to be a cheaper PS3 and it does a good job of that but it doesn’t have the ability to play PS2 games and there is a fair amount of games which are awesome on PS2. I can never work out why they removed it. The PlayStation©2 is one of the best selling consoles of all time and removing such a feature worries me as they have discontinued the 60GB models so if mine was to die on me, I am left with a crappy 40GB model to buy as eBay prices are ridiculous.

I feel it is the worst revision of the PLAYSTATION©3. The 20GB version released in NTSC regions even had hardware emulation for PS2 games making the 20GB superior and also really expensive on eBay.

Now here is the worst bit about it. Mandatory Installation

Say your one of those people who have a 40GB PS3 and you buy the following games

• Devil May Cry 4 – 4GBs Manditory
• Gran Turismo 5 Prologue – 6GBs Manitory
• Grand Theft Auto 4 – 3GBs Manditory
• Haze (NOTE TO SELF: Don’t buy this game) – 4GBs Manditory
• Metal Gear Solid 4 – 4.5GBs Manditory
• Warhawk – 770MB (more than 1GB with both expansions) Manditory

Now as you can see if you add them all up, thats almost 23GBs which will mean you’ll literally have no room for any PSN games, videos, photos, music etc. However its not all lost!

Thanks to Sony (like Microsoft), you can change the Hard Drive for any 2.5′ SATA Hard Drive and that can be any capacity from 10GBs to 500GBs! I currently have a 160GB and I have 79GB left so its lasted me a while but you think it might cost quite a bit. However, you can rest assured that

A – You have more room for installs, HD Videos, Games etc.
B – You won’t be ripped like the Xbox 360 lot who had to pay a ridicilous price for a HDD. For £100 which will buy you a 120GB for 360, you can get a 320GB for £60 or a 500GB for more and it will work on your PS3! Great isn’t it?

Sadly most n00bs who are a lot of people won’t be aware of this which is why Sony should support installations for external HDDs or offer a service in all good game retailers to offer HDDs for PS3s with the option to install the HDD for them. It would make life easier for everyone but for me, I would miss not being able to play PS2 games.

Rumor has it that in October Sony will release a software emulator for the 40GB models. The 40GB install base can only hope and if that comes to a reality, I will have no problems with the 40GB and Sony will make a lot of people happy

Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit Review – PLAYSTATION3

Dragon Ball Z, this animé brings back sweet memories of my teenage years where I would literally watch it being glued to the TV every day after school. Being the owner of a PS3, I was excited to hear that a Dragon Ball Z game was being made for Sony’s latest entertainment system. Looking at early trailers, Promotional Videos fed me with hype and I really felt I had to buy this game. Come June 6th, I had picked up Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit to keep me busy before Metal Gear Solid 4 and I thought it was going to be a great game, only I felt after an hour of playing it ripped off and unhappy.

Burst Limit is fantastic at but I sadly can’t say the same thing about the gameplay

I’ll start with the good parts of the game. Burst Limit looks fantastic! From every generation of consoles Dragon Ball Z has appeared on, the graphics have not just improved but have at the same time looked closer to the look and feel of the animé and with Burst Limit, it looks stunning and really gives the player a great impression. Burst Limit also introduces On-line Play which allows players to take on fighters around the world so if you happen to import like myself and think that you can only play people from the game’s region, you can take on anyone! The On-Line play is great and I had no problems when I went On-Line. The game play is very good also, its not broken and keeps the simplicity of the Budokai games which DBZ fans will like with Burst Limit. Finally, Vegeta’s famous “Over 9000″ scene is also in this game which made laugh but that is where the positives of the game stop there.

I have a lot of issues with this latest Dragon Ball Z game. Firstly, it feels like the game was seriously rushed and lazy. When playing Z Chronicles, the mode was shallow and didn’t really any brief detail what the hell was going on. I know what happens in Dragon Ball Z but some of the cut scenes weren’t true to the anime version and it is weakly executed. The original Budokai game’s cut scenes were excellent and recreated them flawlessly but Burst Limit is very poor and the animations within those cut scenes are scene over and over and over again which left me disappointed. It further pissed me off when I completed the Frieza saga when a movie played with the in depth cut scenes I wanted to see with dialogue but also proves that the game feels rushed.

The other problem is characters. There is only 21 characters for this game which for £40 is ripping your wallet a new asshole. Previous Budokai games have MUCH more characters, even Budokai Tenkaichi has more than 100 characters. I really wanted to play as Cooler (favourite enemy) but was annoyed to hear just Bardock and Broly from the Movies and Specials were going to be in the game so again this is something which will be a major problem with many potential customers and fans of Dimp’s Dragon Ball Z games.

Cooler like me is very pissed off with Burst Limit

Drama Pieces is the major pisstake with this game. Drama Pieces activate when certain conditions are met within the fight but not only does it make change the characters’ effects such as Health, Ki, Attacks, Defense etc. but it also kills the flow of the fight for players and at first I thought it was cool thing as I could see what Dimps were trying to do. For those who have watched DBZ will know that fights will get interrupted with assists from friends and foes, long dialogue and plot twists but in Burst Limit it simply doesn’t work and you can’t skip the Drama Pieces either which is a shame as it is very annoying.

Imagine playing Gears of War or Unreal Tournament and the game pausing every time you’ve got one or two frags with useless, non-skip dialogue. That is the true annoyance of Drama Pieces and if Dimps are planning a sequel, this is the first thing I would remove.

Overall, I am very disappointed with this game and it failed to live up to my expectations. It feels like a dummed down version of the original Budokai but in HD with added inconvenience and mediocre value . If you are curious to see this game, I would rent it or buy this game when it goes down in price but it certainly isn’t worthy of the RRP and is very difficult to recommend for its asking price.

Being the mediocre game it is, the next day it found itself back at Woolworths where I claimed my refund

Feature: Hideo Kojima @ HMV Oxford Street 02.06.2008

Last Monday, I met the man behind the Metal Gear Series Hideo Kojima. Visiting various cities around the world to celebrate the release of PLAYSTATION©3 exclusive METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS, Hideo Kojima, Lead Artist Yoji Shinkawa and Motion Capture & seiyu for Raging Raven in the Japanese Version Kimi Kikuchi.

Hideo Kojima

In order to meet them and get their autographs, you had to be down at HMV for 9am in order to get one of the 300 Limited Edition Sleeves and once they were gone, they’re all gone so if you didn’t have one then no Kojima. Luckily for me, I left at 3am and managed to get down to Oxford Street for 6am where there was a lengthy queue already but thankfully a friend counted and we looked fine so that was a relief. Add a £5 pre order for the LE Sleeve and then I had to go back at 12pm to meet them.

Yoji Shinkawa

A few hours later, needing the toilet really bad I waited again and eventually meet Kojima, Shinkawa and Kikuchi. Although I don’t know any Japanese whatsoever, it was a very good occasion and I was very happy to have met them. I couldn’t believe that Kojima is 44 years old! He doesn’t look 44 whatsoever!!

Kimi Kikuchi

Shinkawa made the Sleeve even more unique for everyone who got one by drawing a caricature of everyone on their sleeves and that put a huge smile on my face once I noticed! Meeting them three made my day and I lost a day’s sleep for it. It is now going in a frame!

Here are some photos of the Sleeve I got last Monday! I am so happy to have this Collector’s Item and I look forward to playing METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS in a weeks time!

This voice acting defeats 4Kids

Now what I mean by that is the voice acting. This is Chaos Wars, a crossover RPG for the PlayStation 2 and I have to say the voice acting is the worst thing which will vibrate your ears. Its that bad! This evidence clearly shows that the Voice Cast for this game single handily defeats every 4Kids dubbed animation in existance.