This week as promised, the Alan Wake review is up. You can find it in the merged Essays/Reviews section.

Nothing much has really happened this week. I was sent Homefront which I don't think even deserves the brief 122 words I'm going to describe it in here:

Firstly, you can die for almost no apparent reason. It seems the biggest threat in this game is your shoe laces. Not to mention that half the time when trying to hide for cover after a gunfight, one of the NPC's will block your way to insure they're fully protected leaving you have to reload your checkpoint. Another problem I have with the game is the weapons system, it seems you can only keep 3 magazines of any gun and if you use a weapon with an accessory (e.g. red dot scope) it makes any other type of that gun's ammo totally incompatible. This leaves you hot swapping guns for the most basic ones just so you can progress through the game.

On the upside the single-player is incredibly short.


- Jack