Gears Of War 2: All Fronts Collection is only available on Live :( That means I could have been playing it for a couple of days now!

Guess I'm just going to have to get the game tonight and All Fronts Collection tomorrow :)

I would get it tonight, but I'm almost broke and can't afford both. Fortunately Payday is tomorrow as well :) After that, the only thing I will have to wait for is for World At War--Map Pack 2 to finish downloading :)

Of course I might have to get more points. Map Pack 3 is due out soon as well.

Darn :)

3000 Points!!!!

3000 Points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Passed 300 while playing Lego Batman. Still have a long ways to go before I am even close to my nephew Greg's score (as of this post) of 17815, but getting closer with each achievement :)

A Poisonous Appointment--Lego Batman

Poison Ivy's green thumb gave me lots of stuff to break :)


Not too much to say about this level. Fought my way through the garden and green house and caves till I got to Ivy and fought her and three of her plants. the hardest part was fighting the plants, because I had to wait for them to spit up the parts for a bomb and then build it, all while fighting Ivy's goons and later Ivy herself. When the plants were destroyed, she started taking damage, but she was kind of a push over.

Oh, and I also unlocked the Super Builder Achievement.

Oh well. On to the next level. Time to take the Riddler down :)

Two-Face Chase--Lego Batman

This was fun. You drive around in the batmobile blowing stuff up! What's not to like!

Basically I just drove around shooting stuff, including Riddler's henchmen in van. I had to knock over several and drag them to where the police chopper was waiting before I could move onto the next section.

After a few sections like that, it was time to face Two-Face in his armored van. This time instead of knocking over the van, I had to cause it to stall and drag it to the chopper, where they dropped a mine on it. was a little harder, but lots of fun.

I managed to get Superhero pretty easily, and found most of the Minikit pieces. Even found the Red Brick, but couldn't grab it because I had to drag Two-Face over one last time. I'll get it during Free Play.

An Icy Reception--Lego Batman

this one was tough. In the first area, there are vans with seemingly endless hoards of enemies to fight. After building some stuff, I realized that if you jump on them, something happens. After jumping on them both a bunch of times, a "Bubble Bomb" shot out an destroyed the vans.

It didn't get much easier when I got inside the ice cream factory. the entire level was on platforms over bottomless pits, and there was ice cream every where which made everything slippery. I died a lot and ended up playing through the level 3 times before I managed to hold onto enough studs to get Superhero.

The fight against Mr Freeze was a lot like the fight against Clayface; frustrating and fun. you couldn't just run over and attack Freeze, you had to wait for him to tire out. unfortunately that required him using his freeze gun, which kills you with 2 hits if you don't un-thaw yourself before the second hit. This made it frustrating, but kind of fun too.

Now on to the next level.

You Can Bank On Batman--Lego Batman

YAY!!! Lego Batman finally dropped in price!!!!

I got this a couple of days ago, but Secret Of Monkey Island and new songs on Guitar Hero World Tour had to take priority.

First level was really good. The story places you right in the think of things as Batman and Robin go after various criminals who escaped from Arkham.

The best part of this level (and hopefully the whole game) is you can see right away where you need to play through in Free Play to get everything. It isn't always "Use a different character to open a door" type stuff like in past games, it's mostly stuff that is right there. you can see the studs and the mini kits, but you can't get to them. It's frustrating and exiting at the same time, because they are just out of reach :)

The only really annoying part was the fight against Clayface. You have to use the Demolition Suit to defeat him, but it is hard to lure him near the bombs. I managed to get him trapped in an ally and just kept dropping them there until he retreated into the bank, then it got easier.

Over all, a good start to the game. It was a bit frustrating, but the fight against Clayface was a nice change of pace from the "hit them til they die" boss fights in the other games. I got a few Minikit pieces, and unlocked the Natural Habitat, Eat Floor...High Fiber, Boy Wonder, and Shot To The Goon achievements and unlocked the Demolition Suit and Tech Suit. Over all, a great way to start the game.

Scholar Of Catan--Catan

After God only knows how many games, I finally did it.

I defeated 3 AI's on Moderate difficulty!

I just learned some good news. Guitar Hero 5 comes out on my birthday!!!!!!!

Unfortunatlly Rock Band: The Beatles comes out a few days later :(

If I have to choose, Of course I'm choosing Beatles, but I would rather get both. just not sure if I can afford it.

Doesn't matter. I'm getting The Beatles for sure.

Just have to make sure I got Guitar Hero Metallica before that. other wise I doubt I will play it once I get The Beatles.

Act 1: Ashes--Gears Of War

First level of the game, and other then the intro movie before I hit start to start the game, I have no idea what is going on. Marcus is in jail, and Dom is breaking him out.

after a short tutorial, we met up with Delta squad. We traveled to Embry Square to find Alpha Squad, and some resonator thing that will help kill the Locusts once and for all. Unfortunately all we find are bodies until we hear Cole kicking Locusts butt. He joins the team and we go looking for the rest of Alpha Squad. Finally find them, but we are attacked and the guy in charge is killed. After retreating into the tombs, we find out that there is a Berserker in there with us. She can't see, but she can hear us, smell us, and kill us with one hit. And to make it even better, the only thing that will kill her is the orbital weapons platform known as the Hammer Of Dawn.

Unfortunately it only works outside, and we are inside, so we have to some how get outside alive, lure her out, and kill her. Easy right?

Wrong. I died allot in this part, but I finally got her out, and after dieing some more, killed her.

Now onto the next act.