wu-tang to tha poon-tang.

my updates are becoming more and more sparse it seems.

i decided that playing, "saints row," over a year ago when it came out, for ten minutes, wasn't an efficient amount of time to judge the game, despite at the time i thought it was, and was heard to exclaim, "this game is a piece of shit."

i have since realized i'm addicted to achievement points, and also, giving games the full opportunity it deserves to sink or swim.

so, my friend ginny from work, let me borrow, "saints row," to give it a second shot.

graphics aren't impressive on the game. i can get that out of the way.

being a 360 game, i expected the graphics to be a little more polished, but what can you do?

if, "killzone," is sony's answer to, "halo," then, "saints row," is microsoft's answer to, "grand theft auto."

it's not a bad game. it certainly isn't without it's charm.

i enjoy the oblivion like character construct where you can shape and mold your character to look like you, although they had no glasses function.

the storyline is a bit backwards to me though.

you get recruited to the saints, a gang dedicated to cleaning up the streets and reclaiming the row, and it's assumed your fueled by catholicism, and you're gang hideout is at a church, yet in order to clean up, you utilize violence. killing cops in the game isn't even frowned upon which kinda disturbed me.

the only real beef i find with the game, is like, "spiderman 2," you have to do this useless side missions where you can earn extra scratch, but more important, you gain respect points, and in order to advance the storyline, you have to get respect points.

one of the more favored side missions, is helping out a friendly pimp recruit hoes. the objective bubble actually says, "you must go an recruit hoes from their abusive pimps, and bring them back to live in a well respected, hoe environment." nuff said.



this isn't in theaters yet, but i saw it, and let's just say, if you liked, "donnie darko," then you'll fucking love this film. it's so, fucking... goooooodddddd.....