I just finished the MW2 campaign, and while mediocre, some of the surroundings were enthralling to a point. I think FPS’s need more of this, but not when you’re pretty much on-rails. I also received Assassin’s Creed 2 yesterday, but the game feels too much like the first. It’s slow, monotonous, and the controls are too much than they need to be. I mean….you have to hold down the r-trigger and A when parkour-ing around like a monkey. After playing both inFamous and Prototype, I can’t really go back to the AC controls. It’s just too much when it doesn’t need to be. The story here is great though. I might just chug along just for that. But at times slow, boring gameplay moments occur just to move the story along which, for me, breaks the pace of the game. New Super Mario Bros. hasn’t arrived yet, so I might just stick with AC2. I’m salivating for some plumber though.*

I’ve also been digging a little into Crysis Warhead, and a thought came over me. I would prefer playing on a gamepad. I’m kind of disappointed it has come to this, but maybe I’m just digging gamepads more. I will still stand by the Mouse and Keyboard for RTS’s, but for FPS’s, the analog dead-zone plus the use of look and strafe can still achieve accurate results. It’s just done in a different manner.

Speaking of PC, I have the Red Alert 3 Premier Edition that includes a beta code for C&C4. Unfortunately, there;s some bug or error that won’t allow me to download the beta. So I sit here in wait, crying while clutching my Chrono Legionnaire (got that from the Red Alert 2 Special Edition).

For the weekend, if I still don’t have Mario, I might go back to Frontlines. MW2 is making me want to go play the superior online FPS. The single-player on that is pretty wicked too. From Chad’s previous post, I’d like to play through Frontlines again to earn the rest of the achievements.

*I could have deleted that sentence but it is funny. I have no fetishes for plumbers. Although…