The LBTN Express

I meant Human Torch, my bad.

Anyway, I love the Asgard part of the game and the cutscene. Thor is such a great character. He's probably my favourite second comic book character just behind Jesse Custer from Preacher. Hopefully the Thor gets put into production soon.

You get a +5% bonus for the Avengers.

My current team, Thor's Guardians currently consists of Thor, Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Colossus & Deadpool. Thinking of adding Pyro, Ice Man or Storm next.

That was an awesome episode, Eko was my favourite character pretty much so I was pleased with the way they handled it and I'm glad he got some real closure to his character unlike others who have died.

I don't know whether a fourth machine could enter the race. I just don't think it's possible these days, what with the huge developmental costs, if it fails the company is most likely going to go bankrupt. Microsoft were able to bankrole their console because they've got pretty much unilimited funds and were able to get some good developers on board.

Microsoft will be around in the console wars for quite a while and will survive in the marketplace because they have a lot of first party support. They have their own software companies that are churning out hugely popular games like Halo, Gears of War and Lost Odyssey. They have a lot of licences for exclusives like Mass Effect & Bioshock because they can afford to pay these companies and make it worth their while to release it on their console only. I wouldn't be surprised to see them snapping up a lot more, I wouldn't put it past them to make GTA a Microsoft only game down the line by offering them a huge down payment to release it exclusively.

Nintendo is the same, they've got a long history and their devoted fans wiill always go with the new console. Plus they were smart and knew they'd never be able to compete with Microsoft and Sony in the same way and went in a totally different direction.

Sony had it with the PS and PS2 with games like MGS, GTA etc but it seems they're losing the support they had. GTA will be released for the 360, Assassins Creed was intended to be a PS3 exclusive but will also now be released on the 360. There have even been rumblings that MGS4 could get a 360 release because Konami are worried about the spiralling costs of the game and don't feel that it would make it's money back being released on the one console and are putting pressure on Kojima.

It's a worry, but the only one I see dropping out is Sony because they are losing a lot of exclusives that really sell their system. It'll be interesting to see how well the PS3 truly does because they've pretty much got their whole company riding on it. If it fails, Blu-Ray will most likely fail as well.

Just finished my first season as Charlton and finished 14th, which was a huge struggle. I used a formation with a standard back four, two defensive midfielders, a midfielder pushing forward, two full out wingers and a lone striker.

After the last game of the season Darren Bent demanded to be transfer listed. A deal with Milan was struck for £12 million but it fell through at the last minute and he ended up going to Marseille for £10.5 million. It'll be tough without him as he was the main and really only source for goals.

My only striker now is Marcus Bent, who had a decent season playing off the bench as both Jimmy Flloyd and Kevin Lisbie have both been released. I'm going to have to go out and buy a couple of new strikers although I don't want to spend much so I'll probably use Marcus as my lone striker. I'm looking at bringing Earnshaw in as the main backup/rotation striker if I can get him for around £2 million.

With the sale of Bent I should have a kitty of £14 million this season to bolster the squad which is a hell of a lot better than the £15,000 I had for the whole of last season. The only signings I made last season were Windass for £5k and I brought Danny Murphy back to Charlton after he was released by Spurs 3/4 of the way through the season.

The strangest thing that has happened in my game is Arsene Wenger leaving Arsenal to take up the managerial job at Bayern.

Yeah it's going to be a crazy couple of weeks with Call Of Duty 3, Gears Of War, SvR, Tony Hawk's Project 8, Marvel Ultimate Alliance & Rainbow Six Vegas over the next month.

I'm more excited about Call Of Duty at the moment mainly because it's been my favourite series over the years and the game I've spent the most time on that didn't involve managing a football team.

The only game I won't be picking up on the day it comes out is Smackdown vs. Raw, I've got all the others pre-ordered. I can wait a couple of weeks until I've finished COD, RB6 and GoW. Plus I've still got Double Agent to complete and Pro Evo 6 to play the hell out of.

Also I wasn't going to pick up THP8 until I played the demo. It's made a huge leap forward and I was very impressed with it.

Anyone else getting the Limited Edition Gears Of War?

Yeah I'm having a problem with the team mate AI, they never seem to make any runs, I stand around waiting for one to make a run so I can slip them a through ball but no-one moves.

Also, it's impossible to break away from defenders. You get past someone and even though you're two yards in front they'll always catch you. I could understand if it was someone slow, but I'm playing as Arsenal and everytime I break free with Henry they always catch up no matter who the defender is.

Also I've conceded a number of goals due to it swapping the player I'm controlling for apparently no reason on defence, allowing them to break away and score. Don't know whether that's a problem with the 360 version or whether it's across the board.

I got my copy of Pro Evo 6 on Wednesday from Play. I've only played a couple of times on it as Arsenal however but my first impression was that it taken a step backward. It just didn't feel like the last couple of Pro Evo's for some reason. No doubt it'll grow on me.

That was an awesome episode. The thing (it's not a thing) at the end isn't really much of a spoiler, but I'll put it in spoiler tags anyway.

It was just a guy in an eye patch. If you remember when we first met the tail end people they had found a glass eye in a box. So I guess it's his and he's in one of the other stations, probably the Flame.

I got it on release, haven't spent much time with it. I've just done the mission at the hotel. I do like the the stuff you have to do at the JBA's base. Gives you the feeling you're actually a spy this time around.

I loved the opening to episode three. The identical opening to the pilot, except replacing the shoe with Eko's stick and Vincent with naked Desmond was a great way of transitioning Locke into the role as leader of the losties on the beach.

Glad to see Eko survived, he quickly became my favourite character last season.

Managing Newcastle is hella frustrating. It's near impossible to bring in some good defenders with only 400,000 to spend.

What is the official release date? I'm asking because Amazon has it for pre-order to be released on the 20th, and according to Play.com it's "in stock".

My console is one of the first batch and I haven't had any problems with overheating. It never even feels warm compared to my laptop. It's usually mildly warm or cold after two hours of play.

You can get the Actors, Actresses and a Master Image DB here.

There's a near complete actress database up on the HM3 message board. Kontakt over there started 2 days before me and hasn't been entering bio's which has eaten all the time up. I've got about 50-60 left to do and I'm going to do those without bio's so I can get something close to complete out tonight.

There's also a master talent picture file over there as well, which will be used with both databases.

I'll probably be working on completing a director's database after that.

There's a bunch of mirrors here at sigames.com. The one I used was the Blueyonder one, I had that downloading at 520Kb/sec.

I've had no problems with 7.0. It's not that big of a drain, I've been burning music from CD's, downloading music and downloading a game all at the same time and everything's been running fine.

I think version 7 is more geared to the US because it's got sections for Movies & TV shows and you can't download either in the UK.

It's a lot cleaner and looks better. Apart from that, not much difference.

John Krasinski and Zach Braff damnit!

Hamster, could you give me the ratings for the following

Tony Leung

Andy Lau

Takeshi Kitano

Tadanobu Asano

Also what salary you'd think they'd command, thanks.

I'm just twenty short at the moment of a final list to go into the game. There'll probably be some cuts if I find better people.

I'd like some more British actors in there so if anyone's got anyone they'd definately like in, just tell me.

I'm currently working on a talent file. I've got around 70 actors input so far.

I've got 268 actors I've listed off the top of my head pretty much I want go on and 191 actresses. So I've named about half of what I want.

You can see the file here of who's on/going to be on. So if there's anyone you see missing you want on, let me know. It'd be great if it's a really obscure/foreign actress if you could give a talent rating, action rating, comedy rating and drama rating.

Haven't really started on directors and I'll use IMDB to gather the 400 needed. Don't know about producers yet.

Here's some people I've noticed that you're missing -

Adrian Grenier

Albert Finney

Brian J. White

Clifton Collins Jr.

Diego Luna

Dylan McDermott

Freddy Rodriguez

Gael Garcia Bernal

Garrett Hedlund

Goran Visnjic

Ian Holm

Ian Somerholder

Jacob Vargas

James DeBello

James Van Der Beek

Jason Patric

Jason Schwartzman

Javier Bardem

Jeremy Piven

Jeremy Renner

John Leguizamo

Jordi Molla

Moritz Bleibtreu

Noah Fleiss

Patrick Wilson

Rutger Hauer

Stellan Skarsgard

Topher Grace

And those are just from what I have on my HM2 data. If you need help on the stats for any of them, tell me and I'll do my best. Also, Liam Neeson and Willem Dafoe are on there twice. o.O

I'm currently working on a talent file. I've got around 70 actors input so far.

I've got 268 actors I've listed off the top of my head pretty much I want go on and 191 actresses. So I've named about half of what I want.

You can see the file here of who's on/going to be on. So if there's anyone you see missing you want on, let me know. It'd be great if it's a really obscure/foreign actress if you could give a talent rating, action rating, comedy rating and drama rating.

Haven't really started on directors and I'll use IMDB to gather the 400 needed. Don't know about producers yet.

What exactly is the point of your love interest (the little heart at the top)?

I'd like to know this too.

And they could have picked better looking wimmen. One of them looks like the woman from the smoking ad over here =/

Wow, they need to release some fixes already cause this is kinda terrible, seems like everything I try to do manually I get errors and it crashes.

What an overrated beginning and then two more parts that then somehow get worse, all being brought together by the most overrated actor in the 2000's?

Well.....I didn't say anything about getting Orlando Bloom back

Awesome. Does anyone know if he's still giving a discount to people who purchased the original game? That was the only reason I bought it.