DaveKOTW

i have to say, im not really unnerved by games and such but the condemned is one of the few games that really messed with my head. it didnt help that i had the lights off and it was dark though. the main freak out points where towards the end in the run down house and then outside afterwards. that was pretty freaky. The only other game that's atmosphere freaked me out was the baby crying part in Max Payne. Sent chills down my spine man

That film absolutely stunned me in it's cringe worthy value. I mean from the very opening scene, I was like WTF WTF! And then from then, it just got worse......what was worse is that the guy who owned that movie was like bragging about how good a movie it was....i never saw him in the same light after that

Exactly and with things like The Ghostbusters game coming next year as well as the X-Box 360 version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein PLUS things like Gears of War 2 on it's way and Fifa 09, its going to have to be pretty impressive. Then there are things like Asassain's creed 2 coming out which i personally am really excited about

Regarding the gameplay As I really enjoyed both Max Payne and Love GTA, im all for the whole free roaming thing. Im hoping that the game will be a decent length but because its a thriller with a single angle, it obviously wont be to the same length of something like GTA but as they're focusing a lot of their energy on the story as opposed to multiplayer aspects too, then id hope that it would be a decent length and lacking in glitches, especially the amount of time on it. Plus, generally, im a fan of atmospheric games - The condemned had an awesome atmosphere to it for example.

FFS I was considering pre-ordering it on some of the game websites over here in the UK. Play.com announce it for November Still. I remember back in March I think when it was like being advertised as two weeks after the release of Lost the video game and I waited until the week before to pre-order but as soon as that week hit, boom it was october, then november.....now February. Hasn't it been in expected for like 2 years now?

Hey, so I was wondering how much knows about Alan Wake. I've been waiting for this game to come out for almost a year now and it's something that even after all this time has still been grabbing my attention. I dont know how much you guys know about it so I will share what I know. The Story: Alan Wake is a bestselling horror writer. Early on in his career, his fiancée Alice was his muse. Just prior to meeting her, he had started to have strange dreams which he used as material for his first book. The book was a big success, a dream come true. But then Wake’s fiancée vanished without a trace. Wake was devastated. He couldn't write anymore, his dreams stopped and he began to suffer from insomnia. At the beginning of the game, Wake travels to a sleep clinic to seek treatment for his condition. The secluded clinic is located near the small town of Bright Falls, Washington, far away from the stressful urban lifestyle. Receiving treatment at the clinic, Wake is able to sleep again. At the clinic, he meets a mysterious woman who is the very image of his missing fiancée, uncannily so. At once, his dreams return, this time as terrible nightmares. Wake begins to write again: a new book based on those nightmares. But something is horribly, horribly wrong. Impossibly, the town of Bright Falls starts to change to something awful that bears a close resemblance to Wake’s new book. Wake ends up fighting for his life with a gun and a flashlight in his hands, trying to understand what’s happening. Its supposed to be a free roam city that is similar in essence to that of GTA Trailer: I know it's due for release on Due for release on 28/11/2008 on X-Box 360 and I presume that this is the same release date as PC. As far as I know, it's not available on PS3 as it's made by Microsoft. From all the trailers i've seen it looks great and resembles something of a Stephen King book which I am a huge fan. I really can't wait for this game to come out but with all the delays, im still sceptical of it's release. Anywho if you know anything about the game, would be awesome to share it.

To be quite honest with you, if I had seen the remake before I saw the original, I may have been more gripped by it. But as I saw the original Romero movie first, when I saw the remake, it was just more of the same so it didnt really make that much of an impression on me. The general premise of being locked up in a house with zombies attacking you in the middle of nowhere is great but it's too much of the same really the remake - especially considering it was after day of the dead had been made (i think thats correct). So while i'd say its decent, it certainly didnt impress me as much as the remake of Dawn of the Dead did but it's certainly not awful. Im actually looking forward to seeing the remake of Land of the Dead actually......

if 54 seconds was how long the match was, id hate to see how short the highlights were......could there even be a highlights show...... Apparently after the match his only comments were "so........even the best fighters lose sometime....." On the bright side, Ricky Hatton wont feel so crappy about losing to Floyd Mayweather now....at least he lasted a decent amount of time.

I'm sure if you'd never seen Mock The Week before, Frankie's standup would be hilarious. I went to one earlier in the year: Not. A. Single. New. Joke. (N) That's a real disappointment. Then again it depends on how good the joke is but i wouldnt want to spend x amount of pounds to listen to the same jokes again. Cheers for the heads up on that. A friend of mine went to see Russell Howard live and she said he was awesome live.....then again, it might be cos she fancies him

So I already know then who I am playing as on my first career mode.......i think last time around. You'll be able to play him in the story mode right? although he's not really on the mic that much? Wrong. You'll only be able to play six different stories. Punk, Jericho, HHH, Undertaker, Cena, Batista/Mysterio. So no go on Kofi in storymode. Unless this 'mystery mode' that has yet to be revealed is some kind of story mode for other characters. Thats really harsh. I mean, id play as Punk Jericho and HHH but i couldnt see me playing as Cena or Mysterio, nothing against those two, they're just not to my taste. It seems that this game yo yos so much though. For example, Smackdown 2 was great, then when the PS2 came out, the first Smackdown for that was poor, then they got better peaking with HCTP which I thought was a great game. Then they've kind of been so so for me but I have to say, i did enjoy the last one more than I did (i think part of the enjoyment may have been that i got it so cheap but i still enjoyed it). It was also the first time that I played the General Manager Mode properly and also managed to complete that. At the time, I had CM Punk as Champion and thought....yeah thats cool.........now when he came champion, i thought.....yeah not so cool. I really hope they allow you more scope with other characters. Id rather them had different stories for a load of different characters with a smaller roster than a massive roster but the ability to do nothing with them bar singles competitions. At the very least, there must be some option to allow you to use your CAWs. May wait for this to come down in price!

I didn't blow my load over it like most people have seen it, calling it a horror classic and all. But I did like it. It's not really scary, it's more of a gory drama about the lives of a drifting band of vampires and their struggles to stay out of the daylight and away from the police, despite their constant bloodthirst. Yeah but crazy homicidal Bill Paxton is worth the hour and a half. Speaking of Paxton, I think one of the best movies i've seen him in in recent times was Frailty. I think it may have been his directional debut, im not sure but it was a really good film. Basically, The plot focuses on the strange relationship two young boys have with their father (Paxton) who believes that he has been commanded by God to kill demons, and the consequences this belief has after the boys have grown up. Worth a watch if you haven't seen it. As for other good horror movies that i've seen recently, check out Them (Ils) if you're not seen it already. Its a French horror movie based in Romania and it's kinda similar to the Strangers. Well worth a watch!

So I already know then who I am playing as on my first career mode.......i think last time around. You'll be able to play him in the story mode right? although he's not really on the mic that much?

I may have missed it in an earlier post but is there any way we can get a complete roster list? has it even been released yet? I heard that Kofi Kingston will be in it...to be fair, im also hoping for Ted Dibiase Jr although apparently that's unlikely

to be honest, im glad that you've just got Rouke doing it. I remember when Nicholas Cage was slated for the role and with all the greatest respect in the world for Nicholas Cage, the last decent movie I saw him in was 8mm. It would have been horrible if he was in this movie. Ernest the Cat Miller also being in it as the the main heel called the Ayetollah should be interesting. I also understand the likes of Necro Butcher are also going to be in it. Would be amazing if anyone got oscars for it though.

I liked the Sarah Palin jokes generally to be fair. "Im like a pitbull im tenacious" keeping analogies short lol..... im like a pitbull im tenacious... im like a pitbull i wont let go....if you want me to let go you'll have to put your finger up my arse. dont leave me alone with a toddler, i'll kill it... Noooooo Palin Nooooooo!

I knew I couldn't be the only one. Funny women are sexy (as long as they dont look like the back end of a bus ) Apparently she's worked with Andy Parsons before but I think it's the first season she's been on Mock the Week Already had it on DVD. Most excellent. He should have another DVD coming out before too long, because I went to see the show being taped at the Apollo in May. (Y) I cant seem to get enough stand up comedy these days. I'm probably just going to ask for/buy myself as much of it as i can on dvd for christmas! I'd love to see some stand up with Frankie Boyle - a whole hour of him making jokes would probably kill me.

Man I cant get enough of this show. I've even resorted to watching it on Dave if it's on to watch the re-runs. All the guys are funny (and Lucy Porter does something for me in a weird way) but lol man Frankie Boyle week after week cracks me up. The Canadian guy last week and his stand up segment when he was talking about his father - "i was in the park wondering why a frisbee got bigger the closer it got -> then it hit me"...funny stuff. Speaking of which, did any of you see Dara O' Briain's stand up gig in London that was on BBC 2 on Saturday? Funny stuff indeed!

I saw a bunch of movies yesterday actually proving once again that I have no life. So, where to begin. A Perfect Stranger (Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi) 8.0/10 - Really decent thriller of a movie - what was more amusing as it involved chatting to people online. Good twists and Halle Berry is gorgeous so well worth a watch Mad City (John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman) 7/10 - an old movie but nevertheless one i've never seen before. Good movie all together that really shows the fickle side of people (especially the Media). Good movie in the end but it took a while to get going and so lost marks Isolation (Irish Horror Movie) 6.5/10 - to be fair, it was an amusing watch. A Irish farmer sells a cow to undergo genetic testing while it's pregnant and it gives birth to this crazy violent calf that is pregnant at birth. But what's she's carrying is much worse! A decent amount of suspense and the acting wasn't all together that bad. The creatures were standard cheesy horror. Well worth a watch and a laugh if you're bored War (Jet Li and Jason Statham) 5.5/10 - well made film with a decent twist to the end which to be fair, made me almost give this a 6. Found it hard to keep my concentration in the movie despite devon aoki being in it. Jet Li was pretty awesome but I still cant get over Jason Statham's american accent. On a different day, probably would have scored higher but not bad. Really? I didn't think this movie was that bad, in fact i'd probably have given it a 7.5/10 - Billy Bob was standard self and i though the story was quite amusing. Then again, i may have just liked the movie because of the australia chick that was blatently awesome.