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I arrived home late last night, and it occurred to me that Rockband: Green Day was coming out today. Having been a Green Day fan back in the day (I’m pretty sure they were the ones that inspired me to learn to play guitar), and to a lesser degree still love the older stuff I knew I would be getting this… and I did… spent some time on it today, it’s pretty good, and challenging. I play guitar and drums on expert usually, and I knew Tre is a great drummer for the genre, but I under estimated how hard it was going to be. I have the feeling I’m going to have the same problem with this game as I did with the Beattles RockBand game. Playing a band-centric rockband game just gets pretty repetitive when it remains in the same genre let alone the same band, you end up doing a lot of the same patterns. However, it’s still good so far.

I also picked up Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands today… I was convinced somewhere over the Atlantic, listening to a couple gaming podcasts talk about it. I mean, I read the reviews, “neat platform puzzles”,”shady combat”. But I heard on these podcasts something that I was really hoping to hear, “I loved the first couple PoP games, and this one feels a lot like those”. I got about 3 hours in today, and so far I agree. This is exactly what I wanted from Prince of Persia, it’s all about timing, and using your abilities to traverse the map… you get a little combat in there to mix it up.. it’s not terrible, it’s not overly simple due to the volume baddies around. I’m really enjoying it.

I also put in Super Mario Galaxy 2 for a bit.. not enough to really get a feel of it yet, but it feels like the last one and thats not a bad thing. I played it just long enough to learn that the rechargable battery pack that is currently attached to the controller is on its last leg, taken from the charger it only lasted 30 mins or so… I couldn’t be bothered to get the other one heh.

It also pained me a bit to take Skate 3 out of the console to put in PoP, I wanted to play it a bit, but I wanted to try out my new stuff first… and never got around to getting in a session. Gotta start getting more clips together for my next montage. And I’m in the final stretch of Red Dead Redemption… might as well get that out of the way.

Too many games to play right now, tempted to buy more…