Firestorm

I ordered mine off Amazon.ca and it didn't have the card.

Calling that 1-800 number didn't help. After trying half a dozen times to get that automated voice to understand the word "games", I finally got through to a real person, but he seemed to be talking to me from inside a bunker or something because his voice kept cutting out. So I hung up. Rather than waste more of my time, I'll enjoy what I have now and wait til the 28th for the rest.

I hate to say it, because I really enjoyed Bioshock, but I agree completely with the review (excluding the System Shock 2 thing, since I never played it).

Especially the part about the moral choices (or 'choice', rather). Deciding between killing or harvesting little sisters added a nice level of emotion and stuff, but it didn't really affect the game except dictating which final cutscene you get (and both were pretty lame IMO). This left a pretty bitter taste in my mouth after my second playthrough. I was all excited about seeing what would be different, but the only change I saw was an evil (and quite stupid, IMO) ending.

Though it was a good game overall, I have a feeling many copies of Bioshock will find themselves in the "used" bin sometime in the next few months.

"I don't think I've ever seen an M rated game with any nudity."

God of War series would be one of them. Oddly enough, it didn't get much of a reaction (if any) from the mainstream press. I doubt The Witcher will fair any worse, especially since it doesn't have the same level of popularity GoW had.

I loved this short the first time I saw it. Blomkamp's style gives a very gritty, realistic feel to the Halo universe. Hopefully, Halo 3 and these videos will convince a big name studio to fund the movie.

From reading the full ad, it sounds more like Master Chief is MIA, rather than dead. People seem to think he's dead, but the UNSC wants them to believe he's still alive and well. Maybe his fate is similar to what happens to the other Spartans in "Ghost of Onyx."

Raymond already briefly explained the "secret ending", as well as the game's story, in a video that can be found on (I think) IGN. What we see at the end of this video is the point of view of a decendant of Altair (the assassin) living in the future. When you play the game as Altair, you are actually Altair's decendant who is viewing Altair's life through some kind of historical archive in the form of a VR machine. Whatever Altair accomplishes in medieval times will be relative to present (future) times. She didn't give out many details, but it seems this game's story is much more complex than the basic "this guy is bad, go assassinate him" storylines.