We Shall Never Forget

In memory of 9-11, todays post will be a moment of slience.

KOTOR II in 2005

LucasArts annouced today their sequal to KOTOR, KOTOR II, The Sith Lords, will be ready in Decmber instead of the previously annouced February.

"We were hoping we could bring the Xbox platform into December but didn't want to make the formal announcement until we knew an earlier ship date would not compromise the quality of The Sith Lords," says Producer Mike Gallo. "We recently completed a very important milestone which confirmed we can confidently do this."

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SW DVDS are almost HERE!!!!

IGN posted their reveiw of the new Star Wars 4-disk special... it looks ver very good. Heres my recap.

Lightsabers have are now much cleaner, as in the blades. Their color looks rich, and they are much more defined.

Han and Greedo shot at the same time, Han ducks faster.

Many of the Vader scenes have been changed. In VI when the helmet comes off, he looks more like the new Anni, played by Haydren. Also, he's ghost is now much more like Hydren.

Vader speaks longer to the Emperor, in which he discusses Luke. Also, Ian does the Emperors voice and image.

Boba Fett's voice is replaced with the same voice as in II.

Complete graphioc over-haul...from landspeeders to rancors to space... it looks much better.

Unfourtantly, it looks like theres no deleted scenes offerd. Why?!?

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Burnout 3 Reveiw

This is the second reveiw this month

IGN.com score: 9.5
Teamxbox.com Score:9.6
Gamespot.com Score: 9.5

Sound
+Nice Selection
? Not as intergrated as most EA games

Graphics
+Very good
+Nice cities
- A little bland (i.e. boxes of hey are just yellow boxes)

Controls
+/- Just OK
-Custum weak

Gameplay
+ Nice additions
+ Racing works, surprisingly
- Its like putting MM3 and PGR2 into one disk... so they both are scaled down

Live
+ Nice set-up
-Still EA PROBLEMS!

Overall
Burnout 3 is by the best ever in its series. However, I find MM3 a better crash game, and PGR2 a much better racer. Since I already own both, this game offers little more. The cities are wondeful, but why so bland??

Verdict
9/10

Yet more Axons

Yep, another wave of axons over at ILB.com have been released. This time, we skipped 4 and went right to 5. 5 phone calls must be answered now in order to "unlock" the .wav file on the new list.

We're about half-way up the long climb to 777 total axons. And its only been two weeks. Imagine how far we're get by November 9?

Happy B-day Google

Today Google turns 6 years old. Its hard to imigine what I did without it back in 1998...

Think of it this way, Google is a company who has managed to get their name in Webster, and in everyday language. "I just Google-ed it" is a common phrase now to describe searching the Web for a term.

Happy B-day Google: Heres to G-mail being just as revoultionary as the orginal.

New GMail Account

I finaly managed to get my hands on a G-Mail invite. Yes, I am now a member of elite status, with a barnd new address to go with it.

I am in the process of switching everything over from my old account at Hotmail to my new one. My old one will stay open as I can't close down my .Net pass without creating a new account on the fourms. So, you'll still be able to e-mail me over there, but it may take me awhile (if at all) to respond.

My new addy is Stardrummer@gmail.com.

NASCAR 2005 E-mails

NSCAR 2005 will send you an e-mail after the game with results of your race on Live. Its kinda cool, but also worthless. I mean, I alreadly know I lost.

Heres what it looks like:

EA SPORTS Gamer,
Here are the official results of your NASCAR(R) Chase for the Cup(TM) 2005
game on 2004.9.5 6:49:13.
Statistics Finklesteen StarDrummer
Start Position 3 6
Finish Position 1 2
Laps Complete 7 7
Laps Led 4 0

Gone Gold

Battelfront has offically gone gold for Xbox, PS2, and of course PC-CD, according to local press.

This is one game that looks like a cotender for Best SW Game of the Year award...altohugh it dosn't seem to have much compitiion.

This means that there will be no hold-up or release day changes for BF, it will release on the 21st of this month. Also, the DVDs of the orginals (which is set to release on the same day :) ) will include a demo of the game.

New Disks allow for up to 200 GB to be stored onto the. It uses Holographic technology, the first to do so, although what that really is, I have no real clue. But, 200 GB is a hell of a lot of space on a disk!

Reveiw Of the Month-- NASCAR 2005

Each month, I issue out My Picks at the begining. Latter on, these are revewied the day or so they come out, and a scroe lists is given... so cheeck here for all the info you want.

TeamXbox Score: 8.7
IGN.com Score: 9.2
Gamespot Score: Not Yet Reveiwd

Graphics
-Powerful, staduims are nicly built
- Crowds are still blah-ish

Controls
-Worst part of the game
-Slugish, not responsive
-Not custumizable

Sound
+Nice, full and in red neck glory
- No custum soudtrack support

Gameplay
+ Deep, deep, deep
+ Nice system of progress
- Borging after the 300th lap
- Only for the hardcore, since, yes, you will have to make 1000 left turns to progress

Live
+First NASCAR title
+ May have some cool EA features (compitions)
- Not sure how well the bugs (yes, there are a lot of bugs right now) will be fixed
- Only 4 players (human)
-Its still 1000 left turns
- Its still EA

Overall
This is a good attempt, and its easily the best in the series. But with games like Fable, Doom 3, BattelFront and Halo2 to save your money for, thisn is just a waste unless your hardcroe.

Verdict
8.5 Out of 10

Two Axons Left to "Go Hot"

Currently there are two more zxons left to "go hot" off of the new list. Then, of course, we have to get a few axons completly solved in order to unlock even more (or so I assume). No one knows for sure what this will lead to... but what I do know is...

65 DAYS TILL HALO 2

11/9/04

Kerry 2004

While watching Bush's speach at the RNC, I am reminded of what a jackass he is... and why I think Kerry or a monkey could run the country better.

Let me set it stright: I do not "like" Kerry. I am not a Democrat (now for that matter am I a Republican). However, the name opposite Bush on election day is Kerry. So thats where I place my support.

Let us all be reminded of how smart our Presy is by a few of his favorite quotes:

"The furture will be better tomorrow"

"A vast majority of our imports come from out of the country"

And, heres a flash ani will all must see before we head of to the polls.

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New Axons

Ilovebees is evolving once again. Tons of new zxons are now released, and this time we need to get three in order to unlock them. More and more are becoming unlocked...but we don't have them all yet.

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Hitting on the Head

The guys over at Penny Aracde once again hit the nail on the head with this one. Clearly, spawn camping is a problem on Black Arrow, so where the hell is the patch!?!?!

Maybe now that they''ve gotten their smack they will release a patch. Or not.

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Battelfront: 22 Days

Looks like theres only 22 days left till the launch of Battelfront. I can't wait. The game looks like it could be a great holdover untill November 9th. From what I hear, it will be the biggest Live game out to date, supporting up to 24 people on dedicated.

Also in gaming news, Doom 3 looks like it will, of course, be delayed for Xbox. The head's veiw changed from "its up in the air" to "It dosn't look like it will" over the weekend. Looks like we won't get it till 2005.

As its Sunday and I new month is before us in the week, heres my Monthly Picks

Fable- Long and awited, we finaly get it on the 12 or so. Recived a 9.3 from IGN, looks like it could top KOTOR as the Top Console RPG

Burnout 3- A new twist on the classic... and EA;s first non-sport game on Live. Cross your fingers...

NASCAR 05- I doubt it will transfer into a good Live game... but for the rednecks out there, this ones for you!

Battelfront- You know you want it. Ever since '77 you've wanted to fly a TIE above Bespin aganst an ATAT... and now you can. No Vader though... still have to wait for that one.

Worms 3D- This game has been awfuly slow in coming, but it looks like its here. Personally, this game isn't for me, but whatever floats your boat!

My New Pics

Profile updated with these pics... just figured out how to do it...

Stil no news on Ilovebees...yet

More on ILoveBees

All files are online now... not sure whats going to happen next. One of them only has one more axon left to "go hot", maybe something will happen then... we still have about 675 "things" left to do before we reach 777, so... something else must also be in the works.

Come on Bungie... I know its you

75 Days till Halo2!!!