I don't even know how to describe it. NBA 2K9 is just another year of 2K dominating EA. The game is so nice, the player animations are down to the very last detail, and all this other stuff that makes the game feel so great and gets me to play the game. I get that feeling that I said was missing (see my review on 2K8 ), and I really want to play this game everyday of the week for hours. At the same time, it's so disappointing to see 2K's lack of ability to properly host the online. Half the time I log on I get the "2K server is unavailable" message and the other half I can't even get a game started. 2K has always been known for great online play, but for 2K9 why not?? I don't understand. I've played ONE full 5-on-5 team up game so far, and it was laggy like $hit. All the other times, all I got was "could not connect" and this message that I've read probably a million times.

I love the dynasty mode though. I have my Raptors at 12-2 on a 11 game win streak playing on All-Star difficulty. I wonder if it was a glitch or not, but putting Anthony Parker on the trading block yielded the Portland Trailblazers to offer the future of their franchise in Brandon Roy AND a 1st round pick for AP. Without thought, I took it. I also decided to start Jason Kapono over Jamario Moon. With JO and CB4 down in the post, either of them getting hot at the start of the game, Kapono is the shooter that we need. Kapono's 16 led us to a blowout of the Heat in our last game. With Bosh struggling, Roy picked it up in crunch time with 10 of his 13 coming in the last 5 minutes of the 3rd that really blew the game open.

See I love the game. I'm just disappoint with the online...I wish it would work..because I heard Live is pretty fun.

Another year coming along now, and another year of buying the regular sports games. Madden coming up, NHL, NBA and then back to baseball again in the spring. I have NCAA Football 09 right now, it's not really cutting it unfortunately. It's too similar to 08. As for Madden, I've gotten to play that, and to be honest, besides a couple of graphical flaws, the game is great. It looks great, they finally fixed that horrific presentation from 08 and 07 and it really feels like a actual football broadcast now. NHL is undoubted my most anticipated game right now. Be A Pro Mode, EASHL just unbelievable things in that game that EA has brought on board. Let's just hope the EA servers hold up for the EASHL to actually work properly in a generally lag-free and glitch-free environment. For those that played 08, we all understand what I am talking about. We couldn't get on a 3 on 3 game till at least 2-3 weeks after release. As for NBA, I'm not 100% what is going to be new. But I can't deny the fact that I'm probably, most likely, indefinitely going to buy the thing. I'm too much of a basketball freak not to, and of course, we are talking 2K9 and not Live. Soccer will come around as well, and FIFA 09 looks good again. So I'll probably end up buying both FIFA and Winning Eleven whenever WE comes out with a new one.

Looking further into the future, I hope they fix up MLB 2K9 while I hope The Show 09 just keeps getting better, fix up a couple things in career mode and bring back the fast forward function in it too! I loved that function!! Baserunning is just too boring to not have that function!

While things have changed in my life durastically in the past month and change, I have not, and I will continue to waste lots of $60s to buy sports games that let me live the dream that I'll never get because I'm not athletically gifted enough haha.

Well, the game everyone has been waiting for is just about to arrive. Super Smash Bros Brawl is ready to come for this Sunday, and I'm working the midnight launch. Halo 3 was pretty disappointing, it was just another FPS and didnt seperate itself from any other FPS. But nothing has been able to match the first Smash Bros on the Gamecube and I don't expect that to change. Brawl looks real good, and I can't wait to unlock Solid Snake!

It's going to be an awful long Saturday coming up, I work from 11-6, and then I'll bum around with my co-worker for like 3-4 hours before we head back to the store and prepare for the midnight launch. I wonder how many people will be there? Better question. are we going to get enough to satisfy all the preorders? Head-office continues to tell us we will, but we have like 120 something preorders as of right now so, I'm never garaunteeing customers a copy when they preorder now....unlike everyone else at EB, I like to stay realistic. I'll probably stay up real late after the launch to play Smash too, so its going to be an exciting weekend no? haha.

Besides Smash, money will be flying out the door these next couple of weeks. I've gotta grab Army of Two, Bully for 360, God of War for PSP, MLB 2K8 for 360, MLB 08 The Show for PS3 alll of that on top of Smash. Man...I'm like, happy and sad at the same time. Well I guess out with the old and in with the new right? Damn...Oh well, thank goodness for Chinese New Yer and red pocket money! =D

The game every Halo fan has been waiting for. The 3 installment in one of the biggest video game series ever to hit the stands. Since Halo 2 in 2004, fans have been wondering when the story ends. When will Bungie come up with Halo 3. How fast, and will it be on the XBOX. It was obvious it would still be an exclusive, but for those that want to play Halo 3 and are still living off Halo 2 on the original XBOX, it's time to grab some cash, or your debit card, or your credit card and hope over to a video game retailer and grab yourselves an XBOX 360. And if you are hardcore enough, spend the extra $50 and get the Halo 3 edition of the system. It actually looks pretty nice.

I personally was never a Halo fan. I never had the original XBOX (I was a PS2 guy) so I played Halo very rare when I went to certain friend's houses where they had it. But I did grab the XBOX 360 for my birthday this year, and I'm glad I did. It's a great system (besides the fact that it can die at any time) and with plenty of great games. And with the XBOX 360, the notion that I must get Halo 3 is automatic. You almost can't own a 360 without grabbing Halo 3. It's THE game. What's even better is that they added the 4-player co-op, which is great. I'm a big co-op guy.

The store will have a midnight launch tomorrow night for Halo 3, and yes I'll be working. It'll be my first midnight launch, I wonder how it'll be like. How many people will line up and what time the line up with start. And for that matter, will there be a lineup at all? Either way, I'll be working one of the 2 registers tomorrow night, and then go home at around 2 AM and probably play Halo 3. I got myself a copy of the Limited Edition, and I can't wait to see what's actually inside.

I honestly hope that Halo 3 was worth the wait. It'll probably feel a lot better to me and those that never played the other 2 Halos to an extensive degree because it will be like playing a new game. So I guess there's nothing to worry about right?

Wow holy, Two Worlds getting so much mixed opinions. No game reviews on it yet, I think I saw a 7.4 from a site on the PC version but not 100% sure. But some say its great and some say its really great....to smash on the ground and use as a frisbee. It really seems cool cuz I personally really hoped Oblivion itself was online. Of course, I wasn't expecting TW to be anywhere near ES4, but I thought it'd be at least a decent game to pick up. I really need to reviews from Gamespot and others before I get it. Thank goodness in Canada the released date was pushed back to the 28th. I got time to see some user reviews, but just to keep in mind that some of the user reviews are just haters of either the game or 360 itself posting to make it look bad. I got time to think it over which is great, I don't want to waste my money on a game that is great for a frisbee. But at the same time, I don't want to miss out on a pretty good co-op RPG. O boy..wat do I do wat do I dooo!