My new toy

After hesitating for a while I got my self a PicooZ helicopter from Amazon. I only had it for two days now but I'm already hooked. It's a great little toy to relax with. It is difficult to explain but soon as you start flying it is like you're consumed by it. Shame you can only fly it max 10 minutes at a time aa the little Lithium battery does not last longer than that. However you can fully charge it in around 20-30 mins so you can get around 20-30 minutes flying in a evening in three sessions which is a great excuse to have a break from a boring essay ;). All in all well worth the £15 I paid for it.

Tomb Raider:Legend

One of latest games I rented and I must say even though I did not expect it I really enjoyed it. The game is smooth, relatively good story and some of the puzzles are very cool. Finished the game on hard and collected most rewards in just under 10 hours gameplay. It would have most probably took me twice as long if I did not have the following walkthrough handy which helped enormously. I read some comments that the game is short but I don't think it's short at all. I think if it was longer I'd get bored, not finish it and get disappointed. It was similar with COD 4 single player. I thought it was long enough and I read many people saying that the single player was short. I guess I like "shorter" games.

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Open game covering relatively tight missions in cities and rural areas, various weapons, land, water and air vehicles sounds like great features for a unique game. To a degree they did it but fell short on some important points. The story is not that good. Starts ok but does not follow very well (at least to 40% I completed until today). Acting is just shameful and very very very... did I say very?... very repetitive. How hard could have been to use more phrases and randomize it a bit??? Anyway, all in all, I think it is ok game, entertaining at least for a week IMO but can't see going back to it much after that. Probably will trade it in when I get Fifa 09 beginning of October.

P.S. You can download game single free for a limited time from http://www.pandemicstudios.com/mercenaries/downloads.php. Cool and catchy song! :-)