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Wow. What a week for games. I picked of Gears of War and Elite Beat Agents yesterday, been playing Guitar Hero II and waiting on my 360’s HD DVD drive.

Monday night I grabbed some Guinness and rocked out with my cock out all night on Guitar Hero II for PS2. I didn’t buy GH2 for PS2 cuz I don’t have a PS2 anymore and I’m waiting for the 360 version. But my roommate has it and thats all i need. I just about finished it on medium but stopped after Hanger 18 because my hand was cramping from playing so much. I have yet to play Co-op but I will soon enough. The game is awesome but my only grip is that the song selection isn’t as fun to play as the first one. The first one had some more modern songs on it and GH2 doesn’t at all. I think the newest song is Monkey Wrench by The Foo Fighters. I would have liked to see some more current hits like in the original. Other than that I’m hooked.

The big news this week is Gears of War for the 360. Now, I never got caught up in the hype of this game for the past year. I didn’t even know it was 3rd person until about a week ago. I ended pre-ordering the Collectors Edition from Gamestop just based on what I’ve been hearing in the past month or so. Picked it up yesterday and played from about 4pm to about 4am completing almost the entire game. I was having a bitch of a time on the final boss so I called it a night. Got up today and must have died 60 times to the end boss before finally beating him and the game. The game is awesome. Not sure if its the best game I’ve ever played but its good, really good. I can’t remember the last time I spent any more than 2 hours in a row on one game and I just sat through 12 hours of this. I’ve never had this much fun dying in a game before.

I also got Elite Beat Agents for the Nintendo DS. With all day and night playing GoW, didn’t really spend time with it. I popped it in right before I went to sleep just to check it out. Its kinda like a Phoenix Wright+Space Channel 5+Dance Dance Revolution mashup. I got by the first song and it was really fun. I’ll try to play alittle more tonight if i can.

Remember Seaman? Yup that Seaman, the one originally released for the Dreamcast. We’ll he’s back and in and not so much a “Sea”man this time around. The basis is that a bones from a mini ape man were discovered and a company has cloned them to create mini ape man pets.

Thats about all the information that has been released. It will be on the PS2 and support voice communication with your seaman just like the original and a special PS2 controller sporting a built-in mic will be available when its released next year in Japan. No US release date yet.

I don’t know about you but this type of game would be perfect for the Nintendo DS. Dual screens, built-in mic, stylist. A game like this could work very well on the DS.

While your drooling over the newly confirmed songs for Guitar Hero II, brush up on your Guitar Hero skills using one of these Wireless controllers from Guitar Mania.

The exciting new Freedom V wireless guitar controller offers a 100 foot radius of Auto- Sense 2.4GHz wireless connectivity for up to 800 hours of play on one battery pack (4 AA batteries not included). It includes a patent-pending recessed Start button, which prevents players from accidentally pausing the game, and a finely tuned, highly responsive chrome Super Whammy System whammy bar, which incorporates a heavy gauge coil spring for extreme durability. Players love the feather-touch sensitivity of the buttery fret buttons on the fast-action neck, and its Smart Bidirectional Accelerator sensor allows players to simply “Tilt Upwards” the controller to enter the Star Power bonus mode of the game-instead of having to play the controller while raising the guitar vertically. The Rocking Rhythm strum bar has been tuned for a tighter feel and a more precise response, and all Guitar Mania controllers are made of environmentally friendly materials, which have passed the stringent RoHS standard set forth by the European Union.

The latest issue of EGM features Guitar Hero II on the cover and includes an 8 page cover story. Some of the most interesting info is a list of 24 confirmed songs and some bands that wont be making it to this cut. Don’t look forward to bands like U2, Quiet Riot and Led Zepplin this time around. But you can look forward to these tracks:

• Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
• Primus - John the Fisherman
• Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart
• Anthrax - Madhouse
• Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
• The Police - Message in the Bottle
• The Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys
• Cheap Trick - Surrender
• Spinal Tap - Tonight I’m Going to Rock You Tonight
• Heart - Crazy for You
• Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
• Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot
• Dick Dale - Misirlou
• Lamb of God - Laid to Rest
• Alice in Chains - Them Bones
• Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobily Freakout
• Black Sabbath - War Pigs
• Kiss - Strutter
• Butthole Surfer - Who Was in My Bed Last Night?
• Van Halen - You Really Got Me
• Guns N’ Roses - Sweet Child O’ Mine
• The Rolling Stones - Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
• Rush - YYZ

That leaves 16 unannounced tracks. 2 of those are almost certainly “Hanger 18″ by Megadeth and “Last Child” by Aerosmith as video airplay of those tracks have already made there way to the internet.