Star Wars The Force Unleashed II

I've bought this game yesterday after work, thinking I'd be settled for a few days just like I had with the first game in the series. Boy was I in for a surprise.....

As a small background information, I myself work in the IT sector as a Software Engineer/Software Specialist, so I have a good understanding of the amount of work that goes into a project such as this, but honestly; a project such as this should never come to the commercial market in the first place.

If you've played the first game in the series, "Star Wars The Force Unleashes", and actually finished it, then you're left behind at the end with a series of questions and uncertainties about the fate of StarKiller. The second games tries to fill in various gaps and give a twist to the story told so far. I will not spoil the story, but when looking at Star Wars standards, I must say that I find it rather impossible, especially when compared to the storyline as most people know it.

The game itself has some beautifull cutscenes and cinematics, although there's various glitches in it that make the game stupidly easy. For example, when you're on the higher ground, and there's a giant robot below you, just tumble it with some debris and lightning till the "X" button appears to start the finishing combo. No mather how far you're away, or how high you are, if it's on the screen, you press it and don't move you get instantly teleported to the enemy and the combo sequence begins. Game braking if you ask me....

The game itself is short. Way to short....I finished the entire storyline on normal in about 4 hours flat. That includes watching all the cinematics, dieing a few times to try stuff and defeating Lord Vader in the final battle. 4 Hours!

I don't know what the gaming industry is thinking these last years, but I can tell from all major game releases it's going downhill with games in general. Money is all they seem to care about these days. A decent RPG? Sorry, but the last decent RPG game I played is Final Fantasy 9 and that's nearly 10 years ago.

The game is definitly not worth the 65€ they charge for it. It's way too short, has too many glitches in it, has no challenge and doesn't make sense from Star Wars Point of view....

F.A.C.T.S 2010

This weekend I attended the F.A.C.T.S 2010 convention in Gent, Belgium.
This was my first time to such a large convention. I've been to Tsunacon before, but never to something as big as this. It was also the first time I did cosplay. Well not the first time, but it has been quiet some time since I've done it.

Without a real idea to follow, I kinda hooked in on the idea that some of my friends were doing, pokémon. Pictures can be found on my facebook profile, but for those that don't have access to it, it's the picture on top of the article. I'm on the left side.

It's been a long time since I got really involved with the pokémon branch, so for those who don't know it, it's a SandShrew pokémon. The costume is self-made and took several weeks to make. Just took an old plain T-shirt to get the form right. Then cut out yellow fabric and drew all the lines on it. The ears weren't perfect, and i'll probably spent some time on perfecting the costume; even add a tail; but the goal was achieved. Alot of people recognized us and we got alot of pictures.

F.A.C.T.S itself was awesome. The Cosplay event was fun to watch and some of the acts were pretty hilarious. There were some costumes that looked as if they were taken directly from the movies. Kudos to those people to get such things together. The shopping stands were loaded with merchandise, and my friends succeeded in loading the car till the roof with it...

There's load of movies on youtube about the convention and pictures as well if you google for it, so I'm not bothering to post links to it. All I can say, is that I'll definitly go again next year.