I’ve been looking at GTAIV for a while now, half debating whether or not I should actually invest in an XBOX360 just for one game. The answer in my head has always been pffft, nah, you’ve already got a Wii console, plus it’ll be on the PC in a year. But I just read the IGN game review, it got a 10. IGN has not given a game a 10, in a full decade, that’s pretty insane. The video review got me pretty psyched too, the multiplayer just looks incredible.

So I’m fairly certain, in a fortnight or so once I’ve fixed my still broken Macbook, I will invest in a 360, just for this game, of course I will buy other games as well, can’t think of any right now though.

The one major issue that comes with Guitar Hero is you start to hate the songs that you struggle to get passed. I think I nearly smashed my stupid little toy guitar about 10 fucking times when trying to play through Queens of the Stoneage’s 3s & 7s on hard, it drove me mad. Now I’e got to contend with Knights of Cydonia on Hard, which I’m hoping I can get through quick enough, but I’m not keeping my hopes up, it’s a tough one.

After a long wait I’ve finally bought myself Guitar Hero III. It’s been a tough one to get before christmas, sold out pretty much everywhere. But I was in a store last night and I saw it sitting there in a 2 guitar package for AU$169, which is a damn good price for 2 guitars, so I took the plunge. I’ve only played it for a couple of hours but I’m petty stoked with it. I’ve only ever played guitar hero once before at a mates place, and I’ve been playing Frets on Fire quite a bit. I’m playing through the career mode at the moment on Medium, which is fairly easy, although I just unlocked the Japan tour series of songs and Muse’s Knights of Cydonia was the first one I failed on, much to my dismay, it’s one of my favourite songs. I’m trying to unlock all the songs nice and quick so that when my mates want to play we can choose any song, I’m looking forward to doing a multiplayer battle, which is fun during the Slash and Morello challenges. I guess the only drawback for the Wii version is, I don’t think it will ever have the downloadable content that the 360 and PS3 versions have, which would be nice and add to the longevity of the game, but ahh well, at least it has online multiplayer. The guitars are pretty cool, and a lot more solid than I was expecting, but no matter what, any adult looks pretty damn stupid with a little toy guitar, there’s no trying to look cool with it, even Slash on the advert looks like a douche.