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The level design is excellent as well. Makes me think of Half-Life 2 a little bit in it's variety of locations. There's: water, battlefields, lots of building interiors, scaffolding, trains, a submarine, a prison, and sewers. I'm loving exploring the levels too. Lots and lots of nooks and crannies. Once, I actually complained there was too much to explore and look at. It made me forget about enemies sometimes and got me shot in the back.

Yea, that's a metal piranha. What if they inhabited puddles in the road. They'd eat your car!

I tried Condemned on a whim and was very happily surprised. It's so visceral. I really got into it.

I was watching BBC Blues Britannia on youtube last night and the English musicians talked about how strange it was for English youth from affluent south London to be so into music from the American south sung by oppressed blacks. There was some really good comments made. You could say it's wrong for these priviledged white kids to oppropriate black music but really it's more complex than that. Humans naturally absorb influences and spit them back out in their own way. It's like a law of nature or something and teens always feel oppressed by authority no matter what their upbringing is; so, I can see these English kids wanting to get with the subversive, rebellious qualities in the blues, moral critics be damned.

I played Gradius on NES a little while back. I could tell it was pure quality in the first few minutes. It kicked my butt pretty soon thereafter though.

One time I was coming down some stairs and saw a Nazi on patrol below. I threw three knives at him but they all clattered to the ground right at his feet - I forgot to aim high. He was alerted of course and ran up the stairs at me. I just stayed there at the top of the stairs and knifed him and all the others melee style as they came up. I made a pile that slowly slid back down the staircase. Ha!

Another time I got surprised by a Nazi and instinctively clicked the right stick down releasing a throwing knife right into his eye. I watched as he fell over with the thing sticking out of his head. Ha! Kinda gross too.

That's three questions but I can answer them all with. . . CRACKDOWN 3!!!

The Ruffian Games, makers of Crackdown 2, are apparently NOT working on a Crackdown game according to wiki. this article on GameRant says it might be handed to another dev and be coming in 2016. That seems based on a rumor that broke back in January however. There was a hint in last year's X1 announcement show that a Crackdown game is in the works - there was a agility orb icon on a screen in the background - but my prediction is that there won't be a Crackdown 3 announcement this E3 which sucks because it would be a system seller for me for sure.

Got it already. 

Kingdoms of Amalur for $5. Me wantee.

In replaying it for collectibles, I noticed how much BJ says things under his breath as if talking to himself. It's kinda cool and highlights his feelings, but after the third or fourth time, I started giggling.