Monday, May 02, 2005
Its about time to start up another fun filled week of school and work. Hooray, weekend was pretty mello minus the concert of course. When I got back into town Friday morning around 1am or so after the concert I originally planned to stay up just until 3am or so just channel surfing or whatever, instead I stayed up until 4pm finishing up the first volume of episodes of the Seinfeld Seasons 1&2 DVD, playing a lot of RAW2, and monkeying around with some DVD creation features. By the time I woke up, it was 1am Saturday. So I pretty much wasted a day off at home by myself.
On Saturday I came online and found out that former WWF, WCW, ECW, and now formerly current TNA star Chris Candido died from a blood clot in his leg that came from complications from a leg surgery he had earlier last week on a TNA PPV match. Bad way to pass away after Chris was on one of the best wrestling comebacks I've known of in his run in TNA. He died 2 days after he participated in some TNA Impact tapings for FSN that hadn't aired yet when he died, and the show had a little Tribute image of him at the beginning and ending of the show (I imagine they'll do a much longer style tribute show next week like the WWE did for Owen Hart and Pillman). It was a great final show for Candido as he helped the team he was currently managing, the Naturals, win the NWA tag belts over AMW. I really didn't think too much of Candido before his TNA run, thought he was a good inring talent from his Bodydonna days in the WWF, and didn't have access to ECW in my area when he was tearing it up as part of the Triple Threat faction. I really enjoyed his work the past few months he has been in TNA, especially the whole manager angle with the Naturals with it having a great payoff on his final TV appearence. RIP Candido, its too bad the wrestling world hardly knew ya.
Aside from going for lunch with Ann and my dad, and hanging out with Joe for a little while, I spent pretty much all of Saturday playing through the career mode of Wrestlemania 21. It is probably the best career mode, storyline-wise in any wrestling game. The cut-scenes are well produced and the lip-synch for all the superstar voiceover is spot on, and the storyline is awesome and had me immersed in the whole 5-6 hours it took me to beat it. They even give your created wrestler his own voiceover which sounds pretty badass. The gameplay is pretty decent aside from noticeable computer AI issues (like them constantly doing sumbissions and very questionable tag team partner AI problems). Far from the worst wrestling game ever made like some other sites are making it out to be, a significant step up from RAW 2 of course (exluding the CaW and presentation aspects tho), but also far from being the next No Mercy.
Sunday I hung out with Joe and Ann for a little while watching the re-launch of Family Guy before going over to Bob's again to play some cards. There was four of us this time, Mike, Earl, Chris, and I playing Texas Hold 'em. I knocked out Earl and got my revenge from him from last week, then Mike went out, and I ended up finishing second again. Hung out for a little while afterwards and watched The Karate Kid before heading back home. So pretty much a more mello weekend compared to last, which is what I needed.
Before I end this, I actually did quite a few reviews this month (compared to most months), and forgot to link them, so here you go.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (GCN)
Lumines (PSP)
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (PSP)
Wipeout Pure (PSP)
Tiz all this entry, latez!
On Saturday I came online and found out that former WWF, WCW, ECW, and now formerly current TNA star Chris Candido died from a blood clot in his leg that came from complications from a leg surgery he had earlier last week on a TNA PPV match. Bad way to pass away after Chris was on one of the best wrestling comebacks I've known of in his run in TNA. He died 2 days after he participated in some TNA Impact tapings for FSN that hadn't aired yet when he died, and the show had a little Tribute image of him at the beginning and ending of the show (I imagine they'll do a much longer style tribute show next week like the WWE did for Owen Hart and Pillman). It was a great final show for Candido as he helped the team he was currently managing, the Naturals, win the NWA tag belts over AMW. I really didn't think too much of Candido before his TNA run, thought he was a good inring talent from his Bodydonna days in the WWF, and didn't have access to ECW in my area when he was tearing it up as part of the Triple Threat faction. I really enjoyed his work the past few months he has been in TNA, especially the whole manager angle with the Naturals with it having a great payoff on his final TV appearence. RIP Candido, its too bad the wrestling world hardly knew ya.
Aside from going for lunch with Ann and my dad, and hanging out with Joe for a little while, I spent pretty much all of Saturday playing through the career mode of Wrestlemania 21. It is probably the best career mode, storyline-wise in any wrestling game. The cut-scenes are well produced and the lip-synch for all the superstar voiceover is spot on, and the storyline is awesome and had me immersed in the whole 5-6 hours it took me to beat it. They even give your created wrestler his own voiceover which sounds pretty badass. The gameplay is pretty decent aside from noticeable computer AI issues (like them constantly doing sumbissions and very questionable tag team partner AI problems). Far from the worst wrestling game ever made like some other sites are making it out to be, a significant step up from RAW 2 of course (exluding the CaW and presentation aspects tho), but also far from being the next No Mercy.
Sunday I hung out with Joe and Ann for a little while watching the re-launch of Family Guy before going over to Bob's again to play some cards. There was four of us this time, Mike, Earl, Chris, and I playing Texas Hold 'em. I knocked out Earl and got my revenge from him from last week, then Mike went out, and I ended up finishing second again. Hung out for a little while afterwards and watched The Karate Kid before heading back home. So pretty much a more mello weekend compared to last, which is what I needed.
Before I end this, I actually did quite a few reviews this month (compared to most months), and forgot to link them, so here you go.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (GCN)
Lumines (PSP)
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (PSP)
Wipeout Pure (PSP)
Tiz all this entry, latez!
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