Before I Get Old is taken from the lyrics of The Who's musical anthem, My Generation, the first hugely succesful hit that made a statement in the 1960's. Author Dave Marsh recounts the band from their beginnings as children to getting their first instruments, and evolving from the Detours to the High Numbers and eventually The Who. The book weighs in at 546 pages with 3 sections of phot...

November 7th, 2006 is a day I will still remember for a long time. Gears of War and Rainbow Six Vegas came out on the same day. I pondered, but I went with the massively hyped Gears of War, luckily I got Rainbow Six for Christmas, because that was my game of the year. Rainbows Six offers a compelling single players and is almost exactly the same when done in co-operative play. The only thing la...

The Simpsons game was fun for me for two reasons. It was funny, and the co-op gave me a game I could enjoy with my girlfriend. The gameplay is nothing special, I thought some of the attacks were funny, but it was hard to work with the camera. I really loved how the developers made fun of themselves with various posters and even whole levels based on other EA games. This is probably not a game y...

One of the best looking games on any system to date. The visuals will blow you away, and so will the audio. The single player campain is short but sweet with many different activities that you perform throughout the story. One mission you can be running behind enemy lines, the next in a C140 blasting the same enemies to clear a path for your buddies. The sniper mission, All Ghillied Up, and the...

I was a huge fan of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequal KOTOR 2, so I was estatic to play Biowares new epic RPG Mass Effect. Take everything from KOTOR and boost the visuals, add in a better combat system and immerse yourself in an extravagantly crafted universe and you have Mass Effect. The game can last anywhere from 10 hours to 30+, depending on how much you want to dig int...

Madden 2008 was one of the biggest releases in the 2007 season, with the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne, performing at the games launch. Madden 2008 is a well crafted game despite some flaws that can nag and annoy many players. Some of the biggest issues are the abundance of fumbles and interceptions, however the more I play lately the less I notice if from the initial release. So it could h...

Bioshock was one of my most anticipated games for 2007, and that is saying a lot with all the games that have been coming out. Bioshock takes place in the underwater utopia created by Andrew Ryan called Rapture. You will use a variety of weapons ranging from a crossbow to pistols to take down crazed slicers who are craving "adam". On top of the impressive assortment of weaponry, you w...

The Orange Box from Valve is the game where you get the most bang for your buck, however Halo 3 is not far behind with the wide assortment of features that are jam packed into Bungie Studies latest blockbuster hit. The Campaign, like most First Person Shooters is short and sweet but each battle is carefully planned and is even more fun to play a second time around with up to 3 other people over...

Overlord is a game that you really do want to love and enjoy, but a few things can really drag you down while you play. First of all, the camera is difficult to cope with because the right analog stick controls your minions rather than the camera. Second of all is their was not an inclusion of a mini map, this is downright upsetting that a game like this wouldn't have a mini map. And finall...

The latest installment of the Splinter Cell series tries to add a compelling story by posing Sam Fisher as a Double Agent. It can be frustrating at times, because you have to balance what you do for the JBA (John Brown Association) and the NSA. If you do to many things for one side, their will no longer be any trust with them and you will lose. The game is similar to the other games though with...

The Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller is bar none, the best controller I have ever used. In my life I have used NES, SNES, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, PS3, N64, Gamecube, and the Original Xbox Controller and this is the most comfortable controller and offers the best controls for almost any given game. The wireless charge from a recharchable Microsoft Battery Pack can last about 25 hours and is e...

Gears of War was hyped as the second coming of Halo, another shooter that would rock the world of video games that was exclusive to the Xbox 360. Gears was released about a year after the 360's initial launch and helped flood the market with Xbox 360's because of the overwhelming success of Gears. Gears takes place in the future where the human race is on the brink of destruction becaus...

I bought my Xbox 360 the August of 2006, almost a year after its initial release. I had been planning on getting one for a long while, but was waiting until a good deal fell into my lap. When it did happen I was thrilled to finally be playing a next-gen game system. The Xbox 360 Premium I am reviewing is an original one, no new chip set or anthing of that nature. I had it fail on me once, by wi...

I recently received the Live At Leeds [Deluxe Edition] by The Who CD for Christmas and I am just blown away by the songs and the quality of audio. The original Live At Leeds was released before the Who's Next album, so no Baba O'Riley or Won't Get Fooled again, but contains all of The Who's earlier hits as well as some covers of other songs. The standout song from the album is a...

While The Who's first live album, Live At Leeds, was released prior to the massive success of Who's Next, The Kids Are Alright highlights some of the groups best performances from their songs up until 1978. This sounds like an album that is surely a must have, and it would be if the audio quality wasn't so hit or miss. One song will sound amazing, and the next will be absolutely hor...

I believe that Who's Next is the definitive Who album with some of their biggest hits such at Won't Get Fooled Again, Baba O'Riley, Behind Blue Eyes, and the hit John Entwistle number My Wife. Who's Next was a product of the abandoned Lifehouse project from guitarist/songwriter Pete Townsend. The album carries no stories or operas like Tommy or Quadrophenia does, it is just pure...

Tommy was the first concept idea from Pete Townsend concerning the idea of a Rock Opera. To put it simply it is about a deaf, dumb and blind boy who lives in a world where the only point of contact he has is with music, he can feel it. Nobody really fully comprehends the amazingly complex storyline constructed by Pete Townsend. Even I was pretty confused by everything, and I just recently finis...

The greatest rock band in histories final produced album was Abbey Road, despite Let It Be being released after it. The cover of the album features the four Beatles walked across the street with Paul McCartney out of step with the others and wearing no shoes. The actual songs on the album are fantastic, from the akwardly catchy "Come Together" to George Harrison's hit "Someth...

"The Beatles" is the only text that appears on a slate white background on this Beatles double disk album that has been dubbed "The White Album." I think the simple design looks really cool and is one of my favorite album covers along with Abbey Road. The first disk starts off with Paul McCartney's "Back In The USSR" and continues with the John Lennon song &quo...

Let It Be was the last album released by the Beatles, but the first Beatles album I ever listened to. It was released just around the time of their breakup. Looking back it was probably a difficult time for Beatles fans with them breaking up right around the time of the release of this album. After the Beatles broke up they all split up and did their own things in music in different ways. I rea...