Author: BreakmanX

I never thought I'd truly say this again after playing the first Resident Evil, but I am.  THIS GAME IS SCARY.I am about 5 hours into the game, and I have to say, the atmosphere, the tension, and the sheer pace of the game all equates to one of the most feverish games ever made.  I'm running for my life all over this town in Spain with demented villagers chasing me all over the place, with the President's very hot daughter in tow.I can tell you one thing that I swear I will never do anymore, and that is shoot a…

Neither of which are game related.  Deal with it. First, Break has some Godlike cooking skills.  No recipes or premixed concoctions for this man.  No, he walked into the grocery store with a rough dinner idea, and an hour later, came out with the bitchinest – that's right, bitchinest – plate of chicken and pasta I've ever experienced.  Given, my personal standards aren't that high:  Bagels and cream cheese is walking off my beaten path.  But it was still some awesome chicken, regardless.Second, that Garden State is debatably different from every other movie out there…

I would like to take this brief moment to express how proud I am of my Jayhawks.  Their best player is injured, their 2nd best player gets injured during the game along with another starter, and they still manage to go to Kentucky's home court (named after Ku player, later graduate, and then Kentucky coach Rupp) and beat them.  Very close game, and that they could stick it out without their best player, and play such good defense to decimate the other team's shooting percentage…  Wow, go fucking Jayhawks, you guys rule.  And to the few of you that are…

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On Tuesday, survival horror is going to undergo a completely fundamental shift.  On that day, Resident Evil 4 will be released on Gamecube after a painful 3 year wait, and it seems like it's going to be worth all of it, at least judging from the first three reviews that are out on IGN, Gamespy, and GMR magazine.  Not only does the game look fantastic, but it completely changes what all of us gamers think of as the "survival horror" genre.  The biggest thing I've noticed from the reviews is how you actually feel like you're being chased during the…

Sure made me a sad panda…. I might have been the only guy in the world holding out for the Phantom. I was going to be the Infinium champion of this world and the next, holding my overpriced average gaming system high to the sky as a beacon of my true power.I guess I might not do that now.

Show listeners will remember that we reported on Infinium Labs recently, and their new financial problems.  Problems, meaning they'll need about $22 million to fund their plans over the next year.  Problems, meaning they have only about $21,000 on hand.  Oops.  Personally, I think they shouldn't have sponsored that Indy car, seeing as they're not exactly cheap, but whatever.  The point is that this financial hurt is making a difference.Remember a few months ago, when Infinium sued HardOCP over an article pointing out how stupid the Phantom is?  Yeah, they lost that suit after they gave up the fight due…

Hey all, I'm back from my vacation.  I finally managed to pick up Mechassault 2 for my xbox, and I'm here to tell you all about it.  The first thing that you'll notice about Mechassault 2 is that it looks MUCH better than the first Mechassault.  Textures have gotten a huge upgrade, and the models look much more realistic and gritty than they did in the first game.  Bump-mapping is everywhere.  The other new big feature is the fact that you can actually get in and out of mechs whenever you feel like it, and there are also other vehicles that…

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Happy New Year to all of our loyal (and some not-so-loyal) BreakmanX.com readers!I hope that everyone finds this year to be even better than the last, even if it does mean that there will only be one game that has the acronym NFL on it, and it doesn't even begin to resemble a game that is fun or developed well.I also hope everyone made some good New Year's Resolutions that they all plan on sticking with for 6 weeks, and then breaking.  I also hope that everyone is having fun watching all of the great bowl games on TV today,…

Christmas-time is usually this kind of orgy of presents, family, and food.  But, as I tend to do, I try to think of it as a game as well.  When your family asks you what for Christmas and you tell them you want Metal Gear Solid III: Snake Eater and, with a bewildered look on their face, they spit something like “Feter Weter Wogid Tree: Lake Peeer,” you can kind of gather what I mean.  Trying to explain your desire to take a man named Snake through the 60’s jungle to stop crazy Russians with super-powers sounds so good when…

As usual, there's all sorts of drama on our forums.  This time it hijacked one of Atticus's threads.  Click here to get in on it.

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Everyone at BreakmanX.com would like to wish everyone out there a Merry Christmas.  Thanks for your support!

I've noticed a recent influx of n00bs on our forums, so I'll take the time to send my greetings.  And a word of note:  BreakmanX and I like to joke and use sarcasm at times, so it's wise to take our posts with a few grains of salt.  We've gotten into flame wars over misinterpretations, and we're not prepared to change our style.  Deal with it.In other news, I've deduced that God hates me.  I know, because my two most anticipated games, Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo 4, are now under what seems like a delay curse.  GT4's been pushed…

Hey guys, Jack here, and I'm back in Wichita for the holidays right now.  After a very intense week so far of getting presents for all of my friends and family (Break, you're really going to like yours ;-)   ) I'm finally able to relax and sit back and watch football and play videogames like Halo 2 and Burnout 3 with my little brother and all of his friends.  It's amazing how much they actually like Burnout 3.  Now, when it came out, I'm pretty sure that you all remember me ranting and raving about how freakin' sweet the game…

I know most of you are here to take part in the ongoing ban/hottie drama, so I'll make it easy for you.Mecha tried out the recently released Half-Life 2 demo, and reported that it ran as smooth as butter.  This confirmed my confidence in the Source engine, and it's ability to make shit look good on just about any rig.  The same thing can't be said about Doom 3, which runs decidedly slower on the same hardware.  Unfortunately, my prescribed remedy still stands:  Put money into a new video card, then look at other options, like RAM and the hard…

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So that's it.  It's over.  Finished.  Finito.  The End.  What is it that I'm done with?  School!  I'm finally finished with school, and in 3-4 months, I will have a nice, palpable degree in theatre and film with a film emphasis from Kansas University.  Now this is both really cool and kinda scary at the same time.  What that means is that I now have to get a "real" job, and start really living on my own soon. But oh well, enough about that.  I'm still playing World of Warcraft, and I really haven't touched much else.  EA still makes me…

Can't play…world of warcraft.Must finish finals.Mercy?Post…later…gahurgahurgurt

With all the naysaying going on about how the videogame market is in decline, and there's no innovation in the market, I was starting to lose my faith early on this year.  However, once the DS, Halo 2, and games like Katamari Damacy made their way into our hands, I regained that faith that I had that the industry would pull through, and that good games, no matter what their origins or quirkiness might be, would be played and would be recognized my intelligent gamers everywhere.Well, that's the way everything was until Monday.  Then EA had to go and shit…

So instead of trying to create a better product than your competition (ESPN), you simply buy all NFL rights.  This is seriously one of the shittiest things I've ever heard.  Whatever motivation EA had to better your games just disappeared.  Football fans, welcome a five-year of license rape and consumer whoring.  Thank God I don't give a fuck about sports games. To say Jack was pissed would be a gross understatement.  Were it not for WoW to distract him, I'm sure our furniture would have been destroyed in a fit of blind rage.I knew from the beginning that Half-Life 2 would…

As a preface to this post note that I love you double because I’ve had to write this post twice.  I ‘posted’ it this morning, but it must have logged me out or some such bullshit because a post was not to be found.  Only a nice block of text explaining how sick I was yesterday, and that there was no show.  I’m still sick as fuck, but I have one more thing for you, I have a kind of cool story to tell.  You know you want to read more.

Yeah, I got sick, and don't even have much of a voice now.  I guess you could tune in and listen to me cough and hack…  Or not.  Anyway, hope everyone is having a Happy/Merry Chanukah/Christmas/Kwanza/Winter Solstice/Commercial Holiday.

So today, I'm going to be taking part in my first raid on Horde territory in World of Warcraft, and I'm really excited.  While I'm not 100% certain what all this entails, I do know that it means we're going to be going into Horde-controlled contested realms of Azeroth and put the smack down on pretty much anything that gets in our way in order to take a border town.  (If any of the other guys playing the game know that this is wrong, feel free to correct me)  I'm still having such a fun time.  I've already hit level…

Now, I've been addicted to games; I am still a refugee from Everquest, every time I think about it, I get all warm and fuzzy inside. Not like that, like…some kind of mix of pure ecstasy and real extacy, which in turn reminds me of my raving days, which in turn…never mind. To say that I'm addicted to World of Warcraft would be an understatement. I'm sitting here at work, talking with Yankee (Alpine in WoW) about how cool the game is. I'm attempting to find a way to extract pure World of Warcraft juice from my computer and inject…

It finally happened.  Steam, for reasons unknown, allowed me to download Half-Life 2 Deathmatch last night.  Maybe the servers really were that busy, maybe it got my memo, maybe it popped a couple Midol, I don't know.  But, hell, it doesn't really matter, I'm just glad to have it.I think it was IRC chatter eXistence who commented that HL2 Deathmatch was very intense, and he's God damn right.  Step into a 15+-player server and you'll be swept up in a hurricane of bullets and thrown objects.  If you step back and look at the battles taking place, you'll see a…

I'm weak.  That's about all everyone needs to know.  I broke down yesterday and bought World of Warcraft, even after I swore I would not even touch it until I got all of my finals and papers and such for all of my classes done.  Well, like I said, I'm weak.  I ended up creating my character last night when I got back from volleyball, and I am now a Human Rogue on the Darkspear server along with Afro and other guys around here playing the game.  If you're playing and you want to look me up, my character's name…

What's your problem?  Have I committed some transgression against you?  Something to piss you off?  Or, do you feel Kansans aren't worthy of your bandwidth?  I know you're busy with Counter-Strike and all, but c'mon, it's a measly 32 MB for Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, and this is the fifth day in a row my request has been denied.  I promise, I won't nade spam or anything lame like that.  E-mail me, let's work something out. -Tyler "Richie" Richardson

I finally messed around with the links page.  I just kinda added links at random..  Just a bunch of different sites I frequent, and a few that I do.