I have sold my Wii. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you read it right. I have sold my Wii. The Wii and I had a decent relationship. It was a fun thing when my sisters were hear. It is fun when my cousins are around. In fact the last few times they were around I didn’t even play with them.

I always wished that the Wii could stream videos from my machine. Or may be just play some DVDs. I wish the Wii could support 720p so that web pages will look better. May be once the Wii demand is met Nintendo will focus on the next Wii. Or may be they will be nice and provide all these features somehow for free. At that point in time, I can always get the Wii again

Until then, bye bye Wii. Hope you conquer more of the console market.

The other thing is that I got a Rubik’s cube. I saw this really good tutorial online and wanted to really learn it this time. I could always do one side without a problem, but I figured it was time to explore further. And after a couple of painful hours with several mishaps that made me restart. But I did it!! That’s the big news for the day. Sorry to anyone who called me during then because I really couldn’t concentrate on anything else.

On other news, Big Cat is going to get a new name since some people are revolting against it. I’m thinking Vombol Daas. What do you think? The weird thing is that sometimes I get afraid that he’ll scratch me. It is weird because if anyone met me in the last year, they know I am all scratched up. But that’s by Sylvee, and she was there with me since she was a baby. Anyway, we’ll see whatever ends up happening with Vombol.

Granted Vista was pretty, and is trying to be more secure. But just like the jump from 98 to 2000, all of a sudden a lot of things don’t work. A lot of applications need new patches or releases and a lot a lot of hardware needs new drivers. Heck, I’m still fighting to get my X-Fi to work with Vista. (Currently, just trying to install the driver Blue screens permanently). But hey, a lot of the things still do work.

Windows have always been known to be one of the most backward compatible operating systems. Lots of Applications written for 95 might still run today in Vista. Of course, none of the drivers will. Drivers for XP might work for Vista, but not recommended if they do work. Which makes me wonder why Microsoft did not just make it easy on them and just make Vista 64-bit. That would have definitely led to a faster adaptation. I mean the device companies need to write new drivers anyway. At least Apple is getting this right with Leopard, but Apple has their own set of issues.

Next up in DirectX 10. Microsoft decided that they are not going to bother having it ported to XP. Though they bothered with IE7 which will make your XP do all sorts of crazy stuff. Specially if you have the 64-bit edition. And then they released 2 new games only for Vista hoping that people will switch to Vista to play those games. I know they are crazy gamers out there, but most of them like to skin the money on a next gen hardware instead of an operating system. Not to mention that for getting the most out of those games you will need to have the latest mid-range anyway.

I seriously hope more warez groups out there bitch slap Microsof. May be then they will come into their senses.

The intriguing one was Joseph D. Kucan. Looks like he was always Kane; even back in 1995.

You gotta admit though, the new model rocks!!

I can’t really say much about the game play as I didn’t play it for that long. But I can mention that Max Payne’s bullet time have revolutionized gaming at least a bit. I know at least 3 other games that has some sort of bullet-time feature. And F.E.A.R has it too. May be one day I’ll play the actual game and then I can brag like all the others about how awesome this game is, but until then, it’s Ti4200 signing off.

The Demo consists of three races of which we just saw two. The first was a timed run with several checkpoints and, of course, cops. Beating the time was a bad enough as it was, but after you beat the time, the cops just don’t leave you alone, you get one minute to not get busted. If you manage that, then the next one, a street race, unlocks. I didn’t manage to go past that race.

The graphix of the game was more of less as expected – an upgrade over NFS:U2 and a bit darker. Even though compared to NFS:U2 the entire setting is in the morning, the game has a film noir kinda look. It was very interesting. The music was great too. And the game play was actually quite good. Though I have to say that it felt much harder than the Underground series. Even the cops were sometimes harder to avoid.

What was neat though was that the music will change when the cops show up on radar, and right before that switch your screen with flash, so you know something is happening regardless. The other thing that was neat was that you could knock down a lot more stuff this turn. The racing level has beams that you can break and it falls on the road blocking at least half of the way.

Can you tell that I am looking forward to this title?