West Ham look pretty awful as it is, so why are they allowing Roy Keane and Sunderland to buy their star defender, and Rio Ferdinand's brother, Anton Ferdinand? The performance against a lackluster Manchester City over the weekend was unforgivable, with only achieving one shot on goal the entire ninety minutes. Also asking the question, why sell a defender to buy another one, if you don't have anyone in mid-field that can get Dean Ashton the ball?
West Ham looks to be a club threatened by relegation at this point, should performances like last Saturday continue, let there be no doubt about that. And the last thing West Ham needs to be doing after giving away three goals, is selling their best defender.
Although speaking of, Sunderland looks to be getting better and better this year. After hanging tough against Liverpool only losing 1-0, then going to White Hart Lane and smashing Tottenham 2-1 in their opening home fixture, Sunderland can only get better. Considering their pickup of Cisse, Diouf, and Chimbonda to name a few, Roy Keane is shaping his squad into challengers for at the least a fifth place spot in the Premiership.
Remeber Keane, don't sweat losing to the big clubs, it's the small ones you need to beat to go the distance.
I know I was really excited for this when I played the demo on Xbox Live. But wow, just wow, the demo didn't illustrate how bad the gameplay mechanics are when you actually play the full length game. Unless all you care about doing is Diablo-ish looting with an endless amount of customization to help you through crappy combat scenarios, then maybe you'll love this game. But if you like to have fun during the combat, and want to do something more than stare at menus for hours looking at the idiotic options for customizing everything, you'll be bored to tears.
Too Human looks great, and when you only play it for a few minutes it plays great as well, so what happened? The story isn't that bad, but does make the fact that the game has been in development for over a decade, very very evident. The ideas behind the overall structure make sense as well, the combat isn't that bad to start off, so why does everything fall apart after a while.
I mean, I was a few hours in, and then I just couldn't be bothered to care anymore. I got tired of not being able to target the enemies I was intending to target, or not being able to dodge properly, or not being able to play a good game. So I ditched this and started playing Crackdown again, because at least that has some fun, straight forward gameplay with no story notwithstanding, nothing's better than playing with a friend online and causing as much havoc as possible.
So I guess I'm saying, instead of paying full price for Too Human, go pick up Crackdown for less than half the price, go online and play with a friend, and blow some stuff up. That at least will be fun and rewarding, unlike any of the utterly utterly utterly utterly unredeemable qualities of Too Human.
England it seems is no longer the England National team, but rather Fabio Capello's England, as the Italian keeps making wacky decisions that will prove to hurt the country in the long run. Like reappointing John Terry for England's captaincy through World Cup qualifying. John Terry can't lead England, and proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt in the dark times we call the McClaren age. A defender will never get it done for today's England, and I know why.
You need a mid-fielder to wear that banner of dignity and hope for England, because only a mid-fielder can inspire through positive attacking play, which is the only force that will help England in the changing International game. Steven Gerrard would have been a great choice, maybe even Frank Lampard, and David Beckham never lets you down when he has the armband. Except for the LA Galaxy, but they were awful to begin with, and MLS has that awful $2.1million salary cap so you can't buy Becks a decent attacker to fetch a pass, and can't buy a decent defender to stop leaking goals.
But this is the greatest example of what a captain can do for a national team, buy taking the game into his hands, and putting his country back into play single-handedly:
John Terry can't do that, because he's a full-back, and is always forced to play so deep his ability to score is only evident from set pieces. And England needs a scorer to succeed, not an old man yelling at them from behind. Especially not one that randomly spits on people from Argentina when he has the chance.
So...good luck John Terry, take us to the World Cup final for once, we need another title so people will say England without a hint of disgust on their tongue.
So I was playing Jade Empire for the first time the other day, and was disappointed. And am now disappointed to some degree in the story of Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, Mass Effect and Jade Empire. As they all have the same design hook, as a driving gameplay mechanic. The element being a common RPG element, but I'm starting to get bored of the way Bioware uses it so such an obvious effect so that you know most of the story before it unfolds
Dimitar Berbatov has officially, essentially, kind of, admitted his interest in moving to Manchester United. The current Tottenham striker has said to his club, that he hopes they will make the right decision in letting Berbatov make his 'dream move'. Although the Bulgarian never mentioned specifically any desire to play in Red, the intention of becoming a Man U man, given the controversy surrounding such events, seems fairly evident.
Former superstar, and considered by most to be the greatest footballer to have ever played the game, Pele has told Wayne Rooney to calm down. Although I would dispute the greatest player opinion as even Pele has said the George Best was the greatest, here Pele is also correct. Wayne Rooney hasn't been up to form the last few years, and a large part of that is because of the England International's aggression.
Wow, awesome looking game. I was incredibly unsure about Too Human at first, apprehensive as to whether the game could deliver on the new approach to melee combat. But so far at the demo stage, Too Human delivers. Using combat control on the right joystick is often attempted but almost never properly executed, but you feel like a badass with the control scheme in Too Human.
Well, maybe not the best, but certainly one of. Especially if you were as myself, oblivious to the Max Payne experience before playing the game. I remember looking at the box insert back in the day, and knew I needed to play this game. What an awesome experience it was
I just saw the trailer today actually, and I don't know about it. Wahlberg is a great choice for the title role. But i'm unsure about the deviations from the plot. The original material was so great and had the right amount of realistic convolution that i'm disappointed in the more fantasy like approach they've taken to some elements.
As the trailer and what i've read implies that Max will have to fight demons or some such monster. And that sort of defeats the concept of the games, and the drug doesn't it?
People as monsters was much more brilliant, and the drug making them better at it, was awesome.
the only one I'd disagree with is David Villa, he had the most goals but always needed to be set up, and i think in the lone striker role, though he underperformed Torres is a much better choice.
Ronaldo may yet be playing at Old Trafford next season, he's supposed to report for pre-season training July 7th. Supposedly he's going to, and United are going to tie him to a long term contract when he shows up.
I've read that a major reason Solskjaer is still with United is to become manager some day. So United have four really sound options if they lose Queiroz. I personally would like to see what the "baby faced assassin" would do for the squad on that level.
Gunnar was great because United always had a chance for a late comeback every time he was on the pitch. I'd love to see if he could instill that sort of understanding of the game as a manager.
But for United's success, i think the first choice is buying Roy Keane off Sunderland when Fergie retires.
Ramos linked to United is what i've heard as the biggest possibilty, although Ferguson has said that he only wants to make one big transfer this summer. So far he looks to be going after Berbatov. Which is unfortunate because i agree that Wes Brown has too many shaky moments to be a starting right back.
United do look poised to win the League again probably, but idk about Rafa's decision making as of late, in terms of Liverpool finishing no. 2. I honestly think Liverpool need to start over with a different manager, and really need to have the feuding owner situation finally resolved before they can make a legitimate run at a Premiership title again.
Too many Internal struggles.
they're really running the concept of The Office into the ground by running the series for so long.
The original had it right, stay brilliant for two series and a christmas special, otherwise the concept starts to not really make sense. Like why the documentary crew would still be filming for eighty years at the same paper company
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As the trailer and what i've read implies that Max will have to fight demons or some such monster. And that sort of defeats the concept of the games, and the drug doesn't it?
People as monsters was much more brilliant, and the drug making them better at it, was awesome.