This post was meant for yesterday. Which means I need to find 1.21 Jigawatts!

Video Game Post about Blockbuster rentals

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Status: Beaten on Easy.
Synopsis: Solid Snake returns as a stealth commando who must stop a group of terrorists who control Metal Gear Rex, an invincible robot with first-strike stealth nuke capability.
Gameplay: Made Bradley play it.
Graphics: Gorgeous- shadows, weather are flawless, but people still look funny.
Strategy: If you don't understand stealth and espionage, run away. Far away. You have to think in this game.
Overall: Ripped off of James Bond, almost entirely, including sappy stereotyped characters and (not as witty) corny jokes......obviously an Eastern game made for Americans. Still, really fun. Bradley made it look easy, and it doesn't get much better than fighting a sniper with a Stinger Missile Launcher.

Custom Robo
Status: Beaten main story, but am not anal enough to fill in all the parts and little petty stuff.
Synopsis: Stereotypical Japanese RPG. You, the hero, must grow up and become a Robo Commander and battle your way through endless boring fights to earn better parts for your Robo. As the story progresses, you learn of a creature, Rahu, that once destroyed most of humanity and forced us to seal ourselves in a bubble, which contains the world as we know it. Solve the mysteries, train, and destroy the Rahu.
Gameplay: Button mashing hurts my fingers.
Graphics: Awesome. Think animated Gundams. Each Robo has a customizable Frame, Gun, Pod, Bomb, and Legs, with about 50 parts in each category. Wicked looking weapons include the Dragon Gun and the Spider Mine launcher.
Strategy: Half of the game is explaining the use of Pods and Bombs, complex weapons you deploy to trap you opponent and reduce mobility. One thing they don't tell you, is that 99% of the battles last less than a minute. So I simply chose fire-and-forget Pods and Bombs, and chose the Shotgun, whose damage increases the closer you get. I simply run around, dodging bullets behind cover, run up, and simply blast my opposing Robo at point blank range. w00t.
Overall: The story is really, really bad. Waaaay too much talking, and waaaay too unbelievable. The plot is so linear and spoon-fed that you can't do anything unless it's what you're supposed to do. *yawn* Having said that, the Robos look really cool.
Sidenote: In the beginning, I chose as one of the options "No illegal parts" which meant that every opponent I faced got to use illegal parts, but I couldn't. That was fair.

Viewtiful Joe
Status: Played the first few levels, then stopped.
Synopsis: Average Joe Joe gets sucked into the average superhero game and must unlock the strength to become Viewtiful Joe, a superhero that can slow down time, in order to rescue his girl.
Gameplay: Made Bradley play it.
Graphics: Certainly lives up to the excessive hype all video game reviewers gave this game. Wicked cell-shaded slow-motion whoop-ass looks pretty sweet.
Strategy: Slim to none. Flasy side scroller. Kill stuff.
Overall: I really didn't see anything in here to make me give this game the accolades everybody gave it. I think it looked pretty cool, but that's about it. And Joe's constant catchphrases are just annoying.