Hey there friends! My roommate just self-birthday presented one of those $249 Xbox 360s, and I just played Guitar Hero 5 last night, this post is almost entirely about that.

Its a pretty big improvement over the last one graphically, the people look like people, and it has that smooth frame blending that makes it look real. It's also improved in frustration prevention, like being able to change your difficulty during a setlist and a party mode where players can drop in and out, but its pretty much just the same Guitar Hero stuff. I don't know if i'm getting more feeble in my years or what, but it seems to be getting harder and harder as the series goes on and some of the songs are totally repetitive.

I've always been a bigger RockBand fan, and I'm really looking forward to RockBand Beatles. I would have considered that blasphemous when I was younger and more pretentious, but no i'm just excited, and it got the Paul McCartney seal of approval. What I do consider a little tasteless is in Guitar Hero 5 Kurt Cobain is a playable character, and seeing his effigy singing Jimmy Eat World's ''the middle'' can't be unseen, it looks dead-on like him. He's wearing a Hi! How Are You shirt, which validates it about halfway. Hopefully a whole new batch of people will explore Daniel Johnstons music, but its kinda clear in the whole of Kurt Cobain's work that he doesn't want to be a puppet, and they went and literally made him a puppet, he can sing any song in the game or downloadable content and i'm not looking forward to seeing him sing iCarly or Hannah Montana : (

Also, It's not out until tomorrow, and I played it at a friends house who was struck by lightning and has been getting games early ever since. Below is my gamertag, add me as a friend if you'd like!

I don't have Gold yet, but I've had this same profile for a while. I don't have a headset or keypad, so email me if you want to say hello. You might see me on RockBand 2, or Call of Duty 4 or 5. There's also Team Fortress on the Orange Box, i've had trouble finding games but I used to love TFC.

This is a nice little treat after the crazy month I've had, its starting to settle down so expect to hear more from me very soon. Hope all is well out there, much love!

p.s. check out this achievement... OVER 9000!

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