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Tastee Couple Up (Food and Eats)

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:12:10 +0000

Cross Roads. Sept 2023

Alan Wake on Xbox 360 Review (Video Games)

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:50:59 +0000

After finishing up Thief I popped in Alan Wake thinking that it was a quick old game but the title screen said 2010. First impression the game feels very scripted. Like a simpler version of uncharted. Lots of single use, scripted set pieces and audio narration telling you to move on and stop wasting time looking for stuff in the corners. I feel like I might not be finishing this game. Hopefully it opens up at some point before I get bored with the whole thing.

I am not sure if this is a game or a tv show. Alan wake likes to narrate to himself - alot. He narrates for things that seem obvious, "show dont tell" is what they always say. The narration and voice acting - very excellent - makes be want to avoid doing what I am told but in most cases so far the space is empty with nothing else to do but that which is laid out before you. So I guess you are stuck in a tv show, not much I can do but play along. Definitely a one time play through or a watch on youtube kinda game.

So far the shooting feels good except I keep running out of ammo and I can only carry so much. This is definitely going to be a problem as the game gets tougher. Not every game that is highly rated on the internet is actually good. Sometimes it is just hype and fanboy-ism. But I will play it a bit more before I give up.

Conclusion

Its a good game. 7/10. I will certainly never play it again. There are some sections of the late game that are insufferable to play through. Also other sections where you ask yourself "wtf just wait until daytime!". Silent hill with guns in a forest. There are collectables you can search for in the levels.

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Portmore Fontana, Pricemart (Street Photography)

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:00:44 +0000

Driving round town. shopping for stuff. November 2023

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Sovereign Village, Portmore (Street Photography)

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:37:23 +0000

Dec 2023

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Police (And the Sign Says..)

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:24:02 +0000

Downtown, Dec 2023

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Downtown, Dec 2023 (The shadow project)

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:21:13 +0000

Downtown, Dec 2023

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Mass Effect 3 for Xbox 360 review (Video Games)

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:31:32 +0000

This being my first Mass effect game I may be coming in to the franchise very late but this story feels like the Halo live action - you go somewhere to get something because of something else. As per usual I am playing on casual/easy mode because I do not see much use in making choices after every convo. Tell me a story and leave me alone. I also turned on auto upgrades once I saw the layout of the skill tree. It is nice to have these options in a video game; It stream lines the experience and removes pointless menu clicking that I experienced in Dead Island.

Lots of talking and story building in this game. The mechanics are simple except for throwing grenades/power but they do not matter much just shoot the baddies. I am on the ship now, we will see where this goes.

For this session I spent some time walking around the ship talking to the NPCs that I could find. Eventually I had to leave the galaxy to get the story going again. The ship is not as fleshed out. It has alot of rooms but the rooms are empty. DeusExHR has more feel to its rooms.

Whenever I go back to a central hub or my ship I literally have to run around the place talking to everyone. So much talking in this game and very little shooting. At least it lets me keep track of the story but I have not found the ability to love anyone yet. Aint no love in this game, only war.

I am getting to visit more interesting planets. Some are only for a little shooting but I do find it fun to do all these side quests.

Conclusion

Space opera with a few shoot-e bits. 6/10. You spend alot of time watching other people talk. I am not sure if I am enjoying it or just patiently waiting for it to end. The little planets your visit are fun and interesting, some more than others.

Strategy

Play on casual and turn off dialog choices. I spend alot of time running around the Citadel talking to everyone just to complete some conversations. Most of it is pointless but some areas are interesting to interact with. Basically after every vision I talk to everyone on the ship to check if they have any new quests - same thing with the citadel. Its annoying but its my base strat.

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PGR4 is a retro dream (Video Games)

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:56:33 +0000

Its like HD PS2 vibes. I was not going to buy another racing game for the xbox360 but Project Gotham Racing 4 kept popping up on the internet forums so I took a chance on it. Plus it was cheap ( free $4.99 + tarrifs). I am gonna do a full review of it late but here are some screenshots for now. Oh and this is the first game that allowed me to takes ingame screenshots! These blog posts would be so much more fun if all the games on the console allowed me to capture screen shots but alas retro struggle.

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Juici Patties, Dec 2023 (On the menu)

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:02:03 +0000

Mandeville

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By the water (Gallery Wall)

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:30:48 +0000

Dec 2023

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Downtown, Waterfront, Kingston (The Jamaica photo project)

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:50:54 +0000

December 2023

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NFS Rivals for Xbox 360 Review (Video Games)

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:43:05 +0000

It seems to be a thing with these EA games with soundtracks where they tie the SFX and in game Voices are on the same audio control. So if you turn down the SFX you cannot hear the tutorial. The tutorial and the story doesnt matter either way just do the objective. The game looks good, kinda funky handling on the turns. It keeps pushing online features, and minor objectives or other connected features that pull me out of the game. I swear all these EA games are the same and I cannot even get to enjoy the licensed music without interruption.

I already feel a dread coming over me even at this early stage of starting the game. It forces you to install it to the harddrive. I will drive around in the open world a bit to see what fun there is but I am already getting that Skate 3 vibes of pointless open world bloat. The game does feel alittle like Burnout Paradise but not as fun.

In my second play session I managed to figure out the map situation and buy some "pursuit tech" which makes it easier to catch racers as a cop. Using the map to spawn at different command posts makes it easier to see different sections of the map.

The more I play the more I am enjoying the graphics - its a pretty game in some spots. The objectives are busy work but at least I get to drive around the map while listening to the music. I decided to turn the sfx all the way down because the story narration is not really worth the annoyance. So far I have been playing as a cop and doing the point to point missions - forgot what they where called in the game. An annoying aspect of the open world is that you can be cruising around minding you own business and accidentally bum a racer and the game goes in to chase pursuit mode which changes your music a standard dramatic soundtrack that you have heard a million times before.

Conclusion

I give it a 6/10, triple A slop. This is another of those games where you either like driving around an open world, doing activities or you dont. The game did grow on me.
Everything is slick polished, a hard drive is required to play the game and this game disk makes the xbox 360 sound like a jet engine - Its spinning faster than ever! So make sure to install all your xbox 360 games! It got good fun out of it after about 8 hours of learning the mechanics.

Play Strategy

Play the hot pursuit races, select it right from the world map. I do the same race over and over because it is the easiest way catch racers as the police. You can catch 4 racers per run without needing to search the over world. Make sure you equip "race tech" to help your quickly take down the other cars. Tech that shoots ahead of you is most effective because you will spend most of your time behind the cars you are chasing.

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Long summer (The shadow project)

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:31:09 +0000

Cross Roads, Kingston, November 2023. Sun hot.

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YengYeng (The wheels project)

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:17:09 +0000

October2023

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Reds Cycle (And the Sign Says..)

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:45:38 +0000

Jakes, August 2023

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