Live by the Creed: Assassin's Book Idea

Assassin's Creed II is amazing. So much that it inspired me to write, and I've only played a demo. The game's plot is great and the gameplay is smooth. the story is about Ezio Auditore Di Firenze, the son of an italian banker during the Italian Renaissance. The Auditore Di Firenze are descendants of a long line of assassin's. One day, Giovani Auditore, Ezio's father, is hanged for treason. Framed. the Auditores tried to defend Medici, not attempt his murder. So, Ezio dons his fathers assassin's robes and vows revenge.

I love the story, so I want to write one with the main character based on Ezio. An assassin novel. But at what time? The Renaissance? I was thinking sometime during Feudal Japan, or during WWII. I also need a title.

Rock Band

Rock Band, as you know, is a game allowing players to create a band and go on tour. Since I got my Rock Band Unplugged PSP Bundle, I've been playing it a lot. So here's a quick review.

Rock Band Unplugged is your typical Rock Band game, band creation, world tour, and the ability to play any of four instruments: Drum, Guitar, Vocals, and Bass. But, the game's gameplay is very different  from others of it's name. You play chords and notes by pressing the PSP's Triangle Circle, Up, and Down buttons. One great feature is the ability to play all instruments at once. You can hop back and forth between instruments with the Left and Right triggers. If you play a certain amount of notes for an instrument, it plays on it's own for a while, allowing you to play another instrument. This is very challenging, and extremely fun. Tour mode is pretty much the same as other Rock Band games, pick a city, pick a song and play. Character customization is also the same as other Rock Band games. Modes other than Tour include Quick Play, Survival, and Practice. Quick play is the mode where you can pick songs and play. Just choose from your library. Survival is where no instrument plays on it's own. You have to jump back and forth and stay on your toes to be successful in this mode. Practice is...well...Practice. Pick and instrument and practice.


Recently, we got the Beatles Rock Band. One thing I can tell you now, you'll finish this quick. We finished it in less than a day. This game is just Rock Band with a few changes. There are only Beatles songs here. NO character customization. You can only play as the Beatles. Cities don't come up like before. Instead of unlocking two to five cities at a time, in this game you unlock one city at a time, each in their own time period. This is the new Tour mode: Story Mode. Other than that, this game is the same.

Sony PSP

I'm getting pretty close to my goal for a PSP. I have $140. With a Gamestop trade in, I can get 40% extra trade in credit, witch will allow me to get one even sooner. I thought that I'd want GTA Liberty City Stories for my first game, then I'd set another goal so I can buy the accessories and other games. I can't wait to get one. I started saving around January '09, and have been attempting to earn money for it since. I started with 40 bucks I had saved from a birthday, and slowly added that extra hundred doing laundrey for Mom at $5 a load, and washing and vacuming the car for $10. My Mama Lou gave me $20 bucks to wash and vacum the car, and $5 one time to vacum a rug. Can't wait for the PSP.

I planned on getting the PSP 3000, but if I have enough money and no PSP by October 1st, I might just get a PSP Go. The Go has a slide open screen, looks more DS like for a PSP, but I wouldn't get it for it's look, the 16 gig memory is awesome. And I would still be able to extend it with a Memory Stick. I think the 3000 would be good to have too. It doesn't have a huge memory, but it will be able to use UMDs wich will save space on the memory stick, no game downloads. I'll probably use a 3000 memory for movies and songs. Fill it up with that kind of stuff. But the Go would be filled with games, demos, and stuff like that. Maybe just one movie.

The best games for a PSP (in my opinion) are the Force Unleashed, Patapon (and possibly Patapon 2), GTA Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories, Star Wars Renegade Squadron, and Burnout. I hope to get one of those along with my PSP. The others I'll get after I earn more money. The A/V out cable is cool. If you have a PSP but no PS3, you can play like you do have one. Use your PSP as a controller and play on your TV. I think I'll get on of those. And with an A/V out cable, I can use the internet explorer to surf the web on my TV (I don't wanna buy the Wii's internet channel).

Halo!!

I'm addicted to Halo! Halo 3 Halo Wars, wichever. It's the only X-Box game I play. It's addictive. If anyone has cheats for me, please comment this post with them.

Halo is the story of how th Covenant, a race of aliens following the strange group the Prophets on a Great Journey, invade the human colonies to trigger the Halos, super weapons capable of destroying the entire universe. The Halo is actually a defense against the gruesome Flood, mankinds worst nightmere. The Flood are crazy aliens that are hardly civilized, but they sure can fight.

Realizing the Great Journey is a sham, tha Arbiter and his army of Aleats join the UNSC (United Nations Space Command). and then comes the story of Halo 3 (I didn't finish it).

Please tell me if I got the story wrong.


Halo 3 Achievements

Fear the Pink Mist: Difficulty-easy
Fear the Pink mist is easy to get, if you can stay alive when trying to obtain it on Legendary. Just kill five enemies with a needler. Tip: go for the Grunts.

Used Car Salesman: Dificulty-Normal
This works on Phantoms! If you take out a Phantom turret before it drops it's soldiers, you will get this achievement. Other vehicles might be harder.

Skull Achievements: Dificulty-Easy to Hard
If you know where the Skulls are, this is an easy task (luckily for me, Rain memorized where they are). If you don't know, good luck finding out, you'll have to go places that are normally invisible.

Party Time: Grunt Birthday Party!!! I love this skull! get it, and prepare to hear and see some happy Grunts.

Here's a Halo Wars challange, play skirmish on a one on one map. Play as Cutter. Try building an elephant and one barracks. Use the Barracks only to upgrade troops then recycle it. Build no other unit training buildings. Using onlyWart Hogs and Infantry is hard!

Rubik's Cube or DS?

I've been wondering, what's better, a Rubik's Cube or a DS? Most would immediatly say DS. It's electronic, it can play games, and it's addictive. But is it really all that great when compared withe a Rubik's Cube? The Cube can't play games or PictoChat, but it's just as addictive. Let's explore the items.

Challenge
The Rubik's Cube is the world's most popular puzzle, it's definetly very challenging, most people would try to solve it, but mess up what they already solved. This process is frustrating, and very difficult, but if you know how to solve one, it's surprisingly hard to stop. The DS has some pretty fun challanges. Examples include Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, Pokemon Pearl, Pokemon Diamond, Prism, and Mario Kart. But can they really compare to the Rubik's Cube? No way on earth.

Current Score: Rubik's Cube-1  DS-0

Variety
The Rubik's Cube isn't only good for being solved. You can put pattterns into it and make all kinds of different shapes. I saw an online picture of someone who mixed the colors to make a face in a giant Rubik's Cube. The DS has some different features. You can draw on it, play RPGs, play puzzles, some games even have music players. Then there's games that use bonus attachments like Guitar Hero. You can obviously do way more on a DS.

Current Score: Rubik's Cube:1   DS:1

Addictiveness
The Rubik's cube is so challenging, you'll spend hours playing. I haven't put mine down since late morning today. They can really hold you. The DS is just as addictive. There isn't as much callenge, but there's so much to do with it. This catagory ends in a tie.

Final Score: Rubik's Cube: 2   DS: 2

Match 2: Soccer Ball vs. X-Box 390

The X-Box 360 is an amazing gaming experience. It can play online multi-player, play DVDs, and the game graphic quality and gameplay are awesome. This is my personal favorite system. The soccer ball is the best outdoors item you can find. Match 2 will be between these items.

Challenge
The X-Box 360 is a very challanging device. The games are very difficult. Halo 3, Perfect Dark Zero, Lego Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-Earth will have stuck to the TV screen for days. You'll be completing levels, searching for achievements, and beating high scores. The soccer ball is challenging, you can juggle-very difficult to do, shoot goals, play keep away, and loads of other things.

Current Score: X-Box 360: 1   Soccer Ball: 1


Variety
The X-Box 360 can do a lot. You can  go shopping in the Marketplace, earn gamer points, play games ranging from RPGs to first person shooters, and loads more. With a soccer ball, you can juggle, shoot goals, dribble, and some other stuff. But is there really as much variety in the soccer ball as there is in the X-Box 360?

Current Score: X-Box 360: 2   Soccer Ball: 1

Addictiveness
The soccer ball is very addictive. If you have time to play, you won't stop. I love juggling. It's addictive to challange yourself to see how long you can juggle, or to play with your friends. The X-Box 360 is just as fun. If you pick up your controller, you won't put it down for hours, sometimes even days. This catagory has to be a tie.


Current Score: X-Box 360: 3   Soccer Ball: 2

Bonus Round: Price
Bonus: how much to buy. The soccer ball immediatly wins. The 360 is great but it costs about $300.

Final Score: X-Box 360: 3   Soccer Ball:3

Thanks for reading!

look at this: Cool X-Box

The Force Unleashed for the PSP

Must have for Star Wars fans: Star Wars the Force Unleashed. After playing my brother's PSP version, I've decided that in my opinion, the Force Unleashed is the best Star Wars game I've ever played. The storyline is amazing, explaining the creation of the Rebels in an unexpected way. The main characters are very extraordinary. The game play is pretty awesome too.

For a handheld system, the Play Station Portable is pretty amazing. It gives graphics and features you can't find in the DS. So when I heard my brother got the Force Unleashed for the PSP, I expected it to be a good game. I didn't expect it to be this great. The controls are easy to learn, using only four buttons for loads of moves. The features are great, within the story mode, and in Force Unleashed mode. In story mode , you'll be spending hours searching for lightsaber upgrades and Holocrons. It's a pretty addictive search and the lightsaber customization will let you set those upgrades to your taste. As well as lightsaber customization, you can put on costumes, enter cheats, and view Holocrons.

In the Force Unleashed mode, you can play some awesome games. The games include Order 66, Force Duels, and Historic Mission. In Order 66, you can pick a Jedi and battle through the imperial army, defending against the traitorous clones. Force Duel is basically a duel between Jedi. Historic Mission is my personal favorite Force Unleashed game. You play as a Jedi fighting through legendary scenes such as the Dune Sea battle in Episode VI, the Battle of Mustafar in Episode III, and countless other battles.

This is just my opinion, try the game if you want to really see how it is.

P.S.: for owners of the game, here are some cheats:
Eclipse: play as Juno
Hologram: play as PROXY
Speeder, Virgence, and Tyranus: force cheats

Video Games

I LOVE video games! When i got James Bond: Nightfire for the Game Cube, I played for almost 9 hours, stopping only for breakfast. I even found a video game about video games. I've had a Gameboy Color, Game Boy Advanced, Game Boy SP, Nintendo DS, Playstation I, Nintendo Game Cube, X-Box 360, and Nintendo Wii throughout my 12 year life (I'm not sure if it counts, but I even play computer games). Soon, I'll even have a PSP.

I'm learning how to fix an X-Box's Red Ring Of Death with my Dad (Leo), and brother (Rain). We can now dissemble an X-Box 360. Even though we got Rock Band, I'm most excited about playing Halo 3 again. I LLOOOVVVEE the Halo trilogy. Can't wait for Halo Wars to come out. Halo 3: Recon sounds cool too.

The Mario series is cool too. My favorite game is Mario Strikers Charged, but I'd recomend New Super Mario Bros. for most gamers. Mario Strikers Charged is soccer, Mario style, with Mega Strikes, Power-Ups, and the amazing Luigi. Some of my favorite games are on the right side of my blog's home page.

Introduction

My name is Justin Cruz. I live with my mom and step dad (Eva and Leo Babauta) in Santa Rita, Guam. I have 1 sister, 3 half brothers, 1 half sister, 2 step sisters, and 1 step brother. My half brothers, Lucas and Cole, live with my dad and my step mom (Luke and Sherrie) and my step sister Sherrina in Germany. I live here on Guam with my sister Maia, my step brother Rain, my step sister Chloe, my half brother Seth, and my half sister Noelle. That's my big happy family.

I'm being unschooled by my mom. It's a lot better than normal school. I can choose what I do every day. It's really fun.

Every season my brothers and my sister and I play soccer. I've played every season since I was 7. That's 5 years of playing. We've played for the Yamasa Cobras, the TakeCare Tigers, and the Shipyard Wolverines. Soccer is our favorite sport. We love the game.

Another thing I'm into is video games. I got my first system around age five. I've been playing since then. I also love game videos. Here are some of my favorites:

- Mario Linerider
- Halo God