So I went with my friend Kyle to pick up Arkham City at midnight last night. I’ve been positively rabid to step back into the boots of the Caped Crusader lately, especially having already enjoyed most of his New 52 appearances.
It was a pretty good midnight launch with pizza available, people dressed up as the Dark Knight, and some swag handed out for best costume. There was some light competition involving challenge mode from the original Arkham Asylum. I participated but alas, my training overwhelmed my ability to achieve a high score. Unfortunately I kept knocking criminals out almost immediately instead of leaving them conscious to get beat mercilessly for higher combo scores.
Yes, the time we’ve all (or at least I’ve) been desperately waiting for has finally arrived. Tonight I’ll be headed to my local Gamestop to pick up the latest from Infinity Ward and bask in the glory of terrorist headshots and WoW-esque deathmatches. It launches at midnight tonight and while Nicole can’t make it with me, I’ll be there, camera in hand to interview some of the crazies that are going out. It’ll probably take me a few days to edit the video together but I’ll be sure to get it up there even if it is horrifically bad just so you can see how many people showed up. At my Gamestop they took over 450 pre-orders, so it’s likely there will be a lot showing up. I’ve heard at the campus location near OSU that they had over 1200 pre-orders and it’s going to be so crazy that Skyline Chili will be there handing out free, well, chili. So stay tuned and as soon as I have the time I’ll re-cap the launch!
So apparently Sony released the PS3′s a week early, so as of August 26th you have been able to pick one up for yourself. Not sure why they did this as of yet, but Microsoft is keeping up with them and as of yesterday, the 28th, the new Xbox 360 Elite packages for $299.99 are on sale.