Recent additions to the optical media library

Just had a good number of DVDs and PS2 games recently after work on the recent Sunday. Despite the unmitigated threats on the news that the OMB's crackdown tactics would also involve arresting buyers of pirated media has yet netted a single consumer. I still of course have to be on guard when you never know is a plainclothes cop or a raid be around the corner. The DVDs I've recently acquired are music video DVDs with group-no-longer Savage Garden and reunited girl band in 2001 The Go-Go's. The Savage Garden DVD is mostly comprised of all the music videos from their first album, pretty standard collection fare. As to The Go-Go's DVD, its a DVD of their reunion concert in Central Park, NY. The Go-Go's were playing up all their old songs and new ones from their reunion album "God Bless The Go-Go's". A lot has changed when you see these women play music since their earlier heyday in the 80's.

As to the PS2 games, I got the games Nanobreaker, Full Metal Alchemist and Playboy: The Mansion. Also added Capcom's Fighting Evolution, and Mega Man X: Command Mission. The Megaman game is for my niece just to second-guess any acquisition protests from her.

Playboy: The Mansion is pretty much like The Sim's except it involves a bit more in handling a magazine business. Pleasure gets to mix in with business in this game. Its doesn't get to lurid or raunchy since the level of nudity you get from female characters is up to topless.

Nanobreaker comes out as a third-person slasher game wherein you play Jake, a mil-grade cyborg brought out of cryo-suspension to avert execution for war crimes. Armed with a Plasma Blade, Jake is sent in to protect a scientist sent into a remote island where nanomachines have run amuck. The CG movies are pretty great to see. CG movies are about more clearer and sharper than the CG movies used in their Silent Hill installments SH3 and SH: The Room. Watching the CG movies and playing the game have spurred much more interest in me in developing a character for a side-story project me and Vince are developing in the Twilight Empires universe that is slowly but surely making progress. The game also spurred me back into re-researching nanotechnologies from my sci-fi library of books and games.

Full Metal Alchemist is a pretty cool game based on the anime of the same name. You control titular character Edward Elric and be involved in a unique storyline that is set outside of the main storyline in the TV series. The cool aspect of this game is the alchemical transmutations you can do to fashion defenses, weapons for Edward and his brother Alphonse and other items to use. This alchemical transmutation aspect revived my interest as well with matter manipulation and mechanism manipulating characters as well.

Quite a good haul from the weekend I'd say. Of to the task at hand in living the life. Next time.