Monthly Archives: December 2006

Star Trek: Legacy (Xbox 360)

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Since Enterprise was canceled last season it’s been a pretty empty year for Star Trek fans. It’s been the first TV season since 1988 since there hasn’t been any new Star Trek on the air. Well, Bethesda Software has put together a Star Trek ship battle game which has the voice talent of all five Star Trek captains. The campaign starts in the Enterprise era and then goes into the Original Series and then the Next Generation era. I’ve been pretty frustrated with the game in the first day of play. I was getting a crash in the fourth mission, but it’s been pretty fun otherwise. It’s cool to hear Scott Bakula‘s voice as Captain Archer once again.

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Nana and Poppy Visit

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The past month has been pretty much a big preparation for Christmas. We’ve been shopping, going to the EA Holiday party, and shopping. This all lead up to Nana and Poppy flying in last Saturday. Allegiant Air now has a direct flight from Shreveport, LA to Orlando-Sanford, a smaller airport which is only about 15 minutes away from our house.

Abby was excited when Poppy said he was coming because she had a long list of movies for them to see. So, on Saturday, Poppy took Abby and Emily to see Flushed Away. They had a great time, even though there were no Nerds on a Rope at that movie theater. They came out of the movie singing “Roddie got flushed down the potty.”

On Sunday, we went out to eat at Peach Valley Cafe and took a tour of Baldwin Park, a nice neighborhood which is closer to downtown. We’ve been thinking about moving closer to downtown so that my commute times to work would be less. Also, Jennifer and I went to see the musical The Lion King, which was playing at the Bob Carr. It was okay, not stupendous. Jennifer said that she knew all the funny lines because she’s seen the movie a thousand times.

On Monday, we took Nana and Poppy to our new favorite pizza place, American Pie Pizza Company. We played video games and ate very good pizza. When we got home we decided to go ahead and open our Christmas presents so that we could share Christmas with Nana and Poppy. The girls got a whole lot of new toys and were running around playing with them the rest of the day.

On Tuesday, Abby, Emily, and Poppy went to see Happy Feet. While Jennifer and I escaped to go out and see The Holiday and then go out to eat with the kids in tow.

Early this morning it was time for Nana and Poppy to catch their flight home. We had to leave the house at 6:30 a.m. so that they could make their 8:30 a.m. flight. The girls enjoyed having them and Emily gave Poppy her ceramic hippo that she made at Abby’s birthday party. Poppy wrapped it tight so that it wouldn’t break and told her he would put it in his bike room.

The Holiday

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Since my parents are in town only one more night, we took them up on their offer to watch the kids while we went out to see a movie. After going through a long list of movies, Jennifer and I settled on The Holiday starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and Jack Black. It’s a romantic comedy and the main reason I agreed to see it was that Jack Black was in it. I offered to make it a Jack Black double feature with Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, but was turned down. In the movie, Cameron Diaz, who lives in Los Angeles and Kate Winslet, who lives in the small town outside of London, decide to switch houses for two weeks. Both are trying to get over break ups with their boy friends. Overall the movie was actually pretty good. Both of us liked it quite a bit.

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Guitar Hero II (PS2)

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I was such a fan of the first Guitar Hero, I just had to get this. However, Activision announced that this game is also going to be coming out for the Xbox 360, but not until 2007. So, a big problem. Do I go ahead and get Guitar Hero II now for the PS2 or do I wait for the Xbox 360, which will have songs available to purchase in the Xbox Live Marketplace. The compromise was to put it on my Christmas List and if I got it for Christmas, then bonus, otherwise I would wait until it came out for the Xbox 360. Well, my parents got the game for me and it’s pretty good. I was able to pick up the game and get back it to it easily. It only took me a couple of hours to complete the game on the medium difficulty level. Now, I’m going back through and trying to complete it on the hard level.

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Gears of War (Xbox 360)

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Everyone up at work has been talking about Gears of War and how great it is. The commercial looks great, but I never judge a game on a video, I judge it on gameplay. When a friend who has a friend who works at Microsoft offered to get it for me at a discount, I had to go for it. My first impression is that the game is very unique. It’s a third person shooter, but they’ve made ducking for cover the big gameplay difference for the game. It takes a little getting used to, but it’s pretty fun.

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