If last week’s Dating Advice Thread wasn’t bizarre enough for you, CaPwN continued his stellar form on GI this week with his brand new This is so awsome thread. I just hope that there aren’t any girls browsing GI; let’s just say that the content may deem us unfit for society.

This week also saw us inch closer to the launch of the second GI FIFA 09 League on PSN, hosted by our personal Santa Claus, DaN. 24 players are going to battle it our through July for the league and some awesome goodies. Will zophar666 retain his crown, or will a new champion rise? There’s just one place you’ll find out…

Finally, we did not do any reviews this week! But before you even arrive at the “L” of lazy bums, we’d like to tell you all that starting this week (actually… last week), the GI Blog will feature prominent news from the gaming world alongwith the usual announcements and reviews. Our efforts will be to bring out news that other gaming websites usually miss, making GIians a cut above the rest. After all, the whole idea is not just to bring out the murderer in you, but also to make you an educated one.

See you next week.

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Onimusha: Warlords and Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny

The Onimusha series may be long forgotten, but back in the early days of the Playstation 2, there were few moments in gaming more awe inspiring to me than watching the first Onimusha game or it’s sequel in motion. Much of this shock and awe was a consequence of  the majority of  launch titles for the Playstation 2 failing to live up to the all consuming pre-launch hype. The bad blood didn’t last long though, and I could see the tide turn as I popped the Onimusha game discs in and played what I (still) think are two of the best games of the past generation.

Not only were you greeted by some of the best pre-rendered CG sequences (by ROBOT) ever in gaming, but the visual fidelity didn’t let up when you switched over to actual gameplay. Extra special (to the cinophile in me) was how Capcom used real actors to base their heros on. Takeshi Kaneshiro and the late Yusaka Matsuda oozed class and the feudal Japan sets and environments (all lovingly pre-rendered) chanelled the best parts of every Samurai film I’d seen. The attention to detail didn’t stop with the visuals though. The Taro Iwashiro (Memories of Murder, Red Cliff) composed score never failed to inspire you, and the art direction (from the meticulously researched village settings to the props) was awe inspiring. Although a hack-and-slash game at heart, Capcom seemed to know they had something special in their hands as there were cleverly placed lulls in the action that let you soak in the atmosphere and prep yourself for the next encounter, mo-capped katana at the ready. The games also blended their fantastical story with characters and clans from Japan’s rich history. Battling Oda Nobunaga had never been done better, before or since.

One can only hope that Inafune-san comes back to Onimusha sometime in the near future. It would make more sense than another Bionic Commando debacle at the very least.

Do you feel lonely?

Do you feel unloved?

Do you wish to wrap yourself around a special someone like a pretzel and mumble sweet nothings to each other as a comet gracefully arcs across the starry night, binding that moment forever in time?

Then look no further folks! Register yourself at the GI forums NOW! We have all the advice you need to woo the ladies in our brand new Dating Advice Thread, started by CaPwN. At first I couldn’t quite wrap my head around the fact that the thread was being taken seriously, but one look at CaPwN’s avatar makes it abundantly clear that he has more than just dating advice going on for him, making him the perfect candidate for our resident Love Guru. I can almost hear Shawn Michaels’ theme in the background.

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A CNET poll pitting Forza 3 versus Gran Turismo 5, Valve once again professing their dislike for the PS3, and Microsoft claiming a 10-year life cycle for the Xbox 360 – these are just some totally unrelated discussions this past week that all inevitably turned into a childish console war. I swear I can literally feel millions of brain cells being fried when I’m in these threads; they make my brain hurt.

But that happens every week, so what’s new this week, you ask? Well, more GI members got their hands on the Uncharted 2 multi-player beta this past week, and the feedback is mostly positive, as you can see from Nitin’s preview. If you were wondering why our inFamous review was taking its own sweet time to show up, well, it’s because Ty was working on an epic, and I’m sure you won’t find a more comprehensive inFamous review anywhere.

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It’s time to announce the winners of yet another GI contest. Our inFamous contest has been one of our most popular, with more entries than even our Game of the Year 2008 contest, which had a PS3 up for grabs. Needless to say, over 90 percent of the answers were correct. For those wondering, here are the correct answers:

1. Name the city in which InFamous takes place – Empire City
2. When (year) & where (event) was InFamous announced? – 2007, E3
3. What did Cole McGrath work as before the explosion? – Bike Messenger

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