I was not originally expecting to ever get that much time with Guitar Hero III other than what I played with my friend who got it. He brought it over earlier in the week, we finished almost all of co-op in one go. Speaking of which, all the co-op Achievements are glitched, so you can only get them if you're player one, meaning you'll have to do everything over twice with your friend unless team Not Harmonix gets their act together. If you know what I've been saying about Guitar Hero III, you'll know that last statement isn't fair. I've decided that Rock Band will be better long ago. I have to say, the more time I'm putting into the latest installment of the Guitar Hero franchise, though, I'm finding new things I like and new thing I don't. Regardless, it is nice to get to play it. My sister had gotten so into Guitar Hero II that she basically decided she was going to get it as soon as I said I was taking the Harmonix path. At first I didn't really care, but I found myself getting excited as the weekend drew close. Sarah picked up the game Friday and we've both spent some time rocking out on career and co-op. More impressions follow.

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In an effort to get into blogging more frequently, I thought I'd fill you in on how my search for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption went today. Technically, today is the official release date, though I had never really expected to find it today. In most places in Canada (and, I expect, most places in general) it is quite hard to find games on the day they are advertised as coming out unless they are a really big title. Now, MP3:C is a really big title, from a commercial and gaming standpoint. Nintendo, however, seems to do this thing where they don't tell the retailer when their games will get there and don't ship them until the day they are supposed to be sold. This is great for preventing stores from breaking the 'street date,' (See: BioShock) but it causes a lot of problems for people like me, who love buying games the day they are supposed to be available. I started out by making a list of all the stores I wanted to contact, which resulted in a list of 3 Best Buys, 5 Futureshops, 6 EB Games, an HMV and the Wal-Mart, Zellers and Rogers Video in the city I live. Spoiler: not a single one of them had it. I can assure you if they did I'd be playing the game rather than writing this. The closest I got was at the second closest EB Games to me. While all the others had said, We don't have it, it's due out tomorrow anyways. (Which is wrong, but I didn't feel like arguing with so many people) this location told me to call back after noon as they were expecting a shipment. When I called at 1:30, they said they weren't getting it after all. If nothing else, the conversations supplied me with some interesting - and sometimes amusing - answers.

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While my Wii experience was not nearly as exciting as zhx's, I do have enough blog-worthy content. It was too cold for me to even consider staying over night at any store, Alberta winters are freezing. My EB Games pre-order plan had failed early on, it was too hard to get there on a school day, and Microplay managed to pre-order off the six consoles they got without me even hearing about it. That left my very local Wal-Mart, the not-so-near Best Buy and the even further Future Shop. My chances looked slim at either of the latter, and I'm glad I didn't decide to even bother with either of them. I heard from a couple of people that Best Buy had about a hundred consoles and three times as many customers. That wasn't nearly as big as in some places, but I'm still glad I didn't bother.Wal-Mart got a shocking sixty-nine consoles, that's quite a large number for the size of city I live in. With EB and Microplay getting less than twenty between them, Zellers apparently getting none, Wal-Mart received almost the entire shipment to my area. I was aiming to be at Wal-Mart by 6:00 and ended up in line by 5:45. Only a few minutes made a huge difference at this launch, the head guy was handing out tickets and apparently went through about twenty tickets from 5:30 to when I got there. A lady and her daughter told us that they had ticket number sixty-five and thought it was the last Wii available, but said that earlier they thought it was sixty-three so they may "find" more. Almost immediately after we were told, the organizer stepped out with tickets sixty-six and sixty-seven, and told us those were the last ones. Relieved, I stood shivering and prepared for the hours wait until Wal-Mart opened at 7:00. Over the hour a good number of people came and left thinking that sixty-seven, and, later, sixty-nine were the last tickets, but the smart ones stuck around and eventually the slots were filled by some eager friends (or brothers, I couldn't tell) who were quite a bit older than me and a father. The friends were pretty cool guys, we talked about some stuff and they asked me a lot about the Wii as they didn't seem to know some of the more specific details like the removal of the DVD player or the SD card slot. After the hour was finally up, they let all sixty-nine of us with tickets (plus about another forty without) inside, at which time we piled in against the electronics "department" while two ladies called up the next ten numbers to the single cash desk. Needless to say, this took a long time, but an announcement came on saying all ticket holders were guaranteed a Wii and there would be another shipment of 'em in about three days. At this point, almost all of the non-ticket holders left, three days isn't that long to have to wait. The rest of us warmed up and watched in dismay as copy after copy of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was scooped up. Not only that, but there seemed to be no limit on the number of Wiimotes and Nunchuks that could be bought, so many people were buying three of each, some even bought the Virtual Console controller as well. I guess it was fair that they could buy what they wanted since they were there long before me, so I didn't really mind. I quickly forgot about that as I was informed that there was a copy of Twilight Princess per console, all of us would be getting one! This was looking great until number sixty bought what appeared to be the last copy of Twilight Princess. The last of us were pretty disappointed and one lady who I had talked to earlier in the morning asked them to look through all their boxes and, lo and behold, found around twelve more copies of the game! The Nunchuks were gone which left me no reason to buy Red Steel, I really wanted to try multiplayer. It may have been for the best, anyways, with all the bad review it is getting. I decided not to get anything besides the copy of Twilight Princess and the console itself and left very, very happy.

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