Pinball Fx 2 came out today for Xbox 360. If you bought the first game and any of the extra tables then buy the main game if nothing else. Its a free download and it offers free importing of your original tables. They all got upgrades and the improvement is noticeable, especially on the Street Fighter 2 table, which before I couldn’t tell what was going on, but now the vision is much better. The only table I feel suffered from the upgrade is Rocky and Bullwinkle as it is now pretty slow. Fx 2 shows how far they have come from their first tables. Speed Machine and Xtreme are pretty bland tables when compared to the new tables on FX2.

Of the new tables Rome is by far the best Pinball experience, where Secrets of the Deep is the most accesible. They are both great tables. Biolab might be fun, but it is overly full of gaudy colors and is hard to play for long. Pasha is decent and has great music, but I think its a table Ill need to master before passing judgement. Don’t know how the online games are as I havent found a match tonight.
All in all a great sequel, worth it for fans of video pinball, and owners of the first game will love this one.

The ESPN/ Microsoft Partnership may be the coolest thing I saw all day. If I can watch my Pirates on ESPN3 on the xbox instead of my computer in HD, then I’m there in a second.

Not a big fan of what was shown for Kinect so far. Looks like they haven’t targeted much to their core audience, which in my opinion is a major mistake. Otherwise you can just stick with a Wii. UPDATE: UBISOFT is releasing a semisequel to classic REZ for both KINETIC and PSMOve. I will want that so lets see what PS has in other games before choosing either.

Gears 3 looks sick, but it is my favorite modern game series.

Otherwise the MS presser was a yawnner for me as I’m way passed bored with Call of Duty and Halo. Bring up the hype tommorow Nintendo and Sony.