Achievements vs Trophies

There is one burning questions that divides PS3 and Xbox 360 owners, what is better? Achievements or Trophies?

On the Xbox, the achievement system is a way of tracking your overall progress through a game by giving you points or Gamerscore for all to see, these achievements are graded by difficultly easy achievement are generally given 5G and harder achievements normally given 100G or more but this isn't always the case.

Trophies are unique to the PS3 and is basically the same but instead of a score of points, it just tells you how many trophies you have, there are 4 types of trophies:

Bronze - Easy

Silver - Medium

Gold - Hard

Platinum - Getting all of the trophies

While this seems like a good idea, Sony, kind of dropped the ball with trophies because, the system isn't on all of their games just the later ones.

With Achievements, they give you something to play for, to have those bragging rights over your friends by having a bigger score than them or to have a competition to see who reaches a fixed amount first. You can't really do that on PS3, while Sony are catching up now it still isn't the same, apart from actually the game with your friend, there is no competition with them. But on Xbox Live there are some people who play the game just to get achievements and that ruins the game playing experience for everybody online.

So people on Xbox Live have to remember, Achievements aren't everything but your Gamerscore is and people on the PlayStation Network, good luck on getting your pretty useless trophies.

So Real It's Scary

Anybody and everybody who plays video games knows that Call Of Duty 6 better known as Modern Warfare 2, is special but it is not just me who waxes lyrical about this game after getting rave reviews from just about everybody associated with video games but this is what The Sun's security adviser Andy McNab had to say about the illustrious Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

I SOMETIMES play the last Call Of Duty with my godson, who wipes the floor with me, and I was already impressed. But this new game takes it to a new level.

The movement of the characters is spot on.

The way a trained soldier holds and fires a gun is very specific - and they've got the movement right, down to the last detail.

Even the blood spatter and impact of a bullet on a human is correct.

Some maps in particular are very close to the real thing. In the opening level you are fighting insurgents through rat runs, in and out of back alleys, mosques and markets in a city.

That is exactly the sort of conditions our troops were fighting under in Basra, Iraq.

The game really gets across the frantic chaos of a firefight.

I'm sure this game will be on the receiving end of some stick - but its biggest defence is its realism.

It isn't glorifying war, it's bringing it into living rooms and simulating it as closely as possible.

Game Of The Year

2009 was a big year for video games, PS3 included, there was the launch of the New Xbox Experience and the introduction of the avatars in the dashboard for obviously the 360, and the PlayStation 3 borrowed the idea of avatars and created PlayStation Home, a virtual world where you go and explore the PlayStation Home and watch films, fly planes and generally meet and talk with new people a.k.a. Second life for the PS3.

The games consoles didn't stop there, they invaded television as well, PlayStation launched the BBC iPlayer allowing you to catch up on your favourite BBC programs, while Xbox was called Sony and raised it with the genius of the Sky Player, not only does allow you to catch up on favourite digital programs but watch live TV including football matches, movies, cartoons documentaries and anything else you can find on your sky box. But there is a downside, you have pay, just like everything else on the Xbox.

but that all secondary to what all gamer buy their consoles for, games and 2009 was big year for games, I'm sure I've said that already. First the multi-platform games. 2009 saw the release of Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter 4, FIFA 10, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Tekken 6 and of course Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 aka the best of all time.

But all these titles are not the game of the year, that accolade belongs Uncharted 2: Among Thieves for the PS3. Story telling, graphics, cut scenes, multi-player and game play this game has got it all, if I was to give this game a rating out of 10, this game would get an 13 and a half, the beginning alone deserves an 8.

If you have any suggestions for your game of the year, please comment.

The Golden Palace of Xbox Live

I am going to start off by saying, my name is Ramone Reece-Nestor and I play games, not no boring games involving dice and characters, they are too long and drawn out, I mean proper games involving shooting guns and throwing explosives while guarding a pre-ordained target games like Call of Duty, Halo and Gears Of War but these games (apart from Call Of Duty) are only available on the Xbox 360.

This console is the undisputed champion of the next generation of video gaming consoles, only on the Xbox can you listen to your music and play the game at the same time, only the Xbox can you have party in and outside of the game itself and only the Xbox has the genius idea of Xbox Live.

Xbox Live is the hub which links all of the internet connected Xbox user in the world and this laughs in the face of the Playstation Network, i have both, the PS3 and Xbox 360, i know what i am talking about.

i have nearly 17 years worth experience playing video games that is enough time to work out what is good about video games and what isn't, and while playing worms 2 armageddon (which is a big boy game) and having your avatar jump up and down telling you it your turn is big. Match That Sony!

i am putting my details for both consoles any wants a challenge on FIFA 10 or Call of Duty MW2 input the following:

Xbox Live Gamertag: Nestor 08

PS3 Username: RNestor08

PS: if you have any contradicting arguments feel free to comment