I know Circuit City isn't exactly doing how shall we put it, well right now, but they impressed me last night when I went to pick up Gears of War 2.

Circuit city was running a deal where you got 1600 Microsoft Points with your purchase of Gears of War 2. This was a pretty good deal considering 1600 Microsoft points cost $20, so for the game which cost $60 you pretty much got $80 worth of stuff. Well needless to say, by the time I got there after work, they were out of the Microsoft Points cards. So rather than just saying sorry, they went the extra mile and gave me a $20 gift card to make up for it. To me thats kind of impressive considering they could have used the "while supplies last" excuse and remove the deal. Now while its only a gift card, they still equalled it out in the end as I can always go back and use the gift card to buy the points later when they have the cards in stock.

Anywho, I got the card, I got the game, and I'm quite happy :-)

Tags: videogames, xbox360, gearsofwar2

I've said it before, I'm not quite sure how I feel about a real time strategy game being played on a console with a controller. I always feel RTS games require a mouse and keyboard. Halo Wars is doing just this. I'm hoping they might find some way to pull it off. Definitely worth a rental to try it out, but I don't know if I'll even buy it. It may be Halo, but its the wrong platform in my opinion since there's no PC version of it. Either way, this trailer was released. Enjoy!

Tags: halo, halowars, trailer, videogames