Impressions: Bodycount has no shortage of explosions, red barrels, or chaos

After all the screenshots, developer diaries, and trailers we've seen for Bodycount throughout the years--or, year...whichever--the game is finally releasing at the end of the month, with a demo newly released on the Xbox 360. After treading and shredding through its short presentation of what's to come, I must admit that I am both interested yet, a tad perplexed.

As you may or may not know, the story in Bodycount is...there. There's you, there's bad guys, there's more bad guys, and then there's a head honcho bad guy, all of whom are aiming to kill you before you kill them. That's roughly the grand scope of the story, with the mission in the demo sending you to Africa to take out bad guys led by a bigger bad guy holding a mini-gun. It's more or less "Summer Blockbuster Film 101," but in some cases, like here, it works.

The '3DS First Impressions' from Joe Average

The Nintendo 3DS comes out a week from today and while many of the high-end gaming sites have received their systems already, I, along with most of the world, have to wait until March 27 to finally purchase my own. However, as luck would have it, my recent trip to my local Best Buy granted me access to experiencing the mysterious new handheld for the first time...saving me from having to trek to Grand Central Station to one of Nintendo's 3DS Demo Pods.