'Bioshock ending - shit' shock!

I've just finished Bioshock.

The ending to the best video game experience ever was always going to feel a bit flat.

For the first time since...well the last time a truly great game came out (Resident Evil 4 maybe), the boundaries between video games, cinema and killin' shit all got a bit blurred. The auteurs at Take 2 have produced an amazing interactive experience, a triumph of the senses, an Xbox 360 wankathon.

No real spoilers here but I need to let you know I got the evil ending.

And when the ending did come, I was expecting some reward or a grade for how well I'd done. I'd have settled for a movie clip that tied up some of the story threads. Instead I got a 60 second set up for Bioshock II and then threw back to the title screen.

I wish I'd killed more of those little bitches now...

Luca Brasi sleeps with the phishes

I'm back, and back on a gangster tip.

I've just bought the Godfather Trilogy on DVD, it's the red box collection. It looks like shit, the discs are in those ultra slim cases, one with a sepia close up of Don Corleone, the other two have a young Micheal and an older Micheal from part III, on them.

I've seen these movies many times. I remember seeing Part I and Part II as a child, even though I wasn't old enough to really recognise them as movie greats, some scenes stuck in my head for years.

Micheal closing the door on Kay at the end of Part I. The young Don wrapping a towel around a pistol and it catching fire as he shoots Don Fanucci in the cheek and the fishing trip with Fredo, with that shot ringing out across the lake.

Later in my teens I would fall in love with movies, with these films and that robot movie Jean Claude Van Damme was in.

Part I is just starting so I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes.

'She was beautiful, she was young; she was innocent. She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world.'