Guests Jade Kraus and Justin Haywald start off the show this week with a spirited discussion about Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for Wii. Despite having played through it multiple times, both Justin and Jade are thoroughly disappointed with the game. The graphics and presentation are some of the best on Wii but they cite bad design choices as their biggest complaint.

There are a lot of tangents in the second part of the show ranging from Ryan Higgins’ experience with the Bayonetta demo, Ryan Scott’s struggle with Assassins Creed 2 and Justin’s indifference to James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game. The tangents continue with some disparate discussion that starts with Duke Nukem Forever and ends with some annoyance at the increasing trend of retailer specific pre-order bonuses, in this case Star Trek Online.

The show closes out with the guys briefly touching on the recent 3.3 patch to World of Warcraft, Ryan Higgins is excited to check out the new content that has been added. Ryan Scott isn’t sure if the patch is enough to make him boot up the game again, but the upcoming Cataclysm expansion certainly will.

Covered games and topics: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Bayonetta demo, the difficulty of Mario games, cloud gaming, Star Trek Online pre-order bonuses, DC comics, Venture Bros, World of Warcraft

Jade Kraus and Justin Haywald join us this week, filling in for Karen Chu and Mike Cruz. The holidays are upon us, and we’re all scrambling to get our acts in gear so we can kick back and play some games over the end-of-year break. Hopefully we won’t be playing any Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, though. Yeesh.

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