Hasn't this month gone quickly? Only 4 days till I move out, back to uni. It's been a long 4 months. Early on the days were long, protracted, boring. And then as August faded into September, time started to speed up. Now I am here, my holiday is almost done. This is both good and bad.

4 months of nothing but free time starts to get boring. You do the same thing day in, day out. There is no real change in schedule. When I go back to uni, each day will have something different on. Not only will their be lessons, essays, research, general university related activities, but their will be a lot more on my social calender (this calender is metaphorical, though). I will be living in a house with 3 mates, their will be pub visits, their will be clubbing. It shall be awesome.

On the other hand, their will be lectures, essays and research. I do enjoy studying psychology, and I think I made the right subject to study, but actually doing work is kind of a hassle. Especially since this year properly counts towards my final grade, so I need to do a bit better than last year, where I didn't really try.

I am unsure as to when I will be getting internet though. It's quite possible that next week their might not be an On Rails, or atleast, I might not be on it. I'm hoping I will have internet, but it's a 50/50 shot. I am glad to be going back, though.

Anyway, recently I have been playing Halo Reach. As you might remember, recently I talked a little about Halo in a blog. I have also done a Wednesday Rewind on Halo, although that hasn't been uploaded yet. Anyway, I said that it was a mediocre game, with some innovations, sub-par multiplayer and a lame story. That more or less summarised my opinion on the sequels, too. They were shallow, a little boring, and I couldn't get into the multiplayer.

Recently, however, Reach launched, and everyone and their dogs was playing it on my Live list. So I decided to go out and get it. And I am glad I did. Yes, the story so far is still pretty shallow. I don't really care for the characters, either. However, there are some really cool bits about it. There are a host of multiplayer options. You can play through the campaign in co-op, which has been present in all the games, but there is FireFight mode, in which you can set up a whole bunch of different settings and fight AI enemies, competing to get the highest score. Or you can do it on your own, just for fun.

You can also do a huge variety of multiplayer death matches. There is a whole lot of different matches to play. It's also quite good because you get to vote on which match to play, it will give you 3 matches, different types, different maps, based on a “playlist”. The playlist will be selected by the player, so you can choose only to play variation of team deathmatch, or all against all.

You can also create a custom game, but you can only play those with friends. You can fine tune dozens of different settings. Weapons, vehicles, movement, radar. You can create very different matches. Personally I like setting gravity to low, speed to the max, and then give them Snipers and Energy swords. Fun is had by all.

The best thing about the multiplayer is how balanced it is. In Modern Warfare I would get owned every time, and then I would get bored. On Halo, though, I can do fairly well. It's just a lot more fun to me.

I used to be so against Halo, thinking it a generic pile of hype. And now I have fallen into the trap, I have succumbed to all the hype and peer pressure. And I am quite glad I did. The game is pretty awesome.

In other news, I finished watching Season 4 of Dexter. I must say, it was absolutely incredible. Dexter is easily one of the best TV shows I have ever seen. Right up there with Breaking Bad, which is still my favourite. However, the ending to it is such a cock slap. A cock slap in the way that the ending to Code Geass season 2 was a cock slap. I am not going to spoil that, because I am not a total arsehole, but in all seriousness it was incredibly sad. Such a twist, I didn't expect.

The actor who portrays Dexter is a great actor. Well, that or he is actually a serial killer. I can't say that isn't a possibility, his portrayal of a man without conscience seems so real, believable. I really want to read the books, too.

I really should get this NHL review up soon. I need to chase down Josh and get his half of the review soon. I am going to get a review of BlazBlue and Mercenaries 2 up soon too. I am going to review Halo Reach as well, which will happen when I complete the campaign mode. Soon will be a review of Alesana – The emptiness, as well.