I'm sure that's not very good at all. All those "max" counts annoy me since I don't know what the max might be. The code doesn't seem to track your collected Dog Tags, which pretty much ought to be the first damn thing listed. I would judge the mark of a great MGS player by a low Alert Mode stat. I am clearly not that great an MGS player. That's one Alert every 12 minutes.

I went through Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty several times, and would like to go through Twin Snakes again, especially since Twin Snakes seemed to short in comparison. But with the run-up to holiday shopping sending new games into my home vitually every week, it's unlikely I'll circle around to it again in the near future.

Although I wasn't planning on it, I bought Sly Cooper 2 this weekend and started it tonight... which means Sly 2 has totally lapped two other games purchased earlier that still have never been booted (Pikmin 2 and ESPN NHL 2K5.) Sly 2 is in addition to Burnout 3 and Pokemon LeafGreen. I was planning on starting Pikmin 2 next, but the notice of a "USB headset" on the back of the Sly package intrigued me. It's not mentioned in the manual (?), but if you plug in your USB headset, you'll receive most of mission operative Bentley's audio in your headset instead of your speakers. I love that! I just wish I could talk back to him.

Next week: Katamari Damacy, which I already ordered from EB. This little game ($20) is so niche and so bizarre that there is no way anyone is going to have it in shelf stock around here, so I went ahead and formally requested it. You may have heard of it, it's the PS2 game where you're an alien and you push around a ball of trash that gets gradually larger. See. And that's why I choose console games over PC games.