Almost Afraid

As I sit awake this morning, far too early I might add, I am just thinking about how my mind has hyped the upcoming release of WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011. It has been a long time since I've gotten so worked up about playing a game and every waking second just makes me want to go and get this thing already.

But then I realize that I've been here before.

In a sort of ironic turn of events, I happen to be listening to Leona Lewis's song, "My Hands" that was featured in Final Fantasy XIII...

And what has not been helping is the developers for this latest WWE game have been hitting up pod casts all over the place in the past several months (that I've been following anyway). The most recent one (last night) proved to shine a lot of light on a lot of questions I personally had. By all accounts, it does sound as though the game has been improved all around which can only be a good thing, right?

Like the title of this entry states, I am almost afraid to think that this game, or any game, could actually be improved that much. I am hoping that my fears are nothing true and that this game will be like Assassin's Creed II, in that it actually does look, feel and play entirely better then what came before it.

But then as I said, I've been here before and there are far too many games that have failed to live up to their own hype. What I really hope does not happen is maybe another Medal of Honor, which was being hyped up as being a CoD killer. Now I have not personally played this, but from the reviews of both fans and critics alike, it certainly did not live up to its hype.

All of this applies to another game I am interested in, that being Fable 3.

If there is one thing that I am really not liking about this console generation is all of this extra hype. Because of this madness (which I tend to fall "victim" to more often then I'd care to admit), we've seen the advent of a lot of extra content added in to new releases and that has been even more of a cause for craziness.

Anyway, the point I am getting at is October 26th is just a little under a week away, which means both games I've mentioned will be released upon us. I just hope they live up to their hype....