You gotta love the latest Guitar Hero World Tour commercials. Heidi Klum made a great commercial which can be seen here but chances are pretty good that you haven’t seen this version of Heidi in Bra & Panties. Either one is a great commercial.

They also made a version with Alex Rodriguez, Tony Hawk, Michael Phelps and Kobe Bryant which you can check out here.

Besides new songs you can clearly see improved graphics, we’ll have to wait to play it to judge the game play!

A couple of weeks ago I downloaded the Army of 2 demo (Xbox 360), played it a few times and thought I need to get this game! The demo was cool and I thought it was going to be a great game.

I finally got the time to pick up a copy this weekend and started playing. After a quick update it became apparent that we had to go through the whole demo again since there is no way to bypass the training.

What really makes this game unique is the fact that you need to have two players and the dependence you have on your teammate. While I have played several online games that are multi-player like Call of Duty, Halo and Rainbow Six they are usually a bunch of individuals on the same team. Army of Two makes you depend on your team mate to cover you and to distract the enemy.

The graphics are good and the videos help to tell the story as you move through the campaign. It’s a little frustrating to have to go through the videos after each mission and not be able to bypass them, but they aren’t as long as some games like Assassins Creed which drives you nuts.

One of my favorite features in the game is Overkill, this is when your teammate has all the Agro for an extended period of time the game prompts you to click into Overkill mode.

Overkill mode changes the speed of the game to a crawl and doubles your killing power which leads for some cool effects when you shoot the enemy. This is critical during certain parts of the game when you are fighting 20 enemies at once. L’Abattoir and Running Man are a couple of unlockable acheivements that you can get by getting kills in Overkill mode.

After about 6 – 8 hours I made it through the game, I thought it was a bit repetitive and needed some more challenging game play.  Going back in the more difficult modes was much harder and playing with the recruit partner became a little difficult as he would abbandon you going towards the mission and leaving you to battle with the current attackers.

I was thinking that the on-line play would be interesting, but the couple of times I tried to play there was nobody on-line, so I’ll have to get back to you on that!

I would probably rate the game an 7.5 out of 10.  Hoping to get some online game play going….

“Grand Theft Auto IV” raked in more than $500 million in its first week in stores, selling more than 6 million units worldwide, the video game’s publisher said Wednesday.

The highly anticipated title from Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. has received stellar ratings along with criticism for its violent content. The game follows Eastern European immigrant-turned gangster Niko Bellic on crime missions around a fictional Liberty City.

The title sold about 3.6 million units on April 29, its opening day, bringing in roughly $310 million. This is $10 million more than what Microsoft Corp.’s “Halo 3,” another blockbuster game, took in during its first week last fall.

New York-based Take-Two is the subject of a $2 billion hostile buyout from larger rival Electronic Arts Inc., which Take-Two has repeatedly rebuffed as too low.

Take-Two’s shares were recently trading at $26.39, above EA’s tender offer of $25.74 per share, which expires May 16. Unless EA is willing to offer more, it seems “increasingly possible” the acquisition attempt could unravel, Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey said in a note to investors.

Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter disagrees, however, saying the game’s sales were well within his expectations.

“I don’t think it changes the value of the company,” he said. “I think we are going to end up with a Microsoft-Yahoo situation,” with Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick believing the company is worth more and EA chief John Riccitiello disagreeing.

Three months after it first made an offer, Microsoft dropped its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo Inc. over the weekend after the companies couldn’t agree on a price.

Pachter said he expects the game to sell 12 million copies by the end of 2008. GTA’s previous versions have sold more than 70 million copies worldwide.

Already, the game seems to be living up to its juicy past, which includes controversy over hidden sex scenes, sharp criticism from Hillary Rodham Clinton and a 2006 lawsuit that blames the game for three New Mexico murders committed by a 14-year-old.

For one, Take-Two sued the Chicago Transit Authority on Monday for removing ads for the game because of its “Mature” rating, which means it is not suitable for people under 17. And the game also caught the ire of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, which seeks an adults-only rating because it lets players drive after imbibing in virtual liquor.