Starcraft II Reviews on Amazon: Not very promising

Wow, I didn't know a game could cause such a buzz. I admit, Starcraft is one of the first real time strategy games I got hooked to. I played similar games such as Warcraft but I don't know, there's something about Starcraft's charm maybe that's why after 12 years, it's still one of the most popular real time strategy games.

Anyways, when I heard that Starcraft II wings of liberty will be coming out, I'm very tempted to buy one. But like any smart buyer, I immediately looked for reviews online. I was disappointed that my favorite game review site, gamespot.com doesn't have one yet but it's a good thing that Amazon.com has customer reviews.

Well, the initial reviews doesn't look promising. Two stars only and 12 out of 19 customer reviews marked it as a one. The big turn off for me is according to most of the reviews, it requires internet connection even if you only want to play the single player game. It's really a bummer. I mean, sure, most of us in the US have a broadband connection but come on, what if my internet connection is down? Whatever happened to just popping in the CD to play the game? And what if you have internet connection but it's slow? How will that affect the game?

I'm sure Starcraft II is a great game with great graphics and for those who have T1 internet connections, I'm sure they'll have no problems but for simpletons like me who just wants single player games without having to connect to the internet, maybe we'll just wait until Blizzard patches it to allow to play the game without having to connect to the internet---or maybe some clever hacker will do that in the near future even before Blizzard does.

How to Get Money Laundering Collection Mafia Wars

If you're an avid Mafia Wars gamer like me, you might have noticed the dirty bra under your wish list if your wish list has been empty. And when you go to your collections and vault tab, you'll notice that there's a new collection called the "money laundering collection" and items listed include: Money Iron, Dirty laundry, Dryer sheets, Money Line, Roll of Quarters, Death by Detergent, and Dirty Bra.

So how do you get the Money Laundering Collection items? Well, according to Mafia Wars Blog:

"Money Laundering is a new feature whereby when you are doing a job, there's a chance of hitting a bigger payday than usual. When this happens, if you can get your friends to help you launder this big payday, you can keep the cash and gain additional experience points. Your friends in turn will also benefit by getting a cut of your stash and a special collection item."

One of my Mafia wars friends happened to publish this money laundering feature. The text on the published post reads:

"____ hit the jackpot, but needs helps laundering their money! The Feds are watching! _____ is offering a cut to all their friends who help!"

I clicked on the link and I got a $5,000,000 cut but unfortunately, I wasn't lucky enough to get a money laundering collection item. One of his friends got it though one of them received a "money line" and another received "roll of quarters".

So basically, you need to have a lot of friends in order to complete the money laundering collection. Since you won't get it on your own. Sounds hard. According to Mafia wars wiki, vault bonus includes 10% more money laundered.