Move over Toivonen

I've been playing a bit of Sega Rally over the last couple of days, borrowed from my brother on Friday. I grabbed it for some simple arcade racing that I don't have to pay much attention to, but the repetition of the short tracks makes it even more mindless than I had expected, quickly turning it into quite a boring affair.
I also completed Kane & Lynch yesterday, only taking another few hours from where I got to on the first day, I really liked the choice it gives you at the end, leading to two very different endings. I gave the multiplayer a bit of a spin after that, and while it has a genius system encouraging you to work together until the possibility of treachery at the end of each round, most of the time you just get idiots that start killing all the people on their team as soon as the game starts, ruining it for everyone. It's fantastic if you get a group of people that play it properly though.

I watched a couple more episodes of Akihabara@DEEP yesterday, at first I was just forcing myself through it to see what happens, but I think I've got over its extreme eccentricity now and can manage the madness. So I think I'll stick with it 'till the end now, especially as it's only 12 episodes long.

I finally got round to watching the final stage of the Swedish rally yesterday too, as rally Mexico took place this weekend and will be online soon. Fantastically Latvala and Hirvonen managed to hold their top two positions and walk away with the points.
The best part is that the victory now makes Jari-Matti Latvala the youngest ever person to win a WRC rally! It's absolutely amazing how just last season he was a surprisingly talented newcomer, and now in just the second rally of '08 he's a world record holder, putting his name down in racing history for generations to come. Or at least until I get my licence, watch out.