7-0 Monday

The Getaway: Black Monday
$29.99
First of all, I don't feel like comparing this to GTA, to me it feels very different and takes the step towards realism, I like "The Getaway" series more than True Crime and I nearly like it as much as I do Driver/GTA.But after this I will stop the comparisons

Its a stepforwards from the original "The Getaway" which Sony and Team SOHO released in 2002 for PS2, although there are things in "The Getaway:Black Monday" that aren't as good as the original such as the graphics

The game is set in London, England(again) and puts you in the shoes of three characters...in the one storyline:

Sgt.Ben Mitchell-
A very touchy cop claimed by the Media for being a "Delicate" and "Trigger Happy Cop" after he shot a teenage boy in the back after the teen never dropped his weapon.The year after the incident, he is back from suspension but some of his teammates aren't exactly warm about his return such as Evans who believes "Mitch" is the liability of the team and claims Mitch is too sharp round the edges.
Mitch works for the CO19 firearms divison in the Metropol. Police.Mitch will usually be armed with a GLOCK 17 handgun and an MP-5 submac.

Eddie O'Connor-
Ed is an amateur boxer for his local gym, Shoreditch Boys Club and has been trained by a local hero and trainer, Danny West who has been working there for over 30 years, however the darkness is that the fact Danny has bad gambling habits and one of the days it gets out of hand, Ed and a few other people Danny knows including a codebreaker, another amateur boxer and a young girl hacker(Sam) but they get caught and all of Eds' teammates(with the exception of Sam) are killed.And to make matters worse, the same people bust into Shoreditch and kill Danny and one of Eds partners in crime son aswell as others.Eddie is hell bent on revenge.....

Sam-
Sam is a 19 year old stealthy and capable hacker, from far she looks like a docile teenager, she was one of Eddies partners-in-crime but luckily she wasn't captured.Now her and Eddie are fugitives after Danny's murder, she is forced to handle the stealth missions while Eddie goes after revenge

My ending was that all Mitch, Eddie and Sam survived the standoff(at the end, when Mitch and Ed have each other at gunpoint and Mitch goes to shoot Sam)...The ending I wanted anyway since I liked the characters

You have 4 minigames, Chase, taxi, race and freeroaming(the freedome aspect of the game)

In freeroam you get to play these characters:

Mitch(the only one that can't get Cops after him unlike the others listed)
Eddie
Sam
Yuri
Zara
Jamahl
Viktor Skobal(the man Ed wants to kill)

Pandigital 7-Inch LCD Digital Picture Frame
$119.99
This frame was extremely hard to work. It will hold photos for about two days and then the hard drive freezes and you must reformat. The help desk was not helpful in that the solution is to reformat everytime which is time consuming or that the frame was faulty. They also will not replace the frame if it has this issue.

Etymotic Research ER6i Isolator In-Ear Earphones (Black)
$99.99
After reading all the reviews and thinking the quality of the sound would be great I purchased these earbuds. Unfortunately, less expensive one's I found have better sound quality. Yet, they do stay in the canal of the ear well and are nice for running or active sports. If you are looking for great sound quality keep searching, these are not it. Sorry, would rather pick up another pair of $20 Sony Earbuds like I already own and save the difference.