WARNING: Don't read this if you spent hours queuing!

Are you sure your want me to carry on? Fare-thee-well, I shall

Today, a video game has just beat all records on this planet. People spent up to and above 30 hours queuing outside game stores all over Britain, in the freezing cold November weather, battling the elements the Gods threw at them. They fought through wind, rain and in some parts, even snow. Like on hills and mountains and stuff. I've written a few sentences and I can hear you screaming "What is this game? Please tell us for we are dying to know" even if you aren't. This game is of course, Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Now simply: why? Why is Call of Duty the best selling game ever?

As far as I can see the game is literally the same format time and time and time again. But so is Grand Theft Auto. And Need For Speed. And Burnout, and so on. But that isn't my jibe. The people, that's where my beef is. Whoooo would spend 30 hours waiting for A GAME? It's almost as bad as the people who queued for Harry Potter to come out (in the book sense not the closet sense. We'll be in for an even longer wait for that, now that there are no more books).

In my favouritest ever publication The Sun (simple things, simple minds) they highlighted Blops, as it known, because of its success. Actually, they didn't. They told how a video game can ruin a relationship. Oh my word! How can that be? What are video games becoming? It told the true tale of a man who is that obsessed with Call of Duty, he spends every waking minute shooting some teenager on the other side of the globe and his wife hates this "hobby" of his. She even said that it was becoming a second woman. The guy even snook his PS3 to a wedding and was found, rather embarrassingly, caught in the act of playing Call of Duty in a hotel room after saying he was going to the pub with a friend. Luckily, it wasn't his own wedding. Back in the days of Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario, everything was happy. Space Invaders is still stupidly addictive. But as far as splitting up a loving couple? Now, Euston, we do have a problem. Imagine the confrontation with the entire family and the explanation of the divorce. It would only be more awkward if one of them was actually a zombie drooling over the aspect of eating the families brains.

I stand by video games though. I have said it before that video games have become highly initiative in the past 10 years, which is a very short time. We've gone from 2D graphics to 3D, HD, interactivity that put you in the game and endless hours of joy and entertainment. Video games are the movies that you depict. But there's only one way that a war game can go. If you know your history, you should be able to predict who is going to win. Especially with it being set during the Vietnam War, a country that still has echoes of it's grisly past. I've never really seen eye to eye with a shoot-em up. Mainly because I see games like this as boring. I don't really see the appeal bouncing around a barren wasteland looking through my weapons to figure out which gun would be best to pick him off the top of the building. My head says "sniper rifle" in a very quiet voice but really both my head and my heart are shouting at me to use the rocket launcher - just to see this one bad guy go in a thousand directions at once. Out of the first person shooters I've played they've normally followed the same pattern each time: Start playing, run around, shoot the walls and doors and anything that isn't an enemy, run out of ammunition, see an enemy who ultimately starts shooting at me for no reason I can see (probably just had a really bad day), die, start again, blow up that baddy with my only rocket propelled grenade, run out of ammunition again, get shot again, turn it off and go fetch my guitar.

£50 for a game and another 250 quid on top of that for the console, if you're starting from the bottom. I've spent more than a thousand pounds on instruments. People may say I've wasted my money but honestly, that's not bothering me. I must say, it's rather a feat of accomplishment. So in conclusion, I will never wait for more than a day to get a video game. I am excited at the fact that in the near future, I will possibly own a PlayStation 3 and hopefully get with it Test Drive: Unlimited 2. Mainly because it has Ferrari on the car list and the only time I've ever "driven" a Ferrari in a video game was in OutRun at a Skegness arcade, in which I drifted a 288 GTO. Call of Duty on the other hand - I'd rather spend my 50 squids on guitar strings.