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Jiminy Christmas, Sunday morning sucked. Most of Eat Lead is a cakewalk; you'll walk into a room full of baddies, grab some cover, and take the opponents out -- they stand in one spot and your crosshairs can be aligned before you pop out so headshots are simple -- but when I got to the Tramm monster, things hit the skids. See, after beating another room of fools, Matt quantum leapt onto a pirate ship thanks to QA -- his curvy, virtual guide through the game -- but a beast had its tentacles around both sides of the vessel. Matt needed to dogde the tips of the tendrils as they slammed into the deck of the ship and then take out the orange gems on the tip-heads as they got stuck in the boat. It sounds easy, but this boss battle becomes a battle against retarded mechanics. You need to run from impact hole to impact hole so that you can be in position to shoot the lodged tip. If you aren't moving with the holes, the beast will slam down on top of you and kill you in one hit. Add to the mix a bunch of bad guys who keep spawning into the mix, and you get a confusing/irritating battle with poor camera work thanks to obstacles on the deck and a limited POV (Where is the latest hole? I can't see it. What tendril is about to come down? I can't see it.). On top of that, I had one round where the holes got out of sync and the tentacle I was supposed to be shooting was getting stuck before the hole I needed to shoot from was getting created. By the time the hole was there, the gemmed tentacle was taking off. Worse, when I'd run into a spawned bad guy, I'd start to melee with him and the animation would take so long that we'd both get crushed by the beast.