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Fight Night Round 4 - PS3 - katima

I crossed another island just to get this game actually. It was an all-day-ordeal just for one friggin game. But it was all worth it.

Good side: First of all, the graphics are so much better than Round 3. The faces looks real, the bodies, muscles, blood-sweat-and maybe even tears look awesome. This is the most realistic looking boxing game to date!

Bad side: The environment outside the ring however, isn't really a pretty picture. The fans look like it was copy and pasted out of NBA2K9, and ring entrances, which are usually unique and spectacular are all replaced by simple fire works, some smoke, and fancy lighting. They even took out the hot entourage girls. huhuhu. You'd expect the things around you going ballistic when you land a big punch, but not in FNR4 though.

Overall: If you're willing to look pass the things going on outside the ring and focus on what is going on the ring (Which matters the most) then you're in for a treat. I know *****ing about stuff outside the ring makes no diff, but I expect more next time around. I want people to go ballistic, trainers going nuts, and more people on the canvas when the match is over... now thats simulation right?

Good side: As for the sound, love the sound tracks. Great collection, and best of all, you can make your own entrance music. Tesetor and Atlas once again bring great commentary, and heck, you might even learn a new thing or two, if you listen to them carefully. Not that you shouldn't pay less attention to your match of course. The punches sound painful, with blows, crushes, and a lot more. Great worl with the sound effects. Spot on...

Bad side: Most likely, you'll be playing hundreds of matches, so by the 5th or 6th match you'll start noticing that the commentary gets repetative at times... if not in every match. The fans are not loud enough though. ...

Fight Night Round 4 - Xbox360 - katima

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: The Sealed Grimoire - DS - LinksOcarina

Soldiers of Fortune are usually a B-list affair in video games, hanging around with the likes of western stars, boxers, and poorly written thug types that populate games like Saints Row 2. Yet so many games actually star a mercenary, be it one man or a team. Let’s take a look at some of these games, and see how they compare.

Final Fantasy Tactics has had a checkered history over the years. After a long hibernation from the amazing debut on the Playstation, we are treated to some game boy advance ports that follow the rules of the popular FF XI MMORPG in terms of its character classes and design, with a simpler, light-hearted story dealing with children in a fantastical setting. Final Fantasy Tactics A2: The Sealed Grimoire, attempts to combine the more “adult” frame of mind of the first game and the “child like” innocence lost” feel of the second. The result? A really deep yet often times overly complex tactical game for the DS.

In FFTA2, you star is an unnamed child who, after messing around in school, is denied the start of his summer vacation and forced to help clean up the school library. Upon discovering a mysterious book with blank pages, the child is transported into Ivalice, where he is taken under the wing of Cid, a leader of a fledging clan, which performs odd jobs to generate fame and wealth. While Cid is helping you attempt to find a way ...

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - Xbox360 - LinksOcarina

When the first Mercenaries game out on the Playstation 2 and the original X-Box, it was met with great praise for being a fun, GTA-style game in a military setting. Working with various factions for the sole purpose of generating enough funds to buy more tanks than a squad led by general Patton was what made the game thrive in an otherwise flooded market of war games.

When Mercenaries 2: World in Flames hit the scene, it was met with significantly less praise. While the core gameplay structure was there, along with an improvement in graphics and controls, the charm had mostly wore off by the time the game was released, and subsequently, the loud booms by the airstrikes you called lost their “wow” value.

The game has you star as one of three defined Mercenaries in a war-torn Venezuela. Each merc actually has a special ...

Little Big Planet - PS3 - djdavis

Really great game!! It has wonderful grafics, great sound, wonderful gameplay, even if sometimes jumps are difficult just a little bit, but with a bit of practice it becomes really easy to play!! And it's infinitely loooong, with the Create Mode and the online community that contains thousands and thousands levels to play with other 2-3-4 players offline and online!! LBP is the best PS3 game (IMHO) and surely one of the best games of all times!!

Fallout 3: Point Lookout - Xbox360 - mooseodeath

another trip to the wasteland

this time however i don't really feel connected to what was happening. from the get go your barely told anything about what's going on. to the point you have no real story reasoning for being in point lookout to start with. even the the guy who takes you there sounds like a corny commercial.

really does anyone sits through his speech about how great point lookout is and not start wondering " did they get an intern to write this?"

unfortunately the story doesn't get much better, all of the quests smack of why am i doing this? the only real answer is usually because the quest marker says so. there is what i would consider two main quests. the chinese spy and the meeting the locals quest line which is considered the real main quest. the chinese spy mission was probably better written than the main quest line. and if you don't just follow quest markers has a real sense of achievemnt for finishing it. including two puzzles you might have to use your own brain to solve. lookout telltale bethesda's moving in on your territory

the unique weapons aren't much to write home about. except i will say the rifle is better than you might think and very handily takes 10mm rounds so that enormous sackful of ammunition you ditch at every trader you find is suddenly useful. it holds ten shots and with a full small arms skill will deal 45 damage making it more powerful than a sniper rifle with plentiful ammo.

i love fallout 3, and i;ve bought each content pack as it's released. this is probably the first one i've considered to be below par. anchorage followed it's storyline and gave legitimate reasons for it's circmstances occurung. the pitt actually explained the huge number of raiders thoughout the capital wasteland, as well as how ...

Dynasty Warriors 6 - Xbox360 - TheDiesel

~DYNASTY WARRIORS 6 REVIEW~
TheDiesel

Koei and Omega Force have one task in the videogame industry: make the same topic refreshing and

exciting many times over. With the first near 12 installments of the Dynasty Warriors saga behind us, they make their second addition to the XBox 360 with Dynasty Warriors 6, the newest installment in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Dynasty Warriors is one of the few lasting Beat Em' Up franchises left in the industry, with Dynasty

Warriors giving you control of one of over 40 characters to seize control of the land for their alliance. For anyone who has played any Dynasty Warriors game since the second one, you already know the story. Three Major Forces: Wu, Wei, and Shu, fight and battle to seize control of feudal China, with outstanding officiers and tacticians leading the way to waste thousands of soldiers on the battlefield. These characters range to burly men with gigantic ball & chains to ladies with bow & arrows, and all are running with new add-ons to the game, ranging from different weapons to the new Skill Screen.

The Skill Screen is Dynasty Warriors' new system where every level, you recieve a skill point to put in a

Mirror\'s Edge - PS3 - UrbanMasque

Sometimes I swear.. I just don't get GR. This is a very good game and an extremely unique concept. The graphics in Mirror's Edge are beautiful and the storyline is engaging - a big brother like society where these "runners" act as the only conscience citizen's during this time. Dying is a part of the gaming experience - at least they made falling to your death somewhat cool. The soundtrack fits perfectly with the ambiance the creators were trying to portray. I, for one, can't wait to see what they do with Mirror's Edge 2. Shame on you GR... Shame on you.
[Review to come]

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - PC - McCoy

Ah, The Elder Scrolls... I remember a few years back when I recieved The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for Christmas. And what fond memories I had of playing it. I was excited when I heard that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion had been released.

Now, the storyline, well, it's nothing overly special and different. Quite simply, the Emperor is assassinated, you are sent out to find his son, seal the dark gates of Oblivion, save the world, blah, blah, blah, quite honestly, I think we all know how this story goes without me saying much more. Thing is, it doesn't seem like it's extremely important either... I mean, you can go everywhere and yet no chaos breaks out at all. Oh well, anyway, aside from the main story, there are TONS of quests you can do, such as the Fighter's Guild, Mage's Guild, Thieve's Guild, Dark Brotherhood (my personal favorite) and tons of others.

There are many changes in Oblivion that I favored over Morrowind. One, food actually exists and is in practically every home. People actually HAVE lives, as they will go about their everyday business on their jobs, eating, talking to others, sleeping, you name it. Also, the possibility to purchase a horse or a home and furnishings to a home make it even more realistic. Another major overhaul on the realism factor is that objects are actually affected by gravity, while in Morrowind they weren't. When a creature dies, their body will go limp and striking their body will move their body/limbs accordingly. Flames actually hurt this time around... you can actually break out of jail... guards will hunt you down... the list could go on. All of this put together, you can see the depth of reality is nothing short of extrordinary. And the most amazing thing yet- the entire game is modifiable. Mods can be added and anyone can literally create anything using a Construction Set from the Elder Scrolls website, making limitations almost ...

Fallout 3: Point Lookout - Xbox360 - Ivory_Soul

The Good: Another amazing atmosphere to be drawn into, great missions, lots of stuff to explore and loot

The Bad: Still too short, not enough missions or weapons, we want more!

The highly anticipated Point Lookout is finally out and it does not disappoint. With this being the fourth DLC available for Fallout 3 you'd think Bethesda has started to run out of steam, but it seems they've just gotten started. The DLC starts out with a boat docking near the Jefferson Memorial and talking to a strange Tobar who tells you all about Point Lookout, Maryland and all it's great treasures and adventures. Sure it sounds great for the Hero/ine of the Wasteland, but just how dangerous is it? Well extremely and especially if you are under level 25 and without the Broken Steel DLC because they bog hillbillies are extremely tough to kill even with the Tesla Cannon (you get this in the Broken Steel DLC) hell even the Rocket Launcher won't kill them with one shot (must be all that Moonshine they drink).

While not giving too much of the story away, but you meet one AHOLE of a ghoul, try to find a woman named Nadine, a deceptive brain, a strange cult, and a woman who has you help her with her family recipe of Moonshine. The DLC is nothing short of amazing when it comes to atmosphere since it's just as lonely and creepy as the stuff on the disc (and The Pitt), with lots of fog, bogs, creepy hillbillies, strange buildings in the distance, and rads. Yes since most of the DLC has water in it you'll be getting irradiated quite a bit and this means you will need to bring some RadAway, and Rad-X with you.

One mission even requires you to swim away from the island and locate a sunken submarine underwater. You have one store in the game in the carnival, ...

Killzone 2 - PS3 - schimmel

Here I am again, GR, back with another super duper cool review! This one's not as old as my last, but I'm a bit behind the times since I only recently got a PS3 and just beat this awesome exclusive shooter.

Note: This is a review based solely on the offline component of this game. I have not yet connected to the internet to play online, and will not be doing so until later. When I have more experience of the online multiplayer I will go back and edit this, removing this note and adding an extra box for the multiplayer section.

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Killzone 2, the third game in the Killzone franchise, following Killzone for the PlayStation 2, and Killzone: Liberation for the PSP, is the first game in the storyline to actually deliver what it promises. The original was marked as a "Halo killer" and the PSP iteration simply promised more than it gave. Not saying that's a bad thing since they still were immensely popular with the people who bought and played them, but I also feel the reviews speak for themselves.

Anyway, on to the review!

The Story
The story in Killzone 2 picks up directly ...

Left 4 Dead - Xbox360 - ACDC345

Well, here's your chance to live a zombie apocalypse from the safety of your own home. Left 4 Dead is a first person shooter set in a time where zombies have taken over. There are four playable characters to choose from, but they all play the same, it's basically shoot, reload, move on, and shoot some more. Now at first this may not sound so fun, before you exit this page, let me tell you, it's by all means fun, for a little while anyway. Now, you'd have to be sick to say that you hate killing zombies. Anywho, the game takes place across four campaigns. The first is set in city in which you try to get to a hospital. The second is set out in a small town. The third is trying to get to an airport, and the final campaign is set in the woods which out of all of them, it was the creapiest. The A.I. dubbed the, Director, will knock up the number of zombies and special infected that come around. If you are doing exeptionally good, expect a large wave of the horde to come through. The Director also, expecially if you're doing good, will throw a few special infected at you, which are, The Smoker (who will snare you with his long tongue.) The Boomer (The Boomer, being the most common) The Witch ( she'll incapacitate you in no time, this is why you must avoid her.) The Tank( the largest and toughest of all of the special infected) and The Hunter ( who is an amazing jumper and can pin you easily. The whole point in Left 4 Dead is to fight the zombies with up to 3 other people and make it to the next safepoint. Each campaign has five chapter, with each beginning in a safehouse. You will usually have a choice between a SMG and a shotgun in the earlier levels of the campaigns, but later you'll get an Assault rifle, an auto shotgun, and a sniper rifle. The weapons are pretty tame here. You can only carry one explosive, such as a Molotov Cocktail, or a pipe bomb. The pipe bomb is expecially useful as the horde are drawn ...

Spectral Force 3 - Xbox360 - LinksOcarina

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Unless if you were born in Japan or have family in the land of the rising sun, you probably have never heard of the Spectral Force series until a few years ago. Once a exclusive in Japan, the series was able to achieve publishing, thanks to Atlus, for its first U.S release, simply titled Spectral Force 3, for the Xbox-360.

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It is somewhat ironic that the introduction to the series is a prequel to the series in Japan and the third title released. What is more troubling is the obvious lack of polish and soul on the product, despite some really clever nuggets of tactical RPG goodness.

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You star as Begina, a young mercenary who, in an obvious plot twist, takes over as the head of a diverse, motley group of mercenaries in large, ten kingdom war. Your job is to gain allies to your band of mercenaries, join up with the warring factions at your whim, and help in shaping the outcome of the war that is raging the world known as Neverland. Don’t expect to find Peter Pan here though, ...

Survivor - PC - UghRochester

The tribe has spoken. You are the weakest link. Goodbye.

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