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World Poker Tour - Xbox - cory-

The game doesn’t really have a storyline which I thought would be cool for a poker game since no poker game I have ever played did, and doing something like that would have been very original. To compensate the game window looks like you are playing online for real money. Graphics are alright. A tournament takes forever, so you are more likely to go “All Inâ�� 1,000,000 times before you actually win. On top of all that, I’d rather play online because this game is tkinda BO-Ring. Maybe it was made for people who don\'t have the \"internets.\"

Resident Evil: Outbreak - PS2 - xtvirusx

I only bought this game since I was incredibly bored and felt like shooting some zombies. I\'m a fan of the Resident Evil series already, and so approached this game with a fairly open mind.

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The characters you can choose to play from, first of all, are all new and have different strengths and weaknesses. I found myself playing as David, the plumber, for all of the levels, but of course you will find a character that suits your style of play and who you take a liking to after experimenting with them all. Other than your main character, you\'re thrown into each scenario with two other characters. One of them will usually wander off and meet up with you again at random points in the level, but you\'ll nearly always have at least one person by your side. Let\'s just say their AI isn\'t the best for starters. Apart from ignoring your commands of "this way" by saying things like "no thanks", they\'ll also run head first into a boss and end up getting themselves killed.

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So asides from characters, let\'s talk combat and weapons. The game uses pretty much the same aiming system as other Resident Evil games and there\'s quite a range of weapons. You can make your own weapons from random objects in the scenarios, or fight with things like pipes and crutches if you really don\'t want to use a handgun or shotgun. Unfortunately the space you have in your inventory, unless you play as Yoko, who has more space, is usually only enough to hold one or possibly two weapons if you also have key items to carry around and healing items. You can only hold four items, which is a bit of a shame but rather realistic I suppose.

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The environments are pretty nice to look at, and the graphics are fine for a Resident Evil game. Nothing spectacular, but there\'s definitley atmosphere. The range of enemies is also pretty good. Aside from ...

Alone in the Dark - Xbox360 - DWs

While i've spent 4-5 days hooked on the Bad Company multiplayer, i figured it was time to review Alone in the Dark.

To start, I found the game really enjoyable. When I first played it, I found the combat really irritating and difficult to grasp, and this led to me being chucked around a fair bit by the enemys, but now i've settled down somewhat. The Graphics are good, and the physics engine is, in a word, amazing. The way fire works is possibly alone in the darks biggest plus point. Everything that should burn, does burn. I once used a flaming bullet to put the window through of a car, and then slowly released i'd set the car on fire, and had to jump out. Moments like this make the game fun, and again, its the engine that should be applauded.

As for the story, it's pretty decent adventure game fare. You play as Edward Carnby and after a brilliant first two "episodes" escaping from a collapsing tower block, you find yourself in Central Park to solve a mystery. Yeah, the whole of central park. Central park is a pretty large place though, so you will have to use one of the many vehicles littered around to get there. In the run up to release, developers Eden used the dreaded words "open world enviroment" but this is untrue. While you have alot of ground you can cover, you dont have the Items to really go on a killing spree of sorts, and so generally you head for the nearest car and go straight for your next ...

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - PS3 - crazycracker22

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in all honesty I love Metal Gear Solid like my un-born child. Every huge game needs at least 1 douche to give it extremely low score. It\'s tradition now, like when someone say "Marco?" and you respond with "Fuck ...

Secret Agent Clank - PSP - Ivory_Soul

The Good: Super funny, improved controls, stealth play is light and welcomed, lots of replay value, some really cool weapons, amazing graphics and voice acting

The Bad: No multiplayer, Ratchet\'s sections are repetitive, the key mini-game is lame, very short

A lot of people hated Size Matters due to the fact that it had poor controls, and felt more like a console port. SAC was made from the ground up and feels more portable friendly. You play the main story as Clank who is a umm...secret agent and has to stop the thief of the Eye of Infinity which will destroy the entire galaxy.

Throughout the game you use stealth by sneaking up behind enemies, pressing square, and executing a series of buttons before the timer runs out. This is very refreshing and never really gets boring. What I really liked about the stealth is that it\'s not demanding and doesn\'t have you hiding in shadows or keeping your noise down. You can just run up behind enemies and even their line of sight is fairly short. You can use some very clever weapons such as the Tangle Carnation which releases pods that eat enemies, the holo-monacle which lest you disguise yourself as the enemy, and even cufflink bombs. You also perform some well designed platforming, solve some simple puzzles with your special key (it\'s probably the worst mini-game in the whole game). While you prance around as Clank you can use your Gadgebots to unlock doors through a series of puzzles you have to solve and these are super fun and addictive.

Clank also has some mini-games of his own such as snowboarding, and a ...

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue - PS3 - LifeOfAPirate

For the price of 39.99 they really only wanted to keep up salvating at the thought of GT5. This game is highly enjoyable but there is not much offered in terms of what they allow us to do besides race and race online. This demo could've been twice the experience had they given the option even if minimal to upgrade your cars and to adjust varies variables in terms of shocks and gear ratios and everything else that comes along with racing games. The graphics especially the in car view is stellar. The replays look almost lifelike and the simulation controls are amazing as well, even though I would have to say that some cars in the game can't do simple turns at 45 miles an hour without seeming to slow down to 15 but no one can be perfect. The demo might leave you stuck trying a few times on certain races but all in all proves to be no challenge getting through all the races. The online mode even though very minimal is very solid and it is fun to get on with friends and race around the courses to test your skills. I'll probably be trading this one in before it price drops down to a demo price but nontheless a fun play for the money I'd probably suggest renting this one but if your a solid fan of the serious and plan to play online more then a purchase is right up your alley. Fun thrills at a reduced prices but remember your only getting a taste of things to come.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - PS3 - LifeOfAPirate

Kojima seemed to fail at one thing in this game and that would be the actual amount of time you spend playing the game, and I dont mean watching videos which seems to be more time consuming that the amount of time you actually play the game. The game is kickass beginning to end. The moves list especially CQC is vastly improved. The story was alittle all over the place but it does sum up the whole MGS experience very nicely. I am currently playing online which I dont see a use for the Konami ID thing besides the fact that when you purchase something through the game it doesn't go to Playstations pocket but rather straight to Konami themselves, the online for this game is awesome actually got me to switch to it from COD4: Modern Combat but that is neither here nor there. The graphics are amazing and playing on 1080p just upped the experience even more in terms of visuals. The Drebin system is kinda cheesy as it only brings easy restocking of ammo and makes use of inventory items pretty much non restricted since it is so easy to replenish. Boss battles are far too easy compared to the other games. I had no challenge whatsoever in defeating any of the bosses, which was my second and last factor is giving this game a B+ I can see why some people give it and A and whatnot but I think that they could've put alittle more effort into making the game more challenging and advancing the AI on bosses. All in all a must buy for Playstation 3 and you shouldn't be disappointed by any means but there are a few things that could be improved but from all the BS that was going around on this game in terms of Kojima vs PS3 it turned out very well.

God Hand - PS2 - Tyrranis

Smite them fools!

I think we can all say that we will miss Clover Studios. Although they really only brought us Okami, the game was so damn awesome that, upon its release, everyone stood up and took notice, only to sit down to 5+ hour sittings with the game that would later win multiple GOTY awards.

Well, their last game ever may not have been such a great commercial success, but it certainly is \'ending on a high note\'.

Then again, when you get to stomp midget Power Rangers into the ground, it\'s not going to be anything but a high note, huh? Welcome to God Hand!

The plot of God Hand is simple. You play as Gene, a guy who got in the wrong place at the wrong time. After saving a girl called Olivia from a trio of thugs, you get your right arm cut off. You wake up some time later to find that Olivia has given you the God Hand (which is an entire arm, don\'t get me started), and now she is getting you to use this new apendage to lay some holy smackdown on thugs, dominatrixs and demons.

Sounds easy? Well, forget about that. This game is hard. Really hard. Fortunately, the game knows just how hard it is, in that checkpoints are both plentiful and close together, so that upon your inevitable death you don\'t start off too far back from where you were. Unfortunately, you restart the area completely, meaning all enemies come back as well. Levels are also rated not on the time you completed them, but how many continues you use.

The game also takes further measures to ramp up the difficulty, in spite of this frequent checkpoint-ness. By defeating enemies, you fill an ...

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Wii - Master_Craig

You know what's annoying? Waiting for games that you want to play, but wait, there's more. What could be more annoying? Waiting for games that are already out, to come to your country. I'm in Australia, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl has finally arrived here. Out in Japan in January, out in America in March, out in the rest of the world in late June. The hype is well over, and many people are already losing interest in the game, but there are also many who are playing as I type. For us people who only got the game recently, was it worth the wait?

It's been six years since the release of Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Nintendo Game Cube, and it's been nine years since the release of the very first Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64. Now, I ask again, has the wait been worth it?

As mentioned, Brawl is the third of the Smash Bros. franchise, this time for the Nintendo Wii. It has changed quite a bit since the N64 days, but how much has it changed exactly?

We'll talk about what everyone claims the game is about. Multiplayer. Brawl delivers, in this department. Once again, players on the one console can duke it out from two to four players, with additional and optional computer controlled opponents (up to four total combatants). There's the simple free for all or team battle, and making returns are the time matches, stock matches (survival) and coin matches. Special rules also make a return, and there are quite a number of stages to be played on, even more to be unlocked.

I'd like to get this out of the road quickly before I talk about anything else. Online multiplayer. Brawl has it. How does ...

Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire - PC - nieBBa

Some improvements

Alien Crossfire is basically the same game as SMAC without expansion , but it ads some nice things that make game more enjoyable.

Just like original it starts with movie but in that movie two alien ships fire at each other and crash to planet...

So there is 7 new factions and 2 of em' are aliens the Caretakers and the Unsurpers (both start with extra-powerfull ogres) at the start they are best. There are other factions which are humans (I found that Nautilus Pirates are best cos' they start at sea) at the start you can choose factions (7) from 14 or make your own (includes custom faction editor).

Game changes are here: Bases won't start automated and they inform you about ready buildings, but not about troops. Many new techs, Alien techs like resonanse armors and guns. New ''wonders'' and facilities. New alien units like Sea lurk: worse than Isle of Deep.
New ''corruption'' system which increases drones when exeeding certain amount of bases.
More story thingy , the meeting of aliens. Also other small things.

This expansion is must if you have SMAC

4 more info http://www.firaxis.com/smac/

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Xbox360 - aflockofnoobs

The devolepers of this game tried to make the ultimate cinematic game expierance, and they came kind of close. I really did love the mission when your are in the AC-130, but even that seemed fake. Your running around killing thousands upon thousands of terrorist. Like there is millions of them. And some times it takes almost no thought to kill them. As im running around the slums of some random desert city, im wondering WHERE THE HELL DO THEY ALL COME FROM?!? LIKE THEIR IS MILLIONS! And you have to kill all of them. And it is the easiest damn thing since pong. Scratch that. Its probaly easier. They all die in almost no effort on your part. It takes about, what 2 shots to kill anyone. At least in pong the ball bounced around. In this, the ball(the terrorist), just stand their firing mindlessly past you. And the multiplayer? Dont get me started. No matter what your doing on there, if a program is running on your computer Call of Duty 4 multiplayer is just terrible. And even if it does work, the maps look exactly like the singleplayer missions. A change of scenory would be nice. And then there is martyrdom. God how i love martyrdom. Every three seconds, there are explosians EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like seriously, what the @#!%? Well that about sums up what i have to say.......oh and Call of Duty World at War is probaly gonna suck. I think we got enough WW2 games. Dont assasinate me. Peace.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - PS3 - scarface910

I dont think this game is very good. What about meryl..............this game froze afew times on my ps3, i dont think I want to play this game anymore becaues of the fact that it froze. why did it freeze, i was so mad and angry when that dreadful day came. It could have been karma, I dont remember doing anything bad that would end up in my game freezing.....

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - PS3 - Master_Craig

Disclaimer: I know this game has an online feature, Metal Gear: Online, however I will not be reviewing Metal Gear: Online because I have been having issues in attempting to connect with it, and thus I have not played it yet. This review is for the single player campaign of Metal Gear Solid 4 only.

So it's finally here. Legendary game designer Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the highly anticipated sequel of the critically acclaimed Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. This time though, it's the final chapter of the Metal Gear Solid saga, this is indeed Solid Snake's final mission. Does it live up to the hype and does Solid Snake successfully complete his mission? Or does Solid Snake unfortunately, ultimately fail?

Unlike the third installment, players will once again take control of Solid Snake, now known as "Old Snake". To begin with, Snake is now an old man, despite this story set five mere years after the Big Shell Incident of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Unknown to Snake, his old friend Otacon and several doctors they have seen, Snake's age is rapidly increasing, as Snake assumes he has "a year at best" remaining. Shortly after the introduction of Otacon, Old Snake is recruited by his old friend Otacon and Colonel Campbell, who are sending this old war veteran on a final mission to the middle east, to eliminate Liquid Snake. Liquid Snake has amassed forces within his PMCs (Private Military Contractors) which now fight wars for governments, and ...

Dukes of Hazzard: Racing for Home, The - PS - Cody41393

I was a kid when I first played. It was on the computer, and I played it almost all the time. But know that I looked back on it, I said to myself "WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING?" The game was horrible if I remember correctly. They hardly through in any Dukes-style jumps. What a piece of scum-suckin' ****. It makes me wanna **** into a box, and send it to Sony Inc. The disc ended up breakin, and we couldn't play it anymore. I should've been smart enough to realize that was a blesaing...

Full Throttle - PC - subcalvin

First of all I know this is a old game, butt hat does not mean its not a good one. I got my hands on this gem from the past a few days ago (I haven’t seen it since it came out and my brother borrowed it from a friend) and I had to play trough it. For those of you who have not played this game pull your lower lip over your head and staple it, shame on you, this game is from the good old days. Play it!

Long story short you play the game as Ben, a rough and rugged biker who gets framed for murder and had to clear his name. We are not talking Shakespeare here, but the story works well and the game has a good cast of characters.

As far as gameplay goes we are back in point and click country, I am pretty sure all of you know what I am talking about, there still are a few around. So in other words its hard to mess up the controls. As far as puzzles go I have to ...

Condemned 2: Bloodshot - Xbox360 - DWs

So, i'm going to talk alittle bit about Condemned 2.
The single player keeps dragging me in and keeping me up long into the night, and i'm finding it a refreshing change from my usual diet of straight up FPS games.

The first Condemned was a pretty average game that i got with my 360 I enjoyed it quite alot, and thought it showed alot of promise, despite a few little flaws which in my opinion, stopped it from being an outstanding game.

My main problem with the first Condemned was the overly basic combat. You picked up the nearest bit of wood and hit the nearest enemy with it till they died. Occasionally, you got a firearm, in which case you shot the nearest enemy with it until they died. then you went back to your trusty bit of wood. this is not the case in condemned 2, here theres a wide variety of melee attacks, combo's and the added ability to throw your weapon ,which makes the games combat far more then a simple "hammer the right trigger" affair.

And then there was the forensics. In the first game, they were widely flaunted as a big aspect of the game, but by and large, this boiled down to getting a glowy blue UV light, and shining it over the wall. In the second, this too has been improved, with multiple choice questions at the crime scene.

I have a vague issue with games asking me to analyse blood splatters and exit wounds like a modern day ...

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Xbox360 - Icepick

How can one go about describing vastness? What words can you use to explain the epic scope of Oblivion? Saying it's big some how fails to sum it up. Not being a master of language, or someone who's being paid to do this, I'm just going to state Oblivion is big, Rosie O'Donnell big.

The Elder Scrolls have always been a fascinating series, not withstanding a spin off that failed miserably, the game sets a plot, which genuinley is more intriguing than most games. Dumps you into the middle of.. well a town on the edge of nowhere, and says heres your toys, go play. It's not so much the gameplay, or the details, as it is the sheer scope of doing whatever you please whenever you please that attracts gamers to this gem.

That being said, does Oblivion live up to the expectations from Morrowind? Well in a short answer no. As earlier stated, the games appeal lies within it's impressive girth. Oblivion managed to dumb down Morrowind, and it's a shame, it's as if they feel console gamers just aren't up to snuff with PC gamers, and while I'd probably argue the exact same point, if that's the case why tailor the game to them? While I appreciate the ease of access the new menu system provides, the good comes in with the bad. There is a lot of dropped content, and when I say a lot, I mean Rosie just became Paris Hilton.

Heres a fine example of what's been dropped:

-Spears

-Medium Armor

-Enchanting (while it's present, it's nowhere near as complex)

-Short sword skills

-Crossbows

-Throwing weapons

-Levitation

Now that's not nearly all, but it still goes to show that it's more or less Morrowind light, and for those who enjoyed the massive expanse ...

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - PS3 - shandog137

Hands down, the greatest iteration of the game. I won\'t break down the points given to graphics, audio, and story etc... simply because they were all exceptional and there will be ton\'s of reviews for this game all in the A to A+ range. The story takes on a more prominent role in this game to the point that I started falling asleep through a couple 15-20 minutes sequences. These can be skipped but they flesh out the story the first time though and are presented so fluidly and interchangebly with gameplay that you can\'t fault them too much for them being so long (longer so than any of the earlier games, or any game for that matter).

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Aside from the long cutscenes they have pretty much set a new standard for graphical quality on nex gen systems. The water effects, explosions, facial features, and environments are all top notch. The graphics are so good that it becomes a bit awkward when the camera ends up taking a high def close -up of Snake\'s crack (some things are better viewed at low res).

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I have experienced 4 boss battles so far and there are numerous ways to defeat each. On Solid (Normal) mode the bosses seemed a bit easy but I have no doubt that since there are 2-3 difficulty levels higher there should be a challenge for every skill level. Boss fights fit the classic form of either taking them out lethally or by non-lethal means. This provides different items depending on which route you take to dispatch them and also adds to the replay value.

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The sound effects and musical score are also classic MGS style but taken to the next level particularly if you have a good surround sound setup. Kojima has implemented a new feature in this game which produces a circle around Snake during gameplay to symbolize his sense of the environment. It is awesome to see how well this feature matches up with the surround ...

Company Of Heroes - PC - JV35

The initial reference point has to be to Knights of the Old Republic.

Before Bioware's role-playing game arrived, anybody who didn't sleep in Yoda pajamas was thoroughly sick with all things Star Wars. Between a string of uninspiring-at-best games and a couple of dreadful films, the galaxy that was a long, long way away wasn't long enough away for most. Then KOTOR appeared with a lot of style and even more vision and made everyone like all this lightsabre nonsense again, unreservedly. The universe had its romance renewed.

For the last half-decade, World War 2 has been similarly run into the ground. The grand conflict between the allied and axis powers is, in videogame terms, the biggest single licence that isn't actually a real licence. Make a WW2 game, and you've got an inbuilt audience, background, world-class character designs, interesting situations and probably the best villains the world has ever seen. But because anyone can make a game set in WW2... everybody did. It's got to the point where we feel as if we've done it all before. How many times have we crawled up the shingles of Omaha beach? If you added up all my virtual deaths in those bloody shallows, it's entirely possible that I've lost more lives than were lost in the real assault. Turn to the comments thread in any World War 2 game preview, and you'll see a string of people shrugging. Bored now! Bored now! Seen this before! What's next?

To make a WW2 game that matters, you need to make something special enough to cut through that armour of cynicism.

Company of Heroes: something special.

At first glance it's a standard RTS... actually, scratch that. "At first glance" Company of Heroes is immediately special. It's more that on paper Company of Heroes sounds like a standard ...

Crysis - PC - JV35

It was about two hours into Crysis when I began to realise just how good it might be. The first couple of hours had been fairly unremarkable - there were some predictable first-person cut-scenes, a linear intro level, some spooky goings-on, US military deployment, you know the sort of thing. I had watched the sun come up across the island and seen the kind of tropical Far-Cry-revisited scenes that we'd all been expecting. I had even barrelled through the first of the villages and used some of the suit-powers (which your buffed up future marine has at his disposal from the start) to kill off some enemies. But it wasn't until a little later that I sat back and actually looked at it.

Crysis is much more than a highly accomplished graphics engine, to be sure, but let me just get this across to you for a moment. Playing on a high-end PC (for Crysis runs best on a Quad Core beast with a DirectX 10 card) it was so good that I had almost failed to notice the sheer immensity of visual information it was delivering. The Crysis environments are so naturalistic, so close to realism, that you find yourself thinking: "of course, because that's how things are supposed to look." It takes a few moments to step back and really look. I was in a stretch of a forested valley. The sun was shining down on the rocks across the valley, reflecting light with that certain stony gleam that long-polished rocks have about them. Those same sunbeams were filtering through the trees and casting dappled shadows across the exquisitely detailed forest floor. This is that HDR stuff deployed as it was meant to be - with a slight haze that jungles have about them, with the yellow sun dropping beams of light through the waving branches overhead. The jungle was alive. Ahead of me vegetation flicked and moved: enemies approached.

Haze - PS3 - Oscihedgehog

I bought this gaming half expecting the world of it, Nectar supposedly making you next to invincible and a gigantic array of future tech and weapons. Boy was that a let down... The guns in this are like the difference between teams in strategy games of old- Basically the same but with a few numbers changed and a different paint job (except for the Rebels Flamthrower and gating-esque gun). I got playing and though well perhaps it will be awesome fun, despite the lack of an armoury that a private army would likely have, let alone a government run army. Dissapointed again, the gameplay was somewhat bland, lacking real challenge until you whack it up to hardest when you get slaughtered by mad nectar aimbots...which isnt too fun. The graphics could be pretty, but like all games nowadays they have used that most beutiful palette of brown- grey, but for kicks they added yellow, sparesly dotting it on and around anything Mantel-owned. The multiplayer is better then the single player I would say...but there isnt enough variety, play the same map a few times and you can win it easily enough assuming the other team isnt entirely composed of snipers, which it often is.
Overall a fairly average game, which is a disspointment as it is from the guys who brought us the joy of Timesplitters, as in the review.
Oh well, better luck next time...

Urbz: Sims in the City, The - PS2 - jong4tv

One word good but not as great other games in the series

The opening to the game is make the game look great as the song called Let's Get started IN Here by The Black Eyed Peas

The Tralier of this game was very big make this game look great if was a add-on to The Sims 1 on PC

The Story : You make your own Sims and start will apartment that you need to use your first power up as guitor use make but before that you choose a place to start in the city first place in the city like Neon Place or Bilker place or the main subway station and any other places in the city. There a skateboard place in the game that is the easy for people only start play this game. Your goal is is great very famour in the game by lots of stuff by use that called power up's make more star on rating and other ways that I think can't lots of. Final score C+ not a real story make it up because I can't found a story on the world web

The Gameplay; There lots of stuff to talk about. You need get money use for rent by when a guy comeover to your apartment or any place you are and he want the money or if do not have the money the use a gun and remove stuff like a chair that cost 1,000 $ and maybe a TV that cost 300 $. There a clothing that is famours all the places that go in the game and there all ways a clothing shop in ...

Viking: Battle for Asgard - Xbox360 - LinksOcarina

Normally I don\'t rent games anymore, it\'s $7.00 for week and usually the store has crap to begin with. But I was listening to some Norwegian Death Metal and I felt a craving to kill, dismember and cut apart enemies in a violent, button mashing romp. I figured Viking would be the perfect choice, since Vikings are natives to Norway anyway. So I spent my on it and in three days I got bored with it, returned it and kicked myself for wasting $7.00, which can be put to good use like poker or paying off college loans.

While I wasn\'t going to expect much from Viking to begin with, I was surprised as to how poorly it was made. Sure, there was a lot of combat, dismemberment, blood and guts, but overall a lot of the problems stem from what was done to make the game different from other genre favorites like Dynasty Warriors. It is here that Viking tries to blaze a new trail, but fails.

The games biggest sin is the fact that the controls are very obtuse. Our hero, a Aryan chap named Skarin is called on by Freya to destroy the armies of Hel in epic, Norse mythological combat. And while the game tries to be God of War in it\'s retelling of the Norse mythology, it backfires thanks to poor control design. Skarin moves like he has two tons stuck to his ankles, mistakes himself for Solid Snake in poorly designed, trial and error sneaking missions, has simple combo attacks that entail a "press these buttons in sequence rapidly scheme", and his enemies are pretty dumb. As brutal as the game does ...

Quake 4 - Xbox360 - Ivory_Soul

The Good: Portrays a great atmosphere, pretty good graphics and sound, fun vehicle sections, weapon upgrades let you mix up strategy, very gruesome

The Bad: Framerate can't keep up with the action, no one plays online, lame ending, feels redundant after awhile, it's kind of short

This marks the fourth installment in Johnny Boy's Quake brain child. Running all the way back to 1994 Quake was kind of a "palette swap of Doom" and it's strong point being the multiplayer. Quake 4 changes that with an excellent single player experience. Unlike Doom 3 Quake 4 is more of a "on rails shooter" where it guides you through a lot of scary and tense scripted events. These work for the game and separates it from it's brethren.

You play as Kane who is a soldier that has to help stop the Strogg invasion by destroying them at their core; the Nexus. As you make your way to the Nexus you can pick up a ton of cool weapons, upgrades, and even turn into a Strogg yourself. The weapons range from your piddly blaster to a dark matter gun. You have your railgun, a nailgun, shotgun, lightning gun etc. Throughout the campaign you can unlock upgrades for these weapons like clip extenders, scopes, and extra damage. This let's you easily change your strategy around and what gun works in what situation.

The game has some pretty neat enemies types ranging from Grunts that rush you with their bulky body or Berserker's who are all about melee. You have floating enemies that shoot rockets at you, you have giant spider robots, you even have massive Strogg ...

New Super Mario Bros - DS - jong4tv

Very fun to play this game

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Will not talk about the opening because the story in the opening

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Move on to the story

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The story: In the opening Mario and peach are going for a walk in Mushroom land near the castle then Baby Bowser as attack the castle then Mario go over to the castle to help the mushroom people called Toads. But when Mario leave princess peach along then baby bowser come out from somewhere that is on the screen and kipnapped. Mario try to safe peach from baby bowser but baby bowser runs very fast in boss castle\'s on the away of worlds. Every super mario bro\'s games had that same story but not super mario 2 for NES that Nintendo rip-off other game ship to American so Japan say you are dumb North American that not real game. Final score B+ because it is same story but bowser does not kidnapped but bowser son does.

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The Gameplay: It the copy of other Super Mario Bro\'s games in the series do back to 1985 when the first game and the NES come out in North American. The select screen of level\'s and the item shops that when first in Super Mario bro\'s 3. You get 8 worlds in the game but one thing there secret worlds like in forest and other place is clouds like one in Super Mario bro\'s. The item there all items from Super Mario the first Super Mario bro\'s like fire Flower, mushrooms and when hit stuff dies or get destroy and you get extrax lives. There is new items like the big mushroom that makes very big destroy anything and give more lives. There a scoreboard one thing think the people at Nintendo American and Nintendo Japan play some old school games lots of games of new games have no scoreboard and who care\'s about points any way. The bad guys are the one you found are the ones you can found in other past Super Mario bro\'s games. The ...

Metroid Prime - GameCube - Ivory_Soul

The Good: Superb visuals and audio, links with Metroid Fusion, lots of exploring, fun boss fights

The Bad: Doesn't evolve the formula, constant backtracking is tedious, lousy save system, funky controls, no multiplayer, getting 100% is nigh impossible without a FAQ, not enough Morph Ball sections

I could never really get into the Metroid series due to it's lack of a decent story. While Samus Aran is a gaming pinnacle there's not much behind her besides she's an orphan raised by the Chozo race of Tallon IV. A "Great Poison" came to the planet from a meteor impact and ever since the Chozo had to flee their homeworld. Samus, being armed with Chozo armor and weapons, attempts to save the world from the Space Pirates and jellyfish...I mean Metroid.

The game consists of five huge levels that you go back and forth from finding upgrades to your suit. There are a total of 4 weapons, 4 weapons upgrades, plus a few Morph Ball upgrades etc. My favorite part of the game are the cool Morph Ball sections yet there aren't enough of them. You can, eventually, use the Spider Track Ball upgrade to click to ceilings and walls and there are some really cool segments for this yet only a few. You explore each level by needing to use a certain upgrade to get through such as a door needing a certain weapon to open it. You can also get missile expansion upgrades, power bomb upgrades, and energy tank (life) upgrades, but most of these are extremely hard to find and only die hard Metroid fans will spend the time finding them. On the other hand there are tons of different enemy types and cool bosses. The game is just about exploring and now that it's in 3D Nintendo really makes you ...

Mario Kart Wii - Wii - Master_Craig

The Mario Kart franchise, wow that's been around for a while now hasn't it? From Super Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo, to Mario Kart 64, Mario Kart: Double Dash!! on the Nintendo Game Cube, and the ones on the hand held consoles. Under two months ago from the moment I type this, the latest Mario Kart for the Nintendo Wii came up and about. I've been playing it for quite some time, so I've decided to throw out my thoughts.

Mario Kart: Wii is the latest of the Mario franchise, and since it's called Mario Kart: "Wii", obviously this game is all about motion controls. Each copy of Mario Kart: Wii comes with an official Nintendo Wii wheel, a plastic mold you securely and easily put your Wii remote inside of. Thus, using the wheel itself like an actual steering wheel and the motion controls, and that's how you race. At least, one of the methods of racing.

For those who may not enjoy using the Wii wheel/the motion control scheme, they can go back to either a Nintendo Game Cube controller, use a Wii nunchuck and remote, or use a Wii classic controller. The choice for controller type and preference is quite broad.

The Wii motion control scheme accompanied by the wheel however, feels quite good and solid, in my opinion. The 1 button is used to brake/reverse, the 2 button is used to accelerate, the A button is used to look behind you, and the D-Pad controls acquired items. The B trigger controls brakes, and drifting (power sliding, sharp turns etc). Most of it is fairly solid, but occasionally you might accidentally drift the wrong way, which leads to nowhere, and can waste a lot of time and have you getting pushed back in the race. Regardless, the Wii wheel is easy to use, and the Wii's motion control scheme is fairly solid for this title.

So apart from karts, motorbikes have been introduced to the game. Bikes work differently ...

Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace - PS - Psychopath

StarWars the Phantom Menace, there's a good reason that I keep this at the very, very back of my PS1 library, althought the game has it's advantage's, it's not the best game in the world, and it's not the worst either. So lets begin.

This game pratically put's a condom on all your gaming sensibility, either play it safe, do a lot of waiting, stradegizing, hiding and fight as little as possible through out the whole game, or you can run out into the open and get your ass gang banged in less than 20 seconds, thus making cheat code's mandatory

The camera, it's very, very stubborn, trying to maneuver the camera and the character is *****, plain and simple. These sluggish camera controls basically render your skills as a gamer to the point where simple maneuver's are difficult to control, it's due to this problem alone that you'll find yourself getting killed more than often.

The plot is basically a replica of the movie, you start off fighting your way off the Trade Confederation ship and you end up landing on Nabu where you meet Jar-Jar Bink's whose a complete coward and if he dies while he's aimlessly wandering around in the crossfire you lose and you have to start off from the absolute beginning of the level, not to say that there arent save points or checkpoints, you always have the ability to save in mid game. It's remembering that you have that option that make's the game near impossible to beat.

Basically, in games like this, if your accuracy and timing is off just a little bit, you're ****ed and there's no saving grace beside's the incessant manual reloading you have to do just to try again without falling into a pit and dying.

The controls are stiff as hell, trying to make an accurate jump onto a platform is ...

Peter Jackson's King Kong - PS2 - Cody41393

I'll give it an A-, and I'll tell you why. First off, the gameplay is ship-shape. No life bars or compass's or any of that crap to fill up the screen. You are really immersed into the life of Jack Driscoll as he proceeds through skull island. I'll admit, the levels do get a little repetitive, but most of the levels have their own plot. I've been stuck on the "Find Hayes" level for a while, and with the cheat to unlock all levels, I never would've seen the rest of the game.

In conclusion, the Jack levels are fun, though some repeat themselves to no end. The Kong levels are awesome as well, because of the different camera angles, and the fights with the V-Rex's. Overall, it get's an A- from me...

Phoenix Wright - DS - wildmario

Many games nowadays always make you play as a hero or anti hero who finds it OK to use whatever forms of violence to achieve their goals. Not so in this game where you play the role of a defense attorney rookie named Phoenix Wright who\'s sole purpose is to prove his clients are not guilty. There\'s reading, and LOTS of it, whether by characters or examination.

First, the game is generally divided into two parts, which are the trials and investigating the crime scene. During the trials, you\'ll listen to everyone\'s views and ideas on the current case and you\'ll seriously have to pay attention. However, sometimes your mind will wander as the text slowly scrolls by and you can\'t exactly go back and reread what you missed. When the prosecution calls a witness to the stand, it\'s up to you to find any contradictions in their testimony. Pressing the witness will usually get more information which may cause that part of the testimony to change details. Presenting evidence at the right time will help reveal more of the truth to the case, but present the wrong one and you lose a mark. Lose all your marks and it\'s a game over. For fun, you can scream HOLD IT! into the mic when pressing and OBJECTION! when you think you found a contradiction. Apparently every witness in the world is a liar because they all seem to be hiding something.

When you\'re not in court, you will be at various locations to find clues to help your case. You can use the touch screen to examine the area for any hidden details, but sometimes this can turn into a pixel hunt since some of the clues can be so damn tiny. You can also talk to people and present various items to them to get more information, but this can also drag on since you will probably have no idea what to present and will try to present every piece of evidence you have until the person recognizes it. This ...