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bionic commando

2010-11-19T01:28:00.000-08:00

bionic commando

Although it had it's share of problems, I found this game to be pretty fun at times.
swinging around, flying enemies off into the distance or at each other or using stuff just laying about to toss around such as cars or boulders.
but you don't get to do most of the cool things in the game until half way in, until which you have to use guns to get around, but just using guns I think makes the game a bit average, I mean, whats the point of having that arm if you're not gonna use it right?

One thing I want to point out is the annoying as hell loading screens that pop up over and over and over.
I might not have minded them so much if they had better or at least different loading screens, It didn't take long for me to get sick of the same blue screen with a floating controller shown countless times.

I thought the scenery looked really good, but don't be tricked, just because it looks like you can go somewhere, doesn't mean you can, and just because you can, don't mean you should, because instant death lurks around every corner, literally.

In stead of placing walls or warning sings where you should go, they just kill you after you go there, and most of the time you'll have no idea whether or not you're allowed to go somewhere until the game kills you for going the wrong way.
Sometimes they might make you swing past low buildings, but if you dare climb on top of the building your on, you'll die, and they hide (useless) collectibles around, so it's only natural to you know, look for them.

I kind of liked how you can tell one boss to "shut the fuck up already" if you've heard what he said once already.
but I found that same fight a bit strange, the game doesn't really have gore in it, but the main character finishes off this boss in a cut scene after his arms and legs blew up/off by sticking a grenade in his mouth and kicking him off a very tall robot, where at his head blows up and splatters the screen.

spoiler alert!

His wife is his arm, how stupid can a plot twist get?
that's almost as stupid as the bad guys, pretending to be good guys, and sending the main character to go kill all the bad guys, (themselves) and wanting him to find something, they would have, and did find anyway.
something they never bothered to name, or say what was, they just always called it "the item" in the end, just looked like a big battery used to power a robot that was easily killed in a cut scene with just a few head bunts.
The whole storyt was just stupid.

DJ Hero

2010-10-22T00:07:00.000-07:00

DJ hero, yet another music/rhythm game..

What can I say about this game?

If you've ever played guitar hero, you probably have a good idea of what kind of game this is, and if you've played beat mania, you'd know how much of a shameless ripoff this game is

But if people in the west haven't heard of the original, then it's okay to rip it off and call it original right activision?

game play is just like that of guitar hero, press the same button matching whats show blah blah nothing anyone can't guess.

Not really much to really say about this game because there just isn't much to the game.

It's got a nice selection of in game turn tables, but you'll hardly ever see them when playing, DJ's on the other are much more viable, but there isn't as good of a selection.

specking of selection, I've got to say, in my option, the song selection in this game sucks, if you're into rap then you might did this.

Besides, I feel like they reuse the same crap to often in this game, between the fact that all the tracks in this game are mixes of two songs and the limited selection of licensed songs, they use many of the same songs repeatedly, mix and matching with other songs that do the same, and not even that well I think.

I swear if I hear that shitty hallar back girl song one more time I'll shoot myself.

But for that it's worth, it can be fun once you find a song you like.

If nothing else, at least the controller is kind of cool, even if it can't be used for any other games.

mercenaries 2

2010-10-12T23:38:00.000-07:00

I'm just gonna come strait out and say it, I thought mercenaries 2 was awesome.

I don't think it takes a rocket scientist here to figure out this game doesn't have a very deep story to it.

you're character is fucked over, and you're to get revenge.

That's pretty much the story here.

The real name of the game here is blow stuff up in an open world.

sure, it's true a lot of things about this game are stupid, wrong or just bad, like how you have better aim when not zoomed in, how they incorporated god damn quick time events, how unbelievably stupid ai can be, it's almost as if they're not just brain dead but suicidal.

Air Strikes man, air strikes are a very big part of this game, I swear they never shut up about the damn things and want you to use them all the damn time, but the problem with them is, all be it eye pleasing, they're highly unpractical.To use one, you pretty much have to run right up to who ever you want to use them on, you literally have to be within grenade tossing distance to use one, and once you do, they don't gave you very much time at all to get out of the area, you're pretty much running into an enemy base camp as they shoot at you, and asking your support to drop a big ass bomb right on top off you, then you gotta runaway before it hits where you were standing. I'm sorry but that's retarded, who calls down a nuke on top of themselves? well, the guys in this game is seems.

But even with it's problems, I found myself having tones of fun just running around blowing things up like an idiot.

That is after all what this game is all about, just having stupid mindless fun at the expense of everything that dares to get in your way.

One fun fact to note in this came is that you can literally destroy every single building in the game There's just so much to do in this game, so much to mess around with, especially with the helicopters, every single on of which comes with a winch for picking up cars or tanks or whatever.

Now get out there and drop some cars on Mexicans! ...Chinese or Allies.

F.E.A.R. 2

2010-10-05T13:23:00.000-07:00

I got to say, I liked the first fear, it was a nice mix of fps action and the occasional spooky stuff that might send a slight chill down a persons spine.
It was such a wonderful thing, running up to soldiers and literally blowing them to bits with a shotgun from point blank range in slow motion as they kind of mist the air with their blood and body part chunks.
FEAR2 didn't disappoint to that end, I don't know if they're give you explosive rounds by default or what, but it just doesn't get old ripping people to shreds with a hailstorm of bullet in slow mo.
But as much as they seemed to up the fps action, it seems they were lacking in the actual fear part.
There was hardly anything scary at all in this installment (unless you think the occasional naked goth chick slowly walking around is scary.) it mostly just plays like a typical fps.

The enemies shown on the left here were kind of interesting when they were zipping around to fast for you to see them properly, and ripping apart enemy solders just off screen, but they ended up being more annoying then anything one you actually fight them I thought, I'm not sure if it's in all parts of the game, but there guys just seemed to spam indefinitely, after killing ten of them the first time they showed up I was sick of em already.

but anyway, over all, I'd say the games not half bad at all and kind of fun and worth a go if your pc is up to it.

Tony Hawk RIDE

2010-10-02T16:21:00.000-07:00

Anyone with half a brain would look at this and think it's just stupid and not wast money on it.
But I don't have half a brain it would seem, so I did, and what a wast it was.

I might not be a real skate boarder, but I have found the Tony hawk games to be damn fun.
Weather you were jumping off tall buildings into empty swimming pools cramming in as many tricks as you could when sent airborne off the other end, grinding on telephone wires above the city, tricking off ufos in the Bermuda triangle or skating around demons in hell itself, the Tony hawk games were just wacky fun!
But along came "Skate" a game based around realistic skating, a game in which the most simple of tricks like a kick flip can be a challenge, where as in the old Tony hawk games you could do a 900, brake your board over your head and do a wicked guitar solo in a single jump with just a few easy to remember button combos.
To compare Skate and Tony hawk games, would be like comparing gran turismo to Mario cart, they're both racing games but not at all the same thing.
But people compared them all the same, and I don't know, maybe the guys at activation/neversoft thought the games were getting stale and needed a overhaul in light of new competition where there was practically none before, and so the fun ended.

Tony Hawk RIDE is more of a skate boarding simulator then a game and as you can guess it got rid of all things that made the old games fun.
I didn't play much of the game due crappy batteries that kept dieing, and the game sucking, but from what I did play, the levels are pretty linear, with a start and finish as apposed to the open levels that let you do and explore as you like, heck on easy mode your board is stuck on a rail and can't turn unless you hit a junction.

although they did seem to want to allow players to go big at times, but it's very toned down all the same, it doesn't seem as if you'd get the chance anyway when you're constantly fighting the board.

The board is overly sensitive and can easily send your character into walls or miss jumps and so on.
I remember leaving it upside down and one point and my character started doing all sorts of awesome tricks.
when ever I'd get sick of some bs part of the game I'd sit down, pick up the board and just use my hands, it made it a bit easier, but still played like crap, And no, you can't just use a normal control, the board is required.

Really now, you're much better off buying a real skateboard and practicing on that.
A decent board would cost you about as much as this game, and you might actually get something out of that.

Just say no bro and ignore that pile of crap.

Ridge Racer 7

2010-10-01T14:12:00.000-07:00

First up is Ridge Racer 7

I'll start by saying that this is pretty much the same game as the psp versions with little extra content.
Same race courses you could find in most of the past installments remade for the current gen but with a few new vehicles.

The game starts of pretty stupidly easy and boring and stays that way for a long time.

From the get go the physics are laughably bad, It might be an arcade style game but it's still funny how you can drift backwards in hairpin turns thanks to the joke drift system that sets your car on a rail once you start a drift, freeing you from having to actually steer around any corners.
Feather more, if another racer hits you from behind, it'll speed you up, as opposed to damage your vehicle or even make you lose control.

It does become a bit fun latter into the game once you get the best cars, but it takes a long time with a lot of racing to get to that point.

The super and special vehicles in the game like with past installments in the line are rather interesting.
but because you can't modify them, they're damn near useless.
Most of them have lower stats then the normal cars, so it's almost like, why bother?

In conclusion, I won't say it's a bad game, but it's not awesome either.
If you happened to find it for a really good price and have lots of time to kill it might be worth trying, but there's many many better racing games out there.

New blog

2010-10-01T13:42:00.000-07:00

So I'll be using this blog for game reviews.

I'm out of a job at the moment so I can't review to many new games, but I'll toss out my opinions on the games in my collection, and whatever new games as I get them.