I know it has been a long time since my last blog. I have not been in the mood to blog all summer, I feel that no one is reading this at all. I have finished a lot of games with in the past 4 months. The first game I finish and I mentioned at the end in my last blog was Ghostbuster for the Xbox 360. This game is a squeal to two and takes place a few years after it. The story was writing by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, who also wrote both movies. You find out that the apartment built from the first movie was only one of the buildings designed to be a spiritual magnet. These other buildings are now changed from the real world into ghost world and the Ghostbusters need to stop it. You play as Rookie, (no that is not your name). Your name is not given and the guys don't want to know it's due to the last rookie. Your job is Egon test subject with new equipment. There are new add-on's to the proton packs that you will use; A slime gun, (like in Ghostbusters 2, you can slime ghost, people and shoot out a slime rope that helps you solve puzzles in the game.), A dart gun, (shoot a big shot at a ghost and all the small shots will go to that ghost.) And ,finally, a stasis gun which shoots like a spread gun and a black stream. Most of the cast from Ghostbusters 1 and 2 lend their voice in the game. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson are in the game also Annie Potts, as Janine Melnitz, and William Atherton, as Walter Peck. Voice acting is great, except, Bill Murray sounds like is phoning it in. It doesn't feel like he is giving us 110%. The graphs are very detailed, proton packs, the Ecco one, and the fire house look just like they do in the movie. I didn't see any popping or graphs problems during the story. There is one problem and that is online. Online is mostly co-op missions. There is survival,( which is like horde in Gears of war 2), ten wave of ghosts you need to bust them and cap them. Containment which is the same as survival; but, now there is a timer. Thief, where you need to protect relics from the ghost who are trying to steal it. Destruction: you destroy the relics. Protection: you must stay in a circle and fight out ghost until the timer runs off and then move to the next one and repeat. Slime Dunk is the only VS. game online, if you catch the most ghost, you win. What I was hoping for in this game is four player story co-op. Oh well, I will take this instead. Online is already dead, I can never find a match. If you are a Ghostbusters fan, this is a must buy. Everything else a rent.
The next game I finished was Madworld, sent by gamefly. You play as Jack, who is new to the TV game show Death Watch, you fight your way to be number one. There is more to the story; but, after every level there is more twist and turns in the game. After some time I just didn't care anymore. The game feels like No more heroes but without the open world. In it you kill off enemy upon enemy and score points (every level has a point score) you must reach until a boss battle. Graphs are mostly black, white and red. Sega did a great job using just black and white for the levels. The sound is ok. I like that the sound of the chainsaw come out of the wii mote every time you use it. The commentators are good too, but after time you hear them repeating the same thing. They even commentate the credits. The game is short and has no real replay value. You can play it on hard and that's it. It is a rental if you have a wii and liked No More Heroes.
There is not much to say about Lego Indiana Jones. I finished it and I liked it. It tells the movie very well for not saying a single word. If your a Indiana Jones fan, or looking for a game that you and the kids can play, I say buy this. Another game that I don't have much to say about is King Kong. I really only played it for the points. This was one of the launch game with the Xbox 360. The graphs look like a last gen game. The other launch game I played way back was Perfect Dark Zero. It looks like a last gen as well. You play as one of the humans and you play as Kong, It is a few levels. The game is short and has no replay value at all, no unlocks or anything. Rent this if you are a achievement whore like me. In less then 6 hours you will have all the points.
Another crappy game that I finished over the summer is Alone in the Dark. What makes it crappy is two things: bad controls and making collectibles part of the main missions. First, with the bad controls, one of the problems with the controls is the A button does to many things (picking up items, opening and closing doors, and other things that I can't remember right now.) That is just to much for one button. One other problem with the controls is turning to 3rd person view. This game has both first person and 3rd person view. Walking and turning in 3rd person view feels slow and hard to control. Now, with the other problem, making collectibles part of the main missions. This happens towards the end of the game. You need to go around and burn a number of roofs to gain a power, but, not just once. Two times! After the first episode, (the game set up like a TV show with episodes) you say 'thank goodness Im done with that' and get back to the game. In the next episode, they want you to burn more roofs so you can gain a power so you can see an invisible force field. Now, you do not need this power. I went to the invisible force, and saw it with out the power. The story is not that great at all. You play as a man that woke up and has no clue who he is. Later, you find out you were under control by the devil. The devil is on the loose in New York City and you need to stop the devil. Pass on this game. It looked and sounded fun when I played the demo a year ago.
Another game that look and sounded fun when I played the demo is BlackSite: Area 51. The demo and the name makes if feel like aliens have invaded and you need to stop them. Well that's wrong! there are no aliens from other planets in the game or in the story. The U.S. was testing some odd crappy on humans and it turned them into these weird looking things and you need to stop them. You find this out early in the game and that just left me with the feeling of WTF?!!! Area 51 with no aliens? The game is very boring, due to the story and placement of the enemies. Enemies are in a group together and there are big areas with nothing in it. For example you come to a group of a enemies, you kill them all, and move on the an empty area, then you come to a group of enemies. It is like this for the most of the game. There are parts where you are in a jeep or a helicopter and you need to shoot down enemies, this feels great to play but they are short and only happen twice. The graphs in the game look unfinished. Online looks awful compared to single player. I was thinking before I played this, that the game didn't do that well due to the time it was released; but after playing it, I think it should have not have been released at all.
Army of Two came out March 4, 2008. I got this game in July and it is dead online. Co-op and VS are dead. That is the problem with online co-op games after a two months or so it is hard to find anyone that want to do co-op. I enjoyed playing it and want to play it again on the hardest difficult some time before 40th day comes out. Control is good, but, if there is any lag, your aim is sliding all over the place. This game is not very good to play by yourself. The AI is dumb and you basically have to control him. You play as one of the two guys that is the best of the best. You are sent to locations to clean the out or to get info. during one mission, Elliot Salem, one of the two people you play as, is not sure who to trust anymore, so there's more than one front to the storyline. Cut scenes look good and makes the rest of the game look crappy. If you are thinking of picking this up, look for a friend to play it with before you do.
If you like to destroy sh!t, then you should ply Red faction: Guerrilla. Before I say anything else about this game, I have a question: Where are the Guerrillas? They are nowhere to be found in the game or the DLC. Red Faction: Guerrilla is set on the planet Mars 50 years after the events of the first Red Faction. In the game, you play as Alec Mason, a new coming to Mars, (that is a miner), you meet with your brother and go to do a job. After you are done with the job EDF, or Earth Defense Force finds you and your brother and kills your brother as you and him are trying to escape. You find out that your brother was part of the Red faction, you tag along with the red faction just to get revenge of the death of your brother. At first I did not know that the game was open world, this made me love it even more. With the help of the red faction you have to go from area to area and weaking the EDF in that area and take control of it. You do this by completing missions, like House Arrest, where you must rescue hostages from the EDF and return them to base. Guerrilla Raid where you must help the Red Faction clear an area of EDF soldiers and destroy a building. There is EDF Assault, given over the radio, you must help the Red Faction protect an area by killing all the EDF that attack. There are much more I could tell you about; but, if you like what you heard so far, you should pick this up. The game looks very much like saints row 2, but on Mars. The multiplayer is fun, but, has the same problem as saints row 2, which has with pubic matches. If you play alone, most likely, the other team is a group of friends playing together, and they will kick your ass. I would put this game in game of the year running it that good.
Another game that is in game of the year running for me is Batman: Arkham Asylum. This is the best batman game that I have ever played. Best Batman since Batman on the NES. The game looks great. Batman, the Joker, Bane. But not Harley Quinn. In the cartoon, she looks like she belongs next to the Joker in that red and white suit. She looks like she should be on a playing card; and playing cards are Joker's deal, so its a good contention. In the game, she looks like a Dominatrix nurse. They only did this for eye candy for the guys. Batman looks great and threw out the game costume rips and tares. Everyone from the cartoon lends their voice in the game. It is great and I love it. Kevin Conroy is the best voice for Batman. Also, Mark Hamill is the best voice for the Joker. The only thing I didn't like is the ending.
SPOILER: go to the next paragraph if you don't want to read it. At the end, you fight the Joker, except, he is not normal. He injected himself with a liquid that made him like Bain. So, the boss battle started and Joker starts chasing you. You run away from him until he stops and then the Joker jumps up to a high place and makes his goons attack you. I don't want to fight the goons. I want a one on one with Joker. So, you fight the goons off, Joker turns his back, you pull him down, punch him a few times and repeat three times and that's it. I spent some time thinking of a way to make the ending boss battle better and could not come out with anything. If you have a PS3 its a buy at $60. 360, wait until you can get it for $40 or lower.
Gamefly sent me Legendary. I didn't like the demo but Cloud8745 said the good was good so I put it on my Q. The game sucks. It is about Pandora's Box being opened and Werewolves, Fire Drakes, Griffins and Minotaurs are let loose all over the world. You play the guy who open the box and didn't know that would happen and now you are trying to stop all the mythical creatures. You are mostly fighting Werewolves, Griffins and Minotaurs are meanly bosses. There is no boss at the end of the game; you are just turning off switches. The ending is different then the other game, it is not a happily ever after. The look is okay nothing too amazing. It looks like the other bad games made with the unreal three engine.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled for the 360 is a remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time for the SNES. The SNES version is way better than this. This game was made by Ubisoft Entertainment. They also made TNMT and that game was also bad. The game is too easy. The different difficulties don't help. It just gives you less life. The 3D look messes with you and its hard to hit bosses and some enemies. The music is the worst, I don't like any of it. The voice work is okay; but, they repeat the same line over and over. Don't waste your 800 points on this game!
With Super Mario galaxy 2 coming out next year, I decided to finish up the first game. I have heard some say that Super Mario galaxy is the best Mario game ever. I will say it is the 2nd best. You just cant beat Super Mario 64. Everyone knows the story to Mario games: Princess Peach is kidnapped by Bowser and Mario needs to save her. This is one of the best looking Wii games I have ever played or seen. All the worlds are colorful and bright. The gravity in the game is confusing at first. A few times, I fell off thinking I could walk to the other side of the floor. The gravity and cameras made me a little woozy in some spots. I not have any problems with the camera for the whole game. I really enjoyed playing this and when I have some time, I will go for the 120 stars in the game. This is a must have if you have a Wii.
I beat Fear and Fear 2, but I can't remember both stories at all as of now. I will write more about this when I play through it again. I will just say that one is scarier than two. In one, if Alma touches you, you die. In two, Alma is grabbing you and you don't die from it. That just makes her less scary. I enjoyed playing one more than two. For multiplayer, you can find people in one, but rarely find a game in two. Buy Fear and if you really enjoy it, get Fear 2 for cheap.
Halo 3: ODST: a game that I feel didn't get that much hype. I didn't even want to get this game. I put this in my gamefly Q and they sent it the day it came out. The story is good; but I always get lost with the Halo game's story and I don't understand how this fixes in. In the game, you play as all the male members of ODST. Yes, there is a female member. Maybe you will play as her in DLC later? Your team get sent down to earth and during the drop, your team gets hit and scattered. Rookie (the new guy) wakes up 6 hours later and goes to look for the rest of the team. When you play as Rookie, you are in a open world; this part of the game is good. If you see a enemy, you can go in and kill or sneak and go around the enemy. You go around and look for items from the teammates that will bring you to a level where you play as them. During the search for these items, you could also look for audio logs of some black woman at a train station and an attack happens. I didn't find a lot of these in my play through and would like to find them. Making collectibles like this is a great idea. It makes you want to find them to find out what happens next. If you have not played any Halo games, pass if you have buy.
I beat Killzone and it is a good shooter for the PS2. I have not played that many on the PS2. The story is good with action and twist. The Helghast (the enemy in the game) are not told were they come from. Maybe I missed a cut scene, but I didn't hear anything about who they are and where they came from. All I know is you and your squad are trying to take them down. The cut scenes in the game are the best looking I have ever seen in a PS2 game and the rest of the game looks great too. My only complaint about the game is the ai partners and enemy tend to repeat the same thing over and over again. Also, your partners comment mostly every time you make a kill. It starts to get annoying after some time. Other than that, Killzone is a must have for shooter fans. There is a reason I finished this game. It's not because it was good.
On September 8th (my birthday), I got myself a gift. It was a PS3 slim. For the first time in my gaming history, I have all the current consoles. It feels so different to walk in to a Game stop or Best buy and go "Oh my can go see if they have this for the 360, wii, or PS3".I got two games with the system, Killzone 2 and inFAMOUS. I have not touched Killzone 2 yet, but, I have already finished two games for the system one great game and one no one should ever play.
inFAMOUS is one of the two games I picked up with the PS3. In the game, you play as a guy named Cole who is a delivery person. A package that you are delivering explodes and wipes out six city blocks. You awake after the blast and find out you have turned in to a human battery and now have electricity powers. Now, the best thing about the game is you get to choose to save the city from gangs and become a hero or have everyone fear you. I played as the hero. I would like to play this again and play as everyone fears you. The way the good guy or bad guy thing works is: there are parts in the game where you will have to choose to do the good thing or bad thing. The game does not tell you what is good or bad, you pretty much would know. The game runs smooth. It looks and sounds great. Im glad I picked this game up and I'm glad I got a PS3. This game came out the same time as Prototype. They look the same is what I can tell you right now. I would like to play that soon. If you have a PS3, you should get inFAMOUS, its a great game and I would say, as of now, the greatest PS3 game this year.
Now on to a game on one with a PS3 should ever play, touch, or even look at. Im talking about Haze. The game is very confusing, I was lost about what was going on the first 5 minutes of the game. You play as a guy who joins this group that's like an army, you and the group use this drug called Nectar. You then get talked into fight against the group and find out that Nectar is slowly killing the group. It took me 5 hours to beat the game and I'm lucky that there is co-op and there are people playing it. I almost fell asleep a few times during the game. Graphics look like a low budget 360 game that was made back in 2005. Just stay away from this game, please.
Played:
Im going to run through a few games that I played during the four months that ether doesn't have a story or I didn't finish for some reason. Wolfenstein 3D: I finished this. You play as a prisoner in a Nazi camp and are trying to escape. It's a good game, but, not as good as Duke nukem. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes: its fun but 'Im not a fighting game person. It took some time to find the right fighter to use. Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad: its a dumb boring game that's only good for 30 mins. Fallout 3: played 23 hours of it, loved it and will be playing more in the next few weeks. Im getting the game of the year edition. If you have not played this yet, get the game of the year edition. Boom Blox: looks like a demo for a physics engine, you throw a ball at blocks and that fall down. Battlefield 1943: is a great shooter for a download game, after over 100 games, it did get boring. Worms: it is ok for 400 points, feel that the computer cheats some times. Rock band 2: I suck at drums and hope to get better.I have not sing yet but will do that soon. Little big planet: must have for all PS3 owners. I made a level for Giantbomb question of the week and got it in the video. It was the first time I sent in a video to them. I can't believe what people can do in that game and how they do it. I want to unlock more things and learn more about making levels.
Demos:
I played a lot of demos since the last post and I will run through them real quick: Lost planet: 2 looks great, feels the same as 1, wondering where did all the snow go. Shadow Complex I: will buy this later, feels like super metriod and castlevania. Trials HD: is like N+ on a bike, the level edit sounds cool and have seen some cool tracks, will buy this later as well. Splosion Man: also feels like N+ and want to get this later as well. I wish I could get those xbox arcade games now; but I have so many games I have not finished. Dirt 2: looks not as good compared to dirt. I was sliding everywhere, I didn't like it. Motor storm: Pacific Rift: is like dirt 2. 1 looks better and will rent that. Fuel made by the same people of dirt 2 code-masters, maybe the biggest open world in consoles but there is nothing in it but trees and a sign here and there and that makes it boring. Worms 2: feels like the first worms, buy the first worms. Monkey Island was good, but I don't see myself buying it. Not that funny and story sounds dumb. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood: was ok, but I don't see myself buying this as well. Nice bullet time action in the game. Super star dust HD: is like Geometry Wars, I want to get Geometry Wars 2 now. Echochrome: is a great puzzle game, will buy it later. Wipeout HD: I downloaded the demo then had to download a patch that took a half hour to download, there is only one track. I got bored with it quickly. Forza 3: didn't like it that much, may get if it gets great reviews. Brutal Legend: I loved it and may get it this week or before the end of the year. Need for speed: shift like it better than Forza 3, felt I had more control with the car.
Well as you can see I had a busy summer and the fall looks to be busy as well with new games. As of now Left for dead 2 and Modern Warfare 2 are on my list to get but that list may grow with other games. I will now start writing about the games I have finish or played right after I did it, not just wait two week and then start writing. I now have someone helping me with spelling and grammar and hope she helps me become a better writer. My fingers are start to get tired and they are going to get a work out this week with Fallout 3 and the other two games I will pick up at Toys r us sale on Tuesday. As of now I dont know what I will get, Demon's soul for the PS3 looks good and it has been getting get rating but it is hard. I am off to rest my hand to clean my room. Later.
