I finally beat: Army of Two

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I finally beat: Army of Two

Sometimes, just sometimes, you can take something that shouldn’t go together and it’ll turn out OK. Maybe even good. Like Peanut butter and chocolate, or Tabasco sauce and Soy sauce on a chicken sandwich (really, it works),

…or EA and a good game.

Or at least EA and an OK game. Sure, they just copied Gears of War, and perhaps not as well as Gears, but it has its own merits. And you can’t earn as many achievements playing the Gears Campaign AGAIN, now can you? And the game isn’t dark and dreary. Just because Brown is Real, doesn’t mean I like it. Even AoT’s “everything is sand” is better. At least it’s brighter. Unlike Skate, which only had to topple a 10 year old stale serie, AoT has some stiff competition from Gears of War, Halo, and every other multiplayer shooter out there. So, how does it stack up? And what does it do wrong (it’s EA, they had to screw something up)?

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There is no ending to: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

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There is no ending to: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Out of all my friends, I only know a couple of people who like Super Smash Bros. Brawl. They were big fans the the n64 or cube versions and are far better than I am at the game. They also play it a great deal more often. Everyone else I know (a vast majority) just can’t get into the game. I’m unsure why. But I have a hypothesis: screen tracking, randomness of environment, control intimidation. More simply put: they can’t keep track of what is going on the screen, the environment and items keep killing them and they don’t know why/can’t recognize why, and they perceive most of this is related to the fact that they think it can be controlled with the character. Comic, btw, is brought to you by the genius at VGCats.com Continue reading →

don't tell me the ending to: Superman Returns

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don’t tell me the ending to: Superman Returns

I’ve seen the movie. I wish they had taken the last 45 minutes and left it on the cutting room floor. But that’s not what this post is about. It is about a Superman video game that doesn’t suck.

That doesn’t mean it is good. It means it may be ok, or a little bad. But it doesn’t suck. And that hasn’t happened. Almost Ever. I liked Blizzard’s Death and Return of Superman, but that game was hard and had no co-op, and no way to save your progress. It was like 1player Battle Toads.

This game is like Spiderman 2 (great game), but instead of swinging, you just fly everywhere. In a way that isn’t like driving a semi-truck drunk with a locked steering column through the air. And no, I don’t mean a flying semi-truck through the air; I mean a flying a normal, average semi-truck (see: Superman 64). Continue reading →

bloom box has head tracking.

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bloom box has head tracking.

Remember those awesome head tracking vids of the wii? Of course you do; they are old as hell. But this link has been sitting in my archive awhile and I forgot to post it when it was new.

Guess who else saw the videos? That’s right! None other than Steven Spielberg. Well, maybe not him directly, but the people working on his game apparently did.

http://wiinintendo.net/2008/02/21/bloom-blox-has-head-tracking/

Thanks for the link, Matt!

For those not hyped about Steven’s game, know this: It’s a puzzle game, it’s cute, it has explosions, it has marching armies of chickens.

Believe the hype.

Buy?: Rainbow Six Vegas 2

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Buy?: Rainbow Six Vegas 2

I was initially going to fully endorse everyone buy this game. But, from what I’ve seen we may want to hold off. The primary reason initially was Terrorist Hunt was (I thought) going to have a higher player cap. With a max of 4 players, this isn’t the co-op heaven I thought it would be for our larger-than-4-players pLayday group. Adversial, I’m sure, is still great fun, but $60 fun for all of us? I’m thinking CoD4 may be the better purchase (especially since it can be found for only $40 most of the time).

If I crack open R6V2 and find it supports splitscreen AND online at the same time (R6V1 did not, CoD4 does not), then maybe I’ll push it a bit harder. Until then, hold off unless you just want to play it with some friends (like me…you can play with me. I still own it.) since it probably won’t become the pLayday staple I was hoping for.

pLayday: 3/25 – Halo 3 for real this time

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pLayday: 3/25 – Halo 3  for real this time

Alright, so we pretty much ALL missed last week’s pLayday. Poor Boramis was the only one around. Last week, my idea was to have a homework assignment: to make a Custom Game type. Well, I’ve been ridiculously busy this past week, so the assignment is different. Instead: Download the soon to be free Heroic Map Pack.

That’s right, by the time you read this tomorrow, the Heroic Map Pack will be available online for free. 3 new maps: 1 of which is like a small, re-imagined blood gultch (if you’ve played Halo 1 or 2, it was on THIS map), one is an ultra customizable mod tool that isn’t bad on its own,…and I think the 3rd just sucks. But we’ll find out! All of us! Because we were too cheap to spend $10 on 3 new maps (which…really,…that’s way too much).

Griffball (from the Red Vs Blue guys) looks fun. Perhaps we’ll give that a shot later once one of us has it set up. For now, just be sure to download the new pack as it’ll be in standard rotation and we all want to play on the new maps.

I'm not dead, yet…

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I’m not dead, yet…
…
It’s been a pretty awful week (last week). This week…we’ll see.
I’ve been pretty busy, and have a large backlog of articles I want to write and talk about, about the large backlog of games I have and movies I’ve only recently seen….
Son of a bitch….I should have seen THAT coming.
I have a blog about always being behind in what I want to play and watch….and I get behind in it. How’s THAT for funny?
Well, let’s roll up the sleeves and get to it.

pLayday: 3/11 – Halo 3

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pLayday: 3/11 – Halo 3

Alright. After last weeks showing, we all learned a valuable lesson:

Space Marines > Marines

Sure, CoD4 may be the new CounterStrike, but it doesn’t have splitscreen. That’s what happens when you are a PC game ported to consoles, rather than a console game. (Console games ported to PC just have ridiculous system requirements).

So let’s go back to a nice staple: Halo 3

Depending on the number of people we get, we can either matchmake, play private matches, or campaign co-op. Any preferences?

I finally beat: Kane and Lynch

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I finally beat: Kane and Lynch

A little late for this review, but it will draw inevitable parallels to Army of Two. In order to have those parallels, I have to discuss Kane and Lynch first.

This game got lynched in the reviews. Receiving fairly “eh” to poor scores, not to mention the whole Gamespot fiasco (where a reviewer coincidentally gave the game a low score, ads were removed, and then he, after 10 years, was fired within 24 hours or so). The game was made by the Hitman team in the vain of their other project: Freedom Fighters (which received a very high ~9.6 at Gamespot and is an excellent game). So, where did Kane and Lynch go wrong? Well, first you’d have to prove it did go wrong. Continue reading →

N+ is fucking hard

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N+ is fucking hard

Seriously. It’s very hard. Call of Duty 4 on Veteran? You have AI friends to help you through the hard parts. You have a GUN. In N+? Your only weapon is a self-sacrificing friend in co-op to blow themselves up on some mines. That, and you can jump. Not ON to anything, mind you, ala Mario. Touching them will kill you. But you can jump over them at least. Unless they home in on your position / lock-on and track you.

Still, it has been getting great reviews for its 4 player co-op-ability. And in this regards, the game is excellent. The game has a stick (go left and right), and a button (jump). You can give the controller to anybody and they will understand what to do. More so than Mario Party, Halo, Raving Rabbids, Rock Band, or any of those other Party Games. The games difficulty may turn some people off, but as long as it is not taken too seriously it is hilarious to watch failure as rag doll parts clear an entire mine field for the rest of your team.

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