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Fallout 3 is in it’s own right a fantastic game. Highly addicting and fun to play, seeing the little character nuances that you can bring out of your hero, whoever that may be. The game is epic in it’s own right. As I was reaching the end of the main story, I found myself wanting more. This certainly could not be it for the Capital Wasteland could it? Well, imagine my surprise when I realized that XBOX Live has several bits of downloadable content that not only enhance your character with incredible weapons, but take you to new locales and even have you fight new baddies.

That said, I would like to say that Mothership Zeta was at least a little more interesting. Read the rest of this entry »

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When I fired up Dark Void I had no real notion of what the game was about. I knew there was flying and that the game was a cover-based shooter. With the birth of my son in December, I was glad of an excuse to really sit down and play through a game. The list of unfinished games for both 360 and PC is growing ever so steadily.

But I digress – Dark Void, developed by Airtight Games and published by the good people at Capcom is an experience that has a distinct feel. And that feel is unfinished.Riddled with small annoyances and loose controls, and a story that has more holes than Star Wars (I say that with love), I would have loved to see this game in 6 months or more when it would have been finished. With no singular direction, the game suffers but still manages to pull off a passable 8-10 hour single player experience that has some satisfying moments. However, with a distinct lack of multiplayer

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine was one of the many box office hits from last summer that was an ultimately hollow movie, deviod of any nuance, a good plot, and, with the exception of Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber, just generally awful acting.  So how is the video game based on the movie?

I am quite pleased to say that the game is way better than the movie.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Uncaged Edition is easily the best Wolverine video game ever made.  This game has everything you want out of a game starring our favorite bezerker raging mutant.  You follow the events from the movie with additional material from RAVEN, linking specific events from the film seamlessly to an overarching storyline that involves several flashbacks to Africa, as well as a visit to Project Wideawake, which for your non comic geeks, is the project that unleashed these three story tall robots that hunt mutants on the X-Men.  You play as Wolverine, as you hack, stab, maim, slash, and kill anything and everything in your path. I think it’s safe to say that  this is by far the goriest game that has come out with an X-men character.

Don’t get me wrong, this is a good thing.   A really good thing.

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Not since Marvel Ultimate Alliance have I truly enjoyed a comic licensed game. Then came Batman: Arkham Asylum.

And all is good.

The one-man show that is B:AA absolutely reeks with authenticity. From Kevin Conroy as Batman to Mark Hamil as Joker to Arleen Sorkin as Harley Quinn I was literally thrown back to after-school cartoons where I literally raced home to watch Batman: The Animated Series. I am a bit behind the times only just finishing it, but, being one of my favorite games of 2009, it was worth the wait.

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I had the great pleasure of playing a near-final build of indy developer 8monkey Labs’ newest game, Darkest of Days. This game is one of many adopting nVidia’s PhysX technology which really seems to be taking off in regards to dev support. Take the role of Custer’s last stand’s only survivor, Alexander Morris….

Wait, what?

A game that takes historical shooters in a different direction, the effort is not necessarily indicative of the overall game fun-level. The promise is there, though.

The game released on this week, and to give you an idea of what the game is about, read on…. Read the rest of this entry »

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Finally, the long-awaited, Resident Evil 5 Review! Please drop comments or email and let me know what you think!

So… I’m pretty much a big chicken when it comes to horror games, moves, etc. I struggled through Doom 3, and just about soiled myself when I encountered my first Big Daddy in Bioshock. So, hearing how good the Resident Evil games have been over the years in regards to scaring you, I stayed as far away as possible. Not because I was afraid of a good game, but because I was just afraid. I’m finding the fact that I’m writing about the newest installment of the RE series very odd as I know that I am not a horror fan in the purest sense of the word.

To give you some background on why I ever picked up the latest installment, I start with an anecdote. I met and spent the weekend with Ken Lally in March for All-Con. He is Wesker in RE5 in every aspect but the actual voice. Pretty amazing dude – super-passionate about his craft and glowing about the game. Then the fangirls started rolling in gushing about this game and I find myself thinking, “I’m going to pass up a game that this many people are crazy about because I’m chicken? No way!”

And that’s when I picked up RE5. There were some pretty intense parts, and some were even scary, but overall its gotten away from its intense horror roots, and for me, that’s a good thing. Read the rest of this entry »

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What if you looked like a war hero, and found yourself being hauled off to prison because you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? This doppelganger scenario is where you start off in tri-Ace and Sqeenix’s (Square-Enix) latest party-oriented action-RPG. I had no real expectations outside of that. I thoroughly enjoyed Tales of Symphonia and wanted more of the same. What I got was something similar for sure, however differed in some key areas. Tri-Ace certainly has guts, and tried some new mechanics that sometimes worked, and other times proved to be an exercise in frustration. The game played at times more like an interactive movie, with FMV being extremely prevalent. It is well done and fun to watch, but sometimes you wish you could be a little more part of the action outside of the battles.

The game does come together to present a very entertaining story and definitely worth playing now that its dropped in price significantly

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Fallout 3 – The latest entry into one of the most lauded RPG franchises for their brutal re-tellings of humanity’s attempt to survive the apocalypse. Bethesda Softworks, creators of the Elder Scroll’s chapters Morrowind and Oblivion have stepped up to take a swing at a series that many thought to be long-dead, this writer included. Having completed both Fallouts 1&2, I could easily draw many parallels between Fallout 3’s predecessors, however this is no sequel. It is as complete a re-telling as Fallout 2 was from Fallout.
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Interestingly enough, I dumped some cash into points the past weekend to purchase Street Fighter II: HD Remix at the recommendation of three different friends who wanted to pwn me old-school. So, being an avid SF:II player back in the day I acquiesced. Ten minutes later I was jumping in to something that made me question my experience from over ten years ago.

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Now I don’t know how many of you logged on to XBox Live! last night, but I imagine those that did weren’t able to resist clicking on a teasing Capcom Announcement. If you gave in to that base urge, you were treated to an extensive Lost World 2 trailer. I had to say I was pretty impressed. The gameplay looked similar to Lost World, yet prettier but honestly not much else besides to give much indication of what other changes are going to be. There is obviously a co-op mode in this iteration, which is almost always a welcome addition. If its done right. Capcom has done pretty well so far this year and its just started.

I was happy to see that the lack of run ‘n gun has been restricted to RE5.

I’m interested to see what else is going on here. Please let me know what you thought of the trailer in a comment!

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