James Bond 007 Quantam of Solace
This game very simply is just another old school James Bond classic first person shooter. This is not a game based off of the movie with the same name so its actually some-what different in that regard. So far this game is all about the explosive combustion with shooting gas tanks,bombs and so on and so on, but the explosions are absolutely fantastic and majestic, well worth the price just forthat in my opinion. One thing i like with this game besides the explosions is that when you climb up ladders,poles and anything else you may have to climb up on, you just walk right up to the ladder or whatever and it automatically takes you to a closer up third person view to let you see everything that is going on behind you and to scope out the scenes. With the weapons you dont have to literally stop and pick up the weapons, all you gatta do is just walk over the weapons and it automatically picks up for ya to a limit of 3 weapons at a time in your posession. When you reach the 3 weapong limit then that when you have to choose which weapon you wanna get rid of and pick up a new one. Another thing i liked so far was the jumping across roff tops in teh second level, all you do is just press teh jump buttopn and it takes you to a cut scene showing you Bond jumping from roof to roof and a dramatic Bond-esk manor. So far this game is pretty cool.
Major League Baseball 2K9
i will be real short and sweet with this lil entry for this game. the game is your basic baseball game with great graphics and you can use the hit stick and pith stick or you can change the controls the use the basic button mashing way of pitching and hitting. This years version of the game includes the famous Live Rosters updates and player DNA updates that NBA Live 09 featured, the one thing is this time its free instead of having to pay 850 microsoft points o use it. I am kinda disappointed with the create a player feature cause they cut down on all the stuff i liked bout it like for creating a hitter, you could choose his batting stance and customize it the way you wanted him to hit and the same thing with the pitcher you could choose his pitching stance and arm motion and everything but they cut that out this year as far as i can tell, so im not thrilled with the create a player mode this year. over all its still a good game and iof you love baseball games its definetly a keeper.
Killzone 2 for the Playstation 3
HOLY !@#$% THIS GAME IS AWESOME! This is by far the best action packed, gun weilding, army based game out so far this year. this game is nothing but explosions, live action and great gameplay with a good story line.
The one thing i’ve noticed that i like about the game so far is the fact that you actually use your wireless controller as a part of the game like you do on the nintendo wii. When you go to open doors you have the physically get a grip on the door handle and then physically turn the wireless remote control your playing with to the left and right in a circular motion like you are really opening up a vault door and you actually set explosives on hard to open doors and have to turn the explosive into place correctly then move out of the way and then ignite the explosive and you get an awesome blast. the useage of the ps3 controller is an awesome feature that makes you feel like you are actually in the situation thats happening and makes it worth wild when playing.
Gears of War 2
this game is a total return to high impact and brutal action with a great story line and invative levels like going through a gigantic worms body and having to cut the blood vessels of all four of its hearts, wickedly sick and entertaining at the same time. While you are in the worms body, you walk through the stomach and can die of suffication if you dont get through it quickly enough, which was my downfall cause im no good with directions. Its amazing to see what is inside of a worms body when you are going through and blasting demons and monsters while being swamped with blood from the heart!
The weapons in the game are great, they have a flame thrower that is pretty simple and easy to use and your actually able to relaod it with the proper gas and stuff to re-use the gun. The shotgun is awesome, its like a mid ranged sniper rifle that causes alot of damage and a great range of bloodiness. Their is also a good long ranged pistol that acts like a golden gun from the James Bond game Nightfire which is pretty sweet. You also have the default weapon that has a mini chainsaw on the end of it to go through and slash and dash your way through enemies and slit the throts of your opponets at a moments notice. YOu can also use the chainsaw portion of the gun the cut through passages and open it up so you can get through to the next part and also you can have chainsaw wars against the villians that have the same gun and during the chainsaw fights you can perform executions when you stun the opponets. So the weapons are pretty awesome and grusome when used to their full capacity of slaughtering the enemies.
I have not been able to play the multiplayer stuff online on xbox live yet cause im having difficulties getting connected to live so i dont really know how the multiplayer is with this game, but if its bout the same as Gears of War then it should be pretty good.
random thoughts on gaming
does anyone now days remember the old days of gaming?the atari with games like pong and pac-man, the nintendo with the original mario brothers and duck hunt,super nintendio with yoshi’s island and zelda,the sega genesis with sonic the hedgehog and joe montana football and madden 1988-89. IThe systems of the past were great yet simple systems that brought alot of fun o everyone who wanted to play, no matter your skill range. sometimes people seem to forget the past with things and forget how simplistic things used to be that we all enjoyed, and if you truly remember those days as a kid playing the atari,nintendo and other gaming systems based on the year you ere born, then you will be able to remember the great memories you had playing with your family and just thinking man this is so much fun. I can remember playing mario brothers 3 on the nintendo and trying to figure out how to get the warp whistles to skip leels and i always thought “man thats a great feature in the game” lol boy were those the days in gaming. now days you cant even play just a simple mario game like they had in the old days of gaming, they have to make it all difficult with the controls and try to make things more challenging and have pointless things going on that has nothing to do with the storyline and what really should be happening. I’m not saying these new games with mario,sonic,zelda and others arent fun to play but it just takes out some of the great fun i used to have when i was a kid playing these games. we all just need to remember this one thing, no matter how great the present and future is in gaming or in life, you can not forget the past that started it all.
Far Cry 2
hey i got this game a couple weeks ago and thought i’d give some opinions on the game. I have not gotten very far in the game yet, it will probably take me a long time to get into the game but so far its pretty cool. You start out in this foriegn country and trying to help out your fllow friends in staying alive and that kind of stuff. You dont earn actual money to go and buy weapons and stuff but you earn diamonds and you can go find hidden diamonds through-out the whol landscape of this country your on, and your GPS system gives ya a blinking light to tell ya if your close to finding the diamonds or not and its easy to find tehm but can take along time to actually walk from place to place to actually get them. As you collect the diamonds you can go to the weaponsshop and purcchase new weapons,ammo and that stuff to re-equip yourself for action later on in the game. When there is no actual missions planned for you to go on and complete, at the gun shop the store keeper will give you an extra mission or two so you can unlock more weapons to buy, so thats pretty cool. Like i said im not that far into the game at all but it seems like its ganna be an epic adventure game with great action packed missions to it,definetly a good pick up at the newly dropped price.
Smackdoqn vs Raw 2009 on Playstation 3
hey hows it going out there in the video game world?well a few weeks ago i picked up the latest wrestling game from WWF…i mean WWE get the f out! The title of the game is of course Smackdown vs Raw 2009..how original right? well thisyears version of the game in most parts are just the same as last years game. The main difference with this years game is that its based more towards the tag team divisions.
When you are using tag teams, you can do more total control moves like pull the top rope down when your opponet is being trown towards the ropes and they fall out of the ring like in real life. Anotherfeature with the tag team is you can do hot tags with your partner at random,you can distract the ref by doing taunts and stuff too. Now you can also do tag team finishers too, which is great cause it shows how creative your team can be with the finishing move. There are more double team moves you can while standing in the ring together with your partner when you both grapple the same guy at the same time. Personally, im not really into the tag team thing in video games but its definetly worth trying out in this game.
One new feature they have which is pretty sweet and radical is the create a finisher mode. You can literally create your own finishing move like the pedigre and stunner and so on. The only problem with this mode is that when you get deeper into how your making the move, the list of options gets shorter and shorter so the ending of the finisher is kinda bland at times, you can speed up each move from like normal speed to up to 150 times faster, or you can slow each part down to make more of a subtle effect with your unique finisher. When creating your finisher you can have up to 10 moves in the finisher total, from bunch of kicking and punching to repeated piledrivers and powerbiombs. After you create your finisher they have a list of preset names you can call your move and if you choose one of the preset names they give ya then when you do the finisher in a match they actually call the finisher name out like they do with th the famous finishers in the game like the pedigree and sweet chin music or the F-U or the Go 2 Sleep. Overall the create a finisher mode is good but could use alot of improvement, its definetly a great new feature to FINALLY have in the wrestling game.
The creating your entrances for your vreated superstar is teh usual stuff, you can go in and do an easy creation where you do preset entrances from your favorite WWE superstars or you can do a much more advanced creation where you can set how your character walks out on teh ramp and his actions leading up to the ring and also set up how the pyro goes off and when it goes off in the entrance. On thing i love this year on the create an entrace is the fact that even on the PS# version you can import your own song from your hard drive and have it as your entrance music, so you can be old school like Sandman and have Metallicas Enter Sandman as a themesong, or you can go new school like CM Punk and have Killswitch Engage to blare out on the speakers as a headbangig entrance. The songs you can use as your themesongs dont last just like 10 seconds then end like in previous versions of the game on the xbox, the songs actually go through out the whole entrance and the whole after match winning sequence and if you dont press x to continue right awayyou can listen to the themesong all the way throgh from start to finish.
One of the new modes you can do in the game is called “Road To Wrestlemania”. In this mode you have to choice to be one of 6 or 7 superstars and choose their path to wrestlemania with actual real life story lines you can choose from that actually go with each wrestlers personility and gimmick in real life. If you choose to be Triple H in Road to Wrestlemania, youhave the option of reforming Evolution or reforming DX as part of the storyline. There is also one Road to Wrestlemania scnerio where you wrestle as a tag team with Rey Rey and Batista and you can play co-op in this scenerio, which is awesome cause you can to interact with the person your playing with and you get to actually act as a true tag team instead of the computer just randomly doing things that make no sense. The only downfall with Road To Wrestlemania mode is that is only for a select for characters, you can choose from Triple H,Batista/Rey Mysterio,Chris Jerico, Cm Punk and John Cena, i wish they woulda expanded it to like 15 guys instead of just a select few.
The game itself is pretty good with just a few flaws that are minor details but its a good game that follows in the domination the WWe has on wrestling games now days. Its definetly worth picking up if you love wrestling games.
Blitz The League II
man this game is so sweet and gruesome!its awesome. its much better then the first game and when you thought they couldnt improve it any at all BAM! they blow the original out of the water and made it die in the hot heat in sandy beaches in california! If you are a true football fan and love the Madden series then this game wont be for you at all.
Blitz The League is all about how the league watches over your shoulder and keeps tabs on all your activities and everything you do. You can use steriods to heal your injuries and use steriods to juice up every game to gain more advantages over your opponets and get majorly wicked hits and cause severe injuries. When a player gets injured oh man the graphics that come up and show you whats injured is pretty sweet and gruesome, blood splattering everywhere, bones shattering and everything its awesome.
I rate this game a 9.0 . It has some flaws but they are kinda minor and not even worth mentioning. If you are tired of your typical pro football and college football games like madden and ncaa football then blitz the league is definetly your game.
NBA 2k9
Hey just thought i’d give alil review on the game NBA 2k8 for the Xbox 360 system. If you have played any of the previous NBA games in the past, then you will see hardly any changes at all in this game compared to the previous versions. The game play and graphics are great(whatelse would you expect from a next generation game system?) The facial features and models are more life like and you can actually tell the players apart and who they are when you look at their faces, thats a major plus in myt book.
The game of course has some game modes like always like The association mode(franchise mode), NBA Blacktop mode,exhibition mode and a couple other modes. It is pretty much your basic modes for gameplay in a basketball game. The NBA blacktop mode has your 3 point shoot out,slam dunk contest, you can play a game of 21 and play pick up games too. The only thing i have a problem with in these games is the slam dunk contest, the controls are kinda confusing and hard to use unless your experienced with the controls.
The major upgrade in this game is the roster management updates. When a team makes a move on their rosters in real life, like for example cutting a player from the team, the game will update the rosters automatically instead of you having to physically make the roster moves yourself.
Another great feature is the fact that you can save your replays from your games and create your own highlight reel and upload it online to share with your friends. You can bring in a saved replay from game action and you can edit the camera angles,slow motion,add text and pics to the replay and make cool flashes and freeze points to emphasize certin aspects in the video. The reelmaking is pretty sweet.
Overall if you are a true sports fan with videogames then you will like this game and its well worth the money.
Grand Theift Auto IV
ok hi peoples hows it hanging?hope everything is good in the neighborhood and everything. I finally bought Grand Theift Auto IV for the Xbox 360 and thought i would share one or two simple thoughts on the game. First off, the game is widely known for its brash and horrid violence with alot of cussing and sex references in it and that didnt change any at all with the latest version of GTA. The map of the city in my opinion is pretty bad, you have to find the certain spot your supposed to go to and then do a waypoint to help ya find your way to that location and the map on the main screen is pretty small with the horribly small icons, so you gatta press start to pause the game then go to the big full screen map and zoom in to get a good idea of where you are supposed to be heading to in the game.
Secondly, the controls are kinda bad but simple, but there is just too many buttons you have to use and you have to remember in order to do the simplest things.
The overall gameplay is basiclly the same as the previous GTA’s that have been released with one exception, this version actually has a pretty descent storyline to follow. You control the main character who is the cousin of the guy who is in debt to alot of bookies and you basiclly do all of his dirty work to help him get out of debt. The game has its main flaws but is a pretty good game overall and seems like its not a quickie game to play, it seems like it will take awhile to beat the game.