In the meantime, we have myself writing a few mini-reviews of some video games.
Lets just jump on in.
Terminator: Salvation -
Platforms: Xbox 360, PC, PS3
Genre: Third Person Shooter
So Terminator Salvation the movie just came out and of course with all the buzz behind it they had to make a video game to boot. If you have even seen the previews of the new movie your first response after booting this up will be "Who the fuck am I and where is John Connor (Christian Bale)?" Yes, the first moment you start playing your helicopter gets shot down and someone yells something to Connor (who's the one falling out of the heli). At this point you see John Connor for the first time and just...wow....it looks bad...The games graphics are not worthy of a next-gen price tag. Or maybe if the game play is amazing then the graphics can be passable. Lets talk about the poor game play now, which has stiff controls and I had to adjust the sensitivity quite a bit before I could even play it properly. The game will get repetitive very quickly with the same mission after mission. You run into a room, some terminators or other robots come after you, kill them and move on to next room. The developers did break it up a tiny bit by throwing in missions where you man a turret on the back of a slow moving truck. With the stiff controls all this does is annoy as you try and aim at the flying robots attacking you.
Bottom Line: If you are a huge terminator fan give it a rental, but be prepared to repeat the same actions over and over with a fake John Connor who's shotgun is very accurate even from far away. If you are not a HUGE terminator fan then pass this one by, unless you are a achievement whore in which case a runthrough the game on the hardest difficulty will net you the full 1000, and even on easy you would get all but two achievements.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Uncaged Edition) -
Platforms: Xbox360, PC, PS3 (caged edition avail on Wii, PS2, PSP, DS)
Genre: Third Person Brawler (essentially ya that sounds right)
Another game based on a movie, and this movie was not any better than Terminator Salvation is. But does the game based off the movie barely make a scratch or does it claw the shit out of my senses? Lets talk about it. First off the game has the likeness of the characters from the movie (with a few minor exceptions) and pulls it all of beautifully. The voice-acting delivered by Hugh Jackman is great and sounded like he had some fun with it. The plot follows the origins story a little more faithfully and obviously more in depth than the movie. People playing the game will still end up getting the same story from the movie and actually the version they see is more complete! The Graphics are beautiful and personally it's fun as hell to see wolverine rip some guys arms off, or cut a guy in two, the amount of violence is actually a nice change from the movie which pandered to the Teen audience. Wolverine also takes real-time damage! Get a grenade in the chest, and yea...you can see through your damn body and you even get to see it regenerate. This is the way a movie game should be, wicked fun to just pickup and play.
Bottom Line: This is a great game, the graphics are good, voice acting good, plot is decent and it's easy to pick up and just play. The only downside is it gets repetitive fairly quick, and unless you feel like playing thru the game with other costumes or unlock bonus features then no reason to play through a second time. It can also be beaten in about 5- 10 hours so it's not the longest game either. GREAT FOR A STONER!!! ***HIGHLY RECOMMENDED***
X-Blades -
Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Genre: Third Person Spectacle Fighter
I have to call X-Blades a Spectacle Fighter because it is like the Devil May Cry Series, you get in a battle that's just more or less really flashy and usually easy to fight off and perform crazy special moves that stun everyone viewing the screen. ANYWAY - this is the closest I could figure this game as it starts out with the oddest cut-scene in a shop in which you connect to tetris pieces together and then monsters come, your incredibly naked main character fights them off and then explains she's basically a tomb raider. Follow so far? good. At this point you are let loose in a temple and are headed to get some stupid rare jewel thing, as you run along suddenly lizard things start attacking you and tutorial time. But all it says is - Press X to attack. So you only have one melee attack which is X, after a while you find out you have guns too. Which can be used with the right trigger and now I feel like I'm playing Devil May Cry but with a hot very naked chick as the main character as shit is dying all over the place and I'm bouncing around shooting and attacking. The game itself is totally insane as you continue you run into a werewolf which takes like a hour to defeat but never really hurts you so it's just like hacking away at a tree with a axe. This is getting long, so lets skip to bottom line already.
Bottom Line: It's a extremely budget Devil May Cry, complete with ridiculous amounts of upgrades you can do to everything. This does feature a nearly naked chick bouncin around thou, and it can be fun at times. I would still recommend Devil May Cry 4 over this.
Dark Sector -
Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Genre: Third Person Shooter/Action
Ok has anyone out there played Gears of War? Yes? Well then don't bother with this game, it's not that good. The game starts of decently enough with you infiltrating a base and more or less just killing a ton of guards who don't know how to actually hide behind cover as they will attempt to hide but manage to end up hiding while somehow still totally in view of me and my bullets. The AI is something to usually challenge the player, althou the only challnge here is do I use my pistol or my machine gun to kill the stupid guy standing there looking at me as if I can't see him. The only challenge I got during the first level (Prologe) was during the final battle between you and a helicopter which was only hard because other eniemies that were on the other side of the map would suddenly appear practically beside me and nearly kill me every so often. It was quite the confusing sight to see as a eneimy across the screen would suddenly dissapear infront of me and then suddenly end up beside me. Crazy. Well the controls arn't the best either and seem stiff at times I use the phrase at times because it was completly random.
Bottom Line: The game is certainly interesting enough if you could get into the plot. It unfortunatly suffers from glitches and stiff controls and AI that is non-exisitant at times. If you had to ask me for a recommendation then I'd say don't bother.
Wanted: Weapons Of Fate -
Platforms: PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Genre: Third Person Shooter
Another movie and yet another game. The movie I found to be actually enjoyable and fun, at least up until there was a loom telling people who to kill, then I was annoyed. The game follows the same story from the movie essentially, but more the comic timeline and stories. So lets just say it involves an annoying voice Wesley (It's not the dude from the movie and the voice actor gets annoying FAST) and he goes around shooting tons of armed guys in his way. I will have to say, once you learn all the cool tricks like curving bullets and moving super crazy fast etc... then the game is really quite fun for a while. The developers actually manage to make things enjoyable to the point you are curving nearly every shot just to see if it will choose this shot as the one that uses the slow-everything-down-and-follow-the-bullet-to-it's-target camera which is a treat to view when stoned at least. Even with the fun of basically being a super-powered crazy agent the game as with most games gets repetative and seems drawn out as every few eneimes taken out equals a pointless cut-scene that usually just shows Wesley walking to the next room. Another game that attempts to break up the reperative sequences with a very sudden turret scene early on without any warning either, you basically turn a corner and are suddenly in this turrent and are expected to shoot all the bad dudes. Crazy shit.
Bottom Line: The game is actually fairly playable and with the exception of a few minor glitches and annoying choices with some repetative gameplay, it's actually a fun game that I would at least warrent with a rental. I like curving bullets for no reason, like around a pole even though I have a nice clear shot.
- That's it from HalfBaked for now, I might be back later with another review...but I dunno yet..
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