XIII
January 31, 2004
Everyone anywhere have read comic’s sometime in his or her life. Well now you can experience the full action of a comic, in a video game! The game is a comic, with the ì“ash, Boom, Bang, etc.î ¡nd the cool looking comic style of a cel-shaded video game. XIII is a game that you would call something that was dug out of a comic book writer. With the voices of David Duchovny as the lead actor (X Files), the one and only Adam West as the voice actor for General Carrington, and Eve for Jones, how can this game go wrong? Read more
Monster Rancher 4
January 29, 2004
There have been many video games of you obtaining a monster to train, like Pokemon, Digimon, mostly aimed at the younger age group, yet Monster Rancher 4 set the age to everyone, with fun around every corner. Did Tecmo release a Monster Rancher that will give a kick to it? Or did it jut not work out with the RPG style gameplay? Read more
Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2
January 29, 2004
Most people played the 1st Budokai, and most enjoyed playing as Goku and friends, but yet the first Dragon Ball Z Budokai needed the feel of actually playing in the anime cartoon. Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2 captures that. Read more
Final Fantasy X-2
January 29, 2004
One of the longest running series of video games has finally received a direct sequel to a game! The 1st Final Fantasy game to reach a new era of video gaming. The Final Fantasy Series has been around since the 1980’s. The first Final Fantasy game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System back in the day, and it was an unexpected hit to most video game buyers, containing hours of gameplay with a great story, the players were shocked and couldn’t wait till the second version was out, and when it did come out, it was for Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and it was a bit confusing for the consumer that it didn’t follow the story to the first video game. Then Square Soft announced that the Final Fantasy Series is a bunch of games separate with different story lines, formally the name Final. Finally on November. 18, 2003 Square-Enix, the combined companies of Enix and Square Soft, have created a game, that is one of a kind, A direct sequel to one of the Final Fantasy games. The amazing Final Fantasy X (10) for the Sony Playstation 2 has a sequel. Read more
Manhunt
January 28, 2004
The Grand Theft Auto video games have never been very popular to kids under the age of well… 12, but it is still rated “M� for Mature, for a reason! Now Rockstar has released a more violent video game, with more ways to shock the customers! Read more
Deus Ex: Invisible War
January 27, 2004
The original Deus Ex was released in 2000 and was later claimed as Game of the Year by many publications. What made it so great? It was choice. What I mean is that Deus Ex gave the player an unprecedented amount of choice with respect to how he or she wanted to proceed in the game. While some look at the game and think of it as a First Person Shooter, those that completed Deus Ex know that shooting is only one choice among many. Deus Ex wowed critics and gamers by offering level designs in which exuded real world believability and multiple ways to attain goals. Sure, the main character, JC Denton, had plenty of weapons available, but shooting guards wasn’t the only way to get what you wanted. Having conversations to gain important information, bribing people, disabling security systems, searching for alternate ways to break into areas and sneak around, or back to option one, blowing stuff up, are all possible ways to complete an objective. Another cool thing was that you could not “fail” a mission. Unlike many FPS games, you could not fail your mission simply by blowing up the wrong computer or killing too many civilians. You don’t start your mission over. Instead, there’s always other ways to complete your mission, or you might just have to suffer the consequence of not doing the best job possible. The story moves on. That was another great element. Deus Ex took a grand, and somewhat clich?� theme of global conspiracies of power and completely believable and engrossing. In addition to various weapons, tools, and other items, JC Denton was an experimental type of government agent whose body has been modified by nanotechnology, or microscopic machines which gave him superhuman abilities. The cool thing was that, throughout the game, players could make choices about additions and upgrades to these modifications, or “biomods” as they’re called. No, Deus Ex is not a First Person Shooter, it’s a Role Playing Game. Read more
Pac-Man Vs.
January 24, 2004
Connectivity — it’s been the subject of debate and criticism against Nintendo ever since E3 2003. Simply put, “connectivity” is the word Nintendo uses to describe connecting the Game Boy Advance with the GameCube for enhanced gameplay. However, Nintendo has received much criticism among gamers and journalists for what many people believe to be a lame concept. There have been plenty of examples to back up that view. Aside from just a few applications, most connectivity features have been rather gimmicky, only offering the ability to unlock content without adding any real interesting gameplay enhancements that could have been accomplished other ways. I have always been of the thought that the best, most fun uses of connectivity would require a Game Boy Advance as part of the gameplay, not just be an extra option. Pac-Man Vs. is an excellent example of this. Read more
Nintendo DS – The Major Nintendo Announcement
January 20, 2004
Nintendo has been telling us for a while now that they would reveal a new hardware product at E3 which is not a direct successor to any existing Nintendo product. Well Nintendo has just now released the first details about the product.
(drumroll please) Read more
Fatal Frame 2
January 6, 2004
The survival/horror genre is one that is dominated by Resident Evils and Silent Hills, but among these great games, there are a few unique gems that, while often overlooked, are just as suspenseful and fun to play. One such game was Tecmo’s original Fatal Frame. Fatal Frame put a twist on the genre by arming the player with only a soul-sucking camera to combat evil spirits rather than throwing the player a shotgun and sending out hordes of reanimated corpses to die yet again. Read more