The SOCOM series is back, in a big way. This time with more guns, better cutscenes, and much stronger presentation. You play as Wraith, the squad leader of a 4 man Special Forces team. You will travel across a former Soviet State, tracking a former KGB agent with ties to an ultra-nationalist army threatening to unleash a crap-storm of WMD’s on the world.Your mission is to stop them.
One of the downfalls most of us know about for the Wii platform is it’s lacking catalog of mature Wii titles. No More Heroes is one of those games that cuts through the fog, the shit-tastic haze of “My Baby’s First Steps” and “Jump Start Pet Rescue”. It’s a follow-up to one of the best Wii game you probably didn’t ever know about. A flagship franchise right up there in the vein of MadWorld and Red Steel. How does a great game get better? Improvement. And has Suda51 done so with his next venture in NMH2: Desperate Struggle? Find out after the jump.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, true to fashion, throws your character straight into the gritty underworld of Liberty City. The player is quickly hastened into an avalanche of murder, theft, and all-out war with the Triad underbosses. Your character is the son of a Chinese Triad Boss. Your father is murdered, and a priceless family heirloom is stolen in the process. Your mission? Avenge your father’s murder, and retrieve the artifact by any means necessary, all while climbing the ladder of criminal-success. It’s kill or be-killed in the crime riddled Liberty City, and while playing this game, you will experience plenty of both.
This is the last part of my three part review of The Sims 3 expansion, World Adventures. In the first one I covered the adventures in China, the second one covered the adventures in Egypt, today we go to France. The setting is a beautiful French countryside called Champ Les Sims. In the distance you can see the Eiffel Tower but you can’t visit or interact with it. That was a bit disappointing as the advertising made it seem like it was a possibility. The disappointed left quickly as started to play…
Brain training games were all the rage a couple years ago, but have since fallen to the wayside in favor of bigger adventures. The Amazing Brain Train from NinjaBee looks to bring some education to your WiiWare downloads and make you enjoy educational gaming again. While the puzzles are interesting, the rest of the game is not, making it a tough sell.
Yesterday I started my review of The Sims 3 World Adventures with a tale of my adventure to China. Today we travel to Al Simhara, Egypt. Traveling to Egypt cost a bit more than China but well worth it. This country and adventures has the real “Indiana Jones” feel complete with a marketplace and tombs with treasure. Read on to learn more about my adventures…
Running with Scissors: Pre-Season (RwS:PS) is sLeek games’ red-carpet debut in the App Store. This release is a very good first offering for sLeek, and they are looking to capitalize on the iPhone’s multitouch capability in a unique way. The premise of RwS:PS is simple, win the race. Controls? Just as simple, run on screen with your fingertips.
This weekend I finally installed The Sims 3 World Adventures and blocked off a few days to try out this new Sim expansion. I got a taste of it when I went to the Blogger’s Day event back in September of last year and was excited to try this expansion pack. The World Adventures pack adds a whole new style of game play to a normal Sims 3 game. Face it, playing the Sims can get redundant, get up, go pee, eat breakfast, go to work. We all do that in real life and yet we play with our little Sim people and do the same thing. I’m not saying it’s not fun, it’s just the same grind. After the first few hours of playing World Adventures, I’m so blown away that this game has become exciting again. I can’t wait to turn it on and take my Sim on another adventure. I have so much to tell about it that I’m going to break my review into three parts, one to cover each country (China, Egypt and France) so be sure to read all three articles, I’ll give my final thoughts on the last post. All of the photos I’m going to use are from my game and will feature my Sim.
First, if you have never played the original Mass Effect, do yourself a favor and pick it up before jumping into Mass Effect 2. The original game was flawed, but had one of the best stories ever told in a video game. You don’t need to play the first game to enjoy the second, but it’s kind of like jumping into The Empire Strikes Back or season 4 of Battlestar Galactica without seeing A New Hope or the previous seasons, respectively. Not just that, but you can import your previous Mass Effect character into the second game, which carries over choices from the first game and just makes the overall experience extremely personal.
Mass Effect 2 fixes or addresses almost all the problems from the first game, and goes on to improve and refine the gameplay experience. It’s a more streamlined game, and it’s completely worth your time.
Right off the bat, Fish Fun sounds like a grand old time. What could be better than trying to make your way up the aquatic food chain, eating smaller fish to grow your character until you are king of the under water world? Plus, the game title has the word “Fun” in it. So it has to be good, right? Not exactly. Fish Fun has some good qualities, but in the end, it fails to live up to an engaging application that you would want to keep playing or even keep on your iPhone for the long run. Where does it go wrong? Read on to find out.
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