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Review: Blackwell Deception (PC)

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Oct 182011
 

It is rare that a good mystery game comes up. It is even rarer that a cheap game with a great story comes up. Blackwell Deception handles both of these in one suspenseful,  thrilling point and click adventure game.

In Blackwell Deception, you can switch back and forth between two characters, Rosangela Blackwell and Joey Malone. You can switch between the duo by pressing tab, or clicking R or J respectively at the top of the screen. Joey is a ghost, who uses some magic tie to send other ghosts to the after life, and can blow on things to move them around (try blowing on the first ghost you see. trust me), and Rosa is a human who seems to be one of the few TRUE psychics who can talk to ghosts. Both pass average jokes that are pretty funny because they really aren’t funny, but they also annoy each other a lot. They work together to help ghosts realize that they are actually dead, so their spirits can move on to the after life.

The games controls are very simple. Just left click objects to interact with them, and right click objects to look at them. You can also left click somewhere to move there, but you won’t be needing to do that a lot, because most of the game’s environments fit onto the single screen. Rosa has a myPhone that can be used to search the web, call your contacts, or review clues you have found throughout the mystery.

The game starts you off in a tutorial like level where your goal is to find out why the yacht is mysteriously piloting itself every night. Right after you complete this task, the game throws you into a much deeper mission, that requires you to solve the murder of a close friend of Rosa’s. It was almost impossible to put the game down because I just HAD to know what happened to Jeremy (the recently murdered friend of Rosa).

This is as pretty as the game gets. Really.

The graphics are nothing special. Each area generally has the same color scheme, and nothing really stands out. The character portraits during dialog help portray emotion between the characters, but the characters them selves lack a sense of emotion. Rosa falls every time a ghost moves on, and the animation for her falling was bad enough just to mention.

The sound isn’t that special either. The music helps add to the mood, whether it be depressing, or tense, but when you are just in an average room nothing special is happening. The voice actors do a great job at making you believe they are a receptionist in a bad mood, or a scam artist psychic.

If you are looking for a thrilling story line, Blackwell Deception is for you. This game won’t last you long, but will be worth the experience.

PC Game

Graphics

60
  

Audio

75
  

Gameplay

80

Creativity

90
  

Execution

90
  

Offset

85
    

8
  

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My Dream Costumes of Saints Row: The Third

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Oct 122011
 

Saints Row: The Third is on the way, and for those of you who don’t know, it’s basically a sandbox game where you can do what ever you feel like. Fly a jet? Check. Run around naked? Check. Slap Hobos with sex toys? Check. One thing that makes this game even more awesome is that you can customize your character to look like what ever the heck you feel like. Here are a few costumes I wouldn’t mind wearing while running around the streets of Steelport.

Darth Vader and Stormtroopers

Buh Buh BuhBuhBuh BuhBuh Buhhhhhhhhhh

Imagine walking down the street, with your buddies dressed as Stormtroopers, and you just pull out a plastic light saber and tear pedestrians to shreds. If Volition Inc threw these costumes and maybe a light saber as a Star Wars DLC Pack, I would gladly spend my hard earned money on it.

 Hollywood Undead

What do most criminals have in common? They wear masks to hide their faces. Not only that, but this Rap/Rock band is known for their street cred, so dressing up as them and gunning people down would be so sweet, while maybe adding a song or two from them onto the soundtrack.

(rom Left to Right) Danny, J-Dog, Johnny 3 Tears, Da Kurlzz, Charlie Scene, Funny Man


The Joker

Oh man. The king of kings when it comes to evil villains. Maybe add a couple of Joker’s thugs to sweeten the deal. With Arkham City sure to be a hit, I see no reason to not have the Joker as a costume in Saints Row the Third.

Me!

Now this idea is a little out there, but hear me out. With the Kinect, Playstation Eye, or Webcam, you can capture your face and put it on your character’s body. This has been done before and I’m sure it could be done again. What better character to fantasize playing than me?

Master Chief/Helghast/Nonosuit

Each platform could get their own exclusive costume. Xbox could get their beloved Master Chief, Playstation could get the standard Helghast outfit, and PC players could get the Nonosuit from Crysis. Each owner could earn bragging rights to which character they prefer.

Got any ideas of your own? Leave them down below!

Dark Souls Will Claim My Soul

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Sep 272011
 

Please don't hurt me...

In 2009, most people were playing Uncharted 2, Batman Arkham Asylum, Modern Warfare 2, and other huge hits of that year. However, out of no where, Demon’s Souls came exclusively to the Playstation 3.  One thing almost all major reviewers agreed on about the game was that it was hard. Not unfair hard like in Fallout where there is a major glitch that causes a scenario to be almost impossible to complete, but a fair hard. It taught you how to play, one death at a time. You would be walking up some steps, turn a corner, than read a message that says “Treasure ahead” with a huge hole in the ground. Being new to the game, most would trust the liar and walk to their death. That taught them not to believe everything they read.  I remember playing the tutorial. I had very little trouble walking through the pathetic guards one by one. Than, I went through a fog at the top of a stair case and a huge monster came at me and with one swing of his ax I was a goner.

That death was punishing, but in a fair way. It took me over a year to finally defeat that boss in the tutorial, but it remains as my proudest moment in gaming history, even above any platinum trophy I have. It took me almost six months to complete the game, at a total of 60 hours of game play. Sure, if you know what you are doing, you can probably run through it in about 6-10 hours, but I doubt anybody has ever done that with out either already playing it before, a strategy guide, or friends joining the game all the time. That brings me to the next thing, the multiplayer in this game truly is unique. Most games have a campaign than some lackluster team death match mode or something of that sort. Demon’s Souls, however, is built into the single player.

It's a Duel of Honor!

As I stated before, you can leave messages for other players all across the Demon’s Souls universe. You can’t say something irrelevant to the game, like “Yo mama so fat, she makes Vanguard jealous”, because you have to pick from a list of preset phrases, like the popular “I’m in trouble, please recommend my message”. When you recommend a message, the player who wrote the message gets a health boost, and the message gains liability. If a message with 2,000 recommendations says “Beware the path ahead” and a message in the same spot with no recommendations says “Run right through”, are you going to take your time or speed through it? Some messages are very humorous with timing and location too. One message I found said “Coward” and it was behind a pillar in one of the boss locations.

But wait, there’s more. There are a set of stones in the game, four to be exact. Blue stone and White stone are the first you get. Blue stone places a soul sign if you are in soul form and players who have not yet completed that level in human form and in your level range can accept your soul sign and allow you and another person to join and help complete the level. If everybody makes it to the end in one piece, everybody returns to their own world in human form and gains any souls everybody came across. White stone simply allows you to exit other people’s worlds, in case you are trying to join a friend’s world or for what ever reason you may have. Black and Red stone, however, are where the game really gets interesting.

*whistles* Oh hey mister black phantom. What's that, you want my souls?

Using black stone, without permission, you can invade somebody’s game and ruin their day by taking their body and their souls. They receive all the same punishments from any regular death. But invaders need to keep in mind that the world they invade could have up to three people they have to fight and the host will be at full HP. Recently, people from From Software have been invading people in Dark Souls with maxed out characters to search and destroy anybody who decided to get the game a bit early. This has only been spotted in Japan, but I’m sure that this will continue in North America and Europe when the game gets closer to release.

Prepare to die, October 4th, 2011.

Will You be Playing DCUO Now?

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Sep 192011
 

When I bought DC Universe Online, I only planned on using the free month, hoping  one day I could finally play the game again without spending another cent. My wishes have come true, and along with the release of Batman Arkham City, PC and PS3 gamers alike will be able to get in on the DC Universe Online action for free. Never bought the game? Well you can also download the game, free of charge. Don’t worry, for those of you who want extra bang for your buck, the game also offers  premium and a legendary membership plans.

Premium members get goodies like more character slots, additional inventory slots, and more DLC options, while legendary members get all DLC at no additional cost, more that 15 character slots, more than 80 inventory slots, and have leagues with no restrictions on size. Premium will be a mere $5 and anybody who has spent more than $5 in the game will be able to access it, while legendary will be $15 a month. Does this make you want to wipe the dust off of DCUO? Have you always been playing and want to continue paying? Is this enough of an incentive to try the game out? Let me know in the comments down below.

Xotic Review (PC)

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Sep 152011
 

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Forget everything you know about first person shooters, because Xotic is here. Are you used to AK’s, RPG’s, and Uzi’s? Well, that’s too bad, because in this game you only get one gun, and it’s called the Macroterra. It’s unique, because instead of you holding it, the gun is actually attached to you. The best way to describe it is a fly that is attached to you and can shoot many different things, like poison, napalm, ect. That’s not all, it also has other features, like the ability to fly, and the ability to spawn shields. Everything about this gun is just the surface of a very interesting game, that is almost impossible to put down.

This is the Macroterra. A living organism that attached your arm and you can now use as a gun. Sweet.

The game starts off telling you that an Orb has decided to take over the world, and you must banish the Orb into outer space and reclaim lost territories that the corrupted Orb has control over. It’s not much of a story, but it isn’t trying to be. The gameplay consists of  shooting as much scabs (infected plants) as you can, while killing all the enemies on the level to unlock the level’s finish point. Just like most arcade games, the replayability is endless. Unless you get a perfect 100%, there is always that few extra points you can score next time around, and being #1 on the leader board has felt good since the days of Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, and very little has changed since then it terms of glory.

In a game like this, with various difficulties, it is very hard to estimate the length of the game, because you could probably run through it in a couple hours if you  speed run, and could take you 10-20 hours if you try to destroy every scab. Even so, once you beat the game, you are completely done with it, right? Wrong, because you have to fight for spots on the leader boards, and you can compare your position with your friends and strangers to motivate you to do better next time.

So much to do, so little time...

The audio is probably the weakest portion of it, but that’s not really a bad thing. The sound is nothing special, and it doesn’t do a great job at setting the mood. Although minor complaints, in a game as marvelous as this, you need to pick apart each little problem so the developers know what their weaknesses are.

So pretty... Wait, what was I doing again?

If one were to write an argument stating that video games are, in fact, art, they would be a fool to exclude Xotic from the argument. Xotic has a vast variety of colors, that just add to the rich experience. From level to level, this game does a good job at differentiating each area with different colors, sometimes leading me to believe that it’s all in an evil scheme to distract us from keeping a high score and instead gazing upon the environments. The backgrounds also do a good job at making you feel like you’re just a small entity on a giant planet.

Everything in Xotic works the way it should. It’s obviously a gameplay heavy game, and the gameplay is unique, fast pace, and exciting. If this game is anything, it is creative. I can’t think of any First Person Shooter to compare this to, and that just proves how creative WXP Games is.

Overall, this is one of the best indie games I have ever played, and if you have Steam, you owe it to yourself to at the very least look into this game. Xotic releases for PC on September 16th, 2011, and is expected to be on Xbox Live in Q3 of 2011.

PC Game

Graphics

100
  

Audio

70
  

Gameplay

100

Creativity

95
  

Execution

95
  

Offset

90
    

9.2
  

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Minecraft 1.8 is Here! Herobrine is Out?

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Sep 142011
 

After long anticipation, Minecraft version 1.8 is finally out. This update, known as the “Adventure update”, adds new blocks, sprinting, new mobs, and much, much more. All you need to do is go onto Minecraft and it should ask you if you want to update the game. Enjoy!

Full list of updates:

+ Added a brand new biome generation code that simplifies life a lot and makes things much more exciting for the future
+ Added new mob; Endermen
+ Added FOV slider
+ Added brightness slider
+ Added randomly generated ravines
+ Killing a monster makes it drop experience orbs
+ The player can level up by gathering experience orbs
+ Added randomly generated houses
+ Added huge mushrooms
+ Using bonemeal on small mushrooms grows the mushroom into a giant mushroom if there’s room
+ Rewrote the light rendering to use multitexturing instead of direct colors
+ Sky light and block light have different tints, cool colors for sky light, warm for block lights
+ Added critical hits that deal +50% damage, plus an extra point to make crits with weak weapons worth it
+ If the player hits a mob while falling, they always hit a critical hit
+ The game now keeps track of damage sources and types
+ Some damage type ignore armor now; drowning, being on fire (but not being IN a fire), falling out of the world
+ Ice now only spreads next to existing ice or from coast areas
+ Made the explosions prettier
+ Made level height depend on a single variable (the level height still is 128, but it’s more moddable now)
+ Added sprinting
+ Added hunger
+ Food is now stackable
+ Improved the logo
+ Added suspended particles to water
+ Added a server list so you can remember multiple servers
+ The player regenerates slowly while the food bar is high
+ Eating food now takes time
+ Skeletons hold their bows better now
+ Added melons
+ Made melons and pumpkins farmable
+ Animals that get hurt will flee randomly for a short while
+ Pigs have snouts now
+ Made a flashier title screen
+ Looking towards the sun during sunset/sunrise changes fog color
+ Added fence gates
+ Added a player list to multiplayer
+ Added Silverfish
+ Added Cave Spider
+ Added huge underground dungeons (stronghold)
+ Added underground mine shafts
+ Added melon
+ Added sprouts for melons and pumpkins
+ Added vines
+ Added iron bars
* Fixed mushrooms spreading infinitely
* Fixed caves generating with too many dead ends
- Removed Herobrine

Wait… removed Herobine?!?!?! Didn’t that happen two times already? Is Notch playing a prank on us, or is he adding him and removing him over and over?

Why Kratos is Surprisingly Deeper Than You Think

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Sep 122011
 

With the release of God of War Origins, many people on the internet are bashing Kratos for being just a bland character. All he does is yells, if it moves, he kills it, and he is about as deep as a puddle. If you used it to insult Kratos, I have heard it, and frankly, most of it adds to the depth of his character.  Kratos was a servant to the Gods, with nothing to live for besides his beautiful wife and daughter, and his victorious Spartan Army. He than is ordered to massacre a village; piece of cake, right? Well he enters a building and blindly swings his weapons around, not realizing he slayed his own family. I’m sure some point in our life time, we all have lost a loved one. Now imagine living with the guilt that you are the sole reason that your wife and child are dead. 

To make matters worse, after Kratos is stripped of his god status, his very own Spartan Army is defeated. Imagine if your family was killed, than your favorite hobby was taken from you. That’s harsh. I’d probably just go into a depression stage like Ethan Mars, but yet again I don’t have muscles that make the Old Spice guy jealous. His anger pushes him, and most people who haven’t played a lot of God of War assume he is just an angry character who just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and is taking it out on the poor citizen hanging from the burning building.

Kratos is just a man who has nothing left in life and his only reason to live is to seek revenge on the very god who betrayed him, Zeus. Sure, he yells when ever he speaks, but he is angry. His anger drives his character on and sets the tone for the game, which is pretty much just killing anything and everything that stands in your way to complete your goal. The one character the man can trust turns out to be Pandora, and he does have emotional scenes with her.

Say what you want about Kratos, but his actions for the most part are justified. Do you agree, or do you think Kratos is the worst video game character of all time? Sound off below!

Dead Island: Two Painful Glitches

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Sep 092011
 

I pre ordered Dead Island the second I saw the amazing  open world zombie killing action. This was going to be the game I stay up that extra couple hours for.  After picking it up and playing it Tuesday, I fell in love. Wednesday I had a fully scheduled day, so I had to put down the game for a day so I hopped on today again to get in some more action. To my surprise, my save progress has been cut back an entire act and 8 levels. When I stopped Tuesday, I was level 21, and on Act 2, Chapter 6. Now, I’m on Act 1 Chapter 4, and my level is 13. There is no option to save so this is no way my fault. The auto save should have picked up, especially between acts.

Dead Island notifies you when you complete the task for a trophy/achievement, and some of them are pretty challenging. One trophy/achievement is unlocked when you kill 5 zombies in a row with one shot each. I was excited when the game told me that I unlocked that trophy, and waiting for it to pop up with the famous “bling”, it just didn’t appear. I thought maybe my eyes deceived me but it happened with many other trophies. 

If you had to suffer through either of these two glitches, please, tell me down below. I don’t want to be the only one left in the cold.

My Shopping List: Fall 2011 – Buy, Wait, or Pass?

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Sep 042011
 

With the amazing line-up of title being released this upcoming fall, there is no way the average person can afford to buy all of them day one. I am here to give my two cents on the biggest titles and help guide you on to which titles you should buy day one, which titles you should wait for a price drop, or which titles you should just forget all together. Please note that these are all predictions and some Passes could turn out to be spectacular and some Buys can turn out to be flops.

September 6th-

Resistance 3- WAIT

For all of you out there with a PS3, you probably played the first two Resistance titles. Now the beta is out, and it’s open for anybody with a PSN account. If you played any of these, you should know what to expect from Resistance 3. Ultimatley, if you are not a hardcore fan of the Resistance series, you should probably wait for this title to drop a little bit in price.

Dead Island- BUY

Zombie games haven’t been doing so well lately. Left 4 Dead is way too linear, Dead Rising blows off it’s open world with a time limit, and nobody is even sure what those things from Resident Evil 5 are. If Dead Island is executed properly and lives up to its hype, it could very well be the greatest zombie game this generation.

September 20th-

Gears of War 3- BUY

Anybody with an Xbox will tell you about how awesome the Gears of War series is. The recent beta even drastically increased the quality of it’s multiplayer, and it should be the final title in the series. If you own an Xbox, you have almost no excuse to not buy Gears of War 3. The freaking Old Spice Guy is voice acting for it! What more could you ask for?!?!

October 4th-

Rage- PASS

If past RPG’s with the same elements as Rage have taught me anything, it’s that a combination of the hype and the vast amount of bugs tend to kill the game. Look at Fallout 3. It’s a good game, but it is way to over hyped and there are a lot of game breaking bugs. That’s not to say Rage will be bad, I’m just saying Rage probably won’t be that piece of  gold that everybody is making it out to be.

Dark Souls- BUY

If you played Demon’s Souls, you already know if you want Dark Souls or not. More deaths, more broken controllers, more awesome multiplayer mechanics, more in depth classes. If you only own an Xbox and are not sure on this title, this will be a much harder decision. If you consider yourself a hardcore RPG gamer, you owe it to yourself to play Dark Souls.

October 18th-

Batman: Arkham City- BUY

Another buy? Well it’s Batman! Just look at the villain cast for this title, and your $60 (or $100 for the collector’s edition) is already well more that justified. If you weren’t a fan of Arkham Asylum, you may want to think twice before making this purchase, however.

October 25th-

Battlefield 3- PASS

From everything that has been seen so far, there is nothing special at all about the upcoming Battefield game. If I had to describe it to a friend, I’d just say it’s a first person shooter, and that pretty much sums it all up. Only purchase this game if you MUST get your hands on it.

Silent Hill Downpour- WAIT

Silent Hill is a great series to play in the middle of the night with all the lights turned out. It will scare your pants off. However, when looking at the rest of the games coming this year, I just can’t recommend buying this game day 1. If you are a hardcore horror fan though, you probably should look into this game.

November 1st-

Uncharted 3- BUY

It’s Uncharted, need I say more? So far the series has had the most beautiful graphics, the most entertaining story, and the most exciting scenes that I have seen so far on a console. Nothing is perfect, but Uncharted is as close as it gets.

November 8th-

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3- PASS

MW3 is probably going to outsell everything on this list, but it will probably not beat anything here in quality. Call of Duty (with the exception of Black Ops) has always had a lackluster story, and an online feature plagued with bugs, hacks, and over priced map packs. Obviously if you like Call of Duty, you will like this game, mainly because I consider it the Madden of FPS’s, meaning it comes out every year and just adds a thing or two but not much has really changed, just the minor things.

November 11th-

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim- WAIT

Now before an angry mob burns down my house, let me justify. Skyrim is just not for everybody. Some people will think “oh, everybody is talking about it, I have to get it” than they will get lost in the first half hour than quite. Obviously if you are a fan of Oblivion and Fallout, you have no excuse to miss out on this title, but if you haven’t even touched those titles, you should probably hold off on Skyrim.

November 15th-

Saints Row the Third- BUY

Saints Row has always been about fun. Want to fly a jet as a naked fat guy? Why not! Want to slap a homeless man with a giant purple sex toy? You can do that too! The possibilities are endless and this game is just going to be that type of game most people don’t even finish the story simply because they are just having too much fun messing around.

Assassin’s Creed Revelations- WAIT

If you are a fan of Assassin’s Creed, you don’t want to miss out on this game. For everybody else, you can probably wait to get this in a month or two. There are just way too many games to justify buying Assassin’s Creed for somebody who is not a hardcore fan of the series.

November 20th-

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword- BUY

This is the type of game that makes me glad I own a Wii. Zelda is just way too epic to pinpoint one reason to buy it. If you want a reason to wipe the dust off of your Wii, this game will do well more than just that. This will probably be the single game we remember the Wii for in ten years.

 

What do you think? Did I miss your favorite game? Do you hate a game I recommended a purchase? Did you pre-order a game I said to pass? Tell me down Below!

 

Review – Serious Sam: Double D (PC)

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Aug 312011
 

If I had to describe Serious Sam in two words, they would probably be “Duke Nukem”. Both Sam and Duke are very masculine, love the female body, shoot first and ask questions later, and don’t have a lot of depth to them.  Sam Stone throws some one liners here and there, and to be quite honest, the only one that made me smirk was a Tomb Raider reference. In short, if you are looking for a game with a deep story and characters that just draw you in, this is not your game.

Audio- Right when you start the game, a hardcore rock song is blasting in the main  menu, which pumps you up for the action that is about to go down. Weapon sounds are pretty good across the board, but I was disappointed that there was no voice acting, even though this game is going for a retro feel. As a fan of all sorts of rock, the soundtrack was very appealing to me. The music does a fantastic job at setting the mood, even if that mood consists of shooting aliens in the face

Gameplay – As for the gameplay, it’s pretty much exactly what you see, shoot everything on screen until you are the last alive and move on to the next area. One thing that

Come at me bro.

did catch my eye, however, was the gun stacker. Basically, what this does is allows you to combine up to six guns together to make one super deluxe gun. The best part is, if you make a mistake or decide you don’t want your chainsaw tied to your shotgun anymore, you can separate them at anytime with no cost.  This feature alone kept me interested in the gameplay, and really added a new level of customization that most other games fail to reach. The whole game can be completed in about 4-7 hours, depending on skill and difficulty level, and that is very good for an $8 downloadable game.

The difficulty spikes at certain points, and settles down randomly. For instance, before you can stack for the first time, killing enemies can become tedious. After that it becomes pretty easy, until you get jumped by the kamikaze, and continues on a similar pattern like that. The secrets aren’t the hardest secrets in

Yeh. Those things kind of blow up...

video game history, but you might need to replay the game once or twice to find them all.

The enemies range anywhere from exploding gorillas to exploding pancakes,  or even suicidal headless people with bombs for hands that, you guessed it, explode. Some enemies don’t explode however, but these enemies are very simple and easy to beat. The exploding ones are much harder, because not only must you shoot them, but you must run away at the same time. Boss battles are not exactly rare in this game, and once you encounter one, the main focus usually is to spray and pray. Unless you are only using one gun at a time, but who could resist combining an RPG and a Tommy Gun.

The game puts a limit on how much ammo each gun has, in an attempt to make you conserve it. However, ammo packs are everywhere, and it is almost impossible to run out of it unless you try really hard.

Mmmmmmm... Donuts...

Graphics - For the retro feeling this game is going for, the graphics are just fine. Each enemy spills his/her fair share of blood, and each level has a variety of colors, rather than the usual brown and gray from most shooters. My absolute favorite feature visual wise, however, is the ability to change the blood and gore. Normally, this is for worried parents trying to protect their children, but killing a giant lady with bombs for breasts is just all that more satisfying when candy and donuts replace blood and gore.

The challenge mode seems to be an after thought in this game, and reminds me of the challenge mode in God of War, in that it’s pretty hard, but if you stick with it, almost anybody can beat it. One thing I did find a bit corny is that when you go to quit the game, or preform almost any action in the menu, it asks you if you are serious. Nothing big, just something that stood out as another failed joke Serious Sam attempted.

Bottom line is if this game doesn’t appeal to you, you probably won’t be surprised at all by actually playing the game. On Steam, it goes for $7.99 but if you buy it before September 6th, you save 10%, and I’m sure there will be lots of other deals involving this game. If you seriously can’t wait for Serious Sam 3, than you should seriously consider this game.

PC Game

Graphics

90
  

Audio

80
  

Gameplay

80

Creativity

60
  

Execution

70
  

Offset

80
    

7.7
  

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 For the following reasons, I give Serious Sam: Double D an 8 out of 10.

Pros

  • Soundtrack is pretty sweet
  • Weapon Stacking, WOO
  • Candy instead of blood.
  • Very nice price

Cons

  • Minimal voice acting
  • Lame jokes
  • Ammo seems endless

Uncharted 2 Maps in Uncharted 3!

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Aug 302011
 

It has been confirmed that the maps from Uncharted 2 are going to make a return for Drake’s Deception. Here is some gameplay of Highrise being played on none other than Uncharted 3. This is how all multiplayer games should be, the maps from the previous game should come with it. No official word has come out if these maps will be all on the disk, or downloadable, or if it is even every single map or just the greatest hits, but Uncharted fans rejoice, because Uncharted 3 just got that much sweeter. You can play Highrise and other Uncharted 2 maps in Uncharted 3 on November 1st, 2011.

Battlefield vs Call of Duty and Why I Couldn’t Care Less

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Aug 282011
 

(This article details the opinions of Forgotten Prophecy and doesn’t reflect the opinions of the entire GIR staff. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.  -Josh Knowles)

If you have ever played any video game ever this generation, you have probably heard of Call of Duty. The game was big last generation too, but with the release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the game blew up faster than a Rebecca Black music video. Along with it’s seemingly infinite followers, it also gained almost as much haters. Recently, other shooters have also went with a modern setting, including Battlefield, Medal of Honor, and Homefront. However, non of them could stand up and defeat Call of Duty in sales. To nobody’s surprise, Modern Warfare 3 was announced, and so was Battlefield 3. Ever since, the fan bases from either side have been fighting over which is better as if it were the console war.

Personally, I think about a third of Battlefield 3′s online support comes from people who just flat out hate Call of Duty. I even gave my two cents on the war on a few Youtube videos, and I favored Battlefield. One thing I don’t get though, is what’s the huge fuss over these two games? Many people claimed Battlefield 3 to be “game of E3″ or “Game of The Year”, but honestly, nothing I have seen so far from Battlefield justifies it’s hype. Sure, the graphics are pretty, and destruction is always nice, but it probably will not be able to stand up to some of the AAA titles that are coming this fall, or even some of the games that already came out like Portal 2 and Dead Space 2. The PC version will blow the console versions out of the water, however. Things like frame rate and multiplayer are being downgraded for console versions, so if you MUST buy this game, I suggest avoiding the console versions.  And then, there is MW3.

When I saw the “announcement trailer” (I say that because we all knew it was coming before MW2 came out), there was absolutely NOTHING different from previous Call of Duty titles. Every setting, every character, every location, were all used in other CoD’s. Then at Microsoft’s E3 press conference, they showcased it as if it were an exclusive title, and the live demo opened up with an exciting under water mission where you need to hold up. Then in the middle of the under water mission, there was a completely useless checkpoint. If you are only holding up, how can you die? Now, my biggest concern is that unless they delay the release, I am under the impression MW3 will only be in development for 9 months. Why is this a problem? Well the game everybody mutually agrees is the worst Call of Duty, CoD3, is the only other game in the series with a development time that short. Not to mention the fact that many developers are working on this title, which means their ideas might not fit together well.

If CoD’s multiplayer wasn’t filled with kids not old enough to play the game and hackers, the online experience would be fun enough to justify the purchase. But going back to either MW, it’s hard to find a lobby that hasn’t been completely hacked, or be called a try hard every time you get a kill by somebody half your age.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all game for Game v Game competition (no pun intended). The inFAMOUS vs Prototype battle is a good example. The only problem, however, is that one of these games completely dominated the other, and I’m not going to name names, but it starts with an in and ends with FAMOUS.

In the end, neither of these games will stand out quality wise. I’d go as far to say that there needs to be another FPS title that can give us a break from these cookie cutter games. My prediction is that the PC version of Battlefield 3 will be pretty good, but still will be nothing compared to games like Batman Arkham City and Uncharted 3.

Less is More? 5 Reasons 360 Exclusives Sell More Than Ps3 Exclusives

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Aug 242011
 

Exclusive games such as Halo obviously sell more than games like Killzone. That’s a fact, and there is nothing any Ps3 fanboy can do besides ignore it, accept it, or buy a couple million copies of Killzone (working on it right now). But do sales equal quality? Usually, no. If a game were to sell ten thousand copies, does that mean Halo is automatically superior in quality? Let’s look at some of the reasons some 360 exclusives sell more than exclusives on Ps3. (Yeah it makes me sick too)

5. More Xbox 360′s have been sold

I hate to point out the obvious, but more people own a 360 than a Ps3. If everybody with a 360 bought Halo 3 (which they pretty much all did) and everybody with a Ps3 bought Killzone 3, Halo 3 would sell more. It’s that simple. Although this is not one of the major causes, it certainly gives Microsoft an advantage right off the bat.

4. The Fanbase

Halo, Forza and Fable all originated on the first Xbox. They all gained their success before this generation of gaming, therefor they were guaranteed to sell well even before this generation started. Games like Uncharted, Resistance, and inFAMOUS however, started this generation, giving them a late start with sales. If the first inFAMOUS were on PS2, perhaps more people would have played it, and it’s fan base would have been planted even before Ps3. Now, this is not knocking 360 exclusives in anyway. If anything, this is defending Microsoft. It was hard to acquire a large fan base last generation without a quality game.

3. Replay Value

When you hear a game has a 2 hour story line and no multiplayer, do you jump up and get it midnight release? No, but a game like Halo 3 can be played endlessly online. Sure, the same can be said about Killzone, but there are way more people out there who would rather play Halo online than Killzone online, and that’s a fact. Not to mention the fact that you can play split screen online 0n Halo with a buddy, unlike Killzone.

2. Fanboys

If you have ever read the comments section on Youtube, or even went to the Xbox Republic, it’s pretty obvious 360 has more fanboys. The average fanboy collects the exclusives on the console that he/she owns and brags about how awesome they are and how all other consoles have no exclusives. I signed up for the Xbox Republic once, said I owned a Ps3, and wanted to know more exclusives that I could get for my 360 other than Halo because I’m not a fan of it, and I was banned from the forums for being “A Ps3 fanboy”. That website proves how loyal fanboys are.

1. Variety

Just look at the 2011 line up of exclusives and you will soon realize that the Ps3 obviously has a wider variety of exclusives. On the Xbox, FPS fans only have Halo as an exclusive. On the Ps3, FPS fans have Killzone and Resistance. On 360, Third Person Action fans have Gears. On Ps3, they have God of War, inFAMOUS, Uncharted, and so on. Obviously exclusives on the Playstation  won’t sell as much if there is more to buy. Let’s say you have the money to buy four exclusive games on either console. On the 360, you’d probably buy Halo, Gears, Fable, and Forza. On Ps3, you have to choose between Killzone, Resistance, Uncharted, Heavy Rain, Gran Turismo 5, inFAMOUS, Demon’s Souls, Motorstorm.

 

 

5 Awesome Minecraft Mods

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Aug 242011
 

5. Too Many Items

Hate having to work for all your items and just want to build endlessly? Well this mod is for you. Easily acquire some diamond without hours of labor, or just spawn infinite TNT and blow s#!t up.

You can download TooManyItems here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/140684-173-toomanyitems-in-game-invedit-july-1/

4. No More Creepers

After having my house constantly blown up by those pesky creeps, I knew I wanted them out of my life. Sure, I could simply turn the difficulty on peaceful, but what’s the fun in that? I love zombies and spiders, but creepers not so much. The creepers are no more with this mod, and I sure won’t miss them.

You can protect all your creations here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/102446-mod-no-more-creepers/

3. SurvivalCraft

This takes survival to a whole new level. Now a zombie can bust through your door and kill you, making survival an even more essential part of Minecraft. Instead of building a mansion, just move from shack to shack, exploring  for materials as if you were in a real zombie apocalypse!

You can attempt survival here: http://www.mods-for-minecraft.com/mod-introducing-survivalcraft-v1-7-3#more-307

2. PortalCraft

Love Portal? Love Minecraft? Who doesn’t! Now you can take the best of both worlds with new tools including portal guns, turrets, faith plates, and more! Portals do not reset if you leave your world, so you can put one portal at one side of the map, and another at the other side to easily go from A to C without ever going near B.

You can torture a chicken with science here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/199391-v173-portal-gun-v5-coop-guns-bacon-gun-and-smp/

1. Pokemobs

Ever wish pokemon was an MMORPG? (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), well, now you can throw pokemon mobs into Minecraft, train them, and battle them with gym leaders, other pokemon, team rocket, and other people online. Although this mod is not complete, they released the three original starters, pidgey,and caterpee. All of them are fully evolvable, and take basic commands like “Follow” and “Explore” via the pokedex. The creator of the mod plans on creating gyms and random team rocket encounters for the next update of the patch, and the first 151

Gotta Catch Em All!

pokemon should all be in the mod by the time it is fully complete. Good thing too, I don’t want him wasting time making an ice cream cone pokemon…

You can catch em all here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/519098-173-the-official-pokemobs-v032/

What is your favorite mod? Did I miss it? Tell me in the comments section down below!

 

 

 

Is Sony Bluffing?

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Aug 212011
 

Recently, Sony shut down all rumors of cross game chat on PS3. This upset gamers all around the world, and xbox fanboys boasted about PS3 owners never getting cross game chat on a console without owning a 360. But is Sony telling the truth? If you have been paying attention at all to any form of gaming media, companies attempt a bluff to make the announcement not as predictable or for what ever other motive they have.

Not to long before E3 2010, rumors started that a new Twisted Metal was going to show up. David Jaffe he was not going to be at E3 2011, and neither was any new Twisted Metal game. At the end of Sony’s E3 2011 conference, a scale replica of Sweet Tooth’s ice cream truck a long with a new trailer for the new TM game  showed up out of nowhere.

If you have been following the Playstation Blog, Sony added a feature that allowed a feature that allowed users to submit ideas for just about anything Sony could implement in the future. For as long as I can remember, Cross Game Voice Chat has been the number one feature. I personally think that some other ideas would be better for the overall gaming community (PS2 Backwards Compatibility Please!!!!!!!), but a majority of voters have agreed that cross game chat is a good idea.

At E3 2011, when the PS Vita took the stage, cross game voice chat was announced. However, this was supposed to be for the V, and the V only. Sony gamers rejoiced because with this announcement, they assumed that Ps3 would be getting cross game chat along with it’s little brother. According to Sony, the reason Playstation 3 can’t handle cross game and V can, is because Ps3 has only 256 MB of RAM, and V has 500+. Just hearing that figure shocked me, because I thought the V was going to be just slightly weaker that the PS3 is every way.

This is the part where I call shenanigans. Am I saying Sony is probably going to drop cross game on Ps3? No, but what I am saying is that I think the Playstation could probably do party chat, on at least exclusive games like Uncharted and Killzone.  Maybe they shut down all rumors for cross game chat just so they can put the finishing touches on it and release it later this month? What do you think? Share your thoughts down below.

Games NEED to Tell You Estimated Length of Campaign

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Aug 142011
 

Looking on the back of a box of Step Brothers, wondering if it would last the amount of time that it would take to download The Witcher 2, I fantasized in a world where if you look on the back of the box of a video game, it would say “Estimated Campaign Length: 5-10 Hours”. Some really lengthy RPG games sometimes boast about their full length on the back of the box, but just like an ESRB rating, I think every game should estimate how long it takes to complete the main campaign, ignoring side quests, and taking difficulty and cut scenes into consideration. I know the player’s skill also plays a big part, but most campaigns we can all agree on a length, like the typical shooter is about 8 hours. Obviously side quests add countless more hours, so maybe some games with any form of optional mission could feature a second timing “Estimated Side Quest Length: 11-20 Hours”.

Great game. Too bad it only lasted 5 hours. I wish I knew that prior to paying $60 for it.

If this simple aspect was forced onto game developers, it could motivate them to expand the campaign so they don’t have to put up the embarrassing 5 hours. Imagine going into your local game store, wanting a story based game, looking on the back of a box, and reading “12-14 hours”. This could motivate you to buy it or pass, depending on your personal expectations from a video game. Sure, the length of the story line isn’t EVERYTHING in a game, and you shouldn’t buy a game just because the story is 80+ hours, but it’s the same as buying a game just for trophies/achievements, or just for Kinect/Move support, or 3D support, and a lot of you out there do it.

The point is, not everyone plays a game for the multiplayer experience. Many gamers still enjoy to sit down and tune out while playing the latest release, the industry owes it to them to at least say “Hey, campaign length is estimated at 5 hours”, it’s may steer people towards new games or prevent an almost instant buyers remorse. The worst possible thing to do is to buy a new game and play it when you get home, only to beat it before it is time to eat your next meal. What are your thoughts on the issue, are you for or against it?

 

Minecraft Buy One Get One Free!

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Aug 122011
 

This weekend only, if you buy a copy of Minecraft, you get a free copy of it to give to “someone you wub”. What are you waiting for? Stop reading and BUY IT!!! http://www.minecraft.net/prepurchase.jsp.

Notch, creator of Minecraft, is getting married tomorrow, so what better way to celebrate than to have a special deal on probably one of the most addicting games of all time? Need even more proof? Here is his blog. http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8829997577/wedding-weekend

Why Games Should NOT Have Trophies Requiring Online

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Aug 102011
 

If you played a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360, you may have earned a Trophy or Achievement. Some gamers, including myself, expand the lifetime of a game by attempting to earn all these digital rewards, with no actual prize besides the sweet bling of victory. For Playstation, if you earn every trophy (excluding DLC trophies) you also earn a Platinum trophy. This doesn’t mean that Xbox fans don’t get their fair share of Achievement hoarding. Now, before this snowballs into a console war, let me get to the subject at hand, video games should not have trophies that require going onto the online features.

The most obvious case I can make against trophies/achievements is that not everybody has online capabilities. Maybe they don’t have a router, or PSN crashed again, or their XBL expired. What ever the case, gamers should be able to acquire everything there is to the game offline. Yes, I also think all games should have a skirmish like mode that levels you up just like the online multiplayer, but that is a different rant.

Some games, however, feature trophies for their lackluster online features, in attempts to get people to actually suffer through it. One example of this is Bioshock 2. I know the game is great, but the multiplayer is nothing special, and probably uses online trophies/achievements in an attempt to get players to actually play the online feature.

On a stronger note, some games’ online trophies and achievements are just TOO hard to do, either because the insane skill you would need, or because if the servers die down a bit, you are screwed. If you look at Killzone 2′s trophy list, one trophy requires you to “Achieve weekly online honor rank #4″. For those of you who don’t know, this asks the player to be in the 1% tile of all Killzone 2 players of that week. This requires either one of three things 1) INSANE skill 2) A lot of free time 3) A lot of trading headshots with friends.

Everybody knows about the recent downtime Sony faced because a bunch of hackers. During that time, I decided to get Portal 2, get the free PC copy, platinum it, and sell it. One trophy/achievement requires you to beat the tutorial level with a friend online who has not beat it, after you completed the game. That alone stopped me from platinum until the servers went back up. What if PSN goes down forever? Will we not be able to obtain platinums for these games?

David Jaffe announced Twisted Metal was delayed, and one of the reasons was “There were two trophies that would require the player to do things that harm the team as a whole”. My guess is something like “get 7 team kills” or “remain AFC (away from controller) for an entire match”. This got me thinking that other online trophies/achievements could have the player completely ignore the objective to get the trophy, like Bad Company 2′s “Careful Guidance”.  This asks one to shoot down an enemy helicopter with a stationary RPG. This might not sound bad, but some people could spend the entire match attempting to shoot down the helicopter with the RPG that is dominating their team, instead of simply locking on and taking it down.

Let’s face it, these game servers will not last forever, and deep into the 8th generation of gaming I’m sure many of us will want to go back to the classics like Red Dead Redemption. What if we want to get all the trophies or achievements, but the servers are dead? Than there are those few that are just locked away forever.

What do you think? Do you love online trophies/achievements? Do you collect them? Do you even care? Sound off below!

Rumor: Portal 3 in Development?

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Aug 082011
 

Maybe we will get that cake the third time around...

By now, we all should have played one of the two Portals. If you haven’t, one of the few main characters is a robot named GLaDOS. Well, the women who voiced her is  Ellen McLain. Her husband has a twitter account, found here: http://twitter.com/#!/johnpatricklowr, stated that “Ellen is going Tuesday for a new game and more Portal work.”. And he even is tweeting a lot about how him and his wife are doing a lot of voice work.

Now, this confirms some sort of work for Portal, does this mean we can expect a Portal 3? Or, is Valve just going to dish out some DLC for Portal, and work on a different game, perhaps one that involves Teams and Fortresses, or possibly even… Half Life 3. Now, let’s not get ourselves to worked up, even if Valve is making a new Half Life, or Portal, doesn’t mean we will see it any day soon. Let’s just keep our fingers crossed.

5 Great Games of 2011 That Could be Overshadowed by Blockbusters

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Aug 072011
 

Everybody knows games like Assassin’s Creed, Modern Warfare 3, Rage, and Skyrim are coming out in 2011, but do they deserve 100% of the spotlight? Sure, they can potentially be AAA, but let’s get real, the hype that they are receiving will with out a doubt leave players expecting more than they will get from the game. However, there are plenty of  games that do the exact opposite, and sprout out of nowhere, or are just not going to sell well due to the blockbuster that is released soon after or before it.

So many endings, so little time...

1.Cathrine

Cathrine recently came out, and almost everybody who played it is in love with it. It’s unique, fun, and just pulls you in, a game like that would be a shoe in for Game of the Year, right? Wrong, because most major gaming websites and TV shows will probably choose a game like Uncharted, or Batman. To add on to that, even I had to give up buying this game because of the huge line of games coming out the rest of the year.

2.Pokemon Black & White

Caught them all? Here is 100+ more.

The next generation of Pokemon was released this year, but with all these shooter heads arguing over Battlefield 3 vs Modern Warfare 3, who really cares? It’s true, if you are not a fan of Pokemon, you won’t like it any more this time around, but Black and White give a fresh taste of something old school fans will love, and more importantly, a chance to relive childhood memories. However, some of the new Pokemon are… questionable. An ice cream cone Pokemon, seriously?

It's over nine THOUSAND

3.Dead Island

Being a first person zombie game, you would think that gaming stores would have lines of fellow nerds lining up to buy the game weeks before release, but however, this isn’t the case. The release trailer pulled in a lot of attention from gamers, but besides from the fans it acquired at first, it hasn’t managed to build up much hype. Not to mention it shares a release date with a certain Chimera killing PS3 exclusive.

4.Dark Souls

I got $5 on the dragon...

I know, I know, people are hype for this game. But will it really sell well? It comes out 2 weeks before Batman: Arkham City, and 2 weeks after Gears of War 3. People who are fans of Demon’s Souls are sure to pick up the predecessor, but how many of those are getting it on 360? Saying that most 360 gamers are sure to pick Gears of War 3 up is an understatement, and how many are willing to put out another $60 for a game most haven’t played, or even heard of for that matter. However, I’m sure Ps3 owners (or friends of Ps3 owners) who were lucky to experience Demon’s Souls will pick up Dark Souls without hesitation.

5.Kirby Wii

Don't let his color fool you, he packs a punch.

I doubt most people even know a new Kirby is on the way, let alone plan on checking it out. Even Nintendo’s Skyward Sword is taking the spotlight for Wii, so sales for Kirby Wii are going to be minimal if they were to release it this year. The major problem with Kirby is most kids are self conscience about their age and won’t play a game simply because it doesn’t involve gore. Nevertheless, Kirby is sure to make up for the upset that was Kriby’s Epic Yarn.

Should Motion Gaming Just Disappear?

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Aug 062011
 
Screw God of War, I Want to wave my arms

As we reach the end of the 7th generation of gaming, it’s hard to forget that all three consoles added their own form of motion based gaming. Now that we are in August 2011, Wii is still in the lead, Microsoft still supports their Kinect, and Sony seemed to just forget all about the Move. Although ditching the Move seems like a bad decision, if you look on  the Xbox side of things, a vast majority  of upcoming and recent 360 games are Kinect based, which really upsets the core gamers, who bought an Xbox to hit people with their own limbs. Wii on the other hand suffers in terms of hardcore games, with the only games worth playing being the huge AAA games like Zelda, Mario Galaxy, and Super Smash Bros, and none of those games are fun because of the one or two things you can do with motion controls, they are fun because you can just sit down and play them, instead of having to re-calibrate the motion bar, clear the living room floor, and make sure you don’t stand too close to your little brother.

Why shoot space aliens when you can play with a baby Tiger?

I think I can speak for most hardcore gamers when I say that I prefer by far to sit down with a controller in my hand. With the way that Nintendo and Microsoft are going, I’m afraid that next generation will be filled with motion based games, and these companies will soon forget about the fan base that got them to where they are today. Why did I drop Sony out of this? Well, if you look at their 2011 line up, there are almost no motion games, and there are still the AAA titles we love. Don’t get me wrong, I love Microsoft and Nintendo, I just don’t want to see a world where every video game requires you to stand up and work out. I’ll go to the gym if I want to work out.

Nintendo already announced their new console, the Wii U, and, well, to sum it up, it’s a console where the controller is a tablet. If executed correctly, this could be a huge success, but I’m telling Microsoft and Sony now, I am not buying a tablet add-on for the PS4 or Xbox 720. The Wii U looks to expand upon motion gaming, which is all good and fun, but what does that mean for games like Mario and Zelda that we all love? Am I going to have to swing my hand to tell Link to use his sword? Will I have to wave my hands around to attack my friends in Super Smash Bros? Will Super Mario Galaxy 3 feature even more lame waggle attacks? Now, the tablet that the Wii U comes with can be used as a sit down controller, but I honestly doubt there will be a lot of 1st party developers releasing non motion games on the Wii U.

Don’t throw it at a wall when Uncle Danny beats you at golf, it will take a year’s allowance to replace it.

With the support that Microsoft is giving the Kinect, I’m sure there will at least be a bundle you can buy that comes with the new Xbox and the Kinect. This could be bad news for hardcore fans, because Microsoft might not continue to support games like Gears of War, and Halo. Sony, on the other hand, might just forget about the Move, and if both Microsoft and Nintendo decided to continue supporting motion gaming the way they are now, and Sony drops it, Playstation 4 will with out a doubt be my console of choice.

Motion gaming is fun for those small party games like Wii Sports, Sports Champions, or Kinect Adventures, but that’s it. I buy video game consoles for the AAA games that will stick in my mind for a long time, not to jump around and wave my arms. Sure, Grandma and Grandpa might love to play Kinectamles with their grandchildren, but please Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, do not forget about the core gamers.

The Playstation 3DTV Bundle Change: Big Deal, or Nothing Special?

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Aug 052011
 

At Sony’s E3 press conference this year, they announced a 3DTV Bundle that came with a copy of Resistance 3 to test the new TV out on. Recently on their Twitter account, located here: http://twitter.com/#!/insomniacgames, Insomniac Games stated that the bundle will still come with the glasses and the HD cable, but instead of Resistance 3, the game you would get is Motorstorm: Apocalypse.

Resistance 3 is definitely more hyped up than Motorstorm, and I am sure Resistance will outsell Motorstorm. Maybe this is the cause of the sudden change. Sony probably saw that Motorstorm sold poorly, and the only way to boost it’s sales was to bump Resistance from the bundle and throw it in there. This is probably going to turn around on Sony, because if people saw that a AAA title they already wanted to get came with the TV, they’d be more likely to put down the money for it, instead of  buying a 3DTV and Resistance alone. If I were Sony, I would probably put Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception in the bundle, and push the release back to match up with Uncharted’s release. Or, even better yet, put Uncharted 3 in the bundle, and release the TV a week or two before the game is officially released so that gives some hardcore Drake fans a chance to get the game before everybody else.

In reality, the Motorstorm switch was a bad idea for both the fans and for Sony. Let’s be honest, the average Playstation 3 owner would prefer Resistance, simply because we live in a world were shooters are the dominant genre, and most “gamers” won’t even think about playing an adventure game, or, dare I say it, a racing game. For $500, even without the game, this TV is not a bad deal at all. However, the main catch of the TV was that Resistance was a game that the average consumer was planning on picking up anyway, so that just added to the value of this bundle. After seeing the game switch, one would probably just forget about the deal and buy Resistance 3 separately.

When it all comes down to it, this change up will effect sales of the TV Bundle, but not by much. Maybe some people will think “Hey, I missed out on that title, and I was looking for a 3DTV anyway, so I should go pick this up!”, but I doubt that it will be enough for Sony to justify replacing one of their main franchises with Motorstorm for this bundle. What do you think? Are you going to buy this TV anyway? Do you even care that Motorstorm comes with it? Let me know down below!

 

 

 

*EDIT*– Gamestop is currently giving Resistance 3 away as a pre order bonus for the TV. So those of you who just can not miss out on this TV, if you pre order if from gamestop, here http://www.gamestop.com/accessories/playstation-3d-display/92829?utm_source=linkshare&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=deeplink&cid=afl_10000087&affID=77777&sourceID=TnL5HPStwNw-Ku.DfypAylz.kX5PC5nDNQ, you will get Motorstorm AND Resistance 3. Not too bad of a deal after all.