I'm back! Happy New-Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season, now get back to work.
Today I just wanted to post my impressions of the games (7 of them!) I got for Christmas, so here I go!
Super Paper Mario: So, a while ago I decided to download the original Paper Mario game from the Wii virtual console and fell in love with the games humor and simplified RPG feel. So, when I finally got to play this game my expectations were high.
What I saw was everything I ever wanted plus more. The one thing that annoyed me just a little about the original was the battle system, FFXII has shown me a world free of battle screens and I can't look back. Well, Super Paper Mario replaces the old battle mode, tosses it out and does something a little unexpected. It makes it a Mario game of old, all the running and jumping intact. HP and EXP and Abilities and Sidekicks are all still there just, more freedom to play and not be stopped every time you see an enemy.
Super Mario Galaxy: So, did you play Mario 64? Did you wish Sunshine wasn't stupid? Did you want a game that takes elements from the Mario games you love (mostly SMB3 and SMB64) and use the to create the perfect Mario game? Well, you better get down and kiss Nintendo's feet cause that's just what they did. This game is amazing! Now... go play it. Now.
The Orange Box: Honestly, All I've really been playing from this 5 game collection is Portal, and maybe a little TF2. I'll get to the HL2 episodes eventually, I promise. Portal is a game that does something most games can't do. It kills me 100s of times without me getting upset and throwing something. I'm bad at puzzle games, they make me angry. Really I just shouldn't play them. Portal though, somehow manages to be every bit as hard without the controller through the TV frustration. When you figure out a puzzle its a great feeling of satisfaction, not a feeling of "FRIGGEN FINALLY!" I don't want to ruin the "story" for anyone, but yeah..you need to play this game. And the cake is a lie.
The Simpsons Game: I found out something yesterday. Allot of this games annoyances can be cleared away after shoving a controller in your wife's face and asking her (read: begging her) to play with you. This game is hard (mostly because I suck at seeing the obvious) the controls are always working against you (if Bart goes the wrong way on a zipline again I'm going to need a new TV) the camera is also your sworn enemy. But, while this game isn't GOtY potential, it certainly does what it is supposed to do. Its funny, and its a great fan service. So, Simpsons Fans, pick it up and make sure to get a 2nd player to help out.
Call of Duty 4: Okokok, so this game's single player campaign is supposed to be amazingly great... thing is I haven't really touched it yet. Throughout Christmas it was all about schooling my dad in 2 player split-screen or my brother putting up a great fight. I've been addicted to this game' mutiplayer. Split-screen play aside the real star of the game is the online mode. Take a standard FPS, add a RPGesque lvling system where you gain exp for every time you play, every kill you get and even mission objectives (get 20 head shots with this gun kinda thing). And exp get you lvls, which in turn unlock guns, perks, things that go boom ect. Halo 3 can go cry in a corner, as far as I'm concerned THIS game is the online FPS to play...
Unreal Tournament III: ...unless you want an old-school, crazy fast fragfest. Then you'll have to look to this game. Not much to say here really. If you have played and liked Unreal Tournament in the past, you'll like this game. Its every bit the fun the other games were, and with a keyboard and mouse plugged into your PS3 (though, the SIXAXIS control is very well done and there is SIXAXIS only servers for you people who don't want to get schooled be the KB&M folk :P) you'll feel every bit like your playing the PC version...cept on your tv.
I do have a few beefs with this game though... the biggest one being a lack of split-screen play. That's right folks, you can't get this game for Christmas, bring it over to your dad's place and expect to flak your father to death. You'll have to make do with repeated CoD4 sniper head shots.
Really though. A game like this, totaly designed as a multi player experience lacking any sort of split screen mode is simply stupid.
Resistance: I'll wrap all this up with a short one. Haven't played much of this... and what I did play I sucked at. So there you go.
Well, this was fun... drop me a comment if you read this at all. Thanks!
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