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Chinatown Wars tells a whole new story from Liberty City and it has been developed for the DS from the ground up. It’s a full GTA game at the palm of your hand. If you’re old enough I strongly recommend you to play it. FRESH, YET FAMILIAR STORY You take the role of a young guy who arrives from China to Liberty City. Unfortunately you are almost assassinated and before long it’s all about crime and getting a lot of…
We never got a movie Ghostbusters 3 so the actors and writers of those 2 classic movies have now made us a videogame, which IS our Ghostbusters 3. End result is a game full of references to movies, but it’s also a quality game in its own right. PURE GHOSTBUSTERS Story sets off where Ghostbusters 2 ended. This time there’s a fifth ghostbuster: you as a nameless and voiceless rookie. Be prepared to hunt many ghosts,…
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a third-person action game, which is hindered by a poor lock-on mechanic and a little clunky combat system. On the other hand it tells an original Star Wars story that is interesting from start to finish. SECRET APPRENTICE Force Unleashed takes place between episodes 3 (Revenge of the Sith) and 4 (the New Hope). Darth Vader takes himself a new apprentice called Starkiller and sets…
Batman: Arkham Asylum is terrifically paced action adventure with tight controls, great visuals and memorable voice acting. Everyone who considers himself a gamer should absolutely play it. LUNATICS ARE LOOSE Game takes place in the course of a one night. Batman is delivering the Joker to Arkham island but of course he escapes and takes entire island as a hostage. Now it’s up to Batman to find out what’s going on…
Modern Warfare 2 delivers on all fronts so it comes to a personal question: do you like this kind of game? Single player campaign is a very strong roller coaster ride, co-op missions are fun and online multiplayer keeps you busy for another two years. EXHAUSTING CAMPAIGN Campaign starts five years afte the first Modern Warfare. In short a group of terrorists manage to launch a war between Russia and US. Story is…
The Saboteur takes place in Paris under Nazi occupation in WWII. This third person, open world game is not top of its class, but its different setting makes it worth playing. VENDETTA AND A RESISTANCE Sean Devlin is a former race driver, who is tormented by guilt. In time he learns that a way to make things at least a little bit better is to join the French resistance. Story is quite predictable, but it’s told…
Mirror’s Edge is a platforming game done exclusively from a first person perspective. End result is frustrating trial and error gameplay. This is basically a game based on one idea. IRRELEVANT STORY In the near future everything is clean and controlled in cities. There are no crimes, but also no freedom. A group called runners deliver messages personally so officials don’t get to inspect them. Faith is one of those…
Prototype allows you to let loose your inner beast: you can do pretty much anything to anyone in an open world sandbox called Manhattan. Results are boring at the beginning, but in time it gets more and more satisfying and brutal. FULL OF SHORT CUTSCENES Alex Mercer wakes up in a morgue and has been infected by an unknown virus. This same infection is spreading all around Manhattan and turns people into monsters. Or…
Halo 3: ODST was supposed to be a short expansion but in time it became a full game. Campaign is better than Halo 3 was, Firefight is fun with friends and disc 2 contains all content for Halo 3’s multiplayer. No Halo fan should be without ODST in his or her collection. THIS IS HOW A STORY SHOULD BE TOLD Master Chief made a quick visit to New Mombasa, but then he continued his fight into space. Of course that didn’t…
Call of Duty 2 was an Xbox360 launch game and back then it was amazing. Almost 4 years later it really starts to show some age, but it also shows just how much shooters have evolved in these few years. CoD2 is still very intense and very linear World War II shooter. WHAT A FAMILIAR STORY Story is not so interesting. You play as 3 different soldiers: a Russian in Stalingrad, a British in Africa and an American in…
Far Cry 2 is an open world sandbox game and you play it like a normal first person shooter. Unfortunately the shooting action or navigating the environment is not fun. THE CALL OF AFRICA Story sets you as a lone mercenary who has come to a nameless African country to kill a man named The Jackal. This arms trader has sold guns to both sides of the conflict and the situation is very tense. Getting in touch with The…
Red Faction: Guerrilla is actually a third game in Red Faction series which started in 2001, but you don’t need to know anything about that. You can still fully enjoy destructible environments, third person guerrilla style action and a very smooth online multiplayer for up to 16 players. MEET ALEC MASON Story starts after the events of Red Faction II. Earth Defence Force or EDF was once a liberator of Mars, but it…
Wii’s Punch-Out!! is a remake of the classic 1987 NES game Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, but with a few new fighters, a few new game modes, updated graphics and real voice acting. The result is a retro style success, but this also ensures all the same frustrations that were present 20 years ago. STORY IS THE SAME Story of Punch-Out!! is the same as in Rocky or any other classic boxing franchise. You play as Little Mac…
Halo Wars is a benchmark in gaming: it finally brings a real time strategy game genre to consoles in a successful way. Trade-off is that everything is simplified and streamlined. But remember this: it’s Halo and it works just as good as other Halo games before it. STORY AND SETTING Story takes place 20 years prior to first Halo game and 5 years after the human-covenant war began. In a distant colony planet Harvest…
