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If you enjoyed Sim City, chances are you will enjoy this game. The game is a city builder that has a heavy focus on resource management, you make most of your money from export and not from taxes. So you need to produce goods, starting with basic things like crops, harvesting lumber and mining ore. The raw goods can be exported for relatively small amounts of money. Or you can build factories, to turn sugar into rum…
Easily the best racing game ever made, hands down. It's true that there is not a whole lot new over Forza 3, but given that the game was already pushing the max of what the 360 can handle graphics wise there really doesn't need to be. Everything is just a little bit more refined and has a few better options. The amount of cars (and the detail on each one) is staggering. If you drive any kind of sporty car, there is…
While not as good as Old World Blues, this is a solid add-on well worth the money. The add-on is very linear in nature, and that has to be it's biggest flaw. The strength of Fallout has always been in the open world. The whole thing is pretty much a long road where you work from one end to the other. But the level itself is very well designed, with some great visuals. An interesting change from other DLC is that you…
This is hands down the best DLC for New Vegas, and even rivals Broken Steel as maybe the best Fallout DLC yet. Simply put, it does everything right that a Fallout DLC should do. It gives you a decent sized new open world to explore that is quite varied, and includes a lot of areas you can go inside to explore. That is exactly the kind of exploration layout that a Fallout game should use. The story is also excellent,…
I think this is a step in the wrong direction for this series, it actually feels like a step backwards. The series has had some awful games recently, no question about that. And this is an improvement over those games for sure, but it also isn't what it should have been. Given the title, I expected a game a lot more like NFS: Most Wanted. But this game is far too stripped down to fit the bill. There is no car…
I have never played a super hero game that captured the feel of a character better than this game does. Using the same voices that did the work in the Batman, Batman Beyond, Superman, and Justice League TV series really makes this game feel like Batman. Mark Hamil (Luke Skyewalker) is the voice of the Joker, and he does a fantastic job as always. The gameplay is solid. Batman has his usual arsenal of toys, and all…
This seems like a very limited game, without much going for it. Combat is the very definition of repetitive, and most of the strategy elements are badly lacking. For the most part all you will do is mash X until your power bar builds up, then press B to blow apart everything in sight. The only real tactics you have to decide on is what enemy base you are going to move to and mash X at next. But for some reason, I…
The game doesn't really have much going for it. I would call it your standard FPS if it had come out 5 years ago, but games have evolved a lot since then and what we have come to expect has changed. Short of the basic cover system, the game has pretty much nothing else besides shooting wave after wave of enemies that spawn out of nowhere. The nowhere spawning is at least addressed in the story, but its still nowhere…
If you like tower defense games, this one is a solid offering. Towers are upgradeable, and varied with what they do. I found it more of a benefit to use up all of your tower spaces before upgrading though. Later levels even offer "open paths", where you can alter the route that the baddies take by your tower placements. Thats something not all TD games have. Not much else to say about the game, but I do enjoy…
Remember the spaceship building from Kingdom Hearts? Well if you liked that, this is the game for you. This easily gets my vote for underrated game of the year. The only reason I even knew about this game was because of the Bombcast. I did spend hours tweaking my vehicles, trying to get them to be "just right". Just beating the game should be very easy for most people, but each challenge a trophy associated with it…
I really enjoyed this game, far more than I expected. I have never seen a game that did so many different forms of combat so well. Melee combat, weapon combat, vehicle combat, stealth elements, upgradeable powers, it all works very well. I liked the story quite a bit as well, and its neat to see how the city changes as the game moves along. The game seemed to get quite hard toward the end, with some of it bordering…
If you were pissed off by a lot of the stuff that didnt make it from GTA:SA to GTA:IV, this is the game for you. Saints Row 2 takes all those wonderful side things to do and expands on them and evolves them. You can buy properties, take over gang turf, customize cars (in meaningful ways too), customize your gang, buy clothing, all the fun stuff that GTA:IV lacked. By far the best improvement over the GTA series is…
