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Dead Rising 2 is almost as pure as a sequel could get. Very little does it stray from its original's design, both the lauded and hated aspects. For fans of the franchise Dead Rising 2 is a no-brainer purchase and one they'll surely get just as much enjoyment out of as they did from the original, if not more. For newcomers, or people who just weren't able to adjust to Dead Risings strict way to play, it's much more…
Witch Hunt is the final finale of the seemingly never ending stream of Dragon Age: Origins Downloadable Content and is based around the premise to dust up a lot of the cobwebbed plot holes concerning Morrigan and just what her grand scheme of things is really about. And while it does, somewhat, deliver on this promise, the hour or so it takes to reach this conclusion is both boring, tedious and a highly iterative…
Read the full review As one story ends, another always begins.
Just like old times, eh Shepard? Oh Mass Effect 2 ...just when will you end ?? As far as BioWare as concerned it's long after you've completed the main game. Downloadable content has been coming out for ME2 at a steady stream, starting off with a few small tid bits like new weapons and armour pieces, to then eventually bringing you new vehicles, party members and now... Liara Tsoni ! Lair of The Shadow Broker will…
Read the full review In short, it's arguably the best Mass Effect 2 DLC thus far.
Dead Rising 2 - Case Zero is a prototype of sorts. It labels itself as a demo , though it hardly matchs the criteria of what a demo gives you - least not in this current timeline of demo's. For starters you'll have to pay to play this demo , but not only are you getting more than your money's worth it's an excellent bonus to it all being of exceptionally high quality and riotously fun for a downloadable game. Note…
Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days , the sequel to the incredibly mixed reception of Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, carries forth the series now trademark gritty nature and incredibly mature themes and characters and ships them into Shanghai with a lot more of what you'd expect, and yet also a lot less. When peeping toms become violent. K&L 2 reunites players, unsurprisingly, with the criminal duo of Kane and Lynch , though with…
A blast from the past...in the past! The first piece of paid DLC for the highly acclaimed Rockstar Epic, Red Dead Redemption, The Legends and Killers pack offers a few more bells and whistles to a gradually improving multiplayer component. The Legends and Killers pack gives players eight new character skins, all taken from the spiritual predecessor Red Dead Revolver including the likes of Red Harlow , Jack Swift and…
Read the full review The content is colourful but its asking price is a lil too steep
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men is a sloppy and unattractive looking third person shooter. An unattractive and sloppy TPS that fortunately manages to still deliver a well done story with a pair of exceedingly memorable title characters. Kane and Lynch through and through is a third person shooter. It has a few twists added in such as squad mechanics but overall it plays like many TPS's we've all gone through many a time…
Even with the announcement of Dragon Age 2 , the never ending bevy of downloadable content for the Origins of the franchise still keeps a rollin'. This latest piece, Golems of Amgarrak, returns the player with their Warden character to aid the Dwarf Jerrik Dace into searching for his lost brother who disappeared on an expedition during the Blight. The story alludes to have alot of mystery about it, to just what did…
Read the full review The latest piece of Dragon Age DLC is also the worst.
Note: Would post pictures with silly captions but it's being a a freakin' twat about it so can't =/ Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 is the sequel to the hit All-Platform (practically) Marvel Ultimate Alliance , which also was spawned from the X-men Legend games before on the Ps2 . What they all have in common is allowing the player to create their own custom team of Superheroes to mash and blast their way through a…
Remakes seemed to be all the rage back in 2002-2005 what with a number of Final Fantasy remakes surfing throughout the rumor topics and of course the fantastic remake of the original Resident Evil. The success that came with the REmake also garnished another remake of an old ps1 classic. The original Metal Gear Solid released back in 1998. IMO and I'm sure alot of others too is that MGS was an incredibly…
Free downloadable content is always a welcome addition, for the most part. Outlaws to the end is a fairly substantial package adding a whole new set of multiplaye r options to help you rack up the experience points to those benevolent Legend ranks. It would be a perfect package, if not for the army of Trojans that sneak their way in aswell. Red Dead Redemption was full of quirky glitches and bugs already and made…
Read the full review Free DLC? Nice! A whole new menu of glitches? Not so much.
Depressing its story may be, but fun to play though isn't quite as assured. Darkspawn Chronicles gives you the alternate history of just What If the main character didn't survive the joining. The bumbling, naive though good hearted Alistair is then shown to of taken the lead. You instead now take the role of a Hurlock Vanguard who is tasked with leading the invasion of Denerim during the last few hours of the Dragon…
Read the full review A truly saddening alternate look to the Dragon Age storyline.
Now at the third piece of DLC for the acclaimed RPG/FPS hybrid, Borderlands . The Secret Armory of General Knoxx gives the players a whole host of new quests, loot, vehicles, environments, enemies and so much more. All with a shockingly modest price-tag. DLC in general has had a very controversial run through the timeline of our advancements with games. Usually they're loathed for its blatant design of squeezing all…
Desperate Escape is the 3rd piece of DLC for the acclaimed 3rd person action/horror title, Resident Evil 5 . Though its the 3rd thus far, it acts as the second half to the extra Jill Valentine centred story chapters. The first being Lost in Nightmares , released two weeks prior. Lost In Nightmares gave a fresh take on Resident Evil 5's gameplay, with it reverting back to the classic design of Resident Evil with a…
Read the full review A fantastically intense thrill from beginning to end
Lost In Nightmares is the second piece of DLC for the acclaimed action-horror title, Resident Evil 5 . It adds around 40-60 minutes extra for the main story of Resident Evil 5 as well a few new additions to the Mercenaries minigame. While not an especially substantial piece of content, it more than delivers on the amount of quality people have come to expect when it comes to Resident Evil, and with such a highly…
Demon's Souls is so openly split with its reception. Either people despise every single aspect about it, or love all of its innovations and throw- backs to the old school scale of difficulty. Suffice to say, they;re both valid enough in that yes, the game is unforgivably difficult. But only within the context for this day and age of games. It's as tough as stale bread for sure, but it's far from cheap. If you die,…
The Zombie Island of Dr Ned gives you around 5-6 hours of more Borderlands, but only the lesser parts. Dude, when did Zoey dye her hair?The new enviroment and laugh worthy characters and dialogue is what you should be expecting to have this stand out from the original Borderlands . Set after the original's story, the games own Narrator Marcus Kinkaid tells the story of the evil Dr Ned and how he is so not Dr Zed in…
Read the full review If it didn't die with one shot...you weren't aiming for the head
The motivation behind seasoned biker Johnny Klebitz's moral ridden stride through life. Johnny is the rough, tough and unhygienic Vice-President of The Lost Motorcyle Club. With their fearless, and probably fear inducing, leader incarcirated, Johnny took the position to lead the gang to reliable financing and in a life of harmony, sort of, with truces abound between other gangs with the only thing on their to-do…
The Ballad of Gay Tony gives you the final ending to a long line of Liberty City stories. Starting with the tale of a cynical and fearlessly loyal immigrant who sadly was groomed through life experiences to become a cold blooded gun for hire, to then playing as a misguided member of a biker gang who was always for rebeling against what he thought was wrong and not afraid to cause some damage in the process. Niko and…
Read the full review Brilliant GTA game, absolutely phenomenal DLC!
The Lost and Damned Review score-4.5/5 Johnny after probably waking up on the wrong side of the wrong bed.Peace and Prosperity be damned! The motivation behind seasoned bike, Johnny Klebitz's moral ridden stride through life. Johnny is the rough, tough and unhygienic Vice-President of The Lost Motorcyle Club. With their fearless, and probably fear inducing, leader incarcirated. Johnny took the position to lead the…
Read the full review Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
A work of genius needn't be complicated and I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES!!!1 ((or easier typed as that equally cool and cheap zombie game)) is proof of that. This ''cool zombie game'' caters to basically every type of gamer, its pure and straight to it....this...is a gamers game. What you see in the screenshots is literally what you get. Some person armed with an automatic whatever being surrounded by a seemingly…
Code Veronica X was one of best ps2 launch titles you could find. The very first game I played when I got my ps2 on that fateful Christmas day and to this very day is a fantastic survival horror game, that sadly lacks alot in the replay value aspect. Code Veronica is set only a few months after Raccoon Citys destruction, and anyone who can remember correctly from canon Leon S. Kennedy's scenario B ending from…
Nintendo i beleive where probably what got the 'party' games involving the companys mascots popular. The original super smash brothers fro the N64 at least defined this trend with setting many different unrelated Nintendo characters all at each others throats and smashing each other high into the sky. Super smash brothers Melee improves on literally everything from the original and in turn has became an absolute…
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Crackdown is, for better or worse ((for worse...)), almost like an overpriced arcade game. It has basically no narrative and a shallow n simple premise but also has it self some, at best, moderatly addictive gameplay. Gameplay that will stay the same throughout the probable 15-20 hours you'd need to waste in completing this games objectives. Crackdown puts you in the newly registered shoes of ''The Agent''. A…
The Club ....really doesn't get any simpler than what you read and see on the back of the game case, a third person shooter which haves you easily taking down mass' upon mass' of dumb-founded AI nobodies with guns that sound like they shoot popcorn instead of bullets. The real reason why I purchased such an un-appealing game was because, mainly, it was the best I could find at the price range I had carrying around…
Silent Hill Homecoming...Alot has to be said about just how different it is when compared to its predecessors. No surprise when considering the major alteration of developer, fortunatly the changes that consist stray much more towards an improvement rather than a step or two down...the majority of them at least. Silent Hill Homecoming or Silent Hill 5 as originally known (though in fact is the 6th in the series…
Games and movies in general seem to be getting closer and closer every year with intially starting at distant cousins to sex-crazy lovers. Games being made too movies movies being made too games, it never really works as far as today with the James Bond Series of gaames the only real worth-while movie2game purchases but even they have been slipping a little. The story and atmospheres in games has also been reaching…
The Force unleashed should have been one of the greatest games of 2008; it should have perched itself as a nominee for GOTY; it should have given Star Wars geeks all that more canon story to add to their catalogue. TFU was meant to do a lot of things, but sadly only managed to live up to a few. As a story it does at least give some more insight into the destruction of the Jedi , the birth of the Rebel Alliance and…
Mercenaries 2.....I don't even know where to start. It definatly looks like it had the potential to be a fantastic and fun experience, but is held back by some annoying gameplay glitchs and cheap tactics involved in the firefights. Mercs 2 is not exactly your average sandbox game in the sense that everyone whos head of the mercs game will agree that it focus' on pure destruction of whatever gets in your way. A…
The lego games combined with a popular theme do manage to sum up some imature, harmless and rather silly entertainment. Lego star wars achieved what it planned to do with garnering many different types of gamers to enjoy its adorable atmosphere and some lighthearted gameplay mixed with a slight parody of its overall story. Then came the Indiana Jones game, which I myself haven't even had the disc in my ps3..so i…
Dead Space, one of the most surprisingly succesful games of 2008. Virtually no hype was centered around Isaac Clarke's perils among the Ishimura and when it finally came to be, it blew the critics and survival horror fanatics away in a giant stream of blood n dismembered limps. Dead Space is far from revolutionary and in fact isn't all that unique either, but it still manages to give players an incredibly horrorific…
In short Resistance 2 is exactly what a sequel should bring. It doesn't necessarily give alot of new gameplay mechanics to offer with its overall gameplay scheme, but still improves on virtually everything Resistance: Fall of Man did right and even fix some of the things it done wrong. That said R2 can safely be put under your fast paced run n gun FPS category. All the same basic formulas are here but it still gives…
The ps3 had a pretty rough start, and it took quite a while for it to get out of the rut it was stuck in. It's no secret and even Sony I'm sure would admit that the ps3 had a very awkward start. Soon enough though, with all the updates and some much more memorable exclusives came churning in, the ps3 was finally starting to reveal its hidden potential. Uncharted: Drakes Fortune is possibly one of the biggest…
Primal is an Action Adventure title developed by SCEE, and one of the only games to have the ability to say it was developed by SCEE. SCEE as i've noticed don't really release games all that often, and considering that still they haven't come up with an instant classic or anything even close to a masterpeice to get themselves a franchise going its to no surprise, but each title they release may not be one of the…
The Manhunt series are without a doubt one of the most controversial series going. They make Mortal Kombat seem kid friendly to the amount of chaos the manhunt games have caused. The first was released to your typical critiscm from parents and the like, but some pretty favourable reviews from the critics. While incredibly gorey with the focus being on some really nasty executions of your enemys, it still had some…
Over in my homeland, in the apparently, Great Britian theres a large shortage of entries from the Tales series available. With only around 3-4 out of its 10+ cast list the main critiscm of Vesperia being a tad too similair to the past games can safely be overlooked when the last console Tales game you played was 5 years ago with almighty Tales of Symphonia. Thats not to question Tales of Vesperia as an absolute…
Game series hardly ever manage to really last forever, besides a notable few most of gamings top franchises have either simply hit over to the retirement home or have began to delve into mediocrity and more or less becomes a nuisance to the gaming world. Resident Evil 5 isn't exactly either. Its certaintly showing its age and lack of innovation yet still has plenty of energy left which does transend into its highly…
Burn Zombie Burn, is without a doubt one of the best downloadable games available on the PSN. It plays out very much like an arcade game, but one with a surprising amount of lastability. B-Z-B plays out in a 3rd person perspective but with the view on a slanted birds eye view. You can see your character, humoursly named Bruce for which could be an obvious wink to Bruce Cambell, aswell as most of his surroundings. As…
Fable 2 for me personally, has been standing at the front of the que as to why I wanted a 360 and so far is the biggest highlight of the console still. Its amazing versatlity with how to play through your Hero's life is unprecedented and unbelievably open ended. It has alot of rough edges and some parts are pretty dated by 2008's standards, but weighing the good against the bad is like putting a chicken on the…
Prototype was seen by many, as the 360's answer for inFAMOUS. With both released the similarities can be compared and the differences can certaintly be noticable. Prototype is a sandbox super-hero game but thats all that it has in common with inFAMOUS. The game nails of lot of OMGWTF moments perfectly and for the first few hours you'll find yourself being consumed yourself with the pad being firmly super-glued to…
BioShock is a game that for someone to understand the sheer greatness of roaming around Rapture, they would have to play it first hand. Least for me after hearing all about the hype and praise its 360 counterpart got. I found it hard to even find myself pretending to admire from what I saw, I never quite understood the eerieness of the story and enviroments just from watching video clips. Even still with it…
Like majority of the GTA fanbase i feel gta4 is a few years old in terms of variety. Waiting through the 10 minute installing process i never expected to get this impatient and was literally counting the seconds. Then after the pretty impressive intro to the next-gen look of gta and the cutscene i was left sitting in the car for a few minutes trying to figure out how the bloody hell i drive this contraption?!? After…
I had mgs4 in my grasp a lil late than most this time since i had some annoying complications with EMA and I had to start Old Snake's journey 6 days after release. Naturally watching all the video reviews and reading the now flooding amount of player reviews not having for myself was eating me up inside and frankly was almost considering intimidating GTA and robbing a game shop then admitting GTA made me do it...…
Read the full review Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
