Played time: 20+ hours (Completed single-player on Normal, Hard, and Delta)
Developer: Crytek
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Players: 1 (1-32 online)
Crysis is a Sci-Fi First Person Shooter (FPS) for the PC. Developed by Crytek and published by everyone’s favourite company, Electronic Arts (EA). Known far and wide as the most graphics-intensive game available, Crysis is certainly infamous these days. For those of you who know what a FPS is, here is a review of the highly acclaimed, Crysis.
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Well, after a terrible E3 this year, Nintendo set out to redeem themselves with this year’s Nintendo Media Summit. Did they succeed? OH HELLS YEAH!
Well, first off on the list of awesome is: The Nintendo DSi.
It may look a lot like a DS lite, but there are a plethora of key differences (wording courtesy of GoNintendo, ’cause I’m tired :P):
Lots of Wii and regular DS news as well, but we’ll leave that for morning.
Developer/Publisher: Namco
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Players: 1-4
Hours Played: 12
Progress: Completed Story Mode with all characters
I still remember the original Soul Edge as one of the defining 3D fighters on the PS1. That generation spawned many great fighting games but the forerunner to what would eventually be the Soul Calibur series already set itself apart with solid fight mechanics, good graphics and weapons based combat.
Many fighting game fans have been looking forward to the next Soul Calibur addition to the series for the new generation of consoles. While the weapons based combat is still a staple of the franchise, its solid graphics, character design and innovation have won new fans over the years. The game?s innovation has come from a variety of different directions; Soul Calibur has featured an adventure-style story mode, a create-a-fighter mode and special guest characters. It is especially the latter which has garnered the series some hype and interest.
Developer: Kojima Productions
Publisher: Konami
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Players: 1 (1-16 Online)
Hours Played: 30
Progress: Game completed on highest difficulty
Metal Gear Solid 4 (MGS 4) is the highly anticipated final chapter in the critically acclaimed saga that originated on the original NES and got re-popularized on the PS1. Fingered early on as a PS3 title, MSG 4 was originally mentioned as a possible launch title, however to fandom?s mass disappointment, got delayed several times during its long development time. Now that it?s finally here, does it live up to expectations, and does it adequately wrap up the engrossing, but convoluted storyline?
Hours Played: 12.5
Progress: Level 28, Main story completed, vast majority of side-quests completed (yeah, I know.)
This long-awaited game from Silicon Knights (who are Canadian, woo!), the makers of Eternal Darkness on the GameCube, is finally out. With a unique combat system and a story based on what can only be described as cyber-Norse mythology, does this game really live up to the incredible hype that has been surrounding it for years?
Hours Played: over 50
Progress: Completed “Endless Setlist” (gained Legendary status!)
Rock Band is the first music simulation game to encompass a full band. It allows players to play drums, guitar, bass, and sing. This is the first time drumming has come to a console (at least a full drum set unlike Taiko Drum Master or Donkey Konga). Singing is much like Sing Star and the guitar/bass is much like Guitar Hero.
Hours played: 40
Progress: Enough to play each song like 10 times, passed hard.
Well, guess which version of Guitar Hero 3 has sold the most. Yes, the Wii version. Thank goodness downgraded technology is selling, ah yes, free market, thank you! (-_-) lame