"The seamless integration of dual-analog shooting and tactical team play is easy to appreciate even throughout the campaign - with sixteen players duking it out in one of the most original competitive arenas available on Xbox Live and, for good measure, any other digital form in recent memory, you're looking at a winner." [more]
-Adrian Ables, Gamer20.com
Available for 800 MS points on XBL Arcade, Undertow is pretty much a must-play for anyone who's got the ability. Think of a slowed down Geometry Wars feating 16 living, breathing players in a game of underwater "territories" from Halo 3. Now picture it with really slick graphics, a nice campaign, and a FREE demo.
Please go download the demo, and don't let this be anotherunderappreciated industry darling.
Expect my full review at Gamer20.com in the coming days.
So like, I've been really broke lately. I mean really, really broke. In fact, for a couple months there, I actually had to save up to be broke. It was bad.
For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why things were so tight. Decent spending habits, reasonable debt. Hell, I even had my car refinanced and cut that monthly payment nearly in half...
Or so I thought. Turns out, I didn't terminate the allotment to the original lender, so I've been paying my old car payment and my new one for like six months! Back pay, FTW!
"The quick and dirty is that the highly anticipated third installmentof the Guitar Hero phenomenon is a totally solid, worthwhile game, especially for longtime fans. The song list has some unbelievable gems, the difficulty has been catapulted into the cosmos, and there's the late-but-welcome, fully functional online component that gives the game incalculable replay incentive. Guitar Hero III has met expectations and proven that, years later, the series is still fun to play solo or with friends. That's good and all, but it's also a just kind of a big, fat expansion pack. (Actually, with its own lineup of downloadable content already available, it's kind of like an expandable expansion pack.)" Click for full review.
-Gamer2.0
"If you can overlook the frequent lever-pulling instances that bog some areas down, and can trade a comprehensive storyline for some unique shooting opportunities, then this game can and will deliver. However, if you're already sold on major franchises like Halo, Gears of War, or Half-Life (each of which has elements ripped onto TimeShift's code), this game might be too borrow-happy to be enjoyable." Click for full review.
-Adrian Ables, Staff Writer for Gamer2.0
Up next: "The quick and dirty is that the highly anticipated third installment in the gaming phenomenon that is Guitar Hero is a totally solid, worthwhile game, especially for longtime fans...but it's also a just kind of a big, fat [expandable] expansion pack."
"Clive Barker's Jericho is lamentable in that it simultaneously presents fresh ideas and nails some fundamentals, and then nosedives in the most ignorant ways. For every stroke of genius, a boneheaded design element counters and nullifies it. By the time it's all said and done, the bad stuff stands out most, decisively rendering the good stuff irrelevant."
-Adrian Ables, Staff Writer for Gamer2.0
"Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis on the Wii deserves special recognition for a couple of good reasons. For one, it feels like a fully-realized title that makes good on the Wii's capabilities, rather than aglorified, oversized mini-game. It also avoids coming off as a game that was regrettably compromised by Wii controls just for the sake of doing it, despite its origin as an Xbox 360 game. The gameplay isn't necessarily improved because it's of the Wii's capabilities, but when it comes right down to it, Table Tennis succeeds at putting Wii gameplay in a positive light, mostly because it's genuinely fun in that simple Wii Sports way. If not for the tragically lackluster presentation, the limited replay incentives, and the fact that it costs more than twenty dollars, it could have been a must-own. It's an entertaining distraction, but unless you're a fanatical collector, this one's strictly a rental."
-Adrian Ables, Staff Writer for Gamer2.0
The first five tiers... suck... almost all the way through. Maybe three or four songs were pretty cool. Thank god for Aerosmith.
The game suddenly becomes really groovy and interesting afteward. Thanks, Santana.
All of a sudden, I fail a song and am officially intimidated. Don't hurt me, Slipknot.
But, I persevered, and I won my fiddle made of gold. Take that, the devil.
Sweet game.
Let me add that Through the Fire and Flames is impossible, and that Draqq is godlike. There it is.
No longer a rumor. No longer a dream. Street Fighter IV is coming.
This is my Halo 3. This is my World of Warcraft. This is my Final Fantasy.
There won't be bigger gaming news for me this year, or possibly next.
Prepare yourself.
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Yes yes, yours truly got accepted as a reviewer for Gamer2.0 (www.gamer20.com). It's a relatively unknown up-and-coming website, but it's got an attractive layout and plenty of impressive content. The whole staff seems to be legit, and I have no doubts the site has real potential to go big. It's flattering that they took me on.
I won't be getting anything in the way of hard cash for my contributions, but my reviews and scores will be acknowledged by GameRankings.com, which means I'm one step closer to the big leagues of game journalism than I've ever been. Not only that, but the site will occasionally send me games to review that I'll be allowed to keep.
Free games? *gasp* My head a splode!
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