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The Weekly Rocket 6/26/06

Hello there and in this week's Weekly Rocket.... well find out yourself.

What I did in Oblivion

Absoutly nothing! I'm joking, I just liked that song, "War, What is it good far?" But anyways not to get off-topic. You might know that I reviewed The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion for the 360 and gave it a 9.3 out of 10. But most people messeged me how I played it, well I know why people ask that because you can pretty much do anything in the game..anything! Whether its pick-pocketing a person, killing a home owner and stealing their gold, or hurt a guard and hopefully run away from them as possible :D. What I did in Oblivion was first doing the first level which was where the King was still alive and then died while I went downstairs to eat White Castle and came back. Okay that actually didn't happen but for those who played this game, you'll know what I mean... right? Then when I got to the part where I had to enter the first Oblivion quest, I was too much of a scaredy cat to enter but I did. And I died so many times eventually when I got to the gate, it said "There is an another location to enter here" I just threw my controller down and went from my last save and do whatever I damn well please. First I stole a guy's horse and I was happy to not walking for hours from Point A to Point B to Point C to... you get the picture. This game is like Morrowind but way better graphics, and like what Greg Kasavin said "You can even walk forever".

A cry far away

Me with great multiplayer is the best combination ever in my life like me with... a girl. I'm talking about Far Cry Instincts: Predator for the Xbox 360 a rehash of Far Cry Instincts from the Xbox and Far Cry Instincts: Evolution but all in one package, basically two games in one here. I'm not going to go in full detail about it since I'm going to post it in the review, the review will take long because I haven't even played single player campaigns which I'll play for about 3 hours or more if I enjoy that much. But what I am going to talk about in this topic is the multiplayer.

The multiplayer is very addicting but it wouldn't be if Ubisoft made a great choice of having a Map Editor. The map editor isn't easy like Roller-Coaster tycoon easy but what is said and done, its a great addition and allows players to build wacky, creative, and beautiful maps like I saw one called New York City which is totally based on it, the Black Pearl pased on Pirates of the Carribean movie trilogy, and I also made a race track called KART CRY 360 which is now not in BETA. Find the review of this game sooner or later this week or next week.

The Sequels That Succeed

For a long time, my theory for sequels especially horrible video games and successful ones is "If it ain't broken, don't fix it" and Halo 2, DBX: Budoki 3, and Burnout Revenge did but what about the horrible games that did that?

Mario Party, Madden Football, and MechAssualt has done the same thing again and again but made it feel less great as its original. So what I'm pointing at is video game companies shouldn't import what was very good and turn it into a sequel with something that's already been done. Halo 2 for example made the gameplay the same but with new weapons and environments which maintained it to fail. But Mario Party kept on making new mini-games and new boards to play in but felt too old and full and the same there wasn't any new anything else. God of War 2, Call of Duty 3, and Halo 3, please don't fail.

Hope you have a great week and thanks for reading

The Weekly Rocket 6/22/06

-----------------------June 22, 2006-------------------------

Hello everybody this is the first edition of THE WEEKLY ROCKET where I post news about video games, my life, and reviews on movies.

This Mother is in Japan

I didn't mean by a human, I meant a video game. The Mother series or in USA, Earthbound for the SNES, has a new game in its trilogy called Mother 3.

However, this game is only Japan who knows if it might come to USA but look at Brain Age. That was a Japan made game for the DS and it came to America. One of the reasons it did is because it was really popular in Japan, you expect Nintendo would put it to USA to get the same respect, well of course they did. Mother 3 is a RPG for the Game Boy Advance and although we've got many like Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Advance, at least there's one RPG I think is fresh and its representation looks beautiful and innovative.

This game looks like a Paper Mario game but has a technique that most RPGs don't have. As said in one of the 3 reviews of Mother 3, when you go through the combat its like Rock-Paper-Scissors but different. I wish they have this game on America but when I plan to get Nintendo Wii, I get to play EarthBound again.

360 games VS One Xbox game

Now already you might be asking, what do you mean? Well there's about 12-30 games for the 360 (for example Perfect Dark Zero, GRAW, Oblivion, Far Cry Instincts Predator) and we all know those are great but what maintains us from getting to play them every day? One game that came out for the Xbox..

Halo 2. Have you noticed your friends who do have an Xbox 360 mostly playing Halo 2? I have, since the first day I got my 360. Microsoft is definately working hard on next-generation games partically Gears of War and Halo 3. But other next-generation games aren't getting respected like Halo 2. I've played Call of Duty 2 and Perfect Dark Zero online and about 36% are playing those games while 64% are playing Halo 2. How I found those results? Very simple, go to a Matchmaking game in Halo 2 for up to 16 players and it takes only 10 seconds to find 15 players to battle with you. In other next-generation games, it takes at least 2 minutes. So my next question is, is the next generation games going to be tanked or not going to get alot of money for the customer because the customer would rather play a 3 year old game? Well, talk about

falling down. Overall I think the reason why Microsoft made the 360 is for you the player to play new and totally innovative games like COD2 or PGR3. I bet that when Halo 3 comes out, alot of people rush to get the 360 as well as the game.

Nacho Libre or Click?

I'm both a fan (not that BIG) of Jack Black and Adam Sandler. Jack Black's crazy and weird humor in Nacho Libre looks convincing especially his confession going "Nachoooooooooooooooooooooo oohhh.." "Who?" and Jared Hess who directed Napoleon Dynamite is directing this. But this Friday, the movie, "Click" starring Adam Sandler is coming out.

I love Adam Sandler's low-brow, sarcastic, and childish humor especially when he goes slow-mo with a girl running and her "milkshake" goes up and down. And when he changes color to green (Hulk parody) to purple (Barney parody). What should I watch? You can suggest both or get bootleg or other ridculous decisions I can take lol.

Have a wonderful week

I got my 360!

Yes, I finally got my Xbox 360 for my birthday! And I played Perfect Dark Zero for 3 hours then slept and then played non-stop. But then I got bored and started playing Halo 2 again. Then I started to have the habit of renting games before I buy them. First was FULL Auto, then GRAW (but the disc was broken so I didn't get to play it at all), and now The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. This week, I'm going to review all 3 games (PDZ, FA, and Oblivion).

"GoldenEye: Source" Demo Review

www.goldeneyesource.com

GoldenEye: Source

Demo Review by: StarFry

GoldenEye 007 was one of the first-person shooters of Nintendo 64 that was considered the best and also made by RARE. Nine years later, Cyber Genetic Studios has brought GoldenEye 007 into Half-Life 2 using the Source engine. When this was first announced, nobody thought that could be possible but when the demo was released, people as well as fans downloaded and played it. I have played it as well and I gotta say even though I never ACTUALLY played GoldenEye007 I can tell this is a great adaption to it.

This guy really is hurt from the paintballs

This demo is impressive although could have been better. You need to install the installer then the update as well, then it might take an hour and 10 minutes. But annoying that, once you play the game you automatically hear the classical and beautiful music from GoldenEye007 which lasts or 10 minutes-20 minutes. The maps are very similar to the original maps and its great that now you can play with more than 4 players. The maps are occasionally small but therea a reason why because no matter what size, the battles in each map will be intense. You get to choose a character to play as. Either 3 types of James Bond (silver, blue, and brown), Oddjob, or Ourumor. The gun sounds are not recyled and like I said, the music is classical and beautiful. The classic song whenever you die is in the game which is very cool. The maps have alot of glitches and errors which I hope will be fixed when the full game comes out. Also you die really fast. There are different weapons never seen on any other game on Steam. Especially the classic and really powerful GOLDEN GUN. Yep, its there too and I bet fans will definately be hunting for that and other weapons as well.

Any fan will know the Golden Gun is very powerful. Very.

GoldenEye 007 fans will love GoldenEye: Source and will forget about the horrible sequel playing as the villain.