I could never stand THQ, all of there current gen games have been mediocre. There wrestling games have been the same for the past few years, red faction guerilla is lame. And there new UFC game seems average judging it by the demo, its nowhere near fight night.
Scianix-Black
Saint's Row 2 is awesome, but I have to agree.
...THQ is lame.
I spent 45 Minutes in Saints Row 2 as an enormously fat man with a cockney accent wearing revealing lingerie riding around an airport terminal on a hot pink armored, nitro-boosted motorscooter with a samurai sword doing cavalry charges on travelers. I'm pretty sure that alone makes it the greatest game ever made.
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is, no joke, the best game that I've played this year. Don't be one of those people who say "UGH A 50 CENT GAME I'M NOT PLAYING HTAT I HATE (C)RAP MUSIC!". They're missing out on a great game. At first glance the gameplay makes it look like a mediocre knockoff of Gears of War, but unlike pretty much every other game this generation it actually embraces the fact that it's a videogame and does something games just don't do anymore for some strange reason: it keeps score. And how. What would normally be a bland game is elevated to greatness with the addition of things like combo multipliers and timed mini-missions that pop up as you go through the game. On top of this, you get the story, which makes Blood on the Sand the single most hilarious game I've ever played. The story is so ridiculous and it's so badly written that it is an absolute riot. I mean seriously, it's a game where you play as 50 Cent (not as, say, Corporal J.T. Murder, USMC with the voice and likeness of 50 Cent, but as 50 Cent, Vitamin Water spokesman) who runs around the middle east with G-Unit blowing up terrorists because they stole the diamond-encrusted skull he got as payment for doing a rap concert in the middle of a warzone. Each cutscene gets more retarded and hilarious as the story goes on, so you have an uncontrollable urge to keep playing to see what stupid crap happens next. You get the feeling playing it that the whole thing is a joke and everybody is in on it except for Fitty. Also, you have a button that makes you spout near-unintelligible streams of profanity that makes you get more points when you shoot guys and they call their version of bullettime "Gangsta Fire".
Wait a minute. There are people out there who actually liked the gunplay in Uncharted? Are you all forgetting how tedious and bland it was? Remember, people, those endless waves of pirates were the thing that was keeping you from doing more platforming and exploration, you know, the part of the game that was actually done well. Uncharted was a good platforming/climbing/exploration game with a mediocre stop-and-pop third person shooter tacked on. Don't get me wrong, I loved Uncharted but it had a nasty habit of knowing exactly when you were really excited for the next plot point to move the story forward and when your anticipation to see what happens next was at its peak it would then pounce on you with a baker's dozen of heavily accented pirates for you to deal with for the next few minutes. It would have been better if you never had a gun, and when the pirates showed up, you had to run, climb and do whatever you can to get the hell away from them. Or they at least could have not done the laser sight thing and everything got even worse, since you'd have to roll around and shoot. Actually, you'd still need a gun because mother of god that game adored exploding barrels.
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