Whoa, it's almost New Year, here in the UAE, we're waiting for only 3 hours more, while in the Philippines they're already celebrating new year.
Well, because it's new year, I guess I can lend some of my time to posting a blog on one of my favorite sites: Gamespot. And my topic's going to be about a half-an-hour reminiscing about 2008, 2008 has been a fun year for me, even with the global financial crisis affecting every single country it can, thank God UAE hasn't been that affected and my dad's job is going great!!! In my studies, though, I also am doing great, but recently I only placed 8th on ranking, whereas last year I managed to get to top 3, I'm pretty dissapointed with that, but what better thing to do but study hard for the remaining months? Hehe, enough with my nerd talk, let's go to my game progress:
GAME PROGRESS, RATINGS, AND MINI REVIEWS AS OF DECEMBER 31 2008:
I played a lot of games this year, and finished only a little, I've played everything from shooters to RPG's, RPG's being my faves. The PS2 I use is my older brother's, and he studies college in the Philippines, me and my family only goes there twice a year, so I have a limited time to play there, : (
BTW, this list is about my favorite games that I've finished and playing now, within 2008,
Burnout Revenge for PS2
Last time played: about April 2008
I already finished it and got about 5 special unlockable cars, but I haven't been able to play it since I started playing my PSP. Burnout Revenge is a really addicting racing game of racing and destruction, it's like Need for Speed playing battle royale, my favorite mode in this game is traffic attack, where you drive your car like a psycho and bump into traffic, this is great if you're looking for something new in racing games. Another great feature of this game is the seemingly endless ranking where you need to get medals in order to fill a gauge that's used to rank you up, I finally got to the top rank (I think): the eleventh rank, I think that's Dominator, I forgot already, hehe. Anyway, I recommend this game to racing game fanatics and thosewho want to hve a good time wrecking through traffic.
MY RATING: 9/10
Tekken 5 for PS2
Last time played: July something
Another great game, Tekken 5 is just a great game, graphics are great, gameplay is great, and story is also great (not to mention the chicks that appear in the game. I just love how this game plays,I mastered about 4 character's 10-hit combo, and whenever I execute those combos, I just feel great! Finishing the story mode with all characters is pretty easy, but making them all Tekken Lords (the highest rank in the game which is achieved by fighting again and again in Arcade mode and winning promotion chances) can take a lot of time and patience, especially when you get frustrated easily. As for me though, I achieved Tekken Lord with Devil Jin, only to find out next day that my game data got corrupted, so I repeated all the things I have done, again, from finishing Story Mode to unlocking Devil Jin again in the Devil Within mode (a mini game you can play that takes on the role of Jin as you find out more about his Devil gene. Anyway,This game is great, and I'm not going to get tired in saying how great it is. PLAY THIS GAME!!!!
MY RATING: 10/10
Final Fantasy X-2 for PS2
Last time played: back in the Philippines on January 2008
Whoa, Final Fantasy, my fave! Although I haven't played Final Fantasy X, but that didn't stop me from playing this game (the reason I haven't played FFX is because the PS2 I use is my brother's, but he has no copy of FFX, being a solid FF fan, though, I still played this game). This game is so freakin awesome, and one of my all-time faves, but I also want to play FFX. It's awesome with graphics, sound, gameplay, story, and all you can wish for, it has a good replay value if you want to collect all those job thingies, like me, I haven't been able to get all jobs in my first playthrough, so when I come back to the Philippines, I'm going to play it again.
MY RATING: 10/10
Well, I think that's about it, more on it tomorrow!