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To be honest, I am a fan of Phantasy Star Universe. If I had a credit card, i would play it online, too
Now, i got a Grip on Phantasy Star Portable for my new PSP, and of course, i HAD to try it out. And I was heavily dissapointed.
I like the Idea of having my own Avatar playing in the game. But whatever Sega thought while creating the game, it seriously wasnt something good.
I mean, I just play through every Mission of PSU and AOTI, with a story background maybe, but its still just the same missions over and over again. The whole Game is just a Port of the XBox version with decreased grafics and inferior controls due to the PSP. I cant really think of anything positive to say…. well, even the own Character is the main Character thing is just done poorly, since you never say something, you stay mute as a fish. Every now and then you can state how you feel about this and that and wether to trust someone or not, and thats all about it.
Worst thing : there is no possibility of playing online, what means that you WILL have to find friends who also own the game and have the same level as you do to play together.
To be honest, im very happy that I did not spend over 10 bucks for that little sucker. I will burry it deep inside the “i should not have bought this” box, maybe somewhere between DoA4 and WoW
-Because I can
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Rock On! It’s time for another review, and since I’m sitting around here smokin’ a cigarette and being bored, I thought about writing a short report about GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR for the Xbox 360, which I borrowed from a friend these days. I borrowed the game and the guitar, so I got everything to rock my flat! :D
I think everyone should know the plot about Guitar Hero, and if not, for all the ones who don’t know crap, I write it down shortly:
YOU are a special musician, either a solo artist or a member of a band, playing your way through gigs and concerts all over the world. You visit little Clubs, big fests (such as the German “Ozzfest”) or play at the Happy New Year 2009-concert in NYC on Times Square. You shredd around to epic old rock songs from heavy metal, rock and punk bands, e.g. Metallica, System of a Down, 30 Seconds to Mars, Tool, and Korn. But THIS is just a little bit of all the bands you can choose from. As usual, 5 difficulty levels give you the chance to test your power on the guitar and become the ultimate Guitar Hero!
You can throw away your controller and fully go through the game with the guitar, also you can apply a microphone, a second guitar (which can either act as another guitar or bass) and a Drum Set, creating your own band with friends or family…or both. Through Xbox Live, you can even play versus other solo artists or bands. You can also indivdualize your character, your outfit, and your instruments. That’s what I call “Rocking out”!
Another new sweet function is to create own songs and upload them to the sharing platform GHTunes, where you can also download various other songs from other creators. Who knows, if EVER get the chance to upgrade to Gold again them maybe I will find songs of my beloved band SlipKnot! ^^
Still, the shit about Guitar Hero stays the same: The instruments are not cheap, and it will cost up to 200 bucks to get the whole set with 2 guitars, a mic and a drumset, also, you can be ready to get flamed by various jealous idiots who don’t understand that Guitar Hero is not a game where you can learn to play guitar. It’s just a party game with the chance to get Gamerscore, don’t you get it you dipshits? :/
Totally, GHWT is one of the best Guitar Hero copies I’ve played. And I played them all, the only thingie that would be a shot better is GH5, because I like more songs from there. Still, I rock out for like 3 days now, playing my way to expert level. But, seriously, my fingers ached after 5 “heavy” songs…shit :/
I recommend 3 copies of the GH series: GHIII, GHWT and GH5. The other ones where not epic enough. But mostly I recommend GHWT, because of the rich amount of songs and the brandnew guitar with slide-buttons. Rock out and stay sic, see you on Xbox Live!
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So I’m back from the dead.. no I’m just not that busy at the moment so I decided to review a Game, which I just get from oversea. First of a short statement. The Digimon series has so much potential, I don’t get why they don’t make a big game. They only develop, in my homing opinion, Minigames. I really don’t get it. But enough of those idiots who calles them self game developer.
The Game I now review is called: Digimon World – Championship.
It’s a simulation where you can train Digimon so the digivolv to higher levels and fight in tournaments, collection medlas, to raise your Tamer-Rank and to parcipiate at the great Digimon Championship. You’re a tamer, who is a newbie with Digimon training. You start with a short tutorial, which tolds you everything you have to know for train your Digimon.
In this game Digimon live in terretorys which you have to visit to hunt them. You can stun, damage and paralyze them so you can cath them easier. For catching them you use a rope which has different ranks which you have to unlock with higher Tamer-Ranks oder new medals. For real. You can’t get forward in this game until you win some tournaments. When you finally and succesfully hunt a Digimon, it is brought to your cage.
The Cage is your personal boot camp for Digimon. You can train and torture them until their nearly to their death, like give them nothing to eat or train them altough they have this stunning stars around their head and 1 HP left. But I’m not that sadistic that I tried this out. Okay… one time. But anyway. You can change the cage parts with other parts, which you can buy at the store. Every part of the cage trains another attribut of your digimon. The most of your time you look at this cage and your digimon which do not train all the time, when you put, I usually throw them, in their cages. You have to put them in, wait a few seconds so it trained, the you have to put it into another cage and back into the cage where you want to train it. This sucks.
When you think your Digimon is enough trained, by the way to max. out the stats is so damn easy, that you have a full trained Digimon after three ingame days. And another fact: When you rise an attribute another is sinking. So when you train attack your defence will sink, but if you wanna train your defence, your attack sink. So you have to specialise into one direction. Anyway. When your Digimon is strong enogh you can enter tournaments, which has special categories, for example that only Vaccine or Data Type Digimon can battle or only Mega Digimon can participate. Another funny but sucking fact: Your Digimon can’t digivolve to higher levels until you have the right or higher Tamer-Rank, again. But you can also fight against some free teams, to test your Digimon.
The style of what the fights proceed is really the most negative thing in this game. Your Digimon enter the arena, which has different zones, the whole fight is automatic. You have nothing to do, expect watching. You can’t give orders, move the camera, surrender. Yes you can do nothing! When the KI sucks your Digimon which have the highest stats and are on the Mega level, loose, because their KI suck. Yeah. Very well thought this battle system.
The graphic is Gameboy Advance style. So I have not to tell something ‘bout this expect: I like it. I like this style of graphic.
Fazit:
After a long amount of time when I played Digimon World on the Playstation 1, I played this game and at first I was impressed of the gaming style. But after 5 years, in ingame time when my best Digimon dies exactly before a important tournament, it really gets boring.
Guess who’s back! I spent the weekend for playing the new HALO 3: ODST, but I gotta admit: I’m pretty disappointed of this game.
ODST plays shortly before Halo 3, so this is no sequel to the Halo saga, more like a filler, what happened between 2 and 3. But this time, you are NOT Master Chief, since he’s getting dropped to Earth in the beginning of Halo 3. You are member a special marine unit, an ODST, “Orbital Drop Shock Trooper”, also called “Helljumper”. These troops are fexible and strong, and are used to be instantly dropped into a battle as reinforcement. ODSTs have better equipment than regular marines, like a VISR helmet, almost like the one of Master Chief. But unlike Master Chief, these soldiers are not enhanced biologically or chemically, but completed an elite training for their missions. You and your Squad are assigned to get dropped to the african mega city of “New Mombasa”, since Covenant forces breached through Earth’s defenses and assaulted the city. You have no exact mission briefing, but before even reaching the surface, a shockwave scatters your squad and you lose conciousness.
You wake up approx. 48 hours after drop and start to look for your scattered squad throughout the city, fighting patrolling Covenant forces, and finding hints. With these hints, you will be taken back in time to another member of the squad, and play as him fighting his way through Covenant forces. With time, you will resolve the puzzle.
Well, gameplay is as usual, although the graphics have been enhanced since H3. New weapons, also the new VISR which analyses the environment, will help throughout the story and the dark streets of New Mombasa.
You also connect yourself in the beginning with the Super-AI of the City, gaining access to a city map and various informations and hide-outs. You can collect audio sequences from inhabitants of New Mombasa and find clues what happened. Although this is supposed to be a new Halo – I don’t think so.
Also, the skulls you used to collect in H3, are now available at the beginning.
In total, the campaign is a bit poor.
For the ones who thought that playing as an ODST will make the game more difficult: Sorry guys. Although ODSTs are not supposed to be a strong as Master Chief, the player can pretty reach to this power. You don’t have a shield, but endurance. If you lose endurance by taking hits, then you will satrt to lose health by taking another hit. One point that could make the game a bit difficult is that your health is not regenrative and you must collect medipacks to heal yourself, but, my god, you find them at ANY FUKKEN corner .__.
The multiplayer opens a new way of playing: The firefight. On a special map from ODST, you will fight with 4 other players via Xbox LIVE or System Link against waves of incoming Covenant forces. Teamwork and a good amount of skill will help you through this interesting new gaming mode. Also, along with the firefight, H3:ODST comes with a second disc, containing the whole Halo 3 Multiplayer, with all maps, weapons, armors, etc. But it’s just Halo 3. =(
Halo 3: ODST was for me not really the experience I expected. The fact that the ODSTs you play are almost as strong as the Master Chief (however, in one of the novels the Master Chief was bullied by 4 ODSTs and bashed them apart, even killing one of them), and the low-packed campaign and old multiplayer makes ODST more an Add-On than a real game. I’m happy that I borrowed it, since I would not pay the price for that game. I am really a Halo fan, but…No. I think you really should borrow it from someone or rent it, just to collect the Gamerscore and take a photo with your “full” Halo Collection and masturbate on it. Seriously, I am disappointed.
