The Brawl for the ages!
This game is probably one of the most games that recieved the most hype over the last year, and thankfully it is well deserved. Unlike in the previous Smash Bros installments for the nintendo 64 and Gamecube, the home run bat is specific for each character when in use.
There are a plethural of new challengers within the game featuring some very unique fighters for the game. Those characters are wolf, pokemon trainer, ganondorf, falco, sonic, snake, toon link, zero suit samus, meta knight, lucas, pit, omar, wario, peach, and of course.....Goku.
Along with the regular gameplay modes that were available in the previous games, there is also a campaign mode along with some unique stadium modes as well.
But by far the greatest features of the game are online capabilities, the use of finishing moves v.i.a smash balls, manyn unique power moves. Also the use of items called assist trophies which "summon" characters from other games that will assist or hamper you in the brawl. For example there is ressetti from animal crossing which blocks a section of the screen by talking. There is also some assist trophies that will also physicaly damage your opponents (excluding you of course)
gameplay 9/10: game will keep you amused for hours on end, and is also unique compared to the previous games.
Plot/storyline 7/10: Although the game features a storyline for once, the storyline is very shotty, however the cutscenes were made with sheer brilliance. Anyone who buys the game will still enjoy the unique plot.
Sound 9.5/10: with so manny unlockable background music that allows you to customize stages. As well as battle sounds executed to perfection. The music in this game definetly sets up the correct mood.
graphics 8/10: Lets face it the graphics are not as great as other games for its time, some of the battle animations could have been done alot better. But overall the graphics were not horrible considering they also had to turn manny previous gen graphics of characters to new generation graphics.
Overall 8.5/10: It may not have been the best game of the year but it surely wasnt far behind, hopefully more brawl games to come (maybe on the next console).
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Game reviews this week
Sorry for the lack of reviews this week. This is due to the fact that I am in the midst of moving to a new town. New town being Fort McCrack. ON the upside this up coming week I will be reviewing games such as FarCry2 Super Smash Bros. Brawl and WorldofWarcraft.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Fable 2 (xbox 360)
For this game I'm not really going to give it rating. its more going to be a rant and talking about the aspects of the game instead. This is because the game is innovative and very diffrent from most RPG's you have played before, so whether the person enjoys the game completly depends on whether you like new concepts or prefer the generic foundation of your typical RPG.
Similar to the original (Fable for xbox and PC), your actions decide your morality, which affects how your character looks within the game. However with fable 2 its not just "evil" and "good" there are manny in between positions on the spectrum of good and evil.
From a combat prespective, most magic fans will be very pleased (or will dissaprove of) the fact that there is no mana bar. Instead to cast magic you must first charge up the spell for use.
One of the greatest features of fable 2 is that u can quickly switch between sword magic and guns fluidly making it intresting to see what types of combonations of attacks you can come up with. There are also very intense boss battles which makes the game tougher than the original which left the players wondering if there was maybe some sort of hidden difficulty setting.
So? What are you doing still reading this? GO OUT NOW AND BUY FABLE 2!
(sorry for the badly written and short review guys was just quickly throwing something together because of my time constraints)
Similar to the original (Fable for xbox and PC), your actions decide your morality, which affects how your character looks within the game. However with fable 2 its not just "evil" and "good" there are manny in between positions on the spectrum of good and evil.
From a combat prespective, most magic fans will be very pleased (or will dissaprove of) the fact that there is no mana bar. Instead to cast magic you must first charge up the spell for use.
One of the greatest features of fable 2 is that u can quickly switch between sword magic and guns fluidly making it intresting to see what types of combonations of attacks you can come up with. There are also very intense boss battles which makes the game tougher than the original which left the players wondering if there was maybe some sort of hidden difficulty setting.
So? What are you doing still reading this? GO OUT NOW AND BUY FABLE 2!
(sorry for the badly written and short review guys was just quickly throwing something together because of my time constraints)
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
my first game review
For my first game review I would like to choose a game from the SNES platform (yes an oldie). This game in my opinion was one of the very few games in all of gaming history that had a unique story line as well as a new and innovative game play style, the game I am talking about is Chrono trigger.
Description:
Chrono trigger is a game which was developed by the video game company known as square enix (formerly known as square at the time), and released in the year 1995. The designers of the video game are the same people who brought you the final fantasy series.
Chrono trigger is a game with 7 playable characters each coming from a diffrent time zone within the game. You the player start in the year 1000AD. with three characters, chrono, marle and lucca. The plot devlops around chrono the silent protagonist of the story, who is depicted as a strong and brave man who yeilds a katana.
Gameplay
the gameplay in nature is very similar to what you would find in a classic final fantasy game. However the game also brought about a great stat system that affected battle, from elemental damage to diffrent types of resistances to the elements.
Also when you unlocked and played with more and more characters you would learn techs(skills) generally in 3 diffrent categories,single tech was a tech used by a single character, a dual tech was a combination of 2 single techs and used by two of the players, and triple tech was used by three of the players.
The game also supplied two diffrent modes of gameplay, the first was turn based where the enemy and yourself took turns attacking each turn. there was also a time based style gameplay where each character had to wait a certain amount of time in order t oattack (the time was determined by the characters agility and speed).
rating: 9/10
music/sound
The music in the game composed by Nobuo Uematsu and scored by Yasunori Mitsuda. Was in short a masterpeice. Every area you went to had a very unique feel to it most of this was acheived through the use of music within the game. The music used during "boss" fights was very suspenseful and really got the players into the game. The battle sounds when fighting enemies were not complex and were simplistic in nature, but yet it was effective.
rating:8.5/10
graphics
For the time the games graphics were very well done and showed scripted weather effects within the game(snow and rain). the character art was brilliant but the character miniatures were average.The battle graphics although were not overly complex in nature were style very effective and awed the crowds.
rating:9/10
Plot
This game definetly got the name "grand daddy of RPGs" definetly due to the outsanding and well developed plot. The plots timeline is perfectly created and leaves gamers entertained for hours on end. Every character also has a very unique back story which in of itself is one of the most entertaining aspects of the game in my opinion. the game from start to funish (without trying to acheive maximum level or obtaining all skills and the best items) will at least take around 20+ hours.
rating:9.5/10
Difficulty
The difficulty in this game clearly depends on the player, however the games difficulty definetly gets much tougher as the game progresses. As the game progresses you will come across bosses that require a high end battle strategy in order to take them down, while at the beginning of thegame its just a matetr of hitting him and keeping your health high by healing.
rating:(n/a)
Overalll
overall this is definetly one of the greatest RPGs ever made. Alot of RPG games today have a very difficult time in creating expansive plots, and make a game last more than 15+ hours. This may be due to developers focusing more on the effects and battle systems than the storys or plot.
overall rating: 9/10
Description:
Chrono trigger is a game which was developed by the video game company known as square enix (formerly known as square at the time), and released in the year 1995. The designers of the video game are the same people who brought you the final fantasy series.
Chrono trigger is a game with 7 playable characters each coming from a diffrent time zone within the game. You the player start in the year 1000AD. with three characters, chrono, marle and lucca. The plot devlops around chrono the silent protagonist of the story, who is depicted as a strong and brave man who yeilds a katana.
Gameplay
the gameplay in nature is very similar to what you would find in a classic final fantasy game. However the game also brought about a great stat system that affected battle, from elemental damage to diffrent types of resistances to the elements.
Also when you unlocked and played with more and more characters you would learn techs(skills) generally in 3 diffrent categories,single tech was a tech used by a single character, a dual tech was a combination of 2 single techs and used by two of the players, and triple tech was used by three of the players.
The game also supplied two diffrent modes of gameplay, the first was turn based where the enemy and yourself took turns attacking each turn. there was also a time based style gameplay where each character had to wait a certain amount of time in order t oattack (the time was determined by the characters agility and speed).
rating: 9/10
music/sound
The music in the game composed by Nobuo Uematsu and scored by Yasunori Mitsuda. Was in short a masterpeice. Every area you went to had a very unique feel to it most of this was acheived through the use of music within the game. The music used during "boss" fights was very suspenseful and really got the players into the game. The battle sounds when fighting enemies were not complex and were simplistic in nature, but yet it was effective.
rating:8.5/10
graphics
For the time the games graphics were very well done and showed scripted weather effects within the game(snow and rain). the character art was brilliant but the character miniatures were average.The battle graphics although were not overly complex in nature were style very effective and awed the crowds.
rating:9/10
Plot
This game definetly got the name "grand daddy of RPGs" definetly due to the outsanding and well developed plot. The plots timeline is perfectly created and leaves gamers entertained for hours on end. Every character also has a very unique back story which in of itself is one of the most entertaining aspects of the game in my opinion. the game from start to funish (without trying to acheive maximum level or obtaining all skills and the best items) will at least take around 20+ hours.
rating:9.5/10
Difficulty
The difficulty in this game clearly depends on the player, however the games difficulty definetly gets much tougher as the game progresses. As the game progresses you will come across bosses that require a high end battle strategy in order to take them down, while at the beginning of thegame its just a matetr of hitting him and keeping your health high by healing.
rating:(n/a)
Overalll
overall this is definetly one of the greatest RPGs ever made. Alot of RPG games today have a very difficult time in creating expansive plots, and make a game last more than 15+ hours. This may be due to developers focusing more on the effects and battle systems than the storys or plot.
overall rating: 9/10
trimires video game blog
Hello fellow gamers, bloggers, and random surfers.
For those of you have not figured it out yet this blog of mine is going to be used to create video game reviews of the old the new, and basically any game I feel should be discussed. I will post 1-2 game reveiws per week(usually cause im busy) but in some cases i may get up to 3 or 4. I really hope you find my reveiws exciting and entertaining to read. If you have any comments feel free to share them through my email at. trimire@hotmail.com please make sure to put trimires game reveiw as the title for the message or I will most likely regard the e-mail as junk.
For those of you have not figured it out yet this blog of mine is going to be used to create video game reviews of the old the new, and basically any game I feel should be discussed. I will post 1-2 game reveiws per week(usually cause im busy) but in some cases i may get up to 3 or 4. I really hope you find my reveiws exciting and entertaining to read. If you have any comments feel free to share them through my email at. trimire@hotmail.com please make sure to put trimires game reveiw as the title for the message or I will most likely regard the e-mail as junk.
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