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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Dead Space Review

Dead Space, survival-horror game review:

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Dead Space is a Survival Horror/ Third Person Shooter by Visceral Games, and published by Electronic Arts (EA). You play as an ship systems engineer named Isaac Clark, who, with his crew, are sent to examine the USG Ishimura after a distress signal was sent out, and they set off to find out what's going on in the mining ship.



Monday, July 30, 2012

Minecraft Review (PC)

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Minecraft is an open-world sandbox game created by Mojang Studios and offers limitless gameplay! Minecraft offers 2 modes to play on, "Creative" and "Survival". Creative mode is as it is stated, a mode where you are free to use all of the blocks and an endless amount to create whatever you feel like doing, and you can do this in multiplayer as well, and build with your friends and strangers alike!

Friday, July 27, 2012

Effing Worms 2 Review

Main menu for Effing Worms 2
This is a flash game that can be found on sites like Kongregrate.com and other flash related gaming sites. This is a quick game, where you start off as a small worm, and your goal is to eat all the humans and other creatures to finish each wave. After each wave you get to pick 1 of 2 upgrades presented, which can be things like extra speed, health, and so forth.

game play screen for Effing Worms 2 Rampage is a powerful boost which can be gained from getting a big combo and maintaining it to hold your rampage mode. Some mutations you pick can only be activated while in Rampage Mode, so choose carefully. There isn't too many upgrades for this game, and once you complete all the waves it goes into an endless sandbox mode, where you can grow even bigger and try to reach the high score!

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 Overall this game is quick and fun if you need a little time to kill.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Great Borderlands 2 videos



Since there is work being done on more reviews, here is some great videos for Borderlands 2 and information. This game is looking to be a fantastic co-op game. Share your thoughts in the comments section!


Monday, July 23, 2012

Splatterhouse (2010) Review

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Splatterhouse (2010) Remake Game Review

Game Play

Splatterhouse (2010) is the reimagining, or reboot, of the classic arcade trilogy series Splatterhouse. Updated to modern times, this game follows the story of Rick and his adventure to save Jenny from West Mansion, and it follows somewhat to the original story, with different twists and turns. Jim Cummings is the voice actor of the Terror Mask, and does a good job of being a dark, humoring voice of the mask. The game starts you off with a quick tutorial and teaches you certain moves and tricks as your progress, so you can learn the basics of the game.


Sunday, July 22, 2012

Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage Review

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Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage Game Review!

Genre: Beat em' up
Platforms: Playstation 3, Xbox 360

Game Play

Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage, is based on the Hokuto no Ken anime and manga series, and is a faithful game to the source material. If you have played any of the Dynasty Warrior series of game from the same company, then will be right at home with the control scheme, for example, using 360 controls, will be like X-X-X or X-X-Y or a familiar setup like that. The game's combat is easy to get into and you will quickly be decimating bandits and other foes alike, and by slamming enemies into walls and other obstacles you can receive addition damage bonuses and a slow-mo display of your enemies getting destroyed.


Friday, July 20, 2012

Gears of War 3 Review

Gears of War 3 Cover box Art

Gears of War 3 is the trilogy to the hit Xbox 360 series, and it definitely ended with a bang! Gears of War 3's story is a strong point for it, as it is full of action, suspense, and drama for the conclusion of the trilogy. The story really sets it home, and the campaign can be played in arcade mode and regular mode with up to 3 other players to assist you through the story completely. The game has multiple difficulty settings and rewards you with weapon colors and such for completion of some of the previous 2 games achievements, like golden hammerburst, lancers, and so forth. This game also has a strong multiplayer, with several cooperative gameplay like horde mode, campaign, and the new beast mode.


Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon game review

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Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon Game Review!


 EDF: Insect Armageddon
Platform: PS3, Xbox 360
Multiplayer: 3 player online coop, 6 player survival mode

Game Play

  Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon is a 3rd person shooter from D3 Publisher. This game features 4 different classes to choose from (Heavy, Soldier, Engineer, and Flight/Recon), a large selection of weapons to find, and all armors will level up from play. The game has a decent story, although it is a rather short story, but allows for multiple playthroughs, and offers a remix campaign, which changes the enemies on missions to allow for more variety, and you must play the game on tougher difficulties to unlock everything in the game and get the true ending.


Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Borderlands Game Review


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Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC
Multiplayer: Up to 4 players (drop in drop out Cooperative)
Genre: First Person Shooter/RPG hybrid


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Borderlands FPS-RPG Lootfest Game Review!

      Borderlands is a first person shooter/Roleplaying game hybrid which can best be compared to a first person shooter meets Diablo 2 style RPG Lootfest. You can select from 4 characters with multiple save slots, so you can eventually play all 4, and each character is unique and different, both in appearance and playstyle. Each character also has a unique action skill, when can be deployed at any time with a cool down, and each character has 3 different skill trees, which can be allocated points with each level up (after level 5).

Monday, July 16, 2012

Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe - Review

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Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (OpenTTD) Game Review!

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  Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe, which was created by Chris Sawyer (of Rollercoaster Tycoon fame and Railroads) and Microprose, is a game where you own a company and run transport vehicles consisting of aircraft, seacraft, road vehicles, and trains. The game runs on a grid system and lets you build your empire in multiple ways, plus the game creates random worlds for you, or you can use the map editor to create your own worlds!


X-Com: Terror from the Deep Retro Review

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Xcom: Terror from the Deep Game Review!

The sequel to the cult classic game X-Com: UFO Defense (Enemy Unknown)

   X-Com: Terror from the Deep is the sequel to the critically acclaimed and cult classic strategy game, X-Com: UFO Defense (Enemy Unknown).  Terror from the Deep takes place some time after the original game, and the aliens from the original X-Com awaken the aliens of the deep, and now a threat from the oceans arrive to challenge Earth and humanity once more.


X-Com: UFO Defense 1994 review

X-com UFO Defense Cover Art
   X-COM: UFO Defense (Or X-Com: Enemy Unknown, depending on localization), is a Strategy game from Micropose back in 1994, and has spawn several sequels and spinoffs, and inspiration for countless other games. You are in command of the X-COM unit, a military force composed from all nations of the world to fend off the alien menace, research new technologies captured from your enemies, interrogate living aliens, fight off UFOs and defend the populace from said aliens. Your biggest goal is to repel the aliens, use the technologies found, and bring the fight to them and force them from Earth.



Thursday, July 12, 2012

Dwarf Fortress Review (Current State 34.11)

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Dwarf Fortress 34.11 Game Review

Dwarf Fortress is a rogue-like, generated world game, where you command a small unit of 7 dwarves to build your fortress anyway you like, and to make them succeed... or fail. Dwarf Fortress is an Ascii graphics game, much like a lot of rogue-likes, such as nethack and others. What sets Dwarf Fortress apart is that everything is generated, the world, the history, the people, everything, and the world comes to live and can be as big or small as you like.


Friday, July 6, 2012

Dark Souls - Game Review


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Dark Souls Game Review!


   Dark Souls, available on Xbox360, PS3, and PC, is the sequel to the hit Playstation 3 exclusive hit, Demon's Souls.  Much like it's original, Dark Souls is an unforgiving, tough, merciless video game in which you are to explore to undead land of Lordran. The game features a short tutorial to get you started in the Undead Asylum, then afterwards you are left to explore and die in the land of Lordran.


Thursday, July 5, 2012

Pro Flight Simulator Suite Game



Pro Flight Simulator Suite. 120+ aircraft and 20,000+ real airports.
Proflight Simulator  Suite
                                                         Pro Flight Simulator

If you are dead keen to play simulation games online you might also be wanting real flight simulator games because without the reality, the game is not really worth it anyway. It all starts with research and comparing the various features that the flight simulator providers offer. It might seem like quite a mission at first but once you get to know a few popular flight simulators you will start to notice the main features. It's also helpful to notice what the public are saying about the airplane games online. Especially look out for comments about the simulator being real.


Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Farmville Secrets, Unofficial Strategy Guide



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If you're having trouble getting a hang of the way of things in FarmVille, you're not alone. I know of quite a few people who got into the game expecting it to be easy as pie and were quickly frustrated. In fact, I was one of them. So I went looking for a guide to help me master the farming life.

I actually tried quite a few of these guides, but not many of them had much helpful information to give. They were either designed for people who'd gotten all the way to the upper levels already, or they were severely outdated because of additions made to the game since they were released. FarmVille is a relatively new game and is still in the Beta stage, so a lot of improvements have been made to it in a short time and many of the guides on the market have not been updated to account for these changes.

Diablo 3 Speed - A level up guide book



Here is a brand new guide for Diablo 3.

The game just came out and now is a good time to learn the best ways to become a high level character in short time. With this guide book, you will learn how to level up your characters in a short amount of time to reach lvl 60, which in a game series like the Diablo series, is a very tough competitive market, especially with those South Koreans who play Starcraft 1 and 2 on board too.

Check out this guide by Jonathan Bradley Smith, who will teach you all you need to know for a low price. Click the website link provided to learn more and purchase his guide.


Diablo 3 Speed: Unofficial Strategy Guide