Okay, sorry I didn’t do this last night but I got sidetracked and didn’t focus.
But here it goes, Okay, basically this feels like a Hack-and-Slash, but the story is pretty cool, it focuses on modern day vikings and they constantly refer to Oden, Thor, and Valkyries, in fact, if someone dies, a Valkyrie comes down to take the body to Valhalla. The game play is simple enough, sword melees and plasma gun fire are your choices of violent weaponry, but it does become rather difficult to use them properly. The right stick acts as your swings for the sword, but while your guns are out, the left and right sticks aim where you are shooting.
The enemies that I faced until the end seemed rather simple to defeat, while the final boss (it seemed, I gave up after this one) was extremely hard to defeat, not because he was a tough boss, but because it acted so glitchy when you fought him. He would throw down a hammer and it would send out pulses that would adversely affect you, but even when you jump out of the way, the pulses still kill you, and if you even touch his hammer while it is down it takes away half of your life.
All in all, it was a decent title, but the camera angles and nonsensical damage that you recieved pretty much made me put down the controller.
Okay here’s the thing about Sony’s E3 Press Conference. A lot of cool stuff was mentioned, all but one we already knew about and that was the tentatively titled “MAG” which supports a crazy amount of Co-Op play makes it more like a war MMO, where groups of 8 can take on different tasks in a war set up, pretty cool, right?
Hell yes, the only problem is that I’m not sure how fast/good the game will go based off of a wireless internet connection with that many people. Also, there was no release date or gameplay footage given.
Little Big Planet and God of War 3 both look incredible, but we’ve known about these for sometime now, also, no release dates.
My biggest problem with this conference was that they focused too much on the PS2 and PSP, if they are serious about the next generation of gaming, PLEASE focus more attention on it. If you are trying to please gamers, then please kill off the PS2, if your last gen system still sells approximately as many units as your current gen system, there is some problem here.
My advice to Sony:
Please make your systems more affordable, kill the PS2, focus all attention on the PS3 and give us some games that will justify the $400 price tag, and God, if your systems were backwards compatible, then maybe people wouldn’t just keep their PS2’s
Avatars? WTF?!? No thanks, I’ll keep my Exploding Man, thanks!
here’s a demo of the dashboard!
seems kind of silly and pointless to me, I like the way it is set up now.
Some features of this new dashboard are music sections, gamercard, played games, avatar creation, etc.
I really don’t like this change, this is too Casual Gamer for me.
Well, it’s a DAMN good year to be a gamer, I would say!
In the time of the E3 convention in Los Angeles (and myself not getting invited), I would like to take a turn and first discuss the gaming on the iPhone, and how super sweet and fantastic it is!
First, Monkey Ball. For $9.99 on a hand held/cell phone device, this is an amazing game. It’s not hugely addictive, but that is okay, it acts as a casual game and that is what it should be. Can you imagine an addictive game with that little of a battery life, that would be crazy!!
But it does its job, if you are on a break and you walk outside, walk around the halls, this game is perfect! Apple and Sega scored with this game and it is wonderful. The motion sensor controls are very difficult to catch on to, but after playing with it for a couple of days, the game gets much easier, but there is a downfall. I have not yet found a way to save progress. On the way home (we carpool) I was playing Super Monkey Ball, got a call from my wife and the game restarted, I was royally pissed. But overall, graphically +, gameplay +, addictiveness -(but it is excusable), convenience +/- due to the fact that it is a convenient game, but it doesn’t save progress in a sensible way.