April 23, 2011
Dead Rising 2 a fun game that pertains the same qualities from the first Dead Rising despite being frustrating in some spots. The item combination is the highlight of this game, utilizing almost every in Fortune City into something magnificent or just plain weird. Though the only weapon that rivals the chainsaw in DR is the knives' glove which could easily kill most of the psychopaths in the game. Fortune City is quite a good-looking city albeit the design looks vaguely similar to Willamette Mall especially when the outside of these strip malls/casinos is in the center of the map.
Unlike Willamette Mall, there are mini games within each casino - from slot machines, ox riding, wheel of fortune to various other games that could rack up money which you can spend the money in the pawn shops over Fortune City. Oh yeah.. Prestige Points, unlike taking pictures in the first one - in this one, you have to either kill hordes of zombies with your created weapon, rescue survivors, defeat psychopaths or play various minigames. Other than that, the psychopaths are quite tough if you don't have the knives' gloves, it plays like a hack-and-slash game where you have to avoid the boss' attacks and then get the opportunity to hit back, making it quite tedious if you don't get their patterns of attack. The survivors on the other hand had improved since the original making it less tedious to make them follow you or obey your orders and also some of them require to carry them back to the safehouse.
Overall this game is in fact like the original but with improvements and a sick-ass combination system, the storyline with Chuck being framed as a terrorists is intriguing and the psychopaths/survivors ranged from crazy, dickheads, normal people to assholes makes you want to kill them even more, plus the fact that the acting feels Canadian not American.
So far it deserves a 4 out of 5 but sometimes the gameplay gets so annoying that it's a 3.5 to me
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Posted by Thomas Ma. Posted In : VG Impressions
April 23, 2011
In a short summary, Singularity is a neat game even though people think its too similar to Bioshock or Dead Space, it really isn't. The controls are a bit similar to Modern Warfare with the exception of E99 Power that you'll grant later - the sprint button feels too much like that game. The game-play, its quite alright - the starting is somewhat a tutorial where you get antiquated with the controls and the story of a island off the coast of Russia where nasty experiments are created and wher...
Posted by Thomas Ma. Posted In : VG Impressions
April 23, 2011
Persona 3 Portable Impressions
Anyways when they announced Persona 3 is coming on the PSP, I was quite stoked that I could finally play Persona 3 after not purchasing it three years ago. And since then, Atlus has changed the game and compressed it into a portable device, sacrificing some things but compensating it for another. I was eager to purchase this game as I didn't pre-order knowing that it will only come with Junpei's lame hat and not the soundtrack which was implemented within the f... Continue reading...
Posted by Thomas Ma. Posted In : VG Impressions
April 23, 2011
The first Dead Space is should be considered my top games of 2008, I love how they created a new IP game that puts strategic dismemberment and horror together making it a blast to play. The only gripe is that I didn't finish that game due to the Zero-G flying sequences that always made me nauseous and also the fact that my account got lost after my 360 RRoD and had to replace another one and create another account. But before I played Dead Space 2, I installed the first game and tried to get ...
Posted by Thomas Ma. Posted In : VG Impressions
April 23, 2011
I forgot to write about my impressions about the Kinect, I brought it last month and been loving it since. However it took me awhile to find a Kinect in my area, going to Walmart, Bestbuy and EB since November and it has been sold out, and the fact that people wait in line before the Bestbuy opens and snatch all the Kinect and hearing that it isn't sold out their websites is irritating and annoying, wasting all my time to go there and expecting nothing in return.
Anyways I was fortuna... Continue reading...
Posted by Thomas Ma. Posted In : VG Impressions
April 23, 2011
I was reluctant to purchase Borderlands due to not having Xbox Live so I could play with other people and quickly level up. That's the whole appeal of that game, which is kinda like WoW. Also the fact that Jeff has been talking a ton of Borderlands and saying that it's more fun to play with people than alone - having a higher leveled character helping out lower leveled characters. Seeing QLs after QLs, sometimes I thought that this game is quite dull, setting on a Wasteland and not much inter... Continue reading...
Posted by Thomas Ma. Posted In : VG Impressions
April 23, 2011
I'm not really a fan of the first Two Worlds, the dialogue and acting as well as some merits of the gameplay and controls are the things that put me off that game. And the fact that I'm astounded of how people liked that game even though it's entirely broken. Recently Two Worlds II (repetition) was released and I want to try it to see if they had improved the problems of the previous games.
So I brought this game in hopes that it would be better but what I got is kinda the same minus a fe... Continue reading...
Posted by Thomas Ma. Posted In : VG Impressions
April 23, 2011
I was quite skeptical about Bioware's new direction towards Dragon Age II. From the looks of the demo to numerous interviews, they overhull much of the combat, gameplay and dialogue to feel more like Mass Effect and less Dragon Age. I had written a blog regarding these new features; different art designs with the graphical interface to techtrees that resemble a web of sorts that you can pick your preferable skill type like in WoW. These new features are a mixed bag for me, before and now ... Continue reading...
Posted by Thomas Ma. Posted In : VG Impressions
April 23, 2011
When they announced the second Dragon Age, I had hope that there's going to be some sort of import feature like what they did in Mass Effect to Mass Effect 2 but as they announced that it's not a customizable character albeit a named as well as voiced main protagonist named Hawke, I was quite disappointed and such. The idea of having your character from Origins imported to this sequel would be amazing, just like what they did in Awakening and what you did impacted characters, story and such... Continue reading...
Posted by Thomas Ma. Posted In : Previews
April 23, 2011
What You've Been Playing? - Fate of Two Racists Edition
Instead of writing separate blogs about my impressions, here is a blog about two games that I've been playing. I talked before about playing Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds but didn't write about it.
Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
I have never been much of a fighting game dude but I'm much of an admirer of watching them though I don't watch competitions like EVO and it doesn't help me learn how to play a fighting g... Continue reading...
Posted by Thomas Ma. Posted In : VG Impressions
