Girl Dancing With Kinect

October 5, 2010

During my stay at this years Eurogamer Expo, I came across Kinect and the games it was showcasing. Only 2 games were being promoted, Dance Central, while the other is Kinect Sports.

With Dance Central, you as a player have to imitate the dance moves that are being performed on screen and have to keep timing your moves correctly and so the more points you will gain. Here is a video of a girl playing the game.

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Fallout: New Vegas Review

War, war has changed. It’s 2010 and the the sequel to the 2008 game of the year Fallout 3 has been released, but could the sequel grab the game of the year award even though it has been developed by a different developer? Does Fallout: New Vegas fall short to what made Fallout 3 successful or does it do everything the previous entry in the series did and more?

New Vegas does not act as a direct sequel to Fallout 3, but offers a similar role playing experience with many new and returning features. The game is set 4 year after the events that took place in Fallout 3. You play as a Courier who’s job is to deliver packages till one day your package is stolen and you’re left for dead. You’re then rescued by Victor a mysterious robot and brought back to a town called Goodspring. Story wise, nothing new, it has been done over a million times. While the story can be interesting at times with the numerous branching paths the game can end, yet it doesn’t draw you in and you will find yourself discouraged in continuing the main quest because the story is, let me try and summarise this…boring.

You will awaken at Doctor Mitchell’s house and will be introduced to the character creation screen. Here you will create your character just like Fallout 3. Name, age, gender, specials and so on. Once you’re about to exit the Doctor’s house, you will be presented by a notification asking you if you would like to turn on Hardcore mode, but we will get to that later. So the game begins with you, the Courier in search of the man who shot you, Benny. Then you’re open to a whole world of possibilities, with currency used as caps, dinosaur toys, radiated rockets, ghouls and hell of a lot of bugs and glitches.

While Fallout: New Vegas is a larger game in comparison to Fallout 3, the game is infested with glitches and game breaking bugs. Which comes the million dollar question,was this game even tested? The main quest itself is bugged. The sidequests are bugged. Your companions are bugged. The loading screen is even bugged. During my playthrough I had just completed a main quest and fast travelled to The Strip. I approach the door and it wouldn’t allow me in because now you magically need a key. I’ve been in The Strip more times than I can count and what makes it even worse was this occurred after the 1.01 patch on PS3 was installed. Other bugs such as your companions being stuck to the environment while trying to run, you getting stuck next to a car and frame rate dropping to zero. The game also freezes multiple times, that you frequently begin praying it doesn’t freeze because once it does, it means the console itself has frozen too.

This game seems to have been released incomplete and not tested at all, but when the game isn’t suffering from these glitches it’s truly great. The game is really fun to play when you’re not experiencing the bugs and glitches. The game delivers hour upon hour of joyful gaming. Even while you’re with your girlfriend, you will be thinking Fallout. Although in this day and age, games with this amount of bugs cannot be excused, but then again Fallout: New Vegas does do what it’s meant to and that’s make the player addicted, and I am.

The visuals are out dated and so is the engine. The game itself overall is visually and performance wise better on PC. It’s even less buggy. Players who have played Fallout 3 will recognise many of the textures used in New Vegas. Character appearances have not changed and you will see the same looking civilians in this game that you saw in Fallout 3. Does this mean Fallout: New Vegas is the same game as Fallout 3 but with a different topping? Short answer to that, no. Long answer, noooo. New Vegas is a very different game, with various differences such as a more balanced character building system. At the end of the game, your character won’t feel the same as the other million players that are playing around the world.

The V.A.T.S. system is back and is still pretty much the same although your character can use unique melee weapons abilities can be performed in V.A.T.S. A weapon modification, crafting and plant harvesting system have been incorporated into the game. The weapons modification system seems shallow with only 3 types. Increase the size of your weapon’s magazine, mounting a scope or modifying the rate of fire. The plant harvesting system allows you to collect various types of herbs and roots to create powerful healing herbs to aid you on your quest or you can use them to create bombs and even insert them into your ammunition for that extra omph power. Also a number of casino games such as Roulette and Black Jack can be played within The Strip.

Decisions have become more important than ever. No more decisions between black or white. The obvious answer isn’t slapped into your face and speech challenges still depend on your character’s specialities. Although this time around if you fail a speech challenge it can be redone by speaking to the same character again, rather than it disappearing forever.

Hardcore mode adds to the challenge but is it interesting or annoying? You consistently have to keep hydrated, eating food, sleeping and you cannot fast travel if the distance will make you sick of dehydration. Your Stimpaks also do not heal instantly but overtime and your bullets can add weight to your inventory. Hardcore mode doesn’t necessarily add much of a challenge but does become a chore over time. Good thing it’s optional. If you’re searching for realism Hardcore mode is the way to forward.

The reputation system that was absent in Fallout 3 is back in New Vegas. The role of this system is to ally with whom you desire. Each faction will react differently towards you depending on your loyalty towards them. Such as helping the NCR will make Caesar’s Legion angry and will shoot you on sight, while the NCR will aid you during your quest and vice versa. A companion wheel has been implemented to allow interaction with your companion to be less of a nuisance. Options such as follow, stay close, wait and talk are available to use. You can only use one humanoid and one non-humanoid companion simultaneously. Roaming the Wasteland with a companion grants you a special perk to be equipped as long as the companion is with you.

Voice acting is one of New Vegas’s strong points. No matter how long you spend in the game, you will always hear something new the characters have to say but then again some sentences are repeated enough times for you to learn the script. The radio station’s music is still similar to the likes of Fallout 3's with old classics playing, it really does add atmosphere to the game, especially The Strip music.

Fallout: New Vegas is a game with a large number of rough edges with its ageing engine detracts from the experience, yet it’s really fun game to play and you will find yourself spending half your life completing. With the main quest to take an average of 17-20 hours to complete alone. Even if another identical Fallout game is to be released with only a different topping, we wouldn’t say no.

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LittleBigPlanet 2 New Release Date

September 23, 2010

As you all have found out today, LittleBigPlanet 2 has unfortunately been moved to January 2011 from its originally release date in November. Well now we have a new firm release date from Sony themselves. The game will be released next year January 18th in North America. Release dates for other regions in the word have yet to be announced. Hopefully they aren’t far apart.

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Fallout: New Vegas Hardcore Mode Special Reward Revealed

October 23, 2010

Fallout: New Vegas was released just Tuesday in North America and just yesterday in Europe. New Vegas is about the player being betrayed and left for dead. After being patched up by the doctor while simultaneously creating your character, you’re left with an option before heading out of the operations room. To switch Hardcore mode on (which isn’t recommended) or keep it off and play the game Fallout 3 style.

Hardcore mode is where the developer Obsidian decided on making New Vegas that bit more difficult and interesting or annoying? You consistently have to keep hydrated, eating food, sleeping and you cannot fast travel if the distance will make you sick of dehydration. Your Stimpaks also do not heal instantly but overtime and your bullets can add weight to your inventory.

When prompted to choose if the player would like to switch on or off Hardcore mode at the beginning of the game, a message appears informing the player that there will be a special reward waiting for them upon completion.

The special award is….drum roll please. The Hardcore trophy/achievement. Unfortunately, yeah that is it. So there you have it, a kick in the ass. Check back for our full Fallout: New Vegas review.

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Shadow of The Colossus Movie

September 23, 2010

Ping Chang, Misher Films executive producer has commented on how the Shadow of The Colossus movie is coming along.

“For Colossus, beyond the cinematic quality of having Wander battling these sixteen colossi, we have to effectively translate that into a narrative that people are going to want to watch for two hours. Without getting into the specifics of the script, that’s a big challenge, especially for something so stark,” he explained.

“One of the struggles of the game is that it is very episodic in nature, similar to the seven exes from Scott Pilgrim. Not that I don’t respect the Scott Pilgrim source material, but watching the movie, I felt it sort of dragged along. Those are some of the pitfalls that we have to be careful to avoid. So these colossi battles need to be very significant, they can’t just be one after the other, there has to be something learned from them.”

For a movie to capture the essence of Shadow of The Colossus will be no easy task. Chang has also played Shadow of The Colossus multiple times so gamers can be reassured, but then again we can all remember how Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li went down or maybe we choose not to remember it.

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Shopto Lists Prince of Persia: Trilogy HD

September 23, 2010

Shopto has recently listed Prince of Persia HD 3D. This could very well be a confirmation of the 3 PS2 games coming in HD onto the PS3. Trophy support is yet to be confirmed. The game will be released on the 26th November for a deserving price of £23.85.

This could also mean that the rumour surrounding the Splinter Cell collection could very well be true also.

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Top 22 Best PS3 Games

1. UFC Undisputed 2010
The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s follow-up to the 2009 Undisputed changes everything from the ground up, with a tweaked combat system, revamped controls, and a fleshed out career mode that essentially mirrors the feeling of grinding through the minor leagues of mixed martial arts (MMA) to signing with the big show. Aside from packing a bigger roster of fighters, UFC 2010 also shows that the development team spent some time in the gym, with a modified stand-up game that incorporates dodging and swaying. New fighting styles like Karate and Greco-Roman Wrestling add some more tactics to Octagon fights, and a variety of extra combat animations lend to the realistic nature of the game’s several in-ring match-ups. If you’re a fight fan, UFC 2010 will make you brush up on some fundamentals.

2.Sports Champions
Where else can you play a game of Bocce but in Sports Champions? Call it the Wii Sports of the PlayStation Move, but that doesn't take away the fact that the ambitious Sports Champions offers a game-changing experience in the motion-controls market. Boasting a collecting of activities including archery, volleyball, and table tennis, this PlayStation Move launch title goes from conventional sports to archaic standouts like "Gladiator Duel" without missing a beat. Not only can you test your skills against a buddy, but Sports Champions also offers a a Champion Cup mode where you can go head-to-head in an Olympic style marathon to see who's the best gamer-slash-athlete in the bunch.

3. Super Street Fighter IV A quick follow-up sequel to one of the best fighting games in years, Super Street Fighter IV is everything its predecessor was and more. Ten new characters, improved online gameplay, and new bonus stages all come in this stacked update -- including the good 'ol "destroy the car" challenge from Street Fighter II and III. Moreover, Capcom also gave the fighting engine in SSFIV a bit of a tune-up, with new special moves, new Ultra Combos, and subtle tweaks everywhere else to give the World Warriors just a little more balance.

4.inFamous
Usually, when a game makes you choose between good and evil, the paths are so similar or uninspired that playing through a second time seems like a chore. inFamous turned this gameplay element on its head with the Karma System, which actually changed the way you could unleash your electricity-based powers on Empire City. If you're a hero, crowds love you, but if you're a jerk to random bystanders, they'll actually pelt you with rocks or run in terror. Sucker Punch also nailed the exploration mechanics in inFamous, making simple things like getting from one end of town to another fluid and satisfying (as long as you didn't run into a chain link fence). Whether you play the game as a good guy or a total ass, inFamous is a PS3 game that represents sandbox-style gameplay taken to near-perfection.

5.Bioshock 2
Taking the role of Delta, an amnesiac prototype Big Daddy awoken in a Rapture that has decayed for over a decade, Bioshock 2 puts the power in your hands as you search for your missing Little Sister companion. Bioshock 2 also features a multiplayer mode with its own story, detailing the fall of Rapture during its civil war. Not only can you play the role of a BIg Daddy, but you can also play the game as one of several Splicer characters -- each one with the ability to gain Plasmids and extra weaponry. It's a welcome touch to see Bioshock 2 bring multiplayer to Rapture, and with unique modes like "Capture the Sister" and "Team ADAM Grab," it's got an identity completely unique to the game's world.

6. Demon's Souls 
Every once in while, there's a video game that just wants to kill you -- and Demon's Souls is incredibly ruthless. From the start of the game, you're placed in the shoes of a warrior who is killed shortly upon breaching the Deep Fog. At that point onward, the stakes of death increase, as Demon's Souls strips you of almost everything you earn each time you die. Demon's Souls may be merciless in the penalties for death, but it's balanced by robust features like class customization, online co-op gameplay, and combat that changes constantly depending on your class and weaponry. As you grow in strength and tackles bigger monsters, the game consistently tries to top each challenge, with each goal just a hair more difficult than the last. If you're any kind of RPG addict, the kingdom of Boletaria will surely suck you in.

 7.gran Turismo 5


8.call of duty: black ops
Fight through a globe-trotting campaign or test your skills online competition in this fast-paced first-person shooter.

9. Star wars the force unleashed 

10.dead nation


11. fall out new Vegas

12.need for speed hot pursuit

13.red dead redemption

14. final fantsyXIII

15. Assassins creed 2

16.grand theft auto IV

17.Vanquish

18. God of war 3

19.metal gear solid 4: gun of the patriots 

20. Battlefield: Bad Company 2

21.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

22.NBA 2k11

These are just my what i believe is the top 22 games for some of you other might be different list :)