For the week of 9/13/10 there are 5 store releases for the PS3, which are: The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, Cabela’s North American Adventures, Racquet Sport, and Truth or Lies. And there are also 3 new releases for PSN:
Halo Reach has been out a few days now, and a few interesting facts have come out. One of the biggest being for those who own the less expensive 4 gb Xbox 360 Slim. It seems that Owners of the system and Halo Reach are finding that they can not play online co-op with their 250 gb Slim and original Xbox 360 owning friends. For those unfortunate enough to own both you will be greeted to a message that states “one or more of the players do not hace a hard drive which is required for this playlist.”
It’s really hard to find a decent superhero game nowadays. Developers seem to have a hard time getting the formula just right for telling a superhero’s story; whether it’s game breaking glitches, terrible story, or controls that make you want to dropkick your console, something always goes wrong in the presentation. Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions defies the conventions that a superhero game is going to end up like Superman 64, and instead delivers a multi-dimensional gaming experience that is very enjoyable.
Shattered Dimensions is pure fan service. Basically you don’t get a whole lot of backstory, (unless you read the character bios) but the game is interesting enough to stand alone without prior knowledge of the different Spidermen. The game features 4 different incarnations of our favorite wall crawler; you have the original Amazing Spiderman, Spiderman Noir, Ultimate Spiderman, and Spiderman 2099. During the game you switch between them on a mission by mission basis, and each Spiderman brings something different to the table. The original Spiderman doesn’t have anything special other than his attacks are web based and his combos are very easy to pull off. Spiderman Noir has the ability to hide in the shadows and execute stealth takedowns, Splinter Cell style. Ultimate Spiderman has the black symbiote suit, which allows him to activate a rage mode that allows him to take half damage while dealing double damage. Spiderman 2099 can activate “accelerated vision” which slows down the action while allowing him to move at close to normal speeds.
I ran rave about this game when I first heard about it—yes, if I ran rave about it… there must have been something about it that made me do so. The concept it brought to the table is mind-numbingly good to me (when’s the last time you could lie in a strategy game to your opponent?), the presentation the game has on screen and in game is dreadfully serious, but in a good way—you’ll feel like a field marshal commanding their troops on the front lines… on a planning board. RUSE is one of those games that makes you stop and say, “Wait, do what now?” because it’s a game of wits—a massive game of chess of which both sides strive for total domination using what unorthodox tactics at stock. Now when such stakes are present, you’d think that brute force would be the coup de grace of the game—massing powerful tanks to thwart your opponent off the map, but there are twists that this game makes that creates a game so original… so flooring that you just may want to rent this game just to try out these new ideas this game throws at you. But before I get into all that jazz, let’s take a look at what this game has to offer and break them down before you buy the game.
For the last five days we here at Player Affinity’s PC gaming department have been suggesting PC games you should play instead of Halo Reach. Well, now that Halo Reach is here, and two million gaming nerds have called in sick to work, we have one final game to recommend for those of you who aren’t fighting the Covenant (And those of you who are waiting by the door for the delivery guy from Amazon.com to bring you your copy of Halo).
Plants vs. Zombies isn’t a new game by any means. It’s been out for over a year and has managed to make it’s way onto virtually every platform with a screen. However it’s late arrival to the Xbox Live Arcade brings with it a slew of new co-op and vs modes as well as the insanely addicting core gameplay that made PvZ so popular to begin with.
For those unfamiliar with Plants vs. Zombies, it’s a tower defense style game based around a simple premise. Zombies are attacking your house from any angle they can and the only way you can defend yourself is by fortifying your yard with plants that. It’s goofy and cartoony but it’s amazingly fun. Like most PopCap games you will sit down to play and then find yourself shocked at all the hours you have spent on it.
Week 3 of the Digital Download Sales is here, and Civilization V is still selling very, very well. Steam and Direct2Drive both show a lot of love for Sid Meier this week, but as usual, Steam has a better deal, so the sales for Civilization are not surprising on Steam.
