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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

There is something oddly mystifying about treasure hunting. To go out into the wilderness, slay some baddies, and loot a treasure chest with glee. Borderlands, by 2k Games, tries to emphasize just that. You are greeted to the world of the Borderlands by arriving to the planet of Pandora, which is basically a desert hell-hole full of psychopaths and monsters, but having plenty of treasure and a mysterious ancient alien Vault that must be looted. Honestly, what more do you need?

The beginning of the game is my main praising over anything else. You start off by choosing any one of a group of 4 linear characters; the Sniper, the Medic, the Tank, and the Girl. Yes there, must always be a girl, but I love this, it makes the game easy to understand unlike the pain-in-the-arse system that Fallout 3 gave me. In which I spawned into the middle of desert (ironically, just like this game) and was promptly murdered by an enemy some 10 times my own level because the game decided it would be so much more fun not to show me a clear objective. But, Borderlands; you start

Valkyria Chronicles 2 for the PSP has aired it's first television ad in Japan. The game is set for release in Japan this winter.

The game is set in 1937, two years after the first game. Cadets from the Gallia Royal Military Academy are sent to suppress an insurrection in the southern part of in-game country Gallia. The game’s central concept is contrasting the world of the military academy with the reality of war. ~ Anime News.Biz



Source: Anime News . Biz

Two weeks ago in Japan Resident Evil 4 for the iPhone/iPod Touch was leaked and pulled by Capcom. The game however has now been released by Capcom and Apple.

The iPhone/iPod Touch version of the game has extensive modifications to the game controls in order to accomodate the lack of physical buttons. The game however, is identical to the console versions (with minor differences for graphics of course). It's available for purchase and play. (approximately $8.99)

Source: Anime News . Biz

Resident Evil Four was leaked in Japan, within the app store for the iPhone before Capcom could pull it without explanation.

The above video shows how the interface works and how the graphics are different from previous versions on various other systems.

Personally I'm just not sure how this would play out on the iphone, the controls look like they're a little complex! lol.

As a few of you may know, there is a new Jak and Daxter game coming out, entitled "The Lost Frontier". This new game looks stunning in it's PSP trailer, but doesn't look like a JnD game much. I think it's because Naughty Dog (the creators) handed it over to High Impact games. So, I decided to write this review as a tribute to the original, and in my opinion, the best.

Jak and Daxter is about a boy and his Ottsel who go off to find a cure for his friend, Daxter. The Ottsel. You see, Jak and Daxter had "borrowed" the fisherman's speedboat to go to Misty Island and Daxter had fallen into a vat of "Dark Eco". Instead of dying a horrible death, he popped right back out as the orange rat-like creature.

You control Jak, the silent protagonist of this game. In Daxter's own words, "He gets to do all the cool stuff, like pilot A-Grav Zoomers." The aim of the game is to collect Power Cells for different mechanical inventions, like the Zoomer's heat sheild or the boulder lifter. There are also orangey pinky egg shaped objects floating around the place called Precursor Orbs which can be exchanged for Power Cells.

This game is very nice for it's age. It has an open world setting with NO loading screens whatsoever. The aforementioned A-Grav Zoomer is fun to tear around on, but there are only limited spaces you can ride it.

Valve released their downloadable content for the their hit Left 4 Dead on both XB360 and PC the other day... and HOT DAMN.

Here's an underrated game that anyone 17+ will be able to pick up.

Did you like Streets of Rage?
How about Resident Evil?
Ok, and how about Ninja Gaiden?

So you like swords, zombies... and beating through hordes of enemies.

Let's talk zombies.
I know this review is kind of late, but I've been playing the game so much and loving it, I just haven't had time for write the article. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Hey, it's only been like a week and a half since it came out. Give me a break.

If you haven’t played Street Fighter IV yet, you have probably been living under a rock, with no kind of contact with the outside world, or you just don’t really care for fighting games.
However, no matter what your excuse is, you are reading this article now, so you need to click this link, watch the video, and then come back. Don’t worry, I’ll wait. Go ahead.
Street Fighter IV Opening

Anime and Manga themes and video games go hand in hand these days, and they have for the last two decades of the video gaming industry boom. That comes as no surprise seeing as how many of our games come from Japan, just like Anime and Manga do. So what does that mean for the current next generation of gaming? It means things like this...

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