If there was one game that defined my early life as an XBox Live gamer, it was Mechassault. I spent countless hours on Live playing the game. I even belonged to a clan for a short while. Damn, that was a long time ago.
Mega Man 9 recently came out and I thought I’d give the demo a spin. How could I not? The game was made to look, sound, and play just like a classic NES game! I downloaded the demo on my PS3 to spite my crappy Xbox 360. Speaking of which, I need to complain for a moment that downloading and playing demos on the PS3 is needlessly difficult. Why do I have to download it and then install it again?
There’s a lot of things you shouldn’t do while driving and playing Hot Shots Golf ranks right up there as one of the worst. If you think doing the combo is bad enough, then how about driving, playing a game, and operating a city bus that is full of passengers?
The newest character in the Resident Evil franchise was revealed this week along with a returning character. Both characters will be seen in Resident Evil 5: Super Racist Propaganda Zombie Fun Time.
The returning character is Albert Wesker. I don’t know much about him except that he’s evil and once ate a kitten. Seriously folks, he’s really bad news. The new character entering the Resident Evil mythos is Titties McBoobenstien. Titties is a… I don’t know… I can’t read Japanese. I’m sure that she’s a fully developed character though, and not some sort of caricature of a woman that the Japanese are known for in their fiction.
Look for Resident Evil 5 in stores on March 13, 2009, unless you are a shut in.
Bungie has finally revealed their newest project with a teaser trailer that doesn’t really shed a whole lot of light on what it actually is:
You know what sucks? People who are way better than me on online games. I mean, what’s their deal? Do they play more than me? Or do they just have better hand eye coordination? Seriously, people who are really good at a game when I’m not sucks.
Capcom wasn’t fooling around when they created their Megaman 9 press kits. To celebrate the release of Megaman 9, which was done in a totally classic NES style, they created an old school NES looking case for the game disc as well as a box complete with bad Mega-Man art to emulate the original game’s terrible art.
Damn it all, why wouldn’t they do a limited release of something like this for the general public? I’m thinking Capcom missed an opportunity to make some nostallgia based bank off of Mega Man fans. Now the only place you’ll find these things are on eBay. Lame Capcom, lame. I think that the only thing that Capcom could do to make it up to us fans is by sending me one of these things. I think we could all agree that it would help make up for this slight to the fans.
Bethesda, makers of the hopefully awesome Fallout 3 heading our way this fall, have launched the full version of a website called, “Prepare for the Future.” This site is basically a Fallout 3 site (natch), but it is packaged as prep guide for the hellish nightmare future you’ll be facing when you purchase the game. Don’t think that this is some crappy promotional site, the presentation is pretty top notch. It’s totally worth checking out if you’re a Fallout fan or want to know a bit more about the world of Fallout and the creatures therein.
I’m getting pretty pumped up for this thing. I’m already missing the style of the old game, but from what I’ve seen Fallout 3 is looking more than capable of being a worthy sequel.
It seems like I’m not the only one who is lamenting the loss of one of the first Rock Band’s modes, the solo tour which allowed you to unlock all of the game’s songs one by one. If you’re frustrated with having to play through World Tour in order to unlock all the songs, then there’s a cheat for you. (Go to end of post for the cheat)
For a guy that writes on a gaming site, I don’t get new games that often. The problem is that I’m poor and publishers don’t send me free games (for shame!). The one exception was Rock Band 2. My wife and I have been waiting for Rock Band 2 as a family activity, so it would have been stupid not to get it this weekend. After playing it for about five hours here’s my world shattering thoughts:
In case you haven’t seen it yet, Activision has released the entire Guitar Hero: World Tour set list so fans can finally drool over all the official goodness. I feel bad that I haven’t heard of some of these songs, I guess it means I’m getting old, but the ones that I do know are pretty damn cool. I mean, who doesn’t love, “Beat It”?
The final list of “Kombatants” is out for Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe and… well there wasn’t a whole lot of suprises that they were keeping close to the vest on this one. Here’s the list in full:
This last week Microsoft announced the closure of Ensemble Studios who just happen to be making Halo Wars. The inevitable question is, “Will Halo Wars suck?” I think it’s a pretty fair question, considering that if there’s any work to be done it will be by people who are losing their jobs or to someone new. Ensemble Studios has now stepped in to let us know that Halo Wars will not suck because of the closure. You can see the lead designers response over on File Front if you wish. The short version is, yeah it might be a bit tough, but we’re still working hard on it.
For those employees not moving to other positions within Microsoft, you have to wonder how this is going to affect their work. I mean, the last thing I want to do is do a super awesome job for the company that shit canned me. Perhaps gamers can look forward to some rather interesting Easter Eggs…
Bungie has been working hard at changing up Halo 3 in an effort to win back some of the masses that left it for games like Call of Duty 4. One of the newest is the altered experience system and even newer than that are more achievements. Hey, everyone loves achievements right?
With the arrival of Resistance Fall of Man 2 in November, I thought it would be appropriate for a look back on the first game to get PS3 owners back into the world of Resistance once again.
Boiled to it’s essentials, Resistance Fall of Man is a standard shooter. You get your variety of guns (all with secondary functions), levels that are almost completely straight forward tracks, vehicle levels, and alien race which borrows from almost every popular type of sci-fi alien movie. Hell, they even through in such staples as spider-like creatures. At least there weren’t a ton of exploding barrels, although there were still a few to be found.
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