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  • The Raider's of the Lost Ark equivalent of Video games.:     Naughty dog has always been the developer who could take ideas from other games and blend it well together in their own game. So it was with Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, which combined platforming and heart pounding gun battles, with gorgeous looking environments. Although while that game wasn't a explosive Hit, Uncharted 2: Among thieves has just bumped itself into the flagship title of the PS3. Sorry MGS4.      What ...
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Added by pissedoffthewitch on May 3, 2009

Taking heavy inspiration from the Max Payne franchise, and a sequel to john Woo's "Hardboiled" (not to mention he also collaborated on the game), you'd think you could take one glance at Stranglehold, and know exactly what it's all about... wait you can. Stranglehold knows exactly what it is, and except for a few twists on the gameplay, doesn't bother to try and be different.

    Chow Yun Fat provides both his voice, and likeness to the game in order to reprise his role as inspector Tequila, the tough on criminals, kind of cop.  Rather than shoot first, ask questions later, he doesn't even bother with the questions. A shooter can't be a good shooter unless all the destruction your causing looks pretty, right? There is allot of destructable environments, almost anything you can see, you can blow it to hell. As far the character modeling and the destructable environments go, that's about all that looks nice. You'll shoot the same enemy models over and over again, go through levels that rarely change things up. Even the blood splatters look kinda tacked on, looking more like you shout someone in the face with a paintball gun, instead of a shot-gun.

    Choosing you weapons of mass destruction will be easy, mainly because there aren't that many, and what are there, aren't very special. You'll find your shot-gun, assault riffle, two handed gun, and grenades half-way through the campaign. What Stanglehold does interesting using the environment to your benefit with ease. Hop onto a cart and blast foes, run up a rail and blast foes, hang from a chandelier and blast foes, but like the entire game, it plays out it's welcome half-way through.

    As for the Multi-player and story? Don't bother, the developer's obviously didn'tand finding a match in multi-player is point, no one is ever paying and it's pretty obvious why. There are only bare-bones in it, death match and team deathmatch are the only one I recall because those are the only ones i've played, but I hardly got to play, because when you do find a match, I highly doubt it will play smoothly.

    Stranglehold is able to put a small twist on what could have just been a  tedious game, but it's able to make itself just above mediocre, atleast in the single player department, but it faces that innevitable choke-point where the game stops being fun and starts becoming boring. You'll see everything there is to see within the first hour or so, after that... you get the point.

Deserving of the Bargain Bin statues?: Yes, but even at $20, I wanted my money back.

Who should play this?: People with an itchy trigger finger.

Average Critic score: 7.9


Added by pissedoffthewitch on May 2, 2009

So I chose the "Sacrifice" ending, kinda annoyed 'bout my family being killed off but not as much as my dog, but I figure i'll just get the DLC and get him back. It bugs me though that I didn't pick the "Love" ending because I hear Rose's letter was really heart wrenching, ( Can anyone post all of what she said?). It does suck that you don't get to see Rose, that would have been totally worth it, but maybe you find out about her in the DLC? They do say you tie up loose ends from the story, after all.
Related to: Fable II


Added by pissedoffthewitch on May 2, 2009

    After the rocky start of the first episode, HAWP, seems to make a huge turn around with this episode based on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Partly what made this episode allot better was that Anthony, steps out of the way, and is absent for most of the episode, and just let's Ashly go nuts and acts like her quirky self in front of the camera.

((((Spoilers))))

   After the introduction, we see Ashly playing Epona's song on the Ocarina and the way she sing it and adds her own lyrics to the song is hilarious. Most of the episode is Ashly making weird sounds and a completely random and unnecessary rapping that pops up half way through the episode could have been left out. Another hallmark in the series is a short, couple of second, end of the credits video and this episode has one of the longest. It's Ashly and Anthony re-enacting a scene from Iron Man, that was kind of meh.

    Over all, the episode was a major improvement over the first one, although not the greatest episode either, it still showed that the two were starting to pick up momentum and became allot more inspired in this episode.

Score: 8.4


Added by pissedoffthewitch on May 2, 2009

    HAWP (Hey Ashly, what playing?) is a web-series featuring Ashly Burch and her brother Anthony. It has reached a degree of success by being featured on he Gametrailers web-site and the duo produce around two episodes per month. It's been a little over a year since they've gotten started and this is one of many reviews of their show, so I decided to start with their very first HAWP, but judging by their first episode, they didn't exactly hit the ground running.

(((( Spoilers))))

    Each episode consists of the two being inspired to do a episode based on or inspired about a game and their very first one: Ikaruga. In the first episode we are introduced to the intro that will be a staple in their series that they rarely break from. Having Anthony walk up behind Ashly, who's sitting on a chair playing a game, and asking her what she's playing. After asking Ashly, the two talk about the game a bit, until Ashly, randomly squirts Anthony with a squirt gun full of milk. Anthony's reaction is priceless and he plays it off perfectly, but it's not like we haven't seen this kind of thing before. Anthony, goes to change his shirt, only to be greeted by Ashly who squirts him, with yet another squirt gun, and when Anthony asks: "What is that? Choclate milk?" Ashly replies: "Some of it." and the camera shows a quick shot of her in black camo.

    The Episode wasn't particularly great, it just didn't show off enough of what Ashly and Anthony Burch are capable of creatively. So the series may have gotten off to a rocky start, but the duo would go on to create some memorable episodes, this one just won't be one of them.

Score: 5.3
 
Related to: Ikaruga


Added by pissedoffthewitch on April 23, 2009

    Lionhead is set to unveil a brand new IP that they have been working on, now my first thought races back to 2003/04 when Peter Molyneux was doing an interview for G4TV, promoting Fable: Lost Chapters, and he was asked what his next project was an he said something along the lines of: "A game where you can relieve moments from your past." So, maybe that game is finally showing it's head or it died before it even got a head start? Or I'm just pissing in the wind. lol
Related to: Fable II


Pissedoffthewitch's Reviews
Not your run of the mill cute fantasy. This game will F*** you up (PS3)
    Demon's souls developers aren't worried about making their game casual and for everyone to enjoy. They decided to please the more hard-core type of gamers. This game is unrelenting, and would rather smack your hand than hold it. So if your into punishment and love a challenge, or have ...
Reviewed by pissedoffthewitch on Oct. 18, 2009
Not quite the Tim Schafer Experience. (X360)
    Tim Schafer is a developer where you just can't help but to root for, he makes some of the most funniest and clever characters and the same could be said about the writing. So how does he follow up what I thought was an incredible platformer that was Psyconauts? ...
Reviewed by pissedoffthewitch on Oct. 18, 2009
A major improvement that will go unnoticed. (X360)
    Developers of the gothic series have attempted again with the fantasy vibe. While it feels like it's becoming the next WWII of video games. That hasn't stopped developed from making Risen, which is a improvement and large step in the right direction for the developers, but not quite enough ...
Reviewed by pissedoffthewitch on Oct. 18, 2009
The Raider's of the Lost Ark equivalent of Video games. (PS3)
    Naughty dog has always been the developer who could take ideas from other games and blend it well together in their own game. So it was with Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, which combined platforming and heart pounding gun battles, with gorgeous looking environments. Although while that game wasn't a explosive ...
Reviewed by pissedoffthewitch on Oct. 16, 2009
Who ya gonna call? (X360)
When you think of Ghostbusters and video games, there isn't a whole lot that comes to mind. After a almost uncertain developement fase, Ghostbusters has finally released, but not as a movie tie in. That's because Ghostbusters the game is a sequel to the movies.    Anyone who wasa huge fan ...
Reviewed by pissedoffthewitch on June 20, 2009

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Free Realms (PC)
    For a free game, Free Realms looks like it might have had a subscription at one time and then went free, but no, this game was designed to be free, at least give you the illusion of free. See, it doesn't cost money to play the game in it's ...
Reviewed by pissedoffthewitch on June 10, 2009
Damn waste of time. (X360)
    You are not going to like this game. As tempting as it is to leave it at that I might as well explain why your going to be hitting your head on a desk wishing you hadn't paid full price for something that is a large test of patience.    ...
Reviewed by pissedoffthewitch on June 10, 2009
It went quietly... that's good. (X360)
    Simplisity has never really been a problem for me in gaming. A game is too easy to beat? fine, beat it forget it, but this is the first time in a game where simplicity actually frustrates me.     You will be sneaking up on some of the most dumbest ...
Reviewed by pissedoffthewitch on June 7, 2009
A game made up of cliche (X360)
   Basically, Ninja Blade is the forgotten child of Ninja Gaiden. No love, or attention for the game. Although a game like this might be a smash oversea, it doesn't really appeal to western gamers interest.    The story is basically just there for you to do a bunch of crazy, ...
Reviewed by pissedoffthewitch on June 6, 2009
The end can't come faster. (XBLM)
    Summer block busters usually have bad games lurking around, but the developers tried something a little bit different this time. They are releasing a two-part downloadable game prequel to the Watchmen film. So you can't say they aren't trying to be a little bit different.     The entire game ...
Reviewed by pissedoffthewitch on June 6, 2009


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