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Not Much Of What It Does Is New But It's All Done Well (PS3)

This Review May Contain Spoilers From The Previous Ratchet and Clank Games and Early Plot Points From A Crack In TimeThe Ratchet and Clank series has been around for quiet a long time. It was born on the PS2 and has been through 5 or 6 games and a few spin ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on Nov. 1, 2009

2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

ND's First PS3 Game Isn't a Masterpiece But It Doesn't Dissapoint (PS3)

What do you get when you combine Gears of War, Indiana Jones, and Tomb Raider? Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. What a great fusion of games, right? While this combination hasn't quite been perfected by Naughty Dog it's definitely something to build on, and it's certainly one of the funnest action-adventure games ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on Oct. 4, 2009

8 out of 10 found this review helpful.

Batman Finally Gets What He Deserves: A Kickass Game (PS3)

This Review May Contain Spoilers (such as the names of villians). "More times than not, when a company doesn't have a movie tie-in, or some famous license to follow they can create more inventive and all around better things than if they did have some license ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on Sept. 5, 2009

(DLC) Another Small, Free, but Impressive TF2 Update. (PC)

Valve has continulously updated Team Fortress 2 atleast once every few months since it's launch. Usually every update adds new weapons for one of the 9 classes and new achievements for that class, a few maps, and maybe a new mode. The thing that's different about this update is that it ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on Aug. 16, 2009

It's A Step Up From the Original, But is That Enough? (WII)

The Wii has a giant list of different of controllers and periphals that have been released for it, and Wii MotionPlus is no exception. I could be wrong, but I'm betting that if Nintendo wanted the Wiimote to be like this when it the Wii was first shipped, they ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on Aug. 15, 2009

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

Is Becoming a "Peggle Grand Master" Worth the Time? (PC)

Peggle is a game that can really be played by anyone who is given a mouse, gamepad, or iphone. The reason is because there are not a whole lot of people in this world who hasn't seen one of the Price is Right's most famous games, Plinko. No, the Price ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on Aug. 5, 2009

An Interesting Take on the Tower Defense Genre (PC)

Plants vs. Zombies is yet another game from PopCap (mostly known for Peggle). PopCap is pro at coming up with a extremely simple idea, and somehow making it so complex and seemlessly addictive at the same time. A game that can be played by an 8 year old, but easily has ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on July 24, 2009

Great, Nostalgic Fun (DS)

We all (when I say all, I mean everyone) played Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Needless to say, it was probably the most successful game of all time. So that means, if anyone picked up New Super Mario Bros. on the DS they would instantly know what ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on July 11, 2009

Resident Evil On Rails... Isn't Very Fun.*Incomplete* (WII)

So, here's how I would like to start out my review for Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles for the Wii. I am a huge Resident Evil fan. I've played probably every single (good) game in the series. Unfortunately, Umbrella Chronicles doesn't really fall into the category of good. I suppose ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on June 18, 2009

Ratchet is as Fun as Ever. Just Shorter. (PS3)

This Review Contains Spoilers for R&C: Tools of DestructionIf you decide to buy Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty, realize that it's only $15, thus the game doesn't need to be extremely long, extremely exciting, or extremely complex. The game is much simpler than 2007's Tools of Destruction, taking away ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on June 8, 2009

A Phenomonal Unlicensed Super Hero Game (PS3)

More times than not, when a company doesn't have a movie tie-in, or some famous license to follow they can create more inventive and all around better things than if they did have some license to follow. Thus how Sucker Punch has been able to make easily one of the ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on June 6, 2009

Better than Halo and Counter-Strike. The Best Online FPS Ever. (PC)

Valve isn't a stranger to multiplayer based first person shooters. Years ago they released Counter-Strike, possibly one of the most successful PC games ever, and you could argue that Team Fortress 2 is a reskinned CS, but TF2 has so many improvements over Counter-Strike that if you were a fan ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on May 30, 2009

A Simply Memorable, Emotional and Breathtaking New Experience. (PS2)

After releasing one of the greatest early Playstation 2 games, ICO, Team ICO, has released yet another masterpiece for Sony's console, Shadow of the Colossus.Shadow of the Colossus takes a really new and fresh way of storytelling. You won't hear one English word spoken in the whole game. Instead, the ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on May 25, 2009

2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

You May Enjoy This Game. I, However, Hate It. (PS3)

At the end of the day, a review is an opinion of the person writing the review, the reviewer. And the gameplay, features, graphics, and everything slammed onto the video game disc is what sways the reviewer's opinion one way or another. For Dead Space, everything the game had I ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on May 24, 2009

0 out of 1 found this review helpful.

At First There's Some Fun to Be Had Here, But It Quickly Get Old. (WII)

Red, white, and black. Those are the three colors you will see when playing MadWorld. Red being all the blood and guts you're going to spill while playing this game. No, there aren't actually guts, because this is a Wii game, and the blood doesn't look like blood at all, ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on May 2, 2009

1 out of 6 found this review helpful.

The Cake is a Lie. (PC)

Valve really do not do much to innovate any genre of games they make, at least in the gameplay aspect. Sure, they may have created the most innovative gaming service when they released Steam, and created a great way of story-telling in first person, but how the games they create ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on May 1, 2009

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

It's Pong on Steroids. (WSHP)

Games that have a retro theme nowadays are becoming more and more common, and often, they are actually successful, like the case with Mega Man 9. Unlike Mega Man 9, this isn't an old and established franchise redone in pixelated graphics, but instead it's a "reimagination", as I like to ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on April 26, 2009

Explosions. That's What Mercenaries 2 Is All About. (PS3)

Explosions aren't, at all, anything we haven't seen in a video game before. But I think Mercenaries 2 has probably some of the most memorable and greatest looking explosions we've ever seen. Huge structures just being leveled is definitely the games strongest suite. You'll blow the sh*t out of just ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on April 19, 2009

A Cheap $10 Cash in that Happens to be Packed in With a Wiimote (WII)

Wii Play is probably the first game you get for your Wii when you pick it up. This is because it is packed in wit the Wii mote. Now, I wouldn't call this game good by any stretch of the imagination, but it probably isn't bad enough to pass up ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on April 6, 2009

It's a Good Game. It Isn't a Resident Evil Game. (PS3)

This Review Contains SpoilersWhen the Resident Evil franchise begun on the Playstation, it basically redefined what the survival horror genre meant. Hell, it created the survival horror genre. It was extremely innovative and everyone loved it. Then, that formula grew old, so Capcom reexamined the series and practically changed the ...

Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on March 21, 2009