Mini Reviews
Ripped from screened, I decided to make smaller reviews due to having a hard time making a review since my Generals reviews and that I have writers' block everytime I write one.
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Wings of Liberty proves to be the most satisfying and best RTS game so far in this year - providing variety in missions, challenge modes to strengthen your skills in multiplayer, Wing Commander-esque point-and-click adventure on the Hyperion, achievement and multiplayer progession and other exciting features. The return of the voice cast delivers the same personality as the first installment, fitting perfectly into cutscenes and briefings.
Some picky things that I was disappointed with this game is the voice of Kerrigan, I found that sometimes Tricia Helfer's acting annoying especially in-game and wished that the original actress reprise her role in this game but she still delivers a good performance. The other thing is the point-and-click aspect inside the Hyperion, at first I thought this would be like an adventure game where there's some dialogue options to choose when interacting with characters but it's mainly reactions/opinions to your missions and sometimes a bit of backstory, making it somewhat lame to me. But this doesn't hinder how fantastic Wings of Liberty is with its rocking soundtrack and magnificent single-player and multiplayer.
5 STARS
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Baldur Gate's successor becomes a reality in Origins, a nostalgic return to a classic and definitive role-playing experience. Bioware had make something that other role-playing games didn't, innovation and creating a new concept towards the attitude of this genre. The story and such and such somewhat retains from D&D but the combat doesn't. The storyline comprises of six origins stories, making a unique difference to each race and class you chose, and characters in the game acknowledges you for that decision. The voice cast, soundtrack, gameplay, graphical detail and story makes up for how this game is last year's Game of the year nominatee and it completely shows. Although the tactics feature attempts you to make your decision on the battlefield smarter and like WoW (Dave said), utilizing those tactics to prevent wiping everytime. Dragon Age proves to be a satisfying experience, albeit some flaws that hinder the game from playing the 360 version.
4.5 STARS
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Singularity may be a mix of Dead Space, Bioshock and Portal but it doesn't hinder the experience of how enjoyable it is. The use of the environments like Bioshock makes it quite a interaction rather than something you need to trigger, utilizing the power of E99, renewing objects and energy sources is vital to your survival also utilizes the use of the gravity gun like in Portal or Half-life 2, picking up explosive barrels or objects in the environment and using them as your advantage. That and a storyline fulled with hard to follow Russian accents and a insane decision in the end.
4.5 STARS
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4/5
Initial Impressions... It's a fun game that pertains the same qualities from the first Dead Rising despite being frustrating in some spots. The item combination is the highlight of this game, utilizing almost every in Fortune City into something magnificent or just plain weird. Though the only weapon that rivals the chainsaw in DR is the knives' glove which could easily kill most of the psycopaths in the game. Fortune City is quite a good-looking city albeit the design looks vaguely similar to Willamette Mall especially when the outside of these strip malls/casinos is in the center of the map. Unlike Willamette Mall, there are minigames within each casino - from slot machines, ox riding, wheel of fortune to various other games that could rack up money which you can spend the money in the pawn shops over Fortune City. Oh yeah.. Prestige Points, unlike taking pictures in the first one - in this one, you have to either kill hordes of zombies with your created weapon, rescue survivors, defeat psychopaths or play various minigames. Other than that, the psychopaths are quite tough if you don't have the knives' gloves, it plays like a hack-and-slash game where you have to avoid the boss' attacks and then get the opportunity to hit back, making it quite tedious if you don't get their patterns of attack. The survivors on the other hand had improved since the original making it less tedious to make them follow you or obey your orders and also some of them require to carry them back to the safehouse. Overall this game is infact like the original but with improvements and a sick-ass combination system, the storyline with Chuck being framed as a terrorists is intriguing and the psychopaths/survivors ranged from crazy, dickheads, normal people to assholes makes you want to kill them even more, plus the fact that the acting feels Canadian not American.
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