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HALO 3 Review for the Xbox 360

Halo 3: ODST was a side project developed by the Bungie community to give more insight on soldiers under the UNSC. These Orbital Drop Shock Troopers had a small part in Halo 2, but that was where their involvement ended. This game gives players a chance to be an ODST instead of a supersoldier, like the Master Chief in other Halo games. By going from being a small endeavor to a full-sized game, ODST was the top selling game for Xbox 360 on a worldwide scale.

The setting of this game is in the 26th century, where humans and aliens are still at war. The United Nations Space Command is in charge of the humans and their alien enemies are call the Covenant. The Rookie is the main player and he has a squad of 5 teammates to assist with missions. The entire team enters into their HEVs, or Human Entry Vehicles, and prepare to drop through the atmosphere. They are to head to the ship belonging to the Covenant, but a teammate had changed the trajectory on the HEVs.

This change caused the alien ship to jump into hyperspace, triggering a shock wave that hits the group of HEVs. The Rookie ends up in a collision course with another HEV, due to this shock wave.

The collisions knocks him unconscious for six hours. Once the Rookie awakens, he finds that his entire squad is missing. The game evolves from the need to find the missing squad and the adventures that occur along the way.

As the Rookie finds articles belonging to missing soldiers from his group, a flashback occurs. This moment allows the player to see what the other soldier went through and enables him/her to be in control of that teammate for a while.

Along the way, there are many shootings, rescues of lost teammates, plenty of missions, and even a couple of new characters are thrown into the mix. Other Halo games are played as a supersoldier, but being a UNSC soldier is just as adventurous.

When creating this game, the composer of the musical score decided to not use the traditional Halo themes. Instead, he moved more towards a softer jazz sound, giving a whole new feel to the atmosphere. There were many positive reviews regarding this formation of the game, as well as to how the overall story was set up. Halo 3: ODST started off small but grew into an amazing adventure for Halo followers all over the world.

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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Review

Sony’s Playstation 3 console has had its ups and downs since its initial release at the close of 2006. A few solid titles helped their holiday push and carried them through Sony’s transition into the next-generation console war. When Sony published “Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune” from developer Naughty Dog they had their first original content classic. Since its release, fans have been clamoring for more of the brazen treasure hunter. With Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Naughty Dog has listened to their audience and responded with a resounding enthusiasm to please their fans.

The teaser trailer that circulated the internet serving as the world’s introduction to their new project finds Nathan Drake seated in a derailed train car that is dangling over the cliff’s edge in a whitewashed mountain range.

The next chain of events–which is also the first playable sequence– is a breathtaking climb up the inverted train in hopes to find the bluff before it plummets thousands of feet to the earth below. Naughty Dog upped the ante with this game focusing a great deal of emphasis on details like this and thus it is ripe with cinematic features rivaling Hollywood’s greatest.

This time around, Drake is in search of the lost city of Shangri-La and accordingly the majority of the intense action takes place in the Himalayan mountain range. As such, this game features a wider range of platforming than the original title–which used these elements as a vehicle to get Drake from one gunfight to the next.

The sequel suffers a bit from the slow pace of the “Assassin’s Creed” style of stealth, but makes up for it with a more immersive environment and a far more gripping tale–a mysterious web of deception, destruction, and desire.

Probably the most original addition to this follow-up project is the online content of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Every shooter-based game of this console generation, especially the FPS titles, have benefited from online play.

Team death matches and base-capturing objectives are now an online shooter staple, and Naughty Dog included this with their online packaging. They have added a co-op mission option that lets you replay parts of the game in different ways with team members too, to keep it interesting and truly unlike anything else. Game progress and online stats earn you cash that you can use towards upgrades and unlockable content, another feature gamers of this generation demand.

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Brutal Legend- Review Of The Game

In recent years, Electronic Arts has consistently published high-quality and well-designed games that have crossed genres and broken boundaries because of their accessibility. Their bread-and-butter staple series of franchise sports games set the bar early for the way they build intuitive interfaces for the dedicated followers who keep them in business. Spreading this formula into their “BIG” line (like NFL and FIFA street), they showed that they could do just as much damage with arcade style action/sports combination’s; and the more recent Black Box has further improved the dynamic of the “Skate” series and it’s revolutionary analog control. There latest game is called Brutal Legend.

Teaming up with “Psychonauts” brilliant creator Tim Schafer–formerly of LucasArts–on his second adventure with his growing company Double Fine, EA has again shifted the thinking of the gaming public by combining action-RPG elements with the one-of-a-kind Jack Black against a heavy-metal-and-Nordic-mythology-inspired universe. This is Brutal Legend.

Heavy metal music is known for its definitive sound and flashy, technical solos, and it is with this in mind that this still relatively new team delivers the fast-paced action of their new project.

Combining the raucous energy of a heavy metal show, a hot rod demolition derby, and a classic dungeon crawler, Double Fine has tweaked some fresh ideas and thrown them into the mix, providing a one-of-a-kind gaming experience.

Brutal Legend begins backstage at a rap-metal-emo show where career roadie Eddie Riggs comments on the lost art of metal (which is later than the 70’s, like maybe the late 70’s). Take a look at his big-guitar-wielding, floppy-haired, turn-table-backed performers, and it’s easy to appreciate his frustration. When one of them ignores his warning and climbs the big statue, he falls and though Eddie saves him, he can’t save himself from the crumbling colossus.

He wakes to find himself in a strange, mystical land and must quickly find a weapon to battle some skeletal bad guys. After slashing them with a huge axe, he also attacks with his stringed Axe, “Clementine”–in all her distortion pedaled glory.

Fans of Double Fine–and more specifically Tim Schafer–and their action comics and web-based games will be well prepared for the infusion of humor and action. Brutal Legend captures the spirit of Tenacious D (Jack Black’s musical-comedy duo) with the classic hero-in-a-strange-land legend. It’s a hack ‘n’ slash rock ‘n’ roll action-RPG extravaganza in world that has sadly lost its ability to ‘Rock, ‘ and it is up to Eddie to bring it back to life.

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Game Rentals Netflix – Can You Rent Video Games From Netflix?

If you did a search for “game rentals netflix“, or something similar, you may be disappointed to learn that Netflix does not have an online video game rental service at this time. Don’t be.

GameFly is like Netflix for video games. They have the best service and largest selection for online video game rentals.

Why rent games? Because renting games saves you money!

You could pay $60 for a game you may not like or that you will beat in 10 hours. Or you could get a GameFly subscription and try out as many games as you like for as little as $15.95 a month. Renting games is a no-brainer.

Try GameFly free for 10 days or get your first month for only $8.95.

GameFly Features:

Free Shipping
NO late fees
Over 7,000 Titles
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GameFly has been around since 2002 and is the largest service for renting video games online in the US.

They have over 7000 game titles for the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox, Xbox 360, Playstation 2, PS3, PSP, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance.

It would be nice if you could rent games from Netflix as you can do with movies. I would like to use just one online service to rent games and movies and have them delivered to my mailbox. Right now I am using Netflix for renting movies and GameFly to rent games. Blockbuster used to offer both games and movies by mail, but they discontinued their online game service awhile back.

I’ve been using GameFly for several months and haven’t had any problems. I tried several other services that offer game rentals and found GameFly to be the best one.

Hopefully, one of these days you will be able to rent games on Netflix. Heck, I would even be willing to pay more for my subscription to Netflix if they added a game rental feature.

So what do you think? Did you do a search for “game rentals netflix? If you rent games and movies, would you like to see video game rentals from Netflix? Would you pay more to have the option of renting games from Netflix as well as movies?

Or would you just prefer to rent games from an established game rental service like GameFly? Leave your comments below.

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Benefits of Online Video Game Rentals

I always used to buy any video games that I wanted to play. I never even considered the idea of using an online video game rental service, even though I’ve been renting DVD movies online for several years now. But games are expensive and I don’t have the money to spend on them like I used to. As I look through my game collection, I realize that I have wasted a lot of money on games that have barely been played and some that will probably never be played again. Why do I keep spending $30 to $60 a piece for these games?

The idea of renting games starts to make a lot of sense now. So I went ahead and setup up trial accounts with the top 3 online video game rental companies and gave it a try. I wish I had done this years ago, as I found out there are several benefits to renting video games online.

My favorite benefit of renting video games is having the option of trying out a game to see if I like it before buying it. With so many games to choose from, it can sometimes be difficult to decide on what game to buy. Some games might look and sound great on the box cover, but when you plug it into your console, it’s a major disappointment. By renting the games first, you’ll be able to find out if it’s worthy of being added to your gaming library. If you buy a lot of games, this can be a real money saver.

There are some video gamers that like to take a new game and play it from start to finish over several days. Once they’re done with the game, it just sits on the shelf collecting dust as they move on to the next game. For these type of players, renting video games can save them a ton of money. You could knock out 3 or 4 games a month for less than $20, compared to spending $150 to $200 or more buying the games. Even if you only rented and played one game a month, it is still cheaper to rent than to buy.

Game selection is another big advantage with online video game rental companies. GameFly has over 6,000 titles available to rent for Xbox, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, Nintendo DS, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance. You won’t find a selection anywhere close to that size in rental stores like Blockbuster. New releases are available as well as all the older games.

Having the games delivered right to your mailbox is another plus. No more driving back and forth to rent and return video games. This might not be a problem if you have a rental store around the corner, but for many gamers, the closest place to rent video games is a 30 minute drive or longer.

You can also forget about having to worry about returning the game on time to avoid getting hit for late fees. Most online video game rental companies allow you to keep the game as long as you like. It doesn’t matter if you go through the game in a couple of days, or a couple of weeks. Return it when you are ready and they will send out your next game.

If you go through a lot of games, or are just tired of paying the high cost of buying games, renting games online might be a great option for you to consider. If you would like more information, I’ve put together a comparison chart and some detailed reviews of my experience with the top 3 online video game rental services here: Online Video Game Rental Services. Or, if you want to just check out my top recommendation, click here.

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Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Details

The average PS3 owner does not need an introduction Ninja Gaiden Sigma, one of the system’s most popular action games, though it’s a essentially a refined port of the original Ninja Gaiden on the last-gen Xbox. Still, it was a very well done port with some great new content. Having said this, fans should be delighted to hear about the new Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, which is scheduled to be released in Q4, 2009, and will be an updated port of the next-gen Ninja Gaiden II. That’s right, the Ninja Gaiden II for Xbox 360, initially released as a console exclusive. If this isn’t good news for fans of the Ninja Gaiden franchise on PS3, I don’t know what is.

For the most part, Sigma 2 should be a lot like you remember the original being, if you ever had the chance to play it. The gameplay is almost entirely combat-based, and relies on a style of action much reminiscent of the Devil May Cry series. Players can switch between melee and ranged weapons on the fly, allowing for a versatile fighting system that involves a lot of strategy and carefully timed combinations. New weapons, combos, and upgrades can be unlocked as the player progresses through the game.

However, Ninja Gaiden Sigma is not without some significant additions. Two new playable female ninja characters have joined the mix, called Momiji and Ayane. Fans may remember Momiji from the DS game Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword, but not many should have to. All you really need to know that this gal Momiji is particularly buff, and carries with her both a massive Naginata (a sword with spear-like qualities, due to it’s especially long handle) and a long and powerful bow for ranged combat. Ayane hails from the Dead Or Alive games, and is quite faster than both Momiji and the series’s main hero, Ryu. Her move-set also has a large emphasis on magical attacks.

The extra content doesn’t end there. For one thing, it’s confirmed that the game will feature an online co-op mode, where two players can compete together to complete up to 30 challenge missions, the high scores and rankings of which can be uploaded to the leader boards online. In addition, around thirty percent of the game’s single player content is entirely new. Throw in the fact that the developers, Team Ninja, have taken it upon themselves to refine the graphics with superior Playstation 3 technology (the effects of which are clearly visible in the game’s development), and it’s clear that Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is shaping up to be the definitive version of Ninja Gaiden II.

If you’re not sure if you will like it, you can always rent Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 from GameFly before you buy it to see if it suits you.

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Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga

Eldar Saga happens to be the third installment in the Valhalla Knights series. I won’t lie to you. The first game in the series, which was released on the PSP in 2007, was pretty much horrible; or so every major video game reviewer agrees. And, believe it or not, Valhalla Knights 2 was unanimously considered far worse. The game’s issue? Well, game play. The graphics may be stunning, and the customization may be deep, but the game play itself is that of the incredibly tired and innovation-needy dungeon crawler. Mind you, not all dungeon crawling rpg’s are bad, but Valhalla Knights 1 and 2 were. Still, I suppose I would do well to give Eldar Saga the benefit of the doubt, especially considering that this time around developer K2 is taking an almost entirely different approach in terms of game play.

In fact, there are many stark differences that may account for the probability that this new game will break K2’s losing streak. The first is that while the original Valhalla Knights games were on the PSP, Eldar Saga will be on a home console for the franchises first time, and that home console is the Wii. The change of systems should allow not only for better graphics, but also more content, and conceivably, superior control.

Unlike in past games in the series, Eldar Saga’s game play and story will be somewhat open-ended due to vast amounts of side quests and optional content littered throughout the game’s world. As for the central storyline…well, details are vague, but know that the writer of Final Fantasy XII was chosen to write the story this time around. This should be of comfort to RPG gamers, along with the fact that the length of time it takes to complete the main storyline has estimated at thirty to forty hours of game play. The main story plus all the side quests, however, should clock in at around 60 hours. That sounds like a pretty big game.

For additional replay value, characters are also fully customizable. Starting classes include the Fighter, the Mage, the Thief, the Priest, and the Bard, each with their own respective strengths and weaknesses. And yet, thanks to a complex skill tree, you can develop each of the starting classes over time in a fashion so that each character is vastly different from the last.

In any case, publishing company XSEED Games intends to release the game on September 8th 2009, so we will all see how this turns out then.

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Dreamkiller: Mega-Bloodbath FPS Details

Dreamkiller is a new PC/Xbox 360 game currently in development by Mindware Studios, the creators of the popular first-person shooter Painkiller. Not ringing a bell? That’s understandable. When Painkiller was released five or so years ago, it mostly served as a very well produced throwback to classic shooting games like Quake and Doom. As you may imagine, the main concept behind Dreamkiller is very, very similar in that regard.

What’s the premise? Essentially, the game stars a psychiatrist named Alice Drake who can slip inside the minds of her patients in an effort to battle the monsters within and free them of their mental disorder or issue. A little silly? Maybe, but at the same time, oh so cool. Each and every mind you enter has a distinct style to it, with different monsters and environments, and where it gets interesting is when Alice discovers that there is some outside force doing this to these people.

Like Painkiller, Dreamkiller is a very fast-paced first person shooter. So the majority of the time Alice will be blasting away dozens of enemies at a time, and using some pretty big guns to do it, such as the Chain Gun and Dream Cleaner. Only one weapon can be held at a time, but you can also put a secondary weapon attachment to use, which helps spice things up. However, in addition to this weaponry Alice has a few key abilities, one of the first and most notable being pyrokinesis: the ability to toss fire at her enemies. She can also make use of telekinesis (moving objects with her mind) and even teleport. Berserk mode is the fourth ability, which is activated when you fill up the kill meter, located at the top right corner of the screen. This is perhaps one of the coolest things about the game play, as Alice suddenly becomes a lot faster and stronger, and the screen goes all crackly in an eerie way for a period of time.

Even though there are a lot of features that can really spice up the shooting action, the core game play as you move from level to level is very arena-like; again, much like games such as Quake and Doom. As you enter a room, it will be closed off as enemies swarm you. Until you defeat them all, you won’t be able to move on to the next area. If that frustrates you, you had better leave the game alone. But if you are into the old school first-person shooter action, this may be a game for you.

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Battlefield 1943: The Series Returns to WWII with Faster Paced Game Play

As fans of the franchise will be happy to know, the popular World War II team-based shooter series shall soon return with Battlefield 1943. It’s with this installment that the Battlefield series will return to it’s roots for the first time in years. Thankfully, the franchise has experienced quite a few refinements since then, so if all goes well then Battlefield 1943 may be everything that Battlefield 1942 should have been.

As you may know, the Battlefield franchise first debuted in the year 2002, with Battlefield 1942. While a few expansion packs were released for the game, the developers soon moved on to Battlefield Vietnam, where a gameplay issue was soon made very apparent, though Battlefield 2 addressed it to a degree. This issue is that of pacing. While Battlefield 1942’s maps were very large in scope, Vietnam’s were even larger, and far more broad. It didn’t matter how many players there were, the fact of the matter is that soldiers would be spread out across a huge map, oftentimes with little idea of where they were supposed to be. Again, Battlefield 2 addressed this issue marvelously, but 1943 has been adjusted so that the gameplay will take the form of a more mainstream, action-packed shooter. Not to say the maps are small and constricting. They are actually quite large and very detailed, but they are constructed in a manner that forces the players of both sides to be constantly pushing forward in some way. After all, that’s how war in a game should be.

Other than these small adjustments, the gameplay goals are exactly the same as in past installments. Each team spawns with a set amount of points. As players on the team die, the number of points decreases. The rate at which the points on both sides decreases is also effected by many of the control points scattered around the map each team has. If you manage to capture the majority of the map’s control points, your opponents’ points will automatically begin to drop at an alarming rate. The more control points you capture, the greater this rate will increase.

Also, it’s worth mentioning that the game carries many of the same destructible environment physics over from Battlefield: Bad Company. Being able to crush entire trees underfoot with a tank is quite satisfying, especially after so much of having to carefully navigate around them in past games.

Battlefield 1943 will soon be released as a $15 downloadable product for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. It’s also scheduled for release sometime this September on the PC, though a price for the PC version has not yet been determined.

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Heroes Of Telara: Something New in an MMORPG?

Ever since World Of Warcraft, almost no Massively Multiplayer Online game has come out that really turned people’s heads. Why? Because, while WoW may be, in essence, a very typical RPG, Blizzard’s massive budget and experienced development team allowed them to produce it all on a massive and epic scale. In other words, everything classic MMORPG’s have done in the past World Of Warcraft takes and does a little better. That’s why so few MMO’s have really made an impact since then. People are afraid to directly compete WoW. At this point, the only way to really break the barrier and make progress in the MMO genre is to produce a game that does everything World Of Warcraft has done and expand on that with some entirely new content and features that bring the player even deeper into the gaming experience. Unless I am wrong, there is a small chance that Heroes Of Telara could be a step in that direction.

Why? Well, Heroes Of Telara finds ways to be deep and dynamic that apparently WoW never thought of. Firstly, there is the group quests that will pop up in certain zones at infrequent times. The sudden call to action can make the quests feel real and epic, even though these missions are seperate from the game’s other quest chains and entirely optional.

And yet, while they are completely optional, the majority of the time it would be probably be a good idea to answer the call. Unlike in most Massively Multiplayer games, the outcomes of these group missions in Heroes Of Telara can really affect the game’s world. For example, if a village is attacked by monsters and no one is there to defend it, not only could many of the buildings be heavily damaged, but the entire town could be completely leveled and stay that way until it’s completely rebuilt, which often takes weeks. In most MMO’s, when an NPC tells you that you have to kill so-and-so monsters in order to save the village, do you really believe it? But in Heroes Of Telara, it’s for real. things are really at stake in the game’s world. That’s what makes it all so unique.

Oh, yeah. And you can change classes on the fly, even during a battle. Did I mention that? Of course, each class is leveled up individually. If you only do quests as a Warrior, you’re still going to stay a lvl. 1 Rogue.

Heroes of Telara is slated for release on the PC in 2010.

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