I'M A GAMER

Why I like Spider-Man 3 more than Arkham Asylum

2011-12-29T01:23:00.000-08:00

I keep seeing all this ranting about Spider-Man 3 the game and describing it as a bad thing for gamers and Spider-Man/superheroes/comic book fans. Two years after the release of it came Batman Arkham Asylum with all the praising it received as the best comic book game ever, and that was before the release of Arkham City

Before playing Spider-Man 3 myself, I expected to find crap, after I played it I really enjoyed it, and saw plenty of things I wished to have in a Spidey game there, was surprised to find it my favorite Spider-Man game, but thought the quick time events pure useless nuisance.

After playing more video games with QTE's I actually admired Spider-Man 3 even more, cause QTE's in this game are actually basic and straightforward, you don't get a request of pressing punch to shoot a web like other games do, instead you are requested to press web attack to strike with your web, simple.

I tried to relate to complaints I kept viewing of the game, so I played it more, instead I found the grand majority of complaints are over the top and retarded, keyword most, stating there are some decent criticizing points, or complaints, and saying it's a dumbed down Spider-Man 2, or saying it's Spider-Man 2 with different coat of painting is just wrong, the game is far from that

Before playing Arkham Asylum I looked forward to this game to a great deal, I was kinda let down when I played it, the game is great, but it's not the "AWESOME GAME OTHER COMIC GAMES NEED TO BE INSPIRED BY". Atmosphere fits the game, story is great, combat and gadgets are a blast, but beyond the combat, gadgets and handling titans this game and X-Men Origins: Wolverine Uncaged are pretty much the same

But so I won't get too far, here is a list of reasons why I think Spider-Man 3 is better than Arkham Asylum as a game, and I speak more in observation and testing rather than plain opinion, but I won't deny my opinion influencing the entry

1. Mobility: It's better in SM3, plain and simple, it allows one to cover more distance with more speed, and even with quite a sluggish swinging (the lowest swinging in free roam games), it's more fun than just running. And wall crawling is even an extra plus

2. Combat: Both are button mashers, if you want to call them that way, SM3 combat system is Square & triangle for two kinds of attacks, the more upgrades you get the better, and it gets easier and faster in fighting gangs, there is also the use of webbing to grab and jump for other moves in combat, like jumping on thugs you grab, hit and throw. Different combinations make different moves, and that is not a plain button masher everyone keep saying it is.

Batman plays with one attack button most of the time, rotate stick to follow enemy with your attack, and the counter attacks and stun attack buttons for times of need making various moves.

If you try to convince me the first is plain button masher and the other is strategic, read this note please: "The beauty in Spider-Man 3 combat system is the player building personal strategies as needed against character to be handled, it's you who build the strategies, you need to understand how to build them, when and where. In Batman combat strategies are given as instructions for you to follow, that doesn't feel like strategies to praise"

This is what I found, and this is how it is

3. Handling thugs: You know the stealth methods and the head on combat in Arkham Asylum, simple and straightforward given to you in the face, and combat is all grounded. In Spider-Man 3 there are more ways to handle thugs, not just hanging them on poles or hitting them on ground, thugs you can't pull on ground are easy to pull while sticking to walls, and you can defeat some without touching them by fists or feet

4. Boss fights: Only good boss fights in Arkham Asylum are Scarecrow confrontations (no fight) and Croc chase while getting the ingredient for an antidote (not a fight either), they are good and fun. Rest of the boss fights have the needless amount of toy soldiers for you to bash constantly, what a pain. In SM3 they took a good take on boss fights, only time where there are others to fight along the boss is in Kraven's second fight, when he's invisible and you could find him using one of the lizard men for widow-maker, only 3 lizard men at a time, not annoying 10++ at once. You can defeat all bosses by just beating them up, or you could build up strategies to help you defeat them, it doesn't simply stick you to one move you have to do repeatedly or as the game says now (excluding tossing mega lizard at generators)

5. Variety of things to do: BAA is repeated, same pattern over and over again, with a few things here and there. SM3 displays extra things to do, it is made to be more than beat 'em up, and it was done nicely in that way

Now that I'm done with that, I'll say what BAA did better: Game is more polished and well ironed of faults, that's really it, if you want something else you can go with the story, nothing further. Don't go with graphics cause there is a huge difference in scale of locations, and the time each one of them was released

ALL MY FAVORITE FIGHTING GAMES pt.2

2011-08-21T06:12:00.000-07:00

A Mortal Kombat Fest, almost
The first Mortal Kombat was a huge success that spawned many follow ups, getting back to the classic titles today the first MK feels redundant and mediocre, if I start the list of video game franchises where you should start from the second installment be sure MK would be one of them

Mortal Kombat II was such a huge success, it's one of the most legendary games, and one of the top fighting games to ever hit gamers everywhere, it's so awesome you can almost find it available for every gaming system from the NES to the PS3. Motion and action became smoother, combat is fun, characters are great, finishing moves updated so each character would have 2 fatalities instead of 1, a friendship, and it introduced the concept of bablity. Photos got cleaner, details given more attention to, it was such a pure win, plus this poster is a real ASS-KICKING AWESOMENESS

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, I skip the regular 3 cause I love masked characters, especially Scorpion & Sub-Zero, the first version had no Scorpion and Sub-Zero wore no mask, kind of sad. Home consoles version of UMK3 introduced us to other ninjas like Rain & Noob Saibot as playable characters

Best version of MK3, end of story
As an MK fighting game this one is easily the best installment, storywise it's so-so
Guilty Gear XX/X2 reload is how I got introduced to Guilty gear series and loved it, never liked the sound of the electric guitar before listening to GGX2 reload tunes, and got so impressed. Combat is great, best side scrolling anime like fighting game that is not Street Fighter or King of Fighters

ALL MY FAVORITE FIGHTING GAMES pt.1: CAPCOM

2011-08-21T05:37:00.000-07:00

I'll set this now, my favorites, ones I played and love the most, not placing as best or whatever, when I do my favorite sidescrollers fighting games won't be included, so let's start

P.S: For the sake of keeping posts readable, I'll post 6 games at a time, there are many great and highly memorable fighting games, this section is for the Capcom ones only, and the only Capcom fighting games there
Street Fighter Collection 2: Compiling all versions of Street Fighter before turning the series SUPER mode. 3 versions of one game released in 1992, they were ahead of their time for having smooth animation, great tracks and sound effects, not only is it memorable, it's fantastic, I still have a great deal of fun playing all of these three games

Super Street Fighter 2: The game got two improved releases with 4 extra characters in 1994, character designs changed a bit, tracks changed mildly and became continuous through both rounds 1 & 2, bonus levels remained, combo and first attack became important. SSF2 Turbo edition had the special of adding special attacks to the characters. KICK-ASS even to this day

Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 3: I always looked at Alpha as a reboot, can't look at it differently now, Street Fighter Alpha/Zero one seemed to retell the tale of Street Fighter 1 by making Sagat the Final boss for Ryu at least. Continuing with this reboot lead to this awesome achievement. Story mode for each character is a pit cause switching characters make you restart the ladder, but I managed to get over this

Marvel vs Street Fighter, I don't give it the title it was labeled with cause you can select a few of Marvel's supervillains, they aren't heroes, why say it as if only heroes from Marvel fight Street Fighter characters? Doesn't make much of a sense

What X-Men vs Street Fighter started continued, a track for each character with different backgrounds not a background exclusive to the character, this time having more Capcom characters than from Street Fighter franchise, it's a great win

Great sequel, loved the insertion of three players tag-team and inserting Jill Valentine as a fighter, also Iceman was upgraded from mere sidekick to a fighter, it's great

Haven't played the third installment of MVC, Street Fighter 4, or Super Street Fighter 4, I cannot judge any of those, so none of them is in part 2, or any later part of my top fighting games of all time

BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM, THOUGHTS

2011-08-12T17:51:00.000-07:00

This image looks like it has Batman sulking

Since this October we will be treated by a sequel apparently superior to this one, I figured it's time I state what I think about this game, give my general thoughts

Story:

Batman caught Joker, took him to Arkham island (as always) to see him escape capture (as always). This time Joker's capture and transfer to Arkham was uncomfortably too easy for Batman, so he decided to tag along with the guards to check Joker being placed in his cell, the bastard escapes, kidnaps Drs & gurards, kills guards, and unleashes terrors

Story does characters justice, it got the mythos properly, progressed finely, nice little changes for the game, a game I admire when it comes to storytelling, not as admirable as Resident Evil or Metal Gear, still admirable

Collecting tapes of patients interviews adds to the story some details not found in normal gameplay, so respect and collect them

One cliched line and reply are there, they irked me ever since I first heard them, they still do, it's the only flaw in this game story

Batman: It's over

Joker: It hasn't even begun

For that annoyance I give the story 9.9/10

Graphics:

Nice good looking graphics, clean, based on art of Alex Ross made it look highly admirable

Lips animation feels a little animatronic like, not as human as it should feel, so that is a minus

9.5/10

Miscellaneous: 9.9/10

Soundtracks: 10/10

Camera: It has some issues every 3rd person game suffers from, get your back to a wall and your character is hidden, not something to go all "DAMMIT" about. 9.8/10

Gameplay:This is the big one, I give 70% on game reviewing based on gameplay. How the game goes:

Combat: Smooth and fine, it's a button masher where you depend mostly on pressing one attack button, often you need to counter, there are times when you need to use stun attacks. Playing on Normal Mode after finishing the game on easy mode felt like Normal has a more aggressive fighter in Batman. Combat is fun, not the best combat system, but it's great, and lots of fun

Stealth takeouts: You will need to do that a lot to avoid bullets, Batman depends a lot on stealth in combat. After you get the "Hang from Gargoyle and pull henchman" upgrade stealth takeouts get more fun

As you progress in the game, more gadgets are collected to get use of, some of them are fun to use on henchmen and have a blast with, I love using the bat-claw to pull them
Shedding light on everything that is good about this game would make this post too long and unreadable, so I'll stop here
68/70

Total Score: 97.3/100

SPIDER-MAN SHATTERED DIMENSIONS, THOUGHTS

2011-07-30T10:34:00.000-07:00

As a Spider-Man mega nerd -and my full geekiness didn't see the light before I play Spider-Man 3 console games and enjoy them, followed by seeing the source movie an underrated fun movie instead of viewing it as a terrible one like I used to- I started to look forward to every Spider-Man video game I could lay my eyes on, I was even searching for them vigorously and playing them. Then I played Web of Shadows myself and got greatly disappointed, it made me think more carefully about getting another Spider-Man game, so thinking with my mind instead of my deep attachment to my main nerdiness

I played this game, finished it twice, thought it was better than Web of Shadows back then, was defending it and strongly advised people who ask which of these two games to choose to pick Shattered Dimensions, at least it shows respect to characters more than Web of Shadows did, used to despise that one a lot, only recently I feel the older one is decent, and great

compared to the newer one

STORY:

It opens in a museum in the world of Amazing Spider-Man (voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, MTV Spider-Man), Stan Lee narrates, and the lines they give the Big Man are too cheesy, he sounds cheesy saying them, so cheesy I hope I don't listen to him narrates the upcoming game (Edge of Time), not at all, nil line

Going back to the main feature, Mysterio grabs a precious artifact known as the tablet of Order

and Chaos (why make a tablet like that?), Spider-Man somehow knows something is wrong at the museum that night, nothing is explained of his reasons or knowledge, kicks Mysterio down, and grabs the tablet pulling it away with his webbing, but instead of it going to his hands it falls down on the floor and Spider-Man

bounces about the museum dodging Mysterio's shots. The way Spider-Man kicked fish bowl for a head this should have been the result

Writers keep writing Mysterio too stupid to put unbreakable fish-bowl, and he spent so much money before, and behaved with great deal of intelligent, but this never happens because?

So Spider-Man web zips himself and punches the tablet Mysterio grabbed to sell in the black market, and the artifact turns to fractures flying out of the museum to unknown areas through the walls, one shard remains with Mysterio and he escapes, then Madame Webb from the 90s cartoon show up (cause she posses the power cosmic, not simply a blind old psychic woman like her -deceased- comics version)

Silver Surfer is so proud of you (his eyes look like the Human Fly eyes, why?)

Cosmic powered old hag explains the tablet Spider-Man just broke controls order and chaos, now that it's broken fragments of it traveled to other three alternate dimensions (between the lines: Don't you worry, you are important as a playable character in this game, hence some fragments for you to collect in this world), and they are to aid him in his quest

Each of the four Spider-Men collects a fragment in his world before it's discovered by the unknown evil one and used for the unbelievable evil shenanigans they can do with it. All Spider-Men place the fragments they collected in the cosmic web of dimensional rip caused by the fracture of the tablet, then we move to Mysterio who just discovered the powers of his fragment, and wants the rest of the fragments to rule the world

-What is with these stories? Why such a powerful tablet stored in a museum of normal security with all the powers it contains? Why the heck did the main super-villain want to sell it in the black market not knowing what this is exactly? Heck (as cliched as this word is) why was such a piece even made? A tablet carrying a formula that gives one youth is acceptable, a tablet with a formula of poison killing specific DNA carriers is acceptable, but this?-

Well, I guess they needed the story to happen, something had to make reason for it to happen, like the main hero acting like a stupid clown instead of completing his job right

Every universe has 3 villains who obtain the fragment the next day directly, carries it, fights the hero, throws Spider-Man to a wild goose chase, fights him again, and it happens in 12 stages, the same pattern for 12 stages with minor differences from one to another. Kraven is the dumbest chapter, how did he know about the fragment to buy it online and place it with a 100 booby traps to lure Spider-Man and catch him? How was it sold online with full description?

Story is too stupid, the writer who had credit for making it is current writer of Amazing Spider-Man: Dan Slott, he's a capable writer, knows how to handle events and stuff in comics, I've been told by some the story had interference, so here's me hoping the new game had no interference and Peter David managed to pull the whole thing on his own and executed a well made story, which is tbh flawed from what I gathered about it so far.

Seeing how dumb the story is I don't wish this was an animated movie instead, unless it was well written and worked finely. One good thing about this game is how well it was received, it expanded the trey of Spidey-Fans a little, I appreciate that from Beenox, but hope for an actual good game to absorb extra fans

GAMEPLAY:

Stage 1 introduces gamers to how each character is played with and controlled, but only Spider-Man 2099 has combat introduction

12 stages between the first and the last with the basic following pattern: Fight boss, chase boss and fight chronies, save people and let them do you a favor, save people while they do favor for you, go fight boss again and pick the fragment. Some levels are free from humans to save, it's nice, but in the levels with people to save: WHY DO THE ONES WHO JUST PRESS A DAMN SWITCH TAKE TOO LONG TO OPEN THE DOOR?

What distincts Spider-Man 2099 from the rest in gameplay is the freefall, and the Noir guy is distinguished by stealth

Final stage: Use each Spider-Man to kick the hides of a large sum of bad seeds, fight mysterio, fight chronies, fight mysterio. Noir is the best one cause he rips the fight against Scarecrow from Arkahm Asylum, go stealthy all the way to do this one important attack only. Though this one there are absolutely nothing to fight before Mysterio, the road to reach him is tedious and too long, you'll have to shut Spider-Man up cause he keeps repeating the same two lines over and over again.

AUDIO:

Great use of VA's from Spider-Man cartoons only, and the voice director from the Spectacular Spider-Man animated series to assure great quality voice acting

Music is nothing memorable, but nice

Great quips

best thing about this game

GRAPHICS:

They are all the same, things vary in coloring system only

ASM: Comic-esque with too bright coloring

USM: Comic-esque as well, but this one has coloring a bit more realistic

SMN: Almost black 'n white, right coloring for the mood

2099: Too much like tron, bright neon lights on dark backgrounds, looks the most realistic, but I don't like Tron brightness

So:

Story 5/10

game Play 3/10

Audio 8/10

Graphics 7/10

Average 5.6/10

Game is overrated, all flash and no subtle. Batman Arkham Asylum is popular cause it deserves the success it got, that one is a well crafted game, sure is repetitive like every other game is, but it holds some values to play and replay, no missions where you have to do the same thing 2-3 times to finish one stage in half an hour all combat, and 12 stages with the main pattern

PIC OF NDS EDGE OF TIME

2011-07-28T06:30:00.001-07:00

PS1 Spider-Man Game Covers

2011-07-24T19:14:00.000-07:00

The first PS1 Spider-Man game from Neversoft, what a beautiful piece of gaming, I think it's one of the best games released on the PS1

Here are the game covers, kind of like chapter partitions, designed in the style of comic covers

OPERATION: RACCOON CITY

2011-06-30T04:05:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWD6Z5E5bAk

As a huge fan of Capcom, and a real geek of Resident Evil series, I hereby announce that I'll get this game as soon as it gets released

I'm highly satisfied it's not a first person shooter

GLITCH

2011-02-01T14:07:00.000-08:00

Cars in the subway from Spider-Man 3 the game

Police car on a rooftop in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

PROTOTYPE

2010-11-29T00:35:00.000-08:00

Hmm, quite some time passed since I last posted about a game, now I return with this. Like most new Action/Adventure games, most of what you do here is move and fight enemies, this routine got really overused, get a new sense of gaming developers, please.

Alright already, I'll quit sulking about it and give my detailed opinion of this game, which can be summed up in this short paragraph:
"It is awesome to drive air and ground army vehicles, to consume people and disguise as them, to glide and use so many superpowers, as well as slicing enemies, only it get tiring too soon when a game is so repetitive"

Elaborately speaking:

*STORY:

Story is nice, it's about "Alex Mercer", a scientist from Gentek, one of their top gniuses working on developing a bio weapon, a virus (it seems so many story tellers don't get tired of this plot in both games and film, seems to them it doesn't get old), the guy died, woke from death not remembering anything, escapes soldiers, then he's on a quest to make ssensse of everything and stop the spreading of infection he caused turning all people of Manhattan to canibalistic beasts. The thing that separates Ale from the rest is that he keeps his mind, and he gain memories of people he consume

Flaw in the game is that after you discover that Mercer is actually dead, and you play with the virus that consumed him and gains memories of everyone it consumes, it consumed nothing of Mercer's memories causing him Amnesia

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*GAMEPLAY:
In an open city where you can move freely, youdon't have to worry about playing a linear game, or be bored of a Sandbox game (I belong to category No.1), too bad for travelling you don't have threads to shoot like Spider-Man, and you can't steal a fast vehicle like in Grand Theft Auto, all you have to do is sprint, until you consume a certain soldier to learn how to drive a tank

Consuming is fun, you can do it in two different ways:

Cause soldiers to chase you if they see you, that doesn't always happen, not everytime you lift someone to walk with and consume
Stealth consume, this is the silent better approach, cause it is less trouble making

Most of what there is to do is move and attack, making it more of a Beat 'Em Up sort of game. You can use powers to attack, use arms you steal from soldiers to fight, use helicopter or tank, or carry and toss some stuff on the enemies

Extra activities:

Walk races
Glide

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*AUDIO:

I bet you were looking forward to this, what have I got to say about the voice acting and music, I really admire the voice cast selected
A lot of soundtracks have the feel of Dark Knight music to it, man that music is awesome

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*GRAPHICS:

They're really nice in cinematics, need greater improvement in gameplay mode

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This is a great game for you if you enjoy war games, monster games, slicing characters and camaflouge

"SPIDER-MAN 3" vs "WEB OF SHADOWS"

2010-08-07T04:59:00.000-07:00

The are the boxes for the PC discs of the two Sandbox Spider-Man games with "Quick Time Events"For you who don't know, Activision ported the versions of the two games to PC from the current generation of home consoles; XBOX360 & PS3, that's why I placed the back of the boxes to show how similar they are to the back of the boxes of those consoles ports of the two games

SM3 PC most crucial minimum requirements for XP & 7:

Pentium 4 2.8 MHz
256MB graphic card

SMWoS PC most crucial Minimum requirements for XP & 7:

Core 2 Duo 2.13 MHz
512MB graphic cards

"Web of Shadows" was released only 17 months after SM3, and its requirements are far heavier, when "Resident Evil 5", "Devil May Cry 4", "Batman Arkham Asylum" are ported to PC with lesser requirements than SM3, and they were released in 2009. Big difference, huh? Guess that's why people generally say Activision games are badly ported to PC
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I read plenty of comments recommending people to play "Spider-Man Web of Shadows", considering it to be the best Spider-Man game released in a long time. I watched videos of this game before playing it and it looked really awesome.

When it comes to "Spider-Man 3" it comes the exact opposite way around, people insult it and bash it, calling it a waste of a game, the worst Spider-Man game ever. I watched videos of it before playing it, it seemed to be boring, something that really should be avoided, there is even a fan made manual showing SM3 to be a most disastrous experience

What do you think? Forget what you think, what's important is what I think, cause it is my blog, so here go my exact most fair most reasonable treatment ever for a review for both games. Just so you know; I'm a Spideyholic, I can tolerate a Spidey story no matter how bad it is, but I can still be fair in commenting, so here goes everything
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Spider-Man 3:
Loosely based on "Sam Raimi" poorly received finale for his Spider-Man movie series, only in movie plots and in the designs of some characters it follows the movie, and I'll talk since the start

It got bashed cause it opens with a story mission that has a tutorial, when none of "Ultimate Spider-Man" nor "Web of Shadows" got bashed for that -WTF?- it's not something to bash the game, not really, it has a nice tutorial, it shows you have more control of Spider-Man and better grasp on his fighting skills more than any previous game before it, for the first time it is NOT simply a button masher. The only flaw is that you can't do something unless it says you can do it, so you can't do reflexes when you press the reflex button unless it says you can use it, but the first few guys you need to fight are easily dodged without reflexes. After finishing the first mission and first part of the tutorial, the intro is rolled, you see the cast, get an idea of the story, and go forth

Swinging tutorial comes next, it starts with smooth normal basic swinging lesson, how to rise and speed boost, and how to pick the side you swing on, no big deal, good part, with a nice soundtrack

After it you get the map tutorial, it shows how to select the next mission, a.k.a shows you what mission comes first and what comes later, for a comic geek like me it did very good, and it allows you to check the various missions you can choose from, not restricted to the linear story where you have to finish one mission to head to the next, therefore you can leave a mission if it felt hard and complete it later after you complete other easier missions

Story missions: Five movie missions, 3 of them marked with the movie spider, and two are rides, one is a scare ride and the other is a thrill ride, very good fun replacement for what there is in the movie, without leaving a gap in the story. Thirty Seven more missions are there, one of them is the first one with the tutorial, it is fortunate that only less than quarter of all the story missions have the symbiote in them, cause there were too many symbiote centered Spidey games, including the one that came after this one, made me quite sick of symbiotes. Story missions are well written, they tried to take a great a detour as possible from the movie way, they did good (the movie was very well done by the way, I prefer "The Dark Knight", but this one was done 10 folds better, no WTF moments cause they make no sense, alien influence was funny, not badly written, but I'm not here to review the movie). Some subplots from previous games are explained, others that were introduced here will unfortunately remain unresolved cause they were expecting more of Raimi & Maguire Spidey movies, which are never to come thanks to the reboot

In stories and out of stories, this game has the biggest number of things to do in a Spider-Man game, you not only fight and swing, you can use Spidey science knowledge and intelligence in defusing bombs (a guy who amazed two of the worlds eight smartest men with two of his creations, and one creation amazed another genius, you expect a guy like that to not be able to defuse bombs? Give me a break)and defusing bombs is smooth and very easily done, though in the hard ones you need to be sharp & quick. Give "Mary Jane" some quality time like he did in "Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21", and it comes with a great soundtrack, you can do stealth, take some cameras to prove you're not a menace, take photos, collect a cure to help Connors (the stuff behind how Lizard men were around gets explained, unlike the PS2 version). Also outside of the story missions there are trick races and skydive missions, they are fun applications of the various capabilities and works of Spider-Man

Motion:
-Reflexes are great to dodge bullets and other stuff, just don't depend on it too much, some foes just shoot too much you can't dodge all even with your reflexes fully upgraded, so this is something you should really lower your level of dependency on them.
-Combat is smooth and amazing, you can attack in the air, not directed like that in WoS, but you still follow close targets. Boss combats take too long in comparison to fighting them with the "Black Suit", but they still finish fast enough, the more experienced you are, the faster you finish them, but they don't finish any less slower than a fight in "Ultimate Spider-Man"
-This is the first game to allow swinging from two lines at once, swinging is fun and relaxing, nothing stiff
-Poleswing, wallsprint, web yoyo, truly amazing feats, but they are upgrades, except for the poleswing
-Moving from bottom to top, smooth
-Going indoors is great, you can choose to go indoors to some buildings, and you can free roam in the subway, and go to "Roosevelt Island" anytime you choose, you can swim there.
-The first sandbox Spider-Man game to allow you to go to missions without being required to do side quests first

Upgrades you unlock before unlocking the "Black Suited Spider-Man" are not unlockable for the black suit if you finish Venom fight and left some of the story missions with upgrades for after the "Grand Finale", so don't go cheap on them

Of course there are the things they could do better to make the game better:
*Not being pulled by the hammer girl, but to be fair, this annoys people when "Black Cat" -an individual with no superpowers- can beat Spider-Man and that is fun (same goes for Batman beating Superman, it pleases Batfans prefering Batso to Supes)
*Thugs going behind walls you can't go behind. Don't worry, it doesn't reoccur very often, but it does happen more than any other glitch
*Fill the special bar of the normal suit with the press of a button like you can do for the black suit
*Have an option in the Extras to select the mission you would like to do, showing all the story missions in the correct order they happen with, and you can choose one of the side plots after you get through with it, but that is a different option in the "Extras Menu"

Game as I rate it as I think it deserves: 9.5/10
Best Spider-Man game ever made, truest to the core of the character and his mythos, it does what Spider-Man always does to me, it does it better than any other Spider-Man game, it places a wide smile on my face. I finished this game more than any other video game, I finished it over 20 times within the two years I played it in, it applied plenty of things I hoped to have in a Spidey game (though I prefer 4 "Resident Evil" games to it, and RE4 is my all time favorite game)

Professionally worthy rating: 8.75/10
The game has some annoying glitches, scarce, but annoying, it also has funny glitches. The music is great, action is great, Spidey is a solo act, like he is in the comics. Spider-Man is quippy and funny enough, Toby does a better job in the games than he does in the movies. Least repetitive Spider-Man game.
Camera can stick behind you back if you're back is stuck to a wall, so all you will see is Spidey's back
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Spider-Man Web of Shadows:
The trailers showed it to be symbiote centric, and it is indeed, at least 60% of the game is symbiote centric

Story: Platform story, back to the linear way, not choosing one of several scattered missions, but you can choose a path that will decide a different outcome in the game at certain points, it (as I heard) allows you to open four endings. No extra activities available, so no activities you are required to perform to perform missions, at least not like the two Sandbox games before Treyarch's SM3

Motion: Between missions you can free roam in Manhattan (only), can't go indoors or stuff. It has swinging mechanics done better than SM3, so it does have more benefits. Charged jumping doesn't affect the height of your jump, so don't count on it. This is the first game you can do a back flip with Spider-Man, so yeah, benefits are quite more

Combat: First time for combat on the walls, makes some great moves, the more you upgrade the better. Attacks here are back to simple button masher, you press a button repeatedly to do attacks, not like in SM3 where you make a different combo with every change of sequence of button pressing between strong & quick attacks. Symbiote doesn't make fights much smoother, only a bit slightly more, boss fights take much more time than they do in previous games, cause the boss health bar is 3 times the size of your health bar, and your attack takes only one small line in the boss fight. "Black Cat" has no super powers and she can jump much farther than the guy with super human powers, faster, and swings around your neck, meaning you can't grab her. You get slightly hit, no matter how weak the enemy is, you fly back over 50 feet behind, and you can't anchor yourself before going such a distant, and if a wall is behind you, you can't see who attacks you unless in front of you, and you can't see Spidey (On that, so many claim this game is superior to its better SM3, they must be stupid fans)

Activities: You have spidey powers, but all you do with them is swing, fight and destroy. A game like this is a sensation and "Spider-Man 3" is a joke and toilet material? "Spider-Man Friend or Foe" is Extremely WeaK?

Rating (Both my personal view and the professional rating it deserves from my opinion): 4.5/10
What a mess, there are plenty of good points about this game, but the bad almost outweights the good. Enjoy the good in the game if you play it, don't just focus on the negative things about it
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Why did this big pile of crap beat "Spdier-Man 3"? Cause so many fans are stupid, too many fans are stupid, they hate a game for a few bad things emphasizing them, and love another considering it far superior when one of the more superior things in it are the sucky points. Just add great swinging mechanics and great combat, that's all the fans want, they don't want anything really good, not good story, not good activities, just stupid bland violence with great graphics and amazing combat system though it's a button masher. Developers make an amazing game that truly puts all the greater aspects about a character and it becomes toilet material, just know how to use fans stupidity for your own benefit, well move Shaba & Treyarch on thes pile of crap called "Web of Shadows", I don't blame you for doing what you did, I blame fans for being too stupid and love to be blind about somethings, then give nonsense good credits, even if it is just a souped up version of a game badly received by them for being kiddie like & repetitive

RESIDENT EVIL 5 JOURNAL. DAY 1 Feb 10th 2010

2010-02-12T10:46:00.000-08:00

First thing I'd like to say is I wanted to start this trend with "Resident Evil 4" last year, but the idea came a bit too late so I passed. Much like Punisher's "War Journal"

I finally began playing the game on my PS3, the controls are far from what I'm used to for a "Resident Evil Game", especially since 4 mostly followed the same formula the previous games followed with R1 holding the gun up, X is the "Action Button" & Square is run

Controls in this game are like this: Square & X functions are switched, here we have X for running and Square for action. Inventory is using Triangle, not start nor Sircle, the game doesn't pause when you use your inventory

The main protagonist is the guy you play with since original "Resident Evil" game, "Chris Redfield", he's backed up by an African girl named Sheva. Gameplay is in Africa, you play against people infected by parasites different than the ones from 4

I walked through for a while, I left the tutorial on and played on "Easy Mode", we're supposed to find a guy named Irving, but we pass a few obstacles on the way like the requirement to escape a horde of creatures, we hide in a shack and move underground to a different shack and watch this sonovabitch seeing us with an eagles eye after executing the guy who gave us the guns and explained our mission to us in the start of the game

He sends the ones he executed our friend in front of on us, we are trapped and needed to survive until Kirk hands us backup, he did after a long struggle and shot the creatures who used to be humans saving us

Later we discover Irving is a traitor, and a blond girl requires our aid, but we reach her late, the parasite she got fed with grew rapidly and hurt us. Later we went underground where a monster required us to place him in a furnance and work it on him

MORTAL KOMBAT VS DC UNIVERSE

2009-11-14T07:17:00.000-08:00

When some came with news about this game some thought this was an April fool sort of trick out of the normal month, if you see the image with Sub-Zero head facing Batman's head you might think it's a fantastic work of photoshop, that was before seeing official game trailers and news directly from Akklaim Entertainment

MK Logo & DC Logo together representing the unite of two universes, it just didn't show what
comes with it

This is the game front cover, it's too obvious for me to explain

Character select screen for vs & practice mode has 10 characters from the DCU & 10 from "Mortal Kombat", plus the two bosses if you press the R1 button on the PS3 controller, the latter two are unlockable through finishing both story paths:
*Choose playing with DC characters & you unlock Darkseid after finishing it
*Choose playing with MK characters & you unlock Shao-Kahn after getting through with it

For the arcade mode you can choose who you fight, DC characters and the half boss is Darkseid, MK characters and the half boss is Shao-Kahn, or a mixed batch and the half boss can be either one of two.

The final boss of the game is a merge between both bosses, and is named Dark-Kahn

During fights; L1 tosses and R1 does a "Test Your Might" mode, watch what button is held by the enemy so you won't press it, if you press it your attack will be countered. If you are the victim press the button pressed by your enemy quickly after to counter.

If you hit a wall and fall a distance being thrown by the enemy press the button displayed by your enemy controls to take control and you strike the enemy, this way you won't be damaged and you're foe will be damaged by as much as you strike him/her.

I made this review & tutorial after playing for only a while on the PS3 only. The XBOX360 controls are the same key positions, just different names for their keys, I'm certain cause I played "Winning 11" with a friend on his 360 and it has the exact same control

SPIDER-MAN THE MOVIE GAME

2009-11-01T23:25:00.000-08:00

First of all, never mind that the cover is for the game audio CD and not for the game itself, I had to find a cover quick

A few months ago I played the PC demo of Spider-Man movie game after a long time wanting this game as "The Spectacular Spidey-Geek" I am, I got really disappointed for not having him jump more than half the height of the PS1 Spidey games (those two are much better games in my opinion than this one), and I played his first stage with him as Spider-Man, it is really an annoying piece. At least there are two Shocker levels in the demo too, but they aren't all that good

Yesterday I finally played the whole game on my PC, I skipped the "Oscorp Levels" and what came after them using the cheat of skip level "ROMITAS", the game is OK, not really good in general, it is short that I finished it in 4 hours by cheat.

The graphics are much like the PC version of Spider-Man second movie game (why didn't they give us the console version for that? Here is hoping they fix that mistake and do port it one day for us). Gameplay has its good points like stealth and all the extra moves for combat making fighting something much more special than the regular button masher it is for the PS1 spidey games, Spidey 2, Ultimate, & Spidey 3 for the PS2

Surprisingly I did enjoy this game much more than the demo version. My only disappointment is that Kraven is exclusive for the XBOX, or at least I'd see his story here, and that will make it better on how the heck he knows Kraven already in Spider-Man 3

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Story: It's nice. 4/5
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Graphics: To someone spoiled by how Japanese games has much better graphics on PS1 consoles and this is a PS2 game they really are bad, they still would be even if that factor was unavailable. 3/5
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Gameplay: Aside the jump, Spider-Man swings and fights slow, fighting is a complaint when a thug can out punch him. 3.5/5
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Replay Value: A spidey geek like me always replays and enjoys Spidey games like this, can't so no matter how bad cause I hate the "Animated Series" game, this one has its assets. 3/5
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Bonus Material: Cheats to play as MJ, Shocker, or many others is groovy. I love the bowling. 5/5
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Overall: 3.7/5
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Spidey Geekyness Factor: Extra 0.5 on the overall turning it to 4.2/5

MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2: FUSION

2009-08-12T14:56:00.001-07:00

"Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: Fusion" is the latest comic book video game based on Marvel's major crossover known as "The Civil War", where heroes sided with villains against other heroes and villains just on the cause of the superhero registration act.

Pro-registration side is lead by "Tony Stark"/"Iron Man" side by side with "Mr. Fantastic"/"Reed Richards"

Anti-Registration side is lead by "Steve Rogers"/"Captain America" and "Luke Cage"

So tell me; don't you find it wrong that the star of the cover is Spider-Man and not "Captain America"? I mean Cap should appear on the cover and if there is a variant cover for a special edition or a limited edition "Iron Man" should be the focus character on the cover.

Does thee nay agree?
Don't you agree?

REVIEW: SPIDER.MAN: WEB OF SHADOWS

2009-08-10T06:12:00.000-07:00

Reviewer: thegaminggoose
Place of review: youtube (Follow link to watch the review)
Review format: Video Review

It is a hilarious review, but you have to be warned that there is a use of strong contents

RESIDENT EVIL DEGENRATION

2009-08-06T22:02:00.000-07:00

Hey there, I'm a "Resident Evil" addic, I enjoyed every RE game I played and the films I saw especially degeneration, at first I used to look at RE with "uggh"

So RE degeneration happens 7 years after the unforgettable "Racoon Disaster" (incident is too little a word to describe such sabotage, it's even related as fog in the room)

I used to believe that Claire had "Scenario A" & Leon faced "Scenario B". Why?

Here's the video that made me see things happened the other way around (Leon plays "Scenario A" and Claire faced "Scenario B")

In "Scenario B" Claire faces G (the G-Virus mutated "William Birkin") under the chief's morgue, and she faces him in his first mutation the way he was when he killed "Umbrella Mercenaries" who took the virus from him. In "Scenario A" she faces the grown embrio that rejected "Brian Irons" body

BORING GAMES ON THE PLAYSTATION 2

2009-06-15T09:34:00.000-07:00

I am one who believes that the best released console I played video games on is the "PlayStation 2", I enjoy it very much that I find it has no bad games from which I played, there are however some few exceptions, games that are too crappy that they deserve to be placed in the list of the all time worst games from my point of view (I only saw them and did not play anything from them). Crap means lower than campy.

1. TOM & JERRY WAR OF THE WHISKERS: This game is a way too childish fighting game (piece of junk) with graphics so bad that they look like they belong to a N64 game, I believe N64 cartridges capacity can reach 256 MB, and this game looks like it has a capcaity of 220 Mega Bytes at max, there are no moves to be performed and no specials to be unlocked for it to deserve to be in a DVD.

2. There is a terrible shooting fighting game published by EA games, one of the playable characters in it is a monkey. The game graphics are still like they belong to a N64 console as well as the aforementioned game.

3. SPIDER-MAN WEB OF SHADOWS: AMAZING ALLIES EDITION: A side scroller? For the Playstation 2? The aesthistics look like they belong to a "Nintendo DS" game, and if you think the Next Gen consoles have bad voice acting wait till you hear them talk here.
For some unidentified reason IGN rated this version of the game with 7/10 when the ratings for the Next Gen ports are less than 5.5/10.

FINAL FANTASY VIDEO(s)

2009-06-04T11:53:00.000-07:00

MIGHT I HAVE A NINTENDO Wii....

2009-05-23T23:44:00.000-07:00

According to http://old-wizard.com the Wii is better than the PS3 because it has more quality games & the PS3 is more focused on quality graphics than they do on quality games, they have to know that it isn't Sony who makes the games but other gaming companies.

Old-Geezard is a web-site of Nintendo fanatics & highly against Sega specially Sonic, their categorizing of worst consoles is mostly Sega & best consoles ever is mostly for Nintendo, so I'm oughta pass their suggestion being the Sega friend who I am, but there can be no harm in taking their suggestion to heart here, right?

Anyway; I played Mario-Party on Nintendo Wii & a few other games with my cousins, the remote gadget is pretty neat & you can use NGC controls on it & playing the NGC games is pretty easy, not annoying like playing PS1 CDs on the PS2 & in the markets it is much more economical & comes with a few entertaining games like the "Wii Fitness", so I'm not just taking it because someone suggested it, the suggestion is just a boosting reason for me to get it.

Still as th title implies: I MIGHT GET MYSELF A "NINTENDO Wii" IN CASE I MIGHT GET A NEXT GEN CONSOLE

SPIDER-MAN FoF

2009-05-04T00:01:00.000-07:00

*The game in graphics and gameplay IMHO is very good as a PC game (I play it in my PC as I do with most of my games), not bad for a PS2 or a Wii game and a horror for the "Next Gen Consoles", surely the Wii is considered next Gen but it still uses DVD's not Blu-Ray's, so I don't give it that much consideration as a next gen if I don't consider the controls

*Surprisingly after two years of release; this cheesy game is still in the markets in my country and sells for around $47.35 and Spider-Man 3 the best game is withdrawn from markets, "Spider-Man: Web of Shadows" is a double layered DVD and sells for around $37 makes it better for "Web Of Shadows" players and counted economically good (glad I didn't buy it from the store I got WoS from)

*Combat sure beats SM3 for the PS2/Wii (even in Maximum Carnage the combat is better than it is in the Wii SM3), jumping and swinging enemies is fun.

*I expected good Web-Swinging and some free-roaming; I got dissapointed, at least after a long time and many games with that option removed I get to choose levels after beating them

*It's sort of embarrassing; but I compared this game to "Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks" (odd comparison, works for me sort of), what's better here if I die in co-op my companion doesn't die with me and I can rest between mission, (in MKSM one has no teleporter to the Bunshee Academy, why the comparison), you can play 2 players versus within FoF game instead of a different feature

*The game is entertaining enough anyway, I started playing yesterday and finished 9 missions

*Edit: I'm about to finish the game (only two more missions to go), and I have to say it is good on only one console: "Nintendo Game Cube". The Nipal graphics are a lot like the graphics of so many NGC games like Bomber-Man so I say it's a shame this game wasn't ported to that console.

In most forums it is forbidden to say so; I downloaded the game to be able to play it, it is not really worthy to pay for except for the DVD you buy to burn it on. I downloaded it over a year ago and just now was able to play it by doing the magic work of placing the game in the folder of the installed Spider-Man 3 "C:\Program Files\Activision", before putting it in that folder it never worked and all I had to say for it for a while is "GET ACTIVATED YOU PAIN" before placing it in that folder and then deleted it because it is not functional

Here's a fun fact: Spider-Man is voiced by "James Arnold Taylor" & "Harry Osbourn" is voiced by "Josh Keaton", they switched roles in the "Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series"

WORST THING TO PLAY ON PC

2009-05-03T23:54:00.000-07:00

The worst thing anyone can play on PC in my humble opinion isn't a PC game, it is in fact the "Nintedo Dual Screen".

I downloaded the No$GBA emulator, the best NDS emulator available and guess what, you can't fix the screen size, this is one beef, another is that most of the roms are broken; bad graphix, no backgrounds, you can't see who you play with, etc etc....

So if you want to play the NDS I have two suggestions:
1. Wait for a much better emulator
2. For your own sake it will be best for you to buy the console itself and the games you want to play on it

GUILTY GEAR WALLPAPERS

2009-04-08T01:32:00.000-07:00

The "Sega Dreamcast" cover for "Guilty Gear X", second game in the "Guilty Gear" series & the first in the X series

Frederick alias "Order Sol", first appeared in the 1st GG game, a prototype gear who joined the "order of the Holy Knights" in the "Sacred War" between human's and gears. This happened before the disbanding of the "order of the Sacred Knights" and becoming a bounty hunter known as "Sol Badguy"

"Guilty Gear XX"/"Guilty Gear X2" characters, all playable in the arcade. From top left to bottom right:

1. I-No: The game boss

2. Testament: A gear, not evil as most of the gears

3. Potemkin: A salve hunting gears

4. Kuraduberi Jam: A chef who owns a restaurant that got burnt
5. Dr. Faust: Used to be known as Dr. Baldhead, he puts a bag on top of his head erasing his previous alias and redeeming his previous murders

6. Johnny: A Jellyfish pirate crew member loved by a cute lillte pirate named May

7. Venom: An assassin from the assassin guild, loves to be mastered by Zato-1

8. Bridget: Don't be fooled by this one, he's actually a guy trying to prove he's masculan by becoming a bounty hunter

9. Robo-Ky: One of many, this pain can study & analyze all your moves

10. Kliff Anderson: The late leader of the disbanded "Order of the Holy Knights", he's a secret character to be unlocked for the arcade mode through playing and finishing some numbers in the mission mode

11. Chipp Zanuff: American born ninja, believes himself to be a Japanese born

12. Sol (Freederick) Badguy: Between the brackets his real name; the hero and namesake character in the GG series

13. Zato-1: Controlled by the oily shadow "Eddie" and now he's dead

14. Dizzy: A cute female Gear wanting to live in peace, a friend of the Jellyfish pirate May

15. Millia Rage: From the assassin guild she decides to quit, used to love Zato-1 now she fight's Eddie

16. Justice: The boss in the first game of the series and an unlockable character for GGX2

17. Zappa: A poor victim of a demon consuming him, that demon is a lot like the girl ghost in "The Ring" movie

18. Ky Kiske: An Intrnational Police officer and the main rival of "Sol Badguy"

19. Slayer: A night walker & the founder of the assassin's guild, he decided to shut the guild off

20. May: I already mentioned enough about her

21. Anji Mito: Don't know this guy

22. Baiken: She hates "That Man" a gear who caused the war between humans and gears, he caused her having a gouged eye and a lost arm

23. Axl Low: The poor warrior from the 20th century lost in time in the 22nd century

MONOPOLY

2009-01-07T23:54:00.000-08:00

Dictionary definitions of the word:

monopoly plural monopolies
1 If a company or government has a monopoly of a business or political activity, it has complete control of it so that other organizations cannot compete with it
2 A large company that controls all or most of a business activity: The company is a state-owned monopoly.
3 If someone has a monopoly on something, that thing belongs to them, and no one else can share it.

From Longman dictionary

But when many of us here MONOPOLY this comes to our mind:

A famous board game that is hardly ever forgetable. This guy in the center of the logo is named Mr. Monopoly.

Beside the original U.K incarnation of it there are various editions of it based on characters or events like "World Cup 2006" Monopoly, there is a Spider-Man monopoly and also there are the various videogame depictions of 1 single board game.

In general there are three sets of cards:

1. Community Service (Pink cards on the board, a card is to be taken by the one whom his peace stands on the point on the board titled by this set of cards)

2. Chance (Yellow cards very much similar to community service)

3. Documents prooving what you own in this game of lands

A favorite card for most of the players is common between Chance & "Community Service" is "Get Out of Jail Free", you can sell this card with a bit more money than your initial 1,500 pounds. A joke on this card is: "In a prison, one of the inmates gave a security guard this card and he was released". From the source I got it from they say it's true, but this is too hard to be true, it's as hard as "Barry Allen" & "Wally West" team-up in a current issue with a revived Barry.

22 YEARS AS A FIGHTER

2009-01-07T23:44:00.000-08:00

Not just a fighter, more as a guy searching his soul and looking for wisdom and strength.

Not sure when 22 years will be done exactly since that date, just share the joy of the years of success with this photo of the challenging rivals and best of friends.

SPIDER-MAN 3 BUTTON SEQUENCE

2008-12-25T00:05:00.001-08:00

All right; this is for everyone who is still yet to play the game on their PC or any console, the typing below are the button sequences I remember for the game, I'll type them as I set my controls:

#Mad Bomber 1 (The starting of the game mission):
Z,Z,A

#Mad Bomber 2:
Follow the sequence you are giving to disarm bombs, for the first multi layered bomb you unlock keep pressing directional button's as pointed then press the button on the nail to remove it.

#Mad Bomber 4:
To eject the blowing factory at the end of the mission: Z,X,V,Z

#Mad Bomber 5:
.After disarming the first bomb: X, C
.After disarming the second bomb: Z, V, X

#Lizard 2:
.start from the beginning of the belt and on forward when you catch the Lizard then press Z rapidly, keep pressing Q so the rapid pressing on the jump button would be more effective or the Lizard will be the major pain.
.After pinning the head of the Lizard on the three grinders press: Z, Q, Z, V and you'll fight the Lizard in the arena you throw him in
.After brutally beating the Lizard and you have to jump: Z, V, Z, A, V, Down

#Scorpion 1:
.To avoid the arms from hitting you: Z,X,C

#Scorpion 2:
.Dodging security laser: Z,Left,Right,Down,Z
.After defeating Scorpion in the facility: Z,X,C
.To let Scorpion knock down the control tower on the bridge after destroying the portions on the side: Z,X,Z,Q

#Dewolff 3:
.After Jumping on top of the car you must save her from press: Z,V,C

#Symbiote Spider-Man vs Sandman:
.Sequence 1: X,C,V,Z (Sandman always hits me after I press Z, at least he goes to the lower train tracks)
.Sequence 2: Z,Z,Right,V,A,C
.Sequence 3: X,Right,Up,V,C,X,V,C

#KingPin 2:
.When you knock him off after defeating the three gang leaders: Z, X,C,X,Right,C,left,X,Right,C,V,Up

#Lizard 3:
*Before Battles:-
.Sequence 1: X or C (it differs from time to time), Z (two buttons twice)
.Sequence 2: X, Z, C, V

*During battles:-
.Sequence 1: C,Z,C,Z
.Sequence 2: X,Z,C
.Sequence 3: X,Z,V
.After webbing the Mega Lizard 4 times and knocking the 4 generators using him and almost defeating him: Up,X,Down,C,(Repeatedly) Left & Right, A

#Scorpion 3:
.When Scorpion wrings his tail on Rhino: Down,Z,Up,X,V,Z,V

#Grand Finale:

Using Harry:
1. Down, Left Shift, left, Right, Down, X, Left, A
2. Left, X, Right, X, A, Up, A
3. Left, Right, Left, Space, Down, Up, Space, Down

Spider-Man:
.Up, Z, Left, Z, (after Spider-Man standz on the ground) Z, V, Q, X, Q, C, A

Buttons Functions:
Spider-Man
A: Web Swing
Z: Jump
X: Quick Attack
C: Strong Attack
V: Web Shoot/Wall Crawl
S: Power Attacks
D: Camera Use
Q: Dodge
1: Spider-Sense

Harry/Goblin:
A: Pumpkin Bomb
Z: Use Glider
X: Sword Quick Attack
C: Sword Power Attack
Left Shift: Turbo Speed
Space: Target lock

GUILTY GEAR XX

2008-12-21T21:42:00.000-08:00

A.K.A "Guilty Gear X2", a very fine fighting (beat 'em up) game I enjoy very much that I used the picture of the namesake character "Frederick a.k.a "Sol Badguy"" and placed his name under my user name (replacing bad with good) in both CBR & Toonzone forums.

This game is a sequel for two previous games "Guilty Gear 1998" & "Guilty Gear X", the story is about gears & humans living in the same world, the Gears are powerful beings created by humans and are incredibly powerful, one of the Gears is named "That Man", this gear caused a holy war between humans & Gears that lasted for over a 100 year now this Gear regrets what he has done.

Some humans formed the "Holy Knights", an organization meant to battle Gears during the holy war between Humans & Gears, this organization was disbanded and after 5 years of being disbanded its second leader; a French kid now 21 years old "Ky Kiske" joined the "International Police Force".

Ky holds one of the sacred weapons of the "Holy Knights" which allows him to control lightining, this weapon and other weapons were created by "Order Sol", the name "Sol Badguy" used to be known as when he was in the organization of the "Holy Knights", this police officer is a rival of Sol and he is annoyed by the fact that Sol doesn't use his full strength in fighting.

"Sol Badguy" is a bounty hunter & a prototype gear who sworn to destroy gears, he allows a humanoid gear "Dizzy" to live because she is of no threat to humans.

TONY HAWK PRO SKATERS

2008-11-30T02:57:00.000-08:00

This is one of my all time favorite games either from Activision releases or generally, I first played the first game of this series in my cousins house when it was new and really enjoyed it so later I bought it for the PS1, the best fun you can have if you like to skateboard but afraid of performing stunts in reality.

Since the title holds the name of "Tony Hawk" then one has to know that Tony is the first character in the selectable list, for those who don't know this great dude search for him on the internet or watch sports channels.

You may select four other characters in the PS1 games, there are several kinds of boards and the types of wheels you can skate on. The more missions you complete/goals you achieve/Scores you gain the more areas you can unlock, but some areas need medals to be unlocked with.

Give any game in this series a shot and you definitely won't regret it, at least you hopefully won't regret this action (I love "PS2 Spider-Man 3" and I love "Batman & Robin movie", but I still love good things too much more than I like the bad stuff)

SPIDER-MAN 3: PS2/Nintendo Wii

2008-11-24T22:07:00.000-08:00

Over a year has passed since the game was released and the players gave most of their opinions on the game, the most noticable and published opinions indicate that the release of this version of the game was too soon because it is a bland mix of bad visuals and horrible game play, should they waited at least a few more months they could have released a better game instead of publishing a half-baked game.

The story in short has its coheision, it isn't that weak, the weak spots in this game plot is the role of Sandman in the final stage; how he got convinced to it by Venom to destroy Spider-Man and the fact that Harry jumped from the hospital after seeing spidey fight's Sandman remembering that Peter is Spider-Man ignoring that he wanted to kill him.

Short version of the story: [Spider-Man saves people from Carlyles burning building, later he sings M.J home after a date in Central Park then fight's Harry. In his apartment Peter is in his spidey duds unmasked on his bed and the symbiote get's all over him getting him hanging upside down on a building and battles some of the Apokalypse gang then he goes to Dr. Connors to examine the suit for him but seeing he became the Lizard, Spider-Man chases the Lizard to the sewers and on his way he saves some of his victims. In the sewers Spider-Man chases the Lizard and the Lizard escape after a fight. Spider-Man finds Kraven trying to kill the Lizard but he fights him and cages him then goes to Dr. Connors who transforms himself into a mega lizard, the Lizard is forced to hit the active generators to electrocute himself and spidey throws him on a subway trail to finish the job but gets frightened about what he did then takes Connors to the hospital.

Spider-Man goes to the Bugle and gets a job of photographing a Vampire, at night Spidey goes to ESU where the vamp is spotted and takes a picture of him then sends the picture to the Bugle. A later time Spider-Man checks on Dr. Connors in the hospital then goes back to the "Daily Bugle" and finds the "Mad Bomber" capturing Jonah, Spider-Man defeats the bomber and saves Jonah Jameson.

Before fighting the Sandman, Peter takes images of himself scaring a tourist while web-swinging carrying him then he goes to defeat Eddie Brock as an imposter Spider-Man and cause him to get fired.] It'll take too long to type the rest of the story so I stopped at this point.

The graphix looks like the belong to a cheap PC game, even the graphix of the PS1 original games are better than this one.

The combat style is weak compared to Ultimate Spider-Man & Spider-Man 2 (these 2 games has great combat style) and it is too linear.

Side missions are good, at first I liked to deliver delicious fruit pies but that mission became too dull over the time so I dropped it.

the looks of the people to be rescued are no more than three, but that doesn't actually bother me.

Over all rating: 7/10

STREET FIGHTER FUN

2008-10-11T07:57:00.000-07:00

Street Fighter games are some of the best fighting games since the dawn of VideoGames, I'm cutting the first game out because it is soo boring.

Check this funny video.

RESIDENT EVIL 2

2008-10-09T02:46:00.000-07:00

One of my all time favorite games, the best Resident Evil game since the beginning of making this series with Code Veronica on the same level with it.

I have 3 versions of it:

1. PS1 version: This is the only one I didn't download, and it's the only good one

2. N64 version: I have this game on emulator, the problems are that I must reset the emulator so the picture would be more than just half the screen, the movies are available in sound only, the sounds get scratchy within the game, and when the volume goes mute this means when the camera angle will move the game will get jammed

3. The PC version: It works perfectly fine as long as you don't save in it, when I save the save file immediately gets broken and the game shuts down forcing me to install it once more so I can't play game B and meet Mr.X (I already said I downloaded the PC version)

Thinking more about the two scenario's: A & B, and the relativity of them to the characters I find it more passable to believe senario A happens for Claire and Scenario B happens to Leon, the more I play the bigger sense I find in my thought.

Leon A & Claire B:

1. Sherry gets lost from Claire but isn't found by her father to bed the embrio in his kid

2. Annete tells a spy on the company the origin of the monster hunting the sewers and how her husband worked on the monsters engine

3. When Claire goes to the telefrik Leon used it doesn't have holes in it, Claires go after Leon departures using it and Mr. Birkin pierces the top of it

4. Claire leaves Sherry in the elevator to Umbrella alone when the monster might strike at her (Sherry) when she's alone

5. Ada falls a pretty high distance then shows up to hand Claire a rocket launcher (she lives, finds a rocket launcher and hands it to a stranger?)

Claire A & Leon B:

1. In the first cutscene Leon is on the side of the car closer to the police station

2. It is Claire who actually finds Mr. Kendo since he was supposed to help her counterpart in the cancelled version of the game (Marvin I can understand meeting Claire though he was meant to help Leon in the cancelled version)

3. It makes more sense to see Brian Irons fed with the embrio before exposing his true self to Claire

4. Still don't get it, but telling someone who is trying to save your kid from her father the reason why the father is hunting her down is more reasonable than telling the enemy.

5. Ada still gets fatally injured but survives, at least it makes more sense to her giving Leon the R.Launcher and meeting him later in "Resident Evil 4"

The game is very well balanced between monsters and puzzles.

I love the arrange mode (In scenario A you only need the R.Launcher twice when fighting William Birkin, in scenario B there is a heavier need for the rocket launcher)

I used to look at the game with 'uggh' at first, but it grew on me more than the current art style of "John Romita jr". This game was and still is a perfect 5 stars game.

Wonder how the remake for the "Nintendo Wii" is going to be like, sure it will have better graphics but will it stay great?

GRAND THEFT AUTO ADVANCE

2008-10-09T01:41:00.001-07:00

This is what the cartridge looks like. The only Grand Theft Auto game I played, really wanted to play that one made for the PS1 but never had the opppurtunity.

An awesome game, very good plot and nicely executed levels except one which I'll talk about in some time.

[Mike is a rookie gangster but a handy muscle-man (not Power-Man; he's nothing like Luke Cage), his partner Vinnie prepairs some stuff so they can flee the country but Vinnie dies in a bombed car. Looking for clues to who killed his partner to have his vengeance he works under employment of several people:

1. 8-Ball: The car bombs expert

2. Jonnie: A fat Bar-Tender who gets killed b4 Mike goes to battle King Courtney

3. King Courtney: Jamaican gang leader

4. Cisco: Directed by King Courtney to kill this Columbian guy, Mike believes his target and works for him

5. Asuka: A slutty leader of the Yakuza Mike works for starting with saving her niece he kidnapped

Mike is a real fool to believe in these many and work with them.

After leaving Asuka Mike finally finds the man he was looking for in a long time: His old Partner Vinnie himself. Mike kills Vinnie and gets the $10,000 he had.

Mike kills King Courtney and an army of his gangsters, then fleds Vice City to Columbia leaving the gangsters wanting him behind.]

The missionss are good to play except one to kill some thugs of King Courtney before heading to his house and kill him, you only have 4 minutes to play that stage when you require 4:30 minutes, what lousiness.

9.5/10

GBA BATMAN

2008-09-16T02:51:00.000-07:00

There are 3 BATMAN games for the GBA console:

*BATMAN: THE RISE OF ZEN TSU

Gmepad Control: A=Jump, B=Attack, L=Select Projectile, R=Use Projectile. 4 stars

*BATMAN VENGEANCE

(The designs for the characters in these 2 video games are based on their design in the Animated Series) Rise of Zen Tsu feels more advanced in music, Vengeance music feels like that of GBC so I give it 3.5 stars

*BATMAN BEGINS (based on the 2005 movie)
This one is the best Batman videogame on this console, I'm not a big fan of EA games designs but I loved this game they built.
5 stars

CASTLEVANIA: ARIA OF SORROWS

2008-09-12T04:30:00.001-07:00

You know this game? Good.

You love this game? Great.

You don't know about it? I'm so sorry to hear about that, you don't know what you're missing.

OK kiddies and newbies, to the front of the class.

As a fan of Castlevania; I strongly advise you to play this game, it is one of the greatest creations in the history of Video Games.

Synopsis: "It is the year 2035 a.d, exchange student Soma Cruz heads with his friend "Mina Hakuba, the daughter of a shrine priest" in Japan to the shrine she usually goes to, this time they entered the area they least expected; "the lunar eclipse", the location where the real castle of Dracula is sealed in. Soma meats some people and gain alliance with, what a certain agent "Genya Arikado" sees how Soma absorbed a soul of one of the monsters which attacked him he suspected a secret within the young man, a very dark secret Soma Cruz must uncover by himself to save himself and his friends"

Most of the 2D Castlevania video games are played by characters with linear attacks, either by a vampire slaying whip or a spear, you need heart emblems you can collect to recharge your magic power.

This game is different in the following points:

1. You can change your weapon and body armor

2. You gain upgrades hidden you need to release to use them

3. You can control spirits of the monsters you defeat to use for your own good

4. Your MP recharges automatically but slowly, you can still take hearts to quicken up the MP increase

5. Finish the game and open a new saving file typing "Julius" to play with "Julius Belmont" the vampire hunter

6. Finish the game the good ending and you'll unlock "Boss Rush Mode" & "Sound Test", the soundtracks are very catchy and highly pleasing

. So far this is my favorite Castlevania game; I rate it with a perfect 10.

. If you can't find it solo then buy the Castlevania Double pack, it is there with a previous Castlevania game.

. The sequel to this game "Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrows" is available for the Nintendo DS, I strongly recommend it

GAMEBOY ADVANCE

2008-09-11T09:16:00.000-07:00

Some people consider this handheld console something retard or looks bad, but this is the first handheld console to show superiority to the SNES in so many games, I played some of the best games on this console so I don't care what some might say bad about it.

I'm one of those who like Atari classic series, I was born when they were new and I still enjoy them, so it isn't surprising to see someone like this enjoying Gameboy Advance and calling it great fun.

If someone consider this a bad console he/she should start playing the colorless classic version; brick sized Gameboy using 4 batteries at once with a green screen or the improved minimized version using 2 of the smaller sized batteries "Gameboy Pocket"