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08Mar
Review – Final Fantasy XIII-2
Rating: T (Teen: Mild Language, Violence, Simulated Gambling, Mild Suggestive Themes, Drug Reference) Genre: JRPG Publisher: Square Enix Developer: Square Enix Release Date: January 31, 2012 RENT With Final Fantasy XIII, people either loved it or hated it. It was incredibly rare to find someone who fell in the middle. Final Fantasy XIII-2 attempted to “fix” the reasons why people hated the first game, while at the same time, found other reasons to make those who loved the first game dislike pieces of this one. Don’t get me wrong; there are lots of things to love about the sequel, and there are numerous improvements to gameplay over the first game. Unfortunately, the main story is not one of these things. Let’s just get this out of the way: the story is awful. For starters, I couldn’t stop seeing the similarities between this and Final Fantasy X. Tidus was sent to future to save the past.
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27Feb
First Look: Zumba Fitness Rush
I’ve been interested in fitness video games since Wii Fit came out and I brought that home to try out. I quickly lost interest due to the more restrictive movement and having to hold on to a controller and replace batteries often in the balance board. But with the Kinect coming out, it’s piqued my interest to check out the newer fitness games that are using the full body recognition for workouts, and I think I found a fitness game that could make me go out and snag a Kninect: Zumba Fitness Rush. I had the chance to play this game at a private showing not too long ago. I’ve heard of Zumba and knew that it was quickly rising to the top of fitness classes that people were signing up to take. Plus with the popularity of other dance games like Dance Central, I was interested to see what
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22Feb
Preview – Mass Effect 3
Not to sound like a fangirl or anything (which I’m totally about to sound like), but holy wow this was fantastic and it was just the demo! I can’t wait for the actual game! Space! Reapers! The Normandy! SUBMACHINE GUN! Queue hysterical Beatles fans screaming and subsequent passing out. Now that I got that out of the way, let’s talk about the demo for Mass Effect 3 that BioWare released for fans as possibly the best Valentine’s Day gift I know I’ve ever gotten/will ever get (let’s not go into the implication of that statement here). If ever there was a perfect example of a demo and the purpose of a demo, it would be this one in my opinion. It showed off the goods as far as what the game will look like, how it will run and the new features without giving away everything about the game. That
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07Feb
Review – Generator Rex: Agent of Providence
Genre: Action/Adventure Rating: E10+ / PEGI: 12 Developer/Publisher: Activision Release Date: November 1, 2011 RENT I picked up Generator Rex: Agent of Providence with the thought that despite it being for the 10-12 year old set, my five year old son might find it entertaining. I should caveat the rest of this review with the fact that we do not watch the show and had never heard of the series, but I am always up for a new game. If you, like me, were unaware of the cartoon, here is the general idea: Nanites have infected everything and everyone on the planet, and they randomly mutate creatures. Some creatures manage to deal with the mutations and use them (such as Rex), but most go insane and become monsters. Rex can control his mutations and use them to neutralize the monsters and their mutations. He works for an organization called Providence, and
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06Feb
Review – Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic
Publisher: Majesco Players: single player, with up to 4 player multiplayer Genre: Simulation Release Date: November 15, 2011 Rent I’ve played the Cooking Mama games off and on casually since they’ve come out. They’re fun games to play, and I was interested to see what they were going to bring to the table with Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic for the Nintendo 3DS. Cooking Mama 4 is very much like the previous games in which you are cooking recipes that start off in varying difficulties, from something easy like a grilled cheese to more complex recipies. Some can for sure be tricky and I know I had to repeat a couple just to get the gold rating. Game mechanic wise, not much has changed. If you’ve played any of the previous games before, you will be able to grasp the controls quite easily. Not to mention since the controls are
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20Jan
Preview – Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was the furthest thing from my mind for 2012. Yeah, it looks like a pretty RPG, but I don’t have time for that. I’ve barely scratched the surface of Skyrim, Final Fantasy XIII-2 releases in a couple of weeks, and don’t forget, Mass Effect 3 drops in about six weeks. I have my RPG fix, thank you. But of course, the developers just have to cross streams with Mass Effect 3 by offering weapons and armor that you can only get by completing the demo. So yeah, I downloaded it and played the entire thing, including the 45 minutes of additional exploration just for the ME3 goodies. The things I do for Mass Effect…almost shameful. But then something unexpected happened: I LIKED Kingdoms of Amalur. If Dragon Age: Origins and Dungeon Siege III had a love child, this game would be it. It has all of the character creation and depth of
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18Jan
Review: Scene It? Movie Night
Publisher: Screenlife Players: 4 player vs Genre: Trivia Release Date: November 30, 2011 BUY The Scene It? Series is always a great game to play with friends at a party. Gamers or not, the controls have always been easy to understand and the quizzes are fun to play. Besides, who doesn’t love proving they know more than their friends about Movies? My Scene It? controllers from Box Office Smash and Lights Camera Action, have been sitting in our controller bin for quite some while. I was surprised and ecstatic when Screenlife PR contacted us with a chance to try their newest title for XBLA and PSN, Scene It? Movie Night. The game is a downloadable for 800 MS Points or $9.99 on Playstation Network. My husband is a movie know-it-all, so I love playing the previous Scene It trivia games with him. But what he enjoyed most about Scene It? Movie
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06Jan
Review – Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
Rated: T for Teen Genre: Third-person shooter Publisher: D3 Publisher Developer: Vicious Cycle Software Release Date: July 5, 2011 RENT The sequel to Earth Defense Force 2017, Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon takes place on an Earth that is once again devastated and infested by giant alien insects. Naturally, only Earth Defense Force can stop them. it’s up to you and your team, Strike Force Lightning, to defend the city of New Detroit against the otherwordly invasion by deestroying the hordes any way you can (even if that means using a building to crush them into an alien insect version of crunchy peanut butter). I’ll be honest: I’ve never even heard of the Earth Defense Force series of games so I didn’t have any expectations when I loaded this up on my Steam account. The game is a third-person shooter, and you can play through a Campaign, Survival or Co-op mode, each consisting of your generic
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04Jan
Review – Saints Row: The Third
Rating: M (Mature 17+) Genre: Action-Adventure Publisher: THQ Developer: Volition, Inc. Release Date: November 15, 2011 BUY I will first admit that I have not played the previous Saints Row games. I’ve heard good things, but they just never appealed to me. That is until I saw promos for Saints Row The Third. The game itself just looked so over the top and fun because it wasn’t taking itself seriously. Plus their promo stunt at E3 with the carwash was pretty funny. So not long after it was released my boyfriend and I picked up the game and I’ve been having a blast! To start, character creation is over the top. It was honestly hard to decide if I wanted to first play through as a guy or a girl. I did wind up choosing to play as a girl, and decided to re-create Christina Hendricks to the best of
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21Dec
Review – Gears of War 3: RAAM’s Shadow (DLC)
Finally, a DLC for a shooter game that isn’t a map pack. I’m talking about RAAM’s Shadow, the first campaign DLC for the Gears of War franchise, and hopefully not the last. As the name hints at the boss of the first game, this DLC is a prequel from before the first game, and even includes a couple of characters who did not survive the first two games–Kim and Tai. As Marcus was most likely still in the Slab during this time frame, RAAM’s Shadow instead focuses on Kim and Tai’s original squadron, Zeta, which at one time included Val and Barrick. Barrick is an uglier, angrier version of Marcus, and Val is a hybrid of Anya and Sam. Even though none of these squad members have as much depth as the usual Delta team, it’s a bit refreshing to play as completely different characters. What’s even more refreshing is the
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