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19Dec
Wii’s Baroque First Look
I recently rented Baroque for the Wii. It looked interesting, a sort of futuristic RPG with an anime like art style. To play, you have to make sure you use the Wiimote with the nunchuk attached, or try to use a classic styled controller. I opted for the Wiimote/nunchuk play, not having a classic style, and not wanting to dig out my Gamecube controllers. Boy, was I sorry about that choice. The game begins with your character waking up from some sort of stasis and being dropped at the beginning of this dungeon. There’s no instruction on what buttons do what, it’s all trial and error, and it’s very hard to tell the difference between people to talk to and those to try and attack. When you die in Baroque there’s a cut-scene that cannot be skipped, and it plays no matter how many times you’ve died previously. And when
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17Dec
Peggle Nights Holiday Levels!
PopCap games introduced today the first bonus pack of levels for Peggle Nights for those of us who can’t get enough of this game! The Holiday Bonus Pack includes 5 wintry holiday themed levels that can be played either in Quick Play or Duel modes. There are also slightly modified Challenge mode versions of the levels to master. These are awesome. Looking at the pictures of the levels when deciding which to play is deceiving. The movement in these is incredible. AND, the background images include some of the friends we have made from this and other PopCap games. My personal favorite is the O Holey Night level with many black holes for the ball to drop into and come out the center (though Slip Sleddin’ Away runs a close second). And my favorite challenge level is the Mantle Peace, with magic hat laden fireballs! The Bonus Levels are free
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09Dec
World of Warcraft: Trading Card game
When I was younger, the extent of my table top gaming was limited to D&D, and I never really ventured into the realm of games like Magic: The Gathering. However, being the WoW fan that I am, the trading card game, handled by UpperDeck, was always at the back of my mind. I was able to sit down with Herbert Shaw, a rep from UpperDeck to learn more about the WoW trading card game. The WoW TCG is similar to Magic: The Gathering in the fact that it’s also a resource based game where you will start off with a hero card and a deck of resource and ally cards to play. Each hero has it’s own class (hunter, paladin, warlock, etc) and corresponding support/resource cards which include: weapons, abilities, armor, items and quests. You can choose to play on the side of the Alliance or the Horde, just like
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05Dec
Kingdom Hearts: Card Battle (Mobile)
Kingdom Hearts just never stops with its mobile expansions. Kingdom Hearts Mobile (Not to be confused with another game of the same name by Disney) has a whole “Avatar Kingdom” of games At least that’s what Square-Enix called it. There was this one game where it was a puzzle only with gummi blocks. It was sort of like Tetris. Then there was the game I played, Card battle. It’s basically a card game similar to Heats or Spades (I couldn’t figure out which one it was trying to mimic) and you play it with your favorite Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts characters. I guess it’s something to do on a crowded train when you’re bored. Now if only I had tried that new Final Fantasy IV spin off….
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03Dec
Tomb Raider Underworld First Look
The world’s most favorite adventure heroine returns to consoles in the latest (and hopefully better!) installment of Tomb Raider titled Underworld. When rumors first leaked (the world can only guess how) about the fact that a new Tomb Raider was in development Tomb Raider fans everywhere went crazy, including myself. I admit that I didn’t play Tomb Raider Anniversary all the way through because I got sidetracked with school but I vowed to myself that I would pick this one up and just love it. Tomb Raider Underworld had a lot of hype surrounding it’s release that left us all in suspense, especially after catching a glimpse of a teaser trailer showing Lara blowing up her own mansion that left us all wide-eyed and extremely puzzled asking ourselves why in the world she would ever do that. I still haven’t found out the answer to that question but I must
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01Dec
My Sims Kingdom First Look
MySims Kingdom is a Sim/RPG for the Wii and the Nintendo DS. My Sims Kingdom is the sequel to MySims previously released on the Wii. The first time I had a hands-on with MySims Kingdom was at E3 last year. I have to admit, I would have skipped the title, but I ended up having a great conversation with the woman running the demo and sat down to take a closer look. After the demo, I knew I had to play the title when it came out. The original MySims takes the Sims idea and makes the characters all very cute. But in the end, it was still a sims game which meant (for me) repetitive tasks with very little story. Simulation games don’t keep me interested for very long. MySims Kingdom takes a different approach to Sim style play by adding a storyline and interactive cut scenes. Even though
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23Nov
Kingdom Hearts: Coded (First Look)
Well a while back we heard that Square- Enix would be releasing three new Kingdom Hearts games. Well on November 19, 2008 Square-Enix released Kingdom Hearts: Coded in Japan. The first two episodes: Olympus Coliseum and Traverse Town were preinstalled on the Docomo PRIME Series “P-01A” mobile phone. A while back I had the pleasure of playing the Traverse Town Episode. So I present to you a first look at Kingdom Hearts: Coded: I’ve heard a lot of talk about this game and it was mostly negative: “Well I won’t be playing this game it’s never coming to America anyway and why would I want to play a full length game on a mobile phone?” Why? Because it’s fun that’s why! Kingdom Hearts: Coded never forgot the simple rule that a game should be fun. There are no complex controls, the 8 key is Sora’s attack and since I was
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21Nov
Left 4 Dead
One of the coolest team action games of all time and it’s all packaged neatly on your Xbox 360! I remember the days when I used to play Team Fortress (on 360). Rely on teamwork to slaughter the enemy and do it with style. Support your teammates and work together to survive in Left 4 Dead. Now I know it’s multi-platform, but I’m Ms. Xbox 360 FPS, so you know I jumped right on it. This game has some creepy, surprising stuff, but mostly it’s just a really good team FPS. I guess you could classify it as a team-based, survival horror FPS. Basically the premise is your run-of-the-mill ZOMBIE INFECTION… you know the drill. You are forced to play through the stages of each area of the game and survive the waves of zombies armed with 4 team mates, a main and sub weapon, some kickin’ molitov cocktails and
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19Nov
Wrath of the Lich King
I’ve had Wrath of the Lich King for almost a week now, and unlike the approximately 5 people that I’ve seen while on get realm firsts for reaching level 80, I’m still gunning for level 71. However I’ve been able to get a great look at Northrend and the gameplay so far! For the time being I’ve been sticking to questing in the Borean Tundra, but I’ve also checked out Howling Fjord (not to mention I like to just say Fjord. It’s fun!) There are tons of quests to work on in both areas, and some really fun ones as well. I especially enjoy the one involving the murlocs. And the viking guys are awesome. I can’t wait to level and get to that area! As for the Death Knights, that was the first thing I worked on making once I got the game installed. Right now she’s only a
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18Nov
Dead Space First Look
I am about a third of the way through Dead Space. Why only a third? When I play Dead Space, I feel like my heart is going to burst through my chest and that’s just while walking around. The title uses sound in ways that I have not witnessed in a game. You hear screams off to the side and you know that something nasty is waiting for you. Dead Space is a third-person survival horror-action video game. If you enjoy survival horror games than you are in for a treat. You play as Issac Clarke who ends up battling the craziest looking aliens on a mining ship. As a First Look, I won’t give too many details about the game. The controls are pretty easy to use, but there are a lot of them. EA was not lying when they stressed the importance of strategic dismemberment. I have never
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