scooby_dooby
Legend
Crackdown - 8/10
Fun but too repetitive, and lacking variety in missions. I really didn't find the orb hunting that entertaining.
Gears of War - 8.5/10
Presentation top notch, combat felt extremely visceral. GFX weren't really my cup of tea. Sure, high res textures everywhere, but the colours were drab, and the character models were weakm especially enemies.
The story was pretty much crap, and the overall length was too short.
Blue Dragon - 8.5/10
Played it on hard mode and it was an excellent challenge. After unlocking the airship on disc three, the entire game world opened up and it really came into it's own. Amazing graphics, excellent sound track, and a great variety of missions/villages. The fighting system was also excellent, with great depth that only is exposed when playing on the harer difficulty.
A boring story, and slow pacing in the beginning dragged this one down.
Bioshock - 9.5/10
Amazing graphics combined with the best story I've seen in a long long time make for one of my favourite games ever. The plasmids offered great variety in gameplay, and using your imagination you can come up with many fun ways to play the game.
Some may say the challenge wasn't there, but the game offered all the options to challenge yourself, which is what I chose to do.
Halo 3 - 8/10
The visceral combat is still there, but the graphics and AI were major dissapointments. I can't understand people giving this a 6/10, as the core combat is so damn fun and challenging. I think people giving it such low scores just were not very skilled at the game, and as such never experienced the joy that is pure white-knuckled combat, rather they played it safe and sniped from a distance. Not the way this game was meant to be played.
Assassin's Creed - 8.5/10
Best graphics I've ever seen, and an amazing game world. Great storyline that gets a little silly at the end. The repetition is annoying, though the feeling of planning, and executing the perfect assasination is pure gold.
I loved almost everything about this game, but the experience was marred by repetitive audio, and a lack of challenge.
Mario Galaxy - 8/10
Fun stuff, but not much challenge. Mario never lets you down, but I feel the way this game has been designed removes much of the challenge that made Mario so much fun in the past.
Even the more challenging levels, are fairly short, meaning you can always replay them in bite sized chunks. It's much less frustrating, but also less rewarding. There's also no risk of ever hitting a game over, as it simply resets you to 5 lives every time you start the game.
Mass Effect - 9.75/10
Probably the best game I've ever played. Sure it has a bunch of technical problems, but it stands so far above other titles that it's like comparing a T-Bone steak, to a Hamburger, there just is no comparison, even if the T-bone is not perfectly seasoned!
The story blew me away, the variety of sidequests, and sheer quantity of exploration was amazing. The graphics all in all are beautiful, the sound is some of the best in recent memory.
My major gripe is that the force powers are a little neutured. Compared to shooting lightning bolts from your fingers, or choking an entire group of enemies in KOTOR, these felt a little on the weak side, and I couldn't stop wishing I had a Force Choke ability
Fun but too repetitive, and lacking variety in missions. I really didn't find the orb hunting that entertaining.
Gears of War - 8.5/10
Presentation top notch, combat felt extremely visceral. GFX weren't really my cup of tea. Sure, high res textures everywhere, but the colours were drab, and the character models were weakm especially enemies.
The story was pretty much crap, and the overall length was too short.
Blue Dragon - 8.5/10
Played it on hard mode and it was an excellent challenge. After unlocking the airship on disc three, the entire game world opened up and it really came into it's own. Amazing graphics, excellent sound track, and a great variety of missions/villages. The fighting system was also excellent, with great depth that only is exposed when playing on the harer difficulty.
A boring story, and slow pacing in the beginning dragged this one down.
Bioshock - 9.5/10
Amazing graphics combined with the best story I've seen in a long long time make for one of my favourite games ever. The plasmids offered great variety in gameplay, and using your imagination you can come up with many fun ways to play the game.
Some may say the challenge wasn't there, but the game offered all the options to challenge yourself, which is what I chose to do.
Halo 3 - 8/10
The visceral combat is still there, but the graphics and AI were major dissapointments. I can't understand people giving this a 6/10, as the core combat is so damn fun and challenging. I think people giving it such low scores just were not very skilled at the game, and as such never experienced the joy that is pure white-knuckled combat, rather they played it safe and sniped from a distance. Not the way this game was meant to be played.
Assassin's Creed - 8.5/10
Best graphics I've ever seen, and an amazing game world. Great storyline that gets a little silly at the end. The repetition is annoying, though the feeling of planning, and executing the perfect assasination is pure gold.
I loved almost everything about this game, but the experience was marred by repetitive audio, and a lack of challenge.
Mario Galaxy - 8/10
Fun stuff, but not much challenge. Mario never lets you down, but I feel the way this game has been designed removes much of the challenge that made Mario so much fun in the past.
Even the more challenging levels, are fairly short, meaning you can always replay them in bite sized chunks. It's much less frustrating, but also less rewarding. There's also no risk of ever hitting a game over, as it simply resets you to 5 lives every time you start the game.
Mass Effect - 9.75/10
Probably the best game I've ever played. Sure it has a bunch of technical problems, but it stands so far above other titles that it's like comparing a T-Bone steak, to a Hamburger, there just is no comparison, even if the T-bone is not perfectly seasoned!
The story blew me away, the variety of sidequests, and sheer quantity of exploration was amazing. The graphics all in all are beautiful, the sound is some of the best in recent memory.
My major gripe is that the force powers are a little neutured. Compared to shooting lightning bolts from your fingers, or choking an entire group of enemies in KOTOR, these felt a little on the weak side, and I couldn't stop wishing I had a Force Choke ability
