Posted on Jan 23, 2009 under Games Review, Play Station |
So last night I got some time to try out GTI Club + while downloading the demo for Skate 2.
So today, I talked about this game at work with my co-worker and he said the first game was pretty good so I was even more excited to give this a try after work. The demo offers the single player as well as a party demo which allows you go party together with up to 3 other players (offline not online) which I didn’t get a chance to try since I only have one controller (still!) and I couldn’t call any of my friends right at that moment. But after playing the single player, This MIGHT just be the first skateboard game I will purchase!
I also want to point out that the demo is time based, you can extend the time by performing tricks to earn more points. Before you actually go out there and start boarding you get to customize your character. You can customize from a wide range of features like gender, hair type/color, eye color, facial hair etc. The customization can easily drain 30 minutes of your game time if you go crazy with your character. You also start off with $300 which is used to purchase different clothes or skateboard, which I didn’t. Finally you get to choose your stance, goofy means your right foot in front and regular means left foot in front. I’m a regular, just like in snowboarding.
Once you are done with your character, you will start off in the neighborhood. Similar to the popular GTA 4, Skate 2 has a “sand box” style world and you can skateboard/move freely within the neighborhood. Then again you can’t really do that in this demo since you only have a few minutes, unless you start performing tricks and earn points in order to extend the timer.
Honestly as a first time Skate player, I had some trouble trying to memorize all the controls because there are quite a few to remember. But in time you will get used to the controls. Since the demo is time based, you don’t really have too much time to test out the controls and each “trick”. During the game, you have to jump across a gap which you have to first pick up speed, then pull the right analog stick back and then forward to make your character jump. The whole process was harder than I thought. If you fail, the tips screen will play and explain to you how to do execute jump properly. The tips screen is great, for the first time because the explanation is very clear combined with demonstration. But every time you miss the jump, you are forced to see the same screen over and over again until you make it across. Very annoying!
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Posted on Jan 23, 2009 under Play Station |
PS3 from different brands available free of cost! The advertisement on Internet is enough to grab your attention and increase your curiosity to learn further. Remember! It’s not only you, who is going to be profited by this offer. There are many people in the chain, who will enjoy benefits from free PS3 offers at their respective levels.
Why free offers like this were not common before the advent of Internet? The reason is that advertising such offers in newspapers or TV would have cost an ocean. Internet has already declared itself as the inexpensive media for advertising and thus, the stores with free offers are able to save on endorsement campaign.
Coming back to the list of profit-makers, you are obviously on top of the list. Now, as these free offers are purely meant for spreading the message about a business product, you might be asked to refer this offer to a couple of friends. Thus, your friends or other dear ones are also benefited with such offers.
You are going to find these offers on various referral websites and thus, these websites earn impressive commissions from the online store or brand manufacturer on every free sale of the product in question. So, even if these websites are spending a bit to refer these offers to people like you, what they get in return easily surpasses the expenses.
Finally, what does an online store or the brand company gets out of the free deal? Selling sophisticated products like free PS3 can cost these companies in abundance. Don’t forget that they are adding you and those referred by you to their customer base. Obviously, if you like their product, you can look upon these companies for good quality products in future as well.
The above piece of writing once again proves the fascinating aspect of online advertising, which is associated with profits for all those associated with it.
Posted on Dec 09, 2008 under Fun, General Gaming Tips, Play Station, Wii, Xbox 360 |
If you’re an avid gamer like me you have probably thought at one time that it would be nice if there was a way to protect your gaming disks from been lost or damaged. I know I have spent a lot of money over the years replacing lost or damaged gaming disks. Most recently, my young son got in to my collection and proceeded to throw those fragile disks across the room - It goes without saying that many of them were damaged and rendered unplayable.
After this expensive incident I started to seek out a way to protect my disks by been able to copy then and just play the backup versions while putting the original disks out of harms way. I came across a product called Game Copy pro that stated it would make perfect backup copies of my gaming disks that I could then use. at first I was skeptical regarding this product, it seemed a little too good to be true that for 30 bucks I could copy any of my gaming disks, after all I had spent several hundred dollars over the years buying replacement copies of games that had been destroyed or damaged.
I purchased the product and installed it. This was all very easy to do. The Game Copy pro software I found to be quite easy to use. In the members area of the Game Copy Pro website they have video tutorials also that explain how the software works and the steps it takes to copy a game disk.
Copying a disk was again, quite easy to do. It took a few minutes to copy the large amounts of data that is on a game disk but you can just let Game Copy Pro do its thing while you work on other things.
I have both an Xbox and PlayStation systems and have tried making copies of games for both systems and Game Copy Pro made the copies without issue. Most new games come with some form of copy protection on them but Game Copy Pro has sophisticated algorithms that can bypass almost all of them and the developers of the program do a good job it seems of releasing new updates so that the program stays one step ahead of the latest copy protection issues.
I was surprised after joining that the program comes with a number of bonus features. Some of these bonuses include the ability to download games for free from a massive database of over three million titles! They also have an extensive collection of movies and tv shows you can download also. Plus, there is a huge library of game cheats that you can search through.
A slight disappointment was the technical support offered by the Game Copy Pro team. I had an error that kept occurring when trying to copy one of my disks and emailed support about it. It took them several days to reply offering a solution to my problem., I was a little disappointed in the response time but they did help fix my problems.
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Posted on Oct 18, 2008 under Games Review, Play Station |
LEGO was part of my childhood, it was and still is an innovative toy. When you combine LEGO with Batman, the result is an extremely addictive game with so many features to keep you from turning off your PSP.
I have never played LEGO Star Wars but I’ve played LEGO Indiana Jones (demo). I think LEGO Indiana Jones is an average game, probably because I am not a huge fan of the series. On the other hand, I’ve always loved Batman series so its only naturally for me to love LEGO Batman as well.
Story and controls
The story is no brainer, all your well known villains are in this game including Penguin, Poison Ivy, Joker, Riddler, Clayface and Mr.Freeze are here terrorizing Gotham City. Your job obviously is to clean up the mess. The controls are very simple with jump, punch and switch between the two characters etc. Anyone will be able to figure out the controls almost immediately. Tips will show up when you are near key areas so most of the time you will know what to do and how to get to a particular area. Player friendly is one of the reasons why I think this game is worth the money. Auto aim also exists so that your character will punch whatever is breakable (if in range).
Game play and graphics
As I mentioned the controls are easy to get a hang on, this also makes the game play more enjoyable because you can actually PLAY the game instead of constantly trying to figure out what is what. I assume because the target audience is kids since its rated E for everyone. When you destroy objects, you will get LEGO pieces, those are actually your money that you can spend on upgrading your suits and other “toys”. This greatly increases the replay value of this game because of the unlockable and upgradable items. After the first chapter, you are given either to continue to next chapter or back to the Batcave. Instead of picking continue which will load the next chapter, you can save the game and enter your Batcave.
After finishing the first episode as Batman/Robin, you can then play as Riddler/Clayface by unlocking the option in the Batcave or you can choose to continue with the other two Batman episodes.
The Batcave is amazingly designed with detailed textures (when comparing to PS2 graphics) and the cave is really big separated by different areas. The main area will allow you to pick one of the 3 episodes using one of Batman’s vehicles which are made of LEGO. You can jump from episode to episode and don’t have to play them in order. You can also go back to the mansion and check your trophies from your accomplishments.
Aside from having detailed buildings, the characters all have detailed facial expressions as well which make the cut scenes so much more fun to watch (the cut scenes are hilarious by the way!).
Sound
The Batman themed music is pretty much from the Batman movies starred Michael Keaton (personally I think he was the best Batman) if not exactly the same. The music is so good that as I’m writing this review, its still in my head playing non stop. But I’m guessing I might get bored of it sooner or later.
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