This week in GameSeertopia – the Game Seers talk about Grand Theft Auto 4 (Spoilers) – The Force Unleashed (More Spoilers) – Dead Space – Sneaky Snakes – Mega Man 9 – Grapes of Wrath 2 (complete with Great Depression 2) and a lot more!
Sep 28
When reviewing a Star Wars game, it is very difficult to review being completely unbiased. By that I mean – depending on how true a game is to the Star Wars franchise it is easy to inflate the rating, or conversely – if the game is a bit too far fetched for the Star Wars universe it is almost without a second of after thought that it is fed to the sharks and put completely out of mind. That being said, my initial reaction to playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (on Xbox 360) was inflate – I have to say the story is very genuine and doesn’t feel like a poorly manufactured tale was woven together just trying to make bank on the Star Wars cash cow. However, even at only 30 minutes into the game I began to see some pretty unfortunate flaws. Right away you’ll notice how easy the game is (I beat the game on Sith Warrior difficulty) – the automatic deflecting of laser bolts feels a little cheap though admittedly I really don’t see many other ways to correct that on the 360. You’ll also notice that your light saber will make quick work of any droid slicing them in half like butter – however, when dealing with actual life forms your light saber functions more like a light baseball bat and you really just are beating the hell out of your enemies until they eventually die, perhaps out of boredom. The cut scene boss battles leave you feeling a bit cheated as with the simple push of a button you are delivering the ‘coup de grace’ to your enemy that you had to senselessly bash your way through entire drones of light saber immune bastards just to get there. SWTFU is however an awesome display of power for the 360, the game is rendered amazingly in full 1080P HD, I cannot even imagine sacrificing the resolution to play it on the Wii (I will try to play this on Wii though to be fair) – what the game does absolutely right is tell a great story that fits in with the current 6 films in between episode 3 and 4 and also explains how some Jedi managed to escape the dreaded clone attacks. For what it’s worth the Force Unleashed is pretty decent game. It won’t be in my list for game of the year 2008 but certainly will not get too dusty in the collection. I definitely recommend renting it for everyone, and for the die hard Star Wars; fans dive into your pockets and fork over the money – it looks like Georgie Boy didn’t get his hands into this one to ruin it. When you get to the end you get to make a decision on dark side or light side – either choice effects the outcome of the story. (Check youtube for spoilers for the opposite of your decision unless you want to play through again, which unless you’re a achievement point junky you probably will not do)
Rating Scale 1 being bad 10 being perfect.
Graphics: (8.5)
Story: (8.5)
Game Play: (7)
Music/Sound: (8.5)
Replay Factor: (6)
Overall Rating: (7.5)
Sep 25
In this week’s episode the Game Seers talk a lot about the Force Unleashed – good bad and ugly (a lot of ugly) – as well as some thoughts on Pure for the 360. Jeff and Ryan agree Mega Man 9 on the Wii’s Virtual Console is the most difficult game of all time and our new resident PC gamer Mike Frangione stops by to give his thoughts on Spore as well as the Socom beta that is out. We also discuss the TV series Lost.
Aug 27
In this weeks Episode Aaron and Ryan discuss what they’ve been playing the past week. The new Star Wars: Force Unleashed Demo on XBox 360 and take a trip down memory lane at old Star Wars games. Things suddenly take a turn South of crazy when a secret guest stops in on the Game Seers!
