When it was announced that square was releasing Final Fantasy 1 on the iPhone I was skeptical, now to be honest the only version I’ve ever played was for the NES when I was like 8 years old but I loved the game. I decided to break down and spend the 9 bucks on a 20 year old game. But I’m here to say if you haven’t had the opportunity to play this in 20 years you barely remember the story and it is fun to relive the memories. I of course named all the characters after my family and the boys would watch me play. the updated graphics is a plesant upgrade and it seem there are few dungeons added that weren’t there in the original. My only complaint echos several of the reviews on the iPhone the movement controls or dpad is a little “wonky” I’m really hoping they fix it in an upgrade. Suggestion to anyone looking at this for a purchase, I love the game I don’t love the price, paying 9 bucks for a game just seems a bit like highway robbery on the iPhone. So pick it up on sale.
Well as of this last weekend my life is over I’ve deleted all my other iPhone apps an
d now I am investing large amounts of time in the new release from the makers of bejeweled. Plants Vs Zombies is an incredibly addicting game that got me hooked on the mac a few months back and now its in my pocket all the time. the game play is identical in fact the new way you control the layout feels like the game should have been made for the iPhone in the first place. Please if you haven’t played this one yet you have to give it a try and for 2.99 how could you say no.
I had my brother recommend this game on the iTouch to me soon after I received my iTouch and I agree this game really did seem like the iTouch’s long lost first person shooter. Even without the tactile control of D pad this game is functional. When I first started playing this game seemed impossible, but it was simply a hard learning curve on learning the controls the high customizing of your own personal character is great as well as this game being on the great plus+ network ensures continued updates and functionality of this game.
This game is highly customizable making it very appealing you create your own stratergy
The best news about Eliminate pro though is that it is completely free though that limits your plays a day without money to three times roughly every five or so hours and allowing you to buy more plays I feel that three times on this game really enough whenever I play it keeps the game fresh and some how it doesn’t get old when I pace myself like that. The game consists of you playing three other real people live online which is surprising for the Iphone in my opinion that it can connect so many devices at once well.
simple environments but surprisingly pretty for the iphone
The bad: Well you really can’t complain much about a free game, but the one thing I must mention is for anyone out there with an iPhone it is best to play eliminate in a hotspot because the 3g tends to be lag the game a bit for you in the experience of me testing things out.
overall 8.5/10
I was immediately excited when I heard about Shadow Complex on the Xbox arcade first because the story line of the whole game was based as a fit in Orson Scott Cards empire series and secondly because of the gameplay itself.
ready for this?
Shadow Complex is built like an original metroid it consists of your character wandering through a complex map finding all the assorted hidden things inside the game, with an added twist in this game your firing area existed on a three d platform so while you can only walk on a 2d plane you fire and interact in a 3d plain which could sound like it would get extremely annoying, I’m here to say its not. I picked up the demo for the game and played it over and over a few times through and couldn’t get enough and somehow it didn’t get old.
Ready to kick revivalist rear!!
The great: This game really blew me away as I the game seemed like a finished piece of art and felt like a breath of fresh air in the gaming industry and for only fifteen dollars which may seem overpriced for an xbox arcade game it is definitely worth the money as this game seems like a highly polished game even if it is short for a full on console game. The graphics in Shadow complex are highly polished and very nice the whole game engine from unreal fits like a glove on the game itself it feels just right. The story is intriguing and believable in a completely video game way, but I always feel like figuring out some new way to use the abilities the game gives you.
That's right just a normal guy not some genetically modified mumbo jumbo
The bad: While this game is a great package it’t not quite all roses the 3d shooting plane although great does give you trouble at times you sometimes get frustrated as you can’t aim at what you really want to. The story in this game is extremely short and could use more content if that was so i would have no problem paying 20 or thirty for this game and with more content I wouldn’t mind it as a full game.
The verdict 9.5/10
I don’t know if anyone else has felt the same, but let me start out by saying, I really like my iPod Touch. It is a great device and I feel like it really is useful for podcasts and tons of cool apps. I pretty much don’t go anywhere without which is surprising because I used to be very much in the Nintendo DS camp. However, I am starting to feel a little overloaded with games! I don’t go to the apps store looking for stuff anymore, I pick up the things that I hear about sales on and stuff that is recommended to me by people that I trust. Even with that, currently I have all 11 pages filled on my device plus another 4 pages of apps that I can’t see but are still on there. It is ridiculous! So now the real question is, what is the next step to help us wade through all the garbage on the App Store? Perhaps there needs to be some sort of certification process so it can present some small hurdle to get into the store. I mean really how many more picture viewers do we need? After that I need to figure out when I am going to find time to play some of this awesome stuff and get it off of my device. I’m open to suggestions!
I don’t know about anyone else, but I absolutely loved playing Command & Conquer: Red Alert. It really was one of the early defining games in the Real Time Strategy games. Playing with the Allied and the Soviets or the GDI and the NOD it just brings back so many memories. Well here is the new, preparing for upcoming Command & Conquer 4 EA has released the old classics as freeware. So go fire them up on the oldest computer you can find and get some free gaming love! www.commandandconquer.com/classic
Can you keep up? I recently picked up this fairly old game that I realized we hadn’t reviewed. Considering my strange love of rhythm I knew this review had my name written all over it, just yelled A! at me.
Initial response: Taking Elite Beat agents out of the pack it was hooking pretty quickly I played through the game in just a few hours, but with multiple levels of diffuculty this game becomes absolutely impossible though insanely fun.
The good: It has a great selection of songs and generally is a good game. The stories accompanying the songs are actually fairly decent though I can see them getting old after things happening time and time again when trying frustratingly hard your one hundredth time to beat a level. This game in general has a quirkiness to it that makes you want to love it.
The bad: on this game there is a very limited selection of songs a very short story which is limited by the small storage memory of a DS game cartridge. The dialogue may get corny and sometimes get old and the rhythm of the game is hard to follow occasionally because of the masking of voices over the beat that you’re listening to.
overall impression: This game is really addicting you don’t get flustrated playing songs and when you do it makes you want to finish it that much more.
overall score: 9/10
So I just recently aquired an Xbox 360 and I took my brothers advice and played Ghostbusters and my opinion completely agrees with his. I actually put off playing this title at first thinking it sounded so geeky and corny, but then I started playing and I couldn’t put it down it was completely fun and addicting though it may be hard for kids that can’t competently button mash, but it definately functioned well and if you don’t want to take me or my brothers opinion go pick it up for yourself it’s old enough now that it can be found used for pretty cheap and if ya don’t want to dump that many bones rent it for cheap and find out for yourself this game that got far to overlooked in what a great fun game it is. Let someone scare you and feel like your about to pee your pants over a completely silly thing.
overall score 9/10
So after Apples big announcement I have ponder the abilities of Apple and questioned their decision. Honestly I don’t think we fully understand what was released, Apple/Steve Jobs has the habit of releasing Devices, ie iPod, and iPhone, that people think that is what everyone else is doing but somehow they dominate the market. I think it finally dawned on my this weekend who the iPad was perfect for and why they are going to sell. Its for your parents and grandparents, for those who don’t understand why their computer slows down or why they get viruses from email. This is for those you just want to do internet, email and for 9 bucks they can do a little word processing.
So I recently walked into the local Wal-Mart with the intent of buying a long deserved game and had a hard choice to make for a DS game between Mario and Luigi: Bowsers inside story, and Kingdom hearts. Apparently I picked up Kingdom Hearts in the end when I decided I wanted something a bit different. I don’t regret the choice because this game was beautiful! Though the gameplay may have lacked a little bit or the things seemed to drag and become a little monotonous when I hit one of the cut scenes it became totally worth it. Never have I seen such great art on the DS. I was suprised I wasn’t looking at console graphics on this little handheld. The gameplay itself could tend to get ugly, but I could tell how much I thought moments of this game utterly priceless.
First the bad, frames were choppy when a lot of stuff happened on screen I saw fps drop to nearly half of what it was normally running and I knew this wasn’t right in the least. The other thing about this game is that as you go on from day to day I found myself completely lost granted I haven’t gone through all of the kingdom hearts series, but I found myself begging for more plot and somehow not getting it at all. In fact as the game ended I found myself asking what the heck just happened I knew I’d liked the story, buttt I wasn’t quite sure what had exactly happened in it. Also as you progressed in the game I got fed a little bit of story then got sent on four or five mindless missions that didn’t reveal anything. They felt were more like time fillers in the story and I found it hard for me to go back and complete things one hundred percent when I wasn’t learning anything more about the characters and was doing the exact same thing constantly, going into a world beating a few heartless only to come back. Over and over and over again or my all time least favorite mission, go collect random items then come back. I felt like I was really wasting my time even though for some people that could really be a upside to the game to me it made the game drag on longer than it should have.
Last, but most definitely not least the good, as I mentioned above this game has a stellar story as they fed me a little bit of story I asked for more and more and more to the point I really didn’t wanna go back and find the last treasure chest in mission 42 I just wanted to head forward in the game. Though the story is weird and quirky and I’ll admit the slightest bit cheesy it reminded me of the Square Enix I love with deep multi faceted charactered and weird off the wall events that made absolutely no sense at all, but somehow was amazing! Don’t get me wrong it could have been better but it definitely was a good reminder of the good ole days of gaming when it wasn’t perfect by far, but it was a great attempt at an amazing thing. I also will commend Sqaure for creating a different approach at stats and items, the game works by assigning a different block shape to each power or ability or level then slowly as your beat missions you unlock slots in your stat board and you are allowed to assign to abilities to the new empty tiles. It may not be perfect but I sure liked it it was fun and enjoyable and a fresh take on the old cut and dry RPG. Along with this system hours of replayablity were worked into this game by making it so you can hop back to any mission you have completed and do it over to earn challenge awards to get your cooler stronger gear for your character, while not something will be doing all the time any time soon I’m sure I will pick this game up just to try and see how much of the challenges and such I can possibly finish.
The Verdict: I really liked this game a lot though it did drag all the time story wise through the whole experience, even though I completely loved the story that was there. I personally put a lot on a good story and a battle system that works in any RPG that I play.
Score 8.2/10
