First things first, this is an absolute beast of a game. Most full priced major console games are about 10 hours long, not including multiplayer, yeah? Well this took me 60 hours to clear, and I'm having more fun building a powerful team and battling online, as well as completing my Pokedex.
The game itself is still just the basic Pokemon formula and is roughly the same game as Diamond and Pearl, but is still worth playing through again. The new Pokemon are still not as good as the classic ones we all know and love, but they're not as useless as R/S/E additions such as Luvdisc.
I can't really review this game in depth because it is almost exactly the same as the two previous games, with only a 3D puzzle near the end and some Pokemon locations as difference.
Pros
Long, but not difficult.
The Pokemon formula is still one of the best base games ever made.
Cons
A rehash of Diamond and Pearl
Overall
If you don't have any of the previous two, pick this up. It's an RPG that gets the point between fun grinding and boring grinding nicely and is plenty long for your money. One of the best on the DS.
Thursday 27 August 2009
Monday 10 August 2009
InFamous Review
First things first, I only bought this game because it was £20 on Ebay. Bit of a bargain.
Anyway, you play Cole, a messenger who happens to deliver a bomb. He wakes up to discover the explosion has given him superpowers, specifically, the ability to use electricity as a weapon and such. He's Electro from Spiderman.
He gets forced into using his powers to help the FBI figure out what happened, but the interesting stuff is the choices you can make. That's right, another game with Karma built in, but this is kinda interesting because it changes some of the powers you get.
For example, if you choose to be Evil, your powers become more deadly and more likely to kill passers as well as the enemies, and the Good powers are mostly used to subdue the enemies, rather than kill everyone.
The missions are interesting and never seem repetitive, the play area is pretty big and the game has the all important "feel", so you actually feel like a superhero, or villain as you play the game. The reminiscence of Spiderman 2: The Movie on PS2 is not a bad thing in this scenario.
The characters are at the least non-annoying and the voice acting is generally good, the graphics look nice and it has decent level of re-playability.
Good:
The two morality choices are different enough to warrant playing through twice.
Its fun playing through on both difficulties.
Bad
Very little reason to play through more than twice
Overall
Its a really good game if you can get a bargain or a long term rental/borrow. It is a very fun game, but not really as unique as it would like to think it is, with both Spiderman 2 and Prototype being very similar games.
Anyway, you play Cole, a messenger who happens to deliver a bomb. He wakes up to discover the explosion has given him superpowers, specifically, the ability to use electricity as a weapon and such. He's Electro from Spiderman.
He gets forced into using his powers to help the FBI figure out what happened, but the interesting stuff is the choices you can make. That's right, another game with Karma built in, but this is kinda interesting because it changes some of the powers you get.
For example, if you choose to be Evil, your powers become more deadly and more likely to kill passers as well as the enemies, and the Good powers are mostly used to subdue the enemies, rather than kill everyone.
The missions are interesting and never seem repetitive, the play area is pretty big and the game has the all important "feel", so you actually feel like a superhero, or villain as you play the game. The reminiscence of Spiderman 2: The Movie on PS2 is not a bad thing in this scenario.
The characters are at the least non-annoying and the voice acting is generally good, the graphics look nice and it has decent level of re-playability.
Good:
The two morality choices are different enough to warrant playing through twice.
Its fun playing through on both difficulties.
Bad
Very little reason to play through more than twice
Overall
Its a really good game if you can get a bargain or a long term rental/borrow. It is a very fun game, but not really as unique as it would like to think it is, with both Spiderman 2 and Prototype being very similar games.
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