Bleep, Bleep. Bloop, Bloop. Video Games. 10-18/24-09
For the week of October 18 – 24: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Borderlands, Famitsu’s 40/40, NXE update preview and Doom gets fancy.
Mucho releasiosos this week, mucho reviewio and more framed vagina shots than you can shake a stick at!
NEW RELEASES
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
This week the COOP crew had a great discussion about the newly released Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Why didn’t I talk about it last week when it was released? Well in case you haven’t noticed I try and keep my efforts to a minimum and waited for someone else to do the work for me so I can post that.
Game looks fantastic. A little Prince of Persia environment navigation, a little Indiana Jones adventuring, humongous set pieces to explore, interesting story and some of the highest quality productions to date.
Borderlands
Also out this week, Boarderlands, a post apocalyptic FPS with a heavy lean on loot drops, RPG upgrading and procedurally generated guns. A FPS Diablo from Fallout 3 with an amazing art style if you will. The ability to run through the campaign online with three other players sounds like a lot of fun too.
Giantbomb.com’s got my back this week with another great video review!
NEWS
Japanese game publication Famitsu has some interesting news tucked away inside its latest issue. Known for being incredibly stingy with its perfect 40/40 score has awarded Sega’s latest release Bayonetta with the award. Could it be the game is rightfully deserving or the gratuitous T&A?
It comes from the director of Devil May Cry and Viewtiful Joe which are both pretty great games so I’m willing to hold my tongue until I pass judgement. I just can’t help but see the Ms. Lemon character from 30 Rock all sexed up and kicking demon butt.
Peep the game trailer.
List of games Famitsu has awarded the coveted 40/40 score.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998, Nintendo, for Nintendo 64)
Soulcalibur (1999, Namco, for Dreamcast)
Vagrant Story (2000, Square Co., Ltd., for PlayStation)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2003, Nintendo for Nintendo GameCube)
Nintendogs (2005, Nintendo, for Nintendo DS)
Final Fantasy XII (2006, Square Enix, for PlayStation 2)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008, Nintendo, for Wii)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008, Konami, for PlayStation 3)
428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de (2008, Sega, for Wii)
Dragon Quest IX (2009, Square Enix, for Nintendo DS)
Monster Hunter Tri (2009, Capcom, for Wii)
Bayonetta (2009, Sega, for Xbox 360)
Take note that half of this list comes from the past two years. Perhaps we shouldn’t be so surprised anymore?
Giantbomb.com has also put up an early look at the latest NXE update coming this November. Major additions include a bunch of social networking junk. Check and post to your Facebook and Twitter. The LastFM integration could be useful if you’ve got a nice entertainment system hooked up to your tv.
Finally via Game Set Watch comes a Doom re-imagining that melts my heart.
Also check out the rest of Brandon Duncan’s work. Dude’s got mad skills.
Until next week.
Dale can also be found over at www.8bitcyclops.com, looking at design, photography and old video game magazines.
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Ok, so I finally had a chance to play Borderlands this weekend. I had been excited about it since the first time I read anything about it. Here is how it went down:
Ok, so I popped the game in and cracked open a beer. The first thing I noticed was that the graphics sucked, thats cool with me though.
Then the I noticed how much personality the characters had, and I was quick to decide that my first assumption of the graphics was way wrong. The nitty-gritty graphics really seamed to work for this game.
About 3 hours (and several beers later) I had officially decided that I hated the game. I was very frustrated, and felt like I had made no progress. Needless to say, I felt that I had wasted my money.
I woke up the next morning and to my dismay all I could think about was Borderlands. At was at this point I realized that I was hooked.
In conclusion, I now have a new favorite game. I have yet to play on live but am really digging the split-screen story mode.
Wow thanks for the mention, greatly appreciated!!!
The pleasure is all mine. Keep up the great work!