February 2009

If you are as avid of a fan as I am of the Simpsons then you will love the newest game that has finally made its way to the next generation video gaming consoles. The Simpsons: The Game is the latest foray of the animated and colorful family from Springfield, brought to you and to life on the Xbox 360 by none other than Electronic Arts. The game has a rather lengthy intro that looks nearly identical to the cartoon, meaning that the animations and the frame rates are about identical to those that you see on TV, and sometimes they are even better.

In the beginning Bart is caught playing a mature adult video game called Grand Theft Springfield – when Marge catches him and takes it away. Throughout the game, you will explore the lives of all of the lovable family, from Homer – where you are taken on an adventure in his dream about cakes, candies and marshmallows, to Bart riding around on his skateboard getting into trouble all over the place.

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A Creation of Yuke's Media Creations and THQ, WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007 for the Xbox 360 is actually one of the best wrestling games that I have ever laid my grubby paws upon the controller over. The graphics are the best part of the game, by far, and are smooth, fluid, realistic and sick. The frame rates are fast, and the high definition vibes that the graphics exudes are simply hard to top, especially considering that this game was released in 2007. While the online play is glitchy and hampered by poor servers and the bandwidths of whomever you are challenging that day, the rest of the game is more ripped than Sly Stallone when he played Rambo.

You can play as any of your favorite wrestlers from the entire WWE roster, and this time around they don’t like plastic molds.

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This game was touted as the most expansive and inclusive soccer title ever, but in the end fails to delivered anything more than the lauded 259 teams that they boasted during the pre launch phases of this game. You will almost never hear this blogger bashing EA Sports because they tend to bring to use the best sports games ever made for the next generation consoles; Madden, NCAA, and so forth. However, with regards to UEFA Champions League 2006-2007 this is entirely not the case!

This game does have a few nifty features, however. You can choose from all 259 teams worldwide, and there are about fifty other side missions that you can complete in the team managerial modes. However, if you screw up too many missions, you will get fired and have to start all over again. The graphics are okay, but the controls need some vast improvement.

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Leave it to 2k Sports and PAM Development to actually make a game that seriously outdoes the prior title, Top Spin 2, and really delivers an action packed, intense, realistic as all hell tennis game that will surely put all others in the dust in its wake, namely Virtua Tennis, which has had some trouble competing with the Top Spin titles in the past. And the late June release of Top Spin 3 saw the world of video gaming tennis change forever on the next generation consoles, especially the Xbox 360!

The only drawback to this version, over the past titles in this trilogy, is that there are some pro players that are exclusive to each console, some are only available on the Xbox 360, and others are only available on the PS3. But, considering how extensive the roster of pro players is on both consoles, who really cares, right?

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This game I found to be very exciting at first glimpse. You are a famous Viking warrior and you must fend off hordes of the enemy and protect your people – pretty unique concept that does not seem to have been touched upon very much in recent video gaming years. Of course, leave it to Sega to bring us another reclusive game that may or may not make the headlines on the major gaming magazines. When it comes to Viking: Battle for Asgard, unfortunately Sega once again fails to entertain for long periods of time, and the game is not without its major setbacks.

You are pitted in the shoes of a Viking warrior and it’s your mission to hunt down the enemy and free your captured comrades from their prisons. The game features a semi free world. I say that because the terrain is rather limited. You can only walk and trod upon certain places, and others are restricted, and or are closed.

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The world of soccer loving enthusiasts, neophytes and protagonists long awaited the May 19, 2008 arrival of the best soccer game on the planet earth: ‘UEFA EURO 2008.’ And the wait was actually well worth it because the makers of the game, Electronic Arts, was busy developing a newer, better and more capable graphical engine that is smoking hot to the eyes and offers lighting speeds on the Xbox 360.

Keep in mind that EA is already notorious for making the other football game greats, the entire Madden franchise. So it makes perfect sense when you really think about it that they are also the purveyors of the best European football games…right? Why any other video game company even tries to break into this market that is rightfully dominated by EA is beyond me? But now on to the game review, shall we?

In UEFA EURO 2008 you are allowed a maximum team control; you are in total command.

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If you care to rewind with me all the way back to the end of October of 2007, you would realize very quickly that Sierra released one of the better shooters of the time, and for their company history, called TimeShift. This cool idea morphed a time traveling, science fiction game with a high octane, bloody shooter—all to bring you the originality that is signature to this classic molten lead hit for the Xbox 360. Set inside of the uncertainty of a clandestine future, one that is rifted and has been torn apart by worldwide wars that have virtually destroyed humanity, causing despair and wreaking havoc and disaster in their wake.

Timeshift brings you to a not so distant future, where time travel is possible, and is a feature that you will both grow to love throughout the game, and use very often. During any part of the game, if your energy meter is high enough; you can slow down time, pause time, or even fast forward in time to see what will happen.

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An early September 5, 2006 release saw a star studded game prevail and be long forever after be hailed as one of the greatest racers on the Xbox 360, a joint effort by Eden Studios and Atari (remember them?) called ‘Test Drive Unlimited.’ I must say, that to-date, this game remains the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ of racing games; it was the first and the best free-world racing game to ever see the light of day. Many will come afterwards, and have. And, many will ultimately succumb to failure in light of this game dwarfing them in all aspects of playing time, a huge virtual board, and so many different things that you can do in the game that you will almost feel overwhelmed at first glimpse; I was!

The game allows you to unlock tons of different, highly detailed racing cars that you can get your hands on when you win different races that are spread throughout the game.

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I think its funny how a Canadian video game offshoot of the major US company, Electronic Arts, is the one that ends up delivering a surfing, cartoon video game for the Xbox 360 to the masses. Ubisoft Montreal is the company that I am talking about, and the game is Surf’s Up. Let’s rehash for moment, if you will, what I candidly say about most games that follow, but don’t precede, a major motion picture. Oh yeah, they tend to suck when they come out following a movie. And so, once again this biding notion rings somewhat altruistically with regards to Surf’s Up; and that’s a fact!

The movie flopped, so is it any surprise that this game also followed suit? Think of these games like the lunchbox scams of the 70s and the 80s, where major motion pictures would sell lunch boxes to garner extra merchandising dollars; but there was nothing special about the lunch boxes. So in the game you can choose from all ten of the main characters from the picture.

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I am not sure what exactly Konami was trying to accomplish here when they released this early 2008 version of the newest, and supposedly hyped to be, latest and greatest Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, but I can tell you that right off the bat, this game is a major letdown for all! Sure you get to play with all of the pros that you have grown to love—that is if you are a fan of this sport. And the game offers plenty of interesting, if not traditional, game modes for fans to enjoy.

But, I think they overdid it a little bit with their production and development budget because the frame rates seem to lag and sag, a bit slower than the 2007 version of the same game. How this happens when you are advancing to a new edition of a game that is built off the same platform, I cannot say. But this one does.

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I have bad news, once again for all of you out there who don’t own an Xbox 360 gaming console: once again you are not going to be able to play one of the better fighting games on the planet because it is only good to play on the Xbox 360. Sorry PS3 owners, once again you are duped out of an amazing game because Sony is unable to negotiate like Microsoft can, what this means is that this game blows ass on the PS3 and rocks on the Xbox 360, and I will happily tell you why!

This late October of 2007 release by Sega, is another surefire demonstration that they are just as prominently established in the video gaming industry as any of the other major players; well this game and all others that sit in the Virtual game franchise, namely, Virtual Tennis 3.

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If you loved Spiderman the video game, all versions, and or, you had a chance to play the original Superman video game, then you will be very pleased with Superman Returns, because it rocks and socks and fully delivers on so many different levels. The game offers an enormous free world environment where you are free to fly around as the Man of Steel and explore—literally thousands of buildings and streets; hundreds of virtual square miles. Basically, there is always something new to explore that will keep avid gamers busy for hours upon hours on end on their Xbox 360!

The camera angles are awesome and really add to the feeling that you are flying around through the sky as the caped crusader. And, as you rocket through the clouds in a red and blue blur, you can use all Superman’s signature powers, via a nifty flywheel analog stick and trigger, plus left and right button system.

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It is hard to find RTS games that work good on the Xbox 360, namely because you are limited to the buttons on the controller, as opposed to the many options that you have with a computer keyboard. But when it comes to The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II for the Xbox 360, it is finally an RTS game done properly! The first one was really shoddy, and I was not expecting much with the second, but was very surprised and happy that I played it because this second game is awesome – one of the better RTS games that you will ever play my friends!

You use the A button to move through submenus that will allow you to easily navigate hundreds of different controls. They also offer the best tutorial you will ever find in any RTS for the Xbox 360. They have improved the player models, added more boards, offered more weapon sets, and the game closely follows the battles the occurred in the LOTR movie series.

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Generally speaking, you will never hear me say anything good about any game that is in the third spin off from a major motion picture. However, as much as I hate to say it, Shrek the Third actually breaks from this standard of suck and delivers a new game that is fun to play, exceptional for the entire family and rather original—thank goodness! Where to start…the graphics are as good as the movie and offer some original cut scenes from the film from time to time. The frame rates are very high and I was unable to really find any glitches or mishaps.

There are missions aplenty that you will be challenged with as you take Shrek on his third, and I am assuming, final video gaming adventure on the Xbox 360. There are tons of side missions that you complete, thousands of items that you can use and collect, and the bosses will get tougher and tougher to beat as you near the final levels of the game.

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a famous Hollywood stuntman? We I have—and I am certain that it is not wild to assume that many people have wondered what goes into such a risky job. Well the good folks over at Paradigm Entertainment decided that it was time that world of gamers realized this dream when they released Stuntman Ignition in late August of 2007 for the whole world to enjoy! The game has much to offer, including amazing graphics, a fast frame rate, total originality, and that fact that you are placed in the shoes of a stuntman that is contracted by the major studios in Hollywood to perform stunts for major motion pictures that are being shot; screw up and the movie has to be shot again, costing you major in game points!

You basically get five tries to complete a stunt correctly, which is shown to you before you attempt the stunt. Fail and you will lose points. Fail too often and many movies studios will be apt to hire you.

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When it comes to racing games, there are not many that really make my eyes widen. Unfortunately, most of the time, most racing games suck really hard. Which is the notion that I would like to permeate your eyes when I tell you how much Revo sucks for the Xbox 360; there are far more interesting and better developed racing games that you can spend your hard earned dollars on. And shame on you SEGA Driving Studio for bringing us such a lousy racer that has nothing truly to offer but a time waster at best.

The lack of being able to customize your cars is complaint number one. Tantamount to shoddy graphics and poorly designed physics, not to mention few racing tracks to choose from, almost zero interesting modes and really lagging and glitchy racing experience overall that sucks even more on Xbox Live! Sure, I will say the graphics are okay, but nothing phenomenal. The physics are so-so, at best. The narrative, what narrative? The goal? What goal?

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This game is all about Japanese styled wrestlers that are sparring off in scantily outfits which are very appealing to the eye and leave very little to the imagination. Think: Dead or Alive meets Wrestlemania and you will have the right notion in mind when it comes to Rumble Roses XX for the Xbox 360. Of course, this video game totally utilizes sex to sell it, but isn’t that the classic Hollywood Cliché? The controls are amongst the easiest that I have ever seen and will take but a minute or two to master – and most of the game is spent randomly pressing between a few buttons just to perform different wrestling moves. You can choose between several highly detailed arenas to wrestle in and there are a few other modes, which are similar to nearly every other wrestling game on the planet Earth.

For gamers who are really into the real wrestling games, you will totally abhor this title.

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You all know how I intimately feel about video games that follow movies, however that does not mean that there are some very rare exceptions to this trodden rule of thumb. Of course when it comes to Robert Ludlum's: The Bourne Conspiracy for the Xbox 360, a decent game that was brought to you by High Moon Studies in mid-2008, it is the exception. The graphics are amazing and high definition, and feature rapid frame rates. A large part of the game circulates around hand to hand combat, where you can even pick up beer bottles off the ground and thwack your opponent in the skull with them; you can also make use of most objects for the same effect.

The enemy AI is complete and will challenge even the most advanced gamers. You can even perform really nifty special kills where, if you press the right buttons flashed across the screen within the right amount of time, you perform an enormous fatality.

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Hey Sonic Team and Sega – the altruistic makers of this flop – did you not know that Americans don’t like games that have Japanese languages with shoddy English overdubs in them? Because that is most of the pile of crap that you will be subjected to with this universal science fiction flop—in what was attempting to be a epic thriller of a role playing game that offered the exploration of different worlds and planets, but just sucks really bad in the end. Namely, the inundation of the many different subtitles, that you must listen to in a foreign language and which cannot be turned off or skipped through, what the heck were they thinking?

The Anime style approach to graphics is poorly done, choppy and glitchy, so much so that I could not handle even beating the first pathetic level of this game where you are stuck in a crappy mall forever and there are only a few ways that you can go, even though this game is supposedly free world.

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If you are like me and have been a Ninja Gaiden fan for a long time, and have waited anxiously for the newest game to come out for the next generation video gaming consoles, namely, the Xbox 360 – there is good news: your wait is over and boy was it ever worth waiting for. July of 2007 saw the much anticipated release of the newest Ninja Gaiden game, created by Team Ninja and Tecmo – who else? – and offered to the masses at the earlier part of July. I literally saw people who were so excited about this game finally coming out that they lined up in the folds outside of the Game Stop near my home in order to get their hands on a midnight release of this game, so they could stay up all night long and play until their fingers bled; I was not one of them. I got a copy in the mail so I could review it: Yay!

The most impressive part of this game is the awesome and intense graphics that scream quality and make the most of the 16 pipelines available on the Xbox 360.

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I really dug the idea behind this game, because all other basketball games are doing the same thing, and so from time to time EA will try to verge from the trodden path and offer us all something original. And unlike NFL Tour—EA’s Madden variant—this game actually rocks and socks…big time! For example there are several special moves like the Triple Dunk, a two play combination shot that requires perfect execution to implement, and can leave you falling on your hump if you fail to do it right. The main controls are very solid and fluid and easy to learn, comprising mostly of using the X and the Y button to bust out amazing combination moves in the styling of an arcade game.

The narrative and main theme is also solid: take the battle to the street court against current NBA all stars to see who gets the best of whom. And the game features more than ninety different parks to play in and the graphics are amazing. The frame rates are fast, and the player models are realistic.

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And who says that nothing good ever comes out of Canada, when this game was created by EA Canada, in cooperation with Electronic Arts – and boy is this a college basketball monster, especially for its time. Everything is the same about this game from the last, but they made some noticeable changes. Like the added Intensity Control feature, which will augment the reaction of your players based upon the crowd response. So play in an away game and get booed, and your players will suffer. Play at home and rile up the crowd and the basketball world is your oyster—very true the inklings of the college basketball phenomenon that drives games.

The online play is still lacking, but you can’t have your cake and eat it too right? The ability to create custom playbooks is flawless, and greatly adds to this game’s potential.

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Electronic Arts and Tiburon brought to us this hot and much anticipated sequel the smash 2007 hit of this game. And the same notion of greatness was easily attained for NASCAR 08 for the Xbox 360. So for all of you who already love the sport and who had a chance to play the 2007 counterpart, you will absolutely enjoy this game very much so. That being said, here is the scoop. They enhanced the graphics and made them ten times better—faster frame rates, more realistically modeled cars and better looking racing tracks. They also touched up the crowds, and all around the game looks and feels as fluid as ever.

They offer more game modes in this game inclusive of the Next Tel Cup, the Craftsman Truck series and NASCAR National series. If you play the main campaign, however, be prepared for a lengthy and realistic journey of races to win the big cup at the end. The game comes with a good soundtrack, if you like southern rock that is.

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Certainly I will give THQ credits for the main premise of this game: combine tons of different bike orientated racers into one. However, the delivery of this notion blows. The game does feature plenty to do once you have it popped inside your Xbox 360 console. Namely several game modes like go-carts, sand rails, BMX, ATVs, Golf carts and others, which all certainly have their own appeal. But here is a good rule of thumb guys: most of the time a video game company creates a bike game, or a BMX game or an ATV game, and focuses their budget on that game. When you merge them all, obviously you have to lower the standard, which makes the game shoddy in the end.

The controls are the worst part. There are even some game modes where you can get turned around and now you are driving backwards. Try getting your guy turned back the right way, good luck with that. The graphics are impressive, but that does not take away from some severely lacking control sets.

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You will not often hear me bashing any Microsoft published game, because generally speaking, they create some of the best games for the Xbox 360. However, in reality, Q Entertainment / Phantagram is to blame for creating this lackluster and boring mid-August of 2006 flop of a fighting game, that truly only really offers 99 hours of boredom. This notion is entirely augmented by shoddy graphics and really lagging frame rates that equally make this game unappealing to look at and play.

The game offers no training mode that I could find, so you are left to hack and slash your way to who-cares glory. As you wing it on your own and you are dropped into large scale battles that glitch galore, be prepared to encounter the sloppiest enemy AI that you have seen in your life. Some just stand there and do nothing until you trigger their movements. And it this is not bad enough, the name of the game is pressing the ‘X’ button until your thumb is about to fall off.

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Now keep in mind that this game was originally released towards in early 2007, but, nonetheless it is still a game that is available for the Xbox 360, and as being such, I will give it my review. And yes, I did play this game for a bit, although I am the first to admit that I love football over any other sport, however, that does not mean I am unable to see good baseball game when I do.

MLB 2k7 is of course brought to you by good guys over at 2k Sports—which is basically a Sega post console venture. The game offers greatly improved and revamped player AI, amazingly improved animations, and basically puts to shame all other baseball orientated games to date. The pitching routine was greatly modified and now you can even select where your pitch will break. They also included pitchers and their specific arm tendencies to make it more realistic.

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If you are as big of a fan of the college football that makes or breaks the season for your favorite team every year, as I am, then you will automatically appreciate a game that is of the caliber of NCAA 09. And once again, the cats over at EA Sports really show that they know exactly what they are doing when it comes to making great sports games, because this is the third in a row that has really rocked my world and popped my eyes! No kidding! I was significantly impressed when I had a first look at the 2007 version of the game for the Xbox 360, which left me whole heartedly addicted and craving for more. And to be honest, the interface of the NCAA franchise—as is delivered by EA—has always rang true to my heart more over Madden’s, even though there are minute differences between the two.

The graphics have undergone a remodel and feature faster frame rates, more detailed player models and highly detailed stadiums.

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While there are many different gaming companies that will constantly strive to make sports games for the Xbox 360 gaming console, rarely can they ever hope to touch the prowess and twenty years of video gaming history that the juggernaut, EA Sports currently holds. And, to be quite honest, when EA is consistently one of the top game makers in the world, and for good reasons too, is there really any point in trying to best them when they have better designers and developers, more industry clout and a far surpassing budget that dwarfs any fledgling companies? Nope. That is why you will never really see any other good sports game – because EA makes all of the good ones and shuts down the competition.

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I originally became hooked on the Rainbow Six series when I was in high school and, at the time, the two leading video game consoles of the day were Nintendo 64, and the Sega Dreamcast. Wow – how is that for a trip down memory lane? At any rate, the Rainbow Six series has always been one that got me all perked up and ready to battle terrorists to save the day. Even when it was released for the N64, the sole emphasis of the game was that of teamwork and strategy – working with your buddies (up to four per game console simultaneously) in order to successfully complete each mission. And, the dudes over at Ubisoft knew that they had better have one hell of a monster shooter in store for us Xbox junkies or else…but no worries: they more than came through with Rainbow Six: Vegas!

The core emphasis of the game is strategy and cooperation with your teammates.

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Touching on a topic that I have little delved into, well actually, a topic that I have barely even scratched the surface of: backwards compatibility. For those of you, who are not in the know of what exactly this term refers to when it comes to your Xbox 360, let me fill in the details really quickly. Microsoft made sure that when they made the Xbox 360 that avid gamers would still be able to play many older Xbox games on their newer Xbox console; they called this backwards compatibility. Basically, all that is required is that you visit their website and download a file and burn it to a disc and install that disc on your Xbox 360. Then you will be able to enjoy playing hundreds of old Xbox games on your newer, next generation console. If you need to download the files, you can do so from Microsoft Here.

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Just after you thought you had defeated the aliens from total annihilation of the human race and the enslaving and domination of our planet, they are back. Only this time they will not fall from the sky, in ships. You will not have to board a mother ship and destroy them from the inside out. Nope – this time around they come from under the ground. Using huge rock worms that they have trained, they will figure out how to exterminate the human race by sinking our grandest cities, and making them piles of steaming, stinking rubble, of what once was greatness.

The Locust are back and ready to take over the world again, this time from underneath the earth’s crust. But, little are they aware that Marcus Fenix and the COG Delta Squad are ready for action once again. Get ready to chainsaw more Locust in half, fight new enemies and geomantic rock worms, and perform a triple bypass heart surgery on a worm to stop it dead in its tracks and save humanity.

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I must woefully admit—much to the dismay of any Trekkie sci-fi nuts that are currently populating the planet Earth—that I was never, and am still not a science fiction lover. While I entirely understand the common bond that many lovers of ‘Star Trek’ and other hit TV shows and movies like ‘Babylon Five’ and ‘Star Gate’ love about such originality, I was always more into the fantasy and role playing genres. However, this does not mean that I don’t and can’t recognize gaming brilliance and sheer genius when I am subjected to it.

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If you take a fond look back down memory road for the Xbox 360 gaming console’s many different shooters—most of which have horribly flopped for one good reason after another—you will find that they offer limited multiplayer functions and limited boards, and limited, well everything. This leads me to wonder why the shooters of today are not offering some pretty hot options and features that the shooters of yesteryear, which were released years ago and are far more outdated than the shooters of today, are now offering. For example, can you find or name a current hot selling shooter title of today that offers same console up to four player Xbox Live play – using friend tags for added controllers or profiles?

I think not. Can you find me a multiplayer that offers this, plenty of boards, bots that can be in the boards with real players and up to 48 players in one board at time, while allowing for same console multiplayer? No you could never find one.

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What amounted for long and drawn out speculations as to whether or not they were ever going to release another version of Fable has been all quelled with this 2008 release of what was surrounded by oh so much hype and fanciness, and coyly was dubbed as Fable II – because they could not think of a better, more innovative name, or for lack thereof of any thing better to call it. When indeed it should just been dubbed Fable or something similar. Yet in the story they pick up a few hundred years (I think) after the original Fable tale for the original Xbox gaming console.

With the release of Fable Two does come much more to do and, of course, my complaints and restraints, as well as my kudos. And to set the record straight, I view Fable as the clash of the Titans between other fantasy role playing juggernauts, like Final Fantasy and Oblivion, the same as the juxtaposition between the popular NFL games, Madden and 2k Sports – they both offer something unique and different.

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You read the title of this article right, I have fried successfully more than seven Xbox 360 consoles over the course of less than four years; three in fact over the past year. I have had them repaired. I have had the mod done. I have even had the Artic Silver coating applied. They still break. In fact, I finally broke down today and bought a new one just so I can keep reviewing games for you all on this site. After getting burned so many different times, there is in fact a way to beat the system and get a new Xbox for only thirty bucks every time it fries.

Why Xbox 360’s Get the Red Rings of Death (RROD)
The Xbox 360 is made cheaply. The heat synch that is supposed to cool the motherboard does not have enough thermal sealing on it. As a result the motherboard heats up too much. This causes the soldering on the main chips to heat up and become loose over time. Eventually the thing stops working.

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I must truly say that I was a serious fan of the game that originally was Sega’s masterpiece and the signature game to their doomed gaming consoles. After Sega CD bit the dust, followed by the posthumous subsequent death of the Sega Dreamcast, I was all but done with Sega. Especially considering that I owned tons of games and accessories when Sega decide to announce that they were discontinuing Dreamcast forever and were going to cease all productions and designs of any future video game consoles in favor of only making software titles. And yes, 2k Sports followed in their wake, only to let me down once again with losing the rights to make NFL titles.

So with the demise of Sega from the console industry I lost my love for Sonic the Hedgehog and my praise of the lauded and simulation based football games, 2k ESPN football.

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On a personal note, I love the band Aerosmith, they simply put: Rock. So what better way to solidify more their dominance of rock star superdome than to allow them to grace the cover of one of the best selling video games of all time, and that game being…trumpet blare and drum roll please: Guitar Hero. I thought that these sultry rockers were the perfect cats to be featured on the cover of this game because of so many different reasons. And have you ever noticed how big Steven Tyler’s mouth is – it’s like the Gene Simons equivalent, only Tyler has the mouth size to match the tongue?

Of course you could hear me babble to you all day long about rock stars, but you read this blog to get reviews of Xbox 360 games so that you know which ones to buy. And if you are an avid reader you already know my musician’s point of view, or my quips on Guitar Hero, but that does not mean I don’t and can’t recognize a truly fantastic game when I see one.

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The Japanese and the Chinese have the right mindset when it comes to the illustrious notions of what is commonly referred to as the nice way to rip off a candid and originally idea: reverse engineering. But when the Asians reverse engineer a product, like a car or a TV or a computer, they make it better than the original. Which is why so many people drive Toyotas or buy Sony products. So when it comes to a video game, here is a good rule of thumb: don’t rip off a game and do it shoddily and then expect gamers like me not to call you on your ruckus, because when you do make a bad rip off and it clearly shows, you are just making ample fodder for my many reviews to bite your game into pieces and tell my readers exactly how it really is. So now, getting back on track, when it comes to the worst rip off game that I have ever seen, Saint’s Row – this notion is so true it makes me shriek.

Think of the worst version of Grand Theft Auto that you could ever do, and make it suck even worse, and you have Saints Row.

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