March 2009

The long awaited and much anticipated, and generally speaking over hyped sequel the very popular Soldier of Fortune series makes its debut and respective flop on the Xbox 360 console. A word to the wise here: some games are just much better when played on the computer, because the computer can handle more processes and functions, namely with a better graphics card than the 360 has to offer. So in short: this game is great fun on any PC, however veer way clear of it if you own a next generation video gaming console, as you are in for a most certain letdown my friends!

You take the shoes of a clandestine, government funded mercenary that is hired to hunt down terrorists and bring them to vigilante, bloody justice. Travel the world afar, but be limited to closed pathway boards that are not free world.

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All gamers, especially those who have experienced the dreaded Red Rings of Death (RROD) on their Xbox 360 consoles, or those who have had to format their PS3 hard drives after playing Call of Duty, or other games, or for any gamer that is just sick and tired of the lousy workmanship that comes with the rather pricey next generation video gaming consoles of today should rejoice: a newer console that never breaks, and only costs you a one time fee of about $50 (its basically an advanced cable mode with a nifty controller) will allow you to play the same games that you have grown to love on your Xbox 360, or PS3, but without ever having to worry about buying another console again!

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This game was the long awaited sequel the blockbuster, smash hit, Skate. When this game was announced that it would be coming soon for the Xbox 360, I got all tingly inside with anticipation. And, after having a chance to spend a few hours behind the controller checking out this game and what it has to offer, I must say that Skate 2 does not disappoint in the slightest bit, seriously!

The game takes place in a brand new, virtual city, New San Vanelona. After being destroyed a few years back, the city has been rebuilt. Now you must restart your career and help to bring back the local skate scene to where it once was in this great city. And you will have about double—several hundred at least—new tricks that you can learn and implement during game play.

This game offers unparalleled graphics, fast loading times, lighting quick frame rates and some of the best rendering that you will ever see in an Xbox 360 game.

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Once upon a time, you beat a game called Elder Scrolls: The Oblivion. Most gamers were saddened when they did finally beat this game, because they wondered how long it would be until another of such grander and greatness would be unveiled. The targeting system. The first person shooter style of the camera angles. The ability to create custom weapons and armor, and spells. You have to eat, and sleep. Hundreds of skills need to be constantly improved upon to save Cyrodile. Certainly, the 2008 Game of the Year was named as such for many obvious reasons. And just when you thought the adventure had finally come to a dramatic close, wrong!

An new expansion, The Shivering Isles can be bought in stores and added to your Xbox 360 hard drive, or downloaded from Xbox Live. A new doorway will open in the island outside of the Imperial City, allowing you passage to the Isles of Mania and Dementia. There you will need to help a prince reclaim his land.

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What happens when you take an esteemed and very popular, once underground, but now mainstream, popular culture phenomenon comic book series like Afro Samurai, and make it into a video game? You get top rated actor cats like Samuel L. Jackson to sign off as the vocal leads. You get top designers, Namco Bandai and Surge onboard and you have the recipe for an intense, thrill ride, gory adventure of which the Xbox 360 has never seen the likes of before!

You start as a young, ninja boy, who is out to avenge his father’s death by the sword to an evil villain. As you learn and progress in your ninja skills, you will be able to unlock gruesome power moves and newer weapons, that allow for mind bending decapitations, dismemberments and flails of blood, streaming like buckets, as you hack your way through the minions of evil to the super boss, to avenge your daddy’s death!

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If you are as big of a fan of the game Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360 as I am, then you already know that the long awaited Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage Expansion Pack was late in delivery by several weeks. It was supposed to be available for download at the end of January, but we gamers had to wait until the end of February to get our hands upon it. And once we did, the name Fallout should have change to Letdown, because this expansion pack sucks a big one!

The expansion pretty much adds a distress beacon to your Pip Boy broadcast. It’s the Outcast, a similar faction to the Brotherhood of Steel, but one that has gone their own way. The expansion also adds a few more buildings and a few lame side missions, like collecting scrap metal for trade to the Outcast and so on.

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If you love mini-games, and Pixar styled movies, then this game is a joy and thrill ride that the whole family will grow to love! Ratatouille is one of the those rare game after movies that actually delivers high definition graphics, plenty of in game dialogue, much of it borrowed from the actual movie itself, and of course, an entertaining and family friendly video game that kids and adults are both most certain to enjoy and appreciate. Heavy Iron Studios and THQ made sure that the game would not falter like most after movie games do, and even though I am not parley to this specific genre of video games, I must say I do enjoy seeing a good game that follows a movie every once in a while.

You are a young rat that is wandering the sewers of Paris, France. When you stumble behind the restaurant of famed culinary chef, Auguste Gusteau, your youthful rat ambitions of becoming the best chef in Europe suddenly flare to life!

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As if a Lego Star Wars, consisting of now two games, and soon to be three, and a Lego Indiana Jones video game were not enough to appease your Lego loving senses, then I present to you the newest Lego video game fad: Lego Batman! The game really drives its own, if not weak, plot. All of the villains have escaped their lockup and now it is up to you—you Lego Warrior you—to find and recapture them all and bring safety and solidarity back to the humble, dark and gothic city of Gotham.

The game play really surrounds puzzle solving and strategy, but most of the puzzles are literally child’s play. There are some boards that you will come across that try as you might, frustrate you to the umpteenth degree. But, if you are playing with a friend—as this game allows same console multiplayer cooperative play—then solving puzzles means that you link your noodles together and think for a moment, and the answer will always be right in front of your noses.

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I feel like I am constantly repeating myself when it comes to the altruistic notion of games being hurriedly produced and rushed to match up to par with their movie counterpart releases at the box office, all in spurious attempts by filmmakers and media gluttons to garner as many profits as they can possibly snatch off a particular movie’s gross profits. So, that notion, to remind any of you who have forgotten, or whom are just reading this Xbox 360 blog for the first time: games after movies, which are created on the sole purpose of driving more profits into the already deep pockets of the major film studios: tend to suck.

And on the contrary side of that gripe, movies that are made after video games often tend to do quite well at the box office. For example, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider and Max Payne, just to name a few.

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Just when you thought that they could not possibly ever release another Star Wars game, think again! But unlike the trodden Star Wars games of our not so distant past, this time they decided to make a different styled version of the game, one that really paves the way for more aggressive, in your face action that all gamers and lovers of the movies have been long waiting for. Unfortunately, this game does not come with an M for Mature rating by the ESRB, meaning that you will see some sparks fly, you get to toss storm troopers across docking bays on space stations, but try and find even the smallest speck of blood and you will be hard pressed to do so.

This late, 2008 release by Lucas Arts, has gotten gamers all worked up into a serious frenzy. Basically, you are Darth Vader’s young and evil apprentice, and will be sent on missions, consisting mostly of inner workings and cleaning up the messes that are left behind by the empire.

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