December 2008
3 posts
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Fracture
In the distant future, the United States will once again split into two sides. This time, it’s the east and west instead of north and south. Genetic human modification has become a huge controversy: the west coast is almost totally in favour of it while the east is against. The President of the United States has passed a bill stating that genetically modifying a human is a federal offence, causing...
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Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest for Booty
Written by: Nikolas Mason
Downloadable games have a knack for being small and relatively simple. They tend to not match the scale of disc-based games. Most titles available on the Playstation Store are like this. Simple puzzle or shooter games. This isn’t the case, however, with Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest For Booty, the fully downloadable game from Insomniac.
The game is a direct sequel to...
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Lego Batman
Posted by: Travis Brantner
Sometimes mixing and matching things can work out really well. Disney and Final Fantasy. Chocolate and peanut butter. Women in skimpy bathing suits and jello. The list could go on and on. But there are times when things can turn ugly. Disney stars and internet technology. Fox and superhero movies (yeah I’m looking at you Daredevil, Elektra, and X-Men movies that...
November 2008
13 posts
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The Tales of Bingwood
Posted by: Nikolas Mason
It’s not very often that you see a game in the style of classic point and click adventures. I still remember my early video game years, playing games like Sam and Max or Day of the Tentacle. They combined mystery with a very unique art direction and talented voice work and music. Over the years, this style of game has been long forgotten by many, but not BugFactory, a...
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PixelJunk Eden
Posted by: Tyson Moffitt
First PixelJunk Racers came out, and then PixelJunk Monsters, and finally PixelJunk Eden, the newest installment to the series. You play as a small creature that jumps and swings around from plant to plant trying to find the little objects called ‘spectra’ which are located throughout the stages. As you are jumping about looking for the spectra you also have a little...
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No More Heroes
Posted by: Travis Brantner
When the Nintendo Revolution was first announced, a lot of people figured it’d be in the vain of the Nintendo 64 and GameCube. A system with a lot of kiddy and family games, a few really stellar games, and then a ton of games that either sucked or fell through the cracks. People laughed and said that only fan boys would buy it. As the launch grew near, Nintendo...
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Motorstorm Pacific Rift
Posted by: Nikolas Mason
With the launch of the Playstation 3 came the launch of a new racing series known only as Motorstorm. The game gave you a varied selection of cars, anything from dirt bikes to rally cars, racing trucks to old semis. With a brutal style of racing, very detailed desert setting, and great vehicle physics, Motorstorm quickly made a name for itself as one of the best racing...
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Resistance 2
Posted by: Nikolas Mason
Very rarely are military shooters innovative. But in 2006, Resistance: Fall of Man was just that. Set in a post World War II Europe, Resistance followed the story of the human species fight to survive an invading alien species known as the Chimera. You played as Nathan Hale, a Sergeant of the United States Army, sent to Europe to help contain the invasion. The human’s...
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Call of Duty: World at War
Posted by: Nikolas Mason
Game players are no strangers to World War II. In fact, the war has long overstayed it’s welcome. Last year, one of the most famous game series to take place in that time period finally moved on, creating what many consider to be one of the best war games ever, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Naturally it came as a surprise to hear the game was going back to it’s roots...
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Dead Space
Posted by: Nikolas Mason
Survival horror has long been a favourite genre of mine, from Silent Hill to Resident Evil, and several lesser-known games in between. So naturally Dead Space from EA caught my attention. The game puts you in the shoes of Isaac Clarke, an engineer in the distant future for a space mining ship. Communications with the ship USG Ishimura have been lost, and it’s up to Isaac...
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Silent Hill Homecoming
Posted by: Nikolas Mason
Along the shores of Toluca Lake lies a sleepy resort town, famous for its amusement park, beautiful hotel, and even a strip club. The town of Silent Hill seems like the perfect place for a romantic get away or just to get away from work for a few days, but for a select few, the town is hell. Literally. So far there have been six major games placed in the quaint town,...
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Midnight Club Los Angeles
Posted by: Nikolas Mason
While racing games aren’t usually my thing, the Midnight Club games from Rockstar have been one of my favourites ever since the first one on the Playstation 2. Their free roam, full city maps were always one of the biggest attractions to the games, especially when other racing series kept you in closed areas, such as Need for Speed. Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition then...
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LittleBigPlanet
Posted by: Tyson Moffitt
Just 13 years ago, the first PlayStation was released, and now in late October they just bumped up another peg on the totem pole. No, not a new console, but with the release of LittleBigPlanet (LBP). You play as a lovable creature referred to only as ‘Sacboy’ by the potently kind and helpful narrator through the levels of the little big world.
While looking at the...
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Gears of War 2
Posted by: Nikolas Mason
It was only two years ago that Epic released Gears of War for the Xbox 360, and in that time it has become one of the highest rated shooter games out there, also managing to become one of my all time favourites. It featured a very interesting story, great cover-based game play mechanics, and a cast that was both emotionally realistic and at times quite humorous....
Tyson Moffitt
Hey, I’m Tyson Moffitt. I live in Sedgwick Ks. and I work at Gamestop. I am currently saving up to buy myself a PS3. I am associated with my schools newspaper (I write the reviews [who’d-a-though ay?] and also do the photography), and I enjoy writing, I would like to become Professional at this gig. I do not like living in Kansas… it sucks :/. Reference me to a magazine or...
Nikolas Mason
I’m an 18 year old photographer currently living in Wichita, Kansas. I hope to some day have a career in either fashion photography or gaming journalism. I’m looking to go to college in New York City, and while I’m not daydreaming about that, I love to play video games. A game usually has to have a really good story to keep me interested, so I tend to be more interested in...