Game Addiction Blog

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These videos are awesome. Always fun when Iceland is a focus of some foreign show even if it is one making fun of Iceland

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Can’t even be arsed to blog regularly.

Anyway, I just received a copy of Super Mario Bros 3, Blaster Master, Chip n Dale Rescue rangers for NES and Mickey’s Magical Quest(some fond memories of this game) and Killer instinct on the SNES.

Killer Instinct and Magical Quest works fine but the NES games won’t work on my old NES. They are PAL version so I don’t see what the problem is, then again it’s always been a little picky. It seems I’ll be forced to pick up another NES or disable the lockout chip in this old one. Picking up a new NES is more attracting since my old NES is in pretty bad shape on the exterior(no lid for where you put the game in and a broken gap on the top), and while the 72pin connectors works much better now that I’ve fixed it, it’s still rather annoying. It would have no real value on ebay due to it’s rather crappy condition.

Another game I’d like to talk about is Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune which exclusively available for the Playstation 3.

I had heard good things about this game even before it came out. I picked up a copy the other day and what a great game this is. It isn’t revolutionary in any sense and pretty much all gameplay elements have been used before but that doesn’t in any way change the fact of how good this game is. It utilizes what has worked so well in the past  that this game is absolutely awesome. You can think of it as a cross between Gears of Wars and Tomb raider gameplay wise. The story is interesting and so far it seems grounded in reality unlike what you’d see in Tomb Raider. But there have been times I’ve just waited for some skeleton to jump out at me because this game reminds me so much of Tomb Raider.

Now, the graphics…absolutely amazing. Stunning visuals and very well put together areas in the game are mindbogglingly detailed, there are plenty of times in the game that you can completely forget that it’s a game because the environment and everything is so realistic it’s frightening.

The characters themselves are very detailed, not to say that I haven’t seen better character models in games however what makes them more real then any other I’ve seen is the animation in the game.

Nate(main character) acts and move in almost all sense as a human. When he’s being shot at you can see the fear in his eyes while running for cover. When the cover is shot you can hear him utter words to himself to try to calm himself. He flinches and dodges when he’s being fired at, his movements while climbing and running are all very detailed He also has a sense of frailty while doing them, giving out sounds when he’s close to falling and while doing this extremely dangerous stunts, he reacts to them realistically instead of just climbing without any sort of attention to the situation(Think Lara Croft). You get the sense that he could be falling and is just barely hanging on sometimes.

Another thing that makes the game great, is the voice acting. All the characters I have come across have a great characters to them and the voices make them believable. Obviously they put a lot of effort into finding good voice actors for this game and I applaud them for that, this good voice acting seems to be so rare in games today.

Overall, playing this game is just like I said, a cross between Gears of Wars and Tombraider. You have shootouts with enemies utilizing a similar cover system to GoW and then you have the climbing/puzzle and of course the overall idea from Tomb Raider.

Together this makes for an interesting journey and exciting one to boot.

In closing, if there was any game I’d say worth getting on the PS3 it would be this game. Until Metal Gear Solid 4 gets here I think this game could sell more then a fair share of PS3.

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Magic?

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Doesn’t get much more radical then this.

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Today is my Birthday and as such I’m gonna be brief.

I know I haven’t been updating a lot these past few weeks but I’ve just not felt motivated enough to do so. I plan to rectify this soon enough.

If any of you have recently got your hands on a Wii and looking for a game to get, Super Mario Galaxy should be your first choice. Below is a video that shows the top three pros and top three cons about Super Mario Galaxy. Really helps with deciding whether to go for it or not, enjoy.

As for me I’m gonna go eat some homemade pizza and enjoy being a whole year older.

P.S. I landed a copy of a brand new Kirby adventures for NES(never opened), one of the best platform games for that system. Gonna be a awesome piece in my collection.

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I want the camera that can do this effect!

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Happy new year everyone.

The holidays are finally over. I love them but I’m glad they only come once a year.

I finally got a chance to play the Wii the way it was meant to be played. With a group of my friends. We played Wii sports and Super mario Striker Charged Football(Soccer). Wii sports is a simple but addicting party game and the other Mario game was so silly and hectic that it was fun.

I also showed them Super Mario Galaxy. I ended up playing it for nearly 3 hours straight. The game certainly has good replay value. I finished up quite a bit of what I had already done before. SMG was also named game of the year by Gametrailers.com beating games such as Halo 3, Bioshock, Mass Effect and and I gotta say, I agree with that assessment. There have many great games been released this year but there isn’t one among them that I’ve had as much fun with as SMG.

As some might have seen. I’ve added a avatar for me. It’s a Simpson version of me. I used the avatar Creator over at http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/

That’s about as close as the simple Simpson cartoon style gets to me. I like it.

Above is a video displaying some gameplay from Street fighter IV.

Looks like they decided on going 3d with the graphics. However gameplay wise the game will play like the old 2d games. The models and environment are pretty crude but it isn’t surprising, the game hasn’t even got a release date yet.

Looks good so far.

I’m hoping that I’ll have the chance in this month to catch up on some games. I have to get them out of the way so they won’t keep piling up on me.

Only 63 more days until Digital Overload. Since this is my first trip to USA, I have to be ready for unexpected circumstances. I don’t exactly have the terrorist look on me but that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t take me aside for some silly extra questioning.

A few months ago, I got the itch for retro gaming stuff. So at the time I bought a SNES with a few games with two controllers in perfect working condition. I plan on keeping building up a collection. Already put a offer for a big package of NES including 86 games a zapper and the power glove and of course the console it self. I also have Super Mario Bros 3, Chip ‘n Dale, Killer instinct and Blaster Master on the way.

Most of my own old school games have been lost though passage of time so I’m happy that I can rebuild a new collection. I have never sold a game in my life because I like keeping on to things like this.

http://www.gameaddictionblog.com/images/collection/

In here a few pics of my current collection. Plenty of PC games and PS2 missing from that. I apologized for the crappy image quality but for some reason the Nokia N73 camera isn’t doing so good.

I think I’m gonna go to bed now, didn’t sleep a lot last night.