I’m so lazy..Category: My Thoughts, Reviews
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.
- X
