Review

Let me start off by saying I love Star Wars, I have been a huge fan my entire life. Also I loved the original Force Unleashed and all I wanted for the sequel was more of the first but with more fluid controls. I got my wish

I have been seeing this game get hammered all week long by reviewers and I think their complaints are frivolous. I have a hard time with the whole video games are art argument because I really believe they are. However I believe video game reviewers are becoming too much like movie reviewers. I keep seeing movies that I love getting poor reviews because they were "filled with mindless action" or "have bad special effects" etc... This is starting to happen with video games as well.

People have bashed Star Wars the Force Unleashed 2 for being a game where all you can do is "go crazy with force powers" I'm sorry did you just complain that you can pick up a guy, impale him with your lightsaber, charge him up with force lightning, and then throw him into a group of his friends making him (and all of them) explode. Not to mention you will actually get an achievement for doing it?

Come on people since when did it become bad to have a game where the whole point is to have fun? the game has good graphics, great sound (all the Star Wars staples are present), and fun game play. Don't argue with me about convoluted story lines that you can't understand (I think it was pretty easy to follow), or repetitive game play.

TFU 2 plays pretty much like this, enemies appear, use lightsaber or crazy force powers to wipe the floor with them because you are a total bad ass move on to next room where enemies appear... They complain about this, yet when our market is flooded to bursting with FPS games that have you do the same thing except replace lightsabers and force powers with um....guns?....this suddenly becomes amazing?

If games like Modern Warfare 2 and Halo get great scores when they have mediocre campaigns and are only still being played for the multiplayer we have a problem. Why have we forgotten that games are supposed to be fun and are not about owning newbs in a death match scenario. Since when did we let our world become populated with dumb ass mentality that makes you think you only rock if you can shoot enough people to get access to a nuclear strike?

Please people if you liked the first game or want to be a bad ass Jedi with crazy force powers play this game....let's give Lucas Arts an excuse to keep giving us a chance to feel like an over powered ninja samurai wizard combination. Sure beats the hell out of being another space Marine.

Updates

Well to start off, if you like Halloween and have $15 Costume Quest is an amazing game and Double Fine is a great developer to support.

Also on my mind is the double tap next week. First the Force Unleashed 2 and then Fable 3. Both look amazing and I am excited that two very different games are going to be in my hands next week.

Review

Castlevania Lords of Shadow, okay I have to say when I heard they were making yet another 3D Castlevania I was worried. The game only ever succeeded as a 2D, but when I head Kojima productions was overseeing the project I became intrigued. After finishing the game (in about 15 hours) I am very impressed.

First off the graphics are very impressive, the creature and character models are impressive and creative. The landscapes are awesome and the ambiance feels great (especially for a dark game released in October).

The sound is great the weapons, creatures, and atmosphere really set the tone. The voice work is amazing with high level actors like Patrick Stewart make this game a full fledged movie value story.

The gameplay is amazing, it has been compared a lot to God of War and it really is a lot like it. However I enjoyed the gameplay much more than GoW it felt smoother and I used all the combos and abilities that I had because the enemies required it. I was always able to just swing away in GoW.

This game is amazing, it achieved a dead tie with Castlevania Symphony of the Night as my favorite Castlevania game. There is also some interesting revelations in the end of the game. I predicted tow of the big twists but one of them very much surprised me. You will understand what I mean when you see the location we find our characters in during the Epilogue. I can not recommend this game enough, if you like action adventure games get it. If you like games about the supernatural get it. If you want a game with a great story get it. In short buy this game.

The Holiday Season

Okay so my "Christmas" games have all ready started coming in and here they are in the order that I will receive them. Not the actual order that they are being released because I actually want to save a certain one for Christmas morning.



SO I am about 2/3 of the way through Castlevania LoS and I love this game. It is getting a lot of comparisons to God of War and I have to say it does everything GoW does right. I will be posting my review once I have finished the story line and unless it manages to really do something wrong in these last few hours then this is easily competing with SotN as my favorite Castlevania game.



Star Wars the Force Unleashed is my favorite Star Wars game to date. It actually let you feel like you had force powers and despite the criticism that it received this game revolutionized what a Star Wars game could be. I will be getting it next and I am getting the collectors edition because it offers a lot of in game additions and a little bit of swag.



Fable 3.....anyone who knows me knows that I am a Fable fan. If not for the first Fable I never would have bought an original XBOX and in all honesty the reason I bought a 360 was for Fable 2. So yes I am getting Fable 3 and yes I am getting the Limited Edition. It releases on the same day as Star Wars TFU2 but I had to order it so it won't arrive for a few days after.



Fallout, there is not enough praise that can be placed on the Fallout series, and Fallout 3 is one of my favorite games of this generation. So yes Fallout New Vegas is my Christmas morning gift, I am waiting for it even though it comes out in a couple of weeks because I want a deep game for my winter break between semesters.

Okay so that is my line up for this season. What about you? Let me know in the comments below, and before I get harassed about Medal of Honor and Call of Duty.....yeah I like FPS games but I rarely play them for more than a few weeks, so I usually borrow them or pick them up used later on.