Little Big Planet

Okay so this weekend I did something I have never done before. I downloaded a demo for a game and then went out and bought it the next day.

Little Big Planet was game of the year for many a site last year and I heard nothing but great things and always planned on getting it but never got around to picking it up.

Well I feel stupid, because I could have been playing this gem of gaming for over a year now. There are few games that I play and actually just love to play with no real story in site. I played this game with my nephew and my wife (for like 5 minutes) but the great thing about this game is that I can make levels that I can play with anyone including my three year old son.

I can't wait to explore everything this game has to offer, like building my own levels and playing levels built by the community of fans that have been enjoying this amazing creation for over a year.

Review

Okay here we go, first off I love Bioware they became one of my favorite developers with their last game Mass Effect. With Dragon Age my hopes were high and I was praying that I wouldn't be disappointed.

Well needless to say with all the time I have spent playing Dragon Age this past month it's pretty obvious that I love this game. Between my first, second, and now third campaign that I have recently begun I have played this game about 120 hours.

The graphics are not as good as Mass Effect but it is a different team at Bioware and I did play it on the 360 and this was ported to the 360 from the PC, but the graphics are not bad in any way, and the gore is great especially when you have persistent gore on and the blood stays on your characters until you rest or change areas or something.

The sound is great the dialog is better than most Hollywood productions and the combat ambient noise holds you enthralled.

The gameplay is great you can play it as an RPG pausing and issuing orders to your team or set your teams tactics up and just fight with your controlled character at the time. It flows well and really plays on balancing your team and using strategy to beat large groups of enemies or more difficult bosses.

The story is great I always felt like my choices really effected the end game and the lives of the citizens in the world I was trying to protect. If you love epic stories and deep characters then do yourself a favor and pick up this game, but be warned it will eat up a lot of your time.

FTW

Yeah I know I have been MIA for a while, but with the semester coming to a close and me being unable to put Dragon Age down (which I still owe a review for) I have been putting off the blog.

Now if you don't recognize the game above you probably still played the soul reaver sequels, but this game was amazing for me, there were powers and items that could tear peoples flesh off.

The graphics weren't that great even the cinematics weren't that great but the game was a lot of fun, and the story really was engaging and opened the whole world up for the games that followed.

Okay I will post a review for Dragon Age soon, and there is a game that I played the demo for and went out and bought it the next day since Laura said I could and I want to talk about it as well.

FTW

Yeah again late....more so. I blame Dragon Age Origins, which I beat yesterday and will be posting a review of later this week.

So as for the FTW here we go.




I said it involved two brothers, now anyone who played the console games knows these two as Billy and Jimmy Lee. But if you played the original arcade you know them as hammer and spike.

Double Dragon has had many versions and even an okay cartoon and incredibly horrible movie. However the best versions were Double Dragon two and Super Double Dragon.

The game play was a side-scrolling beat 'em up, of course, but it was the one game that perfected the model. The reason Double Dragon 2 was so great was because of it's advanced fight system that had combos, double button attacks, throws, etc...

Super Double Dragon improved on all these things and the game was amazingly fun. To close this game series is amazing, I wish I had a copy of any of them to play right now. Man I love Double Dragon.

FTW

Yeah late again I know, but with getting Dragon Age this week it's pure luck that I am even posting this.

I decided this post should be about the game that I consider my introduction to real gaming. The Legend of Zelda is what made me a gamer.

It had all the things I love in games to this day; an epic story, great game play, and a theme song that is burned into my soul.

If you have never played The Legend of Zelda that I think it is impossible to call yourself a real gamer.

Next week I will post a longer FTW and two brothers will be involved.