What are you playing RIGHT NOW... or close to now?
Posted: March 17th, 2011, 4:03 am
I'm always looking for new games and demos to try out and thought I'd post how I've liked what I've played since I got my Playstation 3 (I also have a Wii as well, but it's been used five times this year and my DS Lite has been used a total of five times in two years) and views on classic games as well. In the first post, I'll start with just the actual discs I have as of now, which turns out is more than I thought.
From worst to best:
The Simpsons Game (4/10): I thought it'd have little substance, but be pretty fun to play... Well, I was half right. It's extremely clunky and there's a few funny references, but not much more. It's probably going to have to go on Half.com pretty soon.
BioShock II (6.5/10): Maybe when I get further in the game, it'll get better. It's pretty much the same gameplay as the first BioShock, but the first one had an epic storyline with twists and turns that makes Se7en look like M. Night Shalyman directed it as his follow up to Lady in the Water. I read that it's probably because a different team worked on the sequel. Basically, you're in an underwater city in the 1950's and you're a half-machine that's in charge of a demonish little girl created by a scientist to suck lifeblood out of dead people to make drugs that give people powers (telekinesis, fire, etc). Basically, I expected better.
ModNation Racers (7/10): It uses the create, play, share technique first brought to you by LittleBigPlanet and adds Mario Kart to it. I'm not into racing games, but this is really good and it was free with the PS3 (though "not for resale" is on the back)! You customize carts, mods (drivers), and your own tracks and others can download them. Right now I've got a Speed Racer guy/car someone else made, though I've only played it twice. Here's some of the created content:
LittleBigPlanet (8/10): Years ahead people will look back at this game and call it revolutionary... well actually they're already doing it. It's basically a side-scrolling jump on stuff, grab stuff, figure out puzzles game kind of like Sonic or Mario, but infinitely more advanced. The revolutionary aspect is in the level creation and character customization aspects that really never grow old. There's tons of material for your Sackboy/girl, a being made out of burlap sack in the beginning) to be made out of, clothes for it to wear, and accessories. People are getting extremely good at it where they're now creating levels even better than the ones developers are done, especially in LittleBigPlanet 2.
Red Dead Redemption (8/10): This is a western with as good of a story as any I've seen. The main character as a man who used to be a bandit has reformed and must pay his debt to society by bringing in his old comrades to the authorities because his family is being held hostage is really something out of an old western. The side characters that help you on your way are really characters, especially the ones in the first third of the story. The scenery is beautiful from Texas and Mexico to the forest and snow-capped mountains. The animals--from skunk to grizzly--are really fun to hunt and just riding your horse from one end of the huge map to the other is a blast. I've got Undead Nightmare, a zombiefied version of the game, but aren't opening it until I'm done with this one.
LittleBigPlanet 2 (9.5/10): It takes its predecessor and amps it up a thousand-fold with new gameplay additions like a paint gun, being able to throw things, and the grappling hook. But the biggest thing with this game that sets it apart from the first one is all of the new things you can do in create mode. I really have no clue what they are exactly, but they allow users to create games like the original Mario, Street Fighter, Plants vs. Zombies, a duplicate of Angry Birds, pinball, and near-perfect duplicate of Zelda. And, um, these were out just weeks after release. It's amazing, it really is. It's something you have to see to believe, so here's Zelda:
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (10/10): It's just as good as the original, better even. It's like Raiders of the Lost Ark... in the snow. It's something you're going to want to play again and again and that's just the story mode. The online is even a good tactical shooter. Not as good of graphic as Red Dead, but still beautiful visions of Tibet, Borneo, and Shangri-La. Half the fun is jumping from flagpole to flagpole twenty stories in the air, jump huge gaps, and climbing buildings like a monkey. Through getting duped, shooting some baddies, climbing all over the place, and trying to solve Marco Polo's riddles to find his treasure, you're looking for hidden (and not so hidden) optional treasures (101 in all) and that helps in the fun. Really one of the best games out there. The intro is probably the best you'll ever play and it just goes up from there.
From worst to best:
The Simpsons Game (4/10): I thought it'd have little substance, but be pretty fun to play... Well, I was half right. It's extremely clunky and there's a few funny references, but not much more. It's probably going to have to go on Half.com pretty soon.
BioShock II (6.5/10): Maybe when I get further in the game, it'll get better. It's pretty much the same gameplay as the first BioShock, but the first one had an epic storyline with twists and turns that makes Se7en look like M. Night Shalyman directed it as his follow up to Lady in the Water. I read that it's probably because a different team worked on the sequel. Basically, you're in an underwater city in the 1950's and you're a half-machine that's in charge of a demonish little girl created by a scientist to suck lifeblood out of dead people to make drugs that give people powers (telekinesis, fire, etc). Basically, I expected better.
ModNation Racers (7/10): It uses the create, play, share technique first brought to you by LittleBigPlanet and adds Mario Kart to it. I'm not into racing games, but this is really good and it was free with the PS3 (though "not for resale" is on the back)! You customize carts, mods (drivers), and your own tracks and others can download them. Right now I've got a Speed Racer guy/car someone else made, though I've only played it twice. Here's some of the created content:
LittleBigPlanet (8/10): Years ahead people will look back at this game and call it revolutionary... well actually they're already doing it. It's basically a side-scrolling jump on stuff, grab stuff, figure out puzzles game kind of like Sonic or Mario, but infinitely more advanced. The revolutionary aspect is in the level creation and character customization aspects that really never grow old. There's tons of material for your Sackboy/girl, a being made out of burlap sack in the beginning) to be made out of, clothes for it to wear, and accessories. People are getting extremely good at it where they're now creating levels even better than the ones developers are done, especially in LittleBigPlanet 2.
Red Dead Redemption (8/10): This is a western with as good of a story as any I've seen. The main character as a man who used to be a bandit has reformed and must pay his debt to society by bringing in his old comrades to the authorities because his family is being held hostage is really something out of an old western. The side characters that help you on your way are really characters, especially the ones in the first third of the story. The scenery is beautiful from Texas and Mexico to the forest and snow-capped mountains. The animals--from skunk to grizzly--are really fun to hunt and just riding your horse from one end of the huge map to the other is a blast. I've got Undead Nightmare, a zombiefied version of the game, but aren't opening it until I'm done with this one.
LittleBigPlanet 2 (9.5/10): It takes its predecessor and amps it up a thousand-fold with new gameplay additions like a paint gun, being able to throw things, and the grappling hook. But the biggest thing with this game that sets it apart from the first one is all of the new things you can do in create mode. I really have no clue what they are exactly, but they allow users to create games like the original Mario, Street Fighter, Plants vs. Zombies, a duplicate of Angry Birds, pinball, and near-perfect duplicate of Zelda. And, um, these were out just weeks after release. It's amazing, it really is. It's something you have to see to believe, so here's Zelda:
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (10/10): It's just as good as the original, better even. It's like Raiders of the Lost Ark... in the snow. It's something you're going to want to play again and again and that's just the story mode. The online is even a good tactical shooter. Not as good of graphic as Red Dead, but still beautiful visions of Tibet, Borneo, and Shangri-La. Half the fun is jumping from flagpole to flagpole twenty stories in the air, jump huge gaps, and climbing buildings like a monkey. Through getting duped, shooting some baddies, climbing all over the place, and trying to solve Marco Polo's riddles to find his treasure, you're looking for hidden (and not so hidden) optional treasures (101 in all) and that helps in the fun. Really one of the best games out there. The intro is probably the best you'll ever play and it just goes up from there.