My Gaming Week Version 3 (Week of 09-06-09)

Killzone 2 (PS3)-

As I suspected, this game is good, but extremely over-hyped, but that seems to be the theme of this entire generation of gaming. They hype good games up, and they never live up tot he hype. So far I'm only playing the Single Player of the game, and while I like it, it's nothing revolutionary. Don't get me wrong, so far it's enjoyable, and is one of the better FPS games this gen, but I've played it all before. Not to say there's anything wrong with that, but this game in no way touches classics like Half Life, but very few FPS do.

I haven't gotten around to playing it online as of yet, and I may post some vids of it's online gameplay in action when I do.


Mario Kart: Double Dash (Gamecube)-

I only just got this the other day. I had played it a little previously, but I'm still pretty much learning the game (Hence why I play so badly in this footage. Plus It was on the hardest difficulty, and I hadn't played that difficulty yet). Overall, Mario Kart is a fun game in any form, but I'm still preferential to Mario Kart 64. This game's great fun in single, and especially multiplayer, but MK64 is still my personal favorite in the series.


Mirror's Edge (Xbox 360)-

I finally got my 360 back from my friend that I loaned it too about three months or more back. His red-ringed out, so I let him borrow mine, but he took too damn long to send his out, so I went and got mine back. The main 360 game I own that I was getting massive cravings to play was Mirror's Edge. This is one of my favorite games this gen. I've got my complaints about the game (I wish there was a little bit more allowance for exploration, and sometimes the wall running/jumping controls don't work like they should causing many deaths), but I played through this game three times straight (Medium, Hard, and then I went back to easy) when I got it. There's just something so damn addictive about this game to me. Even though it's very linear, I just enjoy this game a lot. I kinda liken it to the Tomb Raider of this generation.


Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3)-

What can I say about this game? It's about as good as platformers get. If you've got a PS3 and are a fan of the genre, then you need to get this game. I'm finding it to be extremely addictive, and hard to put down. I never got o play the second and third Ratchet games, so I'm not sure if some of the new additions (like the RPGish leveling of your weapons in the game) are carried over from those games, but this is the premier platformer on the PS3, and should be in any fan of the genre's collection. Some people may be put off because it doesn't have any sort of online play, but who in the hell cares? Gaming survived for decades without online play, and this game has an extremely good single player. I don't know about you guys, but the single player of a game usually comes first for me. It's one thing if it's a game you buy strictly for the multiplayer (Like say Unreal Tournament), but for a game like Ratchet, online play isn't needed. I know that Up Your Arsenal and Deadlocked had online play, but even as such, it's not a requirement when the single player is still so fun on it's own.

I also played a little bit of Dreamcast this week, especially for 09-09-09, but I unfortunately didn't get around to playing it heavily. Most of the game that I played, I played them to upload footage of.

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[Evan9021]

2d you must be so rich :P i wish i was rich i'm 13 so i cant get a job and im not really 'rich' but im getting a ps3 for x-mas so i will add you!

[teh2Dgamer]

I'm not rich at all man, I just know how to shop around, and a lot of my games in my collection I got near the end of each system's life when stores were trying to dump their inventory for cheap.

It's like now with the Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox, it's the best time to collect games for those systems, because they're only going to go up in price from here.

[PikolUploader]

I sold my killzone 2 after 3 levels, it was too boring for me.

[teh2Dgamer]

You should have at least played through it first before selling it.

[Sanimangas]

I liked the previous generation better, It had more meaning

[acdc09]

I agree with you on Killzone 2. I find it to be a very solid and polished game but it's not revolutionary.

[hl202]

Have you seen the Killzone 3 trailer? It's basically Killzone 2 with snow and jetpacks... meh. Also, i find Killzone 2 to be very generic. It's fun for one playthrough then after that the single player is boring. Honestly, i agree that the singleplayer should come first in games. Alot of games in the past had only singleplayer and those games survived for years. Multiplayer in most games for me gets repetitive after a few matches except for games like Quake and Serious Sam.

[PikolUploader]

Like you said, it's overhyped, I've seen nothing revolutionary in it, neither the atmosphere nor the story kept me wanting to play. It was just a standard, nice looking shooter. the Online was quite good though.

[carsonnik]

When you do get a chance to play online, I would like to play with you if it would be ok. I'm looking for people to play it with.

[bobwo1866]

HAHAHA 1:30 was hilarious