Monday November 5, 2012

Freakyforms Deluxe: Your Creations, Alive! (3DS)

If you’ve ever wanted to create your own monstrosity and have it do a bunch of fetch quest or fight enemies in dungeons, obviously you wanted Freakyforms Deluxe: Your Creations, Alive! without even knowing it. Here you get to make your own 2D monstrosity with legs, wheels, wings, or whatever you can think of and go out on colorful quest for other NPCs. It even has dungeons where you fight enemies. Oddly enough, you don’t actually control the battles. Your created character fights automatically for you. Unfortunately, I already know what your first created character will look like.

Tuesday November 6, 2012

History: Legends of War Patton (Xbox 360, PS3)

I don’t know how to feel about TV channels making games out of their shows. This strategy game just slaps on General Patton’s name for the sake of historical accuracy because everybody knows that war is fought on a turn by turn basis. For History channel. For shame.

NASCAR The Game: Inside Line (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii)

Most racing games at least has the decency to make you turn right every now and again. NASCAR deprives you of this simple pleasure forcing you to only think about turning left for god-only knows how many times. It doesn’t matter that this game has all 23 licensed tracks. They all have the same course. Only the billboard signs differentiate one from the other.

Nickelodeon Dance 2 (Xbox 360 Kinect, Wii)

With all these dancing games cropping up all over, we’ve forgotten about our children. Nickelodeon remedies this all too tragic oversight with their second Nickelodeon Dance game so that little kids will not only know the lyrics to their favorite Nickelodeon show themes but also when to shake their hips and use spirit fingers.

Saints Row The Third: The Full Package (Xbox 360, PS3)

Like any game with DLC these days, Saint Row The Third gets its repackaging for the purposes of making their DLC available to the poor unfortunate souls without broadband connection. Or is this simply their way of keeping the game selling at $50?

LittleBigPlanet Karting (PS3)

Because trying to beat Mario at the platforming genre wasn’t enough, those sneak Sackboys are now trying to beat Mario at the karting genre. They might have chance too given how LittleBigPlanet Karting will also allow player to build not just tracks but entire games revolving around kart. You could say that LBPK represents a subsection of LittleBigPlanet 2. Namely the smaller part where karts are involved.

Harvest Moon: A New Beginning (3DS)

A lot like Call of Duty in some regards, the mere mention of the name Harvest Moon should automatically tell you what you’ll be doing in this game. Namely, farm, harvest, raise farm animals, sell, woo significant other, marry, the end. Harvest Moon: A New Beginning does all that but adds in customization, a first for the series. You can customize your looks and even the town you live nearby. Speaking of which, the town starts out in a near deserted fashion until your successes on the farm attracts new residents justifying the subtitle of the game. Happy toiling.

Nickelodeon Bubble Guppies (DS)

Let me get this straight. You’re all mermaids, but you have dogs. With fish tails. Horses, with fish tails. The Wild West complete with skies but underwater. Somehow I don’t think this mini-game laden game will explain to me just what Nickelodeon thinks underwater actually means given their track record.

Nickelodeon Team Umizoomi & Dora’s Fantastic Flight (DS)

Because Dora isn’t awesome enough on her own, Nickelodeon teams up both Dora and Team Umizoomi for their little adventure through generic places like jungles, beaches, and mountains. Just in case they’re still not awesome enough, you even get a customizable blimp. And if all these Nickelodeon characters isn’t enough, they’ll meet more Nickelodeon characters along the way like Diego and... other Nickelodeon characters. Forgive me for not keeping up with Nickelodeon characters. I’m no longer eight years old.

Poptropica Adventures (DS)

Ever heard of Poptropica? Unless you’re 10, you probably haven’t heard of it. This online game lets you explore various islands in a 2D platformer style with your own custom created character. That’s actually all there is to it. You simply go about the variously themed islands looking for stuff. At least the online version of this game is free. How in the world do they expect anybody to pay for the DS version?

Compilations of the Week

I thought I only needed this segment that one time. Nope.

Tuesday November 6, 2012

DragonBall Z Budokai HD Collection (Xbox 360, PS3)

You know that one of your iterations suck when it gets outright skipped in its compilation.

• Dragon Ball Z Budokai
• Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3

Mass Effect Trilogy (Xbox 360)

Half of this compilation is worth owning. By that I mean the soon to be released PS3 version half given how that would mark the first time the original Mass Effect will be available on the PS3.

• Mass Effect
• Mass Effect 2
• Mass Effect 3

Midway Arcade Origins (Xbox 360, PS3)

If you can’t fill your compilation with great games, drowning it with a bunch of vintage games works too.

• 720°
• A.P.B.
• Arch Rivals
• Bubbles
• Championship Sprint
• Tournament Cyberball 2072
• Defender
• Defender 2
• Gauntlet
• Gauntlet 2
• Joust
• Joust 2
• Marble Madness
• Pit-Fighter
• Rampage
• Rampart
• Robotron 2084
• Root Beer Tapper
• Satan's Hollow
• Sinistar
• Smash TV
• Spy Hunter
• Spy Hunter 2
• Super Off Road
• Super Sprint
• Toobin'
• Total Carnage
• Vindicators Part 2 ·
• Wizard of Wor
• Xenophobe
• Xybots