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Here are my very
own reviews of games i have played.
No 10/10 games yet!RATING SYSTEM:
10:
A very, very excellent game
9: A awesome game
8: Really great game
7: Quite a good game
6: It's alright
5: A good game
4: A pretty poor game
3: Quite bad
2: Not worth trying
1: An absolute load of crap
0: Snap the CD/DVD
COMPLETED:
IN ORDER OF RATING
10/10
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9/10
Ace Combat 04: Distant Thunder
Grand Theft Auto 3
Jak and Daxter
Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec
8/10
Silent Hill 2
Smugglers Run
Red Faction
Smugglers Run 2
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3
7/10
007 Agent Under Fire
Project Eden
Shadow Of
Memories
Twisted Metal Black
6/10
Simpsons Road
Rage
World Rally Championship
Midnight Club Street Racing
5/10
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4/10
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3/10
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2/10
Driving Emotion
Type S
1/10
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0/10
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COMING
SOON:
Medal of Honour: Frontline - coming soon!
Gran Turismo Concept: Tokyo-Geneva 2002 - coming
soon!
Prisoner of War - coming soon!
Final Fantasy X
Half Life
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty
GAME: Ace Combat
04: Distant Thunder
RATING: 9
3 GOOD THINGS: Awesome plane detail,
VERY realistic looking ground, easy to play.
3 BAD THINGS: A little bit short.
REVIEW: The graphics in AC 04 have to be
seen to be believed. When flying at any height,
especially over 3000 meters, the ground looks
photo-realistic and...........well it's too hard to
explain, but it is the most realistic graphics i have
ever seen.
The game's 9/10 rating is because of quite a few things.
One, being the graphics of course. Another would be
because it has my most favorate Fighter Jet in the word.
The F15 Eagle. (still considered to be the most advanced
fighter jet in the world.)
There are lots of other planes to choose from of course,
and some of them include the F14 Tomcat, B2 Stealth
Bomber, and lots more. (can't remember what they are
called).
The story is the best yet in a Ace Combat game and makes
the game seem more realistic. Instead of FMV, it features
cartoonish pictures (which change every now and then) and
it's a welcome change from computer generated cut-scenes.
The planes are easy to handle and don't take long to get
used to, wereas the combat part of the game takes a
little longer to get used to, but it is also very well
done and you can have some really awesome dogfights with
enemy fighter jets.
This is the best flight simulation game which i have ever
seen and played, and i really hope Namco make a sequel.
GAME: 007 Agent Under
Fire
RATING: 7
3 GOOD THINGS: Really good car detail,
lots of Bond gadgets, plenty of replayability.
3 BAD THINGS: Cars sound sort of the
same, not really long enough.
REVIEW: The makers of the "Need 4
Speed" games desigined the cars in 007 Agent Under
Fire. And it shows, with the car detail being up to the
standard of Gran Turismo 3. The handling of the car is
very tight and responsive too, but the sound of the car
is the only thing letting it down. If this is what the
cars in Need 4 Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 are going to be like,
then i can't wait.
Anywho, this Bond game seems very.........James Bondy and
has all the right sounds, looks and class of JB. There
are lots of cool gadgets to use such as the Q Laser which
has a laser on it, to burn through locks, and another is
the Q Claw (i think that's what it's called) which, if
you aim it at a ventilation shaft or something, grapples
onto it and pulls you up to that vent. And that is what
is used to climb up buildings that have no other access.
The game has a good mix of driving and first-person
shooting etc. and it all merges together quite well. I
know most of my reveiws aren't very descriptive of the
game itself and this one isn't any different. That's
because i don't write the reviews as sson as i play the
game. So i forget most of it. Oh well. Not many people
read this anyway, so it doesn't really matter. :(
GAME: Simpsons
Road Rage
RATING: 6
3 GOOD THINGS: Authentic Simpsons
voices, nice graphics which are true to the cartoon,
really big towns.
3 BAD THINGS: Taxi missions get a little
repeditive after a while.
REVIEW: This is the best Simpsons game
i've played so far. Mind you, i have only played one
other. And it was on the Sega Mega Drive. But that's not
important.
SRR is a lot like Crazy Taxi and it is obvious that they
have tried to copy the ex-Dreamcast game. But IMO they
have done a better job than Crazy Taxi and if that game
was reviewed on this page, then it would have got a 4/10
wheras this game gets 6/10. I like it better than Crazy
Taxi because i really, really like The Simpsons.
But anyway. The voices sound exactly like they do in the
cartoon series and the transition to 3D has'nt hurt their
looks that much. And some of the things they say (and
they say a lot) are quite funny. There are lots of
Springfeild residents in the game such as; Cheif Wiggam,
Homer, Grandpa Simpson, Snake, Oto, Moe, Hans Moleman,
Principal Skinner, Ralph, Reverend Lovejoy, Nelson,
Millhouse and lot's more.
Most are playable and have thier own cars too. Marge has
the Canyonaro, Groundskeeper Willie has his Tractor, Lisa
drives an electricity powered car and so on.
There are plenty of things to unlock and you get to
choose what gets unlocked. So you can unlock any track
you want, OR any car/character you want.
But overall the game is really good, and is worth trying.
GAME: Project
Eden
RATING: 7
3 GOOD THINGS: Good character details,
challenging puzzles, nice level design.
3 BAD THINGS: Dumb AI team-mates, hard
puzzles, nothing new after completing the game.
REVIEW: This game is better than most
say it is. Mainly because you can control one of four
characters and change between any of them whenever you
want. You also can tell them to follow you or stay back.
So you could play Andre` who can repair things, Minoko
who can access control panels and open doors/diable
sentry guns while in the control panel, Carter who is the
boss of them all, and can open certain doors, and last of
all Amber who is a really tall roboty thing and she is
the only one who can walk through contaminated areas, and
through flames and over electrified floors etc. Try that
with anyone else, and they will die. But when i saydie,
it doesn't mean the end of the game for that character.
Infact you do not have any "lives" like in
other games.
The develpoer has invented things called "Regen
Points" (short for regeneration point) and they are
scattered throughout the entire game. They also bring
your health up to the max if you are hurt at all. And
another cool thing is that you can never run out of
ammunition. So when your ammo bar is low, just go to the
nearest Ammo station thingy, put your hand on it, and
your ammo bar will fill up. These too, are scattered
throughout the game.
I'd explain the storyline but it is too hard to
understand and the ending is very, very confusing with
much of your questions still unanswered.
But it is worth playing though, so pop down to your local
video/games shop and rent it out.
GAME: Silent
Hill 2
RATING: 8
3 GOOD THINGS: Very scary, great fog
effects, really amazing lighting.
3 BAD THINGS: As much as i try, i can't
think of any bad things.
REVIEW: Silent Hill 2 has got the best
lighting effects i have ever seen. When you shine your
torch at a railing or something the shadows of it show up
realisticly on the wall behind. It's too hard to explain,
so you have to see it for yourself.
I only finished the game in it's easiest mode, as i was
too nervous to try the harder modes. (i'm a wimp, i
know). The traditional fog reappears once again, but this
time it's main duty is not to release the strain on the
processor (like the PsOne game) but to add atmosphere,
and it does that job with flying colours. Namely grey,
black and white. (the tree main colours of the game)
Apart from to occasional red (blood) and green (grass)
there is not very much colour in this game. Which some
may think is bad. But not me. I think that the game
would'nt be as atmospheric if it had lots of different
colours.
Anywho. The game revolves around the main character
(can't remember his name) and he turns up in Silent Hill
looking for his dead wife Mary, who somehow sent him a
letter telling him to go there, after she had been dead
for about 3 years.
So the whole aim of the game is to find her. Along the
way you will meet some "interesting" characters
and monsters/zombies and there is a certain monster which
appears throughout the game, but like Resident Evil's
"Nemisis", you can't kill it/them till the end.
They are called Pyramid Heads if you are wondering. And
they are VERY freaky.
If you are a fan of Survival-Horror games, don't miss
this one.
GAME: World Rally
Championship
RATING: 6
3 GOOD THINGS: Awesome scenery, amazing
track detail, lots of steep hills
3 BAD THINGS: Crap car damage, can't
drive off the track, not very realistic.
REVIEW: WRC is the first rally game to
appear on the Playstation2 so far. Not including GT3'S
Rally mode. In fact WRC is only just better than Gran
Turismo 3's rally mode. Only because of the track lengths
etc.
The worst thing about the whole game is the inablity to
drive off the track, into the feilds, mountains etc.
which are all driveable. When you go off the track, the
game counts down from 3 seconds and when it gets to zero,
it returns your car to the track. A most unwelcome
feature. If they did'nt want anyone to drive off the
track, they should have put up more barriers. That was a
stupid mistake, and it partially ruins the game. Another
bad thing is the "lightness" of the cars.
Whenever you go over a jump, or off the edge of a cliff,
the car seems like a feather and takes ages to land.
Well, not ages, but you know what i mean.
But the game is quite a good one, and has a few good
things going for it, like the use of the real Teams and
Drivers and the pre-race track/country description.
But Colin McRae Rally 3.0 is more than likely to surpass
this game in quality, so best save your pennies for that.
GAME: Tony Hawks
Pro Skater 3
RATING: 8
3 GOOD THINGS: Very well detailed
environments, lots of places to grind/trick off, moving
people/cars etc.
3 BAD THINGS: Not many bad things.
REVIEW: A few years ago i thought that
every skateboarding game, including Tony Hawks
Skateboarding, was an absolute load of crap and nothing,
NOTHING, would ever convince me to play one. Then one day
with an issue of the Official New Zealand Playstation
Magazine came a playable demo of Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2.
Seen as i always play every demo on a demo disk even if
the game looks crap, i reluctantly pressed the x button
and loaded up THPS2. From then on i was a real big fan of
the Tony Hawk series. In the demo i tried to get the
highest possible score i could get with the 2 minute time
frame. The highest i got was about 550,000 which was a
big achievement for me. So when the game finally came out
i went and rented it out.
So when i heard THPS3 was in production and that it would
have 3 massive citys and online play, i was sort of
looking forward to it.
Sadly though, it did not make it's promise and instead of
3 big citys, there are about 10 different skate levels.
But it is not a bad thing at all. TH3 is the best one yet
and has very interactive levels and funny missions.
Such as; In the LA course you have to cause an
earthquake, in Suburbia you have to help the old man find
a key or crowbar or something so you can get into the
haunted house, and in another level you have to unstick
someone's tongue from a pole and stop a bully from
throwing snowballs.
So THPS3 has lived up to its reputation, and given us
another awesome game.
GAME: Twisted
Metal Black
RATING: 7
3 GOOD THINGS: Huge levels, just about
everything you see can be destroyed, awesome graphics.
3 BAD THINGS: Sometimes too hard, but
that's just me not good enough.
REVIEW: This is the best Twisted Metal
game i've played, and so it should be as it's made by the
same people as TM1 & 2.
The environments are (some of them) nearly completely
destructible. In one level, if you shoot the supports off
of some big round storage tanky things, they will drop
down and roll into a massive skyscraper, then demolish
the whole building. Nice. In another level there is a
massive outdoor movie screen and if you shoot it enough
it will fall down.
The aim of the game is to........ well... i'm not sure
there is an aim to the game. All you do is go into battle
with about 8 other opponents and if you come out
victorious (sp?) then you will unlock another level. It
may sound boring, but it is actually quite fun. :)
If you are a fan of the Twisted Metal series then i
reccommend you play this game as it is the best one yet.
:)
GAME: Smugglers
Run 2
RATING: 8
3 GOOD THINGS: Awesome landscape detail,
no pop-up, lot's of moving things.
3 BAD THINGS: Landscapes are the same
size as the ones in the original SR.
REVIEW: Smugglers Run 2 has improved on
the original game. But only slightly.
The improvements include; Lots more detail in the
"maps", the use of real actors for the
cut-scenes in-between missions, more vehicles to choose
from and a couple of other things.
Two player mode returns, and there are a variety of 2p
games in there which you can play against a
mate/brother/sister etc.
Joyride also makes it into the sequel and this is a good
way to learn the maps, which you need to do if you want
to pass the missions.
In this game the maps are located in Vietnam and Russia
(before September 11, the Russian map was actually
Afganistan), and the Vietnam map returns again later in
the game but it is completely covered in snow. So you
actually have 3 maps. Sort of.
Anywho if you did'nt really like Smugglers Run, then you
may not like SR2, but if you did like the original, then
you are bound to enjoy this.
GAME:
Driving Emotion Type S
RATING: 2
3 GOOD THINGS: Has a Ferrari F50 (thats
the only good thing)
3 BAD THINGS: Very dodgy handling, no
anti-ailising, cheap Gran Turismo rip off
REVIEW: I did not get very far in this
game, 3 races in fact, so i don't know if it gets any
better. But as far as i'm concerned, it can't.
The steering is VERY slow and VERY unresponsive which
means it is practicly impossible to keep the car going in
a straight line. The tracks do not appear to have any
anti-ailising at all, and sometimes it is just a jagged
mess. Another noticeable bad thing is that the developers
seem to have tried to do a game sort of like the Gran
Turismo series with cars especially, and some of the
tracks (that i saw) look similar to those in Gran Turismo
games.
This is one game that i never want to play again, so i do
NOT recommend this game.
GAME: Gran Turismo 3
A-Spec
RATING: 9
3 GOOD THINGS: Very realistic replays,
Amazing car/track detail, lots of great cars to drive.
3 BAD THINGS: Longish loading times
(much better than GT2 though), Occasional pop-up, useless
AI cars (but much better than on GT2)
REVIEW: Well. I have owned the game for
AGES and i have finally gotten around to writing a review
for it.
Gran Turismo 3 is, by far, the best driving simulator
EVER. A quadzillion times better than GT2, GT3 has tons
of awesome improvements. First off, the leap in the
graphics is amazing and even with all the other car games
out there now, i have not seen one which is as polished
and detailed as GT3.
The cars (all 180-something) have had tons of time spent
on them and it shows. Lots of things on the car have gone
3D such as windsceen wipers, mirrors, air scoops, front
grills, wheel rims and lots more. And all cars have their
own unique sound and handling, and now when you upgrade
the suspension or change the downforce you can really
notice the difference.
Simulation mode has changed and the races have now split
into 5 different parts; Beginners League, Amature's
League, Professional League, Rally Races and Endurance
races. Beginners is very easy, and professional is very
hard, and sometimes seems like the AI are cheating.
On the main sim mode screen you can choose from Machine
test (400m, 1000m, top speed), GT Auto (car wash, oil
change, wheel shop), Licence Center (b, a, ib, ia, super
and rally licences), Car dealer (Japan, USA, Germany,
Australia, Belgium, Italy, UK), Go Race (explained
above), home (garage, game status, free run, save game,
trade, and some other ones) and exit (exits out of sim
mode).
There are some bad/not-so-good things about Gran Turismo
3 and they include the following; Pop-up in some tracks
(Special Stage Route 11 takes the prize for the most
pop-up), Crap AI (although they do avoid hitting you
sometimes, and also overtake you properly instead of
compacting the rear of your car), Loading times (could be
better), You STILL can't set lap records/track records
during a race (bugger it all), Cheating AI (in
Professional League the AI cars sometimes boast a massive
horsepower increase even if you are in the same cars as
them. VERY annoying) and there are a few other things
too, but there is'nt enough bad things to spoil the game
at all.
Overall GT3 has improved for the better, and the welcome
additions like an odometer, tripmeter, return of
qualifying, animated billboards, moving arials and
windscreen wipers have made the game a definate must buy.
If you want to play the best driving game in the world,
then you should'nt be sitting here reading this, you
should be going to get that game!
GAME: Jak and
Daxter
RATING: 9
3 GOOD THINGS: LOTS of animated things,
NO loading times at all, VERY funny sometimes
3 BAD THINGS: You have to go back to
places you have already been to collect all items
REVIEW: If you have'nt played Jak and
Daxter yet, then you are missing out on a really great
game. I thought that it looked really dumb from all the
screenshots in magazines, and ad's on tv, but as soon as
i hired it, i knew it was worth the money.
At the start it feels as though you are watching a
cartoon because it can be funny in places. This was the
first game i had played which has tons of moving things
in it. The water moves, the trees move, lots of things on
Jak and Daxter move, like their hair, clothes etc. and it
is all in real-time. And i did'nt notice any pop-up
anywhere in the game, so that is surely a good thing.
As for the storyline; at the start Daxter falls into a
pool of Dark Eco and when he emerges from it, he has
transformed into a rodent type creature. So then the game
starts and the whole aim is to find the cure or something
for him, which will return him to his normal human form.
I did'nt finish the game (was very close though) so don't
know if he returned to his original form or not.
But the best part of the whole game is that there is
absolutely no loading times. So it gives you the
impression that you are just playing one great big level.
So if you have a Ps2, you know which game to check out
next. (well i hope you do anyway) :)
GAME: Red
Faction
RATING: 8
3 GOOD THINGS: The ability to destroy
walls, The multiplayer levels, The gun selection.
3 BAD THINGS: Nothing unlocked when you
complete the game, A limit to how much wall blasting you
ca do (eventually you just can't blow up walls, although,
you can destroy a lot of rock before this limit applies)
and the time limit in 2 player mode.
REVIEW: Red Faction is one of the best
Playstation2 games i've played and greatly helped by the
fact that you can blow holes through walls with a rocket
launcher. In 2-player mode i had fun making really long
tunnels with a rocket launcher. The game developers have
called this wall destruction thingy, Geo-Mod Technology.
The game's storyline is that you are a miner on Mars
and..........something happens, so you have
to..................kill
someone.......................................and...............get
.....................stuff. As you can see, i was too
busy destroying things to take notice of the storyline.
Oh well. You just going round killing bad guys with
rocket launchers, sniper rifles, assault rifles, taser
gun, shotgun and more.
Before you say anything, it is nothing like Quake or
Half-Life even though it is in 1st person view. If you
like destroying things, then Red Faction is a game you
should definately play and if you don't like destruction
or shooting, you had better play this game or i'll come
round to your house and destroy all the inside walls with
a rocket launcher. I'm joking of
course.....................[evil laugh]
GAME: Midnight Club:
Street Racing
RATING: 6
3 good things: Lots of cool cars, Big
city's, Can knock over power poles.
3 BAD THINGS: Dodgy handling, Not much
detail in the city's, No car damage (i don't think)
REVIEW: Made by the same people who make
Smugglers Run, Midnight Club has a few things the same as
SR. Traffic lights and light posts can be knocked over in
both games, and you can also race one of the cars from SR
in MC if you have a Smugglers Run game save on your
memory card. But the handling of the cars is way
different and the cars seem to like driving sideways
around the city streets.
The city's, London and New York or Tokyo, are quite big
and seem bigger than Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto 3.
But the city in GTA3 has a heck of a lot more detail than
the MC city's. The aim of the game is to compete in
illegal night-time street races, passing through
checkpoints in the lead, to win the race and become the
citys best racer, but to do this, you have to beat the
best. Some of the races are hard and the sharp corners
and traffic don't make it any easier on you. I'm not sure
if i completed the game or not, but i think i was close
to finishing. Sometimes when you win a race the opponent
will give you his/her car, and that is how you unlock the
new cars in this game.It's been ages since i've played
the game so i can't remember too much else, so give this
game a shot if you are bored with your current games, as
it is not a bad game. :)
GAME: Shadow Of
Memories
RATING: 7
3 GOOD THINGS: Awesome FMV's, Great
storyline, Well designed gameplay.
3 BAD THINGS: Can get stuck without a
clue what to do too often, can't think of much else.
REVIEW: This game is full of very
awesome cinematics and it sometimes feels like you are
watching a movie instead of playing a game. But to some
people, like me, thats a good thing.
Now, how can i describe this?.....................basicly
the game involves you going back in time to try to
prevent things from destroying something or someone in
the future (present time). For example when you go come
across the pub, it is on fire, so you have to go back in
the past, in this case a few hours earlier, and try to
prevent the fire from happening. Another example would be
that you come across a great big mansion in the normal
time and if you go way back in time you can help the
owner decide whether to turn the place into a museum or
library. Then when you return to the present time, it is
now a museum or library. But if that was'nt bad enough,
you have another reason for going back in time, which is
to stop yourself being killed by a guy in the present
time. So when he kills you this little elfy thing brings
you back to life and you have to do something different
to try and stop the killer from getting you. The game is
full of this sort of thing. It all merges together to
make a great game. One of the bad things is that
sometimes you can get completely stuck, without a single
clue as to what you are suppost to do next. This ended up
as the reason why i returned the game back to the Video
shop and delete the game save off my memory card. For me,
Shadow Of Memories is a hire only game, as it is just not
worth me buying it. But i do recommend it, as you have to
see the cool movies etc..
GAME: Smugglers
Run
RATING: 8
3 GOOD THINGS: Massive maps, No popup of
the scenery, Car damage.
3 BAD THINGS: Can't knock the train off
the rails, Water too shallow, No weapons.
REVIEW: Even though the sequel is out
and i have played it, i still prefer the original game.
Probably because of all the roads and townships in it. In
SR2 there seems to be less roads, which is a bit of a
shame. (because i like roads, roads are good.) But i
still like a few things in this game, especially Joyride
mode, where you have no time limit or missions and are
free to roam the massive levels for as long as you want.
:) There is really only 2 levels, but the US/Canadian
Border level returns fully covered in snow, thus making
it a 3rd level. (don't ask me why i'm calling them
levels, when they are actually maps!) So there is
US/Canadian Border, Mexico, and Snowy US/Canadian Border.
But both levels, MAPS, are very huge and
can take up to 10 minutes to get from one side to the
other!
There is a small selection of cars too, ranging from a
Rally car to a Tundra, and even a 4X4 Jeepy thing. And
all vehicles handle differently, which is good.
As for the missions, some of them are very VERY hard, but
it is possible to pass them, as i have clocked the game
already. The harder ones are usually the ones where you
have to race to different points all over the
lev................map.
As far as replay value goes, there is'nt much. When you
clock the game you, unfortunately, don't unlock anything.
At least not to my knowledge. But it does have other
modes of gameplay too, which adds to the longetivity.
It is definately a game worth playing though, so if you
ever get a chance, play it. :)
GAME: Grand Theft Auto 3
RATING: 9
3 GOOD THINGS: You can drive your car on
top of the railways, awesome car damage, the game is just
so much fun. :)
3 BAD THINGS: Can't take control of the
train, Petrol pumps don't explode when you knock them
over, truck cannot attach a trailer.
REVIEW: Well.....what can i say? It
automaticly went to 2nd place in my top 5 list of my fave
Ps2 games. (after GT3 of course). This is an amazingly
fun game to play and if you get the chance, play it. The
graphics are quite good and are much better than Midnight
Club: Street Racing, and the explosions look really
awesome. The water moves with the tide, trees move in the
wind (this is the very first game i have played where the
trees actually move) and other moving things are; litter
flying around everywhere, traffic lights, shop signs,
pedestrians (and you can run them over, much to my
delight), traffic (every single car you can see, can be
taken), trains, planes and lots more. :) The time of day
moves quite quickly and it could take you a day to walk
from one side of the city to the other. Not in realtime
though. One thing that does disappoint me about the game,
is that the city seems WAY smaller than the original
Liberty City. Mind you it is split into 3 islands, and
i'm only on the second island with a long way to go to
unlock the rest of the city. Some of the missions are
quite fun too, like one of them you have to race around
the city, and win to complete the mission. There were 3
compeditors in very fast & flash sportscars and there
i was in a slowish Taxi. Believe it or not, i won the
race by miles, as you needed a car that handles good. Not
a fast car.
To round off, GTA3 is a worthy investment, and will give
you hours of fun. I hope theres a sequel. :)
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