Right now I’m going through a video game phase. I guess you could say I’m always in a video game phase but lately I’m at the high point of the cycle. I’ll go 4 months not renting ( I don’t buy games any more I rent them from Family Video) a single xbox 360 game and then I’ll fall off the wagon and rent one week after week after week. Once I get hooked again it’s hard to stop. I’ll see a game I want to rent after I’ve already got one picked out and say “Ohhhhhhh my I’ll have to rent that one next weekend” And the pattern keep repeating until I’ve played all the new games that tickle my fancy.
Since I’m shelling out $5.99 a week for my addiction for video game fun I might as well tell you my thoughts on drug of choice. You can now learn from my knowledge and game renting mistakes.
A few weeks ago I rented the new Red Faction Guerrilla for the 360 and was pleasantly surprised. It’s a opened ended “sand box” style game where you can do anything you want similar to the Grand Theft Auto series but set on mars. You play the role of a reluctant member of the underground mars resistance whose trying to free the people of the red planted from tyrannical oppression. Or at least I think that’s the story. Got to be honest. It gave the the option to skip cinematic cut scenes so I’m not really sure of the entire story but it is set on mars.
And who really needs a story with this game. It’s a blast to play. The destructionof building is really nothing short of amazing. You can actually destroy everything and it debris has great physics. When you blow up the door of a outpost to gain entrance the door react just how the would in real life. Or at least I assume how they would in real life. I’ve never blow the doors off a building personally. One of my favorite things to do was blow up three of the four corners of a super huge sky scrapper (don’t worry it was the bad guy’s base.), then plant explosive I can trigger from a distance on the remaining supports, drive a distance away and bring the building down on other bad guys’ responding to my assault.
I actually kept this game for a few days incurring a late fee not because I was to lazy to drive it back but rather I was having such a great time playing it. Now I can’t recommend going out and buying this game, 60 bucks is a lot to spend even on a perfect game, but I strongly suggest you rush out and rent this game right away. But be prepared to play for a while becauseonce Red Faction Guerrilla get it’s hooks in you it won’t let go. It’s just a plain flat out 100% fun game to play. Quite an enjoyable experience
Last week I rented the brand new, highly anticipated Ghost Busters Video Game. I looked forward to this one with extremely high geek levels of expectation. When I first saw the trailer for this game last year tears of joy ran down my face as I babbled “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD! I get to fight Stay Puft Mash mellow man!” When I got home from Family Video after snagging this from the rental shelves I almost jumped out of the car before Melissa has it in park. Yeah, I was this excited.
But once I got the game in and played about 15 minutes I my expectations for all for nothing. Don’t get me wrong it’s a well made game and not a half assed attempt that most games based off movies are. It’s very thought full on how the game play is, stay truth full to the original movies, even has the original cast doing the voices………..but just wasn’t that fun to play. I found myself getting bored very easy while wrangling ghosts.
Ghost busters for the Xbox 360 felt almost like an additional movie, which isn’t a bad thing, but it just didn’t do anything for me as a video game. I’d say rent it if your a fan of the Movies.
Finally the last game I have to comment on is Bionic Commando. It’s a remake of the old school Nintendo’s smash hit. I loved the old school version and was really looking forward to this new remastering of it. It’s a great game only problem is the disk has a huge gash the size of the Grand Canyon so once I get to about the third level it won’t play anymore. I’m not that upset because Family Video it very good about if somethings is wrong with anything they do their best to correct the situation. Unlike Blockbuster video they will fix the disk if something is wrong with it. Ever try to tell Blockbuster their DVD is scratched? They pull a Tommy Boy like reaction of “What did you do to it?”
Once I get a copy that runs correctly I’ll have a better review.
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July 6, 2009 at 11:29 am
They need a 4th of July game with fireworks you can actually light off…maybe that would make poor sad Melissa happy.