SuperSonic1305
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Cover Story: SoulCalibur IV
Next Month: Mirror's Edge Cover Story, LittleBigPlanet.
Too Human, Lego Batman, Mercenaries 2, and Baja reviews.
Features:
- Murder in Akihabara
- Domestic Object/Japan: Call of Duty: World at War
- Skate 2:
- Can get off your skateboard and push/pull objects to alter skate routes.
- Pedestrians move out of your way.
- No load times when teleporting to a session marker
- Play as a girl
- Tiger Woods-like character editor
- Default camera tweaked. New 3rd person camera
- Using EA's site for uploading videos again
- 60 fps
- Takes place 5 years later. City hit with unknown disaster and was rebuilt.
- Afterthoughts: MGS4
- Hironobu Sakaguchi Interview
- Nobuo Uematsu Interview
- Yoshitaka Amano Interview
- The Online World Ends With Square-Enix - How they are keeping FFXI alive
- EA All Play titles meant to ease non gamers into EA sports games with more casual cartoony sports games
- Diablo 3
- Roundtable: East Meets Rest
- Apple and Mobile Gaming
- Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, Star Ocean: The Last Hope
- Bayonetta
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Japan
- Kenji Eno Interview
- Itagaki Interview
- Seanbaby: Japanese dating sims
- A history of Japanese games
- Tokyo Gamers Guide
- LOLZ in translation
Rumor Mill:
- Banjo Kazooie and Tooie for XBLA will incorporate Stop N' Swap
- Konami bringing back a retro classic in 2D. Not Bucky O' Hare or Biker Mice From Mars.
- More Star Wars characters will come to SCIV as DLC
- LocoRoco 2 and Patapon 2. Q Entertainment making adventure game that is not a sequel to NNN.
- Halo Wars, Fable 2, and Call of Duty: World at War will not make it out in 2008
- Namco bringing back Dead to Rights
- Bungie making multiplatform and PS3 games
Reviews:
SoulCalibur IV - A, B+, B+
Good: Extreme fun and value
Bad: Darth Vader is pretty lame
Madden NFL 09 - A, B, A-
Good: Shockingly pretty
Bad: The play-by-play coach needs some coaching
NCAA Football 09 - A-
Good: Online Dynasty
Bad: Where are the weapons?
Beijing 2008 - B
Good: Gorgeous character models, lots of variety
Bad: The kayak-oh dear God the kayak
Alone in the Dark - B-, D+, C-
Good: Neat episodic DVD structure
Bad: Both endings are unsatisfying
Izuna 2 - B-
Good: Devious gameplay, witty script
Bad: Dated visuals, unforgiving difficulty level
Guitar Hero: On Tour - B-
Good: Small scale guitar hero mechanics work well
Bad: Hit and miss track list
Next Month: Mirror's Edge Cover Story, LittleBigPlanet.
Too Human, Lego Batman, Mercenaries 2, and Baja reviews.
Features:
- Murder in Akihabara
- Domestic Object/Japan: Call of Duty: World at War
- Skate 2:
- Can get off your skateboard and push/pull objects to alter skate routes.
- Pedestrians move out of your way.
- No load times when teleporting to a session marker
- Play as a girl
- Tiger Woods-like character editor
- Default camera tweaked. New 3rd person camera
- Using EA's site for uploading videos again
- 60 fps
- Takes place 5 years later. City hit with unknown disaster and was rebuilt.
- Afterthoughts: MGS4
- Hironobu Sakaguchi Interview
- Nobuo Uematsu Interview
- Yoshitaka Amano Interview
- The Online World Ends With Square-Enix - How they are keeping FFXI alive
- EA All Play titles meant to ease non gamers into EA sports games with more casual cartoony sports games
- Diablo 3
- Roundtable: East Meets Rest
- Apple and Mobile Gaming
- Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, Star Ocean: The Last Hope
- Bayonetta
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Japan
- Kenji Eno Interview
- Itagaki Interview
- Seanbaby: Japanese dating sims
- A history of Japanese games
- Tokyo Gamers Guide
- LOLZ in translation
Rumor Mill:
- Banjo Kazooie and Tooie for XBLA will incorporate Stop N' Swap
- Konami bringing back a retro classic in 2D. Not Bucky O' Hare or Biker Mice From Mars.
- More Star Wars characters will come to SCIV as DLC
- LocoRoco 2 and Patapon 2. Q Entertainment making adventure game that is not a sequel to NNN.
- Halo Wars, Fable 2, and Call of Duty: World at War will not make it out in 2008
- Namco bringing back Dead to Rights
- Bungie making multiplatform and PS3 games
Reviews:
SoulCalibur IV - A, B+, B+
Good: Extreme fun and value
Bad: Darth Vader is pretty lame
Madden NFL 09 - A, B, A-
Good: Shockingly pretty
Bad: The play-by-play coach needs some coaching
NCAA Football 09 - A-
Good: Online Dynasty
Bad: Where are the weapons?
Beijing 2008 - B
Good: Gorgeous character models, lots of variety
Bad: The kayak-oh dear God the kayak
Alone in the Dark - B-, D+, C-
Good: Neat episodic DVD structure
Bad: Both endings are unsatisfying
Izuna 2 - B-
Good: Devious gameplay, witty script
Bad: Dated visuals, unforgiving difficulty level
Guitar Hero: On Tour - B-
Good: Small scale guitar hero mechanics work well
Bad: Hit and miss track list