Shadow Complex is Microsoft's big Xbox Live Arcade game, capping off their Summer of Arcade. It's a blend of Metroid/Castlevania/Contra, but is it any good? Loco puts it through the paces and lets us all know if it's worth the 1200 points.
Have you had a chance to play 1 vs 100 yet? The massively multiplayer online quiz show is an ambitious game for Microsoft's Xbox 360. Well, Mutter has sat down with it and has a review, complete with what it's like to be in the Mob on a live game!
Play free-for-all? Hate seeing douchebags in a corner boosting with their buddies with tac inserts? Then watch this video to see some Booster Justice. I encourage everyone to try this themselves. Nothing’s better than ruining a douchebag’s day. Nice music and Duke Nukem editing as well.
Thanks to Vin Phx 602 for sending me this.
Go buy me. I'm fun!
Splosion Man is $5 on XBLA this week, so if you haven’t played this one, it’s recommended here at SHR that for $5 you really can’t go wrong. Fun game, go check it out.
Best news evar.
From the completely badass news dept, comes word that Tecmo Bowl is returning! Not much is known about the game, here’s what I could steal shamelessly from Joystiq on the matter:
–Dubbed “Tecmo Bowl Throwback,” the game is a remake of the NES classic, complete with HD graphics and an updated soundtrack — it also retains the original plays and team stats. And for those of you who fear the fancy-schmancy graphics of high-def games, Tecmo is also including an option to play Tecmo Bowl in its original state. There’s even team customization.—
No news on release date or price. But you can guarantee when uncle Loco finds out, you will. Yes, oh yes.
Not really MW material. I just wanted to upload this image.
Since IW decided to nerf the model 1887 shotguns, making them about as accurate as real 1887’s held in each hand, I had to discover another way to piss off players. The solution: Another shotgun class!
Here’s how it works: Tube 20 players on any assault rifle class. Set up your custom class to have the Shotgun attachment. For your 2nd perk, you MUST use Stopping Power.
The result: A shotgun that has a longer range than the old-school 1887’s. Its range is so ridiculous you’ll have players dash-boarding out in no time at all!
While this is a very satisfying way to shotgun players, it’s balanced compared to what was being done before: You lose your cold-blooded, and the reload is a pain. But try this and you’ll see, the dickliness of this class is hard to beat! Thank you, and good day!
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Well, the internet photoshop machine at Something Awful has done it again! Today, they take movie posters that actually existed, and Photoshop game titles in instead of the movie titles. Hit the jump for a few more of my favorites, as well as a link to the epic thread that has the full collection. A general knowledge of movies and games will be helpful for these.
Modern Warfare 3 hands on, courtesy of The Onion.
Living up to it’s word, Gearbox continues it’s promised DLC for it’s very successful (and SHR GOTY), Borderlands next week with Underdome Riot.
Described as “Smash TV in coop FPS but in Borderlands”, it features Mad Moxxi, a widow seeking to relieve her boredom with carnage, entertains a cheering crowd as you and your teams take on five different waves of enemies in three new arenas – Hell-burbia, the Angelic Ruins, and The Gully. Teaser video above.
Expect to fork out 800 MS points for the new good times in Borderlands.
Another year, another year of playing a shit ton of amazing games. We as a gaming society are becoming so high-strung and spoiled from the quality of games compared to a decade ago, it’s mind boggling.
That said, developers are getting a lot of money from us to create something better than the last generation, and we should expect nothing less. I guess.
So what are my 5 favorite games this year? iPhone game of the year?
Read on to find out, and to be pissed off when I list the Worst Game Of The Year. Controversy FTW!
5: Borderlands
I really didn’t play enough of this game to really give this game the time it deserves. But the fact remains that the game is fantastic. It’s a hybrid of many of the most popular games out today, and it works remarkably well. It uses the basic MMORPG system for quests, a solid FPS system that out performs Fallout 3, and vehicular mayhem not unlike Halo. It’s a strange game all-around, something that’s not found much this year: A unique game. Until next year, of course, when Borderlands 2 comes out.
Wow has it been a year already? Seems like yesterday we were writing these up. Well anyway, here’s my top 5 of the year and a couple other awards. A couple are likely going to surprise you, and there’s a handful I have yet to play that can’t make the list.
#5 – Scribblenauts (DS)
Starites ftw.
I was only able to get my hands on a couple DS games this year, but I did go out of my way to make sure I played this one. Despite it’s one giant flaw, the game is pure genius and completely different from anything I’d played in a long time. Here’s hoping the sequel fixes it’s horrid control issues.
So close...
Another year, another gaming list. First and foremost, I want to bestow an honorable mention to a game that just slipped out of the top 5.
DJ Hero (Multi)
Look, I give as much shit as anyone to Activision corpse-humping the Guitar Hero Franchise. Let’s not forget this blog was founded on a comparison post of Rock Band and Guitar Hero! But DJ Hero is completely different: It’s the closest thing to Amplitude/Guitar Hero 1 that’s come along in years. Why that comparison? There’s no other game that’s truly like it that’s come before. It’s a whole new set of skills you didn’t know you had. The core mechanics are fun, but the game is marred by enough nit-picky issues (No fail? No real career progression? 5 tracks playable with a guitar?) that it had to fall out of the running. But I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with a sequel. A franchise to keep an eye on.
That said, on to the list!
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