Archive for June, 2009
Need For Speed: Carbon PS 2
2005 EA Games Release Need for Speed: Most Wanted The game was all about police pursuits. Need for Speed: Carbon picks up where Most wanted left off.
The game starts off you trying to escape from a bounty hunter named Cross. You total your car trying to escape, An old friend comes to your rescue and pays off Cross. He then employs you to take care of his “light work” taking over the turf of the other rival street crews. Everyone in town knows you and no ones like you. They believe the night you skipped town you took the bag of money with you. You will learn what everyone seen on that night and everyone’s perspective. Did you take it? Where you set up? You’ll have to play the game to find out.
FEATURES
Crews
The more respect you get for your driving skills the more people will want to join your racing crew. There are 3 types of drivers that will join your team. Blocker: Just as the name implies, he will block other crews trying to pass. The Blockers flaw is he must be behind you to be of any use. Scout: Scouts will find the short cuts on the track for you. The flaw is if you take a turn to fast your scout usually blocks you. Drafter: Drafters will let you draft them to gain speed with less wind resistance. The flaw is that it is difficult to follow so close and really not needed most of the time.
Dealerships
You can buy cars from dealerships or win the cars from bosses if you get caught by the cops driving the same car 3 times, The car will be impounded by the police and you will not get it back.
Customization
Your car is fully customizable. you have to make sure you have a wingman on your crew that can do the job that you want certain crew members can only do certain task. Customizations include decals to rims to metallic paint jobs to hood scopes.
REVIEWER SUMMARY
If you like like Fast and the Furious and running from the cops you would love this game the game has enough features to keep you busy for awhile and if you do finish the game and start to look for a new game I bet by the time you start looking you will discover that EA has come up with another game just like it that is sure to become a classic and a great addition to your racing game collection.
Sims 3 PC
The Sims return yet again in this third full evolution of the long-running and always-expanding sim series.
The Sims 3 allows you to immerse your unique Sims in an open living neighborhood right outside their door, interacting with other Sims using the new, deeper personality system. The game also allows you to customize anything, anywhere. From floors to flowers, fashions to sofas, wallpaper to window shades and more, The Sims 3 gives you all the flexibility and options you need to be the architect of your dream house or explore your interior design skills to outfit your ultimate home. Your Sims can make home an ultra-deluxe mansion, a cool bachelor pad, family’s dream home or charming cottage. The choice is yours.
Features
Create any Sims you can imagine and give them personalities! Design your ultimate Sim by choosing up to five traits and numerous body characteristics in the Create-a-Sim feature. Customize your Sims body type, facial features, hair styles, and more. Create an evil, handsome, ripped kleptomaniac that wreaks havoc on those around.
Control your Sims’ destinies. From a rock star or world leader to an expert thief, you choose whether or not to pursue the Lifetime Wish of your Sim. Choose whether to fulfill their destiny, giving them a lifetime of happiness and rewards — or not and be devious!
Customize everything! You are the designer! From clothing to houses, customize patterns, colors, or create any house you can imagine. Customize any aspect of your Sims’ style … even down to the style and color of their shoes!
Be the Director of your Sims’ movies! Never before have you been able to make your own movie with a cast, a set, soundtrack, a story and editing without leaving the game. Now you can with the movie making mash up tool set. Make a movie and share it with the world!
Share like never before! Join The Sims 3 online community where you can show off your creations from Sims and houses to objects, movies, and more.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PS2
The follow-up to Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. This time around, developer Rockstar North and publisher Rockstar take players to the state of San Andreas.
Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas… a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it’s the early 90s. Carl’s got to go home. His mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart and his childhood friends are all heading towards disaster. On his return to the neighborhood, a couple of corrupt cops frame him for homicide. CJ is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.
Features
The epic gameplay of a wide-open state, a combination of three gigantic cities and all outlying areas, all teeming with citizens and criminals
Features well-known actors voicing characters including Samuel L. Jackson, comedian David Cross, Andy Dick, and rapper Ice-T
Soundtrack includes Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur
Super Mario Brothers
Super Mario Bros. is the pinnacle of pure, unblemished gaming. The 2D platformer, designed by Nintendo’s legendary figurehead Shigeru Miyamoto, still remains in our minds the most intuitive and addictive entry in the genre. The title stars “Jump Man” himself, Mario, along with his brother Luigi, and takes players through more than 30 colorful levels of varied theme and design, all of them packed with cute, stylized enemies like the goombas and a wide array of platforms and obstacles. Super Mario Bros. is the first major showpiece for Nintendo’s heightened quality of gaming: full of depth, layered with tight control and remarkably clever level creation that spills with secrets and extras.
Legend of Zelda
Legand of Zelda
Embark on a quest to find the Triforce, slay Ganon and save Princess Zelda in the timeless adventure game from Shigeru Miyamoto that invented the genre. Originally released for the Famicom Disk System in Japan, the game arrived in the US on cartridge in 1987. In an ingenious marketing ploy, Nintendo released the game on a gold cartridge, so if you hadn’t heard about the glory of Zelda, the shiny cart would definitely catch your attention. And since Zelda originated on the Disk System, the US version also included the ability to save your game status via battery back-up — a first for the NES. The game’s release heralded the end of the days when console games were all about linear quests and never-ending twitch gameplay with small level variations or increasing speed settings.
The birth of all RPG games!
Boom Blox Bash Party Wii
The Boom Blox fun continues with Boom Blox Bash Party, featuring richer multiplayer action and more than 400 new levels that will have players of all ages gaming together and solving action-packed puzzles under water, in zero gravity, and beyond! The game showcases new block types, including: virus and conveyor blox, new blox shapes, such as: cylinders and wedges, and new tools that will make for even more destructive fun. Players now can also sling, launch, and blow the competition away with new cannon, paint ball and slingshot tools.
The fun continues online as Boom Blox Bash Party enables players to download even more new levels via the Internet. With the press of a button, players will be able to grab, play and rate new levels from EA as well as levels created by members of the Boom Blox Bash Party community. Using the game’s easy-to-use Create Mode, players now have the power to share the levels they built with friends, or submit their masterpiece to be shared with the world! The expanded Create Mode lets players build and create like never before, giving them access to the same tool set the EA development team used to create each and every level in the game.
Features
Download even more new levels via the Internet
Players now have the power to share the levels they built with friends, or submit their masterpiece to be shared with the world
New block types
Richer multiplayer action
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks DS
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks sets hero Link on a daring new adventure. The game provides players with a new story, more puzzles and even a new mode of transportation.
In this game, Link voyages by train, which offers up new possibilities for problem-solving. The game has the same look and feel established in the hit Nintendo DS game The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
Features
Link has a valuable new companion. While navigating dungeons, he’s accompanied by a Phantom, a hulking suit of armor that responds to his commands. Players can tap the Phantom to take command of him, then draw a line on the touch screen to direct him where to go. The stout Phantom can walk through fire or lava, be used as a platform to carry Link above dangers, or even run interference to block Link from harm
When Link conducts the train, players enjoy a satisfying combination of action and real-time puzzle solving as they determine which track to take and how to best manipulate their speed. When on the train, Link must plot the best route to the end of the line around ever-moving obstacles. While en route, Link might need to fire an onboard cannon at enemies who attack the train or sound the whistle to scare animals off the tracks
Link uses a variety of new items and weapons, including the Whirlwind, which players activate by blowing into the microphone of the Nintendo DS or Nintendo DSi system
As with The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, players can draw notes on the in-game maps using the stylus on the touch screen.
Assassin’s Creed II PS3
Delve deeper into the secret society of assassins with the sequel to the blockbuster action-adventure game. Assassin’s Creed 2 is an epic story of family, vengeance and conspiracy set in the pristine, yet brutal, backdrop of a Renaissance Italy. Ezio befriends Leonardo da Vinci, takes on Florence’s most powerful families and ventures throughout the canals of Venice where he learns to become a master assassin. This game retains the core gameplay experience that made the first opus a resounding success and features new experiences that will surprise and challenge players.
Features
EZIO, A NEW ASSASSIN FOR A NEW ERA — Ezio Auditore da Firenze is a young Italian noble who will learn the ways of the assassins after his family was betrayed and he looks to seek vengeance. He is a lady’s man, a free soul with panache yet has a very human side to his personality. Through him, you become a master assassin.
RENAISSANCE ITALY — Italy in the 15th century was less a country and more a collection of city-states where families with political and economic strength began to take leadership roles in cities like Florence and Venice. This journey through some of the most beautiful cities in the world takes place in a time in history where culture and art were born alongside some of the most auspicious stories of corruption, greed and murder.
A NEW-FOUND FREEDOM — You will be able to perform missions when you want and how you want in this open-ended world that brings back free-running and adds elements such as swimming and even flying to the adventure. The variety in gameplay adds another layer for you to truly play through the game any way you choose.
DYNAMIC CROWD — Discover a living, breathing world where every character is an opportunity for the player. Blending in with the crowd is easier, working with in-game characters provide ample rewards but can also lead to surprising consequences.
BECOME A MASTER ASSASSIN — Perfect your skills to become a master assassin where you brandish new weapons, learn to disarm enemies then use their weapons against them and assassinate enemies using both hidden blades.




