Follow up :MK!

A while back, i promised to keep you updated with Mortal Kombat. And here i am... um doing that. Well anyway, it seems like a good all-rounder combat game. Its been made into limited edition packages otherwise known as "Kollectors Edition" as per Mortal Kombat language. There is a special feature that is said to be featured in this game, which is a brutal fatality called the X- ray. This actually ... Well I have to let you watch it yourself. Follow the link to view it. Mortal Kombat's : X-ray fatality

Preview: Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat will be out on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in spring of 2011 and, at least from what we’ve seen of the title so far, appears to be a love letter to longtime series fans. The reboot marks a return to all the most requested aspects in a single tight package. Stay tuned for more details on this game in the coming months.

Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1

While the third-person shooter aspect of Harry's latest adventure can be fun, the game's story elements fail to live up to those of its literary namesake.

The Good

• Gameplay is fun for the most part.

The Bad

• Fragmented, confusing story  
• Bad character models and voice acting  
• Occasional bad camera and bugs  
• Little attempt to capture spirit of source material.

The most disappointing thing about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 is that it fails to capture the essence of the story it's trying to tell. While the revamped third-person shooter gameplay stays engaging throughout most of the campaign, the context that it's framed around is paper-thin. There is no attempt to tie the onscreen action to the motivation of the hero performing it; nor is there a coherent and engaging narrative to complement the gameplay and inject some sense of purpose. Crude character models, bad voice acting, a fragmented storyline, and a variety of bugs transform the richly detailed and minutely imagined world of Harry Potter into an experience as colorless as one of Professor Snape's lessons.

The final journey facing Harry Potter is not an easy one. Darkness, loss, and death now fill the space once inhabited by classes, Quidditch, and dorm-room chitchat. There are no more schoolyard adventures, traipses through the forest, or twilight romances by the lake. Instead, Harry, Ron, and Hermione must venture past Hogwarts into the cold, wet English countryside, tracking down and destroying the remaining parts of Voldemort's soul. This is the picture painted so clearly and heartbreakingly by J.K. Rowling's final Harry Potter book and so unceremoniously represented here. Not only does the game's story take liberties with the canon (when did Harry, Ron, and Hermione ever venture inside an abandoned factory?), but those elements of the story that are reflected accurately are portrayed through short, fragmented cutscenes that look dire and are completely unconvincing, making the story confusing and unclear for those unfamiliar with the books.
Important plot points are glossed over in favour of combat, and the game does very little to explain what drives these characters to do what they do. What's more, cutscenes have the emotional range of a teaspoon, to use Hermione's own words. What is supposed to be one of the most touching moments of the final book is reduced to a cutscene so brief and so badly acted you can only laugh. The character models also leave a lot to the imagination and are plagued by awkward movements, a perpetual stiffness of the hair and clothes, and out-of-sync talking, not to mention extremely limited dialogue--Ron is particularly fond of shouting "We can't do this!" during every single combat sequence at regular intervals, which is annoying at first and completely soul-destroying by the time you finish the game.

The Score: 5.2/10
Award: -----
           

Review: Assasins Creed 3 - Brotherhood

One of the many good games out nowadays.

The Good

• Huge, beautiful city stuffed with amazing details  
• Lairs and other platforming sequences are fantastic  
• Long, with lots of fun and varied activities  
• Economy is more meaningful than before  
• All sorts of improvements, big and small.

The Bad

• Main story is disappointing  
• Assassin recruitment is contrived and ultimately meaningless  
• Glitches.

The ladies of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood have both bark and bite. If you played Assassins Creed II then you already know Caterina Sforza, the comely Italian countess with a soft spot for sly, rugged assassins. She's not the only female character with an important role to play in Brotherhood, however. Claudia Auditore is no longer just a submissive bookkeeper, but rather a strong young woman who eventually learns to handle a blade. And then there's Cesare Borgia's cunning sister Lucrezia, whose sharp tongue is matched by her severe, almost vampiric appearance. These willful women are ensemble players in the continuing drama of Ezio Auditore, the self-assured star of Assassin's Creed II. His story continues in Brotherhood, which begins directly after the events that closed its predecessor. This follow-up tale doesn't have the same impact of the story that spawned it, but Ezio's world is a wonder to inhabit, filled with amazing architectural detail and bursting with tons of enjoyable content.

The Score: 8.7/10
Award: Good Choice

Review: LittleBig Planet 2

Its almost here ....

LittleBigPlanet 2

The Good

• Incredibly versatile creation tools  
• Great Story mode with plenty of replay value  
• Presentation is uniformly excellent  
• Community feedback features ensure that the best user content is easy to find  
• Supports user content and DLC from the first game.

The Bad

• Cooperative play can be confusing  
• Tutorials aren't as comprehensive as they could be.

More than two years after the release of LittleBigPlanet, the creativity of the game's community continues to impress. Tools that were designed to let users craft their own levels for the popular platformer have been masterfully manipulated to make all manner of weird and wonderful gameplay experiences, 3-million-plus of which live on in LittleBigPlanet 2. The superior creation tools that you're afforded access to in Sackboy's second outing are sure to send that number skyward soon, and even if you have no desire to make your own masterpieces, you're sure to enjoy the incredibly varied fruits of developer Media Molecule's labors, as well as those of other players. For creators, LBP2 is an easy-to-use tools package that lets you turn your ideas into games that can span multiple levels and genres, and even include cutscenes. For players, LBP2 is a game that lets you play all of these creations in addition to its own charming and impressively varied Story mode. Everyone's a winner.

The Score: 9/10
Award: Good Choice

Sony Playstation 4 out sooner than expected.

As most of you may know by now Sony's Playstation 3 has officially been 'cracked'. Piracy wins again but what does this mean to us? Could Sony possibly release the Playstation 4 sooner than expected or are they still waiting for the release of the highly anticipated Xbox 720.I's that even the final name for the second generation of Xbox.

*Please give me your thoughts on this.