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Prince of Persia
88
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 09-Dec-2008
 
Save System: Save Anytime.
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [] Fighting/Combat [] Action []
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter [  ]
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]


Review
Pros
1. Fun Focused - Prince never dies in the game. Whether you make a poor jump and fall or you get hit in a combat you will be saved by Elika(Princess), though during boss fights(95% of combat in the game) if you are so saved by Elika, your enemy will regenerate some part of it's health. It's interesting that in a game where you have 0 chance of defeat it's still a lots and lots of fun.
2. Combat - All fights are one to one, you never have to face multiple enemies at once. To survive enemy attacks you need to parry using RT. You can also hold RT to block all attacks but same leads to enemy domination as they ruthlessly keep on attacking, you don't get any damage but you also don't get any chance to strike back. Once you get hold of combat game is really fun. There are also lots of QTEs in combat when enemy launches a special attack.
3. Each area has 1 boss fight after which 45 light seeds get scattered around. You need to find at least half of them (in total of all areas) for main story missions but most likely they will addict you into finding each one of them.

   
   
Tomb Raider: Underworld
75
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 18-Nov-2008
 
Save System: Save Anytime.
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [  ] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action []
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter [  ]
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle []


Review
Pros
1. There are not many puzzle focused games, at least not good ones.
2. Hints, you don't need to google every time you get stuck. Open PDA and select reveal hint for some help. What is good is that hints are hidden, so anyone who doesn't want any help can easily avoid them.

Cons
1. Tomb Raider like always is a game for those who have patience, it's hard to not to get stuck at one point or another in the whole campaign.
2. Direct sequel to Legend, Underworld won't explain everything. So not a good entry point for someone who didn't played Legend.
3. Some camera issues.
4. Seriously irritating at lot of points, I would like to quote one of them. To sprint on ground or to swim faster you press sprint button, but on one occassion you have to move fast while hanging on a moving chain. Here to move fast you have to press 'interact' button!! Why? In the whole game when ever you have to press interact button, Y (button assigned) is displayed but not here.
5. Uninteresting combat. Lara can only carry two weapons at a time, but at any moment you can pause the game and bring new weapon. So why not just let her carry all weapons?

   
   
Need for Speed: Undercover
51
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 17-Nov-2008
 

Save System: Autosave at race/task completion. Manual save also available.

 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) []
Open World [] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action [  ]
First Person [  ] Third Person [  ] Shooter [  ]
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]


Review

Pros
1. Tier 1 supercars are fun to drive and also provide some challenge in events.
2. Driving is crash free, you can easily control your vehicle to perfection.

Cons
1. Way too easy - You can easily win all the events. There are no difficulty levels just one difficulty set by the game. Comparing with other racing games it will be equivalent to easy mode. Throughout the game I hardly felt any need to press the brakes.
2. Though game is open world but still events can only be started from the map.
3. Storyline - A school kid may come up with something better than this. Awful work.
4. UC tries to copy everything from 2005's Most Wanted and fails to do it properly.
5. Races keep on unlocking while old ones are still pending. You end up racing against higher tier cars even when same is not unlocked for you. It's not fair though it becomes a good thing as it helps make game little competitive.
6. When chased by cops you can use pursuit breakers to takedown cop cars near to you. A small cutscene is played displaying how you wrecked there cars, during this cutscene your car is auto-piloted by game and sometimes it just drives over spike strips causing you to loose event without any mistake done by you.

   
   
Mirror's Edge
79
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 11-Nov-2008
 

Save System: Checkpoints

 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [  ] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action []
First Person [] Third Person [  ] Shooter [  ]
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle []


Review
Pros
1. One of it's kind.
2. With lot of way finding puzzles, ME may make you feel smart when you solve them but can also irritate you if you can't.

Cons
1. Very Short - Owing to level based gameplay ME is a mere 6hr campaign. But I feel they stoped at right time, anything more and it would have start to feel repetive. Length in such games can only be achieved by creating open world environment.

   
   
Call of Duty: World at War
87
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 11-Nov-2008
 
Save System: Checkpoints
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [  ] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action [  ]
First Person [] Third Person [  ] Shooter []
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]
   
   
Gears of War 2
93
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 07-Nov-2008
 
Save System: Checkpoints
 
Game of the Year 2008
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [  ] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action [  ]
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter []
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]
   
   
Fallout 3
92
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 28-Oct-2008
 
Save System: Save Anytime
 
Nominated for Game of the Year 2008
 
Genre
RPG [] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action [  ]
First Person [] Third Person [] Shooter [  ]
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]
   
   
Far Cry 2
82
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 21-Oct-2008
 
Save System: By visiting in game safehouse. Checkpoints in few main missions.
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action [  ]
First Person [] Third Person [  ] Shooter []
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]


Review
Relief !! It is finished !!
I disliked the game in start but started liking it later when I got hang of it. Game gives a feeling of being hard but is not if played skillfully. The weather graphics are best I have ever seen in any game. First dark clouds then follows a storm(which actually feels like a storm) then rain, gives a realistic feeling of the weather. Most of games miss this, I dont understand why? Corrupted save game bug is annoying & can destroy your whole progress though I managed to find a workaround for that & also a patch is now available on Live which can fix it. Far Cry 2 is a great game but is filled with bugs. The storyline is simple, everyone is after money or I should say diamonds. A man cant see the other man. Guard post on every corner ready to tear you apart. I had to pop above 3000 heads until credits finally rolled up !! Far cry is both frustrating & amazing at the same time. I can only say that it was my love for open world games which kept me going. Keeping high hopes from Far Cry 3.

   
   
Bully
80
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 20-Oct-2008
 

Save System: By visiting in-game safehouse.

 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action []
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter [  ]
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]


Review
Pros
1. Uniqueness - Tell me one other game that lets you throw eggs at your teachers, ride skateboard in a school, skip classes etc. Fun never stops in Rockstar's Bully.
2. It's a perfect school experience, you have to attend classes in the morning and afternoon which you may choose to skip and evening is free for you to have fun(missions).
3. School classes are perfectly designed, e.g. Maths class involves solving actual math problems, English class involves vocabulary test where you have to create words in given time. As the classes are optional you don't need to worry about the subject that used to give you scare in your school times. There are in total 50 classes for you to clear.
4. Apart from school, there are four small towns where you can freely roam.

Cons
1. Repetive - The missions are mainly of 4 or 5 types and they keep on repeating in one form or another. They are usually
 -- Fight through wave of enemies
 -- Cover x number of locations in given time.
 -- Collect and deliver some item.
2. More than half of the missions are just to explain all the things you can do in this game.
3. Many missions are only available in between the specific time of the day, something Rockstar has always done in it's open world games. The problem is that in Bully you may have to actually wait for the mission to be available as you can't sleep to pass time in game. You can only sleep after 7pm and whenever you do that, you always wake up at 8am only. You feel this in the later stage of the game where you may have completed all other tasks like classes, races, jobs etc and only thing left to do are the main missions.
You can see above that Bully is amazing in the beginning but the experience diminishes by the time it finishes. Rockstar should have kept the main storyline shorter.

   
   
Dead Space
90
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 14-Oct-2008
 
Save System: Save any number of times at in game save stations.
 
Nominated for Game of the Year 2008
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [  ] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action [  ]
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter []
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [] Survival [] Puzzle [  ]


Review

Pros
1. Scary? Yes
2. Scavenging is survival in DS and it keeps game fun. You never get too much ammo of one gun so you have to manage what to use when.
3. Enemies can approach from any direction, they use air vents to reach you thus removing any sort of predictability. You have to stay ready all the time, anything goes.
4. Very simple upgrade system.

Cons
1. Aiming with stick is pain and to aim perfectly is very important in DS. Every enemy has a weak point, shooting anywhere else is almost worthless.
2. Not a big deal but most of the levels are like do this 3 times or find 6 of these.ntlation, instead a mix of both.

   
   
 
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