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Prince of
Persia |
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88 |
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Release Date: 09-Dec-2008 |
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Save System: Save Anytime. |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[✓] |
Fighting/Combat |
[✓] |
Action |
[✓] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
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Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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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.
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Tomb
Raider: Underworld |
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75 |
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Release Date: 18-Nov-2008 |
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Save System: Save Anytime. |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
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Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[✓] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[ ] |
Survival |
[ ] |
Puzzle |
[✓] |
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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?
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Need for
Speed: Undercover |
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51 |
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Release Date: 17-Nov-2008 |
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Save System: Autosave at race/task
completion. Manual save also available.
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
[✓] |
Open World |
[✓] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
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Sports |
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Stealth |
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Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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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.
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Mirror's
Edge |
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79 |
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Release Date: 11-Nov-2008 |
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Save System: Checkpoints
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
[ ] |
Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[✓] |
First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[ ] |
Survival |
[ ] |
Puzzle |
[✓] |
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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.
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Call of
Duty: World at War |
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87 |
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Release Date: 11-Nov-2008 |
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Save System: Checkpoints |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[ ] |
Survival |
[ ] |
Puzzle |
[ ] |
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Gears of
War 2 |
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93 |
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Release Date: 07-Nov-2008 |
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Save System: Checkpoints |
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Game of the Year 2008 |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
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Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
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Survival |
[ ] |
Puzzle |
[ ] |
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Fallout 3 |
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92 |
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Release Date: 28-Oct-2008 |
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Save System: Save Anytime |
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Nominated for Game of the Year 2008 |
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Genre
RPG |
[✓] |
Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[✓] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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Far Cry 2 |
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82 |
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Release Date: 21-Oct-2008 |
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Save System: By visiting in game
safehouse. Checkpoints in few main missions. |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[✓] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[ ] |
Survival |
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Puzzle |
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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.
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Bully |
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80 |
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Release Date: 20-Oct-2008 |
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Save System: By visiting in-game
safehouse.
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
[ ] |
Open World |
[✓] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[✓] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
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Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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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.
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Dead Space |
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90 |
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Release Date: 14-Oct-2008 |
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Save System: Save any number of
times at in game save stations. |
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Nominated for Game of the Year 2008 |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
[ ] |
Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[✓] |
Survival |
[✓] |
Puzzle |
[ ] |
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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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