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Category Archives: Video Games

Get Back – The Beatles: Rock Band (2009)

My first experience with The Beatles: Rock Band…

The retail Limited Edition comes with a code for an Xbox Avatar t shirt. Going on marketplace.xbox.com to redeem my code gave me the above error message. The game does include a male and female version of the shirt but apparently my guy is unable to wear a [...]

Oscar Mike! Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) – VETERAN

Select Difficulty > Veteran > You will not survive > Are you sure? > Yes > Are you absolutely sure?
On the first campaign mission of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ I seriously died INSTANTLY after waking up/spawning. Figuring I was in for another long ride I got my mind set for more self inflicted [...]

A Sea of Dreams: BioShock 2 (2010)

Bioshock 2 as much as you might want to think is a quick dollar grab with multiple new development teams all having a hand I promise won’t feel that way after completing the campaign.  The Bioshock’verse is just swimming with stories, themes, lore, and history where as it’s apparent 2K Marin took careful steps to [...]

Crackdown – 2007

After finishing the extent of what I’m going to play of Crackdown the game as a whole plays a lot like what I would imagine being on Crack is like.
According to Wikipedia the primary psychological effects of cocaine include euphoria, supreme confidence, increased energy, and a craving for more cocaine.
Look at this explosion.
The game [...]

Lost Odyssey – 2008

Never have I been an overly opinionated person. More times then not I’ll seek out the opinions of others on many decisions and hold that key. I’m also not a person that will push my opinions on someone and more likely then not have a hard time recommending almost anything to anybody. Something I don’t [...]

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) : Veteran Complete Follow Up

As noted in my previous post about COD4 I played the game my first time around on the Veteran difficulty setting on the 360. Below is irrefutable proof that I did conquer the game on it’s hardest setting.

On Google Reader I commented to a friend thinking about replaying the game on veteran the following…
…if you [...]

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

Playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare gives me a feeling that I loath having in real life.
Pressure
The game is so grossly overscripted and pressure the player to act along with how the designers want the game to be played.
I’m pressured to continue moving forward. I’m pressured to not play how I want to.
Sadly I believe many people [...]