Dragonball Z is perhaps the perfect anime to be converted into a fighting game – with the series devoted to almost nothing but powering up and having epic fights with more and more powerful villains, it lends itself to the genre perfectly. The two main series’ that I have enjoyed are DBZ: Budokai, and DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi on the PS2. Budokai featured a simple side-on view and lush graphics, the third installment with the biggest range of characters and plenty of [...]
Archive for November, 2009
After Garvaos’ encounter with Dragon Age Orinins at Eurogamer and That Bloke In The Beanies’ newest RPG chrush. The two gamers decide to talk about this latest RPG fernominon in Plus XP’s first game disscussion. Garv: Well my main gripe about Dragon Age is that I played the console version, my god it royally sucks on there maybe it’s a translation problem but I didn’t get on with it at all Beanie: The 360 version I assume? Garv: Indeed, and [...]
For the past week or so now I have pretty much been playing the Left 4 Dead 2 demo non-stop. Being as skint as I am, I need to get my hands on all the free gaming I can at the moment. So as I ploughed my way through countless amounts of zombies and the undead, I got thinking - Is Left 4 Dead a welcome return to the classic style First Person Shooter (FPS)? Let me lay down some facts [...]
Tekken has been a series that I’ve always had mixed feelings about – when I was younger I remember getting Tekken 3 on the PS1 for Christmas one year, and being hooked for hours on end – the colourful cast and varied move sets keeping me entertained – Ling Xiaoyu, Jin Kazama, Heihachi Mishima and Hwoarang being among my personal favourites. It really gave me a sense of variation, whilst being easy to learn. At the time, it was my favourite fighter of all, and [...]
The good, the bad and the ugly Anyone who read my initial post concerning Band Hero will know that my personal expectations of this game were, well shall we say, just ever so slightly, just a little weenie bit low. Being a complete worshipper of the original Guitar Hero series, when Band Hero was announced I had to shed a tear at the thought of my beloved rockathons being corrupted by mainstream pop. The mere fact that It was called [...]
We have all seen our fair share of game clones over the years. Grand Theft Auto had The Get Away and True Crime, Mario Party has Raving Rabbids. Basically once one game has a great selling idea, another developer wants to get in on the idea. May I introduce Borderlands, a new game from Gearbox Software that combines First Person Shooting and Role Playing game into a nice combination in a post apocalyptic world. Yes basically the same idea as [...]
Before we get the ball rolling here. I have not had the opportunity to get a hands on go with EyePet yet, which is a bit of a bummer really as it looks pretty darn interesting. But with that said I want to give you, the gaming public out there a good insight into what this little gem has in store. Thats if you dont know already of corse. You may remember me briefly mentioning the EyePet in an article [...]
Zelda has always been one of my favourite Nintendo series’, mainly Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess; although I’ve completed Majora’s Mask and some of the handheld titles, those three are the ones that really stick out in my mind as being masterpieces. Ocarina of Time was spectacular for an N64 title, with a vast, vibrant world, breathtaking dungeons and bosses, and a ton of things to do. To top it off, it introduced Adult Link to the [...]
I have been a bit deprived of Xbox LIVE recently. This week saw me once again logging onto LIVE to see what things I have missed. So after downloading several gigs worth of demos onto my hard drive, I came across Halo Waypoint. Now me being the journalist I am, I personally have not heard much about this new addition to LIVE. Which is quite surprising really, seeing as I live and breath all things Halo pretty much. You could [...]
Like many gamers of the current generation, I grew up playing games on the earlier consoles such as the Sega Mega Drive and the Super Nintendo. Those were the days that really got me hooked on gaming, and the vast majority of them were 2D, often platformers - such as Sonic, Mario, Megaman, Metroid, Castlevania, Strider or Gunstar Heroes. Although many of these games still have incarnations nowadays, things have changed. Losing their 2D roots, most of these have converted to 3D formats [...]
