I’ll be honest – a couple of months ago, I barely knew of Scott Pilgrim. While I’d heard whispers of the book’s greatness (mainly from Garv), I’d never read them myself. However, when the movie was released last week, the gamer side of me felt obligated to go and see it, given that it was supposed to be an homage to all things gaming. Two hours later, I walked out of the cinema grinning like a chimpanzee that just spotted a banana buffet – I loved it, and would happily say it’s the best gaming-related movie I’ve ever seen.
The first thing I did when I got home was download Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game on PSN. While I generally avoid movie related games like the plague, there were two reasons for this - firstly, the game appeared to be based more on the original texts rather than a movie-to-game adaptation. Secondly, the game looked to be a retro beat-em up filled with gaming references and in-jokes. For the decent cost of £7.99, I downloaded it and got ready for some old-school gaming.
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So here it is. The final part to the latest season of Telltale Games’ Sam and Max. In this season alone the duo have stopped an alien invasion, quelled the rising of an Elder God, dethroned an Egyptian Pharaoh and fought off an army of clones. Now Max is possessed by an Elder God and is rampaging and destroying the city while armies of his flaming head feed off the dreams of the sleeping. Sam only has a short amount of time to assemble a team and get inside him and stop the madness before Acting-President Agent Superball has him and New York City nuked. Taking place two weeks after Beyond the Alley of the Dolls, the ride stops here as the story reaches its brilliant conclusion in the best Sam and Max Finale yet!
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It is very simple to compare a game like Nintey Nine Nights to the Dynasty Warriors games both the games have the same sort of game play and mission based system. The idea behind these games is to take down armies of soldiers and complete objectives to win a war against your foes.
So as you can imagine with these type of games you get a stupid amount of soldiers coming towards you and you have to fight them all off, it is pretty much a whole army vs you. Now in all honesty when I first played these type of games, the whole game and concept didn’t capture my imagination, it didn’t draw me in. You think it would as I do love my hack and slash games but there was something about the Warriors games and indeed the first Ninety Nine Nights (which we will now label N3) .
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Garvaos
Ok before anyone asks, no, we are not starting to do film reviews. This is just a one-off film review because lets face it, if you can get anymore video game references into Scott Pilgrim Vs The World then you would pretty much be observing someone playing a video game, and its with that opening statement I give you my Scott Pilgrim Vs The World film review.
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One of the more amazing things about Telltale Games (what, you haven’t figured out by now that I’m in love with this developer?) is that they’re a company that’s not afraid to experiment. Sure, they stay in the genre of point and clicks and have more or less single-handedly revived them, but each series they’ve worked on have been wildly different. Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People is nothing like Sam and Max, which is nothing like Wallace and Gromit Adventures, which is nothing like Tales of Monkey Island. Later this year, Telltale Games will be tackling the Back to the Future and Jurassic Park films, too. In the meantime, they’ve started a pilot program allowing themselves to experiement even more, and the first showcase of this is a pilot that could hopefully become a new series, ‘Puzzle Agent’.
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Although I’m primarily a console gamer – I wasn’t always, and a few PC games have special places in my heart. One such game was StarCraft, an RTS game I still hold with high regard to this day. With real-time strategy being one of the few genres that I feel suits the PC platform better than consoles – the keyboard and mouse perfect for precise selection and navigation in a micro management environment – I still haven’t seen an RTS title that tops the sheer brilliance of Blizzard’s sci-fi strategy game. So naturally when the sequel finally arrived, twelve years since the original’s release, I was more than happy to see what changes had been made that was worth such a long, long wait.
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The last time we left Sam and Max, they were about to be set upon by a horde of clones of our lovable but chubby Sam. The penultimate episode of the third series of Sam and Max begins with you holed up in Stinky’s Diner fighting off the Samulacra in an episode which looks set to challenge “The Tomb of Sammun-Mak” as the best of the season so far. Does it succeed? Read on and find out!
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Mini Demo Reviews
The long hot summer is officially here and aside from E3 not a lot has been catching my attention recently. Perhaps the lack of exciting new games is a ploy by the ice-cream men to make us all go outside and see some real sunlight. Or maybe all of the developers just thought “Sod it, its too hot! Lets go to a water park…” and have left their respective offices in search of summer merriment. I suppose its probably more likely that everyone is simply saving their new releases until prime Christmas present buying season, but I like my reasons better. At least they had ice-cream.
Ice cream and water parks aside I am still left with a problem. How do I fill the long pre-Christmas gaming void in the summer months ahead. The sun is all well and good for a while, but how am I meant to entertain myself when extremely hot, sunburnt and more likely than not feeling just plain Lazy? I needed a solution, and luckily I soon had a plan. Indie games. Indie game manufactures don’t stop because of the heat and even better than this I don’t even need to venture out of my relatively cool flat for new content. One problem though, which to buy? With so much Downloadable content available on live how do you chose which Indie title is most deserving of your hard saved Microsoft points? I feel some mini reviews coming on…
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