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on August 19, 2010
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It is that time again, the Summer of Arcade on Xbox Live. This year four games are features at $15 dollars a piece. Instant classic puzzle game Limbo is the first release, classic arcade game Hydro Thunder is next, then crappy looking game Monday Night Combat is up, and finally the new Tomb Raider game… oh wait, right… the new Lara Craft game. A pretty good line up in my opinion, with one miss in Monday Night Combat. Limbo is an awesome puzzle game that is very brief but spends every second of its mind crafting a great experience. I loved Hydro Thunder in the arcade and there is no reason I won't love this remix on the Xbox 360. The new Lara Croft game even features online cooperational play, with one player playing as the tomb raider herself, and another playing with Tic-Toc, an ancient Indian warrior or something of that nature. This will be an expensive Xbox Live month, but a good one.
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There are plenty of great Xbox games. My favorite would be a collection of Alan Wake, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2… and Deadly Premonition. Wow, on second thought there aren't that many great Xbox games. However, I do believe it's worth owning an Xbox 360 just to play Alan Wake, Deadly Premonition (Although the game is planned to be localized to the U.S. on the Playstation 3 soon) Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2… However this does make me question my subscription to Xbox Live.
Alan Wake is really the only survival horror game left, and features one of the best narratives ever in a video game. And it is amazing it can hold the title of best survival horror game when it is rated Teen has no blood in the entire game. Unfortunately they kept it Teen to appeal to a bigger market and it didn't sell anyway.
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on August 19, 2010
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I would say that old Commander Sheppard is barred from this conversation since you control so much of his conversation, he is a representation of yourself (unless you are playing trying to get moral achievements). That leaves several to choose from, the giant Wrex? Your homeboy Garrus? Maybe a girlfriend in Tali or Liara? Are you really weird and liked Ashley or Kiaden the best?
My favorite is easily Garrus. He is calm cool and collective in every position, and even shoots his sniper from the hip in the battles, what an amazing shot. Wrex is a good bro, but he is dumb and stuck in the past. Tali and Liara are both to needy and Kiaden and Ashley are both annoying and needy as well. Garrus is just the man, the Turian Sniper is just as important to the Mass Effect franchise as Commander Sheppard.
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on August 19, 2010
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There are plenty to choose from in this Bioware Epic. Is it the solarian scientist Mordin? The psycho prison inmate Jack? The genetically enhanced Krogan Grunt? The bad ass Garrus? One of the many other characters offered in this instant classic?
They are all very valid choices because Bioware did such an amazing job fleshing out all these characters with deep dialog trees and emotional loyalty missions. However my favorite is far and away the downloadable content character Kasumi, she is some sort of awesome ninja thief that also unlocks a beastly sub machine gun. Her special move is teleporting behind the enemy and then delivering a fatal smack to the back of the head.. Pretty cool if you ask me.
I'm sure its safe to say that Commander Shepard himself is the number one contender for everyone's favorite. In Mass Effect 2 he's actually cooler than he was than the last time.
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on July 31, 2010
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Xbox Live as a premium service does hold much value in my eyes. When paying for Xbox Live you are committing the ultimate sin of paying for content that is already on the disk. Unfortunately it is a behemoth of the industry and won't be disappearing anytime soon. I don't understand paying for Xbox Live, then having the Xbox Dashboard full of ads and other assorted crap you don't want see, when the Playstation 3 service is free and has a very clean start up screen.
Microsoft is doing their best to dilute Xbox Live even more, adding Twitter and Facebook functionality to the Xbox. I believe that move annoys the Xbox consumer because it clutters up the already cluttered Xbox dashboard, and it annoys consumers on Facebook that could be thinking about getting an Xbox because they are updated every time you get an achievement point or play a game.
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