VGAnonymous Ep 6 Pt 1

Is up and running with me and my boy KURSE, talking about Backlogs. So listen to the show that wil explain what a backlog is and why you should care about it. But expect Part 2 to hit sometime tomorrow! So hit up itunes or podcast pickle or even click the feed here to pick up the episode and listen in.
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GRID Review - XB360

If you have played DIRT, codemasters rally racing driver you have played GRID. The difference is of course that this is more of a street version of the rally circuit as well as a drifting section to this game. Codemaster have improved on a number of things for this title that in my opinion make the game that much better or worse depending on your mood after the race. The detail to the cars and tracks is very nice with a clean crisp look to all of it. The same can be said about the damage to the vehicles themselves, it looks good and has real damage as if I was the one who really crashed this car. This of course can mess up your race if you fracture something major on your car. You can dent in the car enough in the front end that it literally makes you veer off to the left or the right and cause the race to be that much harder for you to control the game. This si not a bad thing its just frustrating when an AI car causes this incident. But there are ways to fix this issue, GRIS has a rewind feature that allows you to go back in time via prince of persia style and redo a turn or so that may have make or breaked the race itself. This of course also helps when you total the car so you dont have to restart the race completly, but you are limited on the number of times you can rewind so use wisely. Another thing I thought was cool is that the game has a list of prerecorded names for you to pick and the game will talk to you. I thought this was kind of cool, just nothing to shout about and buy this over. Overall GRID is a good racer sim but nothing in the means of Gran Turismo 5 or Forza standards. But if your into rally racing and want a unique type of game with a lot of cool features then definetly pick this game up.

Overall - B

Ninja Gaiden II Review - XB360

Ninja Gaiden is one of those games that you either love or hate due to a number of things. And unfortunatly the sequel to last generations version of the game suffers from alot of the same problems. The first thing of course is the difficulty. This game is tough and new people to the series will probably get turned off by this, even with the easiest difficulty. Another turn off is the camera angles, while not as bad as last time around it still suffers from those problems and will cause you to put down the controller due to shady deaths. As far as those two things, other than the very odd and very hard to follow story the game does not really ahve any other problems. I have nothing but praise for this game. The visuals are very nice with the blood splashing everywhere and the special attack moves will blow you away with the head and body slicing that will be going on. That being said this game is very bloody, VERY BLOODY. Its odd that this game was not all over the papers saying kids are going to start killing people with samurai swords or other japanese cutlery. Speaking of cutlery, lol. This game has a ton of weapons to use with them all have a unique set of moves which make you as giddy as a school girl when you use them. The story as I said is kind of odd and sometimes unclear but your not in this for the story your in it for the action and thats what this game delivers, ad it does it very well. So of course this is the game I would say is the one to make you put down GTA IV. But as I said in the beginning, newbies be very cautious caus this is not a easy title this is made to be tough and has always been this way so be warned and enjoy a great action title and possibly the greatest one for the 360 this summer.

Overall Score - A

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Review - XB360

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars was a hit on the PC with a lot of people playing on the servers and enjoying the game. Now its the 360's turn to take a crack at it and it didnt do so well. Quake wars is an attempt at the battlefield formula with the all types of classes, vehicles and terrain for you and 16 other multiplayer buddies to frag eachother. This of course is not a bad formula but with a poor execution in a lot of areas it doesnt live up to what the PC had to offer. The first and biggest complaint is the visuals. The graphics took a massive dive compared to the texture and such that the PC version was pushing out. Everything is very bland and looks very blocky with no real textures on the maps. Same goes with the characters having very bland animations with many of them not doing anything at all due to server lag. Oh lag, an app killer! Yes, its very present in this title, some games I was in I could not even move at all and had to kill myslef a few times to reboot the map to another local to allow me to play. This is something that should only occur in a beta not in the retail. Ok, enough about the bad stuff lets talk about the positives. The game does a good job of giving you specific types of objectives to accomplish in order to win the round. Not just a deathmatch game, its an objective based type of game as well as gives you the ability to capture points on a map for different things to be done. The classes as well are very cool with each one having an advantage to winning the rounds, that made it cool to have one of each type on your team and not all soldiers or something. Also a cool feature is something similar to the perks system from Call of Duty 4. As you do specific task or do something achievement worthy you earn stars as well as abilities that make you run faster, load quicker or something like that. Now there is a single player game sort of you basically play all the maps against the AI, so practice really for the online version as also seen in shadowrun. Overall, this is going ot be a game that unless you have some buddies who are willing to play with you and you guys could work as a team to get the job done. You wont really find this game too appealing, when you could get a far better game that uses this same structure. It was a good attempt to bring a fun PC title to the 360, it just failed in many of the points that could of made it a fun title.


Overall Score - C+

The Bourne Conspiracy Review XB360

The Bourne Conspiracy is one of those games you think would be kind of lame, since its a movie based game. Well I can finally say that this is one of the few movies based games that is actually very decent. The game of course is about Jason Bourne and him trying to remember his past. But what seperates this from the actual movie is that the game is broken up into two parts. You will play in scenes from the movie as well as flashbacks from Bournes previous endevours. So you actually get to see what Bourne did in his past as a hitmen. The game itself has four parts that you will use in order to play the game. There is the fighting which is self explanitory, its just you fighting hand to hand against thugs. The second is gunplay, where you use weapons that are scattered around the level as well as ones from enemies. Third is the quick time events and this has a lot of them. This game constantly throws them at you so be ready at all times to quickly hit a button but its very forgiving as far as timing so your not really having to redo alot of these parts because it goes to fast. Last is of course the driving sections. You will drive a car through the level and dodge cars and cops coming at you from all over the place. These are the main elements from the game and you will switch to them numerously throughout the level and the game does it quite well. I had no problem getting use to the cover system then moving into the hand to hand combat then back to guns and finally ending with a quick time event. Blending all of these together is the "Takedowns"! The takedowns are basically events that will help you through one of the three types of gameplay (quick time doesnt use it). How it works is you fill up a meter through shooting baddies as well as beating their asses. You can fill it up basically three tiers full and execute them by pressing B. The cool thing is that if you have multiple guys on you and you have a full takedown meter you can use it and a quicktime evnt will commence and allow you to take all three down with a ultimate combo. The same goes with the guns, you can use the takedown for the guns and a quicktime will pop up having you special kill a baddie with a gun. This adds a cool feeling to the game since Bourne will use the environment as well as certain finishers to kick ass. Visually the game looks good and flows very well. The only problem I had with this is the cutscenes. They seem to have a grainy feel to them adn it just looks really odd, nothing to really take away from the game just odd. The controls also feel good with a run button as well as the gears cover system thrown into the mix. This was a decent game and I highly recommend it for the Bourne fan! but even non Bourne fans will have a good time with this game simply because it gives you a different type of action game which will keep you on your toes.


Overall - B+

RESIDENT EVIL 5

New Gametrailer TV with the Resident Evil 5 Trailer YESS!!! just watch its actually a good episode!

Prince Of Persia Trailer for 08

I hope you said the same thing I did after seeing this trailer. WOW! This looks very good and after reading up on the new prince in the latest Game Informer im ready to dive right in. The new character reminds me a lot of strider. For those out of the loop it was a PS1 title which dealt with action and lots of it. Maybe its the blue and red scheme on some parts of the prince but I like it. I loved the other prince games no matter how difficult they made them. This time its a prince not the prince from the previous sands of time series. This one is set in Persia but its an ancient fantasy version of Persia. Some story elements revealed include God of Light, Ormazd versus his brother Ahriman, the God of Darkness,. Our Hero arrives just in time to witness the destruction of the legendary Tree of Life – an act which threatens to plunge the entire world into eternal darkness. In this new tale, the new prince will find himself in a fantasy world of light and dark, caught up in the battle between the God of Light, Ormazd versus his brother Ahriman, the God of Darkness. After the destruction of the tree of life the prince has to fight to stop the rise of Ahriman, the god of destruction. It ios said that some of the elemnts used in Assassins creed will be implimented into this game som im hoping its just the free roam movement and scaling, not the combat. So I hope your as excited as I am to play this new chapter of a great previous series. Lets hope they dont try to hard to make it a Tech demo for the sequal as did Assassins creed!

How I want my Wii fit !!

Yes, If wii fit came with her it be nice! I guess ill try my GF to do this, just wont be filming.

Dragonball Movie? or Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li? Uder failures or Glorified classics?

Now that Video Game Movies are all the rage. What can we expect from the two newest and possibly biggest films being made as we speak. Now I know dragonball isnt a game, its an anime. But the TV show has been over for ages and the games have been pumped out like lube at a brothel. So many peopel will associate this with oh yea this is about that Dragonball game. But back to the real question at hand, will these titles flop or go down in movie/game history. Honestly, I dont really care how good/bad they are im just excited that they are being made. The previous movies based on games were not blockbuster smashes and I really never cared they had that nestalgia for when a song or a character showed up I got all gitty inside. Even the original Street Fighter movie holds a special place in my film collection as bad as the film is its cool to have. The same can be said about the Mario Bros. movie. It was not good at all but still its got mario and luigi and a very odd story line, but I love it just the same. So with these two films coming out in 2009 or so we will still see lines of gamers coming out to see this film and enjoy seeing the characters they play with on the big screen.


With the plots not ebing the main focus in my opinion, im curious as to what spins or twist they put into the stories and characters on these two films. It will be kind of cool to see what they changed to finish the film. ZThis kind of stuff can make or break the films. Hence the Resident Evil movies having cameo's of some characters but not fully living up to the narrative the games told you. Same with the first Final Fantasy movie, had it been called spirits within it of been a good CG movie. But taking on the Final Fantasy name and not having anything remotly similar to the series is just fucking weird. So look for these two films coming to a theatre near you and enjoy!

Killer Instinct 3 Rumors

Yes, its all aboput the Killer Instinct again. For all you kiddies who are too young to rememebr this title it was a fighter for the SNES along the lines of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter with some very odd and unique characters.EGM's Quartermann brings up one we've been hearing for as long as we can remember, one that shows the publisher of the original Rare hard at work on a new Killer Instinct. This one, code named Killer Instinct 3D: Death, Destruction and Doom, The longest and quite possibly the lamest title Ive heard in awhile. Well unless you throw in some of those cheesy WII titles. This time it is said to bring the delightfully goofy fighting game that pits boxers against skeletal pirates, lizardmen against werewolves into the world of 3D. This sounds pretty good to me since I was a fan of the original one that was on the SNES, not so much on the 64. Next we will eb hearing of Clayfighters for the WII or xbla/psn title. Well I hope the rumors are true and this franchise is being resurrected and has a glorious comback. I mean if Mortal Kombat can fight the superheroes of DC why cant Killer Instinct come back to rule the day. Ill leave you with my fave quote from the game.......ULTRA!!!!

Well Lego sure is doing things right! I was not a huge fan of the Star Wars lego games simply because im not as big of a fan of Star Wars as I use to be *Cough* Anikin *cough*. But the batman and Indiana Jones ones look amazing. I am a huige fan of those two franchises and will definitly get them on day one. Above is the new trailer for the Lego batman one to come out this fall. Also just shown was Mr. Freeze who looked very cool. So get pumped for Lego Batman and I am almost sure that a demo will hit later this summer. As for Indy fans get ready for that plus the movie coming sooner than you think!!

**Also this was pointed out to me, check out Comissioner Gordon in the first seconds of the trailer! AO rating on the move lol!**

So you like Ninja Gaiden huh? well get a glimpse at what you might look like while playing this game! Above is the mens side of things and below is the girls. How come the girl looks like that lol, is hse just in soo much awe of this game?

Ugh plastic all over the house!!!

So by now you all should have read up on Guitar hero: World Tour. More like world of space consumption! What the hell is it now with adding peripherals all over the place. I dont have enough room for all these goddamn guitars, drums and mics! Whats next a keyboard or a trumpet or some shit. Just stick with one universal set of instruments and let us the consumer have room to play your fucking games. So now we have 3 sets of drums, like 4-6 guitars and mics well luckily the mic is the only thing I have found thats universal on all the consoles as well as the pc. I mean I have a small room that has very little space. So adding more stuff liek this discourages me from buying it sine I wont have anyplace to sit or sleep. I know im not the only one since college kids are loving this type of stuff as well as people living in apartments. I hear all the time of people not wanting to have to get more stuff and put it in a closet or some place that will hold it. Ugh that frustration aside the new World Tour game could be good it just seems to be a rip off of rock band so we know what to expect unless they drop some sort of bomb on us that completly changes it. Oh yea they did song customization, but wait is it really gonna be that good? Probably not due to the fact that copyright laws are so strict you wont be able to make a song not featured in the game, but maybe an off sounding version perhaps? This is getting kind of rediculous. All I want is a fantastic song list, nice visuals for the notes, downloadable content thats good, amazing sound quality and the ability to play with frinds on and offline. Thats pretty basic stuff I dont need a new set of drums every 5 months to have to deal with nor do I want to have a game where I get DL content then in 3 months a new game comes out and my old stuff wont work. Wow this is going to take the typical Tony Hawk syndrome that activision has already done and do it again with Guitar Hero. But all in all this could be a great game especially if i can use the rock band set and not have to worry about the new drums cause we already know rock band 2 is on the way as well as konami's game. So check out the trailer and get ready for the new way to play games with tons of plastic instuments and no space to put them in.

Infinite Undiscovery

If your like me you love the Final Fantasy series, but you also own an xbox 360. With the details on FFXIII being very scarce and new IP's not hitting anywhere close to the production and style of the series. We are then forced to wait it out. Well after February's success with LOST ODYSSEY on the 360 this lack of RPG's on the 360 is starting to dim. Now Square has seen that people want RPG's so they are developing Infinite Undiscovery which looks amazing. Its got great visuals a unique story line as well as the type of combat that is very fun. Now all we have really seen so far is a trailer and in the May 2008 issue of OXM there is a tidbit page about the game with some screenshots. From what Ive read the story is basically a imprisoned guy is freed by some radicals, because he is the key to getting the moon back. Yes, I sais the moon a group of bad guys stole the moon from the people forcing a huge meltdown on the planet causing all types of chaos. Well this person in prison is suppose to be able to save them, upon rescuing him the leader finds out that the two (him and the prisoner) look just a like and from there you quest on to see if it was suppose to be you saved or was it you who was put into place to save the other guy? We will find out this september when the game releases on 9-2-2008. Below is a clip from the game hope you enjoy!

Gears of War 2: Too violent for some?

UGH! just as I post something about Mature content I switch to yahoo and read this headline! A article published by Yahoo news and written by Mike Smith tells us why the game is being banned in some places.

As the gaming press gathers on the West Coast for a week of preview events,
the sequel to 2006 smash hit Gears of War was by far the biggest news to come
out of Microsoft's Tuesday press conference. Gears 2 takes over the story six
months after the close of the original Gears, as humanity faces a new and more
deadly threat from its Locust enemies -- and features even more explicit
violence than its notoriously bloody predecessor. Could Microsoft's newest
action game have gone too far?

Gears of War was famously banned in
Germany, after the country's ratings organization declined to issue the game an
age certificate. Gears 2 covers much of the same ground, but adds in more
realistic visuals, a deeper plot, and battles that concentrate more on mobility
and dynamic combat than the original, which some decried as a prettier version
of the old "whack-a-mole" parlor game.

Graphics and plot aren't just
what raised eyebrows at the press event, though: instead, attendees caught a
glimpse of one of the game's many melee kill moves. Whereas Gears 1 included an
up-close attack that used a chainsaw blade on the lead character's main weapon
to dismember a foe, Gears 2 adds a reverse attack that actually slices an enemy
in half -- from the groin upwards. Elsewhere in the demo, presenter Cliff
Bleszinski, the celebrated lead designer behind the Gears and Unreal series,
showed off a new ability that let him use the corpse of a fallen enemy as a
"meat shield", soaking up bullets while he returned fire around its head.

One thing's for sure, though: the Gears of War gameplay Xbox 360 owners
know and love is alive and well, and although it's definitely kicked the
violence up a notch, like its predecessor it's going to be a good fit for the
"Mature" ESRB age category, which will bar its sale to youths under 16. Whether
or not the German censors will take a different view on its violence this time
round remains to be seen -- but we're not going to be betting on it.

Gears of War 2 is expected in November, just in time for the hustle and
bustle of the holiday season, but we're expecting to see more of the game at
this year's E3 trade festival in July.

At least this time we are not dealing with something too terrible to us. Just Germany has a little issue with the violence. Hmm, Germany huh? the same people who have videos of people shitting on onme another as well as some other very odd fetish material is saying the game is a wee bit to violent for them. Wow, this is a huige shock to me and seems a bit odd that they would wnat this. But oh well someone has to bitch about every M rated game on the market right? So whatever I dont care cause I will get my copy of Gears of War II and I will enjoy every second of it."

Parents Get you Sh!t together!!!

Will all the talk in the news concerning GTA IV as a cop killer simulator, a prostitution ring and apparently a chainsaw weilding massacre that allows one to tear a human to shreds is killing th youth of America. Well as an American citizen, a gamer as well as a teen not so long ago I for one am appaled at all this nonsense. It boils down to the parents taking responsibility for what their son or daughter is doing. I remember being about 5 or 6 and playing DOOM and wolfenstien on the pc. I never had that urge to go pick up a gun and kill someone or think about killing someone or even act violent. I had this thing called common sense that allowed me to tell myself its just a game its not real. Even my parents were ok with what I played I was never censored as a kid from a lot of things. Now I wasnt allowed all freedoms I still had to live by rules the typical kid stuff. But for video games I had no limit. If my parents felt something was a little too bad we discussed it like people should and I learned about whys oemthign was wrong or why something was the way it was. This will be the same teachings I pass onto my children cause I want them to be gamers as well and support a media that I find will only get bigger and better as they grow. Parents need to step up and take the blame for the lack of what they are doing. If you dont feel your child should play thise game then sit them down and tell them why it is inapprpriate and explain to them why it isnt something that they want them to play as of now but in a little while it will be ok. This jump up to an AO rating is absurd and until we get people who will think clearly and go OH this is a Mature game this is for adults, since a vast majority of gamers today are about 19 - 33 years of age, We will never be able to have freedom of media. The censoring will start happening more and more as well as new inventive ideas being shot down because companies will want to play it safe instead of giving it a shot. So parents START PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT THE FUCK IT IS THAT YOUR KIDS ARE DOING! They have magazines and oh yea this fucking thing called the internet to allow you to do research. I can look up every game out on the market in seconds and learn all about it, why can you take that time out for your children. It shows how much you really care!

Project Origin Trailer!

Hey do you guys remember F.E.A.R. or any of its expansions extraction point and FEAR Files? Well, I do and those games were ok but had a lot of probelems when ported to the 360 and the PS3. But the overall horror/FPS twist that monolith put into this game was kind of interesting. Well they are back again this time with a title known as Project Origin, Basically F.E.A.R. 2 just for some reason due to legal matters they lost the right to that name. Even though the name sounds kind of lame the gameplay looks rather good and taking things that worked well from the previous games and refining them and reworking them is a plus in my book. So check out the trailer and look foreward to more info in the next couple months.

Too Human Preview

IGN posted a video preview on Too Human and its pumping gamers up more and more. For a game that took about 10 years to get out to the public and Denis Dyack is 100% positive that we will fully enjoy this game and not be dissappointed at all with it. I am one of these people who are stoked for the game and hope that the 10 years has paid off and will deliver with a wonderful story and awesome visuals and gameplay. Even though the recent drop to 2 player co-op has occured I have no doubt that this issue will affect my urge to want this game. So here is a look at some co-op and some newer clips of Too Human!

DEAD SPACE Game footage!!

Yep thanks to Gametrailer TV we got a exclusive look into the world of dead space and you get the first look at the story element trailer. This gives a good start into a game that I am very much looking foreward to. If your into this please check out the online graphic comics and a video that will hit the streets just before the title comes out. You will also see GRID and command and conquer: Red Alert 3 trailer as well. But look for more covergae on Dead space this summer as well as at E3!

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Yep Its coming out in 2008. Actually its coming out a few days before my birthday so that gets me more pumped. As you can already see im excited, especially since im a huge fan of the mummy series. But I dont consider the scorpion king as a part of the series even though it was an ok film. But this is great news since now its also confirmed that the first two movies will be on Blu-ray this year. So ramp up and get ready for the third installment in one of my favorite new franchises over the past couple years.

Left 4 Dead is one of the newest games valve will be pushing out this year hopefully and is high up on my anticipated games list for this year. Here is a quick trailer brought to you by Gametrailers.com which shows some cool Zombie killing gameplay!

Konami have announced 'Rock Revolution' (Xbox 360/PS3/Wii/DS) that aims to provides an unmatched rock experience. Breaking new ground with its definitive drum experience, Rock Revolution also gives players a chance to rock out on the bass and lead guitar. The realistic drum kit will have six drum pads and a kick pedal arranged and there is a five-note guitar peripheral (PS3/ Xbox 360). The Wii version will not require any additional peripherals with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk being used for an air-drum and air-guitar experience. For the PS3/360 versions the game will launch with 40 songs with DLC to follow. I dont know about you guys,but this sounds like a good idea just im sick of having to buy all these plastic instruments that take up a ton of space. Rock band drums arnt easily able to be stored. Plus the cost is a bitch so im assuming this will be 150+ on all this shit on top of the DLC. Lets just make a universal instrument set and let us all use them. Sell me on the game itself with the unique display and the style of play not on a new fucking plastic toy to sit in my room. Especially since I know if I want this it wont work with the rock band drums or the guitar hero guitars, since we already have this problem. Also looking to the future Guitar Hero 4 will have instruments I bet as well so another fucking set of plastic to purchase, this is a fucking joke. I know your going to say well dont buy it. Im a game-aholic so I will buy the shit also its the ebst thing to own since everyone enjoys it and its a great idea that I love playing. So this was my rant on Plastic music generation we are moving into.

VGA Episode 6 this week

We will be reviewing HAZE as well as discuss some of the games coming out over the next couple weeks. Simply because the GTA hype is over and people should be finishing the single player by now and will be moving on to the next thing. So join me and my guest for another exciting episode coming to you sometime this week. I will update more as I get time and make arrangements.

Ok here we go!

Well, I finally did it. I broke down and got myself a blog, so now all of you can read my opinions on news,games and whatever else I deem fit to discuss. So feel free to leave comments or email me with questions or concerns at evildeathsyth@gmail.com

Iron Man PS3/XB360 review

Now I will be seeing the movie today, and I know it will be pretty cool and hopefully will be as good as I am anticipating. The game however wasnt something I was looking foreward too and if you have played the demo you will probably agree with me on a lot of stuff. First thing that really bugged me was the controls to fly. They are soooo damn touchy and hard to get use to that you crash pretty much everywhere and it pisses you off. They story fallows along witht he movie like any other amrvel or movie game. So nothing really com[elling or different there. The visuals are evry detailed and iron man himself looks badass. Too bad everyone else looks the same all the tanks helicopters and what not, it looks like they spent all the money on iron man's glossy coat and just copied and pasted the baddies so they all look the exact same. Besides the crappy flying controls the powerups and moves iron man does are kind of cool, like the energy beam shot from the chest or catching a rocket then hurling it back at soemthing. So while this isnt going to take you away from GTA, this would be a fun game to mess around with over a couple of days to give you a break or if your a fan of iron man as I am. So go see the movie then play the game its not that bad just not something I can tell you to buy.



Rating: C+