X Men Next Dimension
March 14, 2009 by Xbox Reviews
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2 Stars D rated game.
This is barely passable to be rated as a game.Theres good reasons why games and comic books should not mix and this is one of them.
In the game for some characters the player can’t do some of the moves as good as the CPU, and the moves do not respond to the D-pad on time.
And there are several glitches in the game as well for instance; As I was in practice mode in some arenas the player or opponent can fall threw walls or in some areas where there are big holes in the floor where you can actually walk on them and not fall, or get trapped in a wall. And as if that was not bad enough they did a pore job on the blocking move, it too dose not respond on time. They have where you can reconfigure your controls on the game (Yeah, a lot of good that dose.) But you still don’t have the blocking move to where you don’t have to strain the hell out of your fingers just to do one stupid move.
And as for the affects, its a joke and I’ll give you an example; In the game Blood Roar Extreme, the lighting in the game looks far more real as to X-men Storm’s lighting balls, they look more like balls of yarn. And there fighting stances are just flat out bad. Some players can float just over there heads witch doesn’t make sense because not only that, you can’t really hit them anymore and it gives your enemy an open shot at you.
To sum it all up, X-men next dimension was just another sloped together, slapped a label on, copied, and ready to make a buck off of it. They don’t care about making a good quality product. Just as long as they get your money. And did I mention that you can’t save your progress in the game?
4 Stars X-Men….FIGHT!
This is a good game if you’re into the X-men and not a big fight-game fan like myself. It’s got good graphics, a lot of different characters -I liked playing with Havoc and Mystique- and some cool locations and levels. You can play Story Mode, 1 on 1 and one more if I remember. The critics are being too hard on this one, it’s not D.O.A., but it’s good to add to your X-Men library FOR CHEAP!!
4 Stars X-men: Next Dimesion takes me to another dimension:
I understand a lot of people didn’t like this game, but I did. When it first came out I bought it and loved it. Me and my friends played it all the time. We couldn’t get enough of it. Now three years later after trading in my GC version I’ve bought it again for the Xbox. I must admit it still looks pretty good and the controls are far better than the GC version. I also like the addition of Pyro. Now I must state the obvious set backs of this game; for one the fighting is fun but not nearly as in depth as games like DOA or Soul Calibur. Two the graphics are a bit dated. Three the game isn’t much fun by yourself after extended play. And finally there are some small glitchs. In conclusion this is a decent fighter and awsome X-men game. Ah this game brings back so many memories…
1 Star Weak-Men
X-men The Next Dimension for the Xbox is a fighting game where you get to fight with your favorite X-man character. The major ones included are: Cyclops, Jean, Wolverine, Night Crawler, Storm and many more which can be unlocked when you beat the games. Your characters can do basic punch, kick, combo moves and
use their special powers. You can play by yourself or with a friend in versus mode. I hated this game because the controls were sluggish, the animation looked choppy and weird. The sound is the worst ever in a fighting game! The hits sound like Tiny slap sounds. All of the combo attacks suck, they feel very generic. I’m an X-men fan, but this game is horrible. Save your money and buy Dead or Alive (the bomb).
Pros:
+X-men characters
+good graphics
+versus a friend
Cons:
-sluggish controls
-terrible sound effects
-generic music
-choppy animations
-fighting techniques suck
-retarded A.I.
3 Stars Errr.. no offense but…
quote “THINK A LITTLE IF YOU CAN????”. If you think about it, it should be “THINK A LITTLE IF YOU CAN!!!”. Your making a statement not a question. at least I assume the all caps and triple qualifiers is what that was about.
Good game to rent, maybe to buy if your a fan boy.
Tony Hawks American Wasteland
March 14, 2009 by Xbox Reviews
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Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland gives you the total freedom you need, to make LA your personal skate and bike park. For the first time, you’ll skate or bike in a rich, expansive open environment. The sky’s the limit as you progress through the Wasteland. No level, no load times — just never-ending action. You’ll never skate the same line twice!
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars American Wasteland
I like Tony Hawks American Wasteland a lot. I like the goals that you have to complete. They are challenging and fun.You can switch from bike to board easily.I also like the places where they put the ramps.I play this game a lot. The only thing that I do not really like is the goals on level 4, otherwise, the game is really awesome!!!
3 Stars umm…ok.
this game was alright. i’ve been playing tony hawk games since thps2. this game is nothing special, i’d rather play thug1 because that at least has jamie thomas. the only things i thought that were cool is the new spray feature where you can spray the ground, and the few new moves. the new no load screen feature is a joke because you still have to change areas with a loading screen in multi-player. also i didn’t really get into the soundtrack i guess because i have this version. also why didn’t activision keep the create a deck mode the same as thug1 why did they change during thug2? after thug1 the tony hawk games have been going down hill and have had a cliche story mode. all in all this is pretty much a clone of thug2, it’s just a dressed up version of that.
5 Stars best game i’ve ever played
this is the best game i have ever played,
and it is so much fun i could not set my controller down.
if you like tony hawk rent or (what you should do)buy
an awesome game beginning to end you will love it.
and for those who haven’t played tony hawk or do not like the previous ones. here is the chance to admit that superb puts the s in skate boarding.
BUY THIS GAME NOW!
P.S. if only all games were this good
3 Stars One of the better skating games
American Wasteland is alright not all that fun but not so bad that no one would buy it. Once you get in to it it’s not that bad but it doesn’t take very long to beat I beat it in one day.
4 Stars Ify
Not the best but not the worst. Ok but pretty much the same as the undergrounds. Its still one of the best skateing games out there.
Bomberman Act Zero
March 12, 2009 by Xbox Reviews
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Bomberman Act: Zero X360
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4 Stars plain fun
the bomberman series reaches 360 with mixed reviews but i can say its just a game to have fun with to pass the time, not an actual full time gamer game.
1 Star If there was ever a time for a 0 star rating…
This game is absolutely horrible. and i dont even own and ive never played it before in my life! still horrible though
1 Star Absolute Disapointment
This is the worst Bomberman ever made. I wish I knew there was no story mode and since no one online has it I can never get a game. I would not buy this product if my life depended on it!
1 Star Bomberman Act: Zero X360
This is the worse Bomberman game ever. Don’t buy it!!! There are only battles with one arena. The stages are setup so you fight one person on the first round, two people in the second and so on.
1 Star Major dissapointment!
I was hoping this would have a deeper story line.
But it has no story line at all.
You just kill off the other opponents that gets very repetitive and boring after playing for just an hour.
Dissapointed tha this has not story portian to it!
I am glad that I at least rented this game from GameFly and not actualy bought it.
And I agree this game should have been an XBox Live Marketplace game!
This is the worst game for a next gen console ever! 
Advice: Don’t buy this game ever!
Time Splitters 2
March 4, 2009 by Xbox Reviews
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TimeSplitters 2 brings you new and improved action that’s more furious than before! Furious 2 – 4 split-screen multiplayer action — but if that’s not enough, link up 8 consoles together with iLink for some serious hot-leaded action!
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Star Not for Children
Not good for children. I thought it would be a great game for my son with time traveling. I saw my son and my daughter running around shooting and flamethrowing eachother and laughing when they killed eachother off. It really bothered me and I took it away. The graphics are pretty gross. Wait until they are teens to buy this one
5 Stars Tons of options and unlockables combined with solid action.
THE SHORT: A pretty good story mode, and tons of things to unlock in the addictive challenges and combat modes- all of which can be played alone or with multiple players. Decent but limited mapmaker.
THE LONG: I flat out didn’t like TS1. The single player or “story” mode consisted of running back and forth for fetch quests, and the mapmaker let me set up corridors but gave me just a tiny handful of patterns to design it with. It was fast and it was pretty (minus the overly stylized goofy characters) but I didn’t think it was much of a game.
This first sequel improves on almost all of what I had issue with. For starters, the game’s just as pretty and runs very smooth and very fast (keeping fairly consistent in multiplayer as well). The storyline is better too- it’s like Goldeneye with actual mission goals that change or grow as the level progresses. But I personally had the most fun with “arcade mode”, which is multiplayer combat. I want to specify here that this is where the game excels over such titles as even the much hyped Halo (and even more recent games): like Perfect Dark, this is one of the very few games where I can play multiplayer matches against computer opponents. If you’re like me you don’t always have enough people around for 16-player, 4 system links and whatnot. Frankly I usually prefer to play alone anyway. And in this way, Timesplitters 2 accommodated me.
For example, like Perfect Dark, this game features some levels that I liked more than others and so, not wanting to play the story mode, I wanted to just jump into that cool level and fight some opponents. This game allowed me to do so, picking not only what opponents I fought but also how tough they were and what weapons were used. In addition, I could set parameters such as time/kill limits, and by the time I unlocked them, could choose among more than a dozen different combat variations such as “Flame Tag”. In other words, this game lets you play multiplayer, storyline stuff, or plain old combat- with or against other humans in each case.
There are loads of unlockables, as well. There are more than 100 different characters in the game, with at least half of that number representing legitimately unique and interesting choices. Each has their own stat rating such as speed and accuracy, and some characters such as robots have extra advantages like immunity to fire. This adds even more strategy to deathmatches but can be turned off as well.
In addition to unlocking the characters, you’ll be unlocking goofy cheats such as pirate hats or practical things such as new levels and combat modes. This is one of those games where every level, challenge, or combat scenario rewards you with new stuff once completed, so there’s a very satisfying feeling of constant progress and perpetual motivation to try to meet each goal. Some of it is tough- sometimes tuned to be just barely within your grasp, but there seems to always be other stuff to accomplish if you get stuck. For each of three nights, I went to bed satisfied that I unlocked some of the cool stuff I’d wanted, then played the next day and opened up even more. It was addicting.
Thankfully, this was all set up within a very pretty package. The stylized, exaggerated look from the first game is still here for those that liked it, but for people like me it’s nice that characters are a little less goofy looking. And with more than a hundred, it’s easy to develop favorites. The graphics during gameplay itself are solid and the game moves quite fast for being several years old, even during multiplayer combat with a
handful of AI opponents thrown in.
And again, that’s where the game gets its highest marks from me. While the storyline is interesting enough and fairly engaging in its disparate levels, it was that combat that made me keep playing this game. By the time I played through most of the basic and “arcade league” challenges, I’d unlocked around 15 different deathmatch types- modes such as capture the flag, king of the hill, last man standing, and more bizarre stuff such as monkey helpers- in which the person in last place gets monkeys with heavy weaponry. When you figure that you can pick from a dozen or so stages, add up to 10 AI opponents whose difficulty you set, throw in weapons of your choice, and then pick the score type and combat parameters, that’s a huge amount of customization. As I said, it’s a level of single-player control and immersion the likes of which I haven’t seen since Perfect Dark.
Controls feel natural and very intuitive, the graphics and sound are appropriate (and downright amusing) and the options are very thorough. The pace of unlocking stuff is great, with a couple dozen hours of perpetual new stuff. Altogether this is a fine game, which at this point you can grab for just $10-15 bucks. Do it, especially if you’re a guy like me and doesn’t want to rely on a bunch of others to have some good interactivity with your first-person shooters.
5 Stars The best shooter you can get for this price
This is the best multiplayer game i have ever had. The single player is a lot of fun but not quite as good as multiplayer. The campaign works with co-op which makes it better also. Multiplayer has bots, which is also a very good thing to have, and aside from being great, the characters are funny. My fav characyers name is robofish, which sounds about as funny as he looks. I counted 126 unlockable characters, plus extra game modes, cheats, and levels make this a great 10-20 bucks. Buy this instead 0f any other shooter your considering, believe me, this games great.
5 Stars Playstation version rocks, XBOX one must be even better!
What can I say about this game… I do not own the XBOX version myself, but I am interested in getting it within the next hour.
Anyhow – it is a great game, the XBOX version I recommend. I have played both (rentals), and they ROCK!
Go against your friends in a LAN party, have some fun, it rules!
Do not compare it to Halo or Halo 2, they are two different games.
XBOX games are in GENERAL, better quality than PS2 ones when it goes into this catagory. I am not dissing the PS2 fans, but XBOX is the best for FPS, due to the graphics, and the processor.
Gaming on this game is nice, I do not really personally enjoy the map editor, because I do not exactly know how to build maps that well.
The only thing that could be better is a nicer online gaming interface.
5 Stars hard
When I was going to get Timesplitters, I was thinking I was going to be getting it and just shooting stuff like crazy having a good time. However, what really becomes addictive about this game is attempting to unlock all of the characters(there are 130, I think.) You start out with 20 or so by default, and from there you earn more in one of three ways:
Beating levels in Story Mode. I haven’t played too much of the story mode, and only really on easy(I played some of the first level on Normal, and it was going good until I got to the boss, which is a helicopter gunship, and I got torn apart). It’s a time travelling game so you go from 1990 Siberia to 1920s Chicago to alien planets, Tokyo in the future, the old west, etc, etc. There’s AMAZING variety in the levels. Each has its own special characters and, in something of an ode to classic gaming, each level has a boss.
Next, you can unlock characters in Challenge mode. You get series of events based on one action. For instance, the first series is glass breaking. The first event has you breaking out all the glass in the area with the grenade launcher on your soviet machine gun. The next one puts you in the same place with a brick. The final one has you using a normal grenade launcher in Notre Dame Cathedral. You have to complete the challenges within certain time limits to pass with Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum. The medal you get determines what things you unlock. Platinum doesn’t unlock anything Gold doesn’t, it just gives you bragging rights if your friends are playing and can’t achieve it.
Finally comes the best mode. Arcade League. Arcade is the regular multiplayer mode you play with friends, Arcade League is preset challenges within the mode. If you’ve played the challenges in Perfect Dark, it’s pretty much like that only more of them, and it’s set up like the challenges–there’s several series, and each series has 3 events. Also, Arcade League is split into Amatuer(Easy), Honorary(Medium), and Elite(Hard). You have to go in order. You can breeze through Amatuer League, and probably only have to go back for better medals on the flame tag/virus levels and the assault level.
Assault. Oh man, this is quite easily one of the hardest modes I’ve ever encountered. It’s only on 3 maps, and this is what happens. You spawn as part of an assualt team and you have to accomplish certain actions, such as gaining ground, shooting barrels and computers, and taking out autoguns. Within a nerve-rattling time limit.
There are some parts of the game that will have you screaming and cursing, but 85% of it, though hard, is great to just play over and over until you get it down. What makes the really difficult parts more frustrating to me is that I know with just a little extra effort I can make it, but I never seem to be able to reach that magic point.
My only complaint about this game is that there aren’t really enough guns. I hardly notice that amidst all the insanity. This game moves INCREDIBLY fast.
Oh, and it has a mapmaker. It’s pretty restrcited, but you can still pull off some awesome maps.
Cold Fear
March 2, 2009 by Xbox Reviews
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In a ferocious Arctic storm, distress signals are sent from a mysterious Russian whaler. As leading Coast Guard veteran Tom Hansen, you board to investigate – and discover unthinkable horrors lurking beneath the ship’s bloodstained decks.
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1 Star Rip Off
Unlike the other people reviewing this game I have played resident evil 4. It’s a better game, with better controls, and better story. Cold Fear is a survival horror rip off. Ubisoft was just wanting to get some of resident evil 4’s action. And Lost.
If you want some specifics look up videos of Resident Evil 4. No, I will save you some time look at the box art for Resident Evil 4 and tell me that the main characters doesn’t look alike.
To all the other reviews on Amazon: This isn’t like Doom. Doom sucks. Compare it to something in the genre and style.
3 Stars Feels like they realeased the game too soon.
I really enjoyed the game. It feels a lot like playing Resident Evil when you are running around in the game. When you shoot you hit a button to enter a first person mode which makes shooting easier. I liked the enviroment a lot, it was spooky being on the boat. The game did make me jump a few times as well. However the characters were poorly developed story mode wise. They do give a basic gist of what is going on but leave out enough information to make you crave more. Also I found to game to be short. I beat the game within a couple days and that’s because I’m not that good with video games. I enjoyed the game but wish they had done so much more with it.
4 Stars “Fear” Is Fun
“Cold Fear” plays like a gem, and contains all the essential elements to make a great action-horror game – everything, that is, except a storyline devoid of clich