The most enjoyable game I've played during the first half of 07, Earth Defense Force 2017 had me glued to the set for almost 2 or 3 hours straight at times. It has a simple premise about aliens invading earth, but the developers perform it in such an epic and destructive scale, using tons of sci-fi references in the process. Giant robots, flying sauers, humongous ants and spiders that crawl on buildings, all of which dominate the cities you constantly try to "protect". Which you don't do a very good job of, because everything is destroyed by the time the mission ends. It's something you need to see in motion to believe, it's just a fun game overall.
While the trailers and tv commercials made the movie look badass, I still had my doubts about it. It was the fourth movie in the series, and considering most sequels start sucking after the first (and probably even the first itself), it wouldn't have been surprising if it actually sucked. Well, thankfully, it didn't, and it was much better than I expected it to be. The action was just as great and absurd as it was in previous movies (I loved how McClane showed no mercy to that female villian, great watch), and Bruce Willis sunked right back into the character like it was nothing. Surprisingly, his hacker sidekick for this film wasn't annoying at all, and actually delivered quite a few funny moments himself (I laughed when he couldn't get the airbag off so easily like McClane did). Good action movie. See it.
Holey shit, I wrote 44 video game reviews this year? I was just trying to meet my usual goal of around 20, but I guess I just rock that much. Am I right?
Five fun games for the price of one. If you don't own it yet, then there's something wrong with you. Don't even have to own a system, just buy the title.
Rocking the interweb again in 2007... I can't be stopped. Here's a link to it:
www.pickhut.com
And finally, the thing that rocked the most in 2007...
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People have been anticipating this game since Halo 2 came out, basically because of the absurd cliffhanger they left all of us on. Now, as Halo 3 soon approached its release date of this year, I really wasn't expecting much from it. Halo 2 was a nice game with some cool moments, but it did have quite a few problems with it. And considering it came out 2 years ago, my interest in this sequel pretty much faded. I still bought it, though. Surprisingly, it was a pretty solid game in BOTH campaign and multiplayer. The campaign mode was pretty good throughout, with probably the first and fifth missions being the weakest of the bunch. I originally thought the Cortana mission was awful at first, but playing through it on Heroic and Legendary made me appreciate the level a little more. And the other missions just feel big, especially the 6th and 7th missions. One step into either one will make you go "whoa..". And all the battles you'll have here make almost all the ones you had in Halo 2 look like pussy fights in comparison. Once you're done with campaign (could take awhile, espcially if you're getting achievements), you'll have an even bigger blast in multiplayer. It's just so varied and so much of it, it'll make you play for hours and hours. I'd go more indepth about it, but then this would quickly turn into an actual review. Halo 3 is a very solid game, to the point where its flaws can easily be overlooked. I know people joke about how gamers only buy an Xbox or a 360 just for Halo, but when Halo 3 is this damn good, you wouldn't need another game.
Here's the review I've written for it.
-24 Season 6: Good grief, how do you go from probably the best season in the show's history to the most disappointing season in the show's history?
-PS3: I can't wait for next year when you suck even more!
-Kane & Lynch Multiplayer: The concept itself is pretty cool for an online match, where you work as a team of robbers and steal from a certain area. Anything goes after that... The disappointing part is how underdeveloped the multi aspect was. It really came off as an afterthought. A couple more maps and a little bit more to work with could have made this a blast to play.
-Spending over $1000 on two products that I never used after a month: Ouch.
-BioShock's High Ratings: I like the game, despite dragging on for a bit and not exactly being original in the gameplay department. However, all these reviewers giving the game 10/10 ratings and praising it as if it was the second coming of Jesus is confusing... The game is good, but not THAT good. You'd think with the way people are gushing over it, they only played about 20 games in their life.