Have you always wanted to take your Rock Band stuff on the go without the hassle? We’ll look no further, Rock Band Unplugged is here and it’s pretty sweet to take you band on the go.
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Secret Agent Clank has all your favorite Characters from other Ratchet and Clank games. With a some new Super Secret Spy Weapons such as the Tie-A-Rang, Cufflink Bombs and my all time favorite the deadly Tanglevine Carnation.

This game starts out showing a cut scene of how everything happened, how Ratchet was wrongly imprisoned and how Clank is such a super great Spy! You jump right into the game from there.

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Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2, the must buy Portable Arcade Golf Game! This game is a lot of fun if you enjoy Golf games and are on the go! Although I personally enjoyed Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds more but, if you are on the go this game is worth the $29.99 it will cost you!

Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Let the fanboy in us cry with joy. The third compilation in the Final Fantasy VII series is set Set seven years prior to the events of the first FINAL FANTASY VII and after the events of “Before Crisis:Final Fantasy VII” a GBA game that released a while back. You play the role as “Zack “, A SOLDIER operative looking to be a hero and his interactions with three principle characters: Angeal, Genesis and Sephiroth. While other characters come into play, including a few familiar faces, this small collection of SOLDIER operatives hold the majority of the spotlight.

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From the makers of Daxter, ReadyAtDawn Studios bring you God of War: Chains of Olympus. These guys know how to make a badass game on the PSP, no joke.

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Wipeout does not change much from game to game, but it seems the features on this Wipeout have really changed.

Well, the name says everything out the gameplay, well at least for me, you will most likely wipeout pretty often, unless you have a very steady finger. You might be saying “well, just because you are getting pwned by the computer, does’nt mean you can give this a bad review”, well that’s not true, because besides me being terrible at the game, the gameplay does not change from the previous wipeouts. The graphics are good for the psp, but still there is almost no change.

Here is a screen shot from Wipeout Pulse.

Here is a screen shot from Wipeout Pure.

As you can see there is almost no graphical change.

Well the only great part about this game is the features. When you play online, you log into your PSN account (you do not need a ps3 psn account to play online). You can download custom skins for your vehicles in the game, directly through the game. Another feature is that you can set up racing teams through the Wipeout website. The only bad apart about the online is that there is not much difference between online and offline and there is not that many people that have this game and play online. A good thing is that this game also supports game sharing.

Gameplay: 6.5/10
Graphics: 7.5/10
Multiplayer: 7/10
Replay Value: 5/10
Features: 8/10
Overall: 7.4/10

Once in a great while a game comes along that truly amazes and goes beyond the expectations of the players. From flow to Locoroco, Ive seen my share of Quirky unique games, But none grabs my imagination and keeps my feet tapping to a continuous beat like Patapon.

For years the patapon tribe has lived in the desolate frontier, driven from their home by the evil zigoton army, Behind the Patamons’ rhythm pumping, cute dancing and all around awesome looking exterior, lies a fierce warrior spirit. The Patapons believe the Almighty would return, and that the magical drums would once again ring out, lead the Patapons to victory over the Zigotons and guide the lost tribe back to its homeland (otherwise known as the Earthend).

That is the premise behind Patapon. The game behind the addictive rythmatic gameplay thrusting players into an a game where button combinations cause specific beats combining harmony with gameplay.

As there Almighty, It is your job to guide the Patapons to the promise land through over 30 different chapters using the games unique beat button system. By striking each button on your psp causes a different style beat. When combined in combination with other buttons the patapons come to life, Marching,attacking,Defending, And more. When you have the Patapons worked up to a frenzy, the Fever icon will let you know that you can unleash the rhythms of the Juju, which will create a “miracle.”

Controlling patapons is simple, once you collect the 4 drums and musical notes needed to have access to the sounds you need to memorize the beats.

acquiring more patatroops is as easy as gathering materials from the pataplains and combining them to “Birth”, yes i said birth your patapons from what I call the Life Tree. Customization is moderate but enjoyable, Putting different equipment and weapons on your patapons as you find them offers a level of depth. Adding a variety of wood,iron,and steel weapons, Spears, Axes and swords gives the player the edge over the battle.

As you progress through the levels,(you will have times you backtrack) you will encounter various obstacles in your way. You have the ability to resurrect fallen patapons as well as recrute new members.Strategy and Remembering your button combo’s is the key to your success in the two dimensional world. keeping your spear throwers in the rear, leaving room for your skirmish sword/axe wielding fighters in front for the real damage to be dealt. The initial me lee warriors are the Tatepon, but is also the Yaripon and Yumipon (range attacks), the Kibapon (horse-mounted troops), the Dekapon (large melee troops) and the Megapon (fires sound waves at the enemy).

Graphically, The game lives up to what we all expect out of a locoroco style side scroll two dimensional playground. Sound is amazing when you get enough rhythms unbroken you start to get a harmonized chant going on behind the pata chant. Keeping a beat is crucial in this game, half second out of beat and your Patapons will look at you like your a mono toned out of beat hillbilly.

The mini-games are fun and interesting. Who doesn’t love a good minigame? For example you play a trumpet to the tune of a singing, dancing tree and if you get the tune correct he drops materials for your patapons to use. It doesn’t take long before your sucked into this amazing title. Patapon will keep you captivated for hours on end while you fight the uphill battle to get the tribe to there promise land. Amazing title, I highly recommend this game.

Gameplay: 8.9

Sound: 9.5

Difficulty: Medium

Concept: 10.0

Overall: 9.8

Alright, I got my hands on Alien Syndrom and have to say; if you feel like killing some aliens with either a melee or ranged weapon then this game is for you. This game wasn’t one of the easiest games for me to pickup and play, but could also be I’m one of the gamers who hates to read a ton of directions! I’m writing this review after playing the first 2 levels of them game.

Alright, so I picked Firebug as my class I’ve ended up using the melee weapon way more then I have the Flamethrower Mk1 which I started with. The Flamethrower Mk1 has… well no range hardly. My melee weapon seems to reach just as far as it and hits a wider area. I found that shooting the Flamethrower Mk1 sucked is the best way to put it. Once you start shooting you go into a strafe mode which makes it hard as hell to aim when a ton of monsters are coming at you.

This game I’d call a run and gun, but it’s more of a run and press circle none stop with your melee weapon. To me this game feels like Dynasty Warriors with a woman and aliens.

You have some type of pet that follows you named SCARAB that can craft items, which is really handy actually. Thanks to it I’ve upgraded like all of my armor and weapons. It can also craft Health Packs which I have to say is a must for this game. Not only does this SCARAB craft items it will also help you with fighting, although I must say it isn’t one of the best fighting partners. I would had really liked to see some better AI with it.

Well I guess I better also mention that this game has a “level” system where you level up for killing stuff, I don’t think I’ve gotten far enough into the game although I’m sure certain levels are required to wear things.

One thing I do have to say before I end this review is that they did a very bad job on the camera angles, I noticed quite a bit during the first 2 levels that I played that the camera will get blocked by something. I got very annoyed at this although it did not really hurt game-play sense all I had to do was press circle.

The best way to sum this game up is, rent it before you buy it! You may like this game, I myself did not care for it. This game does include multi player which I did not cover in this review. If there is a high demand for it I’ll gladly go over it.

This game is going to get a 50/100.

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