Playstation 3: You Are Awesome And No One Knows It, Yet
Here is a link I think you should go to before reading this article. Right on the front page you can see it; under its competition and right at the bottom is the Playstation 3, dead last in sales by about $6 million. You might be asking what the most powerful console available is doing cleaning the basement with a toothbrush; well, I will tell you what. The reason why the PS3 is rocking the bottom of the barrel is because the PS3 is that f-ing awesome. You heard me right. Only awesome systems suck so much on paper. And only an awesome console like the PS3 has the resolve and stamina to clean crap off the floor and brush its teeth at the same time. Awesome.
Have you, for one reason or another, not bought a new-gen console yet? Well, it’s perhaps understandable—there are plenty of PC-only gamers, and for good reason—the most graphics-intense, most gigantic (MMORPGs!) games can be found on PC. There are also some of us who are just poor. But you want a reason to hold that controller lovingly. And good games are certainly not just about top-notch graphics and processing. Just which controller you choose remains to be seen. Here are GotGame’s “Jaw-Dropping Upcoming Exclusive Games: Reasons to Splurge on… (InsertConsoleHere).”
Ohh, Wall-E. A sad movie if there ever was one, but at least it was very good. Coincidentally, Wall-E the game is also sad—but for totally different reasons. It’s another bad game based on a good movie. Who’d of thunk it?
With the rising popularity of the UFC, it was almost inevitable that a game would eventually spawn from the blood and sweat of the octagon. UFC: Undisputed promises to utilize gorgeous gameplay and enhanced physics to produce the greatest amount of realism that video games offer today. Submissions and knockouts aside, most gamers realize that no matter how hard a company tries, these games fail to live up to their namesake and fall face first to the mat. Can THQ deliver the knockout and create the next legendary sports series?
It’s looking like 2008 is the year that fighting games make their big comeback from a small niche genre to a formidable mainstream presence. Everyone has at least one fighting game in their home library, but it’s been far too long since there have been titles worthy of excitement. Dust off your arcade stick and let’s explore my top three series that have kept the love alive in arcade-style fighting games…
By now, you’ve probably heard that the Ghostbusters game has been delayed, or is in development limbo. Honestly, I don’t get excited about too many games, but I’ve been looking forward to this one since I was five years old. So this news really crossed my streams. Who is responsible? Not Walter Peck, but Activision Blizzard. That’s right, the WoW gods tried to kill Ghostbusters!
While GTS may mean “Go To Sleep” in a WWE Ring, where World Champion CM Punk uses the maneuver as a match-ending move, it may be taking on a different meaning in THQ/Yuke’s Smackdown vs. Raw 2009, the latest game in the long-running and increasingly violent Smackdown series. “Grand Theft Smackdown” may be a more appropriate title, as it has recently been announced that SVR ‘09 will include an extra-brutal Inferno Match mode, a first for the series.
We’ve all seen them, we know them. We may have even been them at one point or another in our lives—and today, I am admitting that even I was one. I…was a bagger.