more mini reviews
Here are a few more mini-reviews.
Quake 4:
Just a final wrap up of this game. I finished this last week and as I mentioned overall I was impressed. Some complaints are that the weapons just don’t feel appropriate, they’re accurate to the Quake series but I’m not sure if it’s the sounds applied to them, the damage they inflict or perhaps the fact that dead bodies disappear after you clobber them but the weapons seem out of place. I didn’t like many of the boss battles either, they were presented well but felt rather easy. Online is quite good but due to lack of players and brutal load times really hurts the experience.
Tony Hawk : American Wasteland:
Rarely do I play a game that frustrates me to the point that I want to smash the controller. THAW is one of those games. The graphics are poor, very poor even in HD. I’m not a total graphic whore as I did enjoy GUN (developed by the same company) but THAW just looks like shit. The gameplay is the same as it has been since the original Tony Hawk that I played on the PC probably 3 years ago. The blatant lack of improvements really hurt the experience. I dream of the day that someone actually tries to make a skateboarding game that bothers to at least try to put some rudimentary physics in it. I ended up giving up on THAW (the story mode) mostly because I got tired of trying to complete a few tasks over and over and over again, having to listen to the same segway tie-in and absolutely no hints as to what I’m doing wrong to complete the task. The classic mode is only slightly better and again wasn’t enough to keep me playing. The online experience while lag free is mostly populated by people who abuse the gameplay mechanics by repeating the same move over and over again on the game’s geometry in order to get absurdly high scores. Rather than actually skate on the map and have fun they just bounce between two points creating stupidly high multipliers and generally making the game un-fun online. I can’t even recommend this game as a rental.
Quake 4:
Just a final wrap up of this game. I finished this last week and as I mentioned overall I was impressed. Some complaints are that the weapons just don’t feel appropriate, they’re accurate to the Quake series but I’m not sure if it’s the sounds applied to them, the damage they inflict or perhaps the fact that dead bodies disappear after you clobber them but the weapons seem out of place. I didn’t like many of the boss battles either, they were presented well but felt rather easy. Online is quite good but due to lack of players and brutal load times really hurts the experience.
Tony Hawk : American Wasteland:
Rarely do I play a game that frustrates me to the point that I want to smash the controller. THAW is one of those games. The graphics are poor, very poor even in HD. I’m not a total graphic whore as I did enjoy GUN (developed by the same company) but THAW just looks like shit. The gameplay is the same as it has been since the original Tony Hawk that I played on the PC probably 3 years ago. The blatant lack of improvements really hurt the experience. I dream of the day that someone actually tries to make a skateboarding game that bothers to at least try to put some rudimentary physics in it. I ended up giving up on THAW (the story mode) mostly because I got tired of trying to complete a few tasks over and over and over again, having to listen to the same segway tie-in and absolutely no hints as to what I’m doing wrong to complete the task. The classic mode is only slightly better and again wasn’t enough to keep me playing. The online experience while lag free is mostly populated by people who abuse the gameplay mechanics by repeating the same move over and over again on the game’s geometry in order to get absurdly high scores. Rather than actually skate on the map and have fun they just bounce between two points creating stupidly high multipliers and generally making the game un-fun online. I can’t even recommend this game as a rental.
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