Game Reviews

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

In the world we live in today, it’s comforting to know that there is still a little place where senseless violence can continue to pollute or enrich (your call) the minds of America's young and middle aged. Thus, the friendly people at Rock Star and Rock Star North created Vice City. Retaining the go anywhere ability that made its predecessor GTA3 famous, Vice City rises as the undoubted symbol of mindless destruction. GTA3 set the bar pretty high with one of the largest go anywhere maps ever, and a realistic assortment of vehicles, people, and criminal activity. Vice City is truly in a league of its own. With a go anywhere world that is a full 50% larger that GTA3, the welcome addition of helicopters and a plane that is capable of sustained flight (GTA3's DODO plane was notoriously hard to fly), motorcycles, a greater assortment of automobiles, and more gangs, innocent civilians, and a better police AI, Vice City is a must buy if you have yourself a PS2. Vice City reminds us that you can kill as many innocent civilians as you want so long as you have enough money to get your car resprayed to lose your wanted level.

Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne

As its expansion, Frozen Throne starts where the original Warcraft 3 ended. New features: somewhat new race (the somewhat refers to the fact that they are not considered a race to be played in multiplayer, but they appear throughout the singleplayer); the Naga - an aquatic race that can move through deep and build on shallow water. Their hero is however featured in multiplayer through another new feature: hireable heros! Several new heros are available to purchase during multiplayer, such as the Naga Sea Witch, the Pitlord and 3 more. Each race also has a new hero, as well as new units. As far as expansions go, this one is really good. Though the price is high now, it will eventually decrease. The campaign is fun, but hard. Out of 11 spears, Frozen Throne earns itself 8 guns, because guns work better than crappy spears.

Tetris

This is an easy game. There are shapes made up of 4 blocks each. The shapes fall, and you are supposed to arrange them so that they form lines across the screen. Once a line is formed, it disappears. You lose when you can't put the falling blocks anywhere, and they are up too high. It's a fun game it recieves 10¼ out of 11 blocks in shapes of 4.

Mafia
This is a great game. It is much like GTA III, except it has an interesting story line and historical accuracy. In this game, you are a mobster in the 1930s' and must complete missions using historical guns and vehicles. Like GTA, you have total freedom to travel around the vast world. This is one you must check out. I know its for PC, and I think PS2 as well.

Tank Wars

If every game could kick this much ass the world would be a better place. It's free, involves driving heavy machinery, and high explosives. Head to www.shockwave.com/sw/content/tankwars and check it out. And with this war in Iraq, who said mindless entertainment can't be educational.

Alice
Alice is a fairly old game, but it is also a great game. I had not played it until today and now that I have I am very glad. Although I am not very far into the game I just want to say what what I have seen so far has been magnificent. Its based on Through the Looking Glass, the second and much darker book of Alice in Wonderland, although it does not folow the story line at all. This game is dark and freaky and not for everyone. If your like me and you get scared while playing video games(heh) you should only play during the day. It roxors my boxors for sure. Check it out

Meatwad's Dance Dance Jambox

For those of you familir with Aqua Teen Hunger Force you may want to know that the site just release a new game. It kicks major ass. Go there NOW AND PLAY IT. BUT DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES OVERSHADOW MY HIGH SCORE! But go and have a 5/-33 relative time... whatever I mean by that.... Hmmmm....

Game Cube Club

I just got back from the Game Cube Club (as my title may have suggested). For those of you who don't know what that is, it's where I went to a place where Nintendo was showing off their new/unreleased games. I played a variety of games there, and had a fantastic time. However, that is less important. What is important is that I played all the new games for game cube, such as Zelda, Metroid, and Mortal Kombat; all three of which have yet to be released and hit the market. The new games, all excellent. I even played Jedi Knight II, which was excellent on the PC, and it was very interesting on the GC.

Warcraft 3

Well, for those of you who read my Starwars review, this one is pretty much the same. For those of you who haven't read my review GO READ IT NOW and then come back and read this one. Now that you've read that, this is the same deal; you have to BUY THIS GAME! IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT'S GOOD OR NOT, YOU HAVE TO PLAY IT SOMEHOW! That said, the game so far (I'm not quite done with the campaign) is excellent, but I just can't get into the multiplayer. Maybe it's because I love Starcraft so much, but for some reason, I don't find the multiplayer to be very fun. Graphically, the game is excellent, and the cutscenes (which I opted for on dvd(thank the collector's edition)) are so good that compared to them, perfection is crap. The price is pretty steep, but it should go down in a few months or so. Overall, I would say the game gets 9¾/11 axes.

WOW!! - Acronymn

I don't know how to use the fish stuff but that doesn't matter cause once again I am rating a game I haven't played . . . in 9 years World of Warcraft will come out and I tell you what It will kill your mothers and rock your world.