Baseball (3DS Virtual Console) Review

Only fun to those who owned it.

The 3DS has the service I had hoped the DSi would get, the Virtual Console. Since the Wii has the Virtual Console for the old NES & SNES games, the 3DS gets the portable games and the first one I downloaded was Baseball. It was first on my list because this was one of the few games I had fun with back in the day but fast forward a couple of yrs and I'm now almost 2 decades old. This game is only fun for nostalgia reasons. That's it. That's all the fun I had with it. There's only 2 teams to choose from. Everything just looks really plain, like there's no depth to it. It's baseball at its most basic. I'm trying to say more about the game but I can't. I said it best I could at basic baseball. If you like baseball, then go grab another baseball game. MLB 2k11 on the DS is a great baseball game (review for that soon). you're better off getting that. But if you did own this game then it's only worth it for nostalgia. Baseball for the 3DS Virtual Console is getting a 5.5 out of 10.

Rock Band 3 (DS & Xbox 360) Reviews

Rock Band or Real Band?

I'll start out with the DS version of RB3 and it's mainly just addicting fun. Still the same gameplay from Rock Band Unplugged (for PSP) & LEGO Rock Band (also for DS), except here in RB3, they add in the keyboard/piano parts to the songs, so you play all 5 instruments, guitar, bass, drums, vocals & piano/keyboard, whatever you prefer to call it. The graphics are like a toned down, REALLY toned down of the console version and that's a good thing cause AT LEAST, it still looks like Rock Band 3. Just not as pretty as the console version. The setlist is decent, it's got about 20 - 25ish songs, like any other DS music game and THIS is my big problem with this game. Since I got Rock Band 3 for my 360, which I'll be talking about in a few minutes, on the DS version, what you see is what you get. There's no more songs, you just get 25 songs and no DLC. You can't add on, which is what made this game a bummer for me, and it's also why I like Unplugged a bit more (Yes, music game DLC makes me happy. Shut up.) I did enjoy myself BEFORE I got the console version and then after I got the console version, I was happy but I was dissapointed because I've gotten quite a few DLC songs for RB3 already and I would have loved to play them on the go. So for just being decent but still addicting. Rock Band 3 on the Nintendo DS is getting a 7.5 out of 10.

Now, as for the console version. This is, hands down, the BEST music game I have ever played. It kicks Guitar Heros ass right out the window and onto the curb. The setlist is MASSIVE and with Harmonix reaching 3000 songs to download & import into Rock Band 3. This is just a MASSIVE IMPRESSIVE game. I tried the Pro Keys (which by the way is extremely hard and for you people who like playing the keyboard out there. You now have a new toy to play with) and holy crap. You can actually learn REAL keyboard, to mainstream songs and to indie songs (I played pro keys on I'm Blue by Eiffel 65). It's cool and this game has replayability not just at parties but on your own as well. You can learn a song or two on your own and when your friends are over, party the hell out! I love playing this and out of all the DLC songs I got, in total, I've got 183 songs in RB3 so far and I'm HIGHLY considering getting an extra storage space for my 360 and importing RB1, RB2 & LEGO RB into RB3. I'd say Green Day but I prefer watching the Green Day avatars play their own songs. But enough praising. If all the great to near-perfect reviews of Rock Band 3 have been keeping you from getting this game. This review will make you. It is THE perfect music game. Don't like a song? Delete it! Want to keep a setlist of certain songs but don't want to keep going through the setlist? Just save it. I have 1 or 2 already. Go out and purchase Rock Band 3 for your Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 right now because Rock Band 3 is a 10 out of 10.

New Super Mario Bros. (DS) Review

Same Brothers. Same adventure. Is it still fun?

 New Super Mario Bros. is for sure a must get for any DS owner. Whether you own the original DS, lite, DSi, XL or 3DS. This game is a must own. This is the classic Mario adventure where the Princess gets kidnapped and you go through 8 worlds. Think of this like the original Super Mario Bros game but modernized. There's new power-ups, like the blue turtle shell (Best costume ever!) and Mega Mario, where everything is going down! For a game that came in 2006, it still looks pretty damn good for a DS side scrolling game. Now, I have played this before (like a while after it came out) and it took me 3 - 4 hours to beat all 8 worlds but it took me at least a good two weeks before I had everything unlocked. But this time, I'm taking my time and enjoying a great game. The (offline) multiplayer is fun as well. There is just a lot of fun to be had here. No matter how many times that idiot princess gets kidnapped, the adventure of getting her is always fun. Will Super Mario 3D be fun? I hope so! I preordered the game when I got my 3DS and I have no worries that Mario in 3D will be a bad game. I can tell you right now that it will be as good as this game or maybe better but for now, go buy New Super Mario Bros for the DS. I'm giving it an 8.5 out of 10.

Spider-Man 2 (PSP) Review

Does the portable version of Spider-Man top the console version?

Spider-Man 2 has to be my favourite super hero movie sequel of all time (along with the Dark Knight) but in game form, Spider-Man 2 on Playstation 2 is a 10 outta 10, on DS, it's pretty decent for a portable game, but today we're looking at the PSP version and the FIRST thing I'm going to say about it is it's done like the first Spider-Man movie game for Playstation 2. In other words, it's not open world. It's level by level, do that, beat him up, go to next the next level. It even looks like the game, but that's not that's a bad thing. But what is a bad thing is that some of the levels from the first movie game from PS2 are in here but with some things changed, like when you're fighting Vulture, you're at some construction building instead of the Chrysler building. Why re-use old level designs in another game? Why not make new level designs? The audio and controls are both, pretty good. The cast, Tobey McGuire, Alfred Molina, Kristen Dunst all lend their voices to the game and obliviously that's a plus in my books. The game is only 19 or 20 levels long and on some levels, the voices tend to repeat themselves, which got to me over a while. I got this game used for 5 bucks, and the guys at the EB games threw in the Spider-Man 2 movie for PSP for 99 cents (Watch out for that review soon!). So for 5 bucks, this is a good Spider-Man game, but I don't think it beats the Playstation 2 version and no Spider-Man game is better then the Playstation 1 classic. Spider-Man 2 for the PSP is getting a 7.0 out of 10.

Jackass: The Game (PSP) Review

Is this as bad as a few nutshots?

I swear Jackass the game, which is available on PSP, PS2 & Nintendo DS, is a rare game. It's a hard game to find. When the game first came out, it's everywhere. Since I got my PSP, it's one game I'd like to get. When I finally find it. It's used & 10 dollars at EB games. I would have loved to have gotten the game with it's actual case and with a manual, but I am glad I got it at least.
Now before I continue, Jackass the game, on PSP & PS2 are almost the same game and the DS is just downright a piece of crap. On PSP, you are the new director for the new season of Jackass and you play as one of the Jackass members, though there's no Bam Margera, and I loved alot of them. There were only a few that I didn't like. Though the ones I did love, most of the later mini-games, feel like either bigger or smaller versions of the mini-game I played in an earlier episode. The audio has to be one of the best parts of the game, each cast member does their own character in the game and the music that plays while the mini-game goes on, just makes it feel more like the show. That's the main thing I loved about the game, it really got the vibe of the show. The graphics are PS2-good and that's not a bad thing. Though I do wish they made a new Jackass game for the new consoles. The one thing that makes the PSP version stand out from the PS2 and the very crappy DS version is the replay editor. With that, you play a mini-game, get footage, you can either make a little clip, an entire episode or you can make a full 7 episode (I'm pretty sure it's 7 episodes) season. Great graphics, audio, controls are simple and they show you them in the corner of every mini-game & a hell of a lot of stuff to unlock, the replay editor has to be the one mode in here that will take up most of your time and PSP's battery life. This is a mini-game collection done RIGHT. Jackass: The Game for PSP is getting a 9.0 out of 10. 

R.I.P. Ryan Dunn

 

My thoughts on the Nintendo 3DS

Alright so the other day when I purchased Brunswick Pro Bowling for my PSP, outside of the Gamestop that I went to, was this truck promoting the Nintendo 3DS, and when I asked the guy who worked at Gamestop what was going on, he said "It's all Nintendo, they came in this morning and asked if they could park there." After I bought Brunswick Pro Bowling, I went into the truck and it was a pretty small truck, there were 8 or 6 tables and each had 2 3DS's and when one was available to try, I tried it out and the first thing I noticed was...the 3D is great on it! The handheld felt like I was holding a liter DSi but with an analog, which I'm gonna talk about in a minute. I was playing Excitebike and one thing I had to do was go from 2D, which shows it as the original Excitebike, but then when you put in the 3D. The 3D gave Excitebike alot more depth. There was more of a world, stadium, sky, clouds. It was amazing to see. I played one track once with the dpad and another with the analog stick. The dpad feels alot better then the DSi's dpad and as for the analog stick, if felt kinda cheap, kinda crappy, I'm not gunna lie. Then after a lady worked for Nintendo Canada explained more of the 3DS to me. In my head I was laughing, I already know what the system can do, I watched E3, I listen to the news from the Video Game Industry, I know what goes on. I know what the system can do. Everything she told me from Street Pass to transferring my DSiWare games to the 3DS, I know it all but I was nice and pretended like I didn't. I just wanted to play the damn handheld. One more thing I got to do before I left was, I took a picture of myself and turned it into a Mii. I look asian because my Mii's eyes are closed for some reason when my eyes were open during the picture but whatever, I thought it was awesome. I took two pictures of my Mii from my cell phone. One picture in 3D, one in 2D. Now instead of giving it a score, all I can say is the people at Nintendo ain't going hungry for a long time and I am really thinking about picking up the 3DS after my pleasant, random encounter with it the other day.

Guitar Hero: Metallica (Xbox 360) Review

Do you want to ride the lightning?

*Before I start the review, I gotta give a shout out to my good friend Jonathan Tisdale for letting me borrow his copy of GH: Metallica for the purpose of this review. Thanks Tisdale :) *

 Guitar Hero: Metallica, the second GH game based on a band. Except this time, you can play as the whole band. There you go GH! Now I'm going to be completely honest. I can't decide whether GH: Metallica or GH: World Tour is my favourite GH game, I love both for their beautiful graphics, incredible setlist & gameplay (which to me can never get old) & pure awesomeness. Guitar Hero: Metallica, I loved it but I was a little disappointed in. You can turn on the game and go right into quick play and have every song unlocked from the start. But for this time that I was playing I was going through the career and sadly, as much as I liked the cartoon/comic design of things, I didn't like the career, it was so boring since all the songs were already unlocked. One main thing I really did enjoy was playing the Metallica songs, watching this was as good as watching them live. Don't doubt this, I went to Youtube to watch a few live songs from them, this is just as good. Also another thing I went through this time was a few of the extras, the Metallica facts is cool to read & learn. The videos on how the game was made, videos with the band, this is a complete package for the fans. Fans of Metallica, don't be afraid to get this, this is a fan package right here. There may be no DLC except for that Metallica album which you can download in Guitar Hero 3, World Tour & here but the songs are always fun to play and I love singing Tuesday's Gone. Always fun. Guitar Hero: Metallica for the Xbox 360 is getting an 8.5 out of 10. 

Still can't decide between this and World Tour as my personal favourite GH game.