Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer as develop by Quantic Dreams and SCEA deliver a new genre for the all gamers. The game that puts the player in the shoes of the character as you control it with an display icon in the most of the game. You can say that Heavy Rain is the games that have concept to play the games like interactive novels.

In the Heavy Rain you have to control four character, each character has a vital part of the game and each character can be controlled by the player as the game in progresses. With the timed-button-mashing-moments during combat, you have to react quickly, if you don’t and you character will dies, it means you lose that character and that part of the story. The goal is to go through the story with every character and experience the psychological murder-mystery from personal perspective.

The interesting part about this game is the choices that have to be made all along the way. This is why the games was so intriguing. There is no right answer or even a righteous one. You have to guess the way to finished the game. React or gut, only with that’s you can finish the game. While a several choice may seem the great thing to do, or the noble, or even the right one, that one decision may have a bad consequence later on in the game.

A serial killer known as the Origami Killer. This is your core antagonist as four character are the key of this game. Replayability is rife here, after you completing the 10-12 hour game, if you wanna to going back in , making another decision will yield some different consequence as the games continues. Well, not everyone will understand and appreciate it.

The setting was set in any town hit by hardship and poverty (the same as America towns in the current economic climate). The game is more adult-oriented, psychological, terror, heartbreak, and present a sense of darkness that pulls gamers along.

The main four character are fleshed out remarkably well. Each character has a sense of familiarity and also a dark side that open up itself. Ethan Mars as a Architect (whose life is ripped apart when one of the children is killed in a car accident), and then the FBI profiler, Norman Jayden (had a drug habit that rears itself at the wrong times), Scoot Shelby as a retired private detective, and the photo-journalist Madison Paige. Each of these character feels real. They action may be controlled, but its feel real as you controlled every action on the character. And that makes seeing bad things happen much more realistic.

Incredible graphics and attention detail is remarkable, a new control scheme also very well realized, moving from some motion elements that anyone would think of this to the onscreen prompts during the action scenes that need your action to hit the corresponding hot buttons. And also the audio is work fines.

Heavy Rain surely is a great achievement, the game success gathered elements to present different genres, and Quantic Dreams forged it into a brand new experience. Heavy Rain goes beyond expectation , the game that you should play.

Rating Score for Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer:

5. Overall: 9
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When the original Battlefield Bad Company out the result wasn’t quite good, the game was a solid take on the new focus on a story of single player element instead of purely multiplayer one. Even some says the game wasn’t truly great. However, that was the past and now the Bad Company is back, an improved sequel that moves out from the WWII story setting into modern times.

Bad Company 2 comes up with a new great graphical engine, solid AI, and a better storyline. The game plays is extremely well too with machine guns and fluid controls. While there are a few pacing problems on single campaign, this is a excellent improvement over the previous game, and features a great multiplayer component to play.

As you role as the leader of Bravo Two squad (it was B-company in the previous game) as the team search out a secret weapon called Aurora, a prologue set in the Pacific Theater of World War II, after the prologue, you’re put in the Preston Marlo, which is the leader of Bravo Two, the assigned job is to search this secret weapon, a dangerous mission that will take you to a variety of locations, such as the jungles of South America, Russia, and locations throughout North America.

The single player campaign has more linear than the one in the previous game, more cinematic approach to the storytelling. The games moves along at a great intense pace, with a good portion of the story and the cut scene, total 13 missions that you have to finished with your squadmates.

About your team, every person react pretty intelligently across the campaign. Your teammates in Bad Company 2 actually very contribute their fair share to the combat. Reacting to destroy cover and finishing out enemies with great maneuvers. The AI has successfully gotten a boost this time around.

The game’s combat is also handled very well. Every weapon reacts realistically and feels excellent, whether you are shooting using a sub-machine gun or heavy weaponry. There is other great feature which is environmental destruction model, allowing you to destroy the building to the ground so that not a piece standing. But, it’s also possible to make smaller destruction to objects in the environment. To make it more realistic.

The most people will definitely get the most of Bad Company 2 are online shooter fans, as the game present an excellent multiplayer element. Allowing tons of players to take each other on in large environments, complete with a variety of vehicles. The games feature a deep class system, each class has their own unique abilities that they can bring to your team, and side by side working in tandem with your team will allow you to strategical rule the map. As said earlier that new additional features the improved environmental destruction model has been added meaning that you’re always have to move on, once you take cover it means you’re dead.

The multiplayer features is also very scalable, you can customize a match any way you want to going in. Variety different gameplay modes including newly revised “Gold Rush” and maps, you can upgrade your character with new weapons and special perks across the multiplayer component in the games, the system that very familiar in Call of Duty.

Bad Company 2 comes with excellent graphic, there are several improvements to the engine that make the game is more looking than the first game, improvement on field effects and fantastic levels that add to the cinematic feel of the games. But there are a few hitches in the gameplay, including the time when pauses the game is little bit to long, but generally the games run perfectly at a solid chip. Overall the best improvement here is the destructible environment, which make the games nearly realistic.

The sound effect also done very well. It’s a great job from the soundtrack to sticking with the intensity of the games, and the sound voice acting is awesome. The lack in the previous game has been scaled back a bit.

Overall Battlefield: Bad Company 2 offer an improvement compare the previous games, and a great game for any shooter fan. Whether you play for single mode or multiplayer, Bad Company 2 will keep your finger on. Ready or not the Bad Company is coming again.

The Rating Score For Battlefield: Bad Company 2:

1. Gameplay: 8.5
The game is better in every way than the previous games, from the graphic, the cinematic approach to the campaign that is blast from the start till finish, the environmental destruction model improvement makes the games level up into higher position than the predecessor.

5. Overall: 9
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Bioshock 2 sets 10 years after the events of the original game. The city is different right now, there have been some pretty big change to the landscape. Sophia Lamb rules the underwater city has made change in the appearance and the design of the city. After the fall of Andrew Ryan, the citizen of the Rapture have gained an almost religious zeal for their newly leader. However, that doesn’t mean that they can’t be brought down. This the reason that you came in, as Big Daddy prototype model, you awakened in the midst of chaos with the fact that you have to find your little sister. Things turn complicated and you find yourself in a situation of changing the power system in the city.

Some new enemy added, the new brute splicers, who are big, angry enemy that very active to charge you down, and the biggest enemy addition, is called the Big Sister. The Big Sister are Big Daddy overdrive version, with ability to jumping around the room while attack you with both weapons and plasmids. These enemy are strong and need more effort and strategy to keep being overcome by their constant attack and be able to take Big Sisters down.

There has been a changed on the ADAM Harvesting, in the first game this matter is more easy, simply choose the whether to harvest or save the Little Sister after you take down her Big Daddy protector. While in the sequel of this game, you must use them to find and harvest ADAM from the corpse and then extract it, but be careful as they’ll doing this it’s mean they’ll probably in danger position, assault from splicers. Just keep it sure that you keep them protected until they can finish.

The weapon in Bioshock 2 compare to Bioshock 1 are pretty different. Weapon likes new plasmids and all the weapon that your character will be using in Bioshock 2 will be associated with being a Big Daddy. A machine guns, a shotguns, mines, rivet gun, an arm driller.Which is very helpful when setting traps for splicer attack during harvest time.

The control has been improved and feel a lot more intuitive compare to the first game. Juggle between plasmids and weapons are more effective, and you be able to update your weaponry and plasmids at vending machines. The mini game has been changed, Gone is the Pipe Dream-style mini game when you wanna hack something.

Other big feature added in Bioshock 2 which is the addition of multiplayer. With different story and setting from the single player campaign, takes you in the middle of civil war that split up prior to the first events on the previous game. The games modes are very impressive, with more variations likes Capture the Flags and Team Deathmatch. The more interesting part is that you can customize your character, letting you increase level as you play, unlock more perks and more ability for your character.

The Rating Score For Bioshock 2:

1. Gameplay: 9.0
Playing as Big Daddy are more comfortable and more intuitive in this second game of Bioshock title. The great atmosphere form the original game has bring you back to the Rapture world. Still Bioshock 2 is the game that you must play

5. Overall: 9
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The Game Review:

Level 5 the latest RPG White Knight Chronicles tells story about a young man Leonard, the story begin when Leonard celebrate the birthday of 18 years princess Cisna. Cisna is the silent princess that has not spoken for 10 years witnessing the death of her mother at the hands of an assassins form Faria. The two kingdom has made an agreement to sign a peace pact. Soon the party change into violent as a dark monster, Pyredaemos, attacks the castle, under the control of the magi, that have purpose to taking the princess, securing an ancient artifact and create the war again.

After the king was killed, and the guards failed to defeat the Pyredaemos, Leonard tries to safe the Princess to safety zone below the castle. Just when looks they are about to escape, the Pyredaemos attacks again and gives chase.

There is no choice for Leonard and Cisna except runaway, through the castle treasure vault where there is the shining, white suit of giant armor known as the Ancient. This is not just merely armor, it’s weapon armor forged by the predecessors of the nation of the world. Legend says that only one that chosen can activate the armor. There is a glove and an ark that connects to the armor, but to complete activate the armor Leonard must defeat an Umbral Spirit Phantoms.

After Leonards defeat the spirit, Leonard finally united with Incorruptus. Within the armor of the White Knight, Leonard able to defeat Pyredaemos.But as the battle ends the Magi Leader show up and kidnapping Cisna. And soon the two worlds declare to war and the only way to stop this is to bring back Cisna.

The Rating score for White Knight Chronicles

1. Game play: 7
The RPG game play always the same, it’s structured and more level you on, more easy to finish the game.

5. Overall: 8
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Ubisoft’s newest entry, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle is an action games that you can play when the girlfriend is gone and the kids is not around and you need to unleash some wicked sword to play the games.

You play as Travis with a beam katana as your weapon, the games tell story about Travis journey to moving up the assassin rankings to the number one overall to get back your rightful place at the top, beside the mission to get number one Travis also looking for revenge as well as the recognition, especially since Travis been the target of vengeance by the enemy.

As a Wii game Desperate Struggle it’s not going to have the same graphical power behind it other console games. But Grasshopper Manufactured as the developer cranked the art and style up to 11, so instead of fighting that losing battle Grasshopper giving the series a different looks, a unique look that different from the others.

The gameplay is not that difficult, when I was taking the first step into the series, it’s take five minute to read the manual on how the control scheme works. And as I figure out the game control are not complicated and are intuitive, you have the time to learn and mastered them. The battle is enjoyable and varied at the boss battles, but it can be a bit monotonous when you forced to wait for the next wave of grunts to die with less effort or danger to self.

The camera is outstanding, it works well enough and allows for fast repositioning and enemy locks. Camera it’s very important element in a third-person action titles such as of this. Sometimes camera work can be a frustrating downfall fall for such a solid games. For the motion controls, it integrated well in both the combat and mini games .

The sound likes voice acting and dialogue are the best parts in the entire game. And the cut scene are something that you’ll never want to skip.

No doubt Desperate Struggle is a fantastic experience for the adult crowd that is chaotic and extremely likable. It take times less than 15 minutes to found myself completely hooked. Desperate Struggle is another experience for action and extremely unique games.

The Rating Score For No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

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Two years after the event on Mass Effect 1, the story begin with a dark and sinister future for the entire galaxy. A new special alien known as The Collector has been introduced and they’re collecting humans across the galaxy for the Reapers. It’s your job as Shepard with the squad to prevent this from happening.

Mass Effect 2 is more about character development than the previous one. From the sociopath in Suspect Zero, the religious drell assassins Thane,etc. Every character has one side-quest geared towards their backstory. Also these missions are very important to gain their loyalty and it is good to to gain more experience. With 11 teammates that differ from one another, sometimes it’s difficult to choose who should go on with you and who should stay on the base.

As for the teammates when on the Normandy, they seems don’t do anything much, they just stand or sit in one area. Bioware has to give them free reign to walk around and interact with one another. Many best moment often are when the teammates are speaking at each other and sharing their opinion. This is more reality and all the squadmates will become even more lifelike once they can move, walk about o their own free will.

About experience, leveling up in Mass Effect 2 is more like we creating a super soldier and balancing the team with many kind of variety group of tech, soldiers and biotics. The fact that’s reaching level 30 in Mass Effect 2 is the same as reaching level 50-60 in Mass Effect 1. It’s time consuming and players need to be dedicated to grinding to reach hat point, cause finding and accepting side-quest is difficult right now.
Players must visit every planet to find an anomaly. Once they found any anomaly, they’re free to land on the planet. It’s a much more hardcore approach to finding missions to embark on.

Bioware try to accomplish the establish connections with the new squadmates while exploring the realities of what happened to the old squadmates on Mass Effect 1. You can visit Wrex, Kaiden, Liara, Ashley, and other character from Mass Effect 1 (depending on the choices that were made), it was incredibly advance to creating a bounding to the squel. Guarantee that players won’t want to put down he controller as they embark to investigate what was happened in the past two years that Shepard has been in coma.

The storyline it’s much equivalent with Star Wars: The Empires Strike Back was to A New Hope. The Reaper has fulfill their destiny to farm and harvest all organic using the Collectors. The Collectors are a breath of fresh air from cybernetic Geth that create up the most of the enemies we’ve faced in Mass Effect 1. The Collectors can take to flight and, often, they are lose control of their bodies to their overseer called Harbinger. Bioware not to mentioned much about the role between the Collectors and the Harbinger, especially since players never meet face to face, but that was to be expected as the conclusion of Mass Effect 2 will reveal and leaves players desiring for more.

Mass Effect 2 deliver an action clever mission, in one mission, you are stalking prey with the new Asari Samara, in other missions players are fighting a Thresher Maw with Grunt, the newly Krogan on the team. This is a mission to gain loyalty and you are given the opportunity to choose many outcomes. Usually the missions it’s all about the fate of an individual that squadmates are hunting down or searching for. In the end of Mass Effect 2, players are given even more choices that will decide their fate in Mass Effect 3.

The combat has been improved to the point that naysayers of the original will join the bandwagon this time. The missions, and the type that they are sets, were intense and even more enemies flanking Shepard and the team. Every enemy type has different patterns and A1 that players have to prevail over such as new enemy type Scion that throws out shockwaves every 15 seconds.

Well Mass Effect is an RPG game, and of course the role playing elements are heavily refined and streamlined. Leveling up will more easy and should present no difficulty to newcomers to the genre. Players can learn new powers from their comrades in arms, and mastering other weapon type in about halfway through the game.
Players must buy weapon and ship upgrades tools from stores or unlock resources from planets across the galaxy. The mining it’s addicting feature from Mass Effect 2 that should easily occupy 2-3 hour of your playtime.

In addition, Mass Effect 2 hits the funny bone more often than not. When fans of the original encounter their first conversation with the new Krogan squad member, they could possibly be laughing so hard or even later on in the game, after you finishing the Krogan’s mission, there is comedy to be found with the first pump and jig he performs. Even Mass Effect 2 has own their space hamster.

Mass Effect 2 is extraordinary game, it’s an RPG sci-fi-action-mystery-epic that will shock you in every moments, provide thrilling moments around every bend. Mass Effect 2 is hard to resists, on average, more than 20 hours and offers multiple playthroughs with a large cast of decision to safe the fate of mankind.

The Rating Score For Mass Effect 2:

5. Overall: 9
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Capcom has once again bring games with the fighting genre on the console, a famous title Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All Star. The fighting game series has retuned to its former glory. Did you ever heard about Tatsunoko animation? Don’t worry the Tatsunoko character fit perfectly into the games. From Gatchaman to gigantic and stunning Gold Lightan also the swift and cunning Karas, every character united into the background and present amazing picture of fighting games.

The control of the games it was so easy to pick up, even for non gamer will able to fully understand the controls in about 15 minutes or so. Well, the concerns about how the controls would be answered and were quickly erased after you play the game in about 10 minutes. The games made as casual fighting games so everyone can easily play the games.

As Wiimote and Nunchuk for the controller, perform special maneuvers and hyper combos, players don’t have to work hard to get 30-40 maneuver combos, the flick from Wiimote and Nunchuk with combination of the A & B buttons allows players to perform Ryu’s Shinku Hadoken. But before you takes this action you need to building up the hyper-combo gauge at the bottom of the screen, to fill the gauge it shouldn’t take too long time because the gauge will fill as you receive any damage, performing attacks and even missing attack fills up the gauge bar.

There are a lot of crazy specialties to learn from the cross-over air raid (get your opponent into the air and switching places with your partners in reserve to continue the attack), team hyper combo (combination of hyper-combos with your party member), baroque combo (chain combo that happen while performing another attack), and mega crash (sends enemy into the air if they get too close), and much more. All the combos is highly superb to see in the action, but wasting Hyper-combos is not smart idea to do, as the enemy could easily store up a level five hyper combo with which to retaliate. There’s a lot of strategy that you should learn by doing since button-smashing may very well send the player into a smashing world of hurt. Overall the control and the combos it’s generally simple.

In the game, the arcade mode ended with fighting against terrible boss Okami’s Yami. You have through eight battles before you meet the boss. Which I think is very short normally fighting game have 12 stages to clear, but isn’t bad thing anyway since finishing the arcade mode several times allows players to get Zenny to buy new moves, outfit, movies, gallery items and of course to buy a new character.

The available character include:
1. Frank West from Dead Rising’s (team Capcom)
2. Zero from Mega Man X’s (team Capcom
3. Tekkaman Blade from Tekkamen’s (team Tatsunoko)
4. Joe The Condor from Science Ninja Team Gatchaman’s (team Tatsunoko)
5. Yatterman 2 from Yatterman (team Tatsunoko)

Unlocking characters and in-game items doesn’t help the replay value for the online multiplayer. there wer time that the online element would work with any complications, but it was a rare things to happens. There are too many times of lag on performing linked combos.

The Rating Score for Tatsunoko Vs Capcom Ultimate All-Stars:

5. Overall: 8.5
There’s a lot of excellent experience in this game, Tatsunoko vs Capcom truly a glimpse for the future of Capcom and Wii platform

The Games Review:

The upcoming hits from Uncharted that takes the success formula from the first game and pushes it to new heights both literally and figuratively. There are more jokes and some really good chuckles stemming from the dialogue and cut scene. Added new character and familiar ones.

Uncharted 2 storyline takes about the adventures of Marco Polo and specifically when he comeback from China. It tells when Polo left China, he had 14 ships with more than 600 passengers and crew. And when he finally made his home port, most of the ship are gone only one ship remained with 18 passengers. This is the things that Drake want to investigate, that draw him back to the adventure.

Drake want to know about what happen to those other ships. But, as usually it evolves into something much greater – the Cintamani Stone (a fable jewel that grants the owner great power) and the path to Shambala. No doubt, Drake will back into full adventure mode, and one that you must keep in mind here is not to trust anyone.

Drake’s play as a war criminal who heads a private army and is on the trail. Alongside the game he teams up with Chloe, who seems to has own agenda in all this and eventually met with Elena, and there are nasty, dangerous monster that seems to crawl out of legend and believe me the things are very hard to kill.

Naughty Dog as the developer has crafted the game that is somewhat linear, and has balance combination of repetition in terms of raging gun battles and puzzles, incorporating the platform elements very well. You have to look around find the way, sometimes it can be handholds in the wall, and this way is your way to continues. Once you kill the bad guys you can pick their weapons, many kind of weapon to range from nice guns to RPGs. Well, is just beginning wait until you go up against a tank and you will definitely has to found a weapon to beat the tanks.

The game sets start on Borneo and moves into the Himalayas. With amazing scene from the graphics, the beauty of Himalayas clearly outstanding. Uncharted 2 is not difficult game to play, from a control standpoint, it is easy to learn. In fact, the control scheme is straightforward type in design. The dialogue is very humorous and even pokes fun at itself, the more humor than the previous episode.

Uncharted 2 brings multiplayer into the mix, with some cooperative sessions through game maps. Also, you can gained achievements particular to each weapons, as well as score for the type of attack that you commence to the enemy, such as headshots.

Uncharted 2 is fun to play, from the action adventure and graphic standpoint, of course this game is soars on the PS3. When you play a game that everybody can watch and enjoy how the game is playing out, that is the value of interesting and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is the game with this value.

The Rating Score For Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

5. Overall: 9
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Batman: Arkham Asylum finally make his through as the best video game in Batman history. Batman: Arkham Asylum fires on all element that makes the game is great, not just for fun to play but it has fantastic story that any fan of the Batman will loves it. Batman: Arkham Asylum claimed to be the best superhero game ever to launch in consoles. The real hero with ability in combat and his detective skill to destroy the enemy make this game looks great to play. If you are Batfans (Batman Fans) then you should play this game.

The story begin when our hero Batman just captured the arc villain, the Joker, and transit to the titular institution for the criminally insane. But the Joker somehow free from his guards and, with the help of his sidekick Harley Quinn, starting to wreaking mayhem on Arkham, soon the Joker taking control of the Arkham and managed to release another Batman’s worst foes in a effort to stop Batman. Batman must defeat all the foes in order to restore the Arkham and bring down the Joker.

The game get’s all element right, with the freeform combat system make it’s easy to start even for the beginner. It’s like one button to attacks, other button for combos, another for dodging, and another for stun attacks. It is just simple when face multiple enemy, pointing the thumbstick in the direction of foe causes Batman change his attack immediately, and the result is very excellent and stunning and gamers from all experiences would be easily stringing together visceral the combos in no time.

Batman: Arkham Asylum not just action game it’s combined with stealth combat system. Which is some people says,”Batman Arkham stealth combat system ones of the best Batman moment in the game”. USe you grappling hook to get to the ceilings, find away to attack from above. And when the moment is right, you’ll jump and gliding down for a stunning kick and knocking them out. Also there are more stealth movement possibilities likes hanging upside down and snatching them, sneaking up behind to perform silent takedown.

In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman came with several different gadgets to help his work. Likes Batarang, Bat-Claws and Explosive Gel for open up hidden areas. With the detective skill you will be able to see enemies through walls, visualizing their positions, it is armed or not and even you can see their heartbeat condition, it’s in emotional state or not. Are they camly guarding their post or they scared by your presence, you can find out with activate your detective mode.The detective mode also useful to finding the game’s hidden items. There are many different object and puzzle scattered hidden throughout the game.

If we talk about Batman it’s mean we have to talk about the enemy too. Well, the game does success job to bring them on, likes Joker and Harley Quinn, Bane, Poison Ivy, Killer Croc, Scarecrow and many others. All of them has been rendered to fit the game’s overall darker and more mature look. And once again the game success to utilizing each of them to their fullest potential.

Batman: Arkham Asylum run with the Unreal Engine 3, the technology does a more than ample job of handling the game needed. No wonder Batman has a fantastic art direction with lust environment and great character models.The sounds is another awesome element in this game.
The music inspiration is from James Newton-Howard and Hanz Zimmer that work on the Dark Knight. But, inspite of element above, voicework maybe the real winner, Mark Hamill’s as the Joker and Kevin Conroy’s as the Batman, both makes an excellent job.

The Rating Score for Batman: Arkham Asylum

5.Overall: 9.5
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