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Sega let slip some hot looking new screenshots from Golden Axe last week, it looks a trifle better than the original which I owned many years ago. I wonder if they can recreate the magic for Golden Axe on the Xbox 360 and PS3?
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Strangely this is Sega’s second Olympics release over the past 8 months - their first one being Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. This is the official game of this year’s Olympics and in fine tradition will have you waggling the analogue stick or mashing buttons until you develop RSI and, if you’re from the US anyway, try to sue. Brits will just complain quietly to the person next to them.
The game covers all 38 disciplines including the standard track and field events but also table tennis, judo, archery, cycling, weight lifting and swimming.
If you’re old enough to remember, this game takes ideas from both Konami’s Track and Field and US Gold’s Winter and California Games. Games are a mix of hitting buttons quickly and timing stick rotations , as well as matching button sequences as quickly as possible.
The game’s at its best when things are simple - waggle or mash to run and press buttons at the right time to jump and set your angle for jumps etc. Stupidly there’s an annoying charge system for running off the blocks which often leaves you doing a false start or leaving behind the pack and trying to catch up - absolutely useless if you’re doing the 100 metres.
It’s also annoying having to skip through all the animations before getting into a race or event. Games like these need to be instant especially if you’re playing with 7 others and taking it in turns. You can also play with 3 others online - and of course there’s online leaderboards for you to smash if you’re that obsessed with getting to the top of the tables.
This game’s like a Western - there’s a mix of good, bad and downright ugly and it’s all a little too disjointed. About ten of the events are enjoyable and for me that’s not enough to warrant buying this game at full price. Still, if you want to get into the spirit of the games and you want to rent it when they start on the 8th of August, then be my guest.
Beijing 2008 gets an average 5 out of 10.
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Finally the Unreal Tournament 3 Xbox 360 version - to be honest, this for me is the preferred format for a multiplayer game seeing as Xbox Live isn’t free and so has to have some degree of stability and speed.
Developed by Epic, the same people behind Gears of War, this sees you fighting a race called the Necris as you battle to save the Earth. Quite how you do this by capturing flags, getting as many frags over re-spawning teams and destroying glowing red or blue nodes is beyond me but suspend your disbelief and get into the game and you’ll thoroughly enjoy it.
The single-player campaign completely gets rid of the tournaments of previous games and uses the story as an excuse to play some arena-based battles. There’s Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Warfare, Vehicle Capture the Flag and more and it all rips along at a frightening pace with no drop in framrate.
The game differs from the PC and PS3 versions in that it has extra content - 5 new maps, new characters and split-screen co-op and versus mode. They did it in Gears of War on the 360 so why not in this game? You’ll also not ice all the characters look like they’ve come straight out of Gears. They all look like NFL players and talk in that gruff way you’ve come to expect.
There’s also a fantastic extended trailer for Gears of War 2 on there which shows off some cool multiplayer features like the new Meatflag mode and moving cover system - I can’t wait to play it!
UT3 multiplayer is also fast and furious and I’m really enjoying it thanks to the fact that I’ve always been pretty nifty at the series.
If you haven’t yet got it on another system then I highly recommend this for the Xbox 360. A fair few shooters have already come out on the 360 since its debut on the PS3 but it’s more than worthy of joining them. Unreal Tournament 3 gets an excellent 8 out of 10.
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It’s been announced Final Fantasy XIII is coming to the Xbox 360 after all. With this bombshell could we see other exclusives such as Metal Gear Solid 4 come to the 360 too? I’d bet my house on it.
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Id software have a released a teaser video for their new Wolfenstein game. All we know is you’ll be able to play it on the Xbox 360 and PS3 and of course, there’ll be lots of Nazis to shoot.
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Ubisoft have announced its new survival action game called I Am Alive. Produced by Jade Raymond of Assassin’s Creed fame, the game takes place in a ruined Chicago.
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Microsoft’s press conference at E3 saw mainly confirmation of previously leaked information, nethertheless they put on a good show and did manage to throw in a few surprises. Here are our favourite standout details from the show so far.
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I haven’t seen the new The Incredible Hulk movie, partly due to the fact that I found the Ang Lee one really boring and partly because I’m not sure why we need another movie. Well, another film means another official videogame - but what is there to do with the big green bogeyman that hasn’t already been done?
Once again this game puts you in a free environment similar to the Ultimate Destruction game. This time you’re in the Big Apple as you play loosely through the plot of the movie and do lots of other missions along the way. Just find the icon on the map and press a button to activate the mission. Completing missions and other objectives gives you more points and new abilities with which to smash stuff up with. Standard punches and grabs will do for most enemies but you can also fill up your rage meter by smashing stuff up and go proper ballistic on your approaching enemies.
And smash things up you do - a lot. Everything in the game can be destroyed and it’s great fun leaping from building to building, picking up taxis and throwing them at people, or picking up people and throwing them at other people. If Nico Bellic from GTA 4 were big and green, he’d be in this game.
Unfortunately, it’s just not quite as much fun as Ultimate Destruction. You can’t rip taxis in half or surf down the street on buses, which is a great shame. You can however knock down buildings and there are ones dotted round the city which give you a special token for doing so - you’re like an incredibly angry tourist at times.
When it comes to presentation the game really doesn’t look like it’s playing on a next-gen console - I’ve been playing it on the 360. The Hulk has quite a bit of detail but even characters in cut scenes look a bit ropey and Tim Roth and Edward Norton providing the voices of the main characters sound like they really couldn’t be bothered.
In all it’s a pretty average action adventure game based on a movie. It’s not terrible and it’s always fun smashing stuff up - especially when it’s as fluid as this. An average game gets an average score so The Incredible Hulk video game gets 5 out of 10.
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