Review: Super Stardust HD

This may very well be the best arcade game on Playstation Network. I am absolutely hopelessly addicted to this game. It's sort of a mix between Asteroids and Geometry Wars but set on a sphere. You have three weapons through out the game: the gold melter, ice melter, and the rock busters. Each of the weapons works a little bit different on each of the different types of asteroids. Very fun and frantic game play it gets really insane when you have no bombs left and you've just used your boost will stuff closing in on you. I like the high-score system where you can see where you placed no mater if it was 5000 or 500000 not just the top fifty. My cousin and I stayed up till 1:00 at night trying to get in the top 50. Over all this game has solid graphics and great game-play both make for hours and hours of fun. I'd give it an 8.0 a definite buy.

Chris: Virtua Fighter 5 at a glance:

If you want to get a good fighting game that rocks for PS3 go out and get this game. I've been playing the Virtua Fighter series since I was in the seventh grade. I loved the game then and I still love it now. It's still just as fun as the days when I first started dumping quarters into the arcade version.

The graphics are absolutely gorgeous. The lighting and water effects are almost perfect, however the particle effects are medicore which is a shame but I guess it's alright they're not exactly what I'd call next-gen but they'll pass for now. Another peeve I had is that some of the characters look like they have plastic skin and I expected better than that. That and the particle effects are then only real complaints that I have with the graphics.

The controls and the camera angles work great on this. So at the end of the day it's still the same old virtua fighter we know and love just with updated graphics. I would like to have an arcade joystick for my PS3 but I can't afford one right now and neither can CJ (Were trying to get an Xbox 360 and Halo 3 Legendary Edition *W00T*); so anyone want to send us a joystick to try out? Ok maybe that's else to do with games ) send me an email at chrisprayingmantis@yahoo.com. I've only started playing this game yesterday and I will write a more in depth review after I've played it for a few more hours.

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Chris: Resistance Fall of Man My Rating: 9.0

Resistance Fall of Man is a pretty good game very solid in it's construction. So the story is something like this instead of World war 2 happening these creatures called Chimera start invading countries. All the while the US is trying desperately to stay out of the war but the chimera finally invade Britain and the US knows it would be next so they send a Large strike force to help out Britain. The strike force is wiped out and you are the lone survivor of the terror. There is a catch though you are infected with the virus that turns you into a chimera but it isn't affecting you the way it does everyone else. So you join the Brits and help them to destroy the chimera infestation in Britain. A pretty cool story if you ask me.

As far as the weapons go these are some of the coolest weapons that I've ever seen in a game very creative and very very balanced. One of the weapons called the auger can shoot through walls which is really awesome, but even better than that you can throw up shields with it and make you own cover which is by far one of the coolest things. One mechanic I missed though is duel wield which is available on one of the guns but not any of the other ones. They have some very original weapons as I mentioned before the Auger, and then there is one gun called the bulls-eye that can shoot around corners, and the dual wielding energy pistols. There are two very cool grenades one is called the hedge-hog which is a ball of spikes that explodes and sends shards off in every which direction, and one which spews gas and like blow the crap out of who ever manages to get close to it.

The AI is extraordinary on one level there are several enemies in one room and you need to take them out to get to your objective. So I threw a grenade in and stared to pin on of the guys down behind some crates on the left side of the room well i fail to note that there is a second way around to the room I'm in and in walks a chimera one word: HELP!! I'm down in a couple of seconds. Using those team hunting tactics to get me down was awesome so you really feel like these creatures are intelligent and not just some crazy zombies walking and it makes it that much more scary.

So my overall rating of this game is 9.0 its a solid title with some moderately high replay value. I would recommend this title to all of my friends who have a PS3. One issue that I had with it though is it should have been released this fall so Insomniac would have more polish on this game and the PS3 would be picking up some steam and this game would get some more attention. Other than that I have no problems with this game.