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Jan 12th, 2007 at 00:17:09 - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (PS2) |
Today I played Street Fighter II 3rd Strike for the playstation 2. It is part of a really good two game package of the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection. Its a very simple game and is of my favorite genre of video gaming which is the classic 2d fighter. There are a lot of charachters each with their own moves and special fighting abilities. The beauty about 2d fighters is that they can do a lot things that look cool because the gameplay loooks very cartoonish, yet you dont need everything to be 3d generated or bombastic. Aside from graphics though the game is very addicting for me. I played as Ken, a classic charachter in the Street Fighter Series. Ken is a very versatile player, one of the strongest, and his moves are all very cool looking. I set the difficulty for the computer to the highest because there is a video game tournament featuring this game this coming Saturday. Any other setting would prove a little too easy I think because I play these games all the time. I took me about an hour to beat the game with Ken.
One of the new and spectacular things about this game which sets it apart from all other 2dimensional fighting games is a parry/counter system. The theory is basically instead of holding back to block an attack coming at you, you very carefully try and time the attack about to hit you and tap forward quikcly, this initiats a quick counter strike and a chance for you to hit back the opponent. If acrefully executed, one could counter an entire super combo, these are super damaging moves you could do when you have sufficient energy stored up from fighting in your energy bar. Ken is a very fast and damaging charachter, sometimes his moves have slow recovery time, but his super moves are very useful and easy to link up.
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Jan 11th, 2007 at 00:15:36 - God of War (PS2) |
God of War is great epic game. It takes place in the Ancient times of Greece. Obviously this means there are Gods, demons, and all sorts of mythical creatures. The story follows Kratos who is not a man, but he is not a God either. The point of the quest is for him go gain a sort of godhood or legendary status. Kratos is a big bald pale fighter, he weilds to gnarled blades that emit fire and have some sort of retraction chains. He seems like an interesting charachter, typical bad hard ass type, he is not good, but his missions lead to good causes. The story is also very good, theres a lot of room for creativity since there is a whole classical myth to work with. For now, the mission is to destroy Ares, God of War, which I believe will be the ultimate goal in the game, since that's what its title is. But I do like how epic everything is and all the dire consequences. Perhaps the most powerful aspect and most entertaining is the fighting system. It works of three simple attack commands: light swift strike, heavy slow strike, and grab. If you add in some jumps and move around the analog sticks some, you can create a very numerous amount of combos and moves. Another aspect is that you can use some special moves you pick up along the way, these special moves will be exlpined along the way. Each of these special moves are measured by a blue power bar, above a green power bar, and there is one last red bar that is filled that is for the upgrading of weapons you weild. This is of course somewhat typical of platformers.
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Jan 10th, 2007 at 23:59:21 - God of War (PS2) |
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