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“I was really there!” Game immersion at its best

Posted by Lynk Former on 5 September 2009 at 2:26 PM (GMT+10)

It’s been way too long since my last entry, but better late than never (and other suitable cliché’s) for this one.

It can be an extremely satisfying experience when you’re standing at the top of a tall Gothic styled building and looking down at a group of thugs below. You then jump straight down and into the middle of the thugs and before they can yell “It’s the Batman!!” you’ve already taken them out with some brutal melee moves that send them flying to the ground. You are the goddamn Batman and you love it. That’s the feeling I got while playing Batman: Arkham Asylum and it really does impress me how far this game goes to make you feel like the dark knight. There are many games that feature established characters like Batman, and sure, they do feature their trademark moves and gear, though few manage to make you feel like you really are that character and can pull off all of their moves just like how it’s done in their TV show or movie or whatever.

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Game Spotlight: Three Wii games you don’t care about

Posted by Lynk Former on 17 August 2009 at 12:45 AM (GMT+10)

I was going to write three separate Game Spotlights for these games, but then I realised that it’d be a waste of time considering that people really don’t care about these games to begin with… of course, these games aren’t that great anyway.

The three games I’ll be talking about are The Conduit, Deadly Creatures and Disaster: Day of Crisis. All three games seemed to have had high expectations by Wii enthusiasts but ultimately received very low sales.

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Game Spotlight: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Posted by Lynk Former on 20 July 2009 at 5:03 PM (GMT+10)

I don’t particularly go out of my way to buy Grand Theft Auto games, in fact, I’m not much of a fan despite playing through most of the series. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good series, nothing wrong with a bit of GTA… it’s just that with the whole rehash list they’ve come out lately which is just “bigger and better” versions of GTAIII, it can get tiring.

When Chinatown Wars was announced for the Nintendo DS, my interest was peaked when I saw images of an oldskool style top-down GTA of old. I was excited but still sceptical… after all, most people don’t remember the first and second Grand Theft Auto. Gamers who experienced the third person variants see the first two games as well as Chinatown Wars as alien entities… not “true” GTA games.

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