Scott Pilgrim comes to PSN and XBox Live and Lee shares his initial impressions on the comic book/film game on the PS3...
Lee writes about his experience with EB Games and eBay when trying to get rid of his PS2 game collection and the three games that replaced them!
Lee has been playing the game Far Cry 2 for what seems like forever and shares his thoughts on the first person shooter.
Greg starts playing the latest Transformers game and, as expected, it's completely rubbi-... wait a minute! This is really fun!
It’s been a while since I played the first two God of War games and whilst I remembered that there was sex in them, I really didn’t remember all that much about the scenes. I think they were off screen with rocking pieces of furniture etc. I can’t recall if you actually take part in the process or not. Read more…
There’s something about the Final Fantasy series of games that has always interested me yet the gameplay does not always hold my interest for long enough. At times it can be repetitive or frustrating to the point where I don’t enjoy it any more. This was definitely the case when I gave some of the early games another go a couple of years ago after they were re-released on Nintendo DS with updated graphics. Read more…
I finally found it at a reasonable price, so I bought Uncharted. The catch, however, is that I already played and completed Uncharted 2 late last year. Considering the number of times Uncharted 2 was declared “Game Of The Year” for 2009, was I going to be disappointed by Uncharted?
What must not be forgotten is that just as Uncharted 2, timed along with the release of the PS3 Slim, re-invigorated the PS3 platform, Uncharted proved to gamers and game developers what was possible with the platform (apparently Uncharted only uses one-third of the PS3′s capabilities). Read more…
It’s been a long time since I visited the world of Street Fighter.
Street Fighter 2 on the Super Nintendo actually. Since then there have been a bunch of versions of SF2 and I imagine Street Fighter III though I don’t recall seeing anything about it. But then I saw a demo of the current one Street Fighter IV and was very impressed with the graphics.
So then I saw it for a pretty awesome price, took 20 minutes away from Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, which I might add I’ve been becoming more obsessed with every minute I play it. Read more…
After my initial return to the world of Kratos I’ve pretty much dropped everything else to stat playing this in the three or four minutes I have spare each day. Whilst fleeting those minutes are full of bloody awesomeness and innovative use of the PS3 controller to kill people.
The story goes like this, the Titans are mounting an assault on Olympus and are all climbing up the sheer cliffs of the mountain. In HD it looks fantastic and the rumble in the controller adds to the overall effect of the sequences. You as Kratos are climbing up the back of Gaia helping her shake off the weird crab horse water thingies that keep impaling her. Read more…
The measure of a man is what he does with power…
It’s been a while since I played the first two God of War games on the PS2. I loved those games because they were so well put together, I liked characters and the action was great. I didn’t bother picking up the God of War collection for the PS3, even with better graphics I’ve already finished them, they’re done. God of War 3 arrived in the mail today.
Welcome home. Read more…
In my last Bioshock game progress post, I touched on the topic of family.
In the very first scene of the game’s opening cinematic, the main character, Jack, opens a present addressed to him “With Love, from Mom + Dad”. As he does this, he says: ”They told me, ‘Son, you’re special. You were born to do great things.’ You know what? They were right.” Read more…
As I mentioned last week in the first Mashing Buttons podcast…
What’s that?
You haven’t listened to it yet!?
You should go rectify that, all the cool kids are listening to it.
…as I was saying I mentioned in the podcast that one of my favourite gaming genres right now is first person war/battle games such as Modern Warfare 2 or Killzone 2. So I’ve picked myself up a couple of other war games including Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising which I finally got around to giving a quite run last night. Read more…
I thought it might be a good idea to organise my PS3 games as I’ve been picking them up here and there and not having enough time to play them straight away have forgotten that I have some of them.
It’s something that I’d like to be reminded of when the next big game comes along and frankly my budget won’t stretch that far.
Also I’m sure this is riveting stuff and gives an insight to my character 
Some people questioned the reasoning behind adjusting my hair to resemble my avatar in NHL10.
Some people suggested it would be easier to change the avatar to resemble me.
Some people thought that it would make no difference.
To those doubters I give you this:
The New Jersey Devils NHL10 Stanley Cup winners including Lee Sargent
Yes that’s right in a marathon Good Friday hockey session I finally brought the end of the season to a close with an edge of your seat final game. The final win wasn’t without controversy either in the play-off first round because the simulate season button is confusing when you finish a season and gives you no information on how to proceed I ended up losing two simulated games before I realised what was happening.
Now you may say that there is no “I” in team but I will remind you that there are 3 I’s in “individual awesomeness”.
The final game three stars - note star number 1 (note also the hair)
For those of you (like myself until about five minutes ago) who are unfamiliar with ice hockey outside of The Mighty Ducks franchise of films:
The Conn Smythe Trophy is awarded annually to the player judged most valuable to his team during the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup playoffs. The Conn Smythe Trophy has been awarded 44 times to 38 players since the 1964–65 NHL season. Each year, at the conclusion of the final game of the Stanley Cup finals, members of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association vote to elect the player deserving of the trophy. The trophy is handed out prior to the presentation of the Stanley Cup by the NHL commissioner. source
Lee Sargent - the NHL10 Conn Smythe Trophy winner
I think this screen is possibly my biggest vindication, finally my hot’ness has been recognised by a video game.
Does anyone need to borrow some points? I've got plenty.
So there you have it. Obviously not attempting to carve your avatar into your image instead opting to emulate their look in real life is a sound plan for video game ice hockey success.
I highly recommend it.
