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The entertainment has a thread going where users post their review or rating of the last movie users last watched. So, I figured I'll start up a similar thread for games (Xbox, PS2, PC, PSP, Gameboy, Game Cube, etc)

So, here goes:

Silent Hunter III

3/10

This game didn't get good rating from me b/c I didn't have enough patience to put up with this extremely realistic simulation. The AI is a little dumb, they had to constantly wait for my orders and there wasn't an option somewhere where I could automatic orders. The visuals are stunning, I'll give them points for that. I returned the game anyways.

Half Life 2

10/10

This is, without a doubt, one of the best game I've ever played. It even beats my expectation and even took my attention away from Halo 2 for a change. The graphics are stunning, the single player has great replay value, and the multiplayer is awesome. What more could I ask from a game?

Doom 3

7/10

It's not a bad game, it's not a great game. The single player has little replay value. Multiplayer sucks, I jumped into a CTF game for 5 min and I dropped out of it cuz I found it to be too similar to Quake 2. In fact, this game reminds me entirely of 2005's version of Quake 2. There's nothing new here. The game even has BFG (Big Fucking Gun) which was originally came from Quake 2. Activision needs to come up with something new like Half Life 2 did. I returned the game as well.

Rome: Total War

9/10

Awesome stragety game. It's similar to Civilization 3 (Best game ever) only this time, you can actually zoom in to command your armies in battles. If that's not your preferences, you can simply have the battle automatically resolved. You can also manage each region, your empire and each cities. You can move your armies around, build buildings. It's like Age of Empires and Civilization 3 put together.

Halo 2

8/10

The visuals are stunning and there is a great story line. But it kinda gets boring after awhile when you're doing nothing but shooting, running over alien baddies with your vehicles. It would be great if there were puzzles or problesm to resolve. The thing that sucks about the game that there's too many zombies, especially little critters. Half life 2 has those but it doesn't over-do it as Halo series does. I haven't had the chance to play multiplayer at all, so I can't comment on that much. It's obvious that Halo 3 is going to be coming out and I'm definately am going to buy it since I want to see the end of the story.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2

9/10

Excellent role playing game. It's a pretty long game and I've already played it 4 or 5 times already. I'm not much of a RPG fan before I purchased KOTOR and now, I'm looking out for RPG games. The game also lets you manage your characters extensively, including what skills to learn, what items to wear, use, purchase or sell. It'll be great if the next game in the series will be something of MMORPG

Mercenaries

8/10

Take GTA: Miami and Military hardware together and what do you get? That's right, Mercenaries. The game has excellent replay value, it lets me run around and blow shits up without having to worry about missions. The visuals are great, music sucks, did I mention you could blow shits up? Even with tanks? Helicopters? Artillery?

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Guild Wars
Great game so far. Only about 3 hours into it. What the fuck is up with a max party size of 2 at the beginning?

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Very good single player campaign. Much wittier dialogue this time around. Co-op multiplay is buggy as fuck.

Jade Empire
Another great from Bioware. Loved every minute of it.

Advance Wars 2
Excellent way to spend the workday.

Lego Star Wars
Fun game all around. Great to play with a friend. Lots of replayability value.

Games I am too broke to afford right now but will post reviews of when I can:

Brothers in Arms
Stronghold 2
World at War
Dungeon Lords

nico

id is the developer of both Doom and Quake. And the bfg was in doom first. http://www.idsoftware.com/

Destrox

WoW - 8 / 10
Mega Man X8 - 9 / 10

And thats it in the last 6 months I'd say. Pretty sad, but its just to hard to be a gamer as a senior in college.

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FXRS

Never really got into console games. PC games I play are pretty limited.

I did play Half Life2 and found it very enjoyable. Fustrating at times but fun.

I fly alot of Microsoft Flight Sim.

My favorite though is Nascar Racing Series from Sierra/Papyrus. Raced in several online leagues. Raced against Dale Jr. and others several times.

hulk

RE4 still has me by the balls, I love it. 100/10.
Metroid Prime 2 is begging for me to play again, as well.

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sub zero

I have been playing FFXI alot and aside from what most people say, it really is a very solid MMORPG. So much to do and see you just gotta get yourself into the game.
Bought Bleach Video Game for my PSP. Seeing as how I am a fan of the series it is kinda biased to say that I like the game. Its good because its quick, easy to pick up, and can be challeneging to play. The problems are that there are only 6 characters to choose from and unless you know how to read kana, you won't have any idea whats going on in the story mode. Still its a great buy if you like the series or heavily anime influenced games.

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NeverBorn

Psychonauts..loved it

Bacchanal

I almost exclusively play on my PS2, though I also own an Xbox and (obviously) a computer, I've just never really got into those games.

Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition - I bought this game strictly because of a thread here, and was not disappointed one bit until I'd beat everything. Now there isn't much to do except race races that I'm almost guaranteed to win. It was extremely fun, but a bit too short.

I'm always, always, always plating Socom 2 online. This game never gets old, as gameplay changes everytime you play. The very best, and most fun game I've ever played, just as far as the online play goes. I've played a couple missions in the regular mode, but it isn't nearly as fun to me.

Mr.Deflok

Guild Wars
****
Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition
****
The Punisher
***
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
***
Star Wars LEGO
***
Pariah
**
Street Racing Syndicate
**
Jade Empire
***
Forza Motorsport
****
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (yet another run through)
*****
Resident Evil 4
****
Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat
***
Haunting Ground
***
Brothers in Arms
***

But there's still more...

Porkchop

mercanaries and cold fear im playing at the minute

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Eight

Joint op's - 9/10 Best Multiplayer FPS out there for me . For big scale warfare is great. Even with the bugs.

Battle for Middle earth 6/10 Nice looking RTS but is very repetitive. They could have added a few more units. You can complete each map (well apart from one or 3) by using the same plan.

jwoody

I'd like to see that on the cover of of the budget priced re-release.

I'd also have to agree with the rest of your review.

Church

American McGee Presents: Scrapland

Awesome game. Just what I needed. A fun, happy, beautiful looking game for $4.99.

8.5/10

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Derwood

I just got Halo and Halo2 as gifts.

I'm only on level 3 of Halo, and maybe I suck at FPS, but DAMN is this a pain. The infrequency of save points is extremely frustrating, especially if you happen to hit a save point with very little energy or ammo, and are stuck restarting that section over and over in that state. Too many Elites in the early levels, especially where I am, when one well thrown plasma grenade is the end of the level for you.

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Nancy

I finally got my hands on Super Mario Kart from England *jumps with joy*

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MexicanOnABike

right now, i'm playing BURNOUT 3:TAKEDOWN.
i must say it's super fun!
it's a racing game but not too realistic. this is arcade.. the fun part is the crashing: you race and everytime you make someone crash, you get burnout(nitro/nos) and in the Crash mode, you must crash into trafic and cause the most damage(it's not random or luck... you actualy control the car when its crashing).
it's also pretty long for a game! the multi player is awesome.(i didnnt try online yet)

burnout3: takedown (ps2)
graphics: 9
replayability: 9 (theres over 173 race)
sounds: 9 (music is greaT!)
total: 9 out 10

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MexicanOnABike

second game i got for the ps2 was Amplitude.
it's the sequel to Frequency(a game i never played). it's a simple puzzle(arcade) game where you drive a spaceship in a tunnel. in the tunnel, theres a bunch of tracks with nodes on them. you must shoot the nodes at the right time to activate the track. once you activate the track, you move on to the next one. simple? now the tracks are music tracks.. . so you get a drum, vocal, guitar, bass, etc... tracks and you play to a specific song. so the level will last about 4min. depending on the dif.level, you'll get more nods on each tracks. if you miss a nod, you loose that sequence and you must change tracks or wait for the sequence to end before starting again... once you beat a few levs, you get powerups on the tracks taht do a bunch of stuff like 2x, freestyle, etc.. theres more to it but thats the basics of it... i musta played that game for 10hrs strait when i got it!! it's the best arcade/puzzle game i played in my life. (altough some of you might not like it... it does get repetitive)

Amplitude(ps2)
graphics: 9 (they're as nice as can be for a puzzle game!)
replayability: 10 (it's as addictive as tetris)
sounds: 10 (it's based on music.. and it's awesome music)
total: 9.7 out 10

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MexicanOnABike

it's too bad that theres not a way to just connect a keyboard and a mouse to the ps2 cuz it woulda made GTA:san andreas way better!!
my gf bought me this game so i tried it.... i was very dissapointed. the control setting sucks for the game. so i cant give it a good review. just that i will get it on the PC.

san andreas(ps2)
controls: 2
overall gameplay: probably a 10
total: 6

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MexicanOnABike

supermonkey ball deluxe (ps2)
graphics: 7.5 (allright for the ps2... coulda been better)
replayability: 9 (with all the levs and the minigame, you could play forever)
sounds: 6 (too childish and some sounds are downright anoying)
total: 7.5 out 10

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RogueHunter65

I just played Guild Wars yesterday. I thought it was okay

Id give it an 6.5 out of 10

It got a lower score because it didnt really have anything new to offer. It was just like any MMORPG. Also, it didnt have many races or classes. The game is very quest oriented and you can only get skills through doing those quests.

I will say that it was cool that you could just click on a city to travel to it, cuts down on the running around time.

Its not bad, but not that good either

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Derwood

I just picked up some Game Cube games for my brother-in-law at a garage sale. $3 each. Got him LOTR: The Two Towers, Gauntlet Dark Something (?) and Pokemon Colisseum. Don't know if they are any good, but 3 for $9 was worth the gamble.

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irateplatypus

only a quarter the way through it, but...

Resident Evil 4 for good ol' Gamecube is pretty amazing.

i've tried to get into this genre before... but RE4 is the first one that has fully integrated the GAMEPLAY with the presentation/atmosphere. the graphics are amazing and such that cutscenes are brief and excecuted on the fly. the audio is great: not much in the way of music... but the sound effects are top-notch. the continuity of the gameplay (versus just working your way from cut-scene to cut-scene) coupled with the ridiculously polished audio/video presentation makes for an engrossing experience.

i'll catch myself leaning forward or wincing in anticipation of the crazy thing that surely must be around the corner. anyone who knows me would say this is very unplatypus-like... so i think that is a testament to the game itself.

control is the only glaring shortcoming. there is no reason not to have analog movement in this day and age. it's baffling why capcom chose to incorporate digital character movement over an analog input device. you get used to it... eventually. certainly could be improved.

10/10 in sub-areas such as storyline, graphics, sound fx...

9/10 overall for this unbelievable game. goes right alongside metroid prime, wind waker and soul calibur for must-have titles.

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Robaggio

HL2: 10/10
Metal Gear Solid 3: 10/10
Halo 2: 3/10
Doom 3: 7/10
Metroid Prime 2: 5/10
Devil May Cry 3: 9/10
Latest Resident Evil for Gamecube: 9/10
Guild Wars: 6/10
World of Warcraft 5/10
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: 2/10
Jade Empire: 6/10

CandyLover

Everquest 2 9/10
I like everything about this game. Good challange. Good Graphics. Great game play. Only flaw i didnt appreciate to much is theres nothing in the at all u can do alone you have to have a group for everything. gets kind of aggravating at times.

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Need For Speed :Underground

10/10

I love it so much I have bet it like 4 times but I use different cars everytime. and I can keep playing it

World Or Warcraft

20/10

Im addicted and well thats all I can say!

Lunatic

Guild Wars 8/10
I really love this game and best of all its free, Im really looking foward to the company updating it with newer worlds and stuff, Cause this game is very fun.

shadowalker

I just picked up Far Cry for 5 bucks USD in a clearance bin. I'm sure you all have checked it out so i'll just give it a 9/10 sence i'm only on the frist lvl still.

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DukeNukem4ever

Morrowind GOTYE (with only the best mods installed)

FreeLancer (once again, with only the best of mods installed)

Whenever I get bored with them I just download a new mod and I'm good to go!

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Church

I just broke down and picked up Zelda Windwaker on recommendation by many friends. I must say, its a great game. I'm a little stuck, but I'm sure if I sit down I can get past this part no problem, lol.

8.5/10

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bookerV

I picked up Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory, and I must say it is a VERY sweet game. If you are into the stealth action games this one is a must. I'm not usually into this type of game too often, but this one has definitely drawn me in.

9/10.

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Cuatela

Just got Air Force Delta Strike for $8.35 from EBG. Fairly nice, although I think I like Ace Combat 5's gameplay and menu better. People and dialogue is a nice difference though, as well as the option to choose different pilots.

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Aladdin Sane

I bought Pirates! and that was a big mistake. BORING. 2/10
HL 2 8/10
I've been thinking about buying Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory.

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guthmund

Funny you should mention Chaos Theory.

I just bought it today and the game is fan-friggin-tastic.

It's just so pretty. The AI is a lot smarter than in the previous incarnations and the little things they added (like the knife and all the cool things to do with the knife ) make this like a whole new game for me.

I've yet to delve too deeply into the co-op mode, but what I have seen is spectacular.

Definately 10/10. The best game to come out on the X-box in the six months.

I delve the bargain bins and pawn shops, no doubt about it. All these games ran me $40 all together.

#2 - Morrowind : Elder scrolls something...something.. (I don't have it sitting in front of me) Kind of a hassle getting started, but pretty cool nonetheless. As I understand it the more you put in the more you get out. I haven't put much in, so, I can't say. So, I'll stick it with a 6/10.

#3 Simpsons : Hit and Run. Pawnshop beauty at $10 and it's certainly worth it. The dialogue is very, very funny and all the inside jokes are a big treat for me as I'm a big Simpsons fan. It's just too cool driving Mr. Plow around and bashing....well, everything. The driving is fun, but kind of glitchy....so, 8/10

#4 Medal of Honor : Rising Sun. I bought it for the gamecube because it was getting lonely. The co-op was a nice change as I don't see it too often. Fun to play through once or twice, but the controls were awkward and the level design was....well, it wasn't all that good. I got lost in a shack in the Phillipines for 20 minutes because I couldn't find my way out the poorly lit maze. Not to mention all the extra stuff, which was hard to find and really didn't pay off...at all. 4/10

#5 Last but not least, Fable. Kind of a cool idea and fun to play through, but it gets pretty tiresome playing through it more than once. I mean, I do the same stuff if I'm a great hero or an evil slug and it matters not a bit. It's a very pretty game and could have been really good, but it just didn't sit all that well with me even though it's spectacularly pretty. Good idea, just poorly implemented. 7/10

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t3m3st

I just got my vacation pay and spent it at EB. Here's the rundown:

Tekken 5 for PS2

By no means perfect, it's a great improvement on 4. The got rid of all of 4's flaws, and it feels like a sequal to Tekken 3. It has the visual look and feel of Tekken 3, which is one of my all time fav games. Also, it has Tekken 1, 2 and 3, so bonus. The new single player platform toss-in, Devil Within, feels like a rush job with repetitive tasks and textures that make every level seems the same. The arcade mode is fun, and lets you compete against computer controlled opponents of different skill levels, as you fight to raise your rank and to raise money to buy extras. My big complaint is that the final boss is just too unballanced. He can kill you in 3 unblockable and often unavoidable hits. "But so can alot of characters", you say? He does it on easy mode.
This game though, is great in arcade mode, and though it has it's flaws, these will probably be the best graphics we'll see on PS2. The good REALLY outweighs the bad.


I'll give it 8/10


Rebel Assault 2: Rouge Leader for GCN

I've been waiting for the used price on this game to drop since I bought my cube in 2002. I finally forked over the $20 and picked it up (damn I'm cheap) and I enjoyed it alot. I had bought RA3 on release, and hated it. This was the game I should have bought. If just for the first level, the Battle of Yavin, this game is worth it for a Star Wars fan. If you like this sort of thing. I've got friends who are fans of XvT who hate Rebel Assault with a passion.

I'll give this 8/10 too.

Guild Wars

I love it. Everything I hated about p2p mmo's is fixed here. Sometimes I forget though that if I'm out questing, my friends can't just walk out and play with me.

I'm gonna say 8/10 here too... broken record much?

Metal Gear Solid 3 for PS2

Waited for this game for so long. Bought it copied, but there's a problem with my chipped ps2, so i can't play copies. Guy that was gonna fix it for me got shut down, so I finally bought MGS3. I haven't played it yet because I'm too lazy to get up and take Tekken out. Nice box art though. I'll give the box art 8/10 for the hell of it.

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RubenBaraja

Just started Oddworld Strangers Wrath.

Any thoughts on this? Looks okay from what I have played however I am still only upto the Tutorials.

CBlend

Yoshi Touch and Go ----> 9/10
Wario Ware: Twisted! ----> 8/10
Resident Evil 4 ----> 10/10

All three are awesome!

lpj8

Finally got around to play Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
It starts out pretty slow, but after the first chapter, it picks up, and has some great subplots with a ton of humor.
The gameplay is fun, and leveling your players up is very satisfying. Its also rather long, and provides a great challenge.
I'd give it a 9 out of 10

hulk

Donkey Konga! I have two sets of bongos, got both the Jungle Beat and Donkey Konga packs. And goddamn, it's fun! Go buy now!

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Slayer

Jade Empire. The game amazing with a great battle system and graphic.

Half Life 2. Finally got the game. I Had been playing counterstike source non stop lol.

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