Gaming Specs

The Saboteur

2009-12-05T12:31:00.002+08:00

The Saboteur is Pandemic's swan song. Since the studio was recently dissolved by its parent company, this is the last hurrah from the ambitious development house that brought us Mercenaries and Star Wars Battlefront. Like Mercenaries, The Saboteur is an open-world, sandbox game that benefits from an impressive scope but is noticeably rough around the edges.

The Saboteur has one of the more intriguing setups of any game this year. Players are thrust into Nazi occupied France and given the opportunity to turn the tide of the war one explosion at a time. The setting is both sexy and dangerous, with a colorful cast of characters that border on period-piece stereotypes. You take on the role of Sean Devlin, a hard drinking womanizer with a past who has fled his native Ireland to try his luck at race car driving in Grand Paris. Sean's main competition is an Aryan named Kurt Dierker who cheats his way to victory and provokes Sean to get even off of the race course. What starts as a prank against Dierker quickly escalates to a game of life and death and ensnares players in a blood oath to kill him and remove his Nazi brethren from the country.

Tekken 6 Released!

2009-12-01T13:37:00.002+08:00

Tekken 6 was released on October 27, 2009, for both the PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles, and was released on November 24, 2009 for the PSP. It is the sequel to Tekken 5 and Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection which have been well-received by fans of the Tekken fighting games. Katsuhiro Hirada, game director for Tekken 6 and previous Tekken games, said that the stages will be bigger and will have more interactivity, such as walls or floors that can be broken to reveal new fighting areas. The character customization feature has been enhanced, and will have implications in some aspects of gameplay.

A new "rage" system has been added, giving characters more damage per hit when their vitality is below a certain point. Once activated, a reddish energy aura appears around the character, and their health bar starts to flicker in red. The rage aura can be customized with different colors and effects to appear like fire, electricity, ice, among others.Another gameplay feature added is the "bound" system. Every character has several moves that, when used on an opponent that is currently midair in a juggle combo, will cause the opponent to be smashed hard into the ground, bouncing them off the floor in a stunned state and leaving them vulnerable to another combo or additional attack.

The console versions (excluding the PSP version) also include an extra mode entitled "Scenario Campaign" which bears similarities with the "Tekken Force" and "Devil Within" modes from previous installments. In this mode, the player can move freely in an environment similar to that of a third-person role-playing game. Players can also pick up weapons such as poles and gatling guns, along with lootable items, money, and power-ups which can be found inside crates that are scattered all throughout the playing environment. Players can move freely between fights, but when a group of enemies are encountered, the gameplay switches to the traditional, two-dimensional Tekken style. Currently, this mode can only be played offline, and by only one player. A future patch, however, will add online co-operative play for two players.

Both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game will include an online versus multiplayer mode over Playstation Network and Xbox Live respectively. Other features in the console versions include a toggle option for motion blur.

Source: http://wikipedia.org

Assassins Creed: Bloodlines

2009-12-01T10:21:00.000+08:00

I recently finished the Assassins Creed: Bloodlines game in my PSP. It's a short game consisting of about 5 to 6 boss fights.

You play the character of Altair, the assassin. He wields 3 kinds of weapons: Sword, Dagger, and the Hidden Knife in his right hand.

The game, for me, was nice. The storyline is great and the combat action and choreography is one of the best. Other than the controls in which I find hard to manipulate - specially when you bump to corners and edges - the game is great.

If you haven't tried this game out in your PSP, you should.