Getting The Best TV for Gaming
When it comes to console gaming some TV’s are much better than other of the same price range and general quality. Finding one with a dedicated game mode on it helps, but if you want to make sure you get then take a look at this page on the Best Gaming TV for information on what to look for as well as reviews of 3 of the best LCD TV sets for console gaming.
Halo 3 ODST Review
This game is an expansion for last years Halo 3 game for the Xbox 360 to offer players a whole bunch of new features, but it is also a stand-alone so you get the full game and don’t need the original Halo 3 game to play it. ODST stands for Orbital Drop Shcok Trooper, which is the new hero which you get to play as for this expansion. There are also 3 new maps, making it up to a total of 24 maps in all as well as a new campaign in which your rooky trooper is separated from his squad and must search for clues as to where they are as well as to the reasons behind the Covenant’s invasion of New Mombasa, and of course there are new challenges for your new hero to complete.
You do get some advatages over people playing the original Halo 3 when you go into multiplayer mode, as you can complete acheivments to get new items, such Recon Armor which you can get by completing the road to Recon challenge. There are a total of 1,750 new Xbox LIVE achievement points for you to set your sites on.
There is also a new 4 player cooperative campaign mode that you can play over system link or xbox live with multiple environments to fight in, which is a nice alternative to the general mutliplayer game.
If you are a Halo 3 fan then this expansion is well worth getting, and if have not played it then you really should, as Halo 3 is definitely one of the best first person shooter games out there. Basically the story is based in the future inthe 26th century where there is a war between the United Nations Space Command and the alien federation of species callle the Covenant. You fight as a special forces marine, and there is some great action alongside an unfloding story which really draws you into the game.
I would give Halo a rating of 4 out of 5 stars - it would be five only I would have prefered the campaigns to be slightly harder, but if you’re already into playing Halo then I would give ODST 5 out of 5.
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Wet - Fighting Game for PS3 and Xbox 360
Released 5 days ago on the 15th of September 2009 Wet is great combination of sword fighting and shooting game and will surely be a popular choice of fighting game to buy as a Christmas gift. You take on the character of Rubi Malone, a mercenary for hire who takes on a job to find the missing son of a wealthy business man but is subsequently betrayed by her employer and drawn into a murky world of murder and warring factions. She finds herself on the run and searching for the man who hired her in the first place.
Wet has a retro style with 70’s music and visuals and with a fast paced and exciting, if slightly unimaginative storyline. One of the best parts of the game are all the acrobatic moves your character can and must do, which are challenging but work the way you intuitively feel that they should making it easy to react quickly and pull off some cool moves. You can also shoot while performing jumps, slides, while running and so on, which is good. The sword fighting comes with some great stylized combos with satisfying graphics, but are really just there as finnishing moves to make a kill when you get in close, making this basically a shooting game in my mind.
Going into ‘rage mode’ is quite entertaining as it changes the graphics of the whole game to black white and red with a Japanese anime style for as long as it lasts. Overall the graphics are one of the strong points of this game, with an emphasis on style rather than detail and realism.
Probably the main downside of Wet is the fact that it doesn’t have a multiplayer online feature, which means that when you’ve finnished the game it is finnished and you can’t keep playing by going online, but having said that there is a large amount of unlockable extra content to the main game, so it should keep you going for a fair while.
My rating - 4.5 out of 5
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