MarxTheLenin
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2012
Max Payne 3 is still a good game but some decisions by Rockstar were odd. Especially the retcons from the events in Max Payne 2. Dunno... it feels odd to me how they tried to brush the events from the 2nd game as unimportant.
It feels like a Rockstar Game from its writing, details, style and dialogue. I never heard Max in such an aggressive way but maybe he became just cynical after all the shit he's been through with alcohol and substance abuse. It has its problems but it's still a very good game in my eyes as the game mechanics and the cover system are damn satisfying and every move Max makes feels heavy and weighty.
It feels like a Rockstar Game from its writing, details, style and dialogue. I never heard Max in such an aggressive way but maybe he became just cynical after all the shit he's been through with alcohol and substance abuse. It has its problems but it's still a very good game in my eyes as the game mechanics and the cover system are damn satisfying and every move Max makes feels heavy and weighty.
It's basically Quick time Events-The Game but for an interactive documentary... it's far from bad but it's also far from good. Legends of Wrestlemania lets you play some matches from Wrestlemania 1 to 15. Kinda cool to see how the showcase mode as a concept came to life here before establishing itself in WWE 13. The roster is also pretty good although some wrestlers like Roddy Piper look weird.
All in all... I had a bit fun with it but it fades in comparison to the SvR-Series, which is actually a totally different game with a different system.
All in all... I had a bit fun with it but it fades in comparison to the SvR-Series, which is actually a totally different game with a different system.
2002
Short but sweet, a little bit too much Style over Substance but it oozes with charme from the animation studio Madhouse. Feels kinda like an arcade experience even if it tries more. What starts as a crime killing spree à Woo and Rodriguez becomes a wtf-experience in the end. Some bosses were pretty meh and kinda unfair but the scope of Destruction was pretty damn cool for its time. Yeah. I give this a thumbs up!
Kane & Lynch 2 is close to art. Really REALLY close to fucked up art. From the first second onward the game establishes, that the whole world of Kane & Lynch is just fucked. The places are dirty, unrecognizable, smeary and full with blood and bodies in the back-alleys. The ending of the first game showed our scumbags on a really low level... but the downward spiral just continues in this cover-shooter. Absolutely disgusting, but man does this game stick with me after all this time.
2023
2K23 gives an interesting spin in the showcase Mode and shows John Cena's greatest.... DEFEATS! Yeah. No joke! I dig the fighting system and the animations of all the wrestlers. The roster is pretty stacked, too and yeah... Shit's good!
I definitely didn't expect that the sequel to the great Condemned: Criminal Origins goes this way.
Some missions WERE FRUSTRATING as the combo-system is just too slow for some enemies. Some boss fights sucked immensely (looking at you Harley Quinn-wannabe in the doll factory with exploding baby dolls) but some sequences were so damn crazy, that it was fun as hell (the bear in the lodge). I wasn't expecting so much shooting, too but it was pretty satisfying. Yeah the story cranks the insanity up to 11 but did I hate it? Nah... I was just a bit sad that the sequel was turning the crime investigation part lower and lower as the game is nearing the finale.
Gotta say. I love both games. <3
Some missions WERE FRUSTRATING as the combo-system is just too slow for some enemies. Some boss fights sucked immensely (looking at you Harley Quinn-wannabe in the doll factory with exploding baby dolls) but some sequences were so damn crazy, that it was fun as hell (the bear in the lodge). I wasn't expecting so much shooting, too but it was pretty satisfying. Yeah the story cranks the insanity up to 11 but did I hate it? Nah... I was just a bit sad that the sequel was turning the crime investigation part lower and lower as the game is nearing the finale.
Gotta say. I love both games. <3
Good game but SCREW THAT SNIPER MISSION IN FRANCE AND THE D-DAY MISSION! It's agonizing! The character feels pretty slow in changing weapons etc. BUT the gunplay is still fun. Stealth on the other hand... is pretty bad but well the game is 20 freaking years old so I guess that's a thing. Some missions were really entertaining and some felt pretty bad designed but it was overall pretty fun.
It's definitely an idtech-shooter but it layed a foundation of WWII-shooters on PC to come.
It's definitely an idtech-shooter but it layed a foundation of WWII-shooters on PC to come.
WHY WEREN'T THESE IDEAS IN THE MAIN GAME? WHY?
That was much much more interesting than everything the main game offered and well... the ending was a huge middle finger to the franchise and probably even to EA.
They tried to improve the game, but did they succeed? Not really to be honest...
That was much much more interesting than everything the main game offered and well... the ending was a huge middle finger to the franchise and probably even to EA.
They tried to improve the game, but did they succeed? Not really to be honest...
A nice little puzzle game. Yeah. That's it. Nothing more and nothing less.
2005
This is a fascinating approach to a portable Spider-Man game, as this one is pretty much Spider-Man 1.5.
It takes the gameplay from the first game and puts it in the environment of the second film, which pretty much works. :D
I dig these odd ports!
It takes the gameplay from the first game and puts it in the environment of the second film, which pretty much works. :D
I dig these odd ports!
This became one of my recent faves. If you can: Play the 360-version on a newer Xbox-Console. It works so much better than the weird PC-Port.
Condemned is a gem of gritty crime-stories, which just turns absolutely crazy in the end and MY GOD... the shopping mall haunts me till this day. Those freaking mannequins...
I love the grounded approach on the investigation and the fighting is also damn fun. Monolith are really a hidden champion when it comes to their games!
Condemned is a gem of gritty crime-stories, which just turns absolutely crazy in the end and MY GOD... the shopping mall haunts me till this day. Those freaking mannequins...
I love the grounded approach on the investigation and the fighting is also damn fun. Monolith are really a hidden champion when it comes to their games!
2013
My god, I REALLY want to like this game but man... EA really choked the life out of this IP with their stupid decisions. Isaac and Ellie don't even make sense after all they've been through on Dead Space 2. Dunno... Dead Space 3 became so generic it hurts.
Wanted: Weapons of Fate is like the movie. Senseless, stupid, edgy as hell but MY GOD I love this!
The shooting is really repetitive but this game is fortunately short and doesn't overstay its welcome unlike Terminator: Salvation made by the same team, which is boring as hell.
The PC Port needs some fixing but it plays well on modern hardware and hey... it has a longer ending than the console versions, which caught me off guard!
The shooting is really repetitive but this game is fortunately short and doesn't overstay its welcome unlike Terminator: Salvation made by the same team, which is boring as hell.
The PC Port needs some fixing but it plays well on modern hardware and hey... it has a longer ending than the console versions, which caught me off guard!
Miles better than the PS2 version. BY FAR!
2001
Stone Cold Classic!
Max Payne is still an awesome game even with some iffy shootouts. 21 Years... time flies by fast... damn.
Many games tried to copy this one but the genius combination of a noir story, comic panels and Hong Kong Bullet Time Shootouts is still a sight to behold!
A Must-Play!
Max Payne is still an awesome game even with some iffy shootouts. 21 Years... time flies by fast... damn.
Many games tried to copy this one but the genius combination of a noir story, comic panels and Hong Kong Bullet Time Shootouts is still a sight to behold!
A Must-Play!