• 24Nov 07

  there she.......blows!? a review of undertow

  Undertow is nothing more than a rip tied that sucks money from you pockets. I don't like being negative on games, but honestly undertow is good for two things and two things only. I'll start with the pros.

  The best thing about undertow has to be the voice acting! Best yet for an arcade game, but than again I don't know many XBLA games with dialogue in them. Undertow has a very impressive and addicting multiplayer mode that allows for many players to join and I found finding a room with people to be quite easy. Now for the cons, and there are many.

  Con: number 1. Graphics: Undertow makes the unreal engine look 6 years old.

  Con: number 2. Size: Its true size matters and the characters of undertow are so small that they might as well be sea monkeys and the harpoons that you shoot are super tiny, and they disappear after 5 inches. Last time I checked a harpoon travels farther than 5 inches. If there is one thing that undertow is good being big with is both the $10 for this waste of time the file size is larger than normal cramping my 20 GB hard drive.

  Con: number 3. Lighting: even on the brightest setting undertow is still dark. Keeping it dark might just be a way of hiding how bad the graphics are.

  Con: number 4. Story: give me a pen and paper and 30 minutes and I can come up with a more original story with deeper and better plot. This story is written by an 8 year old who wants to be a pirate when he grows up.

  Con: number 5. Replay value: after getting the achievements there is no point in playing this game. Even multiplayer gets boring, you can only capture territories for some long until it gets dull.

  The only advice to give is playing the trail first! Don't be an idiot like my and buy it right away.

  And if you are like me and you do not like the game, let me be the first to say I told you so.

  • Posted Nov 24, 2007 8:05 pm PT
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• 20Nov 07

  bladerunner and whatnot?

  how can westwood mess up so bad on making what could be a great game. bladerunner is quite possiabley the great cult movie ever next to the rocky horror picture show... well i say damn it janet, to westwood. after watching the "new" bladerunner DVD which is only the origanal bladerunner shot at different camrea angles, i wanted my game so i went out and bought it hoping to get something out of it but it sucked because it was given to a crap studio who has never done and adventure game. i would want a big name company to make it, such as mircosoft or Ubisoft that way i would know it will turn out well because those companies don't make a half ass game. if you are to make bladerunner a game it better be a damn good game to go with a damn good movie. the most have would have to be the really voices, none of this half assed BS that scarface did by hiring someone who sounded like tony montana... where the heck is my boy al pacino?!

  anywho thats enough for now.

  until next time.

  --Liam

  forgive the spelling/grammar errors i'm a little tipsy.

  • Posted Nov 20, 2007 12:35 pm PT
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• 16Nov 07

  unlocked achievement, law and order, and Tivo!

  What do these three things have in common? Well it could be part of the fall update. The person next door to me invited me over to see or to hear one of the things that his Xbox can now do. He just so happens to work for Microsoft. We were playing a game and lo and behold this achievement sound was different!? It made the famous law and order sound that we all know, but don't know how to describe it. He then showed me that he could change the sound and the next thing I know I'm hearing the TiVo click sound as the new unlocked achievement sound. Could this be a real thing or just some mod that he was messing with? He refused to answer the question. We will have to wait and see or in this case hear.

  Until next time,

  -Danny

  • Posted Nov 16, 2007 9:44 am PT
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