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$7.50 Games.
May. 21st, 2006 07:09 amA while back, Game Crazy had a clearance sale for their PS2 games discounted below $19.99: buy two, get two free. So I ended up with four games at an average of $7.50 each.
Game Totally Worth $7.50: Evil Dead: Regeneration
The people who said that voice acting doesn't sell videogames never played this one. Everything about this title is mediocre except for the voice work by Bruce Campbell and Ted Raimi which is honestly some of the best in all the videogames I've played. It makes everything else about the game better.
Game Totally Not Worth $7.50: Fugitive Hunter: War on Terror
I know; you're asking, "You bought a came called 'War on Terror' and you're going to complain?" Well, yes, I am. I bought the game expecting a bad game. I expected unreality. I expected sloppy controls. I expected racism disguised as patriotism. I expected illogical spawning. (Okay, I didn't expect the spawning, but I wasn't surprised by it.) But I bought the game anyway because, though I try to keep it in check, I do love my irony.
And yet, with my expectations so lowered, how could the game disappoint me? The developer sells the game by saying you can "grapple with each fugitive and force them to submit to your iron grip." But what this really means is that at the end of each level, after mowing down anything in your path with your Bullets of Self-Justifying White America, you have to "capture the fugitive alive." Therefore, you put away all of your weapons and engage in hand-to-hand combat. Now, I'm no good at good fighters, and I'm even worse at broken fighters. Oh, broken game, I just want to kill people who sound and look different from me. Why must you force me to try to kickbox them when your controls don't respond? I have a rocket launcher, and I promise I'll scrape up enough of the remains for the coroner to make a positive ID.
FriWSJX: 15. SunNYTX: 17:15.
Game Totally Worth $7.50: Evil Dead: Regeneration
The people who said that voice acting doesn't sell videogames never played this one. Everything about this title is mediocre except for the voice work by Bruce Campbell and Ted Raimi which is honestly some of the best in all the videogames I've played. It makes everything else about the game better.
Game Totally Not Worth $7.50: Fugitive Hunter: War on Terror
I know; you're asking, "You bought a came called 'War on Terror' and you're going to complain?" Well, yes, I am. I bought the game expecting a bad game. I expected unreality. I expected sloppy controls. I expected racism disguised as patriotism. I expected illogical spawning. (Okay, I didn't expect the spawning, but I wasn't surprised by it.) But I bought the game anyway because, though I try to keep it in check, I do love my irony.
And yet, with my expectations so lowered, how could the game disappoint me? The developer sells the game by saying you can "grapple with each fugitive and force them to submit to your iron grip." But what this really means is that at the end of each level, after mowing down anything in your path with your Bullets of Self-Justifying White America, you have to "capture the fugitive alive." Therefore, you put away all of your weapons and engage in hand-to-hand combat. Now, I'm no good at good fighters, and I'm even worse at broken fighters. Oh, broken game, I just want to kill people who sound and look different from me. Why must you force me to try to kickbox them when your controls don't respond? I have a rocket launcher, and I promise I'll scrape up enough of the remains for the coroner to make a positive ID.
FriWSJX: 15. SunNYTX: 17:15.