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Xbox 360 Green Wireless Controller – is it any better?

As I now have two copies of Street Fighter IV (PS3 and 360 version), I am fully aware how wank the 360 controller is for fighting games. I am 100% accurate when I say the DualShock3/ Sixaxis controller is much better than the Xbox 360 Controller.

One of the controller’s problems is it’s weak D-Pad so what do Microsoft do about it? They go release Limited Edition controller with a revised D-Pad with much better precession. The real question is though, is it any better? Yes and No

The D-Pad is much better than the original 360 controller, especially for Street Fighter IV. I found it a lot easier to execute directional attacks such as the Hadokens, Shoryukens etc but the controller on whole still is utter wank. The A,B,Y and X buttons are not flat which instead as some stupid round feel to them which makes linking combos difficult. It also doesn’t help that Ultra Combos require three punch or kick buttons which can be annoying when you can’t execute it right.

Originally released to coincide with Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, it does make playing games which require accurate execution from the D-Pad better but doesn’t help that much. Your best to just get an Arcade Stick for Street Fighter IV and HD Remix.

Finally, I don’t understand why this is a Limited Edition controller!? It’s green fair enough but wouldn’t it usually be a smart idea to implement a revised design of a device into future releases? No according to Microsoft. You’ll be very lucky to find one of these around. I managed to pick mine up for £30 months after it was released.

The DualShock 3 is still miles better than the Xbox 360 Controller. Period

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WTF Moment!

Hey everyone. I’ve hardly been online but I am back now!

Okay, so I am working and decide to browse through some DVDs and I come across a movie by the name “Los Debutantes”. The movie itself I don’t really care about but what really concerns me is Maxim Magazine’s opinion of the film.

“Darker, sexier and more brutal than a panther in a push-up bra”

So let’s get this straight. A panther is one of those animals you don’t want to encounter in your life and this film is more brutal and sexier than a Panther but wearing a push up bra?! Yes, that is what it says on the DVD front cover of this film. If I saw a Panther right now, I’d be shitting bricks but wearing a Bra, I’d be really concerned and scared. Maxim’s quotation of the film doesn’t make any fucking sense. Seriously, it helps if people were more constructive with their English!

It’s clearly the most stupid thing I have ever heard the media come out with, that quote takes the Gold medal!

How to defeat Sonic Unleashed in 3 minutes

Here is a simple guide on how to defeat Sonic Unleashed within 3 minutes if you have had enough of giving the game and Sonic Team a chance. This game is really poor and SEGA need to stop adding crappy gameplay such as Werehog, Shadow having guns. Sonic doesn’t work going slow!
Enjoy the video

REVIEW: Sonic Unleashed (PLAYSTATION©3)

Sonic the Hedgehog has been a part of my life and was one of the first games I played when I got into Computer Games. Sonic in the Sega Mega Drive days was fantastic and ever since SEGA became a software developer, the Sonic games produced have been from mediocre to crap. Sonic Unleashed according to SEGA is their attempt to revive Sonic to it’s roots but I can tell it sadly fails and it’s very disappointing, their Marketing Department seem to do their job of promoting the game but the game itself does a half arsed effort of being a good, enjoyable and fun game. The question that plays on most people’s mind, “Is it better than Sonic 2006?” Well it’s nearly as bad.

Sonic Unleashed has all the necessities of a platform game. Exploration, Jumping, Action, game play and new worlds but it’s all a mess. Sonic Unleashed is two game play elements, Sonic the Hedgehog which consists of very fast game play offering classic 2D & 3D elements whilst Sonic the Werehog is a new form that Sonic has acquired thanks to Dr.Eggman being an asshole. When the sun sets,  Sonic becomes a werehog but as Yahtzee said, Werehog doesn’t make any sense due to “Were” meaning Man in English so a pretty stupid name for a stupid character which no one wants to play as.

Sorry, did this game WANT to be Kingdom Hearts?

Sonic Team must have sent most of their budget on the introduction movie for this game since that is one of the few positives I can say about this game. That’s okay for people who like Metal Gear [bad joke] but for those who want a decent and fun rewarding game, Sonic Team have failed once again and after playing this game for about a week, I can understand why the game has had such mixed reviews. It simply isn’t good, its a terrible game.

Another character for 4Kids to attach an awful voice to

I’ll start with what Sonic Team did right this time. The graphics look stunning, the intro movie in CGI is also stunning, most of Sonic’s recent friends are NOT in this game sticking to the main Mega Drive crew such as Amy, Tails but I guess I can blame 4Kids for making Sonic and friends sound really annoying with the exception of Eggman. The humans have a cartoon feel in this game which gets the thumbs up from me, it just looked odd in the last game and I didn’t like the graphic style for the previous game. There is also a lot less glitches than before which is a good thing and a great soundtrack but you will soon learn that it doesn’t save this game. That’s all for positives from me. Now to tell you what Sonic Team did wrong.

I’ll sum it up in a few words. Inconsistent, frustrating, lack of reward, difficult, boring and annoying. If word about a game matches any of those characteristics, you can bet it won’t sell well and Sonic Unleashed is all of that. The Daytime levels although they capture the speed which Sonic is renowned for,  the speed  is way too quick thus making it near impossible or very difficult to get an S Grade on the Sonic the Hedgehog levels. The Jumping is inconsistent which is extremely annoying when trying to complete the levels and thanks to the jump, I lost 67 lives due to the jumping being so shit. The Sonic game play even though it has it’s fair problems is sadly the only decent game play  in this entire game and you don’t spend much time in the day! If you can get a S rank on every level you are either

• A Sonic fanboy who doesn’t listen to the criticism
• You cheated or
• A freak [don't be offended]

Sonic Team decided to be very annoying and add something which takes ages to complete…..RPG elements! That’s right! You only paid for Sonic at a basic speed, he can go faster! As long as you kill robots or those dark Kingdom Hearts Heartless ripoffs, he can shove experience up his ass and become better but it isn’t rewarding since you spent half your time leveling up the Werehog which is fucking boring.

Now Sonic the Werehog is the main reason this game sucks so hard. It is nothing but a simple ripoff from some good titles such as Kingdom Hearts (Heartless – Dark Gaia fragment things), God of War (game play) and it doesn’t feel rewarding nor good when playing the Werehog. I like the level music on the Night Levels until you engage in fighting when some Jazzy shit attacks your ears and it is so annoying. I was looking forward to Sonic Unleashed but once again their marketing department made trailers which aroused me like when a sexy woman attacks your hormones so you find them attractive. This game is like a one night stand, it looks good, you do it and then your done in the morning but with Sonic Unleashed you regret spending time with it, investing in it but you can let someone else experience the same shit by parting with it.

Oh you dirty beast

The voice acting as usual rapes your ears with awful voices. One of the many things 4Kids does so well is to get a new Sonic character and make them sound like an annoying little shit. Chip is the latest victim of the notable abuse from 4Kids, every time I hear his voice I want to punch his face and up his head off. Thankfully you can change it to Japanese where your provided magical subtitles, granted it isn’t my language but its bare able. I personally don’t think I can trust Sonic Team nor SEGA when they say their latest Sonic game is going to be good. Games TM quote on the back cover of the box art,

“The best Sonic Game ever conceived, not to mention one of the greatest 2D Sonics as well”

Well I and many other gamers can agree that the statement is bullshit. PR, straight from the rectum bullshit. The best 2D Sonic in my humble opinion is Sonic CD. It looks stunning, has fantastic game play, possibly one of the best video game soundtracks I’ve ever heard [Japanese Version], simple game play but most importantly it improved on the first game a lot and doesn’t provide any bullshit like Sonic Unleashed. One of the most important factors of a good platform game is exploration. The 16 Bit Sonic games did that brilliantly, you could explore for Rings, Special Stage Rings, Switches, Lives, Shields, shortcuts going in a straight line, up, down, left, right. That is what made Sonic fun back in the day and Sonic Unleashed in the daytime levels is so linear and shallow that it DOESN’T TOUCH the 2D games on being a great game. So when GAMES TM said that, they were either

• Chatting from their anus
• Paid by SEGA to say something good
• It was either from a preview build
• They must have been smoking weed

This is the best 2D Sonic game, play this and not Unleashed

Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 got exploration right! You still went around levels looking for essentials such as animals or power ups for Chaos, Rings, shortcuts, power ups, etc. and you were rewarded for your efforts such as emblems or leveling up your Chao. That is the simple reward in Sonic Adventure which works and makes people happy. At the same time you did levels and collected power ups, you were rewarded by progressing through the main story, your Chao gets stronger and your rewarded an emblem. Sonic Unleashed is so shallow. It gets many things wrong which just ends up pissing off the gamer. There is exploration in both game play mechanics. In Daytime, you either see it and go so fast past it that you miss it and in the Nighttime, the exploration is there which is great but the Werehog is so boring, slow and not Sonic at all. The reward in Sonic Unleashed? Your rewarded with nothing but frustration and disappointment. I will be very shocked if this game sells well in Japan next month as there is much better offerings.

Don’t get this game nor play it. You will feel ripped off and depressed that you invested your time and money in Sonic Unleashed. I did and I would recommend that you buy Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection next month for PS3 and Xbox 360. That way I hope SEGA get the fucking message that the simple game play mechanics which made their games successful in the 90’s doesn’t need to be molested with some shit transformation in the form of a Werehog and with such shit reward. Don’t buy this game at all, please.

Overall: Don’t buy at all costs

Mock The Week- Russell’s Media Rant

I remember watching this a few months ago and sadly Russell Howard has a valid point.

SCEI are still screwing over their local multiplayers

A long time ago, I used to hate it when 360 used to discuss about achievements and how they would buy mediocre games just to get more points but now that the PLAYSTATION3 has trophies, I have now got suckered into this new trend of achievements/trophies and enjoy the reward of completing a certain requirement.

However, there is one tiny problem for the PS3 system which the Xbox 360 has no problem whatsoever. On the Xbox 360, you and your friends can get achievements together despite the number of Xbox Live users are logged in locally on one console. The PS3 however only allows one user to log in at once so if you happen to be on the trophy hunt with my friends, only one of them is going to be happy whilst everyone else is left with no rewards.

I complained about only one PSN username logging into the console when Warhawk was released in August 2007 and my brother who has a PSN account wanted to be ranked on stats but can only play on his own or as a guest account of the main PSN user for example rockmanjoey(2). This is quite a shame as Sony have worked hard to get the PlayStation Network where it is right now and one small thing hasn’t been addressed yet for the local players which is to able to log into the PSN with multiple accounts.

However, it could be quite complex to fix but I would like to see it happen. LittleBigPlanet has some idea what I want but the other local players still don’t get trophies nor they are signed in. So I ask SCEI, please sort this out! Please!

LittleBigPlanet for under £20 on Amazon!

LittleBigPlanet is one of the best games I have played all year and it’s lived up to my expectations! If you have a PLAYSTATION3 and still haven’t picked this up yet, I ask

“What the hell are you waiting for!?”

For under £20!? BUY IT!

Anyway, it has come to my attention that Amazon are selling the game for £19.70 [at time of posting news] so if you want a triple A title for the price of a Platinum game with a lot of replay value, look no further and purchase LittleBigPlanet!

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Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Soundtrack OUT NOW!

The game has finally been released at long last and now the guys responsible for the soundtrack at OverClocked Remix have released the Soundtrack to the game and it’s available to download for FREE!

The soundtrack for this game is fantastic and really brings back the memories of the Street Fighter tunes of yesteryear. It is available in the flac and MP3 formats. The FLAC format is much better quality than MP3 and it is the first time I have ever downloaded a flac album and I have to say, it blows MP3 out of the water!

You can download it from here Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Official Soundtrack download [bittorrent]