The After-Christmas Game Summary

Ok, over Christmas I've been able to get my hands on a few of the newer games I've mentioned in earlier blogs, and had time to play them and form an opinion on them! Here's how they stand:

Guitar Hero: World Tour:



Ok, This game was a little bit of a disappointment, after the great quality of it's predecessor, Guitar Hero 3. The new guitar controller features a touch pad which can be used to add a 'wah' effect to held notes, or for tapping fast solo's, but I think that it ends up feeling more gimicky than useful. The drums have better to be said about them however, although the 'symbols' pads feel a bit weird to play on, but the 3 regular drums feel really high quality, and the entire drum controller is velocity sensitive, so the harder you hit it, the louder the notes are! The kick pedal feels a bit too springy and sometimes if you try to use it it will give off a double note, but other than that I've no complaints. It's wireless, which makes it much easier to move around than the rockband 2 drumset, but I don't know how long batteries in it will last, only time will tell! It's still going strong since christmas though, so it seems solid enough!

Moving On:

Gears of War 2:



Eh yeah.... This game is just gears 1 again with some nice bells and whistles. They have some very creative campaign levels, and the AI in them seems to be smart enough. They've added some things like chainsaw duels, and the option to choose your starting weapon in multiplayer, which does help combat lag a little bit, but there's still server-side hit detection, which makes the game very biased towards the host player when playing online. They havn't added too many new weapons, but there are a few, still though, at the end of the day it really just feels like Gears 1.5 instead of 2.

Left 4 Dead:







-Full-length review coming soon, I've only played it so far for about an hour on a friends laptop, but it seems like it's an unreal game!