Well since there is only 2 weeks of class left instead of starting on a whole new game I thought I would give my impressions of games I have played in the last week.
First up is Nintendo's Brain Age. I was shocked that I would be excited by a game that's main draw was seeing how fast I could do math or yell at my DS but leave it to Nintendo to make something like this fun. I also really think that the fact it was only $20 helped push me over that buy new / wait for it used line I often find myself standing at. Overall it's graphics are pretty basic. You have the Doctor who is a floating head that looks like Andross from Starfox guiding you on the way to mental stamina. Other then that the presentation is pretty spartan with most figures represented as stick figures or numbers and letters. The only issue I have found with this game is the handwriting and speech reconition. While the goal of the game is to either write or shout an answer as fast as you can, often the software interprets your answer wrong. This is more so for the speech then the writing because after a few rounds you figure out that it likes numbers to be written certian ways. While I don't think it will become the cultural hit that it has in Japan I think Brain Age will help not only present games in a way that shows they can be learning tools but also introduce games to people that might not have played them.
Another game I have spent some time with is MLB 2K6 for the Xbox 360. So far I have been slightly let down by the 360 so far with the exception of the port of Burnout Revenge and Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. This game falls into the same problems almost all 360 games have and that is it's a port of the Xbox game with some hi-res textures slapped on it and streched out to widescreen presentation. The grass looks like plastic and the crowds still look fake. The gameplay itself is pretty decent but I can tell that after the Wii comes out that it will be hard to play any type of sports game To add to the realsim of the game the swinging of the bat is now a motion on the right analog stick that feels very poorly designed. It never feels timed right and leads to uneeded frustration. Overall its not a bad first attempt at a baseball game on the 360 but I can tell next years edition will be even better since it will be designed from the ground up as a next-gen game.
First up is Nintendo's Brain Age. I was shocked that I would be excited by a game that's main draw was seeing how fast I could do math or yell at my DS but leave it to Nintendo to make something like this fun. I also really think that the fact it was only $20 helped push me over that buy new / wait for it used line I often find myself standing at. Overall it's graphics are pretty basic. You have the Doctor who is a floating head that looks like Andross from Starfox guiding you on the way to mental stamina. Other then that the presentation is pretty spartan with most figures represented as stick figures or numbers and letters. The only issue I have found with this game is the handwriting and speech reconition. While the goal of the game is to either write or shout an answer as fast as you can, often the software interprets your answer wrong. This is more so for the speech then the writing because after a few rounds you figure out that it likes numbers to be written certian ways. While I don't think it will become the cultural hit that it has in Japan I think Brain Age will help not only present games in a way that shows they can be learning tools but also introduce games to people that might not have played them.
Another game I have spent some time with is MLB 2K6 for the Xbox 360. So far I have been slightly let down by the 360 so far with the exception of the port of Burnout Revenge and Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. This game falls into the same problems almost all 360 games have and that is it's a port of the Xbox game with some hi-res textures slapped on it and streched out to widescreen presentation. The grass looks like plastic and the crowds still look fake. The gameplay itself is pretty decent but I can tell that after the Wii comes out that it will be hard to play any type of sports game To add to the realsim of the game the swinging of the bat is now a motion on the right analog stick that feels very poorly designed. It never feels timed right and leads to uneeded frustration. Overall its not a bad first attempt at a baseball game on the 360 but I can tell next years edition will be even better since it will be designed from the ground up as a next-gen game.
posted by The Poison Ninja at 1:53 PM
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