| 45 Minute Video Game Reviews!

I joined the rental service GameFly recently (similar to Netflix which I also rejoined and is super awesome) so I'm getting a chance to try out a fuck-ton of video games for my XBox 360. These will be in the order that I've rented them:

Assassin's Creed: Horrible. You play an assassin in Medieval Times, but I've yet to see any jousting. And where the hell is the Rope Girl!? Really pretty game (kinda) but just boring as shit and very little "game" to it. It's just tons of fucking running around and really boring fighting. I did I think 3 missions before sending that pile of poop back.

Beautiful Katamari: Pretty horrible too. I know, it's a nichey weird japanese game, but it just seems SO dated and I just couldn't get into it. You roll a ball around picking up things in the environment until your ball is huge and picking up houses n' shit. The demo was sorta fun, but the actual game was really fucking hard and I hated the interface and stupid load times. I blame that on it being an old game, but meh, didn't dig it.

Mass Effect: Pretty alright. I'll rent it again once I burn through some of the games I'm itching to try. I stopped half-way through the Noveria story-line planet. I liked the combat after awhile - pretty cool mixture of FPS with the awesome biotic abilities and strategy. I played a Vanguard. There was plenty that was annoying about it too, but overall I think it's pretty solid.

Devil May Cry 4: I still have this rented out. I think it's really fun. I never played DMC 1-3 but a quick read of the wiki articles on them caught me up on the story, and really, this is an action game, so even though the cutscenes are super awesome and bad-ass, it's not like you need to know what the hell happened in the other games. I hated the demo for this too, so it's weird that I like the actual game so much. It just makes you feel like such a tough guy just kicking ass left n right. And the boss fights are fun.

Culdcept SAGA: Really fucking fun. It is a boardgame/card game hybrid. So the card element really comes off Magic the Gathering-y, while it mixes in a sort of Monopoly element in that you roll a die and race around a board, placing monsters where you land. I guess it's an update of an old PS2 game so there's a lot of people who were familiar with it. The cutscenes are probably the WORST I've ever seen in a video game (pretty much laughably bad - PATHETICALLY bad even) but fuck all that shit. The actual GAME is really fun and addictive. And as you play and win/lose you get cards after every match that you add to your stash so you can build different decks. Just go rent it, it really is rad.

That's about it! 45 minutes later, I warned ya!

4 second review of games I own:

skate. : Perfect.

Burnout Paradise: Fun then boring.