That’s my roundabout way of saying sorry.

News:
• Fuck it?

What are you playing:

• DDMNeo:
  Transformers: War for Cybertron
• that_guy:
  SSFIV
  TF2

Reviews/Previews:

• DDMNeo:
  Inception
  Dinner for Schmucks
  Scott Pilgrim VS the World
  Date Night
• that_guy:
  Inception
  Dinner for Schmucks
  Despicable Me
  Salt
• Discussions:
  Where the fuck were you?
  Player Affinity

Next Show:

Deadly Premonition
The Other Guys
Book – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

The story for the game takes place ten years after the last game, and it seems that a lot has happened. Pacific City has been hit by quite literally a freak virus, and had caused many of the citizens to turn in zombies. If that wasn’t enough a new gang has sprung up from the ashes of the gangs from the first game. All this has taken a toll on the city, and it looks like a third world nation. However you are one of the latest batch of Agents cloned, and it’s your job (and up to three of your friends) to bring Pacific City back from ruins.

The game its self is exactly like the first one, but there are a few new touches. Like the first you do level up your strength, firearms, driving, explosives, and agility. However in this game it more focused on unlocking types of weapons and cars, and not going from relatively strong to super strong. Your abilities still grow, but not quite to the point that they did in the last Crackdown. This however is made up for giving you the whole armory without having to scavenge from bosses. While on the subject there are no bosses. In fact the single gang is not really even the main focus of the game. The real focus is on activating beacons, and going into the lairs of the zombies to take them out. There are also side missions as well which include hunting down the green and blue orbs, hunting down new special orbs that you now have to chase down (some on foot, and others in vehicles), races, collecting audio messages, taking out freak spawn points, and purging cell resistance from tactical areas. While this sounds like a lot it should be noted that the main game is so shallow that these elements will most of what you do in the game.

The game now offers online modes featuring both your standard deathmatch, and team deathmatch. The new element is a mode called “Rocket Tag.” In this mode one of the players is given a orb, and the longer they hold it the more points they earn. It is the remaining players’ duty to in turn blow this person to kingdom come, and as fast as possible. While playing online is somewhat fun it is far from the online experience that games like Call of Duty and even Red Dead Redemption offer. You may enjoy it at first, but you most likely will fall back to the single player mode for the up to four player co-op if you decide to play online.

Graphically the game looks a bit better than the first game. The cell shaded/comic look is cleaner looking than it was in the first game, but most might not fully notice. It should also be noted that the city is exactly the same city as the first one, and the only thing distinguishing it from the first game is the serious ware on it. The game runs smooth most the time, but it tends to slow down at night when fighting off the hundreds of zombies that are on the screen at once.

In the end the game comes off very shallow compared to other open world games such as GTA4, and even Red Dead Redemption. The online is weak, and the single player is short even by the first games short single player. In all honesty I was able to beat 60% of the game while having it for just over a day. I can just not recommend someone to pay full price for such a short game that has such low replay value. The game is however worth a rental since it is a good amount of fun, but it will most likely only give you a weekend’s worth of fun.

$15/$60

News:
• ESPN Xbox LIVE only for ESPN broadband partners
• Nintendo 3DS games spotted for sale, set for end of 2010 surprisingly
• Kotick Wants A Subscription Based Call of Duty
• MS hires Bieber to enter concert with Kinect video, teens go wild
• Study Suggests Gamers Prefer Physical Discs Over Digital Downloads

What are you playing

• DDMNeo:
  The Darkness
  Dead Space Extraction
  Pokemon Gold

Reviews/Previews

• DDMNeo:
  Toy Story 3
  Crackdown 2
• that_guy:
  American Hardcore
  We Jam Econo
  Toy Story 3
  Karate Kid
  A-Team
  Louie

Next Show:

• Dead Space Extraction
• House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return

News:
• New Xbox 360 Warns You Of Possible Doom
• Meet The Graphics Chip Powering The Nintendo 3DS
• Kinect costs $150 a unit to manufacture?
• OnLive Pricing Options: Full Price to Rent!
• Sony: 3D and Move will help PS3 become market leader

What are you playing

• DDMNeo:
  Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
• that_guy:
  not much

Reviews/Previews

• DDMNeo:
  Green Zone
  Unthinkable
  Book of Eli
• that_guy:
  Red Dead Redemption

Discussion

• 3DS
• GameStop.com

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Here’s the unabridged version of the notes we cobbled together. I think we got it edited to just what we discussed, but no promises.

• EA
  • Sportz
  • Medal of Honor
• Ubisoft
  • Ghost Recon: Future Solider
  • Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
  • Laser Tag
• Microsoft
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • Metal Gear Solid: Rising
  • GoW3
  • Fable 3
  • Codename: Kingdoms
  • Reach
  • Kinect
    • Voice control
    • video chat cross platform
    • ESPN (doesn’t need Kinect)
    • Kinectimals, Sports, JoyRide, Adventures
    • Your Shape: Fitness Evolved (read: Kinect Fit)
    • Dance Central
    • Star Wars Game
    • Forza Game
    • GameStop puts the Kinect at $150 and the tech demo “games” at $60/ea
  • Case redesign
    • Free for press
    • Wifi N
    • Wont need the Kinect power brick
    • same price
    • 360 whites are discontinued, discounted $50
  • Don’t be a dipshit and move it while running
• Nintendo
  • Zelda: Skyward Sword
  • Mario Sports Mix
  • Wii Party
  • Just Dance 2
  • Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
  • Goldeneye
  • Epic Mickey
  • Kirby: Epic Yarn
  • Metroid: Other M
  • Donkey Donkey Kong Country Returns
  • 3DS
    • Bottom screen is a touch screen.
    • has 3D depth slider, can turn 3D effect completely off.
    • 3.5″ widescreen top screen, analog controller on the top left, d-pad on bottom left.
    • Touch screen can use fingers, reads pressure according to Joystiq
    • 3D camera
    • Kid Icarus, Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle, Samurai Warriors, Madden NFL, Street Fighter, Ninja Gaiden, 3DS Kingdom Hearts 3D “demo”, Saint’s Row (the crowd laughed), Resident Evil, Assassin’s Creed, new MGS, Ridge Racer, DJ Hero 3D, A 3DS version of Nintendogs, now featuring cats.
    • Morbid 3DS Trailer
• Sony
  • MONTAGE ATTACK!!! 6 total
  • Killzone 3
  • Motorstorm Apocalypse, Killzone 3, The Sly Collection, Gran Turismo 5, Crysis 2, Mortal Kombat, Shaun White Skateboarding, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Tron Evolution, NBA 2k11, all in 3D
  • Big Push for 3D
  • PS Move
    • Sorcery
    • PGA Tour 2011 – 1-for-1 wife beating
    • Heroes of the Move
    • Coke Partnership
    • Pricing- $100 bundle (w/o nunchuck), $50 Move, $30 nunchuck
  • Kevin Butler
  • New PSP advertising – Marcus
  • New focus on PSP games
  • PSN Plus – $50 a year
  • Medal of Honor
  • Dead Space 2
  • Valve Announcement
    • first look at Portal 2
    • Steam integration?
  • inFAMOUS 2
  • Twisted Metal
  • No sign of Last Guardian
• Misc 3rd party:
  • MvC3 – based on TvC
• Next Week:
  • Red Dead Redemption
  • The Book of Eli
  • Unthinkable
  • MGS Peace Walkers
  • Others…?

Our intro music is “Jump In” by Ambicore, used under a Creative Commons license.

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Winners so far:

• The 3DS



• Portal 2



Losers:

• Kinect



• Move

The audio quality is gonna be toned down on this one and subsequent episodes that I produce, because of my severe bandwidth impairment (.5 Mbit — Europe this ain’t) and the fact that I don’t want to spend a day and a half uploading.

News:

• Microsoft Changing Xbox 360 Box Art
• Hulu on 360
• Reports: 3DS more powerful than Wii, doesn’t use Nvidia chips
• Viral Video Apparently Teases 3D PS3
• One Of The Oldest Logos In Gaming Is No More
• Lawsuit Filed Against Final Fantasy XIII
• Rumor: Half-Life 2 announcement teased by ‘Freeman’ art
• Valve raage
• The iPhone 4 Supports 3D Motion Gaming

Reviews:

• Nothing, really :S

Other shit:

• Upcoming Movies
• LOST

Next Show:

• Red Dead Redemption
• No More Heroes 2
• Ace Combat 6

Our intro music is “Jump In” by Ambicore, used under a Creative Commons license.

Our outro is a track from DJ Hero, “My Name Is vs. Loser,” used without permission.

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This episode I talk about Sony’s new 3D ventures, a situation when a gamer went too far, . We also have reviews of Alice in Wonderland, The Road, and No More Heroes 2. We also have an e-mail from Gigitch!

The show is about 1/3 the normal length so there isn’t too much to this show, but with it just being me I couldn’t stir up nearly as much content. We have already recorded episode 24 so expect that soon as well.

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MP3

This week we discuss Wal-Mart and used games, an interesting Game Stop firing, an interesting argument from Nintendo’s own Miyamoto, and more. We also have a review for God of War 3 (sorry about the wait), Iron Man 2, Daybreakers, Edge of Darkness, Under Great White Northern Lights, Happy Town, and more.

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