Friday, October 28, 2011

Things I Hate: Medal of Honor: Rising Sun

I had rented this game on Gamecube shortly after it had came out, and boy did I regret it. I admit the Pearl Harbor mission was pretty sweet. Everything after that is embarrassing. Mainly just running through random jungles shooting random soldiers who come after you. I can see why Call of Duty easily stole the spotlight from Medal of Honor. 

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Medal of Honor: Frontline (PS2) Impressions

I've played a few World War II shooters over the years, yet I missed out on this one. I heard it was pretty good, but then again it was released almost a whole decade ago so I'm surprised it's aged a bit. It does at least give you one of World War II's finest moments with D-Day and such. Pretty epic battle. It's a shame that the graphics are very muddy and it seems like it's too hard to shoot

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Skate or Die! (NES) Review

Skate or Die! was the Tony Hawk of video games before the excellent series ripped our Playstations apart with shear awesomeness. Was the old series as good as it's modern successor? Well no not even close. I remember playing the arcade version on some GameCube arcade re-release disc I think Midway released and not liking it too well. The NES version shares a similar fate. One thing I'll give this

Monday, October 3, 2011

Things I Hate: The Sims: Bustin' Out

I've never played any of the games on PC, but I heard good things. The first console version was pretty big news back in the day, and it scored pretty well among the gaming magazines. So I eventually rented the game to see if it was any good. The game is pretty much like the PC original except a little better graphically, and without all the expansion packs. Though the console controllers