infamous

Infamous
$59.99
This game is definitely worth the money and time. As an active gamer I can honestly tell you that this game is hard to put down once you start. I like how the main character Cole is designed. He has powers, but he can still die like any other normal person. Awesome game.

Killzone 2
$59.99
I'm slightly surprised to see so many 5-star reviews for this one. I really don't understand why, with games like Modern Warfare, etc.. out there, people would rave about Killzone 2. This is a very generic shooter that follows a typically linear path that guides you to the next location. They make everything so obvious as to the objectives, like "shoot out that bridge", I mean come on. I found several of the guns to be useless and the head bobbing constantly as you move around makes you sick. Overall I think 3-stars perfectly sums this up. After you play for a few hours, you sit there and think....eh kind of boring. There's no wow factor at all other than graphics, but in this day and age graphics are the easy part...give me the game play!!

Assassin's Creed II
$59.99
The first Assassins Creed is notorious in it's reputation. Alot of people felt it was a nice tech demo for graphics, but otherwise it just a platformer game with a few simple objectives that went on way too long. I agreed, but still enjoyed it, and was curious to get through to the end to find out where the story was going.

I was a mollified to see that in the interest of making a larger game, the graphics in 2 have been simplified to run more smoothly. AC2 is full of blurred edges and textures and a muddy color palette. The shadows are blocky, and don't move realistically (especially on faces in some closeups). Character models show some weird artifacts. Distances are flattened in a perpetual haze. One thing I really loved about AC1 was how you could stop and look at any street and appreciate all the fine detail. Not so here. There ARE more people types in the street in AC2, but otherwise this is a graphical downgrade that seems to want to conjure up comparisons to an oil paint 'look'. AC1 may have had hiccups and slowdown, but it 'popped' and looked alot cleaner on my hi-def TV than this.

The gameplay... might be a matter of taste. If you wanted more step & fetch, this game has it. You'll do alot more running back and forth, getting letters, documents, delivering boxes, carrying bodies, beating up philandering boyfriends, following people, etc. Having to manually follow someone who you are having a conversation with was a little weird. There is also the addition of an ingame economy, so you can now rob dead people, pickpocket, buy paintings, change the color of your clothing, repair your armor and weapons, hire prostitutes to lure guards (fun!), throw money in the street to draw a crowd... Point to point races against local couriers will challenge your ability to find the quickest route across the rooftops and pray Ezio doesn't 'stick' to the wrong surface. Simple Puzzle segments scattered throughout the game world will illuminate more of the games backstory. A notoriety 'system' will force you to remove wanted posters (never on the street, always on second story balconies, for some reason) and kill local police. Visit Leonardo Da Vinci who will create weaponry for you if you have the right design sketches and later unlock a nice flying mission...

The core experience of the game hasn't changed at all, though. The running over rooftops is still a breeze (unless you're on a clock), and the combat is workable and fun, though the context sensitive scheme will occasionally frustrate, BUT - just like AC1, you don't ever get to perform a stealth kill on any of the games main-story targets... you track them, listen to a speech, run them down, run them through in front of a huge crowd, and then run like hell as dozens of screaming guards chase after you. It's hardly stealthy and you've done this already.

The story? You're the lusty son of a proud nobleman, wronged by a conspiracy involving the Assassins and the Templars, and nothing is what it seems bla bla bla etc... I will give that Ezio is a little more likable than Alta'ir of the first game.. but it didn't make me care about him or his family, or what was going on, and Desmond simply switching teams to be exploited by Lucy and her friends instead of the evil Abstergo Company didn't impress me much, either. I thought Desmond was a dullard in the first game, but the Holy Land story was more crackling than this. AC2's story gets lost in the volume of chores you have to do very quickly.

If you didn't like the first game, there's no way I would recommend this.

PROTOTYPE
$49.99
My title says all, it just nothing...I am sorry...I didnt like at all, I beat the game just to be sure, what a waste of time...and money, go and find your self your answers...