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Tetris on PS3 FINALLY

Haaris Ahmed — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:08:49 +0000

Tetris is one of the 1st games most of us remember playing as kids. Through the years puzzle games have come and gone, but Tetris is the constant. You would have thought Tetris would have been a standard game that came with the ps3, but you like me were wrong. EA has got off thier asses to deliver Tetris with some new twists and some updating.

The first thing EA did with Tetris is wash it in beautiful HD. EA could have stopped there and I would have been fine with that, but they didn’t. Lets talk single player action. EA has kept the standard marathon mode where you drop blocks till you lose. EA have also included different modes of gameplay called “variants”. These variant modes are different twists on the standard Tetris game. Some variant modes include added gravity, keeping below a certain laser line, and running matrix boxe which as soon as you drop a piece/block the matrix box actually shifts from left to right, pretty trippy.

Multiplayer mode is where it is at. You can play all the single payer modes in the multiplayer option both locally and online. The battle modes are my personal favorite . There is also a co-op mode that allows you to team battle as well, and yes you can do that online. The developers of Tetris took their time to make the online mode as fun as possible because lets face it, there is no feeling like kicking someones ass in Tetris and talking some shit afterwords, thanks EA.

Tetris was developed by the Russians to keep their cosmonauts sharp while in space in the 60′s. Like most things awesome Tetris is now owned by the world. Instead of playing this on an old school tube monitor or on your cell phone get down on some HD action and download this piece of humanity.

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PSN…War Games That Would Make Matthew Broderick’s Dick Fall Off

Whiteface — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:09:42 +0000

Modern Warfare 2

Jesus Christmas. It is all out war on my PS3. I’d like to talk about 3 games that I feel like I’ll never stop playing. Modern Warfare 2, Battlefield 1943, and MAG. I WAS gonna just write about these things separately but their all so similar I figured I’d break each one down for you in one post. All 3 are online, all 3 are 1st person shooters, and all 3 require you to be war savvy and have some skills with a sniper rifle. Different time settings which means different weapons and little subtleties separate them from each other, just enough to make you want to play all 3…..all the time. First up Modern Warfare 2….

If anyone should ever play 1 war game in their life it should be either one of the Modern Warfares. Unbelievable graphics, story line, character acting, music, weapons, game play, cutscenes, and endings. This game is the only one of the 3 that is not primarily online, which means you can get your train on before you take it to the world. As in the first, you take on the role of several different characters as you proceed through the story, covering various parts of the world’s map. I won’t bore you with the details, but the story is SICK. Plot twists at almost every level ending, making you want to play the next chapter right away. OK great but the story eventually ends and this game goes back on the shelf right? WRONG. Now we also have 2 more awesome elements of this game, Special Ops and Multiplayer Online.

Special Ops is a series of either one player or mutilplayer mini games that demand all sorts of various skills you’ve learned throughout the game. Unlock more challenges by earning stars in 3 different levels of difficulty. Everything from running through training courses to snowmobile races could keep you busy for years. That is of course if you can stop playing mutiplayer online.

It’s 9 on 9 go time with a retaaaaaarrded amount of upgrades and perks as you level up. New weapons, attachments, abilities, and equipment await you at almost every headshot. Eventually you can even control Preditor missiles from above and order air strikes. Absolutely insane. Don’t worry about your level to be able to compete, at level 2 I was out scoring level 50′s and higher, it’s really easy to level up. I could go on and on here but I should move on to the next game, my final thought on Modern Warfare 2…..buy it immediately, it’s a no doubt five slab o’ beef .

Next up Battlefield 1943…

12 on 12 online only war where you are either USMC’s or Japanese soldiers fighting on War World II’s most famous battle grounds such as Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal. Now this game is download only so there’s not a whole hell of a lot going on besides the actual game play. 3 basic characters that you can choose between before each respawn. What makes this game unique is the vehicle aspect, you can operate reappearing planes, tanks, jeeps, anti aircraft guns, .50cal turrets, even call in air raids. Personally, I like to post up at the AA guns and take out the pilot bitches that actually figured out how to fly those things good. That’s pretty much it, play and enjoy. For being a very one sided game this one loses a slab but it’s a solid 4 chunk deal.

Oh boy. For real another one? Yes. Another one.

MAG?, more like OMG. This is a store bought MMO title only on the PSN featuring an astonishing 256 simultaneous game player mode. Take the last two games and mash em together for this one that takes place in the future when private military corporations falsely promote world peace only to take over certain territories and carry out mini wars against each other. They are divided into 3 corporations 1 of which you will choose when starting the game. You will be in this corporation for the remainder of your existence. Move up through the ranks by scoring XP in each battle, eventually becoming squad leader, and then calling the shots from behind the lines. This of course will require a LOT of skill, these kids are real good at this game. I’ve only played this for a couple of hours but it is a very intricate and complex game, and only the more experienced gamer should spend their money on this one. I recommend renting it to see if you can hang first. Lots of upgrades and different character development as your level increases unlocking the 256 player games at level 8. This is still under investigation for me but so far so good and I could go ahead and give this one an easy 4 1/2 already.

See you on the Network, bring your A game, if you’d like to join my clan, we’re known as the Face Eaters….call sign CHU….like we chew on your face.

Whiteout.

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Overinflated Hype Fat Princess Review

Haaris Ahmed — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:59:51 +0000

A couple of months back when the meat was young I ran a contest and let the readers of redmeatreviews.com vote on what game I should purchase for download on the PSN network. I wanted to give it a fair review so I sat and played the shit out of it. Here is review for you to munch on.

This game is getting nothing but good, no RAVE reviews. So I was excited that the readers wanted me to purchase this game. You people fucked up. This game is not fun, but it doesn’t suck either.

Lets start with what I like. This game is truly unique when it come to RTS (real time strategy) and couple that with online play on a massive scale with a cartoon graphics with loads of blood on a mature scale you can’t go wrong. You can customize you particular avatar with a host of tweeks which you unlock as you progress through the game. The concept is simple really, 2 teams, red and blue, and 1^st team to rescue their princess wins. The FAT comes from the option where you can feed the opposing princess magical cake while she sits in your dungeon. So far so awesome. There are classes that you can cycle through just by picking up a particular class hat, for example you can start off as a priest and if you see a warrior hat just pick it up and place that sucker on your dome piece and BOOM you’re a warrior. There are a bunch of cool strategies including catapults, chicken morphing spells and setting burning logs on fire Donkey Kong Style. This game sounds awesome so doesn’t it. Time for it to fall off.

This game has a couple of modes, a very short story mode, and online play. The story mode is narrated to perfection and is both funny and entertaining, plus its a great way to get acquainted with the game, but its way to short! The online play is supposed to be where it is at, well its not. There is zero lag and each map can support a total of 64 players. This is all well and good but in order to have fun and win in this game requires a high level of communication and cooperation. The reality is there are different crews that do not talk to each other, sets of newbies and people just fucking around the map. People are rarely voice chatting which is very needed when it come to this game. The lack of communication makes this a hard game to enjoy. This game still has potential and a grip of people are constantly playing it online so expect some DLC in the future. Would I recommend this game to anyone today, NOPE. This answer may change as the hype goes down and the true players that understand communication, cooperation, and war strategies stick around.

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