2011年1月27日星期四

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Just make sure to include speakup in your comment so we can find it. Every weekday we'll pull one of the best speakup posts we can find and highlight it here."Bulletstorm developers People Can Fly get into the Christmas spirit with a lovingly decorated tree adorned with Bouncers and dead bodies, while delivering the occasional gruff and replica Tissot T22168651 Men's Watch snappy retort. An unhappy holiday for the cannon fodder of Epic's next game."Xbox Live Arcade game Hydrophobia released this summer to mixed, sometimes harsh reviews. The developer, Dark Energy Digital, has taken those criticisms to heart and will release a massive update to the game that will dramatically change how it plays.

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Once you can change into slippery ice or gain the ability to attack enemies as a lightning cloud — or earn a bunch of other abilities — you have to think a lot about which moves to use. I liked the tactical variety.And there's a stealth action sequence, right? How did you guess? Yes there is a stealth action sequence. And a fire-engine sequence, a basketball level, a pinball challenge and a lot of other unexpected permutations of replica Tissot T22228131 WoMen's watch what I thought was going to be just a hydro action side-scroller. The surprises in level design are excellent.Seriously, stealth action in Fluidity. It's like Splinter Cell in this one level, if Sam Fisher had a puddle as a sidekick.

I'll prove it to you right here.But the game became too hard? It did. The game is tough throughout, but near the end it broke me. I've never understood why many game developers make the ends of their games so hard. I prefer grand finales to frustrating ones, and I don't mind if a game's ending is as unchallenging but spectacular. See: Super replica Tissot T22.1.161.81 WoMen's watch Metroid or Gears of War 2. I do mind when a game, like Super Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door or Fluidity here, is so tough that I eventually give up on finishing it. The problem wasn't just that a few of the jumps required in the game's final goop-clearing boss stage are tough.

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These bold game makers figured you'd also be thrilled to upgrade that awesome pool of water into... form of an ice cube! And then! Become a cloud! Curve Studios' creation is essentially a series of sidescrolling platforming challenges designed with the properties of H2O in mind, built on a structure that resembles the one in Super Mario replica Tissot T008.414.16.201.00 Men's Watch 64. And the game is hard.Ideal PlayerPatient fans of Super Meat Boy and other tough modern side-scrollers. Fans of Sony's LocoRoco or the iPhone's Rolando who want to see the Wii's tilt-based riff on the same blob-rolling and blob-bouncing. Also: fans of water and fans of excellent art design.Why You Should CareIt's a downloadable game that's worth your time on the Wii.

There haven't been a ton of those this year. Oh, and Nintendo officially classifies the game as “hydro action,” which is the kind of absurd genre labeling that makes me care.You control water? That's fun? Yeah. Holding the Wii Remote at its short ends, you tilt left or right to tilt the book — the Aquaticus — whose pages have been infected replica Tissot T22.5.581.41 Men's Watches by dark goop. You hoist the Remote to make the water jump. The levels are full of jumps, lava, poison clouds and other hazards that might cut your pool in half and put you close to life-losing dissipation. Essentially, you're running and jumping but in another form. Thanks to smart level design, the “running” and “jumping” is fun.

2011年1月17日星期一

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