Uncharted: Golden Abyss PSVita Digital Download Review

Uncharted: Golden Abyss is a epic adventure game for PSVita, created by Naughty Dog. This game takes place before the events of the original game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Nathan Drake travels to Panama along with his old pal Jason Dante who taken him to his dig site and introducing his partner Marissa Chase who wanted to help Drake's job just before Drake and Chase gets troubled by Groups of Guerro's men which Roberto Guerro orders his mens to capture them even Jason Dante betrays Drake and Chase for no reasons.
Drake and Chase began to start their quest to find the way to escape from Guerro's base and explore the truths about the Golden Abyss in temple ruins.
I like the character Nathan Drake, which he is just good as the Indiana Jones, has a well skilled climbing, jumping from the ledge, combat fighting skills, collecting treasures for goods, exploring the worlds and some good sense of humour which makes the character so good.
This game on PSVita is quite different from a PS3 counterpart which features the motions controls and touch screen control which is a interesting concepts to have a accurate gameplay. The gameplay is fantastic for combat controls, puzzles solving, climbing skills, motions and touchscreen controls which really makes the gameplay plays outstanding.
The graphics is excellent for backgrounds, textures, visuals, characters design and smooth animation makes the game look brighter and well detailed.
The music and sounds has a best soundtrack in the game, excellent voice work and awesome sound effects.
The special features has Black Market to trade your items through PSN, in single player which you can find a treasure to collect, trade items to find and trophy support.

Advantages

Outstanding gameplay

Excellent graphics

Epic music and sounds

Great storyplot

Great characters

Disadvantages

Unlike PS3 counterpart, it has no online muiltiplayer and no co-ops on this game.

Not enough special features.

Final Verdict

here is my final opinion of this game that will finally deserves the best.


Gameplay 9.1/10 - Outstanding gameplay for combat controls, puzzles solving, climbing skills, motions and touchscreen controls.

Graphics 9.4/10 - Excellent graphics for backgrounds, textures, visuals, characters design and smooth animation.

Music and Sounds 10/10 - best soundtrack in the game, excellent voice work and awesome sound effects.

Special Features 6.1/10 - It's needs some more enough features to have.

Overall 9/10 - This is one of the best prequels so far to original game on critically acclaimed series itself.
Naughty Dog deserves to put a best adventure games on Sony's exclusives.
I can guarantee you to buy this on PSVita.

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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz PSVita Review

I love the first Super Monkey Ball is one of my 10th favourites on Nintendo Gamecube and I also enjoy the second one too. I haven't played other Super Monkey Ball games which came on DS, Wii and other platforms until I got a Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz for PSVita. This game features a 100 stages with 3 difficulty modes, 8 party games, Motion controls, create your own stages and online muiltiplayer.
You get to play as 4 classic characters like AiAi, Mee-Mee, Gongon and cute little baby monkey to complete the challenge on single player. You may also play as another 4 brand new characters on party mode like Yan-Yan, Doctor, Jam and Jet joins the party.
So what can I say about this game, It's pretty not that bad. There are some good and bad part of the game that I have experienced to enjoy the latest Monkey Ball games.

The gameplay is fairly okay when playing single player stages with left stick controls is a basic things to control the character easily while the gyrosensor control is hard to use. The touchpad controls is better on the front when playing a party game like Monkey bowling and Pixie hunt which worked pretty well while rear is completely useless for monkey Rodeo is difficult to control.

The graphics has a flaws with blurry background, terrible water animation and fine level design which needs a better job than that.

The Music is pretty catchy and good sound effects which makes the Music and sounds so decent.

The special features does have a 100 stages to complete the challenge and 8 party games with 2 muiltiplayer modes which has a 4 players offline and online. Creating the stages by using the PSVita camera and trophy support which is quite enough to have it.

Advantages

Creating the stages is quite interesting.

Decent music and sound.

There are some good party games that I like is Monkey Bowling, Pixie Hunt, Love maze, Monkey Target and Monkey Bingo.

Some good stages on single player.

Muiltiplayer can be fun to play.

Disadvantages  

Gyrosensor controls and rear touchpad may be difficult to use.

Graphics needs more improvements.

Sometimes single player stages can be frustrating which makes the stages a bit too much challenge.

There few party games that I don't like is Monkey Rodeo, Number ball and Battle Billiards.

Final Verdict       

Is this game will be disappoint us, lets find out.


Gameplay 6.5/10 - An okay controls schemes for basic use except the motion sensor being repetitive.

Graphics 5.9/10 - Graphics has a okay level design but animation and backgrounds needs a better job.

Music and Sounds 7.3/10 - Catchy music and good sound effects.

Special Features 7.9/10 - 100 stages, 8 party games, creating the stages and 2 Muilitiplayer modes is plenty enough to have.

Overall 6.5/10 - Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz wasn't a bad game at all. It has a good stuff to enjoy the game and some of the bad stuff will going to frustraight us. It wasn't just good as the original Monkey Ball on Gamecube which has a better party games and better single player stages that I like the most. This game is better off renting it and decide whenever if you like it or not.


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Sonic Colors Wii Review

I'm now going to talk about the history of Sonic The Hedgehog first before I'm reviewing this game for Wii.

If you want to read my review, if you don't want to hear the history of Sonic, scroll down to titles name says ''Sonic Colors Wii Review'' on below.

History of Sonic The Hedgehog

Back in 1990, Yuji Naka and Hirokazu Yasuhara decided to make a 2D platformers games for SEGA Genesis. Naoto Oshima created the character ''Sonic The Hedgehog'' is became a part of the mascot of SEGA replacing Alex Kidd. The first game release in 1991, Sonic the Hedgehog is a first 2D platform game came on SEGA Genesis which became a commercial success and one of the best platformers games on 16 bit system due to praises of faster 2D gameplay, graphics visuals, soundtrack and memorable stages. 

In 1992, SEGA brought the sequel called Sonic The Hedgehog 2 which includes the new character Tails is been introduced in the game as playable characters. It became the best selling game for SEGA Genesis and did have a positive review by gamers magazines.

Sonic The Hedgehog is now became the most popular video game characters in SEGA's history.

In 1993, Sonic CD became a masterpiece of 2D platform games which SEGA offers a best Sonic games for SEGA CD before the SEGA CD went became a marketing failure is due to weaker system and mediocre games library.

In 1994, Sonic The Hedgehog 3 is now pushed back to Genesis system. The sequel have including the new character such as Knuckles the Echidna who ambushes Sonic at the start of the game scene and stealing Sonic's chaos emeralds. Sonic and Tails began to runs after Knuckles to stop him handing chaos emeralds to evil scientists Dr Robotnik. The game had became a best sequel for SEGA Genesis and sold the game well just before Sonic and Knuckles came release 8 month later which is follow up sequel to Sonic 3. Sonic and Knuckles came with lock on cartridge which you can play a expansion pack games such as Blue sphere as a bonus game by using Sonic 1 cart. You could also play as Knuckles on Sonic 2 and 3. It did get a positive reception from game reviewers for praising the gameplay, stages and boss levels. 

In 1999, Sonic Adventure is a SEGA's first 3D platformer games came on SEGA Dreamcast. It comes with epic 3D stages, Story cutscenes, 6 playable characters in story mode and awesome boss fights. This game came with well-recieved reviews from critics as beening a great 3D platformer for SEGA Dreamcast. 2 years later, Sonic Adventure 2 is a last Sonic games for SEGA Dreamcast which did became a great Sonic games so far before the lifespan of Dreamcast was discontinued in 2001.

In 2004, Sonic Heroes did came on muiltiplatform consoles such as Gamecube, PS2 and Xbox. It did have a average reviews from critics criticised the camera controls being flawed and PS2 version have problems with graphics and framerate compared to other versions like Gamecube and Xbox did it better.

In 2006, Sonic 06 came on X360 and PS3. After the release of this game, it considered to be a worst Sonic games in series and panned by critics and fans due to poor gameplay, loading times, slow framerates and weak storyline which became a huge disappointment to SEGA fans. Sonic Team had a hard time to develops the game and they wanted to rush the release of the game for winter and PS3 launch titles as one of the SEGA biggest mistakes. 

In 2008, SEGA decided to make a sequel called Sonic Unleashed which features the improved gameplay, graphics and story. This game has a mixed reviews from reviewers which they say it's far better than the Sonic 06 but it has a few flaws on this game. 

As gamers and I know the old Sonic games are better but why SEGA have trouble with the newer ones like Sonic 06 and Unleashed. That poor SEGA needs to fix the problem with Sonic series.

Moving on Sonic Colors Wii Review for now.

Sonic Colors Wii Review

Sonic Colors is a 3D platform for Nintendo Wii. SEGA have brought the improvements of gameplay, graphics, level stages and storyplot. The story about Sonic and Tails met a cute little aliens known as Wisps are asking them to help to save their homes from evil Dr Robotnik who captures all the Wisps and planning to take over the planet. You're playing as Sonic to save a planet to face his nemesis Dr Robotnik. The single player has a 7 worlds stages with 7 act each. The gameplay is far improved than the predecessor. The controls schemes is balanced well with uses of classic controller and gamecube controller. The power ups is great for characters abilities when using the Wisps power ups in each stages. There are some levels is quite too short when finishing levels in under 2 mins and some levels can be too difficult as well but they all good stages that I like such as Planet Wisps, Tropical Resort, Sweet Mountain and Asteroid Coaster which I found so enjoyable with challenging levels. The graphics is look nicer with colorful themes, textures and brighter design is look gorgeous on this game. The music and sound is mixed bag. The soundtrack is ok'ay on title screen and gameplay stages except the 2 crappy songs on intro video and ending credits made by Cash Cash which is definitely the worst song that I hate it. The sound effects is good and the voice acting is not that bad but it was'nt just sound good as the previous cast. The special features did have game land area which you can play a mini games including 2 players battle and Sonic simulator to receive chaos emeralds which is a good thing about this game.

Advantages:-

Improved gameplay makes this game more playable with the uses of Wii classic controller and Nintendo Gamecube controller.

The story is quite sound decent than the predecessor.

Colorful and brightest graphics.

Game land area is fun to play with. 

Disadvantages:-

Some of the levels can be too short when finishing under 2 mins in one stage.

Some of the levels can be little too difficult. 

2 of the soundtrack like ''Reach for the stars'' and ''Speak with your heart'' is completely most annoying song in the game.

This game is only exclusively on Nintendo Wii and DS which this game supposed to came on PS3 and X360 instead.

  

Final Verdict

Can SEGA deserves the best of this game, here is my bottom line.

Gameplay - 8/10 - Great controls, good levels stages and awesome power-ups what makes this game a playable as ever.

Graphics - 8/10 - Colorful, Brightful and gorgeous looking games with nice visuals and great 3D animation physics. 

Music and Sound - 6/10 - Soundtrack are better on title screen and levels except the 2 annoying song on intro and ending. Sound effects is good and voice acting need a bit of improved work.        

Special Features - 7/10 - This game offers the game land area which has a mini games including 2 players battle and Sonic simulator to receive chaos emeralds which is nice effort to enjoy with.

Overall 8/10 - Sonic Colors is yet to be a greatest Sonic's games with enjoyable adventures on Wii. This is most recommended game to buy this. SEGA have deserves to make a Sonic's games back for good once again. So gamers just pick up the controller, play the game and you will enjoy it.

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