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Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs is the 3D Arcade-Fighting game for PS3, which developed, and published by Namco Bandai Games. It is the sequel to Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs Gundam NEXT.
This game is only came out in Japan as the Japanese exclusive PS3 games, but the PS3 is still region free console, so you could play any region games on your PS3 system.
So what do I think about this game? is it the amazing Gundam game on PS3? Yes it is. This is the Gundam game that I've wanted to play it.
This game features 31 playable suit units, arcade mode with 8 difficulty matches, free battle mode with local mulitiplayer matches, online battle mode, trial mission with loads more mission levels, and briefing room to use custom mp3 music, player's profiles, and etc.
The gameplay plays very good for 3D arcade-fighting games. It's very similar to one of the SEGA's arcade game called "Cyber-Troopers Virtual On", but with even better gameplay mechanics. The purpose of the gameplay is to fight your opponent to take down their remaining team's cost. Your team's cost bar contains 6 samples, so if your health points reaches zero then it's drains your team's cost samples, depending what characters you're playing as. If the team's cost bar have nothing left then the players wins the match.
I say the rule of the game is sounds pretty good, because it's giving the game more enjoyable to play.
The controls has very straight forward character's movements, while the lock on systems is continuing stays on the enemies, which gives you a easy way to attack them and dodge away from the opponment. You can change the lock ons to the different enemies, if the enemies is attacking you from behind, when the yellow colored alert icon appeared on the screen. The combat gameplay has great melee attack with good hit detection, and feels more balanced and responsive. The main weapon attack is doing pretty good, when the targeting turns red meaning it's giving you a responsive attacks, but the weapons sometimes runs out, which you have to wait until the weapons is properly charged up automatically, which is not taking too long. It does have the great special melee attacks and weapons, which works very well, but you can activate EX boost power to have a more damaging attacks on the opponments. Your player's can able to use dashing moves and fly around the stages, which sounds pretty cool on the game. The game is also compatible with wireless or USB arcade stick, if you have one for your PS3.
The graphics have some decent visuals effects, some good characters models, great level designing with properly well done stages and backgrounds, and awesome looking animation with good environment of cutscenes and whole game with colored details for modern arcade game.
The music and sound has the theme music "The Catalyst" made by Linkin Park, which is the same song that also featured on the trailer of the 2010 game "Medal of Honor". So I prefer listening the 2 of the good old Linkin Park albums in olden days. It does have some Japanese music from the Gundam anime series, which sounds pretty cool. The good thing about the game is you can edit the BGM from the briefing room, which allows you to choose any custom MP3 music in the game. The sound effects is just like the anime series itself. It gives better sound background and some atmospheres to make it sounds cool. The voice acting speaks in Japanese for every characters from the Gundam series sounds very original for the game, but it's harder for US and European gamers to understand them, is due to lack of english subtitles.
The special features has downloadable content and trophies achievements.
Advantages
Very good gameplay
Great trial missions
Fun local mulitiplayer battles with 2 players
Arcade stick compatible
Good looking graphics
Featuring custom MP3 musics
It's region free games
Disadvantages
Lack of English subtitles for cutscenes makes harder for US and European gamers to understand.
Only released in Japan
Not enough special features
Final Verdict
Bottom line.....
Gameplay 8/10 - Well good controls, unique combat gameplay. and great matches on arcade mode and mission mode makes the game worth playable.
Graphics 8/10 - Decent visuals effects, some good characters models, great level designing with properly well done stages and backgrounds, and awesome looking animation with good environment of cutscenes and whole game with colored details makes awesome looking modern arcade games.
Music and Sound 8/10 - Great music from Gundam anime series including custom MP3s. Cool sound effects and very original voice cast.
Special Features - 5/10 - Downloadable content and trophies achievements.
Overall 8/10 - Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs is the amazing game by Namco Bandai Games, even it's only came out in Japan. It has brilliant characters choices in the game, great missions levels, fun packed arcade battle, and superb mulitiplayer battle makes the best Gundam games so far. I suggest you to get this from Amazon or Ebay in cheaper price, if you're a fan of the series or the arcade games.
Today, I decided to compare these two 16 bit consoles to see which ones are the best and what are the best features that 16 bit consoles has to offer. I really like Super Nintendo and SEGA Genesis back in old days at forth generations era and I kinda liking the games and the systems that these two competitors did a brilliant job on the game consoles. So here is the console wars comparison and here are my five categories to see which ones are better on the consoles, so please respect my opinions on my comparison on two of the consoles. Let the showdown begin!
Best console design
Super Nintendo console design looks pretty simple for European and Japan model. I find this console design look bit kiddish style with child friendly brick model. It feels little bit rough for console system, but it does have really nice 3 big set button on the console because it's easier to have cuffed looking power button, rectangle eject button, and square shaped reset button is sounds pretty step forward for casual gamers to power the game up, resetting the game and taking the game cartridge out by pressing eject button, which you don't have to take the cartridge out by using your own hands.
SEGA Genesis console design looks really badass with slick looking console system and awesome looking design with round shaped on the middle of the console system with big logo with it and it feels nice and smoother for console system. It has simple power switch, cool reset button and of course I like the design of the volume control on the left side of the console. I got to love the open mouth shaped of the cartridge slot because it's more monastery and how awesome the cartridge slot looks.
Winner: SEGA Genesis
Best controller
Super Nintendo controller has really nice dogbone design, which is very easier to hold and it's feels very comfortable indeed. It has simple d-pad shaped, which feels very easier to control by pressing in the different direction. It has 4-colorful buttons in smaller shape, which is very easier to press, so your top thumb can press on Y button, while your middle thumb can press B button is feels very straightforward. It has two triggers on top, which is the newest way to press it with your fingertip, which can be used for different games, like Starfox, which the triggers allows your airwing to perform tilting on sideways or barrel roll by double tapping on triggers, which makes the gameplay so easy and simple for the different kinds of games.
It has two middle button on the controller, has select button to select the things in the game, and start button to pause the game.
SEGA Genesis has bigger controller design, which is little bit harder to hold, until you get used with holding the controller. It has round shaped d-pad button, which feels very clunky for the controls. It has 3-rounded shape button in sideways position, so your thumb have to move side to side, which I don't mind at all, and it feels bit flat to press, but plays okay for some of the games library. I find the 6-button controller feels much better than the original controller because the shape of the controller is perfectly small and easy to hold. The d-pad button have improved a lot to make it very easy to press, which makes the gameplay more controllable. The 6-button is in the good shape, so these can be good for arcade fighting games, like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat that features 6-button controls to make the gameplay played good compared to 3-button controller is very difficult to play with. The Super Nintendo didn't have the problems at all because it already has 6 button layout is just what you all needed.
Winner: Super Nintendo
Best graphics
Super Nintendo has 256 x 224 to 512 x 239 resolution, 15 bit color space, 256 color palettes and 32,768 color layer. It includes mode 7 as the graphics engine, which allows backgrounds layer to be rotated and scaled on scanline to create many difference effects. There are some games that uses the mode 7, such as Super Mario Kart, which has very colorful enviroment and great character sprites, but for mode 7, it allows gameplay design to have draw distances and 2D horizontal dimensions on flat surface position, and the game it self can be rotated and scaling at the same time as the character moves in different direction.
Super FX is the enhanced graphics chip for the SNES cartridge, which allowing the game to have 3D dimension and polygonal models. For example Starfox is well known game that uses the Super FX allowing to have 3D dimensional gameplay aspects, and polygonal looking game design for airwing, enemies and some layouts. I say the Super Nintendo has the most highest quality graphics on 16 bit era because it's moves very realistic, having colorful details, has very nice visuals and animation, and overall environment is just to keep the game graphics look awesome.
SEGA Genesis has 320 x 240 or 320 x 280 resolution, 512 color palettes and 64 color layer. It uses VDP, which is the improved version of the predecessors SEGA Master System, which adds mode 5 for most of the games with advanced VDP features.
There some of the Genesis games that uses the best graphics limitations, such as Vectorman that uses pre-rendered 3D models, which is sounds simular to SNES game Donkey Kong Country that uses pre-rendered 3D models. It's properly well animated characters model, having great environmental of scaling backgrounds, and having parallax effects, which looked good on the game itself.
SEGA also uses the graphic enhancement chip for the game, such as Virtua Racing, which uses SVP is simular to one of the SNES Super FX, allowing to have 3D dimension, and Polygonal enviromental. It's runs the game well, but the graphics environment in the game doesn't look good as the SNES counterpart Super FX that has way better graphics detail than the Genesis SVP because Virtua Racing on Genesis looks kinda blocky compared with Starfox on SNES. Overall the SEGA Genesis graphics is quite decent for some of the games, but it can't beat with their competitors Super Nintendo has the best graphics of 16 bit era.
Winner: Super Nintendo
Best sounds
Super Nintendo has 8-bit of Sony SPC700, and 16 bit of Sony DSP. It featuring 8 channels format, and 32 Khz with 16 bit stereo. I say the sound effects of the game has good usage of voice, and having more sound atmosphere for backgrounds effects making it the best sound effects for some of the games so far. It has really best music track from the most of the games that are the best for the music genres, like movie like orchestrated, hard rock, and original video game soundtrack. So here is the greatest music from the SNES games on below to listen and hear how good the SNES music are.
Super Metroid - Lower Brinstar
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest - Battle 1 theme
SEGA Genesis uses 6 FM channels, 4 PSG Channels, runs 7.6 Mhz sound rate, and of course Genesis has headphone jack, and volume control as well. I say the sound effects of genesis has lot of usage of voices, and some background noise, but it's sounds very cranky and thin compared to SNES sound effects. It also has the best music from the game that are the best for the music genres, like Heavy Metal, Electronics music, and video game soundtrack.
Here is the badass music from the SEGA Genesis games on below to listen and hear how awesome the SEGA Genesis are.
Thunder Force 4 - Metal Squad
The adventures of Batman & Robin - Big Boss
Overall the SNES has the greatest music from the most of the games, like Final Fantasy, Super Metroid, Super Mario Kart, F-Zero, Megaman X, Starfox, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct and etc, but to tell the truth, I say you can't beat the music quality from SEGA Genesis because the music from most of SEGA Genesis games sounds really awesome and kick ass that blew my mind from the game, like Thunderforce 4, M.U.S.H.A, Power Rangers the Movie, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Adventures of Batman and Robin, Street of Rage 2, Gunstar Heroes, Shinobi 3, Earthworm Jim, Vapor Trail, and etc. There's one more thing, you can plug any sound equipments or headset to the headphone jack on the console, allowing to have really good experience of music quality.
Winner: SEGA Genesis
Best games
Super Nintendo has the best games library of all times. It has Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Starfox, Megaman X, Chrono Trigger, Killer Instinct, Donkey Kong Country, Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, Final Fantasy 6, Super Castlevania 4, F-Zero, and so on.
My favourite SNES games are Super Metroid because it's 2D action-adventure with darker level, scary atmospheres, awesome boss fights, and has the greatest gameplay challenge ever on SNES.
I've enjoyed Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past is one of my favourite open world RPG adventure so far. I really love the story development with darker plot and memorable characters, more world to discover, collecting items, going to someone places, like houses, caves and some hidden places, and gameplay is somewhat fun to play with.
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong Quest is one of the best donkey kong games i've ever played. It has really awesome levels with wacky enemies and very challenging level design. It has the best electronic sound track in the game with catchy tunes and nice upbeating sounds.
Super Castlevania 4 is pretty good 2D hack and slash horror game with excellent variety of levels, boss battles, great weapons and power ups, and it's has more scary and dark themes in the game is by far the best on the series.
Killer Instinct is the magnificent and by far the best 2D fighting games on SNES. It very faithful port from the arcade version with fantastic gameplay with over 20 ultra combos, crazy characters, awesome levels, great 2 player battle, and has best music in the game.
Starfox is the most successful 3D rail shooter for SNES is due to what the SNES is very capable of using enhanced chip to produce more graphics environment. It has fantastic gameplay with great flight controls and more variety of having more gameplay features, good weapons, and the great inspirations from the star wars movies.
SNES is best for RPGs, Platform, and Adventures genres.
SEGA Genesis has also the best games outthere as well. It has Sonic the Hedgehog, Shinobi 3, Gunstar Heroes, Earthworm Jim, Mortal Kombat, Street of Rage, Shining Force, Road Rash, Super Hang On, Thunderforce 4, M.U.S.H.A, Toejam and earl, Vapor Trail, Comix Zone, Outrun, After Burner 2, Virtua Racing, Columns, Micro Machines 96, Phantasy Star 2, Golden Axe and so on.
My favourite Genesis games are Sonic the Hedgehog 2 because I love playing fast paced 2D platforming game with blast processing speed, wacky stages, playing on co-op or 2 players battle with two characters, and awesome 3D bonus stages, which makes me enjoy the game.
Earthworm Jim is fantastic run and gun game for SEGA Genesis. It features funny protagonist, wonderful graphics with Saturday afternoon animations style, awesome levels with big challenging, and catchy music tunes by Tommy Tallarico.
Golden Axe is the amazing hack and slash game, which is faithful port from the arcade version. It plays like the arcade version with great gameplay, well challenged stages, intense boss battles, and it has the best magic attacks in the game.
Street of Rage 2 is the best beat em ups games for 16 bit console itself. The gameplay mechanics have been improved over the first game, which the sequel have better hit detection, brand new special moves, 2 of new characters to play as, another great electronic soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro, and of course it has the best stages in the game.
Outrun is the classy racing game from the original 1986 arcade version. The port for the Genesis version is far superior from the arcade version. It has magnificent stages, nice background scenery, great soundtrack, and of course the gameplay is just plays like the original arcade makes the game fun to play.
SEGA Genesis has the best beat em ups, racing, and run and gun genres.
Winner: Super Nintendo Overall
Super Nintendo is somewhat the best consoles on 16 bit era with such a quality games library choices, excellent controller with awesome dogbone shaped and having 4-buttons on front and 2- triggers on top in the right positions is giving you a better overall gameplay with precised control and easy to play, and the graphics are looking superb for most of the games is due to SNES hardware can able to handle more heavier graphics environment is definitely real looking 16 bit graphics.
SEGA Genesis is pretty great consoles. It does have a great console design with slick looking design and smoother textures as well.
The 3-button controller is looking decent with round shaped buttons and sideways button positions, but the 6-button is definitely better with redesigning d-pad button to give you a better gameplay controls, and good looking 6-buttons on front, which is quite good for most of games that uses the 6-button features. The games library are quite good for 16 bit console itself, but not just good as the SNES has really better games overall. The graphics are decent for some of the games, but it's just not far detailed as the SNES has very powerful usage of the graphics.
The music quality for SEGA Genesis is sounds better for most of the games, but I say SNES is best for sound effects.
The winner of the 16 bit wars goes to Super Nintendo as the 16 bit console masterpiece.
Winner: Super Nintendo
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Okay everyone, here is my new rant on Rise of Tomb Raider as the Xbox One Exclusive. I really enjoyed the Tomb Raider Reboot for PS3, and it's one of the greatest action-adventure games on muiltiplatform gaming consoles. So when I finally watched the trailers since last 2 months ago, it was awesome that I can't wait to see a new sequel of first Tomb Raider Reboot, but there's something goes wrong, when I finally read the news article from the Guardian websites.
So according to Microsoft at the Gamescom Press Conference, Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix have announced that the next Tomb Raider game is coming to 2015 and only available for the Xbox One Exclusive, which means it's not going to be available on PS4 and PC. So most of the gamers aren't happy about this and they wanted to see the Rise of Tomb Raider so bad that is not on PS4 and PC.
Tomb Raider is supposed to be mulitiplatform games series, not the exclusives only games series. Lot of people didn't want to get the Xbox One to play the game, because they preferred to play it on PS4 or PC, if they don't own Xbox One.
Haven't we seen the Tomb Raider Reboot was already available on PS3, X360 and PC. Especially the Definitive Edition was also available for PS4 and Xbox One. Same goes with older Tomb Raider games are already released for the different console platforms, so there's no way you can call this series a exclusive only games, until you see this happening on news sites that I've already paste the links on top.
It makes no sense that the Rise of Tomb Raider is becoming Xbox One exclusives games doesn't mean it's going to save the Xbox One console sales and the games sales, so I don't think Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics plans are working that they making very unfair to the gamers, who are fan of the Tomb Raider series and wanted get the game so bad, even they already got the PS4 or PC.
I don't hate the Xbox One as the console, but this game could have been for other consoles as well. If this game is only available for one console, I am not getting Xbox One. So I'm sure the new Tomb Raider sequel is going to be awesome, but I don't think it would save Xbox One, unless it's should be on PS4 and PC as well.
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Long time ago, I've already reviewed the two of the game, such as Dead Space 1, and 2 are the scariest sci-fi horror game on modern generations gaming. It's dark, it's disturbing, and it's scary as hell that brings the deadly atmosphere for the true survival horror game. If you haven't seen my first and second Dead Space games review, then go check it out on the link down below before you read my review of this game:-
Okay, lets do the review shall we. Dead Space 3 is the Sci-fi horror game for PS3, X360, and PC, which developed by Visceral Games, and published by EA Games. It is third sequel to Dead Space 2.
My thoughts about this game is that the game itself is still pretty good game, but it still does have between ups and downs moments of the game is having solid gameplay, decent mission for single player campaign and co-op, but the problem of the game is focusing on action over the survival horror, which unlikely compared with previous games that uses the original horror schemes and of course the story is sounds okay, but not just good as the story from previous game. The story takes after the event of Dead Space 2, Issac Clarke and John Carvier are traveling to Moon and has the mission to end the marker known as Necromorph from preventing recreates the monsters and attempting to destroy humans. Like I say the storyplot is sounds not that bad, but not by far the best in the game. The characters are still pretty good in the game that keeps the game far interesting.
This game has 19 chapters for single player campaign, which I believe this is the most longest game length on Dead Space series.
The gameplay is done pretty solid job for game controls. The character's movements is just like the previous game, but your character able to avoid getting hit by enemies by using crouch to hide and roll to dodge is the new thing in the game. The weapons are still pretty good for shooting range, damaging hit, and feels accurate for aiming controls. You can craft your weapons by going on bench machines, which you can mod your own weapons to make it more powerful, like pistols, shotgun, rifles, razor blades, grenade launcher and etc. You can upgrades weapons as well to improve the performances of the weapons, as well the armor suits from suit kiosk station, which allowing to make your suit even more powerful. You can attack the enemies by using the melee attack, and froze them by using the stasis, which slows them down for 10 seconds. You can pick objects by using the kinesis, which uses as the gravity power is still very cool in the game.
The game is pretty challenging with great boss fights, puzzle solving and of course shooting the crap of the monsters is bloody gruesome what makes the game played fun.
The graphics are still amazing with fantastic characters design, great backgrounds and textures, decent animation, and the nice visual effects, but it's not as dark and grinny as the previous game looked more scary and awesome, but it's still remarkable looking game.
The music and sound has great soundscore for Sci-fi games, and the sound effects is still remains terrifying and some atmosphere. The voice cast is still sound good for the characters in the game with fitted voices and decent dialogues.
The special features has downloadable content, new game plus, and some unlockable stuff in the game are sounds pretty cool.
Advantages
Solid gameplay
Great graphics
Good characters
Fun campaign
Disadvantages
Story aren't good as the previous game
It feels more action game over the survival horror
Bit frustrating levels
Final Verdict
Bottom line...
Gameplay 8/10 - Great controls, awesome weapons and worth challenging campaign.
Graphics 7.9/10 - Fantastic characters design, great backgrounds and textures, decent animation, and the nice visual effects.
Music and sounds - 7.9/10 - Good music, nicely made sound effects and decent voice cast.
Special Features - 8/10 - It has downloadable content, new game plus, and some unlockable stuff in the game.
Overall 7.9/10 - Dead Space 3 is a good game with soild gameplay, great single player campaign with decent puzzle solving and some challenging levels, but it lacks more survival horror feels that makes the game more action and less darker than previous game. The story is not far sounds amazing, but has some good characters in the game. Despite the poor sales of this game wasn't sold very well compared to previous game, so I'm not sure if they going to make another sequel to this game in the future. If not, it's an shame for the fans of horror games, but anyway it's a good game and I think you should able to try this game out because of the fun single player experiences and has co-op mode to enjoy with.
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