Binary Domain PS3 Review

Binary Domain is a third person shooter for PS3 and X360 created by SEGA.

If you like TPS games like Epic Games's Gears of war for X360, you might proberly like this kind of game.

This story take place in 2080. Bergen's headquarters been attacked by a hollow man with the pistol blaming on members of Bergen's that he didn't realized he is a robot. The UN Security Council believed that the Amada Corporation who created the human like robot known as the hollow child left behind the attack on U.S. The members of Rust Crew such as Dan Marshall and his teammates headed to Tokyo which IRTA ordered them to capture the Yoji Amada and bring him to UN Security Council.
I say the story is pretty sounds decent with some good storyplot and cutscenes. I say the characters concept is not that bad. Dan Marshall and the rest of the Rust Crew members are quite ok'ay and I like the concept of hollow child which is almost good as the skynet from Terminator series and Security robot is like from the movie I.Robot with similar design which SEGA wanted to make a Sci-Fi genres look good on this game.
It has a 6 chapters on Single Player campaign and Online mulitiplayer battle comes with versus mode and invasions mode.
The gameplay is just exactly plays like Gears of war. It has a good control system for character movements and cover positions. The combat weapons is good for shooting range and good targeting but you do get a good melee attacks when get closer to enemies. you may also upgrade weapons from the shop to improve the weapons performance. It has a voice command by talking though the microphone attached on headset to command your teammates what to do during the gameplay but there only one problem is you might accidently shoot at your teammate when they not getting out of your away when shooting the enemies which resulted drops down the teammate's trust level.
The graphics is good as well for animations effects, characters models, backgrounds and textures which makes it detailed look clean and smooth.
The music and sounds has a good soundtrack, great sound effect and decent voice acting between with english and japanese in some cutscenes.
The Special Features has chapter select when completing campaign and online battle but where the hell happened to co-op mode?.


Advantages

Good gameplay.

Decent graphics.

Great actions on cutscenes.

Good boss fights.

Interesting storyplot and characters.


Disadvantages

Friendly fire can damage to your teammate's health and drops down their trust level.

Lack of co-op mode.

Sometimes it's gets bit harder in some levels.


Final Verdict

Here is a bottom line of this game.


Gameplay 8/10 - Good controls and good combat weapons.

Graphics 7.5/10 - Decent animation, good character model and nice background and textures.

Music and sound 7.5/10 - Good music, good sound effect and decent voice acting.

Special Features 6/10 - Chapter select on campaign and online battle, thats the only have.

Overall 7.8/10 - Binary Domain is a good TPS game, it's enjoyable and some fun moments.
I recommend it for TPS fans to buy this game.

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Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale PS3 Review

Many of gamers have played a crossover fighting games like Super Smash Bros series on Nintendo exclusive consoles which is one of my favourite fighting games of all time and people loves it. Then until the Sony have brought their own fighting game for PS3 and PSVita is Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale is a another Smash Bros clone with characters from Sony franchises including guests from 3rd party franchises.

What this game could impress me with great features and concept that Sony have offers the fans to enjoy the crossover fighting games.

It was developed by SuperBot Entertainment and SCE Santa Monica Studio for PS3 version while Bluepoint Games developed for PSVita version.

This game has a 20 characters such as Kratos (God of war), Nathan Drake (Uncharted), Cole McGrath (Infamous), Sackboy (Little Big Planet), Nariko (Heavenly Sword), Dante (Devil May Cry), Raiden (Metal Gear), Heihachi Mishima (Tekken) and others which is quite cool to have a characters in this game.

It has 14 unique stages with combination of two game series. Single player mode has story, tutorial, practice and challenge. Muiltiplayer mode has 4 player offline and online battle requires network pass to play online.

It also has cross play which requires both PSVita version and PS3 version to play together in one game, thats pretty interesting to have player plays PSVita to challenge their friends on PS3 in both ways.

lets move on gameplay. The gameplay is similar to Smash Bros but in different kind of ways, you start off fighting opponents to increase your power meter which requires each levels that you can finish them off by using special moves once your power meter is ready to use it when reaching level 1,2 and 3. unlike Smash Bros where you can get points by kicking opponent off the screen, in this game, you can get points each by finishing them with special moves. you may also pick ups the items to attack your opponents to damage them and some stages might attack players when it comes with hazards like traps and stuff that could attacks the player. The controls are pretty good for basic players which is good for like combo moves, characters abilities and balanced controls schemes  is easier to use.

The graphics is decent enough for characters, backgrounds, visuals effects and some good animation models.

The music and sounds are sounds ok'ay, there some of great music from Sony franchise that I like such as Killzone, God of war and Uncharted are awesome on the stages but I say theres a one music that did'nt fit on this game such as Finale made by Madeon which shouldn't be on during cinematic opening. The sound effect sounds little bit sounds cheap but it has a great voice work for characters and announcer.  

The Special features has cross-buy which you can download PSVita version from PSN store by using disc benefit on PS3 menu. There's trophy support features in this game and there's plenty unlockable stuff like icons, costumes, taunts and intros to unlock. I've heard the rumors from game developers that they can able to bring 2 downloadable characters such as Kat (Gravity Rush) and Emmett Graves (Starhawk) will be playable on this game, ok'ay thats cool.

Advantages

Solid gameplay.

Decent graphics.

Great stage levels.

Fun mulitiplayer.

Great story mode.

Disadvantages

Sound effects sounds little cheap.

Madeon - Finale shouldn't be on this game.

You won't able to download PSVita version when you brought the pre-owned from shop due to owner who already have this game in brand new condition.

Network pass is requires to play online battle.

Final Verdict

Will this game pleased Sony fans there?

Here is my final opinion.

Gameplay 8/10 - Solid gameplay comes with good controls for combos and character abilities.

Graphics 7.5/10 - Good character design, nice backgrounds, great visuals and some good animation makes a decent looking game.

Music and Sound 6.5/10 - Some good music on stages except one music on cinematic opening, cheap sound effects and great voice work.

Special Features 8/10 - Some unlockables stuff, cross buy to download free PSVita version and trophy support.

Overall 8/10 - Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale is a good fighting game but Nintendo did better for Smash Bros. So if you familiar with fighting game clones, then I suggest you to buy this game. 

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Vanquish PS3 Digital Download Review

Vanquish is a mind blowing kick ass third person shooter made by platinum games and published by SEGA.

The story takes place in near future, Russian forces captures the US Space Station to activates the blast wave to destroy the San Francisco. US President orders to US army forces to fight the Russian forces before Russians aiming their target to destroy the New York. 

This game is only has Single Player with 5 Acts to complete.

In gameplay, you get to play as Sam Gideon to wipe out the Russians forces's Robots solders.

The controls is excellent for character's movement with excellent cover system and camera control speed, you can able to change controls on options menu to improve the controls performance. Weapons is fantastical fun with Assault Rifle, Heavy Machine Guns, Rocket Laucher, Shotgun, Sniper Rifle and Laser beam considered to be best weapons in the game with great shooting range, accurate targeting and faster shooting performance. What I like about the character that has a boost slide which you can slide accoss the stage and brutal melee attack which you can finish the bad guy off with faster punches and using bullet time which you can shoot faster in slow motion is a best part of the gameplay. 

The graphics is look great with visuals, animations and design does make it look awesome for HD consoles with heavy graphics engine.

The music and sound is pretty good with heavy sound effects, good music score and decent voice acting which fits well in the game.

The special features comes with ranking scoreboards, tutorial mode, mission select and trophy support.

Advantages

It has a badass fast paced gameplay which makes more entertaining games.

Excellent weapons choice.

Interesting characters.

The cutscenes has a great action.

Louder sound effects goes BOOM AND POW!!!.

Disadvantages

Lacks of online mulitiplayer.

The storyplot was'nt sounds great.

Not enough levels due to short length of the game.

Final Verdict

Will this game considered to be a best third person shooter games here, here is my overall.

Gameplay 9.5/10 - Fantastic controls schemes, excellent weapons accuracy and awesome gameplay actions.

Graphics 9/10 - Outstanding visuals, animations and design makes the best graphics engines in HD consoles.

Music and sounds 9/10 - Heavy sound effects, good music score and decent voice acting.

Special Features 6/10 - Ranking scoreboards, tutorial mode, mission select and trophy support.  

Overall 9.4/10 - Vanquish is a one hell of the shooter games with fantastic concepts and atmosphere. 

Buy this and get ready to lock and loaded. 

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Gravity Rush PSVita Digital Download Review

Gravity Rush is a first open world adventure games for PSVita, developed by SCE Japan Studio.

The story takes place in town of Hekseville, the girl named Kat who lost her memory in the underground of town and then she met the mysterious black cat gives her a power to control the gravity to save the people from the attack of Nevi monsters.

The single player mode has 21 episode to complete with. You playing as Kat to explore the world with mission objectives, challenging time attack, having conversation with people and collecting crystals somewhere in town.

The gameplay is fairly impressive with character movements, camera controls, combat fighting and gravity flying controls makes the controls scheme play good but sometimes the gravity attacks may little bit losing the track when the character attempts to attack the enemy. You can also upgrade your character abilities when collecting purple crystals, you can go on pause menu and go to skill upgrade menu to improve your character performance to make the character go strong. You may also check the map on the options menu to see "which way are you going to?" and the icons is helps you to set destination that you wanted to visit the place which is easier to find. The mission objectives is excellent with well challenging puzzle stages, great battle fights for boss stages and epic levels. The time attack mode is fun to play even with the harder difficulty, you can receive the purple crystals to complete the task with some of the crazy levels to enjoy.

The graphics is look beautiful with great looking cel-shaded characters, colorful backgrounds, sharper textures and excellent visuals effects makes the game look gorgeous on PSVita system. 

The music and sounds has a charming music, cute voice samples and great sound effects.

The special features has a Kat's room to change the costumes conteins DLC which you can get it from PSN Store, warp to the different worlds, have fun messing around in open world stages and trophy support which is quite decent to have it.  

Advantages

Great gameplay

Gorgeous graphics

Charming music and sounds

Decent story

Awesome boss fights

Disadvantages

Gravity attack may can sometimes lose track.

Final Verdict

Check out my results of this game and it's my bottom line

Gameplay 8.5/10 -  Great character movements, camera controls, combat fighting and gravity flying controls is worth playable.

Graphics 8.5/10 - Great looking cel-shaded characters, colorful backgrounds, sharper textures and excellent visuals effects makes the graphics look gorgeous on PSVita system.

Music and sounds 8.9/10 - Charming music, cute voice samples and great sound effects is sounds fantastic.

Special features 7.1/10 - DLC costumes, warp the different levels, have fun messing in open world stages and trophy support is plenty decent enough. 

Overall 8.5/10 - SCE Japan Studio made a great PSVita game in 2012. Gravity Rush is a finest adventure games with great characters and decent story to get Sony gamers to enjoy the epic adventure games like this. I say buy it.

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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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