Live Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 PS3 Review

Live Powerful Pro Baseball (A.K.A Jikkyou Pawafuru Puro Yakyu in Japanese) is a Japanese only baseball series made by Konami who are well known for soccer games such as Pro Evolution Soccer and International Superstar Soccer are my 2 favourites sports series. I decided to give a try of the baseball games that I wanted to play it on consoles. I have not tried the Major League Baseball games yet because I did'nt have one but instead I'll have a go with Live Powerful Pro Baseball series on SNES and N64 which I'm using the emulators software on my laptop and what can I say?, It's a interesting baseball game with Nippon Professional Baseball Players made of cartoon characters known as Pawapurokun which is quite simular to Ubisoft's characters Rayman. The gameplay is gimmicky fun to play and the challenging is very good indeed, so this is reason I wanted to get this game for PS3 to try it out, if it's good as the classics baseball games.
Ok'ay lets do the review of the Japanese exclusive games for PS3 shall we.

Live Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 comes with new NPB players in team, new stages, improved gameplay ability, updated graphics, success mode, pennant mode, arrange mode and online mode is featured in the game.
The success mode is to complete the baseball career which contains a story and improving a players abilities through scenarios.
The pennant mode is a championship league.
The arrange mode is for creating the teams.
The online mode is for battle players through the online muiltiplayer.
It also have a versus mode to play with your friends in 2 players games or maybe play 1 player on your own with computer players.
let's talk about the gameplay. The gameplay is far impressive with good players abilities, depends the characters condition has a good or bad strength for a role of batsmen and fielders. The targeting controls is very good for players but when balancing with the analog stick is may seems bit harder to control it but you may also change controls setting on pause menu and replace it to moving targeting is seems lot easier and better to use than balancing with analog controls. The batsmen is quite good for hitting ball on under and some are quite good at hitting ball high up to get a homerun, if the aiming symbols is bigger but you may sometime end up hitting the ball in wrong directions but you need to get a right time to hit the ball in correct aiming. You may also control them to run around the zone positions where they can stop to or carry on run around but it's annoying to run back to current zone positions, if the current batsmen got out. The fielders is good for throwing ball in different targeting and you may also controlling fielders to catch the ball in right fielding or pass it to players on right zone positons to get the players out of the game.
The graphics is quite nice with characters design is much reminds me of one of the Ubisoft's characters Rayman because of the figures of the characters is quite both simular with unique design and features. The backgrounds and textures are looking colorful and bright with nice animation and visuals.
The music and sounds has a catchy music but you may also play a custom soundtrack from PS3 home menu during the game which seems to be a great idea to fit the music in the game. It has a good sound effects with crowd backgrounds and voice of Japanese commentator is sounds cool in the game.
The special features has a online mode, arrange mode, pennant mode and success mode which is a decent choice in the game to have.



Advantages

Good players abilities.

Impressive gameplay.

Nice looking graphics.

Features custom soundtrack to play MP3 music.

Cool looking characters.

All Japanese games are region free, due to PS3 considered to be a free region consoles to play any region games in different country.


Disadvantages

Sometimes the gameplay is little bit repetitive.


You may not able to read in Japanese, if you're only American and European gamer need to figure it out during the game options.

This game can be expensive on some websites like ebay and amazon.


Final Verdict

Here is my conclusion.


Gameplay 8/10 - Great players abilities and Impressive controls makes a very good baseball games.

Graphics 8/10 - Nice characters design, colorful backgrounds and textures and great animation and visuals.

Music and sound 8.5/10 - Catchy music but has custom soundtrack is come and handy, good sound effects with crowd noise and cool voice commentator.

Special Features 7/10 - Online mode, arrange mode, pennant mode and success mode is decent choice to have it.

Overall 8.3/10 - Konami made a best baseball games for PS3 even it's only in Japan. If you interested with this game, I'm sure you can able to get it on ebay or amazon. If you want to get a english version of this, then get MLB Power Pros instead. Anyway it's still a enjoyable games and I'm sure you will like this kind of game.

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Playstation 4 Announcement

Sony is about to introducing their upcoming console called Playstation 4 which is a Sony's forth home console for a eighth generation consoles.
I've just watched the video footage of press conference on February 20th and what can I say, It has a some exciting announcements that Sony is going to make a most powerful console in eighth generation.
The console is not yet been revealed but Sony has a own unique ideas to make technical specification for PS4 which features AMD x84 for CPU and AMD Radeon for GPU which is slightly more powerful than a PC gaming graphics.
The system will be included the optical drive will read Blu ray at x6 and DVD at x8. A hard drive will be included soon. It also features with Network connectivity is also supported with 802.11, USB 3.0, Bluetooth 2.1 and HDMI Output.
Sony have also revealed the new controller called DualShock 4 which is similar to previous controller but features more. It has a two point touchpad on front of the controller and supports motion detection with three axis gyroscope and accelerometer including vibration. The lightbar is on top of the controller which can display the different colors. It still has a Micro USB port which you can able to recharge the controller. The mono speakers is supported on centrer of the controller. The following buttons has a same layouts as previous controller but added the 2 buttons such as options buttons which replaces start and select buttons. share buttons will allow gamers to upload the video through their gameplay experiences.
The Playstation 4 eye and Remote play is also revealed as well and the Playstation move is also compatible for PS4.
The user's interface is now revamped with a new design which is similar to new Playstation store user interface.
It will have downloadable games through PSN, social features and third party services such as Netfilx and Amazon Instant Video. PS4 lacks of backward compatibly which you won't able to play any PS1, PS2 and PS3 game disks, while it's lacks backwards compatibly  It also planned to bring PS1, PS2 and PS3 through cloud based streaming services via Gaikai is been already purchased by Sony.
The games is been announced in press conference that the many game developers will like to bring their games running on PS4 like Killzone: Shadow Fall, Infamous: Second Son, Destiny, Knack, Watch Dogs, The Witness, Deep Down, Driveclub and Dlablo 3 will be confirmed for PS4.
I say it's a interesting concept and sounds pretty cool when Sony came up with new things.

So that's it for now and if you like my blog, please give comments below and I will make a another blog soon if I have time to do and I'll see you later.

P.S - If you never seen a press conference video yet, here is a video below.

Doom 3: BFG Edition PS3 Review

I love the Doom series since in my childhood memories. I'm going to talk about the history of Doom series before reviewing this game.

History of Doom series.

Back in 1992, Id Software is best known for FPS classic games like Wolfenstein 3d which is a first FPS game came on PC before the original Doom released in 1993 which became successful FPS game on PC which praises for solid gameplay, graphics engine, best music track comes with heavy metal ambient composed by Bobby Prince and online muiltiplayer battle became the first PC games supports online networking. While Doom is became best FPS game for PC in 1993, it's also became a controversial due to graphic violence and satanic themes which had became a biggest video game controversy of all time. Id Software have brought the sequel called Doom 2 released in 1994 which had became a another great sequel to original Doom. In 1997, Doom 64 came for Nintendo 64 with different graphics engine and same gameplay as original Doom. It quite lot darker than the original to make the game look like a proper horror genre in FPS game but it's a decent game for N64 but it was'nt just good as the original. In between 2004 and 2005, Id Software brings Doom 3 for PC and Xbox comes with newer gameplay and graphics, more darker elements, new monster, improved weapons and different storyplot. It became the greatest FPS game around in 2005. Id Software are considering to make a sequel to Doom 3 in sometime future perfect.
Now I'm going to review Doom 3 BFG Edition for now on.

Doom 3: BFG Edition PS3 Review

Doom 3: BFG Edition is a updated version of original Doom 3 for PS3, X360 and PC.
This game came with HD graphics with 3D support which is a new thing for seventh generation consoles. It has a expansion pack level featured from resurrection of evil including lost levels which is cool to have a extra level and It has a 2 classics Doom games which I already have both for PC but it has a split screen muiltiplayer for console version.
Lets move on to Doom 3 storyplot. This story take place in planet mars, the main character Doomguy came to UAC's Mars Base to meet up with Master Sergeant orders him to find scientist from a Delta Lab who had gone missing. UAC's Mars Base was been attacked by demons from hell attempts to kill the scientist and marines. Doomguy sets his mission to defend himself in UAC's Mars Base to fight off the demons.
For the gameplay,the gameplay engine is quite different from the 2004 version which developed by Vicarious Visons while the BFG Edition is handled by Bethesda Softworks for PS3 and X360. The controls scheme is good for movements and combat system which is quite same thing as the 2004. The weapons is decent for shooting range, good targeting and quality weapons choices like pistols, shotgun, machine gun, chain gun, grenades, rocket launcher, plasma gun, chainsaw and one of the best weapons of all time is BFG 9000 (aka Big F-ing Gun 9000) shoots with green plasma bullet to melt 3 or 4 demons including big monsters. The levels has a good challenging with puzzle solving and boss fights. It does have a save features on pause menu which you don't have to start the level all over again, save features will let you save the game on the place where you at.
The graphics are ok'ay but pretty look dated, the lighting is lot higher compared to original Xbox version is look darker and better details. some textures and background are look cleaner and then the character design is lot same, it is nice with 3D glasses on with some better details is lot better than using the normal video settings. Graphics isn't important thing, it's all about the gameplay thats matters the most important things in gaming.
The music and sound has a great horror ambient music, good voice acting for characters and decent sound effects.
The special features is just what you need. It has a 3D glasses support and online muiltiplayer battle, expansion pack of Resurrection of evil including 8 lost levels and 2 classics Doom games what Id Software have offers to their fans to enjoy the game with extra features.


Advantages

Solid gameplay

Decent weapons

Great puzzle solving

Scary atmosphere

Badass demons characters (such as Imp, lost souls, Cacodemon, Arch-Vile, Hell-Knight, Revenant and Cyberdemons)

Disadvantages

Graphics in BFG Edition isn't good as the original xbox version.

Lacks of split screen muiltiplayer for Doom 3 except 2 classics have one.

Load times takes 35 seconds to load the game.


Final Verdict

Is it worth buying this or stick it to original version instead, lets see.


Gameplay 7.5/10 - Good controls scheme, decent combat system and good challenge of levels.

Graphics 6.8/10 - It's an okay graphics for normal video setting but look better on 3D counterpart. Too much lighting isn't dark enough, some cleaner textures and backgrounds and then the character models looked the same.

Music and Sounds 8/10 - Great horror ambient music, good voice acting and decent sound effects.

Special Features 8/10 - Expansion pack of Resurrection of evil with 8 lost levels, 3D glasses support, online battle and 2 classic Doom games is just what you all needed.

Overall 7.1/10 - It's a decent update game for PS3 and X360. If you're a PS3 and X360 gamers out there, then it's worth to buy it. If you already have a original version for Xbox and PC, then stick with them instead.

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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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