inFamous

"Hey McGrath you totaly awesome, can i have your autograph?"  You might hear this while playing inFamous if your ranked as a hero, but if your inFamous you'll hear "Yo' McGrath, you is a piece a junk!"  Then your free to ZZZAAAPPP!!! him off the face of the earth.
Welcome to...


STORY
So there's a bike courier who get's a call to open a package, when he does, big city goes BOOOOM!  At the middle of the blast is him.  Shortly after this catastrophe, Cole McGrath (the bike courier) discovers that he has electric superpowers (shocking, right?).  Learning to harness his powers as Empire City, fall's into a violent crime wave and plague, Cole sets out to find the person who sent him the package, ultimately having to decide if he is the hero of his once great city...or the man who ensures it's anarchy.

GAMEPLAY
inFamous is based around Free Roam Parkour Action with Superpowers.  McGrath can shoot variations of lightning from his arms, such as bolts, grenades, and rockets.  He also can levitate, create a sheild(more of a force field) and even bring a lightning storm on opponents.  Meelee combat from the fists of fury are what McGrath uses when it's not smart to use up electricity.  Health replenishes by it self, but absorbing electricity heals you faster.  Empire City is huge, it's actually spread across 3 island buroughs, the Neon District, which has more skyscrapers and neon's, the Warren, a more slummy area more so decaying than the Neon area, and the Historic District, which is the original, older area of Empire City and home of the Blast Crater.  Traversing over the enviroment is relatively simple, and there's a ton of collectibles and side missions to distract you from the main missions.

GRAPHICS
The enviroments look good, not great like Uncharted 2: Among Theives.  Characters look rather stiff with no emotions, but this really did not affect the game for me.

CONTENT
This is a very dark, violent, game, filled with frequent language (STRONG FOR A TEEN GAME) and blood in the cutscenes.  Also McGrath can kill civillians he wishes, but is "rewarded" by being pushed down the evil path.  Some of the gravity behind the Moral choices in the game might not be understood fully by younger players(younger players should not be here though). AGE-15+ 

CONCLUSION
This is a fairly goo...wait...GREAT action game exclusive to PS3.  The main criticism I would like to give is how, no matter what side of the moral bar your on, the ending is basicly the same.  I give this game 7.75 out of 10. 

Star Wars Battlefront II

So how can I put this?  Take everything epic from Star Wars Battlefront and make a Sequel with more features.  This equals EpicX5 to get SUPER EPIC!!!



STORY
So the Game follows a unamed clone trooper through his career in the clone wars and eventually the empirial war against the rebellion.

GAMEPLAY
Take everything great from the first game and make it better.  Thats what happened here.  Besides the "Conquest" gameplay that saw in Battlefront 1, there are new game modes like capture the flag, heroes v. villians and space combat.  Campaign also includes structured missions with objectives, such as retriving power crystals or destroying certain objects.  The controls remain the same as the first game and most of the maps are also still there.  Almost all of the new maps are derrived from episode III, such as Mustafar, and the Jedi Temple.  One thing that I don't like that the main focus for vehicular combat is in the space battles, so there aren't as many vehicles in the ground maps.  This AI can be a bit dumb (Just Saying) but it was 2005 and this was the only game like this for consoles.

GRAPHICS
The graphics in this game are nothing special, but are not bad for the PS2/XBOX era.
The framerate can slow down if there's a ton of stuff on the screen.

CONTENT
Star Wars Battlefront II has no offensive content other than non-graphic sci-fi gunplay, and rare mild profanity(only in cutscenes).
AGE-10+

CONCLUSION
This is a great game for PS2/XBOX junkies, who want a great game that provide hours
of gameplay against the CPU.  If really are a big Battlefront fan, and also like EA's Battlefield, D.I.C.E. is currently developing a remake to be released in 2015.         This is the game I've played the most of any and I give 8.5 out 10...For Awesomeness.

DETAILS
Developed by Pandemic
Published by LucasArts
Released 2005 
Rated T for Violence and Mild Language by ESRB