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The Lost Record of Weird Ian: 19th March 2010
[mostly damaged section] ... is why Yakuza 2 is one of the greatest games ever. Anyway, with that out of the way. I've finally got around to playing some new stuff... like Yakuza 3! Just kidding, all I've done in that so far is install it, and watch the plot summary videos of the first two games. They ingeniously get around the problem of the PS2 footage being low resolution by making the video window tiny. The 25 minute summary of Yakuza 2 seemed to make the game seem substantially more boring than it was to play it for 30 hours by focusing on the least interesting thing about it, the love interest. Look forward to more inevitable coverage of this soon.
Also, I just got a mail saying that my dubious import copy of Yakuza Kenzan has just been shipped. The confirmation mail was pretty vague about the exact delivery time-frame, and didn't even seem to be sure if it would ever turn up, which is always a good sign.
I've also played the first hour and a bit of God of War 3 and the demo of Splinter Cell: Conviction. So naturally I'm here to talk about...
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[mostly damaged section] ... is why Yakuza 2 is one of the greatest games ever. Anyway, with that out of the way. I've finally got around to playing some new stuff... like Yakuza 3! Just kidding, all I've done in that so far is install it, and watch the plot summary videos of the first two games. They ingeniously get around the problem of the PS2 footage being low resolution by making the video window tiny. The 25 minute summary of Yakuza 2 seemed to make the game seem substantially more boring than it was to play it for 30 hours by focusing on the least interesting thing about it, the love interest. Look forward to more inevitable coverage of this soon.
Also, I just got a mail saying that my dubious import copy of Yakuza Kenzan has just been shipped. The confirmation mail was pretty vague about the exact delivery time-frame, and didn't even seem to be sure if it would ever turn up, which is always a good sign.
I've also played the first hour and a bit of God of War 3 and the demo of Splinter Cell: Conviction. So naturally I'm here to talk about...
[translation continues] Read on to view.
Answers
Thankless Answers: Transmission 18
Between Uncharted 2, Modern Warfare 2, Halo 3: ODST and Shadow Complex, I've seen the end credits to quite a few of last year's big releases recently. Far from ploughing all of my time at home into Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games, I've increasingly found myself turning to the iPhone for extended gaming sessions; an activity which I would normally reserve for train journeys or prolonged waits at the bus stop. I think that this is mostly due to the leap in quality that the App Store's ever growing catalogue of bite-sized offerings has seen over the last few months, and I'm continually surprised just how absorbing something which initially appears to be a 59p timewaster can be.
I'm fairly selective in what I download. Whilst the App Store's top rated categories often feature some real gems, a great deal of them aren't representative of the experiences that I want out of Apple's platform. The remakes of Final Fantasy 1 and 2 have been highly praised, but a sprawling RPG isn't necessarily something that I want to play on my phone. Similarly, I have a low tolerance for anything that provides control through a virtual d-pad or attempts to shoehorn a console experience onto the 3.5 inch screen, so recommendations of Call of Duty: Zombies are lost on me. With that in mind, today's instalment of Thankless Answers is in service to anyone who finds themselves in the same predicament I was in when I got my iPhone last November.
Question: What is the best iPhone game?
To find out whether there's an app for that, Read On!
I'm fairly selective in what I download. Whilst the App Store's top rated categories often feature some real gems, a great deal of them aren't representative of the experiences that I want out of Apple's platform. The remakes of Final Fantasy 1 and 2 have been highly praised, but a sprawling RPG isn't necessarily something that I want to play on my phone. Similarly, I have a low tolerance for anything that provides control through a virtual d-pad or attempts to shoehorn a console experience onto the 3.5 inch screen, so recommendations of Call of Duty: Zombies are lost on me. With that in mind, today's instalment of Thankless Answers is in service to anyone who finds themselves in the same predicament I was in when I got my iPhone last November.
Question: What is the best iPhone game?
To find out whether there's an app for that, Read On!
Review
Review: Plants Vs. Zombies (iPhone)
PopCap Games like their statistics and who can blame them when they include such figures as one copy bought every 4.3 seconds, fifty million units sold and one of the top ten best selling games of all time. The latest feather in the cap for the Seattle based developers arrived courtesy of Plants Vs. Zombies on the iPhone, which after shifting over 300,000 copies in the first nine days following its release, became the fastest ever selling product on the App Store.
Although a few weeks late to the party, these impressive statistics were persuasive enough to ensure that I downloaded the "Flower Defence" application, a tag-line that strongly suggests that the game was designed around a pun one of the developers came up with while on the toilet one morning. As a fan of PopCap's back catalogue and zombies but cynical about the iPhone as a gaming platform and indifferent to tower defence, my feelings on the application were mixed even before I launched it for the first time.
Is Plants Vs. Zombies the perfect mobile gaming brain food or does the "Flower Defence" application threaten to soil PopCap's reputation?
To read Sam's review of Plants Vs Zombies on the iPhone, click Read On!
PopCap Games like their statistics and who can blame them when they include such figures as one copy bought every 4.3 seconds, fifty million units sold and one of the top ten best selling games of all time. The latest feather in the cap for the Seattle based developers arrived courtesy of Plants Vs. Zombies on the iPhone, which after shifting over 300,000 copies in the first nine days following its release, became the fastest ever selling product on the App Store.
Although a few weeks late to the party, these impressive statistics were persuasive enough to ensure that I downloaded the "Flower Defence" application, a tag-line that strongly suggests that the game was designed around a pun one of the developers came up with while on the toilet one morning. As a fan of PopCap's back catalogue and zombies but cynical about the iPhone as a gaming platform and indifferent to tower defence, my feelings on the application were mixed even before I launched it for the first time.
Is Plants Vs. Zombies the perfect mobile gaming brain food or does the "Flower Defence" application threaten to soil PopCap's reputation?
To read Sam's review of Plants Vs Zombies on the iPhone, click Read On!
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