Paco’s Quickie: Batman Arkham Asylum
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Games of the Year, Quickies, Reviews
Game of the Year contender. Easily.
My favorite Batman before Arkham was The Adventures of Batman and Robin for SNES. Easily.
Arkham beats the SNES classic. Easily.
Tags: Batman, Batman Arkham Asylum, quickies, Review, SNES
Gems O’ The Bin: Legendary
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Gems O' The Bin, Quickies, Reviews, The Shit to Get
Why didn’t this game get more coverage. It’s R.A.D. (So far…) Sure, it’s not Metal Gear Solid 4 or Fallout but what it is, is fun as f**k.
Cool idea. Very cool idea. Like Gargoyles on acid. With a guitar track.
There are many times, where I think about Cloverfield mixed with Undying/Bioshock with fantastical creatures and so far, an engaging story. A steal. Grab it now, as it’s dropped below the $20 mark (and even $15 in some areas.) You won’t regret the purchase.
Tags: Gems O' The Bin, quickies, Review, Shit To Get
Paco’s Quickie Review: Magic the Gathering - Duel of the Planeswalker
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Quickies, Reviews
Love. It.
Addicted to it.
Hate it. Why the hell can’t I edit my deck or at least remove some core cards? Why is there no XBox Live version of the Co-op campaign?
Can’t. Stop. Playing.
Best $10 I’ve spent. Bring on the DLC, but only if I can edit my decks and ranked quitters are penalized.
Tags: Magic the Gathering, MTG, quickies, Review
Paco’s Quickie Review: Ghostbusters
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Quickies, Reviews
Ghostbusters has been a long time coming. We posted our first piece, a leaked Youtube video, way back in February of 2007. Now only 29 short months later we have Terminal Reality’s labor of love, Ghostbusters the Video Game. And it was worth the wait, minus one giant problem.
Tags: Ghostbusters, Mechanic, quickies, Review, Structure
Paco’s Quickie Review: Resident Evil 5
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Even though Resident Evil 4 redefined the series and helped evolve the genre, I can’t help but where the horror in “Survival horror” has gone. I want to love RE5. I really do. I loved 4, Veronica, Resident Evil 2 and of course the genre-defining original, but somehow this fifth installment just doesn’t grab me the way the other have. I am going to try again, but I’m to the point where I am done trying to force myself to like games that I just don’t.
Tags: quickies, RE5, Resident Evil 5, Review, Xbox 360
Paco’s Quickie Review: SKATE
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Uncategorized
I know I am late to the “how awesome SKATE is” party but I had a good reason. I loved Tony Hawk. Notice the past tense. Yet, I couldn’t leave the past behind and I found SKATE an unnameable creature.
Tags: quickies, Review, Xbox 360
Paco’s Quickie Review: Ace Combat 6
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Quickies, Reviews
In line with my person revival of racing games, I decided to try my hand at revisiting another old favorite of mine - Flight Sims. Not really sims but more like TIE Fighter and Wing Commander. Wing Commander III was the first one I played and TIE Fighter was my next. Wing Commander IV and X-Wing and X-wing vs TIE Fighter. My Gateway Pentium 120 and I spent many hours flying missions together. Back then graphics weren’t taking the technical leaps they are today and it was easier to help your imagination fill in the gaps. Now, everything needs to look so perfect and technically accurate we often lose that opportunity to connect at a deeper level. I found it hard to connect with Ace Combat 6 for a number of reasons and I’ll be moving on to HAWX. Read on to found out why.
Tags: Ace Combat, Flight Simulator, quickies, Review, Wing Commander, Xbox
Gems of the Bin: Unreal Tournament III (UT3)
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Gems O' The Bin, Reviews, The Shit to Get
Unreal Tournament 3 is the most recent predecessor in a long line of classic shooters. That world class lineage is a hard to live up to and most people didn’t think that this iteration falls short. I am completely in the opposite camp. I loved UT3 and felt it was the best $8 I’ve spent on a game in a long long while.
Tags: Epic, Gems O' The Bin, Review, Unreal Engine, Unreal Tournament 3 2007, Xbox 360
KP1gL37’s Review: Bully Scholarship Edition
Posted by HCG KP1gL37 | Filed under Reviews
Since Bully Scholarship Edition for the Xbox 360 made my recent list of contenders for Game of the Year, I’ve been thinking a lot about this game, and it feels like this review is long overdue. I found myself wanting to say so much about this game in my Game of the Year post, I had to move it over to its own post. I devoured Bully a few months ago, and even now when I think about it, I remember how much fun I had playing this game. Let’s talk for a minute about the reasons why I thought Bully was a kick-ass game.
Tags: Bully Scholarship Edition, Review, Xbox 360
Paco’s Quickie: Hulk - Seriously, How Do You F**k This Up?
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Quickies, Reviews
How the quality of a title regresses from one console generation to another baffles me. Such is the case with Hulk. Hulk: Ultimate Destruction from last gen was a f*****g great game. Hell it still is. The mindless bashing and smashing mixed with an ACTUAL STORYLINE made it at least good enough to warrant a long look. How do you f**k this up? I am not sure, maybe you should ask Edge of Reality.
Tags: GameFly, quickies, Review, The Incredible Hulk, Xbox 360
Paco’s 2008 Games of the Year
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Games of the Year, Reviews
Here at The Hardcore Gamer we won’t make you scroll to the end of the page or burrow through defensive and jaded commentary filled with ads that are spread over seven pages instead of one just to justify bloated ad rates. So, let’s get going…
GAME OF THE YEAR
Metal Gear Solid 4 is my personal favorite game of the year. I don’t know if it is accessible for everyone in the way that Gears or Prince of Persia are, but more of a closing love letter to a rabid fan-base.
WHY
During the most stellar year in gaming since last year, Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid 4 left an indelible mark on my gaming soul for the rest of my life. The sound design rocked me, the graphics wowed me and the story moved me. Read my Metal Gear Solid 4 review for the gory details.
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR
Prince of Persia, Duke Nuke’em 3D, Bully, Left4Dead, Fable 2, Burnout Paradise and Fallout 3. (In no particular order, calm down trolls) Read past the jump to discover (or confirm) why these 2008 classics get the attention they deserve.
Tags: 2008 games of the year, Burnout Paradise, Duke Nukem 3D, Fable 2, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, Metal Gear Solid 4, Prince of Persia 4, PS3, Review, Xbox 360
Paco’s Review: Prince of Persia
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Every so often I don’t get a chance to write a Quickie for a game before I finish. Hopefully the reason is because I am really enjoying the game and not because I am lazy. Prince of Persia had me kept me obsessed for almost 12 hours in 2 days and I couldn’t have had a better time. Well, maybe except for one thing.
Tags: Prince of Persia, Review, Xbox 360
