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Splatoon's approachable aesthetic and surprisingly deep competitive mode kick down the door of the hardcore online genre and firmly establish their community in the online space. Fast, creative, gorgeous to look at and shockingly compelling, Splatoon feels like the tightest shooter to hit the gaming space in years.

A severely underrated DS classic worth playing if only for its story. That's right, in a game where you can drawn some genitals and fights monsters AS those genitals, there's a decent plot and downright gorgeous soundtrack. DTL2 is dark, charming, tragic and delightfully bittersweet. Play 'em both, see what you've been hearing about.

By far the best console to play this on, the wii U offers enhanced graphics, brief load times, creative options for control schemes (Don't worry though, you can always just use a pro controller if you're used to your playstation) and generally masters an already great game. Story is actually kind of good, and Sam Fischer is characterized through tiny quirks in his movement and subtle hints in the choices he makes. The game is packed with content, and even Uplay isn't too obnoxious. The partner app, "Spider-bot" is also a ton of fun. It's got some great classic stealth to balance the modern shooting in the console release. Don't cheat yourself. Grab Splinter Cell Blacklist for wii U. Fair warning though, this IS a tough one.

This game has been remade on many platforms, so don't think my review is exclusive to PS2. Honestly if you can learn the controls (Which in my opinion are awesome but many disagree) I think the 3DS version might be the best one. That being said, wow. Kojima has never come this close to glory again. True, untainted glory. The story is involving, exciting, mysterious and tragic. The gameplay is incredibly solid, giving the rush of danger like no other and putting the player in Naked Snake's shoes with hardcore hunger and medical systems. The cutscenes, while long are this time engaging, and feel like a James Bond movie. The first few go a little long, but I was never waiting for them to end. Grab some popcorn when you play the first chapter, but don't think of that as a bad thing. MGS cutscens ARE long, you can go up to an hour or so without any real gameplay in these games and that's okay when it's done right, like it is here. I got emotional to the end of this game, and I first played it on the tiny little 3ds. Buy Snake ****'s the first Metal Gear Solid game canonically (despite the 3 in the title), the best place for newbies to start and spends the least amount of time wasting your playtime with forced exposition and redundant dialogue. There's a lot to be seen here, especially on a second play through and if you can make it past the rather masochistic torture scenes you'll find an ACTUAL mature game that earns its money.

Weirdly, the wii U platform does not support the multiplayer component of this game. It can obviously run it if even a PS3 can, but the Arkham Saga seems a little racist towards Nintendo outside of Arkham City Armored Edition (Debatably the best in the series). There's no multiplayer, but the gamepad is integrated quite well without interrupting gameplay (and optional, so you can just use a regular pro controller if you please) and any avid Arkham fan knows the game doesn't flow terribly well in multiplayer to begin with. With a ten dollar lower price tag this is the system I recommend you get Origins on. It Isn't terribly innovative, but rather refines Arkham City. Combat is slightly deeper with new tools and combos, flowing a bit faster and feeling much more fluid. Story is much more interesting, bringing out many obscure characters such as "Anarky", "Firefly", "Calendar Man" and more (Yes, Calendar man is a villain. And he's not as silly as he sounds). The introduction of such creative characters, including the fantastic boss fights not only build interest in the characters but their comic book origins. After meeting a character a little bio is unlocked, and I'm unafraid to say I've read them all. This cast is new, fun, and feels less like an obligatory parade of Penguin, Two Face, Catwoman etc. (Though a number of usual suspects also appear). With more refined combat, larger plentiful maps for stealth scenarios the game will be left with one flaw. It borrows a LOT from Arkham City. Numerous parts of the much larger map are in fact taken from Arkham City. You might find it lazy, but they're modified significantly enough and from a story perspective there's no reason they wouldn't have been built yet. Small glitches WILL occur, but rarely enough that they won't distract from the game (At least on Wii U, PC is an infamously different tale). If you liked Arkham City, treat yourself and explore Gotham and its inhabitants. If you haven't played it, try Armored Edition first. If you weren't thrilled with City though, Origins won't be changing your mind.

When I played GTA (multiple games from the series), with each release I would get bored after a few hours. Saints Row: The Third is no such beast. This game is exciting, action packed, hilarious, and overall just... Exhilarating. Yeah one or two challenges are a bit annoying, but that doesn't change the fact that with the fourth game being more Infamous Style Super hero focus, this game is the best GTA style game out there. Counting GTA itself. It's a wonderful little treasure that understands nobody plays GTA to feel bad about killing people. It's to drive over the sidewalk, blow police cars to smithereens, skydive into planes to hijack them and beat mascots to death with giant **** while dressed as their own role-play fantasy gang boss. This game is fun. Everything in the game was added to be fun, and not to be frustrating or "realistic". The game couldn't care less about physics, it knows you want to fling your body over that building for insurance fraud and it's more than happy to oblige. It just asks you pause every now and then for a genuinely cool, incredibly badass campaign that lets you ride a wrecking ball down the floors of a business building and crush a rival gang boss before driving home in a giant cat shaped vacuum cleaner. Get these Saints some money.

I wrote this game off as "another Mario game". An HD version of 3D land. A cat-themed gimmick. I was dead wrong. I got it bundled with my wii U, and what I got was magical. This game is something special, it really is. Never before has Mario felt so fresh, so new, so challenging, so beautiful (maybe in galaxy), so... Jazzy. It's snappy, it's clear, it's a blast with friends or by yourself. It's hard, really hard sometimes but never unfair. You'll learn to love the later challenges, and it starts so easy you won't ever be mad. It's gorgeous, it makes you ooh and ah more than anything on your PS3 or even PS4. Don't write off the Wii U as a console, this machine as I discovered is a real powerhouse when it wants to be. Plus the memory is expandable with whatever you like instead of having to buy right from sony or anything, so you can just plug it into your PC hard drive or anything and be set to go. This game will make you fall in love with Mario. It'll make you hum its tune at the bus stop, bring you and your friends together. It's a downright magical experience that reminds us all exactly why Mario is so very important to us all.

Yeah, these games are DEEPLY flawed. Some levels feel too long, you can play as a doodle of a vulgar organ if you choose and there's REALLY unresponsive controls in the wii and mobile releases. BUT. You must buy the ORIGINALS of both Drawn to Life and Drawn To Life: The next chapter. Do not get the double pack, the story is butchered in that one. The original two, will seem cheesy at times. Token, weird, startlingly dark at some moments. But when you reach the end of the second game, WITHOUT a lets play or any nonsense like that and you'll get a surprisingly deep and disturbingly heavy conclusion so satisfying your tears will fill your shoes and you'll go sterile from shock. It's good. REAL good. Yeah, it's generic sometimes. DON'T CONFUSE THAT. 5th cell are absolute masters of being the strangest things in my DS library, and this fantastic hidden gem, while a pretty darned fun plat former to begin with has a much deeper story than it lets on. Do not underestimate this game. This is art in its finest form.

This is art. It's hardly even a game, and the tacked on combos show it really doesn't want to be. It's a brief, incredible experience that force you to wait, and in turn to idle and think. A beautiful story not nearly as simple as it seems on the surface, wrapped up in fascinating moral dilemmas and tests of the player's humanity will blow your mind and make you think. I played it a good three and a half months ago and still think about it all the time. i still listen to the soundtrack, I still debate in my mind what the true messages were. Don't look it up. Don't read reviews. Stop it. Close those tabs. You found your game. The gameplay isn't "fun", but it isn't supposed to be. Especially recommended to fans of classic movies, literature or ESPECIALLY creative writing and advanced English studies. The less you know going in, the better. Just don't quit until the ending. Believe in your heart that every seemingly monotonous task WILL be worth it in the end.

As stupidly hilarious as this silly, yet awesome story is a game about a cyborg ninja killing cyborgs in the future starting as comical and ending... Well it's fun. You can't help but feel engaged and even proud as you play, and the combat is surprisingly really, really creative. This game needs its sales to encourage the trend of smarter combat it has started. I would love to see where this goes, because the more I learned to abandon my older god of war tactics and learn the tricks of the trade the more I found myself loving it. Simply put, a somewhat short, enjoyably stupid, admittedly bad-ass and curiously intelligent game. Turn your volume up.

Sure. The gameplay isn't traditionally fun. BUT. This game is hardly a video game. It's art. The gameplay exists merely to compliment and bring the player into this tragically beautiful story. Play to the end. At least 60% of the budget was clearly sunk into the end. Don't look it up, don't watch a walkthrough. Play it. I still think about this game to this day, I still contemplate just what it all meant.

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Not only a fantastic, beautiful, brilliant stealth/adventure game, but an accurate one. This game has helped me pass numerous tests I may have failed. I've toured the locations from the game, and seen their match up. My grandfather even, who had lived in two of the game's locations for years was given a controller and found that he could find real locations he knew of without the aid of a map, claiming it was like being back home. Even if not for gameplay, you've no reason not to touch the one and only perfect Assassin's Creed.

Trash. I might be biased against EA already for letting me pay for plants and keys in Plants VS Zombies 2 before REMOVING THEM and paying me back in a few measly, one use powerups, but this is shameful. Dungeon Keeper has been bent over a table and bum-sullied mercilessly by EA, with 24 hour waiting periods to clear a single lump of dirt for your stupid dungeon, uncreative characters and gags that fall flat. No strategy, no competition, and it doesn't even try to pretend it is different from clash of clans.

Battle Cats starts out simple, but gets increasingly addictive as it goes on. Very much worth the memory, but in-app purchases are somewhat meaningless. Get Cat food through promotions, don't pay cash.

This game is a well designed, incredibly rewarding social game using real-time to set characters on missions (each a set number of hours) and then returning later to collect the spoils of their labors. The game does have some very overpriced "donuts" being currency for premium content purchased with real cash, or won through the mystery box. It's fun, though you do need patience for this very addictive game. A must-have for any tablet owner

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This is by far the best stealth shooter available on a handheld device to date, with a stunning plotline and remarkable graphics/audio. Not to be played on-the-go. Best for playing late at night in bed, as plot has half-hour cut-scenes, but this is fine because cut-scenes make James Bond look like an indie series. A must buy.

This is a game-changer. This game has so many features, So many characters, So many stories, Such high quality. Epic StreetPass and SpotPass, Excellent DLC quality and VERY generous free updates. So re-playable with the limitless free SpotPass Cast, you could be playing for years. A must-have for any gamer, and excellent motivation to buy yourself a 3DS, especially with Poke'mon X/Y coming out.

"Line Rider Unbound: 2" is an awesome concept. That's the best thing you will hear from me. The game has a broken story mode nobody can beat, is based mainly around luck. This game would be awesome as a download, but you can only carry about nine games at a time in your DS case. Do you really want THIS to be one of them? Freestyle is fun, but gets old fast. Not much to do, and probably not worth five dollars. Physics lovers might like it, but nobody else will play past an hour. Too many bugs, not enough features and a very forgettable execution. I just still can't bring myself to quite hate it though. It could be because of how clever the concept was, but nevertheless- Just not worth over $5.00.

You didn't know your PS3 could do so much. "Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack In Time" is the final installment in the "Ratchet and Clank Future" trilogy, and the final "Ratchet and Clank" game to follow the original format (Yes there ARE new R&C games, but these are simply because R&C are Sony's main mascots and naturally star in other games with different concepts, just like how Super Mario still stars in MarioKart). This game has it all; an incredible, gripping plot, a massive variety of weaponry (customizable and upgradable) and a very long list of game-play options, in a game that will last for weeks. simply incredible, it has no flaws, and is an ideal PlayStation title. If only there were more gripping action/third-person-shooter titles like this one.

Most people have been infuriated at this game for its lack of a free-roam, or its graphics not comparing to that of the WiiU and PS3. They're wrong. This game is a simple, fun action game that takes people back to some of the earlier villains such as the Rhino or Black-Cat, and puts the player in with many ways to beat each mission, be it stealth, action or anything in-between. There are plenty of upgrades and hidden packages, but its still not perfect. Once in a while younger players may get lost in some of the levels and not know where to go, And its true that the alternate suits you can unlock just aren't different enough, but the gameplay is fun and can be strategic (only if you use the stealth approach), even if it is over somewhat quickly. Players will enjoy seeing the aftermath to Connors experiments from the movie, as welll as the trademarked spidey-humor and of course- Spider-Mans ridiculously big arsenal of attacks, be it flips or kicks or twirls or throws, he always keeps you guessing. Worth the $30.00, probably not much more.

By far the best Sonic game I have ever played, available in stunning 3D for anyone who can afford a TV that will be outdated within a year. The game comes jam-packed with challenges levels courses and achievements to keep people blasting through its stages forever, as well as online play (not live unfortunately) and a massive soundtrack of pumping tunes which you can actually switch! Thats right! If you like a song you can play it whenever you want in the background of a level. The game has incredible graphics, unbeatable level design, a setting to turn OFF Omochao! Blast through this world at supersonic speed as you rush, jump, home and spin your way to the infamous time eater, an HD monster who was kidnapped famous Sonic landmarks for you to find and save, or access the trophy room by running into the east red room in the white space and holding down select. In this mode you can view trophies of famous sonic history. The game is the ultimate in fast, and contains incredible rivals and bosses such as perfect Chaos and the amazing silver. In conclusion, this is certainly the most incredible PS3 game in my collection, and I have played both LBP and LBP2! Insert the disc and feel the rush!