2009-07-03

FishCo


I've been reading some facts about home aquariums lately and I actually found out that there's much more to know about fishes than just putting some living thing inside a tank. Thankfully, the FishCo game is like a teaching tool about keeping aquariums and taking care of one. And the best thing about it all is that it's a casual game.
FishCo is actually a name of a company, a business you and your partner Tracy built from your deep love for fishes. Your aim in this newly established venture is to of course, earn money from selling livestock and aquarium supplies. Dividing up the work, Tracy takes care of coordinating with the suppliers, and you will do all the raising, breeding and selling of fish, which actually brings us to the objectives of the game.

The game falls under the time management genre where you're tasked to profit from selling fish. Before each level starts, you're given specific tasks to fulfill before the time limit expires. Basic tasks include raising and feeding fishes until they are mature enough to sell. All the challenges are easy enough to complete within the time limit, but if you would like some decorations and fishes adorning your own trophy tanks, you would have to beat the expert time limit for each level.

One great thing about FishCo is how it closely simulates taking care of real life fish. Making sure your livestock is fed and raised properly only scratches the surface. Most of the time you will also have to clean the algae from the tanks and regularly change its water, put antibiotics and other medicine into the tanks whenever your fishes are infected, and even dispose of the fishes too if for some reason they die because of neglect. All in all showing you how aquarium-keeping is really one big responsibility, but something that offers so much fun too if done correctly.

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2009-07-02

Burger Island 2





When Patty Melton and her short-tempered waiter Pierre got some real tough competition against their once-successful burger restaurant, it's time for them to move on to the next level. Burger Island 2: The Missing Ingredient lets you play again as the dynamic duo, trying newer and better recipes in order to win back their lost customers in this quirky time management game.

After one day of losing all of their customers against their wily competition, Burger Chief, Patty and Pierre came investigating and found that all the competitor's ingredients seem too familiar. What's worse, their go-to ingredient master, Tiki Guy, was kidnapped along with all his tasty recipes. Somehow, these two incidents seem very suspicious, but you have more important issues at hand - trying to build back your crumbling business, and try to find Tiki Guy in the process of expanding throughout the islands.

Aside from concocting burgers, Burger Island 2: The Missing Ingredient now lets you serve breakfast and snacks to add to Beach Burger's restaurant treats. Wait for orders to come in ringing at the top of your screen, fry those burgers, tacos or eggs, and try to collect all the ingredients in the order they must be put together for the perfect meal. Reach the target score for each level, and be rewarded with more revenue as you build reputation on your restaurant in the process.

Failing to reach the target profit for each day will make you retry the level again, and in order to avoid that, you must be prompt with each customer order. Putting in wrong ingredients to your meals will lose you money too, as well as burnt ingredients when you neglect them frying for a long time. On the other hand, you'll be awarded with bonus points depending on how you perform on each level, and get ranked higher too if you prove yourself well.

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Burger Island 2

GTR2 Game




Simbin, some love them some hate them. There's one point however everyone can agree on: they make hard core race simulators. Things that had to go were the visual lap/time indicators and using the grass as race line. But do these Sim like features destroy the fun?

Presentation

GTR2 is a relatively old game but still up there with the big guns.. When it was released every sim freak went nuts and everyone else just thought: I can't drive this. But it still appeals to quite a broad audience. And that's no surprise because it packs some pretty impressive features. First of all it's the only game that licensed the official FIA GT championship. A championship split in two groups of race cars. A fast pure race machine class and a normal sport car tweaked class. Available cars include the Ferrari F360, Saleen S7-R and Aston martin DB9. And with machines like these and a clear push by the manufacturers for development, it's clearly not a B competition. Also the cars all look beautiful when the graphics are turned up. As do the tracks, that include greats like Spa and Imola. So the game packs the goods when it comes to license (they lost it now hence the awful sequel) and graphics. That's quite an achievement from the developers from Simbin.

Gameplay

GTR2's presentation appeals the broad audience but the game play attracts the sim players. Driving around the track of Spa is such a joy. Every bump in the road you feel and some places of the track clearly have less grip than others. For example: the pit exit feels very slippery but the racing line gives you the grip. The tracks are made in such detail that I almost forgot to mention the lack of them. GTR2 isn't grand turismo. It has about 12 tracks and 35 cars but the detail put in each track and car makes up for the lack of content. Cars all feel different and sound different. I'm a Ferrari fan and love that distinctive Scuderia engine sound, but others might like Porsche and will only by the sound recognize the vehicle.

24 hours

How many games let you race trough night and day in an extreme endurance race between manufacturers all over the game? Not many but GTR2 does! Doing that results in a fantastic experience with real life cars and tracks turning day and night on your full HD computer screen. Rain suddenly falls everyone pits, it turns night you have to press H to turn the headlight's on. Then your tyres are worn out and you have to make an extra pit stop as the number 2 Ferrari overtakes you and wins the fight after many hours of excitement. This perfectly sums up this highly realistic game that both pleases the arcade and sim racers. But to get the most out of it you must have patience and keep practicing. This isn't a pick it up and play but ultimately gives you the fulfilling feeling of a real race victory.

2009-06-26

Pokemon Platinum Game


Every fan knows that each generation of Pokémon games always has three versions. After Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl, here is Pokémon Platinum. And despite the absence of major innovations, everything suggests that this episode seems to have a bright future.

Pokemon Platinum has arrived. More than one million units were sold in just days, reflecting the extraordinary popularity of the series in the Japanese archipelago. Yet this version Platinum gives exactly the same story and the same game as its big sister on DS (Diamond and Pearl versions). Pokémon starting again in Ouisticram, Tortipouss and Tiplouf. It is still exploring the region of Sinnoh to recover badges in arenas. There are hundreds of wildlife to capture and raise, and so on.

The fighting tactics and gameplay is still the same. First, to cut short the various rumors and speculation, there are no new species of Pokémon in Platinum. However, some rare species now include new variants. Motisma, for example, can now appear in the form of appliances. Obviously, this does not impact on the glaring gameplay and fans will no doubt be disappointed. However, the Giratina is also in this game. This legendary Pokémon is also the star of Platinum. The new transformation is unlocked after you complete a new tower puzzle/quest that will test your sense of direction.

The graphics are more colorful but the environment is the same. The Pokédex has full information about the different species. Finally, the regulars of the series will note some differences with Diamond and Pearl versions such as improved graphics and the overall presentation. While the environments and scenery keep roughly the same look as the past but are more colorful and they are 3D from time to time. There are now also cut-scenes depicting key moments of the adventure. Sprite Pokémon in the game have underwent a facelift. In terms of story, there are all the old acquaintances from other versions like Diamond and Pearl and a handful of new smaller secret agents who appears regularly to help you in your adventures. In short, if Pokémon Platinum does not revolutionize the series on DS, there are still enough new features and gameplay to fill the neophytes and legitimize the impatience of fans.

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2009-06-25

Bubble Town Game





Remember the bubbles you made from soap when you were a kid? It's so much fun popping them out, and now, you get to feel the same nostalgia in the Bubble Town game from I-play. But will popping bubbles be fun to play in terms of casual gaming too? Well, that's what we're here to find out in this review.

The setting of Bubble Town starts in the idyllic little town of Borb Bay, where hundreds of little bubble heads called borbs live. One day, however, aliens called Lumps arrived on this quiet little town and invaded the whole of Borb Bay, leaving tons of mess around the place. You have to help the borbs get back their freedom once again, because well, they are just too lazy to do this task for themselves. And besides, what can they possibly do since they are just small heads of bubble, right?

Anyway, the game plays like the famous marble popper game known as Puzzle Bubble where you are tasked to clear all the bubbles in the game field by matching 3 or more same colored bubbles. There are no time limits in this game but for a different challenge, you'll only have a limited number of ammunition in your arsenal to make all the borbs pop. Refill your ammo by freeing little borbs from their confinement. This means not popping them, mind, but freeing them by popping their attachments instead.

If your ammo is full, spilling borbs trying to fill it up will mean bonus points. Additional borbs will eventually replenish your ammo tube if you expend them all out while making matches; however, this also means that your playing area will shrink during every replenishment routine. And coupled with other obstacles hindering your objective, Bubble Town is really one challenging game to play.

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UFC 2009 Undisputed Game





This is the second video game release that the Ultimate Fighting Championship has released, this new video game that is being sold on the 360 and the PS3 is a very fun and interesting video game, it allows you to play and use the moves that the Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters have in the cage, with hundreds of matches and tons of action this is one of the most exciting video games that I have ever played.

One of the things that I like is that every player has unique moves and the game is very realistic. Now some people have complaint a bit about the graphics but I actually like the way the game looks a lot, one thing that we have to remember is that a lot of people have downloaded a demo version of the game but the actual console version will be much better.

One of the downsides of the game is the long learning curve, each fighter has so many different moves that it becomes very hard to learn each move for each fighter, also the use of multiple combination in the controller makes it a bit harder for the game to be fast and easy to learn.

So really I would give 4 stars out of 5 for this game, with so many moves and all of the options that the game has this is a great way for people to experience what it feel to be an mixed martial arts fighter, well at least in your television screen.

If you still do not have a copy of this game you can downloaded directly into your favorite video game system.

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