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Fable: The Lost Chapters — The choice is yours…sort of.

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

fableLC_1.jpgI beat the game last week. The original content took me just under ten hours, and the whole game took about 13 hours, which is really short for an RPG, and even short for a regular game. I did avoid a lot of the side-quests (didn’t really interest me, although I did get married twice, and totally scored like four times!), and there were plenty of other things to do — find all the silver keys, open all the demon doors, etc. Then obviously you can play through multiple times and try to be 100% evil, 100% good, a pure mage, a pure archer, etc.
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Far Cry Instincts is way too easy

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

farcryinstincts.jpgNote: This refers to the original Xbox version.

First off, let me say that I love this game and had a fun time playing it. The first day I played it was for eight hours straight, so I must have liked it. However, there are no difficulty levels, and the game is way too easy! You can literally run through most of the game if you really want to, especially after you have feral speed. Even the final boss isn’t very hard. He’s certainly more challenging, but it still only took me three or four tries, and that was simply figuring out what was going on (apparently there’s a huge glitch on the final boss, but I guess I avoided that). The rest of the game is a cakewalk, and here’s why:
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Review: Criterion’s BLACK (PS2, Xbox)

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

black.jpgNote: This is a short, casual review. This review refers to the PS2 version.

I just started Black yesterday. I’m a huge Burnout fan, so I was really looking forward to it, but then it got some not so amazing reviews. Nothing terrible, just that it gets boring after a while and whatnot. I’m on the fifth level I think (most levels take around 45-60 min. each).
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