Borderlands: My brother is an Italian Plumber Achievement

I’m putting it out there Borderlands is a contender for Game of the Year.

Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe

This will probably be one of the easiest reviews I will ever write.  Mortal Kombat VS. DC Universe is probably one of the worst games I have ever played and I had high hopes for this game.  I wanted to add this game to my collection so badly, I mean come on it’s Motal Kombat and the DC Universe combined… now I glad I signed up for Gamefly and got it that way.  Story mode is just horrendous, the controls leave something to be desired, the voice acting is a joke, and the cut scenes are even worse.  I honestly didn’t think anything could be worse than Call of Juareze, but I was wrong.  Just from playing a couple of hours of this game I wanted out of my house.  It is completely understandable how Midway went bankrupt, when they pump out toilet trees like this.

I was actually so mad playing story mode that I had to turn it off and step outside for a minute or I was likely to break something.  After my little cool down period I came back in and tried the other game modes. Arcade mode was a joke everything is the same and its boring. Kombo Challenges were nonsensical and unexplained, after about 10 minutes of trying to figure out exactly what they wanted me to do I gave up. Took the game out of the system back into it’s packaging and sent it back to Gamefly. I haven’t had that bad of experience gaming since Call of Duty: World at War.

In closing don’t buy this game, don’t rent this game, don’t waste you precious gaming minutes playing such a crap-tastic game. Go play The Maw instead or the new arcade title Zombie Apocalypse.

Welcome to Planet Pandora

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There have only been a few games this year that I have been really excited about.  Batman: Arkham Asylum of course Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, but the game that really has me excited is Boarderlands. Think Mad Max meets Fallout 3.  I only recently became interested in RPG’s upon begin exposed to Fallout 3 and Fable.  I could never really get into World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy, really anything turn-based, I hate having to wait I’m not very good with the whole patience thing.  But Boarderlands will be far different.  The main difference will be the fact that instead of being an RPG with FPS elements Boarderlands is a FPS with RPG elements meaning that when you aim at an enemy and pull the trigger you actually hit the target (providing the reticle is actually on your target) no more do you have to worry if the invisible die roll will be in you favor.

The story of Boarderlands simply put is; Seven colonization ships traveled to the edge of the galaxy to a planet called Pandora in the distant future, in search of riches and a better life.  Upon arriving on the planet they discover that all that remains are delapedated alien ruins.  Those that were wealthy enough to leave did so, leaving everyone else to fend for themselves.  Chaos and disorder follow as does the emergence of alien creatures that up until now were in hibernation, but there is hope.  Across the planet are scattered radio transmissions speaking of a vault in the side of a mountain that is supposed too hold amazing alien technology.

There are 160 quests, 30 main quests and 130 side quests, 4 player drop in and out gameplay.  Boarderlands features a Random Content Generator.  This will affect the whole in game experience from  the weapons you’ll be using to the enemies you fight and the landscape and outer-rim towns you come across on this desolate planet.

There will be four playable characters Brick, Lilith, Roland, and Mordecai and they all have their own backstories that will be discovered during gameplay. Gearbox is also claiming that once the game is booted up there will be no load screens.

In closing, go get this game I have a strong feeling that Boarderlands will be a strong contender for Game of the Year.

Batman: Arkham Asylum – Catch! Achievement.

Ghostbusters – Drinking Game Achievements

Showing you where all those pesky Water Fountains are.  Also letting you know where to get the “rough housing achievement.”

Kung Fu Panda – Kung Fu Warrior Achievement

Showing you how to put that big ol’ Budda Belly to work, and get 20 gamerscore points in the process.

Kung Fu Panda – Untouchable Achievement

The movie Kung Fu Panda is one that will live in the hearts and minds of an entire genration. It will be remembered on the timeline of film as a classic tale of woe and karate and Jack Black. But we could care less about that. All we care about is Moondoggie82 – Showing you and easy way to get some easy achievements.

XBOX360FTW!!!!!!1!!

Fable 2 – Party Animal Achievement

Easily showing you how to get five people drunk in under three minutes for the Party Animal Achievement in Fable 2.

Ghostbusters – One Down on the Ground Achievement

Showing you how to keep those Zombie bastards where they belong…6 feet under.

Ghostbusters the Video Game Achievements

The most fun I have had playing a movie based video game has been playing the Ghostbusters game. Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd did a fantastic job creating a third installment for the franchise. The voice acting was great (Bill Murray should win an award), thankfully they got the original cast.

This game is a lot of fun, I would absolutely recommend getting this game. But I know what you’re really here for… your achievements.

The One Gaming Nation – X-Men Origins: Wolverine Uncaged Edition Review

 

Okay, so we all know that video games based on movies usually suck.
Examples:

• Raiders of the Lost Ark – Atari 2600 (1982)
• Star Wars – Nintendo (1987)
• Back to the Future – Nintendo
• Friday the 13th – Nintendo

 

 

• Total Recall
• Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game – Playstation/ Sega Saturn
• Enter the Matrix -
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial – Atari 2600

But there are some exceptions (the list is below). The X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is definitely one of them. For starters the game doesn’t follow the movie exactly a lot of things changed and some stayed the same. The game is heavy on the backstory, the mission to Africa for Adamantium, multiple secret military installations, friends and foes never mentioned in the movie and special origin story about a over pigmented future X-Men.

Besides all that fun story-line stuff, there is also some pretty solid game mechanics. Hit detection is pretty spot on, when Wolverine lunges at a person it actually connects, no jumps past or through the person and then the action happens it’s all pretty spot on. I do have to note that glitches did happen but only twice. Once while fighting Sabertooth, I had already moved behind him and and the predetermined action that was supposed to happened continued even though I wasn’t in the correct spot (it was funny to see myself get thrown through a window when we were standing back to back. The other time was while fighting Gambit, I’ll try to keep this cryptic for those who either aren’t there yet or haven’t played the game yet. While fighting him in New Orleans stuff that you are on that is about to blow up, blows up because you couldn’t jump off. Another point in the fight, both of you are supposed to fall onto a platform, he jumps up to where the fight continues and you have to climb a ladder but on your way up a piece of scaffolding is blocking your ascent. Needless to say it took a couple of reloads to finish the fight, other then that the game ran pretty smoothly. I am however a little upset that you were only able to do the human shield move once wait no that is a predetermined action.

 

The Bonus section is pretty limited, it’s just where you go to unlock alternate costumes to wear in game, there’s nothing like running around in classic yellow and blue tights. To unlock the bonus area you must collect Wolverine statues, there are four sets of statues scattered throughout the entire game. Just because you found one classic Wolverine statues in the first level doesn’t mean you’ll find the next classic to complete the set in the same level or even the next. You might find X-factor Wolverine or Legendary Wolverine next.

Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber and Will i Am lend their voices to the game as did Phil LaMarr (from MadTV) for Gambit (I didn’t notice a difference maybe thats because Taylor Kitsch is a crap actor).

In summation, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a must see movie and a must play game. All achievements are fairly easy to get although some my be tricky to find, but all in all it’s a pretty awesome game and as the ending implies I hope to be playing the sequel soon.

Movie-based video games to check out:

• Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga – Multi
• Lego Indiana Jones – Multi
• Kung Fu Panda (seriously it wasn’t bad…just keep in mind that it is a kids game) – Multi
• Evil Dead Regeneration (Bruce Campbell is the shit) – Xbox
• Super Star Wars
• Super Empire Strikes Back
• Super Return of the Jedi
• Spiderman 2 – PS2
• Batman – Nintendo
• Aladdin – Super Nintendo
• The Punisher – PC
• 007 Golden Eye – Nintendo 64

P.S. Very excited about the now confirmed Wolverine sequel and Deadpool spinoff Ryan Reynolds is the shit.

The One Gaming Nation – Halo 3 Mythic Maps Skulls

Having trouble finding the Hidden Skulls in the new Mythic Map Pack? Here’s the answer to getting to getting those skulls and a boost of 75 Gamerscore points.

 

This is the link to get the map variant to obtain the skull on Sandbox

The One Gaming Nation – Eat Lead: The Return Of Easy Achievements

5 Achievements (or 6 if you listen to my tip) in in D3 publisher’s hilarious Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard…Theses Achievements are almost as easy as Avatar the Last Airbender.