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Friday, December 23, 2011

played: Saints Row The Third /PC



Personal Impression:
Very good over-the-top gang-action-game with a great "custom-sandbox". Saints Row 3 has one of the funniest and most entertaining story-campaign i've ever played thus far. It has some boring "filler-episodes", but remains generally very enjoyable and highly amusing. And almost every character is very well written, fantastically synchronized and adequately presented. But i've missed something in this open city, besides some more interiors, that would keep me "in", even after the story-campaign. GTA San Andreas and Saints Row 2 served this aspect of "re-visit" significantly better, it seems to me that this new city is a little too casual ...


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Like:                                                                        Dislike:
- open city ...                                                             - ... but not enough interiors
- the few interiors are beautiful designed ...             - ... but offer no interaction
- super fun campaign ...                                            - ... but with some weaker missions
- large amount of customization options ...              - ... but definitely less than in Saints Row 2
-  crazy over-the-top humor ...                                  - ... and lot of wasted potential
- decent graphics ...                                                   - ... and incredible stupid screenshot-handling
- Zombies ...                                                              - ... but no private-poledance

Monday, December 19, 2011

played: Star Wars - The old Republic /beta-weekend /as Sith-Inquisitor

Personal Impression:
Just for strong Star Wars and MMO Fans. The first hours of gameplay were nice to see, the fresh smell, the first impressions etc. you know, oh and it's Star Wars (for me a LIKE). But soon enough i knew that this isn't what i hoped for ... The Singleplay has it's nice story-moments and is voiced excellent, but generally wasted in short quickies, most the time you're running around, collect some stuff and click on stuff ... besides Singleplayer in this MMO(generally?) is ridiculous implausible; I found some "special, unique" comrade during story-missions and see at the same time all the other players running around with the same comrade, sure that's MMO-sense. And everything just looks depressing awful and bulky. The MMO-gameplay is just World of Warcraft in Star Wars with some new aspects but the absolutely same substance. Looks like the same situation with Warhammer-Online, but with the Star Wars license instead.

The Devs said "The old Republic" is like "Knights of the old Republic" 3, 4 and 5 ... i say this is bullshit and hope for the day a decent KotoR 3 will appear ... from Oblivion ? Yeah, i better continue to play Skyrim ...

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Like:                                                                         Dislike:
- Star Wars                                                                 - slow, lame singleplay
- excellent voices and talks                                        - quick-shot story
                                                                                   - MMO-aspect nearly the same as WoW
                                                                                   - ridiculous weak graphic
                                                                                   - bulky environment
                                                                                   - talents, items etc. stretched for MMO-purposes