Vietcong: Purple Haze 'Scuse me while I annihilate this guy. , 01/10/2005 at 00:00 When I started amphitheatre Vietcong, I was abundantly surprised. "Hey," I thought, "this is in actuality appealing acceptable for a $10 game!" Afresh I credible it's not a $10 game. It's funny how abundant of an appulse 30 dollars can acquire on your acumen of quality. For $10, I'd be accommodating to abstain the ridiculously continued aggregate times. I'd be accommodating to abstain the abominable A.I., which causes enemies to aberrate aimlessly and teammates to relentlessly footfall anon into your band of fire??”even traveling so far as to block themselves amid you and the bank you're abject behind. I'd be accommodating to abstain the anytime acute controls, the abstract backfire that makes aiming doubly difficult, and the enemies' complete cutting that makes it afire they acquire none of these problems. And I'd in actuality be accommodating to abstain the ultrasimple animation (circa 1998), the abominable animation, and the acutely bad complete effects. All these complaints wouldn't backpack about as abundant weight, which would acquiesce the game's (admittedly few) strengths to angle out a bit. For example, accede the actuality that this is a first-person ballista with in actuality alternating band elements: You can activity abstracted commands to anniversary of your teammates if you choose, or even airing up to them and collaborate with them directly??”borrowing ammo, allurement for health, that arrangement of thing. The adventurous aswell has decidedly authentic pacing, which adds a assertive aggregate of tension; alive 'n' gunning will leave you stone-cold asleep in a hurry, so you acquire to achieve anniversary best cautiously. Read the abounding Vietcong: Purple Haze 2 Samurai Warriors XTreme Legends By Chris Baker, 01/10/2005 at 00:00 First there was Dynasty Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends. Afresh came Dynasty Warriors 4: Xtreme Legends. You can abandoned brainstorm how xtreme the legends get with Samurai Warriors: Xtreme Legends! Unfortunately, if you acquire a astute imagination, that's not absolute xtreme at all. Whereas Dynasty 3 XL formed abundantly for its change abandoned and Dynasty 4 XL alien some air-conditioned new gameplay modes, Samurai XL adds beneath than either. Abandoned the a lot of hardcore will acknowledge abundant of annihilation added to this eighth Warriors absolution for PS2. For instance, adjoin admission includes three new aggressive multiplayer games??”which you'll never feel the allegation to play added than once. Survival admission introduces a gold-gathering mechanic??”big deal. Meanwhile, the album tells you added about the game's feudal-Japanese characters??”a acceptable addition, but annihilation you'd buy a adventurous for. Once you get accomplished the negligible new features, there is some fun hack-n-slash gameplay to be had with the four new characters. No alone Warriors actualization has anytime been as fun to use as Ina the archer warrior princess, and her ancestor Tadakatsu Honda (yeah, the aforementioned dude you apart in Onimusha 3) is annual a analysis drive as the absolute Lu Bu of Japan. Read the abounding Samurai Warriors XTreme Legends