Not going to be a long review since I'm doing this on the spot but Dead Space 2 was a fantastic sequel to one of my favorite horror games ever. Literally right after the first cutscene you're thrust back into the nightmare-ish universe of Dead Space, this is a terrifying and awesome way to start a game like this. Basically Dead Space seeks to mix fast paced FPS elements with the horror genre, a combination we've seen for quite a long time. However, Dead Space does a fantastic job of immersing you into it's freakish world and give you that sense...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
The Weekly Update!
Hello all, Stack is here once again to give you the 2nd Weekly Update! Here with Team Infestation, things have been picking up to say the least. Slowly but surely we are adding things and putting our pieces together to build our jig-saw puzzle of life. Of course when I say life.... I mean games....and this website.... and breathing. AAAnyways here is what is going on for this week. Starting off we having our continuing article Looking Forward and Looking Back on Monday with our very own Zack Bell. He has chosen to games that should be catching...
Looking Back: Tales of Symphonia
Ahhhh probably one of my favorite games of all time, which I have beaten about 7 times now (a few of those were 100% completions) now that might seem a bit excessive to you even if it really was a great game. Well screw off. I can’t get enough of this game, it captures my interests perfectly and while it may seem a little repetitive at times with the fighting, it was the world(s) in which this game takes place that really captured my attention. The overworld is yours to explore whether it be on foot, riding a dog thing, or flying around, you have...
Looking Forward: Dead Space 2
Now hopefully a lot of the people who will be reading this have played the original Dead Space since it was easily one of the most enjoyable horror games. The things that made it so enjoyable were not the reasons you might be thinking about. Sure, the game was pretty scary once you got into it but there is such a deep universe behind this series that allows the game to take you on a Necromorph infested journey through Dead Space hell as Issac Clarke, engineer extraordinaire. Now there were several things in Dead Space that were really interesting...
Thursday, June 17, 2010
First Look: Transformers: War for Cybertron
I’ll admit, when this assignment was passed across my desk I screamed and almost attacked my editor. But then I remembered that I don’t have a desk or an editor, and the only thing I was screaming at was the shade-demon in my mind that constantly torments my every waking moment. My laptop shat the bed and died last week, so I couldn’t submit anything to this fine website then. And between the funeral for my Dell and a very bad fallout with my girlfriend, this week was just awful. But there’s no time to talk about that now, because holy crap, Transformers...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Time Honored Tuesdays: Donkey Kong Country 2
Do you enjoy adventure? I don't know about you, but I certainly do. As a young kid and even to this day, I have been wanting to explore the massive world out there. There's so many sights to see and cultures to meet; it would more than likely be an enriching experience. As I am. for the time being, unable to travel around the world whenever I so choose, I can resort to Donkey Kong Country 2, a game just brimming with beautiful environments and places to explore.Some time after the defeat of the crocodile overlord King K. Rool, Donkey Kong is relaxing...
Monday, June 14, 2010
The Weekly Update!
Team Infestation is reaching its 2nd week here and we have only hit the tip of the iceberg. Yes, just like the Titanic we are completely unstoppable and unsinkable.....wait. Well anywho, Stack is back again here for what I would like to consider the first Weekly Update for all our followers. We have a exciting week hoping to make you guys (the readers) beg for more. Our articles of the week are looking promising and hopefully you all will enjoy what we have to say, and if not.. well... uh... please don't go. First up this week we have our Looking...
Looking Back: Legend of Legaia
Talking about The Legend of Dragoon last week got me thinking about another “Legend” game, and that game happens to be Legend of Legaia. Now these two games have very little in common other than the fact that they are both amazingly well done games. One thing they do have in common though is that they both sought to change up the classic RPG gameplay. Dragoon did it with the combo timing system, Legaia went about it through the combo input system. Each character is given a selection of 4 physical attacks during combat. High, Low, Left, Right, these...
Looking Forward: Blade and Soul
Now being a hardcore mmo fan I love playing all sorts of different mmos, I played ragnarok for the longest time and I’ve basically tried out most free to play mmos out there. But one company has always captured my interest and managed to keep it, this company is NCsoft. NCsoft has released multiple high quality mmos such as the casual gamer favorite, Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, and for the more hardcore gamers they have released titles such as the Lineage games as well as Aion, the game I am currently enjoying with several members of our team....
Friday, June 11, 2010
Anime Friday: Angel Beats!
Everyone wonders at some point in time what life is like after death, Angel Beats brings you one such illustration. Leave it to the Japanese to generate an idea of the afterlife where purgatory is a highschool and all the kids are pissed off that they died. Anyway, the story follows Otonoashi Yuzuru, a boy who lost his memory of his life, as he's thrown into this confusing afterlife where he meets Yuri, the leader of the Shinda Sekai Sensen or SSS (Afterlife War Front), a group of students who are rebelling against God for how their life turned...
Thursday, June 10, 2010
RPG Corner
Some people never get into RPGs these days and it’s a truly sad thing since RPGs represent a very important part of the gaming industry and the genre contains some of the most immersive titles that have ever existed. The genre has gone through some pretty serious changes over the years and is almost unrecognizable. Games like Fallout 3 and the Elder Scrolls series pass as “adventure” games which are basically our RPGs now when more traditional RPGs like Final Fantasy, the Tales games, the several “Legends” games, and the .Hack// series are pretty...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Zack's Reviews: Lost Planet 2
Lost Planet 2 is a game that represents a very sad part of the quality spectrum in my mind. It’s in the same section as games like Prototype and…damn I’m out of ideas but the general point I’m trying to make is that these kinds of games bring really good ideas to the table but they are just lacking in certain areas. Lost Planet 2 is not a bad game at all, in fact it is quite good, but it is just missing some key elements that would have made it great.Gameplay: This is where Lost Planet 2 sets itself apart from other games. The gameplay compliments...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Time Honored Tuesdays: Mario
Out of all the video games I could have started out with in my youth, Super Mario World just so happens to be the very first for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). Yes, of all games that a child could get introduced to when starting an adventure into the gaming world, why did it also have to be one of the greatest games game creators have ever produced. This game is the true perfection of any 2D platform adventure game. Super Mario Brothers started its legacy, but Super Mario World for the SNES is the true birthright of all Mario games....
Monday, June 7, 2010
Introductions!
Welcome one and all, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Gamers and Nerds, and everyone in between: We are Team Infestation (and the crowd goes wild AHHHHHHHHHH). Hello everyone this is Stack and I'm here to tell all of you a little bit of what we are here to do. This team is made up of a group of friends who, for lack of a better word, LOVE games. Whether it is on the computer, a video game system, a children's card game, a cell phone, or a dice game in the alley, I guarantee we have something to blog about for you all to enjoy. We focus on...
Looking Back: Total Annihilation
We all have our favorite little old video games that we describe as “gems” and hold an unsettling amount of fond feelings for. This is a safe place for those feelings, yes, a place where you can let those feelings of nostalgia and creepy game love quietly slither out from whatever rock they were hiding under in the back of your brains. I too have a frightening amount of old(ish) games that I have funny feelings for. The one that I’ll be discussing today is an old school RTS game called Total Annihilation. Now most of you have probably heard of...
Looking Forward: Brink
So many games to look forward to oh what will I pick…ah I’ve got it! Brink. Brink is a game I first heard of while applying to win a 500 dollar gift card to Gamestop and a TV or something and Brink was also included in this bundle. Now my mind at the time was telling me things like “Screw the game I want that big TV” so I ignored Brink until I had it shoved into my face by my roommate some time later. Now, Brink is probably the main source of my excitement for the fall since I am a multiplayer junkie when it comes to violent games, and this is...
Launch Announcement!
Well everyone the day has arrived and we are putting up our first week’s articles over the course of Monday through Friday. The current lineup reads a bit like this. Mondays: Zack’s Looking Forward and Looking Back articles which focus on games that are coming out in the near future and good games that you might have missed in the past. Stack’s The Weekly article will also be posted every Monday giving all you people an update on what we have going on for the upcoming week so you know what to look forward to. Tuesdays will be Darnell’s weekly article...
