Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

The Star Wars franchise is in all likely-hood the most well known story in the world, however, little about the nineteen year period of darkness between episodes III, and IV. The force unleashed quite nicely wraps up all the questions about the relationship between the Emperor and Vader. According to the game Darth Vader takes up a secret apprentice. His name, or rather, code name, for he was not allowed a permanent identity, is Star killer. Star killer is requisitioned to hunt down and exterminate Jedi. Also he was not allowed to let any witnesses live, so he will destroy anyone who sees him, imperial, or not. This game shows the story of a young Sith, who learns the path to the righteous way of doing things. It can be cried fowl that the game was too easy, but I think it's fair to Star Wars fans with poor motor skills.

Overall I think it was a fun game, and it's worth the 19.99 to buy it. 8.5 out of ten.

Adventure Quest Worlds

It's been awhile since my last post and I hope no one's angry. Today I will review an MMORPG, called Adventure Quest Worlds. It's your standard Mages, Soldiers, and regals fantasy game, but it's one of the most addictive games I've played as of yet. You have to run around destroying Zombies, and saving dragons from princesses (ironic twist, da da da). Of course you have help. All over worlds you'll see random characters with exclamation icons on their heads. Run up and click the icon to get a clue about where to go next. The quests mainly consist of large adventures broken up into small tasks such as: Kill X amount of enemy X, and I'll give you a prize, or a tub of gold, or a key, or something. When signing up you have several choices in what character you want to be. I chose to be a Madge. If you become a member and sign up for twenty dollars for 3 months you can get an upgrade to each character. Overall, it's a good game and I think Sushi will agree when I say that it deserves a solid score.

I give this game an 8.7 out of 10

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Halo: Combat Evolved

Halo is one of those games that just feels like it was meant to test your faith in other games. I know it tested mine in Metroid. The only thing I can say is, wow. This was one of those games that just felt right. It can be said that it doesn't warrant repeated play, but that's only because the thrill of playing it for the first time is like some sort of wonderful drug.

The story thus far: The year is 2552, and genetic engineering is now completely in the grasp of man. One project of this science is to build an army of super men called the Spartans. This project is important because of a resistance that threatens the existence of man. The planet has become over-populated, this has forced some to colonize space. A colony that was on the very boundary of the known universe had lost contact with Earth. An armada of soldiers was sent to find the force that had possibly destroyed the colony, 32 gleaming space battle ships. Only one ship returned with reports of a giant reptilian alien force, called the Covenant, that was deeply religious. They believed humans to be the demon scum of the universe. But more on them later. This is why the SPARTAN II project is imperative to man's survival. Unfortunately, there was a failure with the SPARTAN armor. It caused the slightest spasm to jerk the SPARTAN about spasmodically. It killed all except for a genetically flawed SPARTAN, SPARTAN 117, Master Chief. His body was so dense that he weighed 1,000 lbs. at 7' high, and no fat percentage. This is the character you play as.

The game is named after a weapon the covenants ancestors built to destroy the Flood, an insect species that will feed off of anything living. Halo was built with a computer that was designed to work out a way of destroying them. It settled on the answer that if they cut off it's food supply that they would die out. It poised itself to wipe the galaxy clean of all life. The covenant shut it down and kept it a secret. It was rediscovered by the humans who thought it could be reprogrammed to just wipe out the Covenant. They were incorrect however, and didn't know it. As the player it's your job to stop them.

9.9 out of 10. Please contact us at sushidudeteam@gmail.com, or f.frey6@gmail.com

The Arrow Of Time

The Arrow Of Time is an online game for desktops. Go to superflashbros.net to play the game. In this game you are a whistle knight (they have heads shaped like whistles). Your kingdom was attacked by agents of darkness, who are trying to recover the greatest weapon of all time, which the whistle knights invented, It is called the arrow of time. It has the power to delete enemies from time and space. This was the ambition of the dark agents. The whistle knights fought valliantly to protect the world, but in the end only two of them survived. The first was the character you will play in this game, Peep, the other was an outcast from the whistle fortress (Toot). As you go through the game he fights you and tries to gain the arrow of time, on top of the dark agents also wanting it. When you defeat him the final time Peep will pull out a grapple, and pull up Toot possibly setting the game up for a sequel.
The controls in this game were not the best, you will hold down the mouse key until the arrow is pulled all the way back. You then release. An anoyance with this is that if your mouse goes of the screen it will start to lag.
Over all this wasn't a very bad game, and I really hope to see a sequel of it some time soon. 8.5 out of 10.

Metroid Prime Trilogy

When I first bought the Metroid Prime Trilogy I was kinda' skeptical. I didn't want to start the original Metroid Prime all over again, I however didn't get very far in Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. So I started out on that. I got farther on that with the enhanced controls in 2 days, than I got in months on the cube. I have a high opinion of this game and I highly recommend it for anyone who has ever played, and enjoyed a metroid game. I will only explain Prime 2, instead of that and Prime 3 for the sake of another good review. Samus is comissioned to a uncharted planet where a platoon of GF (Galactic Federation) soldiers mysteriously dissapeared. There she encounters a species called the luminoth, there is one last sentinel luminoth of Aether. He told her how a meteor struck Aether spliting it into 2 demensions of light and dark. While the luminoth were richeous their demensional opposites were completely evil. They were called the ing. They had a great war. The luminoth crossed into their demension via portals. The first that were sent over came back coughing and hacking for air, as the atmosphere of Dark Aether was so evil, anything less than ing status would shrivel up and die. They established beacons of light in the dark world and the war went on. The ing captured 80% of Aethers planetary energy. Samus must get it back
I give this game a 8.9 out of 10

Metroid II The Return of Samus

What can I say? I have a taste for metroid. Metroid II the return of samus wasn't as a smash hit as the original metroid, but it was still a pretty fine game. It takes place after metroid prime 3: corruption. Samus had been comissioned to SR388 to decimate every last metroid on the stinkin' planet! She learned that as metroids developed they grew into larger, and more deadly, creatures. The metroid stages are as such: Hatchling, Metroid, Gamma Metroid, Zeta Metroid, Omega Metroid, and Queen Metroid. Like bees there can only be one Queen/colony. Therfore, she was of course the final boss. After defeating her you must, of course, escape the area in a limited time. After that Samus found a surviving egg that her scanners overlooked. The hatchling popped out and thought that Samus was it's Mother. She took it back to a research colony. That is where super metroid picks up! In the original metroid prime she encounters hunter metroids which can be approximated to Zeta Metroids. -Fredo

Please contact us at F.Frey6@gmail.com, or Sushidudeteam@gmail.com this game is a 7 out of 10

Retro Special: STAR CRAFT & STAR CRAFT 64

This is Fredo, and Sushi Dude, and for the first time ever here on the Video Gamers Place we are doing a partner review. By typing it up on Google Docs together!! Thanks Sushi, but we might get sued for using the software name. You are welcome Fredo! Today we will be reviewing StarCraft and StarCraft 64. I'm gonna hand it over to Sushi for The Original Star Craft.

Well the old favorite StarCraft/StarCraft Brood War(an expansion) was made 12 years ago by
Blizzard Entertainment. And yes those were the same people that brought World of War craft(WoW), WarCraft, Diablo, and many other popular computer games. In Star Craft you move, build, and destroy different units to reach the mission objectives(ex: destroy the Zerg bases) . There are three races in Star Craft; the Protoss(click here to view more about this race), the Zerg(click here to view more about this race), and the Terran(humans)(click here to view more about this race). Each race has its own different units, buildings, etc. The more you play the more you learn about each races history. If you don't want to play the campaign maps you can go on Battle.Net and play custom games that you and other people made in the map editor. But for a user not good at computers making and putting a map on Battle.Net can be very hard. But some problems with battle are that depending on your Internet some people can't join your games. Although Battle.Net has its little glitches, Star Craft, it is still one of the greatest computer games ever made. I give this game 9.3 out of 10.

Now lets see what Fredo will has to say about Star Craft 64...

There is a horrible, and atrocious version of Star Craft resides in the Nintendo 64 library. Star Craft 64 was notorious for it's terrible controls. Trying to highlight your characters is a nightmare. Also, in order to attack you must use the control pad with the 4 yellow keys this is how you move and attack. The enemie AI is completely laughable, even for a 64 game. also you might spend an hour or two just trying to fuel up, or take down a control tower. I might recommend this to some one who liked StarCraft but would like to see some sci-fi from Blizzard entertainment, but as a pc game. Or a die hard N64 fan looking for a sci-fi title.
I give this Game a 5.4 out of 10.

I, Sushi Dude, just want to show you how much better StarCraft is than StarCraft 64 in graph form:


As you can see, if you are thinking about getting a StarCraft game get StarCraft for the computer not Nintendo 64.

Well that is all for now, next week Sushi Dude will be doing a review Spore so check back soon!

-Fredo
Game & Pwn On!! -Sushi Dude

p.s. Soon StarCraft II (2) will be coming out, click here for more information on it.

DSi Ware: Flipnote Studio/Hatena

Hi, it is Sushi Dude, and yes I a writing a game review. Why, because I am evil. Today I will review a new, free, app for the Nintendo DSi. Flipnote Studio, this app allows you to make animations, and upload them to the web(they call the web part: Flipnote Hatena). From there you can view, comment, star(shows how much you like it), download, and more. It is much like YouTube but for the Nintendo DSi. There is one problem with Flipnote Hatena, if you are under 13 years old it is a very annoying sign up that requires you to get a parent to sign a document and than fax or mail it back & when it gets to them it will take up two 10 days before they will activate your account. When you are offline you can edit and make flip notes with an assortment of tools, you can even add sound! When you are done you can save it to a SD card or the DSi system. If you do have an SD card you can save your flipnotes as .gif files(a picture file)! And that means I can show you one on this blog!

That took me one minute to make, these flipnotes can be very complex and can take days(or weeks) to make. If you do not have a DSi you can still view flipnotes at: http://flipnote.hatena.com/ .

I would say this is the best app on the DSi Store. My rating out of ten, 9.5.

For more info on Flipnote Studio/Hatena: Click Here.

-Sushi Dude