Year: 2010
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Dumpster Diving: Perfect Dark Zero
Year Released: 2005Price Paid: $7.99Time Spent: 2 hoursExpected Rating: 3/10Overall Rating: 6/10Value For Price: B+ Comments:Definitely not the worst game I’ve come across, but Perfect Dark Zero lacks something to be desired. The controls feel somewhat stiff and the game-play uninspired to do anything new, but I really dig the look and soundtrack of the game. I don’t feel sorry for […]
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Dumpster Diving: Vampire Rain
Year Released: 2007Price Paid: $1.99Time Spent: 15 minutesExpected Rating: 4/10Overall Rating: 2/10Value For Price: F Comments:Think about everything you loved about Splinter Cell and Syphon Filter. Now take it all away and you get this piece of crap. Whole game seems pointless and just trying to hone in on whatever money could have been made by releasing another third-person shooter. Controls […]
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REVIEW: Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Based off the old Chinese tale “Journey to the West”, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West follows a man known as Monkey and woman named Trip on their journey home to freedom. Taking place 150 years into the future, Earth has been all but decimated by global warfare with plant-life flourishing over once magnificent buildings and robots(or “mechs”) […]
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Dumpster Diving: John Woo Presents Stranglehold
Year Released: 2007Price Paid: $3.00Time Spent: 4 hoursExpected Rating: 4/10Overall Rating: 6/10Value For Price: A Comments: Pretty much get what you think you will from the cover of this one. Lots of dudes with guns, lots of firing wildly while performing stylish moves (slow-mo and all). I can’t see paying more than what I did for this but I could see […]
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REVIEW: Quantum Theory
“Many years have passed since the world war inflicted catastrophic damage on the human race, leaving only a few survivors. In their new community “Cocoon,” life has been threatened by a black material called Erosion, creating a post-apocalyptic environment. Surviving humans recruit a militia to conquer the Erosion and set out to take down the […]
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Dumpster Diving: Fuzion Frenzy
Year Released: 2001Price Paid: $1.99Time Spent: 2 hoursExpected Rating: 6/10Overall Rating: 8/10Value For Price: A+ Comments:Probably holds more value for me based on nostalgia but for the price of a small cup of coffee I was able to find one of the funnest party games I remember playing. Only downfall is that all the fun revolves […]
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Dumpster Diving: Prey
Year Released: 2006Price Paid: $6.99Time Spent: 6 hoursExpected Rating: 4/10Overall Rating: 7/10Value For Price: A+ Comments:I think the only thing that could have made my experience with this game any better would have been to have played it when it came out as the graphics are pretty nice and any problems I had with any technical aspects were due largely […]
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Dumpster Diving: Ninja Blade
Year Released: 2009Price Paid: $4.99Time Spent: 4 hoursExpected Rating: 6/10Overall Rating: 6/10Value For Price: A Comments:Hope you like quick-time events and ninjas because both are rampant in this game. Story is stupid, character designs are laughable but the game plays well, looks good and can hold your attention well enough. Definitely worth the price I paid.
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BioShock and the Infinite Glad-ness
Welcome to Rapture. Three simple words that had little to no meaning to me until the latter half of 2007 when BioShock hit stores shelves and found its way into my heart. What could have easily been “Generic First-Person Shooter # 35, 766”, BioShock was able to provide a game-play experience rivaled by none with […]
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REVIEW: Piranha 3D
It’s spring break and Lake Victoria, AZ is bombarded once again with boatloads of tourists and drunk college kids looking for a constant week-long party. While usually on week-long babysitting duty, the local Sheriff’s office has more important things to worry about when the tattered remains of a fisherman are discovered shortly after an earthquake hits. Bringing in a team of seismologists to investigate reveals that the earthquake created a fissure at the bottom of the lake, revealing a subterranean lake housing killer piranhas from the prehistoric age.