PSN Review: Inferno Pool
Every console generation seems to have a pool or billiards game for players to while away their time, but are usually off on their physics and are generally completed by lucky shots that seem to defy the very law of physics. Growing up as a pool player has made most, if not all of those games, virtually unplayable.
Enter Dark Energy Digital, a design company from Manchester, England. Their latest creation is Inferno Pool, and it doesn’t disappoint.
Inferno Pool
Gameplay
The controls are pretty simple and for straight up pool, it can make the game seem a tad bit too easy. You can change the aiming difficulty to shorten how much of the ‘ball travel track’ is displayed, but it still makes the game pretty easy to play. The game really needed the ability to set rules where you have to bank every shot or have to make combos on all shots but the 8 or 9.
Controlling the spin of the cue ball (English for real pool players) is done by utilizing the d-pad before taking your shot. You can change the angle of the pool cue by holding L1 and using the left analog stick to raise or lower the back end. Read more…
Xbox 360 Review: WET
WET is fun, over the top, Tarantino-style action that comes up short of being a great game
- By Geoffrey Calver
WET has a unique gameplay and visual style that's all its own
WET is a unique-looking game with a lot of fun features. What it lacks in depth, it makes up for with a Kill Billesque storyline and visual styling, and ridiculous gunplay that is over the top and absurdly fun. Unfortunately, WET isn’t a perfect game because it lacks creative depth and can feel repetitive, but it is definitely a fun shooter if you’re just looking to kill a couple of hours.
Gameplay
WET tells the story of female assassin Rubi Malone. Rubi carries a pair of revolvers and a sword, and she dispatches her foes with style. The game obviously focuses on having fun while completing your mission. Rubi is beautiful and athletic. She is able to run along walls, jump high over obstacles, and slide for ungodly lengths of time along the floor, all while shooting not just at one enemy, but at two. The game encourages you to run along a wall and then jump into mid-air and slide along the floor while killing enemies left and right. As you perform such combinations, you have points rack up. The more points you gain putting together awesome acrobatics and the more enemies you kill while performing the acrobatics, the faster your health will replenish and the more points you’ll have to spend towards upgrading Rubi’s weapons at the end of each mission.
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Xbox 360 Review: Need For Speed Shift
Need For Speed Shift Is Fast Paced, Exciting, Realistic Racing Action That Can Compete With Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo
- By Geoffrey Calver
Need For Speed Shift is the latest game in EA’s long-running racing franchise. As a youngster, I remember getting behind the wheel of a Lamborghini and roaring along winding mountain roads while avoiding cops playing Need For Speed: High Stakes. I remember the distinct thrill of speeding at 200 miles per hour over high mountain passes and past waiting cops who began tearing after me. It was a thrill.
Then, Need For Speed became something else. It became generic. The formula from previous titles in the franchise was repeated over and over. The racing was distinctly arcade-like. The graphics improved, the AI improved, but the game itself was basically a redressed version of it’s former self. You raced illegally around cities and on roads. Cops chased you. You had an easy time at it and there was not really any technical difficulty to the challenges the game provided.
Need For Speed Shift features detailed cars, great tracks, and a focus on realistic racing
Need For Speed: Shift, the 15th installment in the Need For Speed franchise is a much-needed improvement to Need For Speed’s formula. It is action-packed, fun, and decidedly not easy. It also caters to all levels of drivers. It is a great game.
Gameplay
Need For Speed Shift opens with great, thumping music and a British voice telling you that you’re going to take a test run before your first big race. Read more…
