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SideQuesting’s Best of 2010 #10: Super Meat Boy
January 19th, 2011
If you’ve somehow missed every review, video and description of Super Meat Boy thus far, let me break it down: You play as a small cube of meat whose only love is another small cube, made of pink bandages and aptly named Bandage Girl. The evil Dr. Fetus proceeds to kidnap your one true desire, daring you to attempt a rescue. Not one to loaf about waiting for things to get better, you spring into action and run a gauntlet of increasingly challenging levels which bring you ever closer to a reunion.
Review: Red Dead Redemption (Xbox 360, PS3)
May 30th, 2010
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Game: Red Dead Redemption
Developer: Rockstar Games
Release: Available Now
Platform: XBox 360, PlayStation 3
I suppose I should start out by confessing that I had to invoke the Twelve-Hour rule on Red Dead Redemption. The Twelve-Hour Rule absolves me as a reviewer (and a gamer, first and foremost) from having to play more than twelve hours of a game before passing judgement on both its overall quality, and deciding whether or not to recommend it to you, my fellow gamers. And yes, in case you were wondering, I did in fact make up the Twelve-Hour Rule. Now, on to the game.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Red Dead Redemption throws you into an dusty world at the turn of the century as an enigmatic bounty-hunter type with a shadowy past and a chip on his shoulder. Yeah, I thought so. This doesn’t make for the most compelling story in the world and all the usual cowboy cliches are firmly in place here. You’ll meet the drunk gunslingers, the crooked lawmen, and of course, the hookers.
A Review By A Regular Dude: Apple iPad
April 4th, 2010
Ok, maybe not just any regular dude, but a dude you know and love; yours truly, Mike Wehner. That’s right, the same guy who tweeted such comments as “iConsidered the 10″ iPad for a bit, but iThink I’m going to stick with my 3.5″ version for the time being.” and “I’m happy with my iPad Nano, AKA iPhone!” ended up with a brand spanking new iPad in his hands within the first 12 hours of release. Am I here to make excuses? No, I’m here to tell you if it was all worth it. Read the rest of this entry “
Review: Vancouver 2010 (Xbox 360, PS3)
January 26th, 2010
Let’s get this out of the way right now; I’m not a big Olympics fan. In fact, unless there’s some crazy-fast sprinter or a swimmer who appears to be more fish than man, I’ll likely avoid the five rings wherever I see them.
That said, when the opportunity came around to play Vancouver 2010, I was struck with the unmistakable feeling of nostalgia and my head filled with images of me, controller in hand, tapping feverishly at the A button until I simply couldn’t take it any longer.
You see, I’m a child of the NES, and virtual athletic competition, to me, has always meant straining my hand muscles nearly to the point of collapse, much like the athletes my avatar is attempting to emulate on the screen. Surprisingly, Vancouver 2010 is able to marry my childhood memories with modern video game sensibilities and create a pleasurable experience that most will appreciate, if not love. Read the rest of this entry “
Guess How Much 50 Cent’s First Game Is Worth
November 16th, 2009
We’re fans of video games based on rapper’s alter-egos named after small sums of American currency, just like everyone else. Despite that, we didn’t find 50 Cent’s first true game effort, Bulletproof, to be a groundbreaking endeavor, or even a very enjoyable one.
A rap artist’s first video game is always a little rough around the edges. The proof of that can be found in Eminem’s first gaming foray Manufactured Anger, and of course we all remember Snoop Dogg’s less-than-stellar Sperm Count Homicide, but we expected more from “fiddy” (we can call him that because we’re tight, yo).
50 Cent: Blood On The Sand rectified the errors of its predecessor and hemorrhaged bonus points until we were all grinning like idiots. Given that, shouldn’t the grandaddy of 50′s games be treated with a little more respect than Amazon’s new trade-in service is offering?
I mean sure, it’s hilarious that 50 Cent’s game is worth 50 cents, but we expected a tad larger show of gratitude to the game that paved the way for the number one attacker-chopper-boss-killing simulator on the market. Shape up Amazon, or imma’ ice ya!
Who’s To Blame For Pricey PS3 Titles?
June 15th, 2009
I love video games. Like most of you, I spend my night pouring over sites like Joystiq and scraping the corners of Twitter for the latest from all corners of the industry. What’s next? What’s big? Who’s “winning”? These are just some of the questions that we may ask ourselves on a daily basis. However, gamers who consider themselves “in-the-know” can sometimes lose track of the big picture.
The purpose of this article and the (albeit minimal) research behind it stems from the fact that my shelf is populated with roughly four times as many Xbox 360 games as PlayStation 3 games and I sometimes wonder why. I mean sure, there are some pretty fantastic Xbox 360 exclusives in the pile but there are also a number of fine titles that I could have purchased for Sony’s shiny black grill instead and didn’t. Why? Read the rest of this entry “
