Astro Avenger 2 Review

By Ruff Bismonte

Astro Avenger 2 is the sequel to the 3D space shooter from Sahmon Games. In this arcade installment, you take the role of a lone space craft off to fend aliens in a quest to vanquish their big bad mother ship. And to do just that, you seriously need some firepower, right? Well, fortunately, that's what you will get.

The objective of the game is for you to use your mouse buttons to fire lasers and shoot rockets at incoming enemy fleets. Use your mouse also to maneuver your space craft and evade enemy artillery. What I liked about the controls is how they are very responsive to your every move, and with that, comes easy evasion on many of the incoming attacks.

While most of the time, you'll be shooting and evading, you'll also have to collect power-ups from time to time too. Power-ups will greatly increase your chances for survival and will sometimes even add plasma to your inventory. Basically, plasma is the money currency in the game, and you must collect plasma in order to upgrade your ship and weapons, or buy rockets and probes - little unmanned ships that aid you in battle.

Astro Avenger 2 is a fun game with great production values as you may see from the graphics and in-game music. Besides this, the game is very much challenging too since when I talk about hordes of enemies; you'll definitely encounter swarms and swarms of them flying towards you. Adding up the fact that you'll need to balance your energy use whenever using lasers, this game is definitely much more dynamic than your usual shoot-em-up.

But still, the game is still like any arcade shoot-em-up so besides from the awesome 3D graphics and creative boss battles, you will not encounter additional features or mini-games to play. That's fine by me though, because honestly, I play this game with the idea of blasting some space metal anyway, and in this criterion, the game successfully delivers.

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Xbox 360 Game Review - Rock Band

By Rich Russell

The Nintendo Wii raised the bar when it comes to interactivity. The physical aspect gives you a whole new dimension of immersion in games, a new order of reality. But the Wii has cornered the market in the childish, family fun style games. With Rock Band, the Xbox 360 is back in the game, and with a bang. Wannabe rock and rollers can really get a feel for what it's like to up on stage, in front of the adoring crowd.

You can, if you want to, pick an instrument and play solo, or have a jam session with others through Xbox live. But this thing really comes to life when you get your mates around to form a band. The complete set up comes with everything you need to rule the world. Lead guitar and bass guitar, a drum kit with four drum pads and a base bin pedal and, of course, a microphone to belt out those rock anthems.

The first thing is for each of you to choose your characters and give them personality with suitably over the top clothes and hairstyles. Next you'll need a name for the outfit, a big, bad one. Now you are ready to prepare for stardom. New tracks are becoming available all the time from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace, to add to what is already available. Choose wisely and you could be onto a winner.

Rock Band will guide you on what notes to play. For the singer, it is just like karaoke, with the words scrolling across the screen. As you sing, you get feedback on the pitch of your voice on the screen. The more you all hit the right notes, the louder the music gets and the more the crowd get behind you. The stage lights go wild and the joint starts jumping. Hit a bum note and you bring the score down.

If you are in the zone, each band member has the chance to go into Bonus Mode. If you all do it together, you are in Overdrive and then things really go out of control. The music and the noise of the crowd will blow your mind. With your body tingling and your senses reeling, you run off stage and grab a beer, in true rock and roll style.

The great thing is that you can't lose. If you really hit the spot, you'll have the crowd at your feet, baying for more. But if you suck, they won't be able to throw beer cans and ask for their money back. Speaking from experience, you don't want to go that interactive. Or maybe you do. Something for the developers to think about! As it stands, the adrenaline rush you get is real enough.

This is the ultimate party game and the ultimate Xbox 360 game. If there is a rock and roll bone in your body, you just can't help getting hooked into it. Get out of your dull existence and take a trip to rock and roll heaven. If you have ever stood in somebody's garage, plucking tentatively at a guitar and dreaming of what might be, don't dream any longer. Just jump right in and experience it for real.

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Getting Fit With Wii Fit

By Paul John Collins

Nintendo's announcement in 2007's E3 to produce Wii Fit as an addition to the growing Nintendo Wii family was met with both shock and doubt. It's one thing to regularly move your body with a controller to play Wii Tennis, but it's altogether another thing to use a balancing board to study the changes of your body mass.

Many were doubtful, but it works. This add-on Balance Board is flat and loaded with senses to calculate your Body Mass Index or BMI based on your inputted height and age. With this, you can start through the games that involve either exercising or doing yoga. One of the games Wii Fit offers is the Hoola Hoop balancing game which has you playing a person who uses the hoola hoop being virtually thrown to you. It's a great way of losing a few pounds and guarantees actual workout. Plus, even casual gamers can enjoy it, along with the serious gamers.

Still, there are some limitations. Unlike the PS3 or the Xbox 360, Wii Fit currently does not support downloaded upgrades, which means you can't download new exercises for you to make. You're stuck with what the games have to offer. Also, BMI calculation is mostly based on your height and your age, but not on your muscles mass. So if you have more muscle mass, you're likely to be tagged as overweight rather than fit.

Wii Fit isn't ready to replace exercising. You'll probably lose more weight if you grab your portable Nintendo DS and take a long walk or jog every night. However, Wii Fit is a unique peripheral addition to Wii, and a different competition for Xbox 360 and PS3. If you're looking for graphic-based games, look for Xbox or PS3, but if you're looking for interactive fun that will make you lose weight at the same time, try working out with Wii Fit.

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Private MMORPG Servers

By Martynas Pupkevicius

Mmorpg games have extremely well developed private servers, which can be found using the search engines or most on topic forums. The benefits of using private servers as opposed to the official ones released by the game manufacturers is that you can bend the rules or cheats in order to maximize your enjoyment factor. It does depend on the on what type of activities you like to do whilst playing an mmorpg game. Some cheats may include having a character on the maximum level with the click of a button or getting the rarest items instantly.

The drawbacks of this is of course the low level of satisfaction that you may have when having all these easily acquired bonuses. On private servers the populations are very small, this is reflected by the low popularity of this type of mmorpg gaming. These servers may also shut down any day because the host no longer has funds to run it or simply cannot be bothered anymore. The official mmorpg game will never do this, only when planned maintenance worked it carried will the game engine be paused and play suspended.

To find these private mmorpg games you will need to do some research in forums and other related websites. Due to the unreliable nature of this type of gaming you should never give any credit card details or money. They may very easily shut down the next day, which will mean that you have wasted your money on the mmorpg. Runescape and World of Warcarft have some of the most popular private servers, which seem to attract a very large population of players.

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