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Ninel Conde
MLB 08
Disappointment. Unpolished. Repetitiveness. Frustrating. All words that in one way or another summed up Sony’s attempt at bringing an exhilarating baseball experience to the Playstation 3 last year. Not only were Playstation owners forced to wait six weeks into the regular season to get their hands on the game, but upon arrival, fans were met with whitewashed character models, even worse stadium textures, and a multitude of AI issues. So when SCE Studios San Diego told us that MLB 08 The Show would feature over 500 more animations, shift its development focus more on fundamentally sound gameplay, and feature a deeper more in depth Road to the Show we expected nothing less than a truly immense baseball experience. Expectations were not only met but surpassed resulting in one of the best sports sims of the past decade.
The Club
Bizarre Creations, the studio behind Project Gotham Racing, effectively and successfully took PGR’s Kudos system and brought it to the Club in the form of Combos. Each successful kill earns the player a point total, adjusted by factors like range, style, and accuracy, and increases the combo multiplyer by one. Chain together kills before the timer runs out, combine them with rolls and turns, and you can gather some serious points. In addition to kills, combos can be increased or timers reset by finding and shooting "skull shots," small orange signs scattered throughout each stage.
Dark Sector
The storyline and setting for Dark Sector has changed considerably since its inception. Gone is the space angle, replaced by a story of bioterrorism and revenge served cold. The game stars Hayden Tenno, a government agent sent on a mission to infiltrate a weapons lab in a fictional Soviet bloc country and blow the place to hell. As Hayden progresses through the base, he keeps hearing stories about “the infected” and begins to wonder what exactly is going on. As he tries to escape, he’s attacked by a metal-skinned monster and captured by the sinister Mezner, the madman behind it all. Hayden manages to escape Mezner, but not before being infected by the same virus he came to contain. However, rather than turning Hayden into a raving zombie hungry for blood (as it has done with nearly everyone else who has contracted the virus), it instead encases his right arm in a metal skin and grants him the power to control a three-pronged glaive, which is ever so useful for separating enemies heads’ from their bodies. With new powers in tow, Hayden sets out to track down Mezner and put a stop to his plans before he can breed an army of infected and unleash them on the world.
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