Ongoing games:
noodles Final Fantasy 2 (iPhone)
noodles Deadly Creatures (WII)
belajjal Bayonetta (360)
ricochet Final Fantasy XIII (PS3)
Latest additions:
VVVVVV (PC)
Need for Speed: Shift (PS3)
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PC)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (PC)
Mass Effect (PC)
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ricochet VVVVVV (PC)
ricochet Super Bomberman (SNES)
ricochet God of War Collection (PS3)
ricochet Megaman X (SNES)
noodles Ghostbusters (PS3)
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noodles
Wow, it's really been this long since the site launched? And it's really been this long for the new design to go up?
I blame commercialism, since it's keeping me too busy.
Now, since this little mistake I made launched the redesign too early I guess I'll have to finish the programming as well. Oy vey.
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Haze
by noodles on Monday, July 27th, 2009 at 14:27 - Comments: 0
An interesting faction-mechanic hidden in a haze of terrible story, characters and mediocre gameplay.
Wearing the suit of Shane Carpenter, you're a sergeant in Mantel Corp's military. On a mission to clean out insurgents and capture the notorious "Skin Coat", a guerilla leader so nicknamed by the rumor that he wears a coat made from the skin of his enemies, somewhat à la Silence of the Lambs. To help you is your squad, made up of characters that really go out of their way to make you dislike them. Not you, as a character, but you as a player. Their frat-boy manner and moronic commentary seem to be drawn directly from a antagonist quarterback from a college-movie; you know, the one that treats his "girlfriend" like crap, drives his dad's SUV, and makes a sport out of hitting nerds in the head with beer-cans while discussing how much they want to join the army so they get to fire guns at terrorists. Luckily, you don't have to suffer their sub-intellectual behavior for long, as you'll switch faction to the rebels after only a few hours.
Oh did I spoil the story for you? No, wait, I didn't, because it says so on the friggin' box! After some questions that any school-child that has a problem with authority would ask, Skin Coat converts you to fight for his cause instead.
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