First off the whole feeling of the game screams arcade. From the way the menu feels to the online play. The coolest feature is to allow other players to challenge you while you’re playing single player arcade mode. This is like when you are at an arcade and another player walks up while you’re playing and puts in a quarter. This really adds to the whole arcade feel.

I haven’t had this great of an arcade experience from home since the golden area of the dreamcast. I highly recommend this game to anyone who has been a fan of the series or anyone interested in competitive fighting games in general.

I went back to the gamespot and tried to return “game party” and they would only give me $10 store credit for it… I paid $35 errrrrrrrr.

So I got my copy of “No More Heroes” and went home. At first I was kind of disappointed with the gameplay since it didn’t really let me swing the sword freely, as if my wii remote was the sword. Instead you press A to swing the sword and only swing the remote to do kill moves.

After getting over the fact that I was not swinging the sword as much as I originally thought I really began to enjoy the game.  I see now why they held back on the sword swinging. After 10mins of playing the game you’d be sweating balls because there is so much action… I mean A LOT OF ACTION.  So swinging the sword to do a kill move is very gratifying and the story so far is really good for the casual gamer like myself.  It’s not a long winded story they are very good at moving the story along quickly… well I’m getting tired of talking about this game and I need to go play it… I’ll continue this post another time!

Publishers are seeing a market in Free to Play, ad supported games. It has come to the attention of game developers and gamers themselves that to compete in the PC Gaming market you need games that are playable across PCs of all types, from low end to high end. I expect we will see more services like this popping up in the near future.

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First Thought
Wasn’t so positive, at first it felt like I was playing just another Medal of Honor or Call of Duty, WW2 FPS. But as the weeks went by I have really gained a lot more respect for CoD4′s multiplayer game mechanics. Usually with a game like this you can tell that the game developer spent so much time and focus on the singleplayer that the multiplayer was just slapped together and it is usually left up to the community to fix it.

Maps
As I play CoD4 I really feel as if they put a lot of effort into the multiplayer component of this game. Each map has it’s own gameplay style. On one map it might a big wide-open space filled with chaos, on another map your going through apartment buildings and running through streets and another map you’re on a ship with only some crates to protect you from snipers. Each map has completely different feel than the next and this is definitely one thing that stands out in this game.

Classes
The basic classes are very standard. You have your basic shoot-em-up class, your sniper class, your special ops class… but what really makes this game different is you can create your own custom classes. This is definitely another selling point for the amazing multiplayer mechanics of this game. Since each map has a different gameplay style it is really nice to make custom classes to match with those styles. One map a long range sniper with a stronger health meter might be a good role to play while on another map it might be best to stick with a close range shotgun with stronger bullet penetration.

Final Tought
Though many of you may not have the hardware to play this game, I would definitely recommend picking this up as soon as you do. It is very rare that a games multiplayer mechanics match that of its singleplayer component.

External Links
Map Info
Class Examples

How it went down…
Two gamers, who opinions I respect (Dirty and Apheleon), suggested I try out Team Fortress 2. So I reached for my wallet and launched the steam store. By the end of the night I had TF2 downloaded as was ready to give it my first try.

My first thought…
“wow this is much cartoonier than I was expecting”. This wouldn’t be the first shell shaded first person shooter I’ve played (warsow) but I was expecting more from the Half Life 2 engine. My next thought was that the gameplay must be what makes this game not the graphics.

So far I’ve been enjoying this game but I’m still uncertain if this will be the game that gets my full attention.

-Terbo