Week Of Impressions 0

by Adam Blue • Editorial

It has been a while…but a lot of things happened at once. I spent two weeks in Brazil and came back to more stuff to get done. So lately I’ve had very little time to play games, but I’ve got enough to share.

I’m a Sonic nut, but in no way blinded by fanboyism. I know that the first current-gen Sonic was horrible. And I do think Unleashed is great fun despite what many think (another rant, another time…unless I’ve already covered it…). So, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing was met with great excitement from me. And the demo delivered. First of all, the graphics are great, and presentation is tight. The game plays a lot like Mario Kart, but more in an Outrun-style driving mechanic. Drifting is a big deal here and it does play a little different than Mario Kart. This is a type of game I’d buy.

Next up is last week’s release, Dante’s Inferno. The demo left a luke-warm taste in my mouth, but now that I’ve spent more time with the game, I really do enjoy the hell out of it (lol!). It is a total rip-off of God of War, and on purpose of course, but there’s enough here to keep it interesting. Things are just fucked up and weird. And it throws crazy shit at you. I find it to me a bit more challenging than GoW. Dodging and blocking seems to play a more important role than in GoW.

The graphics are ok. They seem to be scaled back a bit or something…I’m not too sure. But the art direction and design is fun. In this age, Christianity is a way of life, whereas back in the day Greek Mythology wasn’t considered mythology. So for me personally, I like the Christian Mythology used here. It’s a touchy subject so I think that’s why we don’t see it often. But simply for art and creativity, rather than the idea of being offensive, I think this mythology is fun.

I’ll be doing a review of the above games. They both have some controversy to them: one being a Sega/Sonic game, the other, a GoW rip-off. I’d like to cover that.

And what’s next? AvP.

P.S. I guess with mention of AvP, the demo was fun but seemed a bit ‘scaled-back’ compared to the previous games. It might work out that way though, and the only way to find out is to play the full game.

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