Video Game Reviews

Halo: Reach

You are Noble 6, the newest member of Noble Team. You’re a “hyper lethal vector” that the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) brass has decided to move to a new squad in the defense of the planet Reach. You’re shrouded in mystery, and blocks of black ink mark the records on you that your commander has defied orders to find. You will fight for survival as your squad mates begin to fall and the situation on Reach becomes dire.

The game opens up with a grim scene: your helmet has a big hole in the middle of the visor and it looks like it was used to beat you to death. Bungie has already told you what kind of affair you are in for. This time, you return as Noble 6, a SPARTAN-III newly placed into Noble Team with Jorge (the tank), Emile (the closed-quarters specialist), Jun (the sniper), Kat (the tech wizard and second in command), and your leader, Carter. These warriors take no crap, and have every intention of dealing with insurgents as well as the Covenant. Reach is currently believed to be cut off from the planetary network by the rebel forces, but Noble is the first to discover that the Covenant have come to Reach.

Noble Team becomes wrapped up in the attempt to save Reach from the Covenant. It is discovered that the Covenant have brought a full invasion army to the planet. Noble Team travels deeper into the territory in an attempt to squash the invasion quickly, only to have their forces decimated by a Covenant Super-Carrier. From there, Noble 6 makes plans to take out the Super-Carrier, their true past comes out, and the SPARTANs plan to save Reach. The rest is what you’ll have to play on your own.

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Dave K

Halo 2

Master Chief has returned to Earth, having destroyed Halo and saving the galaxy from destruction. But he’s not alone, for the Covenant have also discovered Earth, and have launched a full-scale assault on the planet. It is up to Master Chief to drive them off and discover just what they’re up to.

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Dave K

Halo: Combat Evolved

You are Master Chief; one of the last surviving Spartans, a group of genetically and physically enhanced cyborg super-soldiers. In the future, humanity is in conflict with an alien race called The Covenant. You are on board the Pillar of Autumn, a ship which is trying to stop The Covenant from discovering the secrets of an ancient ring world called Halo for fear that it is a weapon which can be turned against the humans. After the Autumn is shot down, you need to find a way to stop The Covenant from discovering just what the secret of Halo is.

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Video Game Reviews

Half-Life

You are Gordon Freeman, a Biophysicist at the Black Mesa Compound. After an experiment goes horribly wrong it’s up to you to set things right. You’ll be attacked by a vast array of strange creatures as well as fellow humans in your quest to find out what went wrong and why the help that was sent is trying to eliminate you.

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Munky

Guilty Gear X2

This 2D fighter is one of the greats that keeps this genre alive. Amazing graphics and Japanese seiyuu pull you into plenty of different gameplay styles.

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Dave K

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

You are Carl Johnson, and you have just come back from a trip to the East Coast after you got word that your mother is dead. When you arrive you find that your friends and gang have been having some tough times. It’s up to you to put your gang back in prominence by lootin’ and shootin’ while getting the cops off your back anyway you can.

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Shadow

Gears of War 3

Sera is besieged all across the globe. If the Lambent are not terrorizing the humans of Sera, the Locusts are. The Stranded distrust the COG and survive on their own, the COG aim to get by and end the war to have a tomorrow, and the Locusts are desperate for their own fight. A man, long since dead, has emerged from the shadows bearing a message for Marcus Fenix- his father. Two more spooks come back from being gone for over a year and a half, and the Lambent attack. The end of the war is upon them as Marcus Fenix and his comrades help write the final chapters.

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Drake

Final Fantasy X

Tidus is your normal everyday Blitzball player until he is sucked into a time drift and lands in a world called Spira. Now with the help of Lady Summoner Yuna, they must put an end to an evil called Sin and together over come the challenges before them.

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Video Game Reviews

Final Fantasy VII

The world is dominated by one entity: Shinra, a massive corporation that rules from the metropolis Midgar. For some, Shinra is a liberator from darkness and antiquity. For others, Shinra is a brutal dictatorship with a rumoured hidden agenda that will destroy the world. However, for people like Cloud Strife, a 19-year-old youth from the mountain village of Nibelheim, Shinra is just something there to profit from. In Cloud’s case, he has joined the anti-Shinra group AVALANCHE as a mercenary. While his first mission goes off without a hitch, his second mission goes terribly wrong, and Cloud is separated from the rest of his squad. While trying to return to headquarters, Cloud meets a flower girl in a church… and sets off a sequence of events that will shake the very foundation of the world they live on.

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