Blitz: The League: Oh I broke his spine!

I have played this game and owned this game on three different systems. I originally bought if for the Playstation 2 when it came out. Than earlier this year I bought the game for my psp. The psp version wasn't that good but not many psp games are good so that could be a factor. But recently I saw it in a local FYE and said "I loved playing this game with my friends on my PS2" so picked it up and have not stop playing it since. The game gets repetitive and the graphics are pretty bad for a 360 game. But it was released a few years ago. Also with the new one coming out October 13th I thought i would give it a review.

This game for its time and date when it came out it was really fun. Its like the dark side of football. You have Bill Romanowski one of the craziest and sickest football players of the game doing a voice over and Lawrence Taylor also doing a voice too. But with the steroids, blood, injuries, cheerleaders, game play and all the other perks how can you not enjoy this game?


I can easily tell you why. People who are football fanatics don't want to play a game that disrespect the game and shows the darkness of football. Madden lovers themselves would talk down the game because of its unrealistic feel. Do you remember blitz for n64?? That game didn't even make sense and it was practically luck but you got to kick the crap out of your opponent before, during and after each play. Same with the new blitz just a little more harder and realistic. But still has a great game play feel. I enjoy this game and I can't wait till the new game comes out. Out of 5 Xtreme points I give this game 3 Xtreme points. Because of its game play and replay value which makes it just a "fun" game to play. Plus you can break players body parts and have sweet cutcenes showing the fractures and broken bones...Whats not to like???

-T

BIOSHOCK ON SMACKDOWN

OK remember when we had The Legend of Zelda: The Oracle of Time, and you thought to yourself "wow this game is awsome?" Well since then some games have lacked a good story line, good moves, and good control of everything around you. Bioshock takes things to new levels and hieghts making everything that much more ballin'. While on the surface it might look like little more than a very pretty first-person shooter, BioShock is much, much more than that. Sure, the action is fine, but its primary focus is its story, a sci-fi mystery that manages to feel retro and futuristic at the same time, and its characters, who convey most of the story via radio transmissions and audio logs that you're constantly stumbling upon as you wander around. All of it blends together to form a rich, interesting world that sucks you in right away and won't let go until you've figured out what, exactly, is going on in the undersea city of Rapture. Ok the Goods and the Bads.
The Good:
Absolutely amazing atmosphere and visual design with the technical prowess to back it all up,
Lots of character customization options to play around with,
Great voice cast really sells the storyline
The Bad:
Annoying hitches cause the game to freeze for a few seconds at a time, but it only seems to start happening after playing the game for several hours,
Lack of death penalty keeps things fun, but also keeps things a little too easy.

That's the Smackdown on this game I'll keep you updated on different games giving you the goods and bads of it, so be on the look out for more games on the XtremeGamingZone.


- Q

TNA IMPACT: Is that really a chair??

Does anyone remember the days of No Mercy for N64? That was my favorite wrestling game ever to come out. I still hook up the 64 and play No Mercy once in a blue moon. But its now 2008. We are on Smackdown Vs Raw 2008 and soon SVR 2009 in November and for the first time there in new competition that actually has a shot. When SVR actually had competition it was with the other systems like with Day of Reckoning for Gamecube and RAW for Xbox. Now with SVR by itself it had no competition and swept the wrestling game franchises. But with the release of Midway's own TNA Impact there is a new horizon and a change I haven't seen since I play the old wrestling game series.

TNA Impact is actually wrestling. Yeah its weird. You actually fight by doing wrestling moves that are actually awsome. Now there aren't as many moves as the SVR series but this is the first TNA game. But they had some moves that were really cool and the reversal system was actually hard. Smackdown vs Raw you could just tap the reverse buttons repeatedly until you countered someones moves. Also TNA Impact had a good storyline. No lie is has been better than some of the Smackdown stories but with the limited content it bothered me. You would win every belt and never see your wrestler with a belt. You had no choice but just to win to go farther. The create a wrestler mode is limited and the matches were a select few.

But there was a lot of good like the amazing graphics and 3D models. Plus some good wrestlers who I always wanted to play on a next-gen system like Sting and Jeff Jarrett. Plus the X Division wrestlers who are so much fun to play as. This game is good but I can't say its worthy of comparing to No Mercy or Smackdown Here Comes The Pain. But even those games slowly got better and better. So out of a scale of 0 - 5 Xtreme points. I give TNA Impact 3 Xtreme points out of 5 because of the limited content and the amount of addition it needs to be compete with the Smackdown series.

- T