InFamous Vs. Prototype

In one corner we have the Playstation exclusive, hailing from Naughty Dog productions is the heavy hitting, electrifying InFamous. In our other corner we have the multiplatform slicing and dicing destroyer, hailing from Activision productions, the one and only Prototype. I chose these two games to have and Xtreme Gaming Zone fight off, telling you if you have the choice, which one of these you should probably pick up. Lets start with InFamous. One of the few PS3 exclusives that actually delivers. I can honestly say that I could not stop playing this game. Unlike Prototype you have a choice on whether you want to become the hero or the villain. I chose to become a hero and it was amazing.


First off, the graphics of the game were pretty sick. Its a giant 3D environment that has building and wires and moving trains and more. It wasn't this gore fest that Prototype delivered. I mean it had its blood but it wasn't anything like Prototype. But you play as the main character Cole. He is a bike messenger and he had to deliver a packaged but it was accidentally a giant bomb and gave him sick powers. Kind of like Static Shock but less sucky and more of a kick butt persona. Your whole adventure is based on finding who did this too you and why. Same as prototype mostly. Revenge and Mystery. You do sick challenges and you learn cool moves and powers. If you think about it there is so much in common between these game.

Prototype is about random guy, Alex Mercer who was infected by some group and is given weird powers. His whole adventure is finding out who did this and why. Real similar folks. So why waste more time when I can take out two birds with one stone. Prototype you gain experience and get sick moves. Slicing, whipping, slashing, riding, smashing and more. The plus about Prototype is the ability to hijack vehicles like tanks and helicopters. But who needs that when your arm can turn into a giant blade? You can also throw cars and huge objects at your enemies too. Pretty insane but feels like a mixture of Hulk meets Resident Evil.

The differences in the games other than powers and whole idea of the games are the presentations. InFamous had cut scenes that were like comic books. No 3D cool scenes like Prototype. But honestly that's the only plus Prototype had over InFamous. I feel like the sickest individual when I crush regular human beings head to take control of there looks and give me health. I feel like Infamous let you be good and bad. When Prototype made you become an evil S.O.B. Some things were just messed up but also interesting. But InFamous had better game play, control scheme, storyline, and pretty much everything. So Prototype gets a score of 3X points out of 5. InFamous gets the score of 4.25X points out of 5. If you have a PS3 go pick InFamous up because I am sure that you will put your Prototype to the side. Gamer Out!

-T

Oh Yeah the Macho....Wait No Macho Man!

Have you ever wanted to face The Ultimate Warrior with The Rock??? Well you can now in Legends of Wrestlemania and thats mostly all you can do. The features a pretty big roster of legends like Bret Hart, Stone Cold, Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant and others. But they miss many other legends that have been in the previous games like Legends of Wrestling. No One Man Gang, not any Van Erichs or even the Macho Man Randy Savage himself who was a huge part of Wrestlemania's over the years and years. No offense to some legends but some shouldn't even be there. No names mentioned but they are missing Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat who was recently in the last Wrestlemania. I know you can't put everyone in.


Second they had three game modes. The Re-Live, Re-Define, and Re-Write. Where you play the same matches in the Re-Live where you do the match and see a little video of what happened and then you play as the winner of the match and have to win to move on. Yeah the movies were cool but the rest of it sucked. The Re-Define was when they changed the match from a regular match to a steel cage or ladder. Yeah thats cool but I can do that in the game whenever I want. Last was the Re-Write and thats when you changed the outcome of the match. Thats was not so bad because the ending cut scene would be changed and it was actually fun.

The last mode was the Legends of Wrestlemania mode where you just face off legends and legends. The same thing over and over again. What this games is just matches and matches that leads you to little satisfaction. But the game features pretty cool cut scenes, a different kind of wrestling configuration and of course a bunch of legends to use in matches. So for my final rating from the Xtreme Gaming Zone is 2.75X Points out of 5X points.

-T

3 Guitar Hero Games - 1 Review - An Xtreme Gaming Zone First

Its been a very long time since I have posted a new post but I am trying to make a comeback. Its been a long and stressful end of the school year and school for me is over. But my gaming must continue and I have been very busy. Now this review is different from any other review. This is a three game review. The games are Guitar Hero: World Tour, Guitar Hero: Metallica and Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. First off, Guitar Hero: World Tour. I have always been more a rockband kind of guy myself. But when I found out that I can use my Rockband drums on Guitar Hero my world has changed. I have played all three of these games in the matter of two weeks beating most of them and enjoying every second. Guitar Hero: World Tour is very similar to Rockband with the same whole idea of rocking out with your buds or by yourself. But this game featured the create a song mode which I think was very tacky but for those hardcore gamer modifiers there will possibly be some good free songs for us to download. But the whole rocking out feature was very good. The videos and cutscenes just feels better than Rockband. Also the guest appearances were pretty cool. Billy Corgan, Angela Williams, Ted Nugent, Sting, Travis Barker, and Ozzy Osbourne! Thats just awesome! So my final score for Guitar Hero World Tour is 3.5X points out of 5.


Next game would be the Guitar Hero: Metallica game. I am pretty much a die hard Metallica fan so this game kind of caught my eye as being extremely enjoyable. But the game was missing some real classic Metallica songs. Only one song from the new CD also. But the game was very challenging since they are all Metallica songs which are ridiculously long songs that would gone for minutes and minutes at a time. I'm pretty sure there were no Metallica songs less than 5 minutes. But the guest songs were okay, songs like Ace of Spades and Stone Cold Crazy were fun to play. But not many good songs. But for me this game was great and I might have not received the double bass pedal with pre-order but that probably made the game even better. Guitar Hero: Metallica gets 4X points out of 5.


Last game is Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. This game had a lot of great songs to play. I mean its called Smash Hits. But it was very repetitive like the last Guitar Heroes. Same old songs and dance. Which I guess we are going to have to get used to. But they did feature some songs to play double bass pedal on other than Metallica songs from the last game. But its wasn't that bad of a story I guess for having a little one and it was fun playing songs that were from the old games turned into songs for the whole band. So for my final score Guitar Hero: Smash Hits gets 2.5X points out of 5.

-T