January 2002 - Playstation 2 - NDX Productions
Britney Spears stars in her own game
THQ created a dance 'n mix game on playstation two starring Britney Spears. The game even has decent graphics and backgrounds. This is a girls game. The game's setting is on the big stage with Britney in the background in digital quality singing. The game includes some of her onstage performances and most of her songs including versions of dance and trance versions. Britney's Dance Beat also has a ”glammer studio” where you can customize your own dancers. This addition is very dangerious, wouldn't you say.
Writtened on January 28, 2002
Tecmo works on exclusive PS2 title
Tecmo, the creator and best own for its Dead or Alive series will be making a new horror atmosphereic francise only designed on Playstation 2. Tecmo with this game had the same idea as Capcom (Resident Evil) , Squaresoft (Parisite Eye) and Konami (Silent Hill) not to ammention some of PC titles such as Half-life (spocy in parts like in the flashback in level 1 and everything fails. The main character finds out that not all of this nightmare was a dream.) Temco is attempting the same idea in Fatal Frame. Onlike many American games this game is played in a Japanese temple that has been abandoned for over 50 years. She tries to look for her little brother who somehow wandered in the strange temple himselve. But that game has a spooky and dark, dark environment. Footage seen in my favorite, Resident Evil with the dark hallways. The game seems to be one of the cleanest titles created on Playstation 2. And remember its likely as a independant company, Tecmo puts most of its money in research and development, creating new engines. Anyway the game looks subperb when it comes to graphics. It really pushes and sets new standards for the PS2 hardware.
Article written on January 25, 2002.
Black & White : Enhanced on Playstation 2
I've played the Black & White game on my computer since my 16th birthday. I lost interest and got back into Diablo II believe it or not because the game kept freezing on me. In the game u take care of this creature. If you treat him with respect and tickle his stomach, feed him, he will be nice to you and help the villagers for you. However if you treat him badly, hell growl at you and raise heck about the land. I remember that I got my gorilla to throw stones that the temple. The villagers ran fearfully, confused until he squished them with his fist. The part of the game I didn't much feel ready for is that you had to set and play the game for hours before you advanced anwhere. I had to build huts for the villagers so they had a place to live or they wouldn't build a home for my creator. They complain that my creature took all their food. So I have to find a way to keep their food supply safe from him. I choose not too, and the villagers terrorized him. He got mad and threw one of them in the ocean. He drowned and the villagers weren't happy. I quit and started a new game since it wasn't worth all the trouble.
The nomine game of the year will continue an enhanced graphical version off the PC. However, PS2 will have much less buttons, so the game will have combos instead of keys. The best part about the port is Lionhead will make sure it doesn't freeze up. The game will improve greatly in lighting effects (example - through the day, you'll see the suns shadow moving, sunglare and magic.)
Article written on January 20, 2002
First Impressions on Final Fantasy X
As you already may know, Final Fantasy 10 has recently been released on the Playstation 2. Square has made Final Fantasy X and XI their only fucas. The series is big in their homeland. In FFIX for the PSone when back to the fantasy world. FFIIX was a futuristic movie in real time. You can imagion how well of the publisher is when they help finance the movie, Final Fantasy. Although the movie was only shown in the United States. In the new port Squaresoft made a beautiful game. The characters use 15,000 polygons, very detailed. One addition is the room for text/speech through-out the game. The DVD allows that much data. The game is still a upgrade from the original 3D title for playstation, Final Fantasy 7. I hear that the 10th chapter is after Final Fantasy IV (SNES) when Final Fantasy 7 (PSone) is set in the 21 century. This is how Square made such a fine detailed and nonsensial story. The creator of Final Fantasy wrote the entire story of Final Fantasy. Even perhaps he put the games work in a novel since all of the script and scenes are already set before development. What is the story all about. If you haven't seen “Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within” The game is about spirits who are confused and fight to perfect themselves. The spirits manipulate characters, either good or bad do build the climax of the game. The evil characters are usually cur-roped and think that these spirits (or Phantoms) will grant them ruler ship and either conquer or save the human race. This guy who created this story is truly the Steven Steilberg of games here.
In the 10th volume (which isn't really the 10th chapter of Final Fantasy) the game was made to be long. We are talking about 45 hours of gameplay. This excludes all the cinematic cut-scenes FFX has. The sound was done by a musical chamber which creates a classical / acoustic guitar theme. I like it. I this wish Squaresoft would come back to Nintendo. But when it all comes down too it, FFX is this another Role Playing Game. I played other RPGs like Shining Force III for Sega Saturn. Skies of Acadia and Grandia II on Dreamcast. All of which didn't disappoint me. I wouldn't this go out and spend 300 dollars on a Playstation 2 this so I can play Final Fantasy. Oh no. I personally would get a Gamecube and pick up Phantasy Star ONLINE when it comes out next month.
Article writen January 17, 2002 1:00 AM
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