Review: "Star Trek" (2013) "Where Most Games Have Gone Before."

By: Jared Collings

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You know, I don't expect much from a Star Trek game anymore. Especially one based on a movie.

Actually, I will give respect (not money cause I am poor), to any man who can name a good star trek game besides armada because that was awesome.

But this is good a little ruff around the edges with some it's fun. However this game probably would have been better as a movie to bridge the gap between the two movies.

Movie games tend to not do as well because the effort put into the movie isn't the same amount put into the game, there are of course a few exceptions but most of the time it's a flop. There should be a sacred divide between both movie and games, unless equal effort is put into both.

  The game however gets bonus points because the cast from the movie lent their voices. And even their faces, graphically it's not your Tomb Raider or Far Cry 3. But it has a gritty scifi feel to it, kind of like Mass Effect 1. The background can sometimes seem very splashy and glitchy as well, but the actors faces still maintain their realism.

The upgrade systems has some fun modifications for your gear for like your phaser and tricoder. (the pew pew sounds from the phaser are great). The thing to remember most games these days its coop, but in this it feels right some of the puzzles are vary run of the mill. This game should be played as a co op game seeing as they give you the option to be joined by online players or drop in from friends. This does make the game easier since you have to use commands to get your partner mine being Kirk to come over to me. This can be difficult in you venture to far away and are taking on a lot of foes.

The banter between Spock and Kirk is great it really makes you feel your in a Star Trek episode, even the sounds are vary authentic.  I haven't played with another treky but i hope it is as good an experience. The chemistry from Spock and Kirk isn't surprising in the movies seeing as they're polar opposites but the same on the inside, however it is in fact surprising in the game. They were able to compel the relationship between the two which may be the saving grace of the game! What's also cool about our heroes are they both have their own specials, Spock has the death grip and can mind share which is always a plus.


The campaign is good, varied in different types of gameplay, which keeps it from getting dull. Though the story is only about 6 and half hours.  There are even some cool ship sections where you have a kind of rail shooter.  It was nice I forgot how much I missed rail shooters. Which adds some great variety seeing as regular combat is dull. While you have options of weapons like all games these days, targeting can be VERY difficult and you could be shooting directly at a enemy and still not take them down! I don't know if this is all to blame with the glitchiness of the game or just overall flaw.  The game made me want to play time crisis all over again.

But there are even more issues that should probably be discussed though expected. The mouth movements were weird and when they said certain lines it looks really strange and just not up to par.

Though not surprising but no muiltiplayer was kind of a bummer. I would have loved to phaser it out with buddy's in death-match or even a horde mode would have been nice. Star Trek horde mode could have been the next new big thing! Horde modes exists in almost any shooting-ailen game.


Our Honest View gives Star Trek (2013) 4/10.  The game is a CO-OP game as we said before, a little more Mass Effect meets Gears of War except with good endings and people that are not hulks. Even plays like most Co Op games do like Brink or Resident Evil 5. I sense J.J Abrams has gone to the dark side I don't think we will be getting any more sequels to Star Trek as great as they are. But this game could give us a way to keep enjoying this Star Trek universe, which I for one am whole heartedly hoping for at the vary least.




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Replay Value: Moderately Low

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Mass Effect - M Rated

 

Brink - T Rated

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Preview: "Tales Of Xillia" (2013) Watch our Ni No Kuni.... JRPG Challenge!

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By: Nevill Adeyeye

The Tales of series has been going on for the past 15 years and on August 6th Tales of Xillia will be gracing us with its beauty and as a old school Tales and JRPG fan I'm really excited and you know what you should be as well!

Tales of Xillia is the 13th “mothership” game in the series and by far one of the most anticipated. Xillia sports some pretty impressive graphics, Namco-Bandai is finally letting you control the camera in and outside the battle. Why is that a big deal you ask??

Because this forces Namco-Speaking of characters Xillia is the first game in the series to have two main characters. 

Jude Mathis is your male protagonist. Jude left his hometown to start training at a hospital in the town of Fennmont. When some weird things in the laboratory in town goes down, Jude runs into Milla Maxwell, your second and female protagonist of the game.

 Milla is on a mission to Fennmont to investigate a large group of spirits that have died, and in true JRPG fashion this leads to some one grand ass adventure.

Combat in Xillia is slightly the same as the other games in the Tales series. Combat is real time and you control one character at a time, with you others being controlled by the AI that you can set to your fancy.

If you wanted to make Leia only use healing spells and have Milla just to attack flying monsters, the Tales has always been good about giving you option about controlling your characters without controlling them. The new thing the Xillia is the DR lines.

This Links two of your characters in battle together to pull off bigger combos where you can juggle a enemies  in the air, use the d-pad to switch to another character and keep the combo going that way until you pull off a double attack . This improvement  will without a doubt make combat more fluent and a lot more hectic. (in a good way)

Since there is already a Tales of Xillia 2  in Japan, I have no doubt that if Xillia does well in the states the Xillia 2 will without a doubt come state side if gamers do the right thing and support the Namco-Bandai and buy the game new and go pre order it at you local Gamestop. (we need Tales of Xillia 2)

Bandai to pay attrention to the backgrounds and oh boy did they ever. This game looks pretty impressive from the character models to the buildings in the background that Namco-Bandai made to scale with the character models to give the game a more “realistic” fell and it works.

If your familiar with the Tales series at all you will know that the characters always looked more cartoonish, Xillia still has the anime vibe but with more of a “grown up” look if you will. Characters are full size lush and damn cute.

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