MidnightClub Los Angeles

Release Date: October 20, 2008 (US) October 24, 2008 (EU)
Developers: Rockstar San Diego
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Genre: Racing
Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PSP
Players: 1 (single player mode) Online mode
Rating (ESRB): T (TEEN)
Number of DLC:7

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Synopsis

A guy from the "East Coast" moves to LA. He is only known by his nickname "Player" he is the user's character. His goal is to become the best known racer in the LA area. When he first comes to LA he comes with little to no money in his pocket so he has to buy a slow run downed car. After a while of racing aginst various racers he finally gets money to buy a decent car. When he finally becomes the "City champ" he becomes a co owner of 2 shops (after owning 1 mil) then he leaves LA to start a new story in Tokyo (which is continued in the PSP Version)

Synopsis Rating: 8
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Gameplay

The gameplay has changed a little since past Midnight clubs. The cars are realistic to a point, the point being is that in MCLA you can have custom power-ups (but for the traditional racer these can be disabled). Unlike other racing games the graphics are not only ephasised in the cars, but also in the surrounding LA area. And this game is a game you could play over and over.
Gameplay Rating: 8

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Graphics

The Graphics in MCLA are [b]Really Good. Rockstar games spent so Alot time in just the detail of this game. From the cars, to the buildings, even people walking the street, they spent alot of time putting detail into everything unlike most racing games. This is why I think me and many other players have fell in love with this game.[/b]

Graphics: 10

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Multiplayer

The multiplayer in this game is great, it supports every type of driver. If your the driver who likes to kick back and cruise the LA cost with your friends, or challange people to races, here at the multiplayer you can do it all. The only bad thing about it you HAVE to download the DLC (which is no charge)but has over 1 GB of space, so it takes of memory and takes some time to download.

Multiplayer Rating: 9

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Here Are Some In Game Landmarks


Capitol Records Tower
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Griffith Observatory
Hollywood Sign
Getty Center
Los Angeles City Hall
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Santa Monica Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica Place
Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica City Hall
Chateau Marmont Hotel
La Brea Tar Pits
Watts Towers
Carney's restaurant
Pink's Hot Dogs restaurant
Standard Hotel
Fox Village Theater
Fox Plaza
U.S. Bank Tower

Aon Center
Gas Company Tower
Millennium Biltmore Hotel
AT&T Center
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Westin Bonaventure Hotel
Crossroads of the World
Los Angeles California Temple
Staples Center (titled "Sports Center" in the game)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Pershing Square
Rodeo Drive
Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Los Angeles River Basin
Los Angeles Convention Center
Fox Plaza (aka Die Hard building)
The Roxy nightclub
Viper Room nightclub
The Beverly Hills Hotel
Beverly Hills Civic Center

Paramount Studios
UCLA campus
University of Southern California campus
Exposition Park
The Forum
Baldwin Hills Oil Field
Los Angeles International Airport (from a distance)
Whisky a Go Go nightclub
MacArthur Park
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
Ventura Boulevard
Los Angeles Public Library
Aerospace Museum of California
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Pantages Theater
Roosevelt Hotel
Union Station
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (titled "South Central Coliseum" in the game)

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Overall Rating for Midnight Club Los Angeles: 8.5

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WesternFlordia wrote MidnightClub Los Angeles

Release Date: October 20, 2008 (US) October 24, 2008 (EU)
Developers: Rockstar San Diego
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Genre: Racing
Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PSP
Players: 1 (single player mode) Online mode
Rating (ESRB): T (TEEN)
Number of DLC:7

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Synopsis

A guy from the "East Coast" moves to LA. He is only known by his nickname "Player" he is the user's character. His goal is to become the best known racer in the LA area. When he first comes to LA he comes with little to no money in his pocket so he has to buy a slow run downed car. After a while of racing aginst various racers he finally gets money to buy a decent car. When he finally becomes the "City champ" he becomes a co owner of 2 shops (after owning 1 mil) then he leaves LA to start a new story in Tokyo (which is continued in the PSP Version)

Synopsis Rating: 8
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Gameplay

The gameplay has changed a little since past Midnight clubs. The cars are realistic to a point, the point being is that in MCLA you can have custom power-ups (but for the traditional racer these can be disabled). Unlike other racing games the graphics are not only ephasised in the cars, but also in the surrounding LA area. And this game is a game you could play over and over.
Gameplay Rating: 8

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Graphics

The Graphics in MCLA are [b]Really Good. Rockstar games spent so Alot time in just the detail of this game. From the cars, to the buildings, even people walking the street, they spent alot of time putting detail into everything unlike most racing games. This is why I think me and many other players have fell in love with this game.[/b]

Graphics: 10

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Multiplayer

The multiplayer in this game is great, it supports every type of driver. If your the driver who likes to kick back and cruise the LA cost with your friends, or challange people to races, here at the multiplayer you can do it all. The only bad thing about it you HAVE to download the DLC (which is no charge)but has over 1 GB of space, so it takes of memory and takes some time to download.

Multiplayer Rating: 9

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Here Are Some In Game Landmarks


Capitol Records Tower
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Griffith Observatory
Hollywood Sign
Getty Center
Los Angeles City Hall
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Santa Monica Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica Place
Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica City Hall
Chateau Marmont Hotel
La Brea Tar Pits
Watts Towers
Carney's restaurant
Pink's Hot Dogs restaurant
Standard Hotel
Fox Village Theater
Fox Plaza
U.S. Bank Tower

Aon Center
Gas Company Tower
Millennium Biltmore Hotel
AT&T Center
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Westin Bonaventure Hotel
Crossroads of the World
Los Angeles California Temple
Staples Center (titled "Sports Center" in the game)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Pershing Square
Rodeo Drive
Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Los Angeles River Basin
Los Angeles Convention Center
Fox Plaza (aka Die Hard building)
The Roxy nightclub
Viper Room nightclub
The Beverly Hills Hotel
Beverly Hills Civic Center

Paramount Studios
UCLA campus
University of Southern California campus
Exposition Park
The Forum
Baldwin Hills Oil Field
Los Angeles International Airport (from a distance)
Whisky a Go Go nightclub
MacArthur Park
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
Ventura Boulevard
Los Angeles Public Library
Aerospace Museum of California
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Pantages Theater
Roosevelt Hotel
Union Station
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (titled "South Central Coliseum" in the game)

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Overall Rating for Midnight Club Los Angeles: 8.5

UM you just copy and pasted my review :facepalm:

Just Cause 2

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Game Information
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Developed By: Square Enix, Eidos Interactive, Avalanche Studios
Genre: Open World, Action Adventure, Third-Person Shooter
Platform: Xbox, PS3, PC
Age Restrictions: M, 18+

Rating:

9.5/10

The game:

There are the standard campaign missions as well as side missions. Out side of the campaign, the player completes many faction missions and other random missions. The player can choose to do these missions or complete the mission.

Synopsis:

Just Cause 2 begins a few years after the first Just Cause as Rico if being dropped into Panau, near real world Malaysia. During the first mission, you are dropped into an enemy area after being hit by anti-air and dropping important memory cards. Rico, the main character, was going into the country to depose the current ruler, and evil dictator, Baby Panay. His father was a US supporter, and Rico was sent in to ensure another US ally was elected to office. Along with that, Rico was going to assassinate a rogue American agent Tom Sheldon. In order to find Sheldon, Rico befriends the three criminal organizations on the island. These include the Roaches, an organized crime group, the Reapers, a communist group of fighters, and the Ular boys, a group of foreign resisting rebels. While working with these groups, the Sloth Demon contacts you. This turns out to be Tom Sheldon and he asks you to continue to cause chaos in the country in order to find out the truth. Sheldon later demands that you help him by saving an agency operative, Jade Tan, as she is being tortured. You save her and leave with her after you destroy the base she has been kept in. After being airlifted by Sheldon and Kane, you find out from Tan that the tree factions have been receiving support from China, Japan and Russia. The factions have been trying to overthrow Panay in order to take control of the island. Rico and Sheldon do not realize why there is so much of a power struggle between the nations. Rico kills all of the Intel liaisons to the super powers, in turn causing enough chaos to force Panay into his fortified military base. Using the help of one of the three factions, Rico goes into the base and supposedly kills Panay and Karl Blaine. And escapes the compound before it self-destructs. Rico is asked to hold off supertankers coming from Russia, Japan, and China until US reinforcements arrive. Suddenly, a nuclear submarine emerges with Baby Panay inside of it. He launches nuclear missiles with destinations in the US, China, Japan, and Russia. Both Rico and Panay end up on one of the missiles. Rico redirects the missiles and kills Panay once and for all. One of the missiles was redirected for the oil reserves and destroys them and Rico explains that war and their death was not worth the oil.

Story Line Rating:

The story line is not exactly long enough to my liking, however there are enough side missions and objectives to keep you busy for a while. I give it an 8/10

Free Mode Rating:

There are many different things you can do from hijacking car to flying a commuter jet. There are many territories to destroy and things to do other than complete the story line. I give the free mode a 10/10.

Graphics:

The graphics on this game are pretty good looking and are very good for an RPG/free mode game. The graphics are a 9/10.

Overall:

The game is only lacking of a longer campaign and it also needs a cooperative multiplayer. Overall it is a well rounded and extremely good game. I give it a 9.5/10

Need for Speed Shift

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Game Information
Release Date: 15 September 2009
Developed By: Slightly Mad Studios, EA Bright Light (PSP), Electronic Arts
Genre: Racing
Platform: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, iOS, Android, Symbian
Rating: E, 7+

Game Play:

Need for Speed Shift was made for those who are more into the racing games. It is much more difficult to control than the other previous NFS games. The game is a much more aggressive and difficult game than other NFS games. There is no particular story mode involved in Shift, the only thing similar to a story is the fact that making money and earning stars is required to unlocked new missions and vehicles. This game has improved upon NFS ProStreet in the fact that it created a more realistic and difficult racing experience.

Cars:

There are 60+ cars that are divided into 4 tiers. The tier 1 represents average cars, tier 2 represents performance cars, tier 3 represents supercars, like the Lamborghini Gallardo, and tier 4 represents hypercars, similar to the Bugatti Veyron. Similar to the previous games, the car improvements include body mods for cosmetics and performance mods. These are similar to the previous NFS games, however they are more expansive and have been refined. Through many add-ons, the producers have added many new vehicles.

Rating:

Overall this game seemed to be almost to much of a challenge to the average racer. I feel like the game was structured well, however it was too difficult to finish the game. The graphics however were incredible and seemed extremely realistic. I give it a 7/10

TXmodding wrote Just Cause 2

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Game Information
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Developed By: Square Enix, Eidos Interactive, Avalanche Studios
Genre: Open World, Action Adventure, Third-Person Shooter
Platform: Xbox, PS3, PC
Age Restrictions: M, 18+

Rating:

9.5/10

The game:

There are the standard campaign missions as well as side missions. Out side of the campaign, the player completes many faction missions and other random missions. The player can choose to do these missions or complete the mission.

Synopsis:

Just Cause 2 begins a few years after the first Just Cause as Rico if being dropped into Panau, near real world Malaysia. During the first mission, you are dropped into an enemy area after being hit by anti-air and dropping important memory cards. Rico, the main character, was going into the country to depose the current ruler, and evil dictator, Baby Panay. His father was a US supporter, and Rico was sent in to ensure another US ally was elected to office. Along with that, Rico was going to assassinate a rogue American agent Tom Sheldon. In order to find Sheldon, Rico befriends the three criminal organizations on the island. These include the Roaches, an organized crime group, the Reapers, a communist group of fighters, and the Ular boys, a group of foreign resisting rebels. While working with these groups, the Sloth Demon contacts you. This turns out to be Tom Sheldon and he asks you to continue to cause chaos in the country in order to find out the truth. Sheldon later demands that you help him by saving an agency operative, Jade Tan, as she is being tortured. You save her and leave with her after you destroy the base she has been kept in. After being airlifted by Sheldon and Kane, you find out from Tan that the tree factions have been receiving support from China, Japan and Russia. The factions have been trying to overthrow Panay in order to take control of the island. Rico and Sheldon do not realize why there is so much of a power struggle between the nations. Rico kills all of the Intel liaisons to the super powers, in turn causing enough chaos to force Panay into his fortified military base. Using the help of one of the three factions, Rico goes into the base and supposedly kills Panay and Karl Blaine. And escapes the compound before it self-destructs. Rico is asked to hold off supertankers coming from Russia, Japan, and China until US reinforcements arrive. Suddenly, a nuclear submarine emerges with Baby Panay inside of it. He launches nuclear missiles with destinations in the US, China, Japan, and Russia. Both Rico and Panay end up on one of the missiles. Rico redirects the missiles and kills Panay once and for all. One of the missiles was redirected for the oil reserves and destroys them and Rico explains that war and their death was not worth the oil.

Story Line Rating:

The story line is not exactly long enough to my liking, however there are enough side missions and objectives to keep you busy for a while. I give it an 8/10

Free Mode Rating:

There are many different things you can do from hijacking car to flying a commuter jet. There are many territories to destroy and things to do other than complete the story line. I give the free mode a 10/10.

Graphics:

The graphics on this game are pretty good looking and are very good for an RPG/free mode game. The graphics are a 9/10.

Overall:

The game is only lacking of a longer campaign and it also needs a cooperative multiplayer. Overall it is a well rounded and extremely good game. I give it a 9.5/10

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Assassin's Creed

Release Date: November 14, 2007
Developers: Ubisoft Montreal, Gameloft, Griptonite Games
Publishers: Ubisoft
Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC
Genre: Action, Adventure
Player: Single Player
Rating (ESRB): M (MATURE)

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Synopsis

Assassin's Creed is an award-winning historical third person, stealth action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The bulk of the game takes place during the Third Crusade, with the plot revolving around a sect known as the Secret Order of Hashashin (Assassins). The player is in reality playing as a modern-day man named Desmond Miles, who through the use of a machine named the "Animus", is allowed the viewing and controlling of the protagonist's genetic memories of his ancestors, in this case, Altar ibn-La'Ahad, a member of the Assassins.

Through this plot device, details emerge of a struggle between two factions, the Knights Templar and the Assassins, over an artifact known as a "Piece of Eden", an ancient artifact used to control minds. The game primarily takes place during the Third Crusade in the Holy Land in 1191. The game received generally positive reviews, and won several awards at E3 in 2006. The story of a separate assassin, Assassin's Creed II, was released in November 2009. The sequel to Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, was released in November 2010. A subsequent sequel, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, was released on November 15, 2011.

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Gameplay

The gameplay is decent but not the best, this can be a confusing game at first. The thing I really hated about it is when there is a "movie part" you have to change the camera angle and if you dont you can miss out on some good stuff. Also the camera angle in game is VERY BAD. I mainly like this game for climbing on stuff and doing free running But its also a great learning game the time period is pretty accurate and the assassin part of the game actually happened (the same kind of assassins)

Gameplay Rating: 8

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Graphics

The graphics are really good the devs captured a past time in a different country (thats all based off of real places). They captured the time period to the tee and overall this is still one of the best games (based on graphics) that took place in a past time period ive ever played I recommend getting this game for a learning experince.

Grapichs Rating: 9

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Reception

Pro game reviewers reviewed this pretty highly and the game had a almost perfect all around review.


1UP.com

7.0/10

Eurogamer

7/10

Famitsu

36/40

Game Informer

9.5/10

GamePro

5/5

GameSpot

9/10

GameSpy

3.5/5

GamesTM

4/10

GamesRadar

10/10

GameTrailers

9.1/10

Hyper

95/100

IGN

7.7/10

Official Xbox Magazine

8.5/10

Play Magazine

10/10

PSM

5/5

X-Play

5/5

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Overall Rating for Assassin's Creed: 8.5