HEAVENLY SWORD

Game Type: Action/Adventure
Game Subtype: Beat them up
Game Style: 3rd Person
Game Play: About 30hours
My Grade: 8.5
Similar games Ive played: Ninja Gaiden

WebPage: www.heavenlysword.com/
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Game Frame: Heavenly Sword its SCEA-2007 developed game rated with 8.0 at Gamespot
What is it about: Heavenly Sword is the story of Nariko, a warrior girl born inside an ancient tribe dedicated to protect a Mithical Sword desired by Bohan, the bad guy of the game. During one of Bohans attempts to get the sword he destroys entire Narico´s village and takes captive lots of people including Naricos father and sister.

You, playing as Nariko armed with a hell of a sword will have to go running over different places taking out lots of warriors; at some moments you will play with other Characters and also, you will also be able to control arrows, cannonballs, etc with the SIAXIS controller. Your mission will be to destroy Bohans army and allies in order to accomplish the Heavenly Sword profecy.
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Scores
History 8: History its quite the same of any hero history however it includes some additional features which make it interesting. The game merges very well the history cinematics with game play only to give sense of game plot. Its not out of this world but its OK
Graphics 8.5: This game show beautiful graphics, very well detailed and colorful, I’m not sure but perhaps due to screen relation size characters during gameplay look like PS2 impressive graphics more than PS3 full graphic capacity. I mean its not Metal Gear but still graphics look very good.
Sound 8: Sound during game or related to scene is very good people shouting, complaining, music at some points makes this game very pleasant.

Gameplay/Moves 9: I must say so, I love this kind of games; walking and shooting or fighting against everything. Nariko as I mentioned will fight lots of bad guys at the same time and according to your ability with buttons and combo techniques you will be able to fight them all. Also the shooting feature is GREAT, Imagine you will be able to shoot an arrow and being able to control it looking in 1sr person “As movie Robin Hood” using SIAXIS feature. At the beginning this will be hard however once you have mastered it I am pretty sure you will love it!!

If I could... I wouldn’t change anything about this game its actually one of my favorites. You will spend hours playing. If I had to add something I would put some graphic cinematic effects to finish down enemies Eg. Stranglehold

ASSASSINS CREED

Game Type: Action/Adventure
Game Subtype: Sandbox
Game Style: 3rd Person
Game Play: About 30hours
My Grade: 7.0
Similar games Ive played: Grand Theft Auto 4
WebPage: www.assassinscreed.com/
Image taken from Ubisofts website only for review
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Game Frame: Assassins creed is one of SONY's Greatest Hits, It was launched during 02/2008 with great reviews (9/10 at Gamespot). This game was developed by Ubisoft

What is it about: Assassins Creed is the story of Desmond, a regular guy living a regular life abducted by a mysterious group whom have developed a machine capable to "link" Desmond´s memories to a former ancestor called Altair. This Altair belongs to an assassins order dedicated to kill specific targets in order to prevail peace and order according to the group beliefs. Game takes place at 1119AC and you will be playing with Altair of course.

You will be given a series of targets to kill for different reasons and social classes how ever in order to find them you will have to kill, punch, steal or lisen to different targets among different cities untill you gather enough info to locate and kill your main target.
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Scores
History 10: The entire game mixes time between some future organization interests related to events occurred during past times linked by a powerfull DNA machine reader; actually it requieres lots of imagination to develop such a history. This game is intended to be 1/3 episodes.
History really liked me and kept me intresting during all the game looking for more.

Graphics 10: This game has some of the most impressive and detailed graphics I have ever seen. It takes place on several cities including Jerusalen, Sandbox game style allows to cover lots of game kilometers allowing to enjoy the impressive graphic scenarios. All characters movements and detail are quite complete I really liked this part.
Cinematic scenes for fighting segments are great

Sound 7.5: Sound during game or related to scene is very good people shouting, complaining, broken jars etc sound very realistic however once you have been 2 hours spining around the city all this sounds tend to become very repetitive and even annoying. Perhaps some backstage music would be good.

Gameplay/Moves 6.5: To be honest, I found this game very repetitive even boring; I decided to finish it due to its impressive graphics and history however I didnt enjoyed playing it.

During all the X missions you have to accomplish you will have to do exactly the same things with the same moves and without any potential enhancement in order to find your target location.
Even once you have gotten all your equipment you will kept doing the same thing for hours!!
It will take more time to collect required items and walk around the city runing to specified locations than getting any action.

You will get few and repetitive action moves leaving your character without real fighting resourses. Action button is diminished to 1 and fights become slow and repetitive since the only way you can fight efficiently vs your enemies is covering until they attack and then press the same button on order to make your move.

If I could... I would have enhanced Altair moves; make him much more complex related to its abilities adding additional action movement like "Jump or better fighting abilities" could be like Ninja Gaiden fight style.

Lets get started....

Ok, anything new here, I am just a videogame fan, Not a videogame expert reviewer or geek player but I love videogames enough to get myselft plenty of time playing them.

My target for this blog its simple, talk and share opinions about PS3 Videogames

I bought my PS3 by sept2008, I really loved it so I decided to read at Gamespot.com some of the best reviews for Ps3 games and bought them; since then every time I see a good priced game I just buy it how ever sometimes my personal opinion differs lots from professional reviewers so I decided to put my owns and share and discuss them with all of you....

Every game I play will be pasted here; I will try to put a Game type, Category and Sub Category. After that there will be a resume of the game, Global cualifications for Audio, Video, History, etc, etc and my personal opinion.

So, if you have any suggestions to make better analysis or want to share opinions please do.. or just leave your post.

Thanks again... oh I am not native english speaker so please try to understand my english.