REVIEW
GAME
Who hasn’t played a video game before (even grandparents have played at least 1 video game)?
With so many games around we decided to review a few games this month.
Skylanders Trap Team - PlayStation 4
In Skylanders Trap Team, Kaos continues his ongoing quest to rule over Skylands. He has discovered the location of the legendary Cloudcracker
Prison -- a fortress built entirely out of the magical
substance Traptanium and home to Skylands’ most
nefarious baddies. In an attempt to build his own
army of foes, Kaos blows up the prison, releasing
the most wanted villains and blasting shards of
Traptanium to Earth in the form of Traps. Now it’s
up to Portal Masters to recapture all of the escaped
villains using powerful Traptanium Traps and
defeat Kaos before it’s too late!
Skylanders Trap Team lets Portal Masters “trap” the
most wanted villains in Skylands and then play as
them in the game in the battle for good. The game
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes &
Punishments PlayStation 4 and PC
Experience the adventures of the great detective
Sherlock Holmes like never before with Sherlock
Holmes: Crimes & Punishments, the first game
in the series designed in Unreal Engine 3 for an
evolutionary leap in graphic detail. Environments
is more realistic and finely detailed with dynamic
lighting and shadows. Powerful new visual systems
allow for smooth movement and motion transitions, real-time shaders and a particle system, and
advanced post-processing effects.
Unlike the previous adventures of Sherlock
Holmes, in Crimes and Punishments you will not
be a mere spectator during the detective’s investigation. It is now your turn to truly become Sherlock
Holmes and lead your own investigation–actually,
your investigations, as 8 captivating cases await
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Xbox 360
and PlayStation 3
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A few days after the P-1 Grand Prix concludes in
the first Arena title, the city of Inaba gets enveloped
in a thick red fog and Mitsuru, Akihiko, Fuuka,
and Aigis are shown as prisoners on the Midnight
Channel. The Investigation Team from Persona 4
and former SEES from Persona 3 must once again
fight to their limits in the new P-1 Climax tournament to rescue them and finally uncover the true
culprit behind the deadly tournaments.
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax will improve on the
award-winning fighting game formula with battle-altering 1-hit special attacks and new characters, including Yukari Takeba and Junpei Iori
from Persona 3 and a brand new character, Sho
Minazuki. Not a lot is known about Sho other than
offers an unprecedented new addition to the game’s
play pattern in the form of Traptanium Traps.
When this new type of toy is placed directly into
the Traptanium Portal. Portal Masters can “capture” a variety of special villains from the game and
magically transport them from Skylands into the
real world. Skylanders Trap Team also will reverse
the magic of bringing toys-to-life, letting kids take
characters out of the digital world and bring them
into the physical world, pulling villains out of the
game and into living room. Players can then send
them back into the game where they play as them
to fight for good.
RP for Rating Pending:
Genre: Action
Publisher: Activision
Developer: Beenox
you! Murders, disappearances, spectacular thefts,
and other investigations will bring you to the cutting edge of the detective genre. Each case, written
in the pure tradition of Conan Doyle’s novels, offers
real freedom to players, who will have to make important moral choices instead of simply enforcing
justice by the book. All decisions have an influence
in the game and affect your character’s reputation
in addition to having realistic, sometimes unexpected, consequences. You will have to bear the
weight of your choices, as Crimes and Punishments
offers an exciting system of actions/consequences
that forces players to think before acting by giving
true depth to every decision they make.
M for Mature: Blood, Drug Reference, Violence
Genre: Adventure
Developer: Frogwares
his goofy nature and being an unstoppable force in
both puns and combat. Two swords, two scars on
his face, red hair and red mist in Inaba? Surely it
can’t be coincidence that he’s standing in the way
of the Investigation Team. And to make matters
worse, it seems he can control a Persona...
T for Teen: Language, Mild Blood, Suggestive
Themes, Use of Tobacco, Violence, Includes online
features that may expose players to unrated user-generated content
Genre: Fighting
Publisher: Atlus
Developers: Atlus, ARC System Works
Frozen Synapse Prime PlayStation Vita
You’ve patched in to the enemy’s security system:
get ready to make your plan. You have full control
over your strike team, directing their every movement. At the same time, your opponent is plotting
to defeat you. Plan your moves, then hit the “Execute” button: both you and your enemy’s turns are
executed simultaneously.
Frozen Synapse Prime is the ultimate strategy
game, bringing the simultaneous turn-based
strategy genre into the modern era. Based on
the hit original Frozen Synapse, this PlayStation
Network-exclusive version offers a fresh new visual
style, a single-player campaign based around a
deep and engrossing storyline (which also as an introduction to the skirmish and PvP modes,) and a
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo 3DS
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS is the first
portable entry in the renowned series, in which
game worlds collide. Up to four players battle each
other locally or online using some of Nintendo’s
most well-known and iconic characters across
beautifully designed stages inspired by classic por-
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor PC
and PlayStation 4
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is an action-packed adventure-RPG inspired by J.R.R.
Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Exploring an original story of vengeance and
redemption, the game puts players in the role
of Talion, a valiant ranger whose family is slain
in front of him the night Sauron and his army
return to Mordor -- moments before his own life
is taken. Resurrected by a Spirit of vengeance and
empowered with Wraith abilities, Talion ventures
into Mordor and vows to destroy those who have
wronged him. Through the course of his personal
vendetta, Talion uncovers the truth of the Spirit
that compels him, learns the origins of the Rings of
multifaceted feature set (including multiple online
concurrent game sessions) that take full advantage
of the new gaming platform.
RP for Rating Pending:
Genre: Strategy
Publisher: Double Eleven Studios
Developers: Double Eleven Studios, Mode 7 Games
table Nintendo games. It’s a genuine, massive Super
Smash Bros. experience that’s available to play on
the go, anytime, anywhere.
RP for Rating Pending:
Genre: Fighting
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Bandai Namco Games
Power and ultimately confronts his true nemesis.
Every enemy that players face is a unique individual, differentiated by their personality, strengths
and weaknesses. Through the Nemesis System,
enemy relationships and characteristics are shaped
by player actions and decisions to create personal
archenemies that remember and adapt to the player
and are distinct to every gameplay session. Gamers
are able to craft their own battles, enemies and
rewards within the dynamic world that remembers
and adapts to their choices, delivering a unique
experience to every player.
M for Mature:
Genre: Action
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive
Developer: Monolith Productions
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