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  • Total Miner: Forge – Grab your pickax!

    Over the weekend my son and I discovered a new great game on Xbox Live Indie Games. Total Miner: Forge

    We (my son and I) are constently on the lookout for great co-op games. We love playing together and we especially love creative games that let you make stuff. Oh, we love smash-em-ups and great puzzles, but our favorite by far is any game with the abilty to make stuff. You know, map editor type gameplay. Total Miner shines in this department.

    There are some great RPG and exploration elements to this game but where we’ve spent most of our time is the Creative mode. A place to just kick back and make stuff. Our world has a massive castle in the ground, deep caves, treasure rooms, monster rooms and lots, lots more. We’ve easily spent several hours playing, which is a good indicator of value in my book. Currently Total Miner is 240 Microsoft Points ($3).

    Here’s a video from the creators detailing some of the stuff you can do with Total Miner:

    Grab it from the Xbox LIVE Indie games area and hit me up. We’ll play online.

  • L.A. Noire Review

    It’s rough business, but someone has got to do it.

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    I’m talking about L.A. Noire, the mysterious new title from Rockstar Games, developed by Team Bandi. And let me tell you, they’ve done a bang-up job.

    Dropped right into the thick of policework in post-world-war-II Los Angeles, rookie officer Cole Phelps has just come home from his service in the war. The story is thick and deep and weaves throught the submissions seamlessly. Like most Rockstar games in the past, story is everything here.

    The game mechanics are awesome too. Have time to develop solid gameplay over the GTA titles it translates perfectly to L.A. Noire. Driving is very fun, although the ability to car-jack or run people over is absent (it IS a cop game now, don’t forget) and the driving feels very smooth. The city is massive and extremely detailed with places like shops and buildings to enter and talk to people. The game centers not around gun play (although it is there too!) but around examining crime scenes, collecting evidence and interviewing suspects and witnesses. While this may sound dull, it most definitely is not. Several times I caught myself extremely involved with the the interview process and racking my brain for the details, trying to make the perp talk and give me what I needed for a conviction.

    L.A. Noire is very liniar, which if you’ve played GTA games in the past is quite different, but not a bad thing. However, once a mission is completed you can return to the main menu and replay that mission, looking for perfection. By collecting all the evidence, interviewing the people correctly and doing as little damage to the city and it’s people in the process, you can earn up to 5 stars on the mission performance reviews. I’ve only earned 4 star reviews so far, but my second playthrough should net some better results on the cases.

    I recommend you check the game out. Keep in mind this game is rated M for a reason. Language, violence and drug use runs throughout the game, but this is the seedy underbelly of L.A. we’re talking about here! Get out there and catch some crooks.

  • More Games Than I Know What To Do With

    I have a problem. The problem is a good one, however, it is quite debelitating. You see, I have more games than I have time to play them. And there are new games coming out all the time, adding to the problem. How will I ever find the time to play them all?

    Lately it seems, I only have a few hours a week to spend on my 360. Maybe a Friday night, or Sunday evening. I still have to play through Fallout 3 before I can go buy New Vegas. And I was just given a copy of Halo Reach, which I’ve played about an hour of. I beat Portal 2 (twice) and have taken some time to play a few of the Humble FrozenByte Bundle games. But there are still lots to play.

    It’s a good time to be a gamer. There are a lot of great games to play and killer consoles to play it on. Here’s to carving out some time to play them.