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Weekly Poll: Do you game over Thanksgiving?

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Assassin's Creed Brotherhood PollSo wow, no love for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood among most of you? You’re missing out. No really, you are, especially if you played Assassin’s Creed 2. ACB won’t appeal to those who did not, because, as one of my friends put it, ACB is really more AC2. It’s a continuation of the story, and there is no real tutorial on how to play except for on Ezio’s new tricks, which makes the combat ten times more manageable and fun than AC2.

As for the guide, I don’t want to jinx myself, but this could be the first guide written by Piggyback Interactive that doesn’t make me want to hurl it across the room in frustration. So far I have had zero issues and plenty of help, particularly when it comes to achieving 100% synchronization in those memories with the pesky timers. (Curious what 100% synchronization means? Well, I guess you’re going to have to play the game to find out!)

I’ve had a home alone weekend this past weekend, and I’ve used it to play quite a bit of ACB. I’m trying to do as much as I can now, because as of Wednesday, I won’t be able to play any of it for 4-5 days. We’re heading down to see my family for Thanksgiving this year, and my parents are not gamers in the slightest. They kind of think of games as pointless and a big waste of time. So, I won’t have a PS3 to borrow during naptime or late at night. I am going to try to get some gaming accomplished though in the form of handheld gaming. I’m going to back both my DS and PSP so I can play either Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light or Ys Seven, which I’m so close to finishing.

Are you going to be able to get your gaming fix at all over the Thanksgiving holiday? If so, what are you going to be able to play?

Unboxing the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Collector’s Edition Guide

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I think everyone pretty much knew that I was going to declare the Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Collector’s Edition Strategy Guide as the cover of the week, so this should be no surprise. However, I thought perhaps a nice unboxing photo gallery would be far more fun (or annoying) to show off Prima Games’ and Piggyback Interactive’s latest piece of beauty.
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Weekly Poll: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

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So we have more Movers than Kinecters in the audience. Is this because more of us have a PS3 than an Xbox? Or is it because of Yuki’s astute (and I believe accurate) observation that the Kinect is most likely going to appeal to the casual, family gamers and the Move will appeal more to the hardcore gamers. (I really hate differentiating between casual and hardcore with such labels, but at this point, I really have no idea how to better separate them.)

I sadly have not used my Move at all. I fired up Star Wars: The Force Unleashed this afternoon, and I really hoped that it would have Move support just because, well, just because. I guess it would have helped if I actually turned on my Move controller when I was playing, but the patch update I had to download immediately seemed to be only for Trophy support. (Yay for Trophies!) [Read more…]

Vanquish Strategy Guide Review

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Vanquish Strategy Guide by Future PressStrategy Guide Review Policy:

My goal for these strategy guide reviews is not to discuss whether one needs the guide to complete the game. Every gamer has different strengths and skills, and one may need every bit of a guide, another may need to look up information for quick assistance once, and another may laugh at the idea of ever using a guide, even the online freebies. My goal is to determine whether the guide is 1) helpful in the first place, 2) does it encompass gamers who need hand-holding as well as those who need a quick reference and 3) how much information does it really have.

Review:

It’s really hard not to compare the [amazon-product text=”Vanquish strategy guide” type=”text”]0744012600[/amazon-product] with the [amazon-product text=”Bayonetta strategy guide” type=”text”]3869930039[/amazon-product], and that’s mainly because of the similarity between the two games. Both games revolve around speed, flair, and high scores, so it’s only natural that the guides would be structured similarly to one another.

However, unlike Bayonetta, the Vanquish guide is NOT for players looking how to get through the game. To be honest, you can take your time and treat it like any other third-person shooter with a little flair and still beat the game in less than 8 hours. You might need the guide for finding all of those odd little Pangloss statues, but seriously, if you duck behind things and shoot, you can finish the game with zero assistance.

But why play it that way, when it’s most definitely not how it is supposed to be played? Enter the Vanquish strategy guide. [Read more…]

Fallout New Vegas Strategy Guide Review

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Fallout New Vegas Strategy Guide ReviewBy Eric Frederiksen

If there’s any game series that deserves a proper strategy guide with every release, it’s Fallout. The massive, open worlds are packed with easy-to-miss quests, special items, and interesting characters to interact with. Fallout: New Vegas feels like a bit of a throwback to the older style of RPG, and appropriately so: many of the guys at developer Obsidian worked on the original Fallout games. As such, New Vegas holds the player’s hand a bit less than many similar titles – even 2008’s Fallout 3; a good guide will blow the world wide open.

The guide opens with a seemingly endless barrage of spreadsheets for reference including briefs on all the different factions, the many weapons available, different items and characters, and good character creation practices for both normal and hardcore game modes. A walkthrough of all the different possible paths for the main quest follows, as well as brief and informative guides for each of the many side quests the game has to offer. The quests are well organized and easy to find thanks to a comprehensive table of contents at the front of the book. [Read more…]

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