The Guildmasters

I just bought my playstation eye today, after searching for the best price online it turned out that Amazon and Walmart had the best price at $32.82, I decided to get it straight from the store as we was going out anyway so we popped into walmart and it turns out the price was $40 in store, so now the fun starts.

We argued with the store clerk that you can’t advertise a product online at one price then advertise it in store at another price, it’s not ethical. Apparently they can do that but after we insisted on speaking with the manager he let us have it for the same price as advertised online, i’m sure they will adjust it soon though.

This means that Amazon is now the cheapest price for the eye.

* A sophisticated microphone with the ability to reduce background noise and focus on spoken word for smoother, more accurate speech recognition
* Faster frame rate for improved tracking, responsiveness and smoothness
* Two position zoom lens for close-up and full body options
* Free EyeCreate editing software, which allows users to save, edit and add cool visual effects to photos, video and audio clips
* 4 channel audio input – 16-bits/channel, 48kHz, SNR 90db

Tony:)

It’s been a long few days searching for another decent new release but I think i’ve found one in Heavy Rain, actually i’m downloading this demo as I type.

I’ve just finished watching the trailer and what i’ve seen so far looks promising, there is a lot of hype about this game but I don’t usually take much notice of that, I like to see things for myself and the trailer led me to download the demo to see if it turns out to be as good as promised.

The pre-order price at amazon at the moment is $54.96 which is a saving of over $5 on the list price and there is a pre-order bonus if you order before the release date, this is Heavy Rain Chronicles: Chaper 1 – The Taxidermist which is a downloadable episode,but first lets see what the story is about:

Wow, that’s what I said when I saw that article in the news, after clicking through to the story it turns out that a lady decided to sell her old Nintendo system along with 5 games, after just a short while the price was over $6,000

By the end of the auction the grand total was a staggering $16,105 and it wasn’t even the system or the games which was worth the large amount, it was actually the boxed game Stadium Events, the box alone being worth a staggering 10K.

The reason behind this really is because there are as few as 10 of these games known to still be in existence, so purely the rarity of a game decides the value.

I know your all going to be hunting through the attic and basements now for your old Nintendo games, sometimes it’s always worth keeping hold of stuff if your one of those who like to keep your gear in good order.

The only other Nintendo game which surpasses this one is Nintendo World Championships which sold for an amazing $17,500 on ebay

The moral here is make sure you look after your new games, especially the boxes and especially those limited editions.

That’s one amazing result though, hoping to gain a few bucks to maybe go to a concert or something and end up being able to buy a decent plasma screen to go with the latest PS3 system and a whole bunch of limited editions,lol

Tony:)

Well I decided to try a couple of the PSN download games and being a fan of pinball I decided to try this one, the full game is $9.99 which is a little on the expensive side for me but at least it is the full game and you can play online and it is trophy enabled.

First the machines, they are about as realistic as you could expect to find in a game, very smooth, lots of features once you understand them and where they are and very fun to play if you like pinball.

The one i’m concentrating on at the moment is El Dorado, because i’m going for the trophies it means really playing the machine, understanding the angles and knowing what the features are, i’ve only got two of the trophies on this one and there are at least four trophies that I know are going to be extremely hard.

Downside is it doesn’t look like there is a platinum trophy which is disappointing as if any game deserved one it should be this one. There are 24 trophies in all made up of bronze, silver and gold and i’ve managed to pick myself up 6 of those, all being bronze.

There are four machines in all and i’d say it’s only worth buying if like me your waiting on other games to come in the mail and you really want a go at some very hard trophies, it goes without saying you would have to be a person that appreciates the pinball game or your going to get fairly annoyed pretty quickly.

Overall this game is easily a 9/10 as it runs very smoothly, the balls act very naturally like a real pinball machine, the features are pretty awesome once you learn how to get them and it runs seamlessly, no glitches from what i’ve seen so far and a nice break from the norm, there is a free download demo of the El Dorado table and you can play that up to two and a half million points to give you a feel of how it plays if your thinking of buying this.

Zen Pinball: available from the playstation store on PSN

If anyone else has played this one i’d like to hear if you managed to get all the trophies, still waiting on Borderlands, seems by the time I actually get it number 2 will be out, lol, it’s obviously popular.

Tony:)

This game is one i’ve been waiting for a long time now, i’m a final fantasy fanatic ever since I played my first final fantasy on ps1, I think at that time it was about final fantasy 6 or 7 and it was awesome.

I’ve just watched the trailer for this latest final fantasy and it looks like it’s been worth the wait, the graphics are stunning, no other word for it, the gameplay looks like it’s as good as it’s ever going to get, in fact i’ve just pre-ordered mine without even thinking too much about it which is rare for me, it looks that good.

Available on both the PS3 and XBox360 and around $60 I believe it’s going to be one of the few games worth the money you spend on it.

You can pre-order from amazon with the pre-order price guarantee and this is one game you won’t be disappointed with.

If you have on demand on your tv the final fantasy official trailer is under cutting edge, check it out man.

Ok I know this game is already two years old but I only got this one a couple of days ago because after doing a search online for the game with the most ps3 trophies it turned out to be Burnout Paradise.

At less than $20 it’s not a bad buy, another break from the norm I know but a fun game and a mindless sort of pleasure out of racing and smashing into other cars, it’s pretty realistic and there are a ton of road “quests”, time trials, takedowns, marked man and many more.

You have to work your way up through the licenses, you start off a beginner and via racing, smashing and taking off ramps you gradually upgrade your license, this will be a good game when you’ve spent days on a really decent RPG and your stuck on something and need a break for a day or two before returning to it.

I am disappointed in a few things about this game, sure it’s cheap enough but if your trying to do what I was and get all trophies then it’s going to cost you more. I attempted to play online and even though it let me register I couldn’t actually race online unless I purchased the Big Surf Island, that’s another $12.99 then there are tons of different cars to purchase ranging from $1.99 up to $5.99 and other party packs at another $12.99, basically if you wanted everything in this game it would cost a small fortune. I’ve always been against high price download content and I understand it from a marketing point of view as well as additional income from an already established game but there comes a point where I just think that some companies are just completely taking advantage, that’s my own personal opinion and not everyone shares this and that’s ok.

I have found out that if you purchase just the Big Surf Island it is possible to still achieve all trophies but I haven’t confirmed this, I just wanted those to know who haven’t yet played this and wanted it for the trophies you won’t get them all without some extra cost, some won’t mind but for me it’s another downer.

Yes I will be getting back to RPG’s very soon but I said i’d write the review on Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2010 after getting a couple of days of fun from Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures 2010.

Well I actually liked this one better than the last one, this was more fun and took much longer to get all PS3 trophies, you can complete this game in a day but if you really want to complete everything, which means all gold medals, all mini-games and all PS3 trophies or XBox360 achievements then it’s going to cost you two or even three days.

This game doesn’t spend too much time on the aspect of searching for your hunt like the previous game, your pretty much directed to where your animal is going to be, the focus here is more on your accuracy, ability to work out the best vantage point and maximize your points for each kill.

Compared to the last one there wasn’t as much in the way of weapons, you didn’t get a bow, just a crossbow, one pistol and a few rifles. There wasn’t a trophy for using each weapon so you didn’t really have to worry about switching too much, although there is a trophy for killing so many with the crossbow, pistol and muzzleloader rifle.

The hardest trophy by far, for me anyway, was finding at least 90 animal signs, that was a pain as I had to play through the entire game a third time to find those, which gave me the platinum.

This game I found much more realistic in the way the animals fell when you shot them, I actually got drawn into really trying to get the prize trophy in each group, the one animal in the herd worth much more than the rest and was actually disappointed if I got a bronze or silver.

As it turns out another PS3 trophy (or achievement on xbox360 ) is to collect all gold medals.

Some of the animals in this game were great, I really enjoyed hunting a buffalo and being able to creep within 20 yds for the challenge kill.

One aspect of the game which actually took me by surprise was when told to hunt a bear, a mountain lion or leopard, I really had no idea that they would attack you. I thought I would stalk a grizzly bear and shoot him from a distance but when I came across him at the waters edge there were no “vitals” showing, so I shoot this big grizzly and he looks up and gets really angry and starts chasing me, now i’m panicking as I had no idea what to do, then he jumps all over me and now i’m button mashing to sock him in the mouth with my rifle, four or five shots later and lots of paw prints on my face (presumably), he goes down, leaving me thinking “what the hell just happened? How cool was that?”

Well without going on too much if you liked Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures 2010 then you’ll probably really enjoy this one, it’s a lot of fun.

One other thing that was really fun was the mini-games you come across during the game, most were shooting ducks but there were also rabbits, foxes, and hares. It’s actually pretty funny shooting the rabbits and hares, rent it just for fun.

If you want to check out my review of gamefly just click here, I noticed blockbuster has started game rentals too but there are more expensive than gamefly and gamefly does have “keep” prices on many of their games which are quite often cheaper than the stores.

There was something I got wrong in my last review on Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures 2010 and I mentioned that this one Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2010 had over 50 trophies, there is actually 28 trophies in all, 27 plus the platinum.