Games Cheats and Reviews

Let’s get this out of the way: the opening 45 minutes of God of War 3 are indescribably brilliant. Make no mistake; you won’t have seen a video game with production values anywhere near this. It is utterly incredible, and a sequence that blows me away every time I play it (four times and counting). But it is just 45 minutes out of a game that spans 10 or so hours. Does the rest of the game live up to such a show-stopping introduction to the series on PS3?

Speaking at a panel on the emerging casual gaming market today, God of War and Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe called his company’s 2007 PlayStation Network game Calling All Cars "a mistake." Jaffe made the remark at the DICE Summit, an annual gathering of industry professionals in Las Vegas.

Jaffe had been asked whether he considered the genre-bending downloadable action game a hardcore or casual experience. "I’d call it a mistake," he replied.

Barnes & Noble has the PC version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 listed for pre-order at $19.95, but it appears that this actually covers the entire game. It’s unclear whether this is a mistake or not on the retailer’s part, but if you plan on getting Bad Company 2, you should definitely go ahead and buy this in the event that they do honor it. The game normally retails for $50.

After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself available for questions from employees bold enough to stand up and take one right between the eyes.

On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: "It’s bullshit." Audience roars.

In what can only be described as a humongous mistake, Sony accidentally offered the film Armored for free as a download on the Playstation Store. More importantly, the film in question is currently in theaters.

BossLevel writes: I was on GameTrailers and came across a photo of Mass Effect with a PlayStation 3 logo on it. Does this mean something, it would be rather odd to say this is a mistake because the photo would have to have been edited. Seems fishy to me. Picture after the link.

Eurogamer writes: "I didn’t fully appreciate how good Uncharted 2 is until I played Halo 3: ODST. "Naughty Dog" is about right. The studio did, after all, ruin a game I’d been looking forward to all year. Bungie wasn’t to know I’d play ODST right after the return of Nathan Drake, of course. But boy, that was a mistake.

How quickly does the familiar pall in the wake of fresh wonder. In Halo’s case, how uninspiring the action, how rudimentary the characterisation, how drab it all felt after 11 hours and 21 minutes in Drake’s wild world."

Polar Panic is a puzzle game available on the Xbox Live Arcade, but comes with a $800 price tag? It seems that Microsoft made a mistake on the pricing of the game, it should in fact be 800 Microsoft Points.

NG writes:

"[The company behind the advert's] licence manager Angela Jones told Negative Gamer, after looking up the advert online, that it was a "mistake on our part" and that she wasn’t sure what had happened. She added that Sony wern’t, as far as she knew, releasing a new console."

Do MMO developers keep making the same mistake when designing new games by omitting the option to create varied races? IncGamers’ Jeff Hollis thinks so…

"If you’re publishing an MMO in which players can only play as humans, you are alienating a significant portion of your potential customers. There is a large number of players that want to play gnomes, trolls, or other equally exotic characters. If you, as a developer, don’t extend that option to them, they simply won’t play your game."