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mat's Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)
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| [February 22, 2007 10:46:06 PM]
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Well, I flipped a car and it blew up after I got out of it. That was my favorite part of playing this game. My second favorite was running down stoplights. Otherwise, everything seemed forced into the obvious stereotype of gang life, but it was being held back by the fact that this is a video game. I still can't tell if this game is supposed to be fun or serious. It seems serious when they talk about the "hood" being "all fucked up," but then it regresses into some strange MTV-like reality show. The game did have a redeeming quality of being anti-hard drugs, but still, I got busted by the cops for beating up a crack dealer. That makes no sense. They should have rewarded me. Not to mention I was in the middle of a mission that, if I wanted to keep playing this game, I would have to go back and restart. This game is the kind of game I would play if there were absolutely nothing else to do and no other game to play. Why is it on "the classics list"?
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| [February 22, 2007 10:22:48 PM]
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Clearly, GTA-SA is a game created for the privileged non-gangsters who want to have a taste of that dangerous lifestyle that we hear about in rap music so much. I expected this game to be much like the older GTAs that I have played, where you go around and just do random missions, stealing cars and killing people for fun. But no, in San Andreas there is a real storyline that takes up most of your playing time for the first part of the game. It felt like I was playing Final Fantasy with all the cutscenes (although the character animations were good, I thought). The transitions between the actual gameplay and the storyline is not well done either, I think. The story is a sad one of your mother dieing because of gang violence and all of your family and friends being miserable and getting killed, and then you go out on missions to go mess with random people (I guess you're supposed to be fighting the other gangs, but still). The gameplay itself is rather choppy, but it might be that I am not as adept with the PS2 controller as some are. Obviously this game is not a racing game, but the driving physics seem very unrealistic and just bad. It was practically impossible for me to make any turns that I needed to make without crashing into someone or something that completely got in my way. Maybe this is the point of the game, but when I ran someone over, I had the cops chasing me! In my experience, when the cops are chasing you, it's bad, but apparently its kind of a good thing in this game.
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