Xbox 360 Demo Roundup 2: The Quickening
It’s been a while since I’ve made the leap to the ol’ Tumblr for some blog action. It would appear that Twitter has me in it’s 140-character grasp. Some things are hard to convey in 140 characters, so I’ve ‘fired that motherfucker up’ and started on the ol’ blog. Let’s turn the mother out, and put some heat under the sucker…
UFC 2009: Undisputed
Hooray for violence, man. I love the stuff. Undisputed gives that visceral bump to the noggin that has been sorely lacking in previous MMA titles. From the title screen, with the obnoxious nu-metal soundtrack (it has that ‘Click Click Boom’ song - if you can believe that), you’d be forgiven for thinking that this game was marketed to the idiots who thought that ‘Fight Club’ was a competent fighter. Luckily, the game feels more like Fight Night if you were able to bludgeon someone with your elbow and then kick them upside their bonce. There seems to be a deep fighting system here, with context sensitive controls which really make it seem like a fluid fight is taking place. I’m happy to say that as ‘The IceMan Chuck Liddell’ I managed to rack up three consecutive victories by knockout. There’s something extremely satisfying about this game, which maybe says a lot about me as a person.
Red Faction: Guerilla
Hmmm. Difficult one this. Never being a big fan of the Red Faction series (more through ignorance than anything else), I came into the RF Universe with a clean slate - ready to be wowed.
The first few minutes of the demo underwhelm. It’s a standard Third Person shooter experience which feels a bit like Gears of War but with no weight to the characters. I was beginning to get the impression that this wasn’t a particularlly polished title, which is odd since Volition is involved (and I love me some Volition). Once the demo picked up (by picking up I mean getting into a massive fucking walker/mech), you can really appreciate the levels of destruction you can inflict upon the landscape. Buildings crumble and explode as you would expect in real life, if you smacked them with a giant metal arm. Again, there’s a real sense of satisfaction when you completely destroy a wee house. The demo rounds up with an on-rails section where you are defending said mech on the back of a truck. Luckily, the weapon provided for this section is very chunky, meaning it provides intense joy when fired. A decent, if short demo. I don’t think I’ll pick this one up - I’ll just nick it off Blue once he buys it. Fantastic.
I’ve also had to opportunity to play Prince of Persia on the 360. As you can probably tell, I am up with all the latest and current games. More details as events warrant.
