Games I've Recently Purchased

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Since I've had money lately I've bought a ton of games. I thought I would list them here and say something about the ones i've actually had time to play. Perhaps some of these games may proove to be of interest to some of you.

Evergrace
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories
Gun
Blood Omen 2
Soul Reaver 2
Manhunt
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Medal of Honor European Assault
Medal of honor Frontline
Medal of Honor Rising Sun
Metal Gear Solid 3
Myst III
Silent Hill 4
Siren
Sonic Collection
The Suffering
The Suffering Ties That Bind
Valkyrie Profile 2
Wild Arms 5
X-Men Legends 2

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Well, I haven't had time to play Evergrace with being busy with Valkyrie Profile 2 and Wild Arms 5. I don't want to be activly playing 3 RPGs at once.

I'm sure just about everyone here knows about San Andraes so let's skip that and move onto Vice City Stries. I've heard several complaints about Liberty City Stories and apparently Vice City Stories attempts to correct some of these problems. Overall I enjoy it although the missions can be a pain but you get to play as Lances brother Vic and Lance plays a large role in the story.

Speaking of Grand Theft Auto, Gun is kinda like the westeren version of GTA. Grante the maps smaller and the game overall is smaller but its a free roaming game with story mission and optional missions. Overall a great game other than being really short. I enjoyed the story and the controls were easy to master.

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I finally now own the entire Legacy of Kain series and those are pretty much known here so those I can skip as well. So next on the list is Manhunt. Manhunt I bought out of curiosity because I was told if I liked The Suffering Manunt was like it. I also was curious given the big deal made over Manhunt 2. Its kinda like an extremely violent Tenchu because stealth is the key to victory and much like in Tenchu the controls in melee combat are lacing and its easy to get the snot kicked out of you.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance is no new news got it purely because of the Norse aspect to the story and Thor is a playable character. Granted I think the character selection could have been better I actually quite enjoyed the gameplay. Especially finally being able to use my powers while flying. My team most of the game was Thor, Blade, Ghost Rider, and I reguarly rotated Spiderman, Captain America and Iron Man about.

The Medal of Honor games were in a boxed set for 30 bucks so I figured why not. I haven't played European Assault and Frontline is kinda hard. I however really enjoyed Rising Sun and was dissapointed to learn that it was unpopular and its sequal was cancelled. In Rising sun you get to batle the Japanese during World War II. Typically its always been Nazis.

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What can I say about Myst III. If you don't like the series you won't like Myst III. Even if you do like the series the games d**n hard I sold it once because of that. I just wanted to replace it and it was cheap to do so.

Silent Hill 4 is a good horror game but a lousy silent Hill game. I actually stopped purely because I forgot what I was doing. Its hard and dosen't play like a normal Silent Hill.

Siren I picked up since some of the Silent Hill team members made this game. Its done in the fasion of a Japanese horror movie so its confusing although it is scary. It involves Japanese zombies called Shibato and the way they behave can be scary sometimes.

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Well, for more than the obvious games the Sonic Collection contains some Gamegear games so its cool to get to play those as well. Its also hand for those who don't own a working Genesis and the actual carts. Plus I found you can play dirty in the games. You can save anywhere in at least Sonic 2. So I've been saving in the chaos emerald bonus areas and reloading my file when I fail to get one. What else is cool is thanks to having a Sonic Heroes file on my memory card the collection includes a couple non Sonic games one which is Comix Zone.

The Suffering I had read about on a web site looking for Survival Horror games. I happened by chance to find it and the sequal one day at Gamestop. What sets this game apart from other survival horror games is for one its way more action based. Games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil encourage you to run from fights and conserve ammo. The Suffering encourages you to slaughter stuff. What else is cool is you can go good or evil. Long story short the main guy Torque is on death row for the murder of his wife and children. The ghost of his wife encourags him to help people while this other ghost encourages him to kill them.

The Suffering Ties That Bind is the sequal that picks up directly after the first game. While the gameplay isn't as good the sotry is good. It goes into detail about Torques past.

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Valkyrie PRofile 2 is a strange game. Its pretty close to the original in gameplay. Arngrim is in it and has the same special attack which is cool. The storys strange though because its a prequal and a sequal in one.

Wild Arms 5 I didn't actually buy. That was bought for me for my birthday. I am very pleased with it its a lot closer to the westeren feel that the first games offered. I just don't care much for the hex battle systel Wild Arms 4 introduced.

X-Men Legends 2 I think offeres a lot of things that the first did not. However there are some characters cut that I wished had stayed mostly Magma. I loved using her in the first game.

I forgot to cover Metal Gera Solid 3 which I bought for completion sake for 10 bucks. Its not outright bad its just not as good as the original. Its cool you get to play as Big Boss but I don't care for some of the crap in the game.

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Well, a lot of those I haven't played so there's not much I can say about them.

GTA: San Andreas is a very good game, and even if you start to play it and don't like it, I urge you to keep going until you get to the second city, where the whole gangster thing kinda falls by the wayside and things are more like a normal Grand Theft Auto. A lot of people I know got the game, either enjoyed it early on or didn't, but never got past the first city. And I think the game gets SO much better once you get there.

I may have been too negative on Liberty City Stories. It's not so much that it's a bad game, as I feel there are a lot of missed opportunities there. It's a port from PSP, I believe, and so that could explain the weaker graphics, smaller variety of vehicles (at least it seems like it to me) and such. The story isn't bad, but it just doesn't grip me like Vice City and San Andreas did.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance isn't a bad game, though like the previous X-Men Legends games it does get a little repetitive. The Xbox 360 had a download where you could get eight additional characters: Venom, Dr. Doom, Hawkeye, Cyclops, The Incredible Hulk, Nightcrawler, Magneto, and Sabertooth. As far as I know there isn't any such thing for the PS2, but it's worth keeping an eye out for patches or such. And at least they fixed flight in that game so it doesn't cost you mutant energy and you can actually attack from it.

Gun I've seen but never played. Looks interesting

The Sonic Collection I don't feel I need, since I do have working copies of all the Genesis carts (well, except that Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine game, but I feel I can do without that one). The only thing is my RF cable for the Genesis is a bit wonky, so I get a lot of snow on the screen sometimes. But it has Comix Zone on it? This I have to see.

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I've heard many complaints about Liberty Citu Stories online mostly the missions are too short and on the PSP the lack of savung oppertunitues hurt. From what I played of it I enjoyed it.