So the first Video Game I remember playing was..... Tetris on my Sister's Gameboy. Which reminds me it's her B-Day today, Happy Birthday Sophie if your reading this! Tetris as we all know is a fantastic game which always gives you great satisfaction in slotting in perfect shapes into perfect gaps but then when you complete rows all your left with is imperfect gaps which for the life of you can't plug back up. Then there's that background music which will always be with you like a musical Ben Kenobi!
Fast Forward to the release of the First Playstation and a fateful Christmas where I hear a knock at the door and what is at the door but a PSone dropped off by Father Christmas and his new buddy Tinkerbell (as during the year we went to Disneyland Paris where we stayed in the Tinkerbell Suite in the Disneyland Hotel) . And it came with a couple of Games which were Tomb Raider 2 (Lara Croft became a poster in my room from the age of 9-12) and Crash Bandicoot 2. Now at the age of 7, I think it was, I couldn't really figure out a complicated thing like Lara Croft plus Girls as we all knew at the age were Yucky! So Crash Bandicoot it was and my oh my what a Game for me at that age colourful 3D graphics, great platforming abilities and Wumpa Fruits! It really started for not only Playstation but also the company Naughty Dog which would go on to make the Uncharted Series and also coming this year The Last of Us.
Fast Forward again to a trip to Spain where my Step Dad, Dave made sure me and my sister weren't bored by getting us some tech for us to shut up on plane ride over. He got my sister a CD-Man I believe and as for me my very own Gameboy Colour and he asked me what game I would like with it well I decided to take a risk and see what all the fuss about these so called Pocket-Monsters were about. I liked the colour Red so Pokemon Red with my Fave and rarest of all Pokemon Cards Charizard on the front cover. Wow still my favourite portable game of all time! I'm also looking forward to this year and checking out the new Pokemon X and Y. Might have to go splitsees on a 3DS with Ashleigh so she can play Prof Layton and I can play Pokemon!
Fast Forward over PS2 era (by the way Shadow of the Colossus is worth playing so expansive is a practically an early PS3 game rather than a PS2 game) to the PS3 and this has been something that has really defined me as a gamer as it was a console I bought Day One and is still with me *struggles to get over to wooden windowsill whilst nearly dropping laptop*. The two Games I got with it were Motorstorm and Resistance Fall of Man. Resistance Fall of Man was a great alternative history game about World War Two never happening and instead Aliens invaded the Earth and it is your job as Nathan Hale to push back the alien scum. Motorstorm was brill to as it was up to you to choose the kind of vehicle you wanted to race as in an off-road race, so you could choose a speedy little bike but you would get crushed by the bigger racing trucks on the course which take a long time to accelerate.
Writing this blog I start to wonder what has happened to all my trustee little gaming devices as I have traded them in to get the newer versions. The PS2, the Gameboy colour, the PSP, the Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance SP, the PSP go and of course the one that has started to bring a tear to my eye, the hand delivered by Santa and Tink PSOne! I think with the Next Gen I may have to get the money for the Playstation Orbis (or PS4 to you and me) by selling off the PS3 to my family, I mean they haven't got a Blu-Ray player so why not eh?
Review Section
So what I have decided to go with this time is something that I have got for a very long time and is a series I didn't mention in the actual blog post which is the WWE series. Starting back with WWF Smackdown! on the PSOne which was the first game made by THQ it was my favourite series of games even during the times where I didn't watch WWE as much (right now I watch a 1 hour highlight show called WWE Experience and any PPV's/ special events that come up). This latest one WWE 13 is a great look back at the Attitude era and is something that I don't feel ashamed to like as a lot of my friends who don't watch wrestling now watched it as kids when the Attitude era was in full swing. So the Attitude ear replaces the regular career mode though if you want to play a career like experience with today's superstars you do have the WWE universe. Only a couple of niggling things about this kind of bug me. The first being is that they cut out the F part of WWF as they talk in the Attiude era mode , but is something I can forgive as they obviously had to change there name in the early 2000's as the then World Wrestling Federation had to change there name to World Wrestling Entertainment due to the accronym of WWF clashing with the World Wildlife Fund. But why they could just record new audio instead of just recycling the audio recorded off TV and cutting the F off I don't know. Another thing is the ring announcer back in the attitude era would have been Howard Finkel not Tony Chimel which they have decided to use but however Good old JR back for the commentating booth on the attitude era so swings and roundabouts I suppose. Other than those little bug bears it is a fantastic game well worth the price and I will be gettting the DLC for it as well. The Creation modes are spot on as usual and the custom entrance video is soo easy to use just get a couple of highlights of your superstar wrestling and then it detects them and puts them into a theme of video that you have chosen. My create a superstar is just like the rest of regular roster which is something that I feel had been missing from the other games.
Well I'll wrap it up there as I'm thinking of playing in the snow right now. So for geekdom, stars and stripes this is me Oliver Bulcraig! Good day everyone!
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