Monday, April 28, 2008

POGD game review 2

For this time , I'm going to review The Eye of Judgement.
Have you ever watched the show Yugi-oh ? There was a part in the show where those people place cards on the board and they come out to life on a bigger board. If you cannot imagine that its ok, here is a picture to show you:
this is how the board looks like:

The aim of the game is to stratigically occupy 5 spaces out of the 9 spaces on the board in order to win. To acheive that you have to use certain spells and monster cards to summon on the board and kill other monsters on the board to stop them from winning. To prevent easy wins from an overpowered deck, there is a function called summoning lock that prevents certain cards from being usable until the lock is taken off.


Another fun thing about this is (to me that is) that you have to buy cards to increase your deck size and the only way of getting better and powerful cards. So yes you have to spend more then just buying the game itself. If you want to win flawlessly you have to get booster packs to assemble a deck.


Graphics-wise, the monsters are quite nicely done.However I feel that they skimped on the spell animations. Whenever you cast a spell a hooded guy just appears and reads out the name of that spell and thats all. Kinda stupid I feel.









POGD review 1






For this week I am going to review on Devil May Cry 4.




The story is about a guy with a demonic hand by the name of Nero living in a secluded village that still worship's Sparda as a god. However the church that advocates Sparda as a god seems to plan something else other than worshipping him.






Gameplay: The control are quite smooth and in DMC4 there is an automatic function that somehow predicts what you want to do to achieve certain combos and helps you to do them. However it seemed to me that that automatic function is a little too helpful as it does some combos which I have never started to press before.

This is an attack combo of Nero's red queen
attack, pause , attack, attack, attack




Graphics : The whole thing is in HD and everything is nice to look at especially the bosses.

Here's a picture of one of the people in the church:






Level Design: On the whole the level design is not bad, however the minimap is a little confusing for me at first, there was once I got stuck in a level for 1 hour due to me seeing a door but there was no door there. Finally i realized that the map shows a top view of the place and that door is being obstructed by something else instead.