August 30, 2008

Casual Gaming: Soul Calibur 3 (PS2), Guitar Hero: Rocks the '80s (PS2)


Attendance: Chris Octa, Joseph Monaco, Cameron Jansen, Ben? Hartman, Colby Strongie, Zach Stire, Nigel Lawrence, Chris Bimbo, Robert Norman, Nathan Garcia, Jake Martin, Vincent Leibbrandt, Stephen Hilber, Robert Kennedy, Chris Forrence, John Hungerford, Aziel "Ace" Ferguson, Ben L., Enrique Santos, Chris Bowen, Shannon Townsend, Emily Cribb, Chris Augustin, James Donald, Kyle Frank, David Poore, Ed Booth, Nicki Bond

New location in the CoC room 102.
Membership payment due by _____, 15/semester
First game party: Friday, September 7

News:
-Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock preview
-PS3 60Gb are officially available
-N-Gage mobile gaming service launch for November
-Quartermann: Kingdom Hearts prequels coming
-Okami port to Wii
-LocoRoco announced for PS3
-Wii announced for PS3, Wii, DS
-DEVIL MAY CRY 4 SCREENS LMBOOOOOO
-New Phantom Hourglass trailer
-Rayman: Raving Rabbids 2
-No Unreal Tournament 3 demo

Review: Metroid Prime 3
-Controls are simple and accurate, much better than other Wii FPS's
-stacks up fine with keyboard and mouse
-Graphics good for a Wii game
-First Metroid game with voice acting
-More centered on combat than predecessors, but retains a lot of exploration.  Mechanics make it easier to backtrack.
-Not so great as so make a fan out of a hater
-Boss fights are fun; they're reasonably challenging and require some thinking to get through
-A lot of fun weapons and items, including traditional Metroid items
-8.5/10: Does nothing wrong, but doesn't expand quite as much as it could.  "Buy this if you have a Wii."