I love the role-playing genre, you could almost say I am a Final Fantasy fanatic. While there are true fan boys out there that have literally entrenched their lives with things such as chocobos, white mages, and summons I take a more conservative route, as such I do not own a Squall Cosplay outfit. I do however own all the recent Final Fantasy games, the remakes, the Anthologies and some old 8 bit classics. Over the years I have taken my hand at some Suikoden, and of course I fell in love with the Nippon Ichi games.
This brings me to the Lord of the Rings: The Third Age game by the good people at EA. I can see the need to use the license of one of the greatest stories ever told and arguably the best movie trilogy ever created. The movie lends itself perfectly to video games, as such, Third Age is on the shelves.
The game itself is modeled after the popular Final Fantasy X battle system. A player can see the queue of characters and actions, this of course was a welcome addition when first implemented, so Square Enix fans may scream rip off, but it would be nice to see that in some more RPGs. The problem is the flow of the game, it is a very watered down role-playing game, often times you run into more chests then you should, making your inventory at about thirty minutes into the game seem like you have logged hours of game time. You will partake on quests you had no idea you started, and the graphics again look like Vaseline on my television. I could be giving this game a hard time due to the similarities with Final Fantasy X. Though I do enjoy the parallel storylines with that of the movie. The new characters are a welcome addition too.
This are only my fist impressions, I have yet to hit our review mark of about 10 hours invested. I do want to like the game as I love the LOTR story and the fantastic job New Line Cinema did bringing it to life. Be warned though it seems to have gotten the Rainbow Six treatment, a watered down for the masses make over if you will.
Last night was amazing. I cant thank enough EB Games Huebner Oaks District Manager and forumer Turtle for hooking us up. So a million props to him for allowing us to have a great relationship with his stores. Props of course to one of our hardcore crew folk, good good friend AND General Manager of our SB HQ, The Wraith. We thank you for your awesome support and congratulate your store on its bad ass night.
We will get some pics and hopefully some media up soon. Thanks to everyone that was out there and we will see you on Xbox Live tonight! Another shout out to Dominoes for hooking the people out there with some grindage.
[floatleft]http://www.snackbar-games.com/images/reviews/sudeki/cover.jpg[/floatleft]Roleplaying games are a dime a dozen now a days. Innovations are always being made in order to keep up with the big names like Square-Enix and BioWare. Every so often a game offers something so different that it really deservers the 30 plus hours of game time. The Playstation 2 has been the benefactor of the majority of the roleplaying games with the Xbox recently making big waves in the genre with Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Fans of the Xbox wondered if Knights of the Old Republic would open up a door for roleplaying games on the Microsoft console. Microsoft Studios developer Climax delivered a new title to the Xbox RPG fans called Sudeki. Promising amazing gameplay, fans of the RPG genre were salivating waiting for it to hit shelves, would it stand up to the standard set by games with the word Fantasy in it?
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Sudeki has a lot to live up to, right away RPG fans are welcomed to a beautiful world. Though set in the clichA
Happy Birthday to our forumer Glokk, the crew calls him Mott and the crew wishes him a happy 20th birthday. Dude has been a long time supporter of our website along with the whole Immersea Community and we cannot thank him and the whole community enough. So drink a few for me. Go Hawkeyes.
I just picked up Pretz from the airport, and with the schwag dude brought back you would think he hit the Nintendo jackpot. We have a few games that aint out yet, including the Final Fantasy I & II for the GBA, which if I were a lesser man, I would keep but, dammit Cone would kick my ass. Anyways I wont steal Pretz’s thunder of how awesome his trip was. I will however say that we have cool stuff amassing between us all to give out.
