Ok now, anyone who’s played Red Dead Redemption as far as crossing into Mexico will be very familiar with this track. I personally think Jose Gonzalez performs this very well. Have a listen and let us know what you think of it.
AND if you haven’t already picked up Red Dead Redemption yet .. PLEASE DO SO NOW !! It’s one of the best games this year !! Check out our review of it here.
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Game Name: Things on Wheels
Platforms: Xbox 360
Publisher(s): Focus Home Interactive
Developer(s): Load Inc.
Genre(s): Racing Games
Release Date: 5/12/2010
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 800MSP ($10)
Demo: Add the Demo to your Xbox Download Queue
Story
“Things on Wheels™ (ToW) is a fun and fast remote-controlled car racing game playable in single or multiplayer (with up to four players)! Drive miniature racers with various features–the agile Vintages, the powerful Muscles or the fast Sports cars–and compete in dozens of crazy races. The tracks are completely insane, loaded with shortcuts, ramps, loops and other surprises. Count on a lot of items to pick up to spice up the races even more and upset the final rankings!” [Xbox.com]
Things on Wheels is a kart racing game. You control RC cars through tracks that are designed around a giant house. The story is based around a series of in game blog posts that you unlock as you progress through the game. The basic story is about a kid who is racing in the grand prix, and a female character that creates emotional tension within the story. The story is poorly implemented, and I highly doubt anyone has actually read through every single one of the blog posts.
Gameplay
Things on Wheels is a tightly packaged kart racing game. There are a multitude of tracks a few scattered racing modes and a handful of powerups. While the combination is nice, the driving physics and the extremely easy AI ruin the overall fun of the game.
Tracks are all based around one giant house. You will travel all around the house and the backyard as well. When you start a race, the track will be laid out in front of you and you will race a bunch of AI or try beating a certain time on a time trial. Luckily if you just feel like driving around aimlessly there is a sandbox mode for that specific purpose. Sandbox mode lets you explore the entire house without worrying about racing anyone, or staying in designated tracks. Sandbox mode is actually quite nice, and is a neat addition to this kart racer.
There are a few different racing modes ranging from time trials, elimination, team, and normal races. Time trials, elimination, and normal races are pretty self explanatory for anyone who plays racing games. Team racing is a little different in this game. Rather than getting a cumulative placement score based on everyone’s position in the race, this game gives the win to whichever team gets one of their members across the finish line first.
There are only a few powerups in this game, and sadly they only target people in front of you. There are powerups that impair your opponents and then powerups that aid you. Lighting and Ice impair your opponents by slowing them down. Shield puts up a barrier while also pushing everyone and everything away from you. Boost gives you a speed boost and cancels out the lightning’s slow down. While the powerups are nice, there isn’t much strategy to them. The computers and players just pick them up and use them instantly since there is no aiming needed.
Audio & Graphics
At first the soundtrack is catchy, but it quickly becomes annoying as you hear the same songs over and over again. The cars are muffled and sound odd as RC cars, it is almost like the developers wanted to make the RC cars sound realistic but stopped too soon. The most annoying sound is the honking. It’s like nails on a chalkboard whenever one of the CPUs decide to honk at you, I don’t know what the developers were thinking with that one.
The graphics in Things on Wheels aren’t that good. There are a bunch of cars, and you can customize the color but that is as far as customization goes. The house is design in art décor which doesn’t look like a normal house. Add to the fact that certain things aren’t proportional and you get a weird mixture of areas and items filling those areas.
Achievements
The achievements in Things on Wheels are pretty varied. There is that one freebie achievement for just finishing a race, and then ToW Champ and ToW Day for beating the game. The rest require you to do miscellaneous tasks throughout the game which aren’t really that hard. The hardest by far is ToW star and that is only because driving fast and without crashing into anything isn’t easy in this game. The rest can be achieved pretty easily, and makes this game a good 160g without much hassle.
The Achievement List Is:
Overview
Overall the game is a little racing game that is decent for little kids. They can explore the house in sandbox mode, or race really easy AI in the main game. There are many modes and quite a few tracks built around the house for them to play in as well. Sadly the physics, graphics and the dead community makes this racing game less desirable. Add on the fact that the entire game took me less than 2 hours to beat and a story that consists of a whole bunch of in game blog posts, we come out with a pretty small game. The game is cheap and is a nice little package for what it has to offer, but overall it isn’t that good.
I give Things on Wheels
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So we’ve already seen the price range that the Kinect will cost in America. Now Master Abbott can play the Kinect as well finally! However it will be at an elevated price tag. Because the Kinect package itself which does include the Kinect Adventures game, will run at $199.00 Australian.
There is also a bundle being released for Australian released which will include the brand new Slim Xbox 360, a 4GB internal memory, the Kinect Adventures game, and the Kinect itself will run the price tag of $449.00 Australian. The fact that there is still some type of internal memory is a nice tough for this cheaper version, however anyone who owns a 360 knows that 4GB is barely enough to contain your own saved data after a certain period of time.
Destination: Arcade came out today, along with the first game from the Summer of Arcade Promotion.
Destination: Arcade is actually a nice little feature that gives you all kinds of functions to organize, sort, and look at all the available arcade games on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Destination: Arcade actually includes 3 avatar Awards. One pet dragon and then a male and female Hoodie.
Avatar Awards:
Destination Arcade is only Available during the Summer of Arcade promotion on the Xbox 360.
You can check out the avatar awards in the video below. There is also a little info at the end of the video if you don’t live in the US.
I usually try to include the Avatar Award videos with the game that I am reviewing, but in the case of Deadliest Warrior the last avatar award glitched out on me.
I beat the game with every character on the deadliest setting and even unlocked the achievement for the Knight, Ninja, and Viking. I then wrote the review without an award video. After I wrote the review I proceeded to beat the game with every character for a second time on deadliest setting.
This second attempt didn’t work at all. I deleted the game and save file and replayed the entire thing again. Third time is the charm, and I finally unlocked the helmet.
Well, that is my story on how I finally got the helmet avatar award. Check out the awards in the video below.
The Review for Deadliest Warrior can be found here.
The video has been added to the Review as well.
From the Capcom camp, Trish (Devil May Cry) making her Capcom fighting game debut alongside foundation member Chun Li (Street Fighter).
The Marvel offering takes the form of formidable Dr Doom and another first-timer to Capcom fighting games, Super Skrull.
Everyone loves videos, and if you you can’t wait for Marvel Vs Capcom 3 than these videos are perfect for you! The videos show off tons of stuff in the game that you will enjoy thoroughly.
I could keep talking here, but I think you should just go watch all 3 videos. It may take a while, but it is totally worth it for Marvel Vs Capcom fans.
Rockstar has released more information about a new title update they will be releasing for the Xbox 360 and the PS3. This update will be designed specifically to make online play funner for the average player by targeting those who hack the game, and end up being overly aggressive when the situation does not call for it.
Those who are caught cheating will be receiving a ban directly from Rockstar for an amount of time that they themselves will end up determining. Plus they are implementing a new feature which will put together grief relief. This means that if you were to be murdered constantly throughout your free roam session with little reason, you have the chance to spawn anywhere you want to on the map, instead of fifteen feet from the person who killed you last time.
Additionally those who kill six players in a free roam, will be placed with the Most Wanted title and this will not only point other players directly towards their position on the map, but will also bring down the local NPC law enforcement to bring their reign of terror to an end. By all means the players will not be banned for their player killing ways, but this is a way to prevent various players from venturing online because they are tired of being bullied and shot whenever they take five steps. Or being shot while attempting to do a gang hideout with a group of people.
More and more developers are taking the plunge to get players to explore the mysteries of the deep. Cosmonaut Games is now bringing out their latest title, “Dive: The Medes Islands Secret” to release soon on the WiiWare download service. This title takes players underwater across 10 different real world locations recreated for the new action/platformer. Players will face many enemies, discover hidden labyrinths, and find many treasures in the deep. You can also upgrade your equipment over time so you may dive even further into the unknown.
“It was in the Great Medes Monastery, in 1412, where Martin I “The Human”, leader of an Order of the Temple and long-time resident of the island, was buried. The secrets of the Order were also buried with him, where they would be sealed in the same crypt and kept through the centuries. But two hundred years later, an earthquake split the island in two and the crypt disappeared into the depths of the Mediterranean Sea.”
As John Sanders, you must now set out to the Medes Islands located in the heart of Spain to uncover all of the secrets of this mysterious place.
Features Include:
Nothing is better than an underwater journey with great music to create a setting perfect to dive into. On July 26th, Dive: The Medes Islands Secret releases for the WiiWare. July 30th for the UK and Europe. Check out the trailer below to get a look at what you can expect to this oceanic journey. You can get more news on the release over at Cosmonaut’s Official Page here.
Phantasy Star Universe came out nearly four years ago so this news is exciting to all fans of the series. Sega is known for fan service and with the announcement today, fans of the huge online world can rejoice to the fact that the new Guardians Advanced Content is being released. Want more? How about saving 800 MSP by getting the Ambition of the Illuminus Expansion for free through Xbox Live!
Guardians provides even more content to the already huge online world. New additions are set to include:
If you are already subscribed to the PSU service, your content will be updated as soon as you log in.
Phantasy Star has been one of Sega’s most loved franchises for many years now and if you are thinking of joining the huge online population, there has never been a better time. Check out the Official Website for even more news and updates about this huge update and more information.
Many people have been unable to hit up the Beta for Medal of Honor’s multiplayer on the 360 due to the delay in release it has had. However the following tweet from their twitter account has unveiled that they have now fixed whatever problem may have arisen and things are going just fine:
Xbox 360 fans rejoice — the Medal of Honor beta is now available on Xbox Live! Step up to Tier 1! http://bit.ly/cF7kgm
Also the Beta for the PS3 and PC has been extended until July 31st, so expect to see the 360 Beta to be up even longer than these two because personally I would find it unfair otherwise. I have a feeling however it will not last very long due to the fact that it will be arriving on shelves on October 12th in the United States and October 15th everywhere else.
