Best Ratchet game ever!!! And one of the best games of the year!

A Crack in Time joins the ranks of games like MW2, ODST, and Uncharted 2 as one of the best games this year. You read that right. A Ratchet game is one of the best games of the year. Why? Because nothing is wrong with the game. There is not a con in the whole game. Start to finish, there will not be a moment where you are bored or annoyed. First, the visuals are amazing. Ratchet is detailed, not only in cinematics, but looks amazing in gameplay. Now the gameplay itself can be split up into two sections; Ratchet or Clank. Ratchet works as usual with amazing new weapons (Sonic Erupter, Plasma Striker), great returning ones (Negotiator) and the new line of Constructo weapons, which are fully customizable with mods scattered across the universe. The only bad thing about Ratchet is that there aren't any upgrades for weapons, which in a way will help new gamers who aren't used to the system. Clank gameplay is really good, and the time puzzles are some of the best game puzzles I have ever seen. The only bad thing is that there only about 15 time puzzles, with 3 extra ones as challenges if you go back after you beat the game. The story is well told, and takes a really great twist at the end, something that really helped the final boss fight tremendously. Even after you finish the game, there are a ton of extra things to collect, like gold bolts and constructo mods, and also challenge mode is a blast. I highly recommend this game, and it has been one of my favorites of this year. It continues the strong ratchet and clank games, and if this is the last Ratchet (hopefully not), then it ties up the series with a really nice bow. Insomniac really outdid themselves with this game. Old and new comers alike should get this, and you will be very very happy with it.
BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!

Brutally Awesome

Tim Schafer has again brought a great game into the hard core gamers' consoles. Brutal Legend is awesome in its own uniqueness, how it can never be copied. Much like Psychonauts, this is a trippy dream realm where you star as Eddie Riggs. This is where most reviews would start. But not for Brutal Legend. Even the opening cinematic is awesome, with Jack Black in real life going into a record store, and pulling out the record, which is ultimately the menu screen (awsome!!). From there, the other opening cinematic shows Eddie Riggs as the best roadie ever for a crappy band who call themselves metal, but really are just alternative. (Adam Sessler already used Linkin Park, the best band to describe it). The idiotic guitarist climbs the set, and falls, killing eddie, where his blood falls onto his belt buckle, awaken a monsterous god of fire called Ormagodden, and transports him to the past? I don't get where he gets transported. It's either the past, future, dream sequence, or parallel dimension. The whole story has highs and lows. In the beginning, it starts off as a classic "new warrior" movie where the new person joins the rebellion and is the deciding factor against the evil empire (Star Wars all over it). Later spoilers he finds out his dad was here before, married the emperor (no idea if she was evil or good) and the child is Eddie end spoilers. Awful end plot. Like I care his dad was here, can't he just kill Doviculus? And this all gets explained in the final hour , which isn't all that suprising seeing as I finished the game with half of the side missions completed in 7 hours. Should that be possible? I literally put the game in the PS3 5 times to beat it. Sure there is still side missions, tons of collectibles, and easter eggs scattered around, but still how can the main story be only 7 hours. The good thing is that combat is so awesome, that you could play this game in one day and beat it, and never had a dull moment. Just driving around is fun, seeing the awesome atmosphere of the game, and killing animals. Metal songs blast from the car, and are a great way to experience the atmosphere. The upgrade system, sometimes seems stupid like statues of characters, but is really is the bow on top of the present. Only a few upgrades are available, but they all are extremely helpful. The final boss fight(s) are awesome, stage battles mixed in with one (short) battle with Doviculus. Stages battles are extremely fun, and are a great break in between actual combat. It's an oversimplified RTS, where you can make troops, upgrade some troops, and try to control points on the map, and eventually trying to destroy the enemy's stage. However, in multiplayer, this doesn't go over well. To try and keep up with your enemies, you must toggle between giving commands, guitar solos, creating units, and fighting. It's all too much to juggle, but it isn't too much fun flying from above and giving commands. Multiplayer doesn't take away from the game, but it doesn't add to it. Some might like it, if they are huge RTS fans who can toggle between menus with their minds, but for everyone else, single player battles are much better.

So, what is the verdict? Well, from the words of a great clown:
"I heartily endorse this product!"
Krusty the Clown
Go out and buy this game, because we want Schafer to make more games like this

Like a big meal that's taken from you

Imagine Thanksgiving. Imagine having turkey, stuffing, apple sauce, apple pie, blueberry pie, and fine wines. Now imagine that each one of these things was only 2 bites worth of food.

This is the best metaphor for Batman: AA. It gives you awesome powers, like detective work, and awesome invisible predator mode. 240 items are scattered around a beautiful landscape of arkham island, with a rich history and story. But each of these things are crammed into a 12 hour game. I counted 6 predator modes. These are awesome parts, picking off each enemy one by one. The story is well written, but it lasts a short time, and even the riddler puzzles, with 240, seem to be for trophies than for anything else. Sometimes the camera can be a nuisance, but that's a little annoyance, only happening occasionally. B: AA has 3 turndowns that prevent it from a 5: length, fighting, and bosses. I have already explained that rocksteady has packed a 30 hour game into 12 hours by shortening the best parts. But the thing Rocksteady doesn't shorten: fighting. Boy is there a lot of it. The worst part of fighting is that there are 3 buttons: strike, counter, and the rarely used stun. These combine into a square masher until the icon shows up that someone is hitting you, or until knife people come and you have to stun them. They throw in the occasional stun person who you have to leap frog over and then punch them. They let you upgrade to a throw and a takedown, both unblockable, but can only be used when you have a x9 multiplier (5 if upgraded). The takedown is a one hit kill, and is cheap, but pressing triangle and circle in the heat of battle doesn't work well. Plus, the enemies just sit there until one as the brains to attack, and then you counter. Some are smarter like getting guns from cabinets, or throwing stuff, but they all amount to square mashing with the occasional triangle, circle or square. Finally, the boss fights are terrible. Besides Scarecrow, each is just a boring test of agility. You don't even fight Harley, she just sends goons. Croc jumps out at random periods, where you stick him with a batarang, or shakes the platforms so you have to run faster. Killing him is just making him run into a breakable wall and exploding it. Poison Ivy is just running until she opens her cage, then throw a batarang, and repeat. Bane is just throw a batarang when charge, evade, then beat up. Joker is the easiest one, which sucks. All you do is dodge his dodge-able attacks, then fight some goons and pull him down with the batclaw. What a great final boss fight! Scarecrow's is good though. He gives you a floating platform sections where you must avoid his gaze, and run throughout the section. These are very fun, but not really boss battles, but run ins with him. Overall, its a great game. Maybe even a weekend rental. If you count riddler trophies and challenge rooms, it could be a 2 hour game, but it just could have been longer.

Pros: Awesome sections, like scarecrow and invisible predator, great location and story
Cons: Boss battles suck, fighting sucks, too short for its own sake

Great Game, Didn't Need 2 Years

*Spoiler alert, but it is the same as the movie plot*Do you like games where all you do is beat people up? Get this! Need more in a game? Be cautious. Its a great game. Fighting is smooth, fun, and isn't repetitive. The only problem is between the combat. There are some really annoying puzzles and platforming sections that seem arbitrary, and are just there some it isn't combat (which being wolverine, it should be). There are some great boss fights, like sabertooth and the Blob. Yet, it ends terribly, with an extremely easy fight with Sabertooth, then going to an annoyingly glitchy fight with Deadpool. So it ends badly, but the rest is good. I liked the movie, so I liked the story plot. It is even better than the movie, though, because the fights with Blob, Gambit, and Sentinel are much better than the movie (Sentinel wasn't even in the movie). Yet, this is a game in development for about 2 years. There are 15 hours of gameplay, synonymous with not enough. Plus, the camera can get annoying in large groups and platforming. My biggest complaint: Wolverine on Wolverine action. They have some challenges that are really fun. It could be awesome if it had multiplayer. They could have thought of some stuff, like predator/prey where one wolverine has to kill the other, and the other has to kill things in its way to get to the safe zone. There could be some great possibilities, but it wasn't used. Could be better, but considering its a movie game, its awesome. Its basically a watered down god of war, which still is awesome. I say get it if your a fan, enjoyed the movie, or just really like God of War-like games.

Better than whiny MK fans thought

I would not have bought this game without the DC side in it, so I'm not a MK fan, nor am I a fighting game fan. Yet, this game is fun. The online multiplayer is great, and the graphics are amazing too. It runs on the Unreal Engine, and every character gets scratches and cuts throughout. The gameplay is fun, but the only problem is with the computer players and you. You find it hards to string some combos together, much less supermoves, while the computer can put everyone of its super moves into one combo. Klose Kombat and Free Fall Kombat are fun, but when they do it to you, you have a little chance in hell, but when you do it to them, they can turn you around and slap you to hell. The difficulty isn't extremely hard, but it's just annoying that they can do things so much better than you. Overall, its a good game, and I highly recommend it to fighting fans, and comic junkies.