8th
June
2008
Call of Juarez (360) - Review
Call of Juarez, developed by Ubisoft, is a first-person shooter that incorporates several features that help to set the game up as a tale of misfortune in the Old West. The game takes an interesting, though somewhat questionable, approach of having you play two different characters with two different sets of abilities, which disrupts the game flow at times. Besides being rather uninspired in some areas and flaws at others, the game is pretty much average when all is said and done, and really only justifies the title as a rental.
Review Helpfulness: 
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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Condemned 2: Bloodshot is Monolith’s and Sega’s sequel to one of the 360’s launch titles, Condemned: Criminal Origins; while the original game was not a huge seller, it was pretty decent in combining a dark, terrifying atmosphere and the idea of observing crime scenes to make a good story. Fortunately, the sequel provides exactly more of the same, fine tuning some parts, expanding the repertoire of make-shift weapons that can be used, and basically providing a stronger story that builds on the first while strongly suggesting that a third game will be developed. Beyond a few minor problems, this game definitely is as good if not better than the first.
For me, when I first played the demo of Blacksite: Area 51 from Midway on Xbox Live, it felt like it would be a good game: you didn’t have the full story, but you knew enough that it appeared to be about an alien invasion among more suburban settings. However, the demo’s shortness didn’t give much more of an impression of what the rest of the game would be like. Unfortunately, the full game is woefully sub-par compared to that brief demo section - it suffers from being way too short, lacking any significant challenge, and includes a host of technical problems that should have been caught before this went gold. This is definitely not a title I’d recommend.
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
Timeshift, developed by Saber Interactive and distributed by Sierra, is one of those titles that has a premise with promise: what would happen if you drop a player with some limited control over time into an FPS game? Concept-wise, Timeshift manages to get the time powers down nicely and can make solving puzzles and combat much more interesting – for a bit. Unfortunately, in the long run, most of the rest of the game is pretty bland, with little variation from other FPS or during the course of the campaign, and results in a game that feels like yet another FPS clone without any sort of soul to the game.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare continues Infinity Ward’s strong combat first-person shooting game, though as the title suggests, the game has now been set in the near future, breaking the limitations that the World War II setting required of previous titles. While the game plays pretty much as you’d expect from the past titles in the series, the switch of venue to the modern theater has given the series a huge breath of fresh air - the single player campaign is very strong with a story that can hit close to home, and the multiplayer, while still feeling like standard FPS games, has many new features that make each game rewarding regardless of how well you do.
The Orange Box has be stated to be one of the best values in gaming, containing 5 complete games from Valve: Half-Life 2, Episodes 1 and 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. The advertising of this is definitely not misleading - there’s at least 30 hours of high quality single player gaming and the countless hours of Team Fortress 2 really make this a great package. Mind you, there are some issues with the 360 version compared to the PC mostly in the control schemes for a few games.
