Review: Just Cause 2 (TheSixthAxis)

A grizzled, leather-clad anti-hero with a grudge bigger than his revolver? Check. A massive, sprawling expanse of land with more vehicles than Arnold Clark? Tick that one too. How about building razing explosions, or guns so powerful they’d make Van Damme blush? It’s all here, and whilst it might sound like every cheesy, over the top 80’s action film you ever watched, Rico Rodriguez’s second adventure is a fine example of how to tie everything together into a cohesive, confident (and fun) action game.

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Review: Just Cause 2

Review: Just Cause 2 (Joystiq)

Now, don't misunderstand me, because you should absolutely buy Just Cause 2. It's got a lush, almost dauntingly large world to explore (and destroy); it's got a combination of grappling hook and parachute travel that lets you swoop through the world in a way that's just as, if not more thrilling than anything the Spider-Man series has ever cooked up; and it's got a lot of explosions.

But the moment you play as intended, helping CIA agent Rico Rodriguez as he attempts to eject dictator "Baby" Panay from the island of Panau, you'll discover the sad truth: The tools at Rico's disposal are a hell of a lot more fun than what he's asked to use them on.................

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Arkham Asylum gets some red hot DLC action!

Readers of this blog may be aware that I am a huge fan of the recent Batman game. If you've yet to play the game the I strongly recommend you download the demo and if you've already done that, then buy the game already!
(For more info about the game, check out my review of Batman: Arkham Asylum)

Along with an amazing story the game also offers an addition "Challenge" mode in which Batman (and Armoured Suit Batman after completing the game) get to fight off hordes of foes and silently take down enemies in a handful of challenges.

Within the first week of the game's release, we lucky PS3 owners got our hands on B:AA first DLC- playable Joker content. This opens up a few Challenges that can be played as the Joker.

Recently there have been a few more nuggets of free DLC on the PlayStation Store- more challenges for Batman and Armoured Batman. (Sadly no more levels have been released for Joker, but it's early days yet).

I recently played through all 4 of the new challenges and thought they are definitely worth getting- especially since they're free! The most interesting of the 4 challenges is a new Survival Mode in which you get to fight off an infinite number of bad guys. This is a nice touch to the game, as I always felt that this was one challenge that the game was definitely needing.

The fact that 4 new challenges have been released so quickly can only mean good things for the future of the game. Fingers crossed that the next batch of updates include more Joker content.

-- BIZNITCH --

Waiting For Your MAG Beta Code??

If like me you signed up to the MAG Beta competition last week and have yet to receive your code, tomorrow should be the day the rest of us receive our codes.

Shijima European SOCOM & MAG Franchise Producer posted the below message in response to a lot of unhappy people over at the EU Forum who did not receive beta codes yesterday and signed up way before many of the people who did receive codes.

Sorry you haven't had any news so far today but I genuinely had nothing to tell you ... until now! I won't go into details about what went wrong with the process because that doesn't help anyone, but suffice it to say we have learned from this experience and so shouldn't encounter the same problem again (at least, not on my projects).

I realise those people who registered earliest deserved their codes first according to the wording of the competition, so I can only apologise unreservedly for disappointing you and letting you down. Contrary to what some people might think, Sony do care about their community and as a face for Sony on these forums, I make it my job to do my best to help you guys.

Anyway, enough waffle and onto the good news... I can confirm (according to the Ops team) that everyone in all regions who registered but never received their code will be sent one over the course of tomorrow, probably by 2-3pm UK time. Furthermore, in an effort to try and do a Quantum Leap ("put right what once went wrong"), we will be sending out codes to the remaining 20,000-odd people who registered. So, if you managed to register on the site before the competition closed, I am told that you WILL get your code tomorrow (barring any network, ISP or email bounce problems that are beyond our control).

For those of you who missed the registration period, I believe the Community Admins are planning a mini giveaway for each region to give people an extra chance. I'll leave it to them to post more info when they're ready though (probably later this week).

Again, sorry for the balls-up but I hope this goes some way towards making amends.

Fingers crossed for tomorrow!

Shijima

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 Roster

Last night GameSpot revealed the WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 lineup to the world. If you missed the live show, featuring The Miz, WWE Diva Eve and The Fink you can watch it here.

Check out the roster below, and make sure you head over to the official site - smackdownvsraw.com - tonight for renders and bios of the WWE Superstars featured in the game.

Or click here for the renders now

Here's the roster...

Pre-Order Only

Stone Cold (pre-order only, Game.co.uk in the UK)
The Rock (pre-order only, Play.com in the UK)

SmackDown

Batista
Chris Jericho
CM Punk
Dolph Ziggler
Edge
Eve Torres
Finlay
Jeff Hardy
Jesse
John Morrison
JTG
Kane
Maria
Matt Hardy
Melina
Michelle McCool
Mike Knox
Natalya
Rey Mysterio
R-Truth
Shad
The Brian Kendrick
The Great Khali
The Undertaker
Umaga

RAW

Big Show
Beth Phoenix
Carlito
Chavo Guerrero
Cody Rhodes
Evan Bourne
Festus
Gail Kim
Jack Swagger
JBL
John Cena
Kelly Kelly
Kofi Kingston
Mark Henry
Maryse
Mickie James
Mr. Kennedy
MVP
Primo
Randy Orton
Santino
Shawn Michaels
Ted DiBiase
The Miz
Triple H

ECW

Brie Bella
Christain
Ezekeil Jacksoon
Goldust
Nikki Bella
Shelton Benjamin
Tommy Dreamer
Vladimir Kozlov
William Regal