Category: Video

Angry Video Game Nerd: Atari 5200

On Feb 18, 2007 11:45 pm, by NeutralX2

Well I don’t know if he was running out of bad games on Nintendo consoles or if he just couldn’t ignore some of the awful games on other platforms, but the Angry Nintendo Nerd has changed his name. He is no longer limiting himself to NES games and one of his first stops outside the realm of Nintendo is the Atari 5200. Enjoy.

Battlestar Galactica Coming To Xbox Live Arcade

On Feb 17, 2007 1:26 pm, by NeutralX2

The game is being developed by Australian-based Auran Games and will feature intense space battles as you pilot ships for either the humans or Cylon forces. The game will also feature single player and multiplayer modes. According to Bill Kispert, vp interactive of NBC Universal, “We wanted to bring a more intense combat experience to gamers. From a story standpoint, fans will be able to relive key battles from the first two seasons of the show, and then we’ll add new content and missions outside of that.” The game will be played from a first person perspective, putting you in the cockpit of Vipers and Cylon raiders.

Expect the game to arrive on your console this fall. Now if only we could get Battlestar Galactica Episodes on the Video Marketplace. If you have never watched BSG before then you are missing out on one of the best shows on television. Check out this clip from when the Battlestar Galactica attempts to rescue people from the surface of the Cylon occupied planet New Caprica. It is possibly one of the best science fiction battles ever:

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Ikaruga Coming To Xbox Live Arcade

On Feb 14, 2007 1:37 pm, by NeutralX2

Well it looks like my prayers have been answered and Ikaruga is headed to Xbox Live Arcade. According to CVG, an early build of the game has been spotted on the debug version of Xbox Live, which is only available through Xbox 360 development consoles.

If you have never played Ikaruga before, all you need to know is that it is the absolute best Top-Down Shooter ever created. The game is based on a two-color system, allowing the player to switch between the black & white sides of his ship during gameplay. The black side is immune to black enemy bullets, and dies on impact with white enemy bullets. Your own black bullets do double damage to white enemies. The opposite is true for the white side. These properties create a balance between protecting yourself well and killing enemies fast.

Ikaruga could easily offer the best co-op experience over Xbox Live for an arcade game. Let’s cross our fingers and hope that it is included.

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Unreal Tournament 2004

On Jan 28, 2007 11:30 pm, by NeutralX2

I was showing my friend the Unreal Tournament 3 trailer earlier today and we started talking about all the previous Unreal games. He mentioned that he never really played much of UT2k4 even though he bought it. We also talked about UnrealEd and how he might try to get back into mapping. I don’t know if it was the conversation, the UT3 trailer, or some combination of the two, but I ended up installing UT2k4 again. It has been years since I have played this game, but I am going to try to get back into it for a bit. Hopefully it will help me pass the time until Unreal Tournament 3 arrives. I just hope everyone online isn’t as good as this guy, or my return to UT2k4 will be short lived:

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GT Game of the Year Awards

On Jan 27, 2007 1:47 pm, by NeutralX2

Gametrailers.com came out with their Game of the Year Awards a few weeks ago. Overall, I feel that they did a pretty good job. I disagreed with a few of the winners, but for the most part they picked solid ones. However, in typical annoying GT fashion they released the awards as separate videos, each with the same intro, which made watching the awards a chore. I decided to quickly edit them together so you wont have to go through the hassle of finding each one, and then sitting through the same opening 20+ times. The categories are: