European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 scene stars and stripes sunday Aprim 2007 in 0 q co to i cd c g v co i really swings it quickly became apparent id need some help reviewing Tiger Woods pea tour 07 my skills at put Ting balls through tunnels and windmills just didst Cut it so i turned to a Friend who knew a Little More about the links Dave was up for it but said just dont Call me a retire Navy avid golfer of 1 wont although the a sports game is Avail Able for almost every system known to human Ity we tested it on Nintendo Wii which uses the motion sensitive Remote to Simu late the movement of a Golf club the instructions indicate that gamers should grasp the controller with two hands in a Way similar to a golfers grip on a club however Dave quickly switched to a on handed swing and had a lot of Luck the True aiming system allows Gam ers to select an intended target area however wind direction and Speed and course contours must be accounted for in each shot the swings Speed is key but Back swing and follow through also Are important if you want to make each shot count Dave had played other Golf games in the past but had been dissatisfied with the control systems it took him about five minutes to become addicted to this game however a few problems did pop up the putting system sometimes hit the Ball when Dave was making his Back swing usually causing it to overshoot the Hole tiny shrubs sometimes because insurmountable obstacles and Dave want satisfied with the club selections in certain circumstances the graphics Are Good courses and backgrounds look Fine enough but the renderings and animations of the golfers Are excellent it was amusing to watch Dave react to a shot and then see the onscreen golfer make practically the same gesture the game covers 18 championship courses including St Andrews and Pebble Beach gamers can choose from among 35 different pro and fantasy players or create their own alter egos with an impressive character creation tool play modes include single player Tours eight Arcade games and multiplayer games game commentary is handled by David Feherly and Gary Mccord with appropriate and amusing dialogue Nintendo first introduced a Wii version of Golf in Wii sports which hinted at the games potential Tiger Woods develops the concepts and adds a variety of elements that increase the complexity and subtlety of the game the result is fun and addictive platforms Wii playstation portable playstation 2 playstation 3 Box Box 360 pc on the web packs a punch fighting games Arent much fun against the computer if you kick hindquarters theres no one to mock or tease and if i have it handed to me theres no one to return the gesture that probably Why virtual fighter 5 for the playstation 3 want fun until my Friend Amber was Brave enough and bored enough to pick up the Sticks and endure my verbal assault after wins or whiny excuses after losses and after several matches in not ashamed to say that it was mostly the latter Segas ifs the latest instalment of this Long series Doest break new ground in the realm of fighting games its just Plain fun it boasts a Large cast with 17 charac ters two new Eileen and i Blaze Blaze the lightweight mask Clad mexi can wrestler better suited to the is the More enjoyable of the two the rated games up to snuff in the most important departments the graphics Are stunning Sega took advantage of the platform and excelled the voiceover and sound effects Are equally enjoyable there Are two drawbacks first its madness that Sega would choose the controllers dead Over the Joystick three words serious thumb pain and secondly for petes Sake it should have an online feature 03 12 q 13 m o a q cd 0 to Sega virtual fighter 5 is the first big fighting game available on the new playstation 3 console actually every game should there comes a Point with every game when it gets Boring beating the snot out of your friends and family online play increases any games life expectancy in often at the Point of pulling strangers off the Street searching for Competition vf5 makes a faulty attempt at simulating the online experience with its quest Mode you can roam through a virtual City of sorts making stops at arcades and competing against virtual players com plete with virtual gamer tags and even minor virtual trash talk its a virtual waste of time Overall i had a great time playing this game and if you have friends with lots of time to spare buy it otherwise youd be better off renting it for a weekend of fun with the boys and girls and for the record the first nine matches Between my Friend and me Amber 7 me 2 that when i put the manual Down and got Busy i fight Best when i ignore the combos and other listed moves and just Mash buttons repeatedly in not going to make any excuses but that the Only reason 1 would Ever lose to her More focused i won the rest of the matches easily now Shes pouting and making whiny excuses platform playstation 3 Box 360 soon on the web news bytes Art of that Roar you heard across the playstation nation was the sound of Kratos the Crank est Guy in video games returning to Earth in Sony god of War ii its the last big release for the venerable playstation 2 and it will almost certainly be one of 2007s biggest Sellers Sony shipped More than 1 Mil lion copies of the game to stores and celebrated with a party Complete with horse drawn Chariot at its metre on Center in san Francisco during the event creative director Cory Barlog dropped a few hints about the inevitable god of War Iii on the playstation 3 although he quickly backtracked since the game Hast been officially announced but then Sony issued a press release saying fans May be seeing god of War in full High Defini Tion which would certainly seem to indicate a ps3 chapter Sony did officially announce a playstation Porta ble version which Barlog described As a completely original adventure that will be a further fleshing out of Kratos Story its being developed by ready at Dawn the studio behind the Superb Daxter pop game and its scheduled for later this year gaming geezers we video gamers May be cute but we sure grow up fast a Survey conducted by found that 71 percent of game console owners Are mar Rieland 66 percent have at least one child and where do gamers clearly a responsible family focused lot 4ive according to a separate study by the consumer research firm Scarborough research Salt Lake City has the highest percentage of household Swift vide game systems at 32 percent close behind Are Lexing ton by Flint Mich and Toledo Ohio fort Myers and Miami Fra have the lowest percentages apparently All those retirees would rather play Bingo than god of War ii Loo
