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Storm Rider:
I didn't think the demo was bad, it was just too short for me to really get a feel for it. I think the game is still an unknown quantity for me, so I'm probably going to wait on reviews. Either way, I'm not buying any more video games until I'm done with Mass Effect 2, so it wouldn't matter either way.

Scandanavian War Machine:
alright, so i put $20 down on it while i was picking up the new Mario & Luigi game for DS today.

We'll see how I feel about it next week when I can play the real deal.

Scandanavian War Machine:
oh yeah, picked this shit up yesterday!

I'm not very far (haven't even gotten the sweet helmet yet) but I've been having a blast and the shooting isn't actually that bad once you upgrade your guns a little bit. My machine gun shoots exploding bullets now, so it doesn't take nearly as long to kill things as it did in the demo. Oh also, that demo level is way better in the actual game. That floating white building on top of the blue energy pillar, for example. You have to go inside of it to shut the shields off and when you do, it falls out of the sky so you have to basejump through the thing, dodging pillars and beams and lasers on the way out. It's like it was ripped straight from the rulebook for making action movies....except you actually have to do it yourself.
What else...oh the vertical cover thing! Not sure why they left it out of the demo completely but it's pretty sweet. It's intuitive and easy to use, and timing your grenade throws so as to not blow yourself up is pretty satisfying. Beyond that, it's pretty much just like fighting on the ground except you occasionally have to hammer on a random button to keep your "grip" and prevent yourself from falling off if an explosion goes off near you or something.

The graphics are actually pretty good (besides the faces, oh god the faces). There colors are a little extra saturated and there's lots of lens flare and heavenly-looking bright white light, so it looks very pretty and impressive even if it technically isn't.

Also, there was apparently a pre-order bonus that I didn't know about that gives you a golden jetpack that's pretty baller. Speaking of which, I bought it for ps3 but they gave me an extra code to redeem for the jetpack...for 360(?). So if anyone's playing this on 360 and didn't preorder, I have an extra gold jetpack code that's available.

ModernRonin:
Having played through fully, my general opinion is that the game is deeply flawed, but it's still a ton of fun. Also, it's overpriced for a $60 game - it'd be a great $30 game. It's also short enough (ten hours or so?) that you can probably play through in the course of a rental if you don't want to buy it.

I threw up a full review neah: http://mackys.livejournal.com/883711.html

Another review I think was good: http://www.whatisdelicious.com/2010/01/review-dark-void.html

PS: Maybe it's just because I have my 360 standing up on four rolls of electrical tape, but I'm almost never seeing framerate issues. (Or maybe it's because I have a newer-gen "falcon" 360 with the 65 nm GPU that doesn't overheat as easily, who knows...)

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