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by: QUIK

If you haven’t, make sure you come and visit. It’s basically me talking about everything and anything geeky I wanted to talk to everyone about. Coming up in Episode 4 some fun Star Wars: The Old Republic footage and review. Also I will talk about The Adventures of Tintin: The game (PC) and maybe show some footage from that. Also, the full review coming soon to yourgamesux (spoiler: I really enjoyed it!).

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Quikhax Show–Episode 3

Fable II

Honest review by: QUIK

Much better then the original. In Fable II you re-enter the world of Albion as a young child destined for great things. Whether you become a feared tyrant or a beloved hero of the people is up to you from the moment you pick up your gamepad. It effects your appearance, how people react towards you and even how much discount you will get from a merchant. The thing is the choices in this game or not often black or white but a very strange shade of gray. I have often found myself making a decision which I felt was morally fitting my character (I was role-playing a good character) only to see evil points increasing. That is the fun aspect of the game, if you don’t cheat by looking up quest results online, you will find yourself really thinking over some of the moral choices you will have to make in this game.

The gameplay is solid on the Xbox 360. I would say that casting spells system could use some improvement, I did not find it too intuitive and as a result my character was a strong, dexterous (read: beefy) woman that did not have much talent in casting spells. I LOVE … let me say it again, I LOVE the fact that the game tells me which is the best weapon in my inventory for melee or ranged combat. Even as you pick up weapons the game will inform you if you’ve picked up a better weapon so you can start using it immediately. No need to take out a calculator to calculate the difference between a weapon with higher damage but lower speed versus a lower damage but much faster to use weapon. The game will tell you which is the best weapon over all in your inventory, period.

Fable II has a high re-playability advantage. It’s been a while since I’ve played a game twice but after playing a very good character I am really tempted to create an evil bastard who will hold Albion in an iron-lock grip. There are 66 achievements you can get. Demon doors are always fun side-quests in Fable (although I enjoyed the demon doors in Fable II a lot more then the original). I especially recommend doing the winter one right past Wraithmarsh. Without too many spoilers, I found a weapon there that I used until the very end of the game. It was that cool. Finding Gargoyle heads which you shoot down (50 altogether) is another fairly fun side quest. There are a lot of mini-games in Fable II and pretty much all of them I’ve enjoyed a lot. Whether you get simple jobs, become a bounty hunter or do civic duty all those seemed fun and not just something I did to get another achievement. I recommend picking up Fable II. Especially if you’ve played the original Fable and thought to yourself “This could have been so much better”. Well, now it is. The music, voice acting (I chose the UK voice acting), world design, everything is very beautiful, very ambient and enjoyable. Now before you begin your adventure in Albion you just got to ask yourself one thing: “Who am I?” and then become that person.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (movie)

by: QUIK

Wow! This looks very cool! I’ve got a request, since it looks like we will never see the final part to the Shenmue series, can we at least get a Japanese produced Shenmue movie so fans of the series can learn how it ended? Thanks.

Objection!

Rage

Honest review by: QUIK

I feel this game got a really worse rap then it should have. Rage is a very fun FPS game set in a post-apocalyptic looking Earth…that looks kind of like Pandora in Borderlands… but around a city kind-of like in Fallout 3… but when the monsters run out at you, you feel like you’re in Doom 3 and… you know what? Enough of this, alright people, there is not a single original idea out there anymore. If you tried hard enough you could compare any game you play to any other game and any sci-fi show out there etc. etc.. We get it, Rage is sort-of like Fallout and Borderlands. Got it? Good! We can move on. The voice acting in the game is very well done. The first npc you meet is voiced by John Goodman and sir, if you are reading this, you have done a mighty fine job. I loved being in the company of Dan Hagar and at this point I would like to loudly voice my only negative opinion about this game: why is it so damn short???

Rage is beautiful folks and somehow I honestly feel that id sacrificed story and character development for that. In the second town you end up in, the Sheriff and Mayor characters are epic. The way they are designed, their offices their surroundings… you want to know them. Become their friend, help them or destroy them. Such a missed opportunity here folks. Almost everyone you meet in Rage you want to get to know and learn about because the characters are so well designed graphically and the voice acting, why id? Why would you create these wonderful characters that are so individual and original and cool looking and sounding and then have them say and do so little? This is the biggest downer in this game folks. If you are expecting a Fallout 3 type adventure you will be disappointed. This game is a shooter. A straight up shooter. Nothing more. It has a couple of mini-games, sure, but it’s only a shooter. The setup though makes you feel you will get more, much more. This is what I got out of Rage, an awesome shooter game that opens up a world of possibilities marketing wise. The world id designed for Rage is so beautiful and detailed you could easily create a whole lot of titles just in the Rage universe. If this is a marketing plot to show us this beautiful, detailed world, make us fall in love with it and then have us buy whatever crap you throw at us branded with the Rage logo on it – then mission accomplished sirs! Considering how the game ends (no spoiler kids) I might not be that far off from the truth.

Rage is a beautiful and unfortunately a bit too  short first person shooter game that is designed to make you believe you are playing a post-apocalyptic rpg. It has plenty of fun mini-games to prolong the experience but not too much re-playability. I think you will have fun playing Rage but only if you’ve paid for it < $40.

Grand Theft Auto V

by: QUIK

Anyone else excited about this?

MechWarrior Free2Play MMO

by: QUIK

I am really excited about the news that we are supposed to get a new MechWarrior game at the end of 2012. There is nothing like putting on a gigantic mech armor with enough weapons and ammo to take over a small country and shooting the crap out of other people in gigantic mech armors. The last game I’ve played in the series was MechWarrior 4 and that’s been released in 2000. 12 years for a new game in the series is a very long time and for some reason, I have a very, very good feeling about this one. Anyway, anyone else excited about this? Leave comments and let us know what you think about this project.