Green Day: Rock Band (X360)

Jul 12 2010 Published by under Video Games

DJ brought this over for some gamerscore whoring – we can usually mow down Rock Band achievements or missions pretty easily because DJ is a music game wizard, I’m an actual drummer, and Diana can sing most songs in most games on the highest difficulty settings. We put in Green Day: Rock Band and gave it a try.

It immediately didn’t feel right. We played a few songs and ran into some difficulties on songs we shouldn’t have, so we tried the built-in instrument calibration system. This always works well when we have similar problems in other iterations of Rock Band.
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Mass Effect 2 (X360)

Feb 09 2010 Published by under Video Games

Mass Effect 2 is a wonderful game. It is hard for me to say “If you like (x kind of game) you’ll love Mass Effect 2,” because as many other reviews have pointed out, Mass Effect 2 spans several genres so effortlessly that it is very hard to pin down. There’s something here for people that like shooters, people that are hardcore fans of RPGs, and people that like sci-fi space operas. There’s even stuff here for people that like dating sims.

I guess I could say that if you hate great writing, endearing characters, excellent dialogue, immersive plot, extremely thoughtful progression, great music, superb voice acting, a super slick UI, or terrific graphics, you won’t like Mass Effect 2. If you aren’t that brand of masochist, there’s plenty inside that bears investigation.
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