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Batman Arkham Asylum Challenge Mode 360
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FIFA 09 Be a Pro Mode 360
Fight Night Round 4 Legacy Mode 360
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Rainbow Islands: TA Challenge Mode XBLA
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Sam and Max: Beyond Time and Space XBLA
While most game reviews skim over the whole of a game, I focus on just one mode or level.
I've always been slightly obsessive about my video games. I simply like to do things in order, but this usually means I never quite get off my favourite mode. I simply enjoy perfecting my score or performance in one little corner of a game rather than trying to finish the whole game.
Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure intelligently updates the Bubble Bobble sequel. Amongst a plethora of spin offs, for the first time we have a fitting follow up to the classic 90's arcade, Amiga and Atari ST hit Rainbow Islands. The games exquisitely balanced Challenge Mode had me transfixed, so I'll be zooming in on this baby for my Closeup review.
Batman Arkam Asylum on 360 and PS3 is the best Batman game to date, granted, but how good is the Challenge Mode. I take another of my close looks at this aspect of the game and discover that Challenge Mode offers the purest combat experience to those who are prepared to put in the effort to fight creatively with precision. Not only that but the experience of achieving the Perfect Knight Bonus is one of gaming's most satisfactory intrinsic rewards.
Playing Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space on the 360's Xbox Live Arcade brought back some fond nostalgic memories of halcyon days playing other point and click adventures. It made me want to play them though, and definitely not Sam and Max.
Fight Night Round 4 on 360 and PS3 is a great game. But I want to review just one aspect - Legacy Mode. This I found to be a perfectly adequate Career Mode, although something of an afterthought. After hours of training and fighting I eventually made it to be the Greatest of all Time, but I didn't feel any sense of achievement. Just nagging loss for all the time that I would never get back.
FIFA is generally a known entity. Like with my other reviews, I'm going to put one mode under the spotlight - Be a Pro.This little known mode is a great and realistic way to play as part of a team. I found it strangely similar to the team tactics of Ghost Recon, just as engaging and at times just as absurd.
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