Dvader said:

I need to get Move now... LBP 2 Move gameplay was great. It was basic stuff but you can see it being used in puzzles, during platforming segements and so much more. Imagine a level where you need to place the platforms that sackboy jumps to as he is escaping some deadly thing that is chasing him. Or imagine sackboy getting stuck inside a giant block puzzle and you need to move and drag the pieces in such a way to keep sackboy from being squished and to create an escape for him. So much could come from pointing and interacting with the levels.

Don't you need to get a PS3 again first?

travo said:

It's funny how Carnage, a guy who hates the Wii, is gushing all over Move.

He did the same thing with ModNation Racers. He criticised Mario Kart Wii, but gushed all over ModNation!

Yeah I was going to say that's not really funny. It's quite expected really.

Agnates said:

Oh, I know that game! Toca on the PS1, right? One of the first sim-type racers I played, was good but not for me, kewl rain though

Exaclty waht I thought.

gamingeek said:

What the..... ?

Yakuza: Of the End officially loses its shit with zombies, giant monsters and men with minigun arms

Riiiight. A zombie apocalypse, you say? Uh, huh. And something that looks like the by-product of a steamy one nighter between the Michelin Man and The Thing. What’s that? A man with a surgically grafted minigun for an arm? Okie dokie. And this is what game again? Ah, the fifth Yakuza title. You mean that gritty, grounded crime series about the Japanese mob? Gotcha. Wait, what? Yup, seems like Kazuma Kiryu’s games have finally lost their shit in the most spectacular, shark-jumping fashion imaginable.

Lets quickly recap, then. The Yakuza series has made its name in Japan as a vaguely serious, if quirky take, on the nation's criminal underworld. Sure, you could play the odd round of golf and beat commuters silly with traffic pylons. But when it came to the story, Sega kept things pretty much straight. So it's somewhat of a surprise to go from Haruka (the orphaned kid Kaz looks after) in a relatively run-of-the-mill hostage situation...

To this fresh madness.

Zombies!

Athletic zombies, no less!

And now, eh... men with massive guns for arms? Okaaaaay. Well, maybe it's just some sort of viral outbreak that's given Tokyo residents a rather feral appearance. And the man above... it's probably just a funny prop. Y'know, like those fake joke arms you can buy to freak folk out with when they think they've pulled your arm out of your socket. Yeah, that'll do. Really, when you think about it, you can pretty much easily explain all of the above with cold, hard logi...

Oh. Yeah, that's just a monster. And a monster that looks like it's been ripped straight from Resident Evil 2, if you ask us. Someone get Capcom's lawyers on the phone. Granted, the whole zombie outbreak thang is a little bit out there, and the disturbing tongue monsters might take a little getting used to as you casually explore inner-city Tokyo looking for hostess bars. But it's not as if there's some giant, preposterous Gollum-like creature rampaging the streets...

OH COME ON!

To put things into context, here's an actual screen I took for my Yakuza 3 Super Review earlier in the year.

Somebody call Websters, because the definition of jumping the shark has officially changed to 'man gives sound insurance advice to stranger on street one minute, battles 100-foot rock monster the next'. Don't worry, though. We don't think Sega has gone entirely mad... yet. If we were to guess, we'd say Yakuza: Of the End is most likely a non-cannon spin-off from the main series. Certainly, the last shot in the TGS trailer seems to hint at the possibility of four player co-op.

At any rate, the latest chapter in Kaz's tale will be hella different to what's come before, because there's no way we can see his semi clunky fighting moves and different dialogue choices besting that Michelin Man thing.

The story is serious?! Bastards! I was enjoying the story.

Is Yakuza 5 the final Yakuza game?

SteelAttack said:

Just got my power back. Went out for a ride to see the damage. It was pretty wild, huge trees blocking streets, big-ass ads flying around, large zones of the city without power. Fortunately it seems the worst has been left behind.

Nope, you haven't seen the worst yet I'm afraid.  You should know by now that after the city's destruction comes the zombie outbreak.  Barricade the windows man, send the little ones to the grandparents.  Get. The. Shotgun.

Dvader said:

Better with Kinect!  

Ribbed for her pleasure.

I wish I got paid to say bullshit like this: (RE: kinect)

"Retailers are telling us from their buzz and what they hear from people walking the store asking questions that this is going to be the biggest consumer home electronics launch of this year, and they're gearing up towards that," Spencer said in an interview with Eurogamer. "Given all the momentum that I see and the way we're investing, I'll bet this is the biggest platform launch ever."

As tempting as it is, I won't get the 3DS at launch. Unless it just quickly becomes gaming nirvana I will probably wait on the inevitable 3DSi or 3DS Lite or whatever the 2.0 version of it ends up being.