Buyer beware...

Sometimes when you see something that is at a great price, you really should step back and look to see why. I should have done this last night on a trip to Target. Whenever I go to Target, or any store really, I like to check out the DVDs and the video games. Target also has a discount area, where older games that are not selling anymore, so I went over to peruse the area once my real shopping was done. I have picked up some good deals before.

Here in the our story I need to remind you that I am a huge DC fan, particularly Batman. So, when a game comes out that has Batman in it I will generally give it a go and then sell it back to GameStop for a discount. So, looking through the games, I see that Mortal Kombat vs. DC is discounted. I can clearly see the tags and that this game has been discounted not once, but 3 other times. That should have been the red flag. But I was excited about the price and that I could play as Batman.

With my fresh purchase in hand, I descended into the new game area and popped the disc in. Now, the graphics in the cut scenes are pretty good. I thought they detailed the heroes and villains good. They looked buff, like they came from the pages of the comics. The women, like Catwoman and Wonder Woman seemed to have gotten an upgrade, if you know what I mean. But like many books the cover can be deceiving. This good looking cut scene would only lead to badness of epic proportions.

The voice acting is horrible. Absolutely the worst I have heard in a game in a long time. All the heroes sound terrible. And in that awesome cut scene from earlier, yeah there is a part where Superman sees a car being thrown his way, and he puts his hands up AFTER the car goes by. Now that is bad. Well, the fighting must be good, right? This is a Mortal Kombat game after all. Nope. The fighting is awful. Not inspired. The moves that the heroes get are not just bad, but they are not done in a convenient way that you can pull them off consistently. I was so disappointed that I took the game out and put it immediately in the pile to be sold off. Ugh.

The morale of the story I guess is look how many times something has been knocked down in price before buying. So buyer beware when picking up this game. It is not as fun as you would think. Luckily I also picked up Prototype to keep me busy. But that is a review for another day.

E3

For all the gaming geeks out there, such as myself, this is the week of E3. This is the big convention they have out in LA to show off all the new games that will be coming out over the next year. And there are some really good games being shown. Games just keep looking better and better each year.

Here is a list of games I am looking to consider getting:

Nintendo - Super Mario Galaxy 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Wii Sports Resort, Professor Layton and Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.

PS3 - Uncharted 2 (the first was a great game), God of War III - next-gen Kratos, need I say more, and FFXIII or Final Fantasy Thirteen to those not in the know.

360 - This had the most games I am looking at; Mass Effect 2, Brutal Legend (Jack Black in a video game about rocking out!), Modern Warfare 2, Forza 3, Halo ODST (a prequel of sorts to Halo 3), Alan Wake and the game with the best intro, The Beatles Rock Band.

The game that I am not sure what platform I am getting it on is Assassin's Creed II. I will get this game, no need to worry, but just not sure which I will go with.

Other games that are intriguing right now, Just Cause 2, Section 8, The Saboteur, Alpha Protcol, Lego Harry Potter, Crackdown 2, Splinter Cell, Rogue Warrior and Heavy Rain.

A lot of games, but that is what this is all about. I did not forget about other games being shown like Batman or Prototype. It is just they have been talked about or shown for a while. Batman is a no brainer for me.

Here is too another year of great gaming.