Before I got my PHD in bad games, swankdom, and how to make a bad ass tater tot casserole, I was a young lad with a Vectrex and a NES. When I was growing up, I always wished that gaming, the hobby I loved and lived, would someday be taken seriously. Now here I am some twenty years later and I’d like to officially retract my childhood wish. After years of piss-poor video game award shows, namely the Spike VGA’s and G-Phoria as the most vile offenders, I’ve finally given up on any hope of any kind of legit and entertaining event showcasing the best of gaming. After seeing Spike’s nominees for this year’s awards, I can’t help but feel embarrassed for the presenters, the numerous B-List celebs, and the developers most of all who ultimately end up playing second fiddle to the likes of William Shatner. So before I start going off on an anger-fueled harangue, let’s look a little more in-depth as to why video game award shows just plain suck.
From spray painting birds bright green to putting ads on tombstones to offering ten grand for parents to name babies Turok, Acclaim Entertainment would do anything to hype up their shitty games no matter how demeaning or shameless it may be. Come for the thrills, stay for the punch and horrible MS Paint illustrations, but most of all, take a look at why the world is a better place without what could have possibly been the stupidest game company in the world.
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While the adult movie industry is the most gosh darn money-makin-est industry out there, adult themes have had some rocky transitions to other mediums, namely video games. It seems that anytime an adult game is unleashed on the PC or a console, the experience is never, eeeeeeeever good. Things will either end up in one of two ways: the game is shallow as hell and gets boring within the first thirty minutes, or worse, you’re faced with digging through hours of juvenile humor just to catch a glimpse of some blurry 3D polygonal boob. In the end, it becomes pretty damn clear that while these games are rated “Adults Only”, it’s apparent that you’d have to be either twelve years old or some sort of virgin Renaissance Fair worker to get any kind of enjoyment out of them. This week’s game manages somehow to do both without the huge payoff in return. Allow me introduce you, fair reader, to “7 Sins”.
To say that Disney Studios has sunk to a new low would be giving the company entirely too much credit. With an understanding that the Disney Corporation is dedicated to educating and warping the minds of today's children, their newest game "High School Musical: Makin' the Cut" is the biggest piece of shit launched under the guise of a game since the heyday of the 3DO. The DS is lacking in decent rhythm games, and despite "High School Musical's" half-assed attempts, the little hand-held that could remains in a world without them.
Horror movies are notorious for having idiotic, yet maniacal killers and even more idiotic protagonists for them to slash at. Of course, there always has to be one person who ends up being less of an idiot or can just run faster than the rest. The same can pretty much be said for the survival horror genre, and the clueless kids from Escape from Bug Island have this dated stereotype in spades. To top it all, the game plays as if it has been sent from some maniacal madman from circa 1997 and looks just about as good to boot. For everything that Resident Evil 4 did to breathe new life into the genre, Escape from Bug Island most assuredly knocks the goddamn wind out of it.