So I sat around for all of E3 over at GameTrailers’ live streams. Some stuff was obvious, and some came out of no where. If you want to find more details on today’s events at E3 then I recommend you head over to GT/G4 for videos. Here is a list of what occurred today (in order from beginning to end).

Microsoft Conference:
Call of Duty Black Ops Gameplay
Metal Gear Solid: Rising Gameplay
Gears of War 3 Gameplay
Fable 3 gameplay
Crytek announces Codename Kingdoms
Halo Reach campaign gameplay
Kinect (aka Project Natal) demonstration
-Kinectimals
-Kinect Sports
-Kinect Adventures
-Many more that weren’t demonstrated
360 slim announced. Being shipped today and should be in stores by next week for $299.99
- The new slim 360 includes a 250GB hard drive and built in Wi-Fi.
Everyone at the Microsoft conference got a free slim 360.

EA Conference:
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit announcement and gameplay
Dead Space 2 Gameplay – Releases Jan 25th 2011
Medal of Honor 25 player LAN gameplay – Releases Oct. 12 2010 (beta access June 21st for BFBC2 VIP users).
EA Gun Club http://gunclub.ea.com/
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam Expansion
EA Sports MMA announced
EA Live Broadcast
EA Active 2
Sims 3 to be released on consoles
Crysis 2 console gameplay
Bulletstorm gameplay – Releases Feb 22, 2011
Star Wars The Old Republic trailer

Ubisoft Conference:
Child of Eden gameplay
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood gameplay – Releases November 16, 2010
Shaun White Skateboarding gameplay
BattleTag revealed
Innergy slight “gameplay”
Your Shape Fitness Evolved for Kinect gameplay
Raving Rabbids Travel in Time announced – Releases November 9, 2010
Ghost Recon Future Soldier trailer and gameplay
Driver San Francisco announcement and gameplay
Project Dust (working title) announcement
Rayman Origins announcement
Maniaplanet announcement
Michael Jackson game announcement

If there’s anything that I managed to leave out just let me know.

First of all, no one likes a team mate that doesn’t know what he’s doing. Since this seems to be a reoccurring problem for the people I play with, I figured I would make a small guide to teach you what and what not to do.

• If you’re new to Monster Hunter, PLEASE play through the tutorial part of singleplayer. If you go into an online lobby with no knowledge of the game at all, you’re going to be screwed and no one is going to want to take the time to teach you the basics.
• Know your limits. You may be a high level with good equipment, but if you don’t know a strategy to defeating that specific monster you should either stand back and observe for a little bit or don’t go until you can learn their patterns quickly. If you start dying a lot and doing stupid moves, you’re most likely going to be on your own after that quest.
• Eat before each quest. Eating before a quest can help raise your stats and especially your health. During battles with large monsters you may see your health going down too fast if you don’t have good enough armor or the health boost. Just be sure to eat the correct foods or else you may loose health instead. I recommend always eating the first two options you are given. That has always given me a health boost.
• Don’t expect to jump into the game and it be easy. You may think that playing online with others will be easy, but in actuality the quests in multiplayer or much more difficult than those in singleplayer. You need to take your time, gather money and supplies, get better armor and weapons, and then you should be ready to do the harder quests. As I said earlier, know your limits.
• Share the items in the supply box. Those items are there to help your team out, not for you to take for yourself only. This game is about teamwork. Only take your share of equipment and leave the rest for the others to take.
• Let the skilled players take the special items. If you have never captured a monster before or do not know how to, do not take the traps, tranqulizers, sonic bombs, etc. Let the players that know what they’re doing take the items. Most of the time experienced players will already have their own, but sometimes we screw up and may need an extra trap or tranq.
• Don’t type mid-battle unless necessary. We don’t need you saying witty remarks. You will most likely get yourself killed that way. Just fight the monster and if you have anything battle related to say then run to safety first or learn to type fast with one hand.
• Be respectful and listen to your team mates. About 80% of the time at least one of your partners will know what they’re doing. If you are in a group of people that don’t know what to do, make sure you know or go find another group. I’ve run in to multiple players that seem to back talk me because they don’t want to cooperate with me.
• If you take the paintballs, THROW ONE AT THE MONSTER. A lot of the time I don’t bring paintballs with me because the supply box usually has some for us. Some players decide that they need to take them and never use them even when I tell them to. Paintballs are very helpful and almost essential. If you lose the monster it has a chance to regain health if it’s out of battle for so long.
• Restock your inventory before every quest. Sometimes I find myself going out on a quest and I forgot to refill my potions. Sometimes this isn’t too big of an issue but when I know it’s going to be a long battle, I get worried. Just remember to make sure you have everything you need before you venture out.
• If a team mate is stunned, covered in mud, or falling asleep then please kick them! If you’re able to, go over and kick them to get rid of the status effect. This helps them out greatly and if you get the chance to, please do it.
• If stunned, spin the movement stick around really fast. Doing this gets rid of the stun effect faster and you may be shocked to find out that most players don’t realize that this option exists.

I’ll try to update this list if I think of other things to add. If you have noticed anything that grinds your gears about new players, please feel free to post a comment below and I’ll see if I can add it to the list. Thanks for reading and I hope this helps all you new players to the amazing game that is Monster Hunter 3.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 – Xbox 360, PS3, and PC
Dragon Age Origins Awakening – Xbox 360, PS3, and PC
Final Fantasy XIII – Xbox 360 and PS3
God of War III – PS3
Just Cause 2 – Xbox 360, PS3, and PC
Metro 2033 – Xbox 360 and PC
Red Steel 2 – Wii
Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition – Xbox 360 and PS3
Resonance of Fate – Xbox 360 and PS3
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey – Nintendo DS
Yakuza 3 – PS3

Game of the Year – Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Best 360 Game – Halo 3: ODST
Best PS3 Game – Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Best Wii Game – New Super Bros. Wii
Best PC Game – Killing Floor
Best PSP Game – Final Fantasy: Dissidia
Best DS Game – Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Best DLC – Fallout 3: Broken Steel Expansion
Best XBLA Game – Banjo-Tooie
Best PSN Game – Resident Evil: Director’s Cut
Best Downloadable Game – Battlefield 1943
Best Beta – ModNation Racers
Best Soundtrack – DJ Hero
Best Cast – Batman: Arkham Asylum
Best Male Lead – Mark Hamill as the Joker
Best Female Lead – Claudia Black as Chloe Frazer
Best Developer – Bioware
Biggest Disappointment – Resident Evil 5
Best Sequel – Assassin’s Creed II
Strongest Story – inFamous
Best RPG – Dragon Age: Origins
Best FPS – Modern Warfare 2
Best Singleplayer Game – Batman: Arkham Asylum
Best Multiplayer Game – Borderlands
Best Multiplatform Game – Modern Warfare 2
Best Protagonist – Cole MacGrath from inFamous
Best Antagonist – The Joker
Best Remake – Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
Best Simulation Game – Forza Motorsport 3
Best Rhythm Game – The Beatles: Rock Band
Best MMO – WoW: Wrath of the Lich King
Best Horror Game – Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Best Sleeper Hit – Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Best Racing Game – Pure
Best Fighter – Marvel vs Capcom 2 (XBLA and PSN)

The above list was compiled by Dusty and Manorly and is based on their own opinions.

The Ghostbusters were everywhere in the 80s. It went from movies to even video games! The games that they did release came out for multiple systems but all revolved around the same concept and gameplay. They were mainly on the NES. The first game, Ghostbusters, was horrible and just down right awful. Their second game, Ghostbusters II, had been improved yet it still failed to grab everyone’s attention. Now, the year is 2009 and a new game has released. Ghostbusters: The Video Game is what it’s called. I must admit, it isn’t a very creative name but that’s alright. You also get to fight the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. In this review I will give you details on the story, graphics, and overall gameplay.

In a game with the title “Ghostbusters,” I bet you all can guess as to what the object is. Yeah, that’s right. Catching (or “Busting”) ghosts is your main priority. The story takes place after Ghostbusters II. You play as a new recruit, he has no name other than Rookie. You fight along side of Ray, Peter, Egon, and Winston. You go to numerous locations such as the Hotel, the Library, and the Museum. You will encounter a few familiar ghosts such as Slimer and the Grey Lady. Your PKE meter will be very essential in this game. It’s used to detect spiritual entities, cursed artifacts, and take samples. In a few scenes, you will have the Ecto-1 to assist you. You can also upgrade your different streams which I will get into further in the review.

The graphics are solid and nice. You will notice that the cutscenes have a smoother look as well as a nice framerate. At times the framerate will drop and it is usually due to too many things going on at once. The effects on the proton streams are flashy and definitely captures the feeling that you would see in the movies. The only complaint that I have is that there will be an occasional graphical glitch but it isn’t enough to ruin it.

The voice acting is very well done. You will notice that they put in some comic relief at random times. Everyone loves a good laugh, right? The Rookie doesn’t speak at all, giving it the feeling that you are actually in the game. The music in the game will get repetitive. It may not bother you at all but if you pay attention to the little things then it may. Sound effects are spot on and you will recognize many of the noises from the proton pack that are in the movie.

One of the cool things that they added in was the ability to upgrade your weapons and your ghost trap. There are 4 weapons. They are the Proton Stream, Stasis Stream, Slime Blower, and Meson Collider. Each upgrade for the weapons will reduce recoil and increase the amount you can use it before overheating. Upgrades for the ghost trap consists of increasing the capture speed and making it so you can slam dunk a ghost into the trap, thus bypassing the capturing phase.

The cutscenes look good, sound good, have some humor, and even load the next level while you’re watching them! In turn, it creates what looks to be, seamless gameplay. There isn’t much more I can say about them.

While playing online, there are two ways you can play. One way is to join a single match were you play only one of the six jobs. The second way is to play one theme which then chooses three jobs out of the six available for you to play. You can play online with 1-4 players for multiplayer, or 2-4 players for co-op. The jobs are Survival, Containment, Destruction, Protection, Thief, and Slime Dunk. Each one has their own unique objective.

I’ve noticed a few bugs near the end of the game. Such as Ray disappearing and the story continuing to go on. This causes the game to glitch out and making it impossible to continue on with the story without using a Revert to Checkpoint. Another one I discovered was when I went to smash a stone ghost into the ground, it went through the level, and one even went outside of the level where I was barely able to destroy it because it was on the other side of a way. These bugs aren’t that big of a deal and it doesn’t kill the game in any way that I see.

In the end, Ghostbusters is a fun game for all and it may not have too much of a replay value but it does give a lot of fun for the whole family. Whether you’re a casual or hardcore gamer, it’s still for all. The Ghostbusters live on with this marvelous game. As for me, all I have to say is that “We came, we saw, we kicked it’s ass!”