Terminator Salvation

This is dated for the 18th June.

This is a bit of a wierd Platinum as it didn't really seem like a Platinum, and I will be honest as I did play this for the Trophies as I did play this game for the Trophies, but the story is slightly longer and more complex than that.

When I first heard of this game coming out I was interested. I am a fan of the Terminator series so the prospect of a Next-Gen game about the series was certainly interesting. When the Trophy list first appeared my thoughts could be summed up in three letters: 'WTF.' 12 Trophies, 11 Gold and 1 Platinum. A gold for completing each level and then one for completing the game on Medium and one for completing Hard. I was wondering what would lead to this desicion and I concluded then that the game was either finished in a hury or rubbish. Easy Platinums get sales as Trophy Whores want it.

And now I have played the game it's showing that the problem was the latter one, the quality of the game is a little low. There is little hideously wrong with the game, just a few glitches that are rage worthy and the fact that the Terminator suck up bullets like a sponge. Of the 9 levels there is little variation in the enemies and I shall give a quick run through of each.

• L.A. 2016 is just an over rated tutorial and is really simple, not much else to say about it.
• Thank Heaven is the first real level as you move on to taking out the spiders and you get to actually do some real gameplay. Once again nothing challenging here.
• New Aquaintances throws up the first challenge in the game. The level is very simple until the finale where you first have to take out of the Terminators, and to make it a bit more fun they give you two at a time, from different angles. This wouldn't be hard if it weren't for the face that Terminators require you use Pipe Bombs as the only method of killing and that the cover system doesn't really help.
• The Sights was actually quite a fun level as at the end you got to attack a Hunter ship which was a bit of variety to the otherwise repition.
• Underground was a massive area of frustation. There's a fight where you have to defend these pillars for ages. Masses of Spiders and Terminators come at once and it becomes hard to kill them and you begin running out of rockets so it soon becomes near impossible.
• Into The Wild is barely worth mentioning as you spend most of the time not fighting and having a tour of the browny-green area.
• Angie has an opening as whenever you fight Terminators it becomes a bit annoying. After that it is dead simple and has a crummy ending cut scene.
• Every Life Is Sacred was actually a good level. The pacing was done well and the battles actually felt like you were fighting an actual battle and made this level full on fun
• For The Resistance was the finale and was very quickly done. After opening and taking out all the enemies I proceeded up the level. A slightly intense fight followed and then I deactivated the Terminators and ran for the Platinum.

All in all a slightly broken game it may be but it was habitable and an easy Platinum

Ciao
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XBox Exclusives

With the passing of E3 I have noticed something that should have become apparent a while ago. There is no need for XBox exclusives. I could understand when the 360 was the only next-gen console but now the PS3 is here 360 exclusives are redundant.

There is nothing on a technical front that can only be done on 360 so should be multi-platform. PS3 exclusives are obviously understandable as the technology is greater in the PS3 so it can run higher end games like Killzone 2 and MGS4. 360 exclusives now boil down to money.

Microsoft has so much money it is currently trying to consume the market, losing as much money as it wants so that soon it will become the only console around the problem with this is that Nintendo have the casual market and Sony have the hardcore. Microsoft trying to cover all has spread itself too thinly and is now stuck aimlessly meandering in the middle.

Well done Microsoft, you've fucked yourself over.