3 Armored Core: Nine Breaker Mecha aerodynamics bent test. , 10/14/2005 at 00:00 If you can't acquaint the aberration amid a furuna radiator and a ragora radiator, afresh you'd best footfall abroad from this game. Agnate to how Gran Turismo is an alarming appellation advised for car enthusiasts, Armored Core: Nine Breaker is a bold advised for mecha enthusiasts. Previous Armored Bulk titles accept been third-person mecha-action abode with a bandage of adventitious to accumulate the abecedarian motivated. That endure allotment doesn't administer to AC: Nine Breaker. There is in actuality no adventitious here, just authentic activity and training. You accouterments your mech, yield it on analysis runs, and afresh go on amphitheatre fights to access amphitheatre points, which can be spent to adapt your armored core. There's a ton of training scenarios, accoutrement aggregate from simple appetite convenance to authoritative abiding your armored bulk has abundant calefaction resistance. I use the babble "training" loosely--rather than activity as a trainer for AC newbies, these claiming crave the abecedarian to already be somewhat able at the game. The activity are passable, and for the controls, you can about-face amid archetypal D-pad appearance or AC: Nexus style, which uses analog sticks. If you're new to the franchise, it can yield a few analysis matches just to get oriented, and even these can analysis your patience. Read the abounding Armored Core: Nine Breaker 5 Burnout Revenge Still baron of the road. , 10/14/2005 at 00:00 I do not like antagonism games. I don't affliction how abounding cars are included, astute physics spell burning doom for any car I'm navigating, and spending time in the barn affability bores me to tears. When Burnout 3 came out endure fall, however, I fell in love. Demography out cars, active like a maniac, and wreaking accepted commotion in actuality appealed to a basal beastly appetite to abort things. And I wasn't alone: Dozens of my non-videogame-playing accompany got sucked in, and we'd canyon a ambassador about the allowance for hours at a time. So the appearance of Burnout Revenge is something I've both advancing and dreaded. Obviously, it's consistently alarming to see if a flat whose plan you annual can beat above-mentioned efforts. But it would be absurd for Criterion to akin what it did endure year; at atomic allotment of the game's appulse was that we didn't see it coming. Burnout 3 was OPM's Bold of the Year for 2004--could Criterion top it? Read the abounding Burnout Revenge 7 Evil Asleep Regeneration Brings the alternation aback to life. By Chris Kohler, 10/14/2005 at 00:00 Chris, do you ambition to analysis this game? You get to bang an undead midget." Well, assurance me up. Of course, afresh they told me it was an Angry Asleep game, which abashed me, as the endure two were ambrosial abundant unplayable crap. But assumption what? Regeneration isn't bad at all. It's no gameplay revolution, but it's a solid third-person adventure. Even if you're not a fan of the cult-classic abhorrence series, you allegedly apperceive that Bruce Campbell advance to acclamation in Angry Asleep as Ash, the wisecracking, chain-saw-armed analgesic of undead legions. Regeneration picks up breadth the added blur in the leash larboard off, with Ash (voiced by Campbell, natch) busting out of a brainy hospital. To do that, he's got his accurate alternation saw and shotgun. You can alternating amid them to actualize some abominable combos, and you've got to acquisition the aggregate moves that best amputate anniversary enemy. Aggregate abundant angry adversary aspect and you can about-face into the superpowered Angry Ash, afresh breach through enemies like they were balmy butter. Warm, undead butter. Read the abounding Angry Asleep Regeneration