EDIT// Team Fortress 2 - Review

Hey, sorry about the picture. At least you can see the pryo and the engie. Right?

Team Fortress 2 - Review

A nice big picture.... Today I'll be reviewing "Team Fortress 2" (tf2). This game is for the PC, Xbox, and the PS3. TF2 is only a multiplayer game. There is no one player option. So this means there is really no story. I'll try.

STORY
Like the first one, Team Fortress 2 is focused around two opposing teams competing for an objective. These two teams are meant to represent competing contracting firms. Reliable Excavation Demolition (RED) and Builders League United (BLU). Players can choose to play as one of nine classes in these teams, each with his own unique strengths and weaknesses. Although the abilities of a number of classes have changed from earlier Team Fortress incarnations, the basic elements of each class have remained. The game was released with six official maps, although seven extra maps and five arena maps have been included in subsequent updates. There are about five different game modes, but you can only play a certain game mode on a certain map. 9.3

GAMEPLAY
This game is a first-person shooter. The guns are from ordinary pistols to shotguns to snipers and such. But, there are some exceptions. There can be RPGs or mini-guns or even floor based sentry guns. But what really makes this game are classes. Before each game you can choose one out of nine classes. You can change them in the middle of the game. The nine classes are pyro (has a flamethrower), engineer (can build things like sentry guns to teleporters), spy (can pose as a member of the opposing team), heavy (has the weapon of a minigun, a lot of health), sniper( sniper), scout (runs very fast) , soldier (has an RPG), demoman (has a grenade launcher), and medic (has the ability to heal other players). Each class has a strength and weakness. You can't have a whole team of pryos, for example. 9.5

PRESENTATION
This game is a very good looking game. This definitely looks like a seventh generation game. The look of the characters is very retro and looks like The Incredibles. The characters movement and taunts fit the character, i.e. the Scout, who is from Boston, says " Do ya' want a piece of this?" while the Russian Heavy says some fractured English. The explosions and such look pretty good, but sound superb. The voice fits each class very well. 9.8

FINAL NOTE
This game is my most favorite PC game (exclude Half Life). It is very intense and fun if you find the right game.

Score.... 9.6

Psychonauts - Review

Hi. This will be the first review for Biff's Games (let's call it B.G.). Reviews will be broken into story, gameplay, and presentation (graphics, frame rate, etc.). The end total will be the average of the three's points (1-10). I'll be reviewing Psychonauts. You can get it in the Xbox Originals.

STORY
Psychonauts is about ten year old Raz, a circus acrobatic who runs away to pursue a psychic career. Raz goes the Whispering Rock Summer Camp where psychic kids go to become a Psychonaut. Psychonauts are government agents who are psychic. He goes there, learns a couple things, and finds out about a diabolical plot to enslave the other kids at the camp to create an psychic army. Raz must then go into other people's minds to stop this. I would like to say more but I would be spoiling the game. This with the hilarious humor of the game, good characters and cool minds to go into this is a awesome story. 9

GAMEPLAY
The genre of this game is platform/action-adventure. This means there is no shooting, V.A.T.S. stuff in this game. Well, there is a part where you dodge sniper fire, but that five minutes of the game. What changes the gameplay of this game from other games is the psychic powers. You unlock them as you go through the game and they help you defeat bosses and puzzles. These include telekinesis, levitation, invisibility, pyrokinesis, clairvoyance, PSI Shield, PSI Blast and confusion. Also, Raz can swing on bars and such because he's a circus acrobatic. But Psychonauts isn't the perfect game. A little more than midway in the game there is a huge difficulty peak without warning. Now this will want you to throw all your belongings in a wood chipper, but it's worth it just to play everything else. 8.5

PRESENTATION

Psychonauts was released in 2005 the sixth console generation. It was then moved for the PC/Steam and Xbox Originals. The graphics had a little graphic tweak but don't expect anything jaw dropping. The style of the game is very cool though. See the picture on top. The frame rate is average... yeah. The voice acting is great. Each character has a voice which fits them perfectly. 9

FINAL NOTE
Psychonauts is one of my most favorite games. I highly advise that you buy the game. Advise? Is that the right word... whatever.

Score... 8.8

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Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming to the blog. Sorry for the title, I'm still a little tired. Anyway, the point of this blog is video games. Later in "Biff's Games", I will review, preview, and post gameplay of new (and maybe older) games. Look for posts on the weekends and some weekdays. -Biff