Hello Ladies and Gents, Welcome back to another action packed Kevo review.  Today I’ll be giving my review of UFC Undisputed 2009 for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.  The game is made by THQ, who has a good track record with sports games.  The game is licensed by the UFC so it features the likeness of about 100 fighters from the company.  The game has online capabilities as well as solo play, all of which factor in to the overall game play. So lets start breaking this shit down.

The games features 4 different game types, Exhibition, Online play, Hall of Fame fights, and Career mode.  All of the play types are very standard for any sports game, Exhibition is just for jumping into a fight quickly, Online you can battle against other Online foes, And Hall of Fame is putting you into one of 5-6 fights that were historical for the UFC. I’ll focus mainly on the Career mode because it has the most depth.  Career mode starts with creating a new fighter from scratch, the Create-A-fighter system is pretty in large, but at the same time basic and easy to do.

The actual physical appearance of your fighter can be customized, you can have the standard hair styles, skin types, height/weight, Tattoos, but the Facial structure system gives you so much range in creating fighters you will never create the same fighter twice.  You can select your fighter skills by assigning points to certain categories.  You have the basic; Strength, Speed, Cardio, then, you can go more in depth to choose if you want your fighter to be a submission guy, or a striker.  Once you have yourself all created, you can pick you fighter’s name, this is a big negative. The game doesn’t recognize spelling, which is bullshit, cause I’ve seen games do it 100 times, really is the name Kevin Rogers, that hard? Anyways, you can choose from a list of nick names pre recorded, that way when the announcing is going on it will at least say your nickname.

So now that you’ve created your fighter, it’s time to start your career.  You’re welcomed to the UFC from the president, Dana white, your welcome gift, a fight.  This first fight is mostly to determine where you should be ranked to start your career. Once you win or lose this fight, you are brought to the main screen where you can in turn choose your next opponent.  The match-maker always gives you a choice of 3 fights, normally 1 fighter is higher ranked than you, 1 fighter is lower ranked, and the 3^rd is someone who’s about your same skill level.  Once you select who you are facing next you can go into training.  There is 3 different types of training you can do, Work Out, Sparring, Invite a Camp;

Work Out:  This is the basic way to work out, you can select if you want to work on your Strength, Cardio, or Speed, and if you want to work Soft, Medium, Hard.

Sparring:  This is where your sparring partner mimics your next opponent’s skills, thus preparing you for your next fight.

Invite a Camp: You can invite some UFC superstars to come in and train you some new moves.

So basically you work your way up the ladder fighting and hopefully beating your opponents.  As you progress with the game, you can unlock rewards, and upgrades. You can upgrade your gym with better equipment, you can gain sponsors, and you can win awards like “fight of the night” or “KO of the night”.  All of this stuff is useless and does not contribute to the progress of your fighter. It is more just a status thing to show how big your… ego, is.  Anyways, so you can fight your way up the ranks of the UFC, starting with some no name guys and working up to the Champions and some UFC superstars.  After 7 years of fighting your created fighter is force to retire. Gay, I know.

Alright, so let’s get down to business here and I’ll give you a positive negative breakdown of each aspect of the game.

Sound effect/Graphics: This is probably the best part about this game, the sound is great, and the graphics are out of this world.  Even the commentary provided by Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg is solid.  Unlike a lot of sports games the commentary doesn’t feel repetitive in the least; it stays fresh, and doesn’t get on your nerves much.  Not much in the way of negative here.

Controlling:  The Controller responds well to your commands, IF, you know what commands to put in.  There is so many button combination involved in this game, it can piss you off at times. When you are Standing up and striking with someone, it can be easy, however once you transition to the ground game, it gets confusing as all hell.  If you can take the time to learn the ground game you can probably become unstoppable, because no one, even the computer it seems sometimes, can’t do anything.

You will get frustrated playing this game, let me give you a scenario, I was just playing this morning, I had just rattled off about 8 wins in a row, and winning the heavy weight title belt.  My fighter is a monster, I have just about every aspect of his game at the top, yet, I lose the belt in my next fight, as well as go on to lose the next 3 all by submission.  All of this happened while I was putting in the button combination that the game had given me to defend against submissions. Needless to say I try to keep the fight standing.

Game play:  Ok, this is where the majority of my beef with this game comes from.  The Career mode is garbage.  You can tell they rushed through the process of making career mode.  It’s not in depth AT ALL, very basic, no frills.  I’m used to madden career mode where everything is something to do or control.  There is no age progression as the years pass, literally, there is none, when I created my fighter, I made him 26, when I retired after 7 years of fighting in my last fight, it showed I was 26.  That’s just little stuff that goes along way. The could have improved even further, if they would have added, time damage, if my eyes keeps getting busted up, maybe I have a big scar their, or maybe after 7 years of fighting I have some wrinkles for gods sake.

The other thing that bothered me about the game play again has to do with progression, like in  the game Madden, if I start my career as a quarter back, after 5 years, guys start to retire around me, and you know what the system does, it auto generates new guys to fill in those rolls.  In Undisputed, there is none of that. It’s the same guys in the game the whole time.  Chuck Liddell is 40 years old now, if I make a fighter, in 2 years he should be retired, yet, he keeps fighting, because there is no age progression.  It would be cool if after 3 years, Anderson Silva and Dan Henderson retire, and 2 new auto generated fighters take their place within the ranks.  That would have made the game more in depth, and 100 times better.

So, after all that, I’m sure you’re asking yourself what type of rating am I going to give this game.  Well, even with all the faults this game has, it is still very fun to play.  The Create a fighter is an amazing system, even without the name recognition.  If you have a group of friends around, I can see how this game would be amazing to set up mini tournaments.  The game itself has a lot of great possibilities in its future, it just seems as though it’s not fully developed yet.  It’s not a good sign when I’m looking forward to UFC undisputed 2010, when this game just came out. With all of that being said, in honor of national heart attack month, I’m going to give this game 2 ½ boxes of Mac ‘N Cheese, out of 5.

Basically, rent it with your friends, fight it out, but you can pass on buying it this year.



In March I wrote a preview for the video game Prototype, blowing it up and licking its balls thinking it would be an awesome and revolutionary game.  You can check out that old article on Prototype HERE.

I finally got my chance to play the game and after mere minutes of playing Prototype on the Xbox 360 I was sadden by the weak effects, and graphics.  Buildings getting destroyed, explosions etc. looked like the old effects on a playstation 2.  I almost wanted to throw my controller at the screen… “FUCKING WEAK” was the best way I could describe it.  Other games on the 360 have looked 100 times better in the animation and graphics, and this game is getting advertising and viral marketing like fucking madness!  Usually in the video game world when a game gets a shitload of marketing dollars than its something new or groudbreaking or even similar to old titles but still tweaked to be cool.

Prototype does not fit these categories…

If youve ever played Spiderman 2 for the PS2 then youve pretty much played Prototype.  Its like taking guts of the Spiderman 2 game and using it for Prototype, except heightening the violence and changing the story. It has no real great gameplay mechanics… the term “clunky” fits best.  The fighting is repetitive and gets old quick, even with “special abilities” but definitely looks cool when you slice a dude in half.

Like MANY games before it you start off having to earn all your abilities and play levels to gain “EP” to buy all of your moves.  The moves are exciting to get and work awesome on regular ol folks but on any tough enemies or “bosses” you end up button mashing and not even developing much of a strategy.

Youve got your regular storyline levels and then side missions.. like usual..

All in all the game mechanics and game engine are NOTHING revolutionary, and the graphics are far from the best ive seen, but the premise of having super abilities with no restrictions and uber violence is appealing and satisfing after a shitty day.  Consume people, slice them in half, crush em, smash em… let it all out.  You have super powers in an open grand theft auto-like world and that idea is AWESOME, but not executed very well.

My diagnosis… Its worth a rental, but NOT a purchase.  NO online play, no multiplayer, and gets repetitive. My earlier preview was flawed and I built it up waaaay to high, so I some-what blame myself, but check it out yourself and let me know in the comments.

This is a review for the video game Left 4 Dead. So the quick back story for this game is as follows, 4 survivors of the Zombie apocalypse, must make their way to safety.  That’s it.  You can probably imagine at this point the insanity that happens.  L4D follows the crazy misadventures of 4 survivors of the Zombie infestation.  The Characters are Louis, Zoey, Francis, and Bill.  Each character has their on back story of sorts; however it doesn’t play much into the story.

Louis, A 9-5 white collar worker.  He’s an office drone who doesn’t get out much.

Zoey, The Chick of the bunch, she gets her period, and attracts the zombies.

Francis, A tough as nails biker, tattooed down to his ball sack.

Bill, the grizzled old Nam war vet, has seen worse shit than this back in Saigon.

There are a few different types of zombie foes as well, and each has their own special little trick to fuck with your shit.

Zombie, your typical zombie, brainless, weak, and easily dispatched with the business end of your gun.

Boomer, The boomer is a huge fat zombie, he is very weak, one hit from anything will take him out, however his special skill is that he can vomit on you, once you are covered in vomit you get the privilege of now being “marked” for the nest 15 seconds every zombie known to man is going to be on your ass.

Smoker, The smoker is the sniper of the zombie group, he’s fairly strong, and can take some hits, but his specialty is snatching you up with his tongue and dragging you away.  You cannot escape him once he’s got you wrapped up, you need your teammates to come and rescue you… if they are still alive.

Hunter, The hunter is the multi purpose zombie, he’s average across the board, not weak, but not strong, He however can pounce on you, and pin you to the ground, and rip your stomach out, piece by piece.

Tank,  The tank is the strongest zombie of them all, he’s a huge, and I mean huge zombie, all muscle, he can take a whole lot of hits and keep on coming,  he doesn’t  really have a special move, other than he’s badass.

Witch, the Witch is a girl zombie who can kill you in one hit, think I’m fucking around? No, she can. Stay away from her. Listen to me.

That’s all the back story there is, and all you need to know.

So, the game itself is actually very easy to play, the buttons are simple, and the game environment itself is pretty linear.  The environments are very well done, there are secret spots that you can get to, that no zombie can.  The whole environment itself is interactive, you can open doors, jump on cars, basically anything that’s in the world, you can do something with, there is not that whole “invisible wall” thing that goes on in a lot of these games.  The game could be classified as arcade style, but there is way more depth to it than that.  

One of the best parts of this game, which really grabbed my attention, was the purpose of the game.  You see, in most zombie fighting games, your goal is to kill all the zombies, and move on to the next level.  In L4D, that is not the case; the zombies will KEEP coming at you.  Your goal is to survive and make it to the safe house location at the end of the zone.  Seem simple enough? Not by a long shot friendo.  Like I was saying, the zombies will keep coming, in fact the AI for this game is very, very good, there is a “dungeon master” of sorts with the AI, you see, lets say you and your 3 other survivor buddies are making your way easily through the map, well, Mr. Computer, doesn’t like that, thus it will up the amount of zombies it’s going to throw at you.  So you could be used to 10-15 zombies swarming you, and it could bump it up to 50.

The “fear” factor of this game isn’t all that high, the jump out of your seat moments are their, but it’s mostly when you are in a corner, and you can hear a horde of zombies on the other side of this door, and they are literally tearing it down.  The games greatest fear tactics are the unexpected jumps around corners, for some of the levels you are in; it could be pitch black, with the one exception being your handheld flashlight.  So just imagine searching a completely dark bathroom, with your shotgun, and flashlight, kicking open the stalls looking for supplies, needless to say, it can build the tension.

Now onto the important part, the weapons/supplies.  This is a benefit, and a negative in this game.  The items you get are typical of this kind of game, you have your basic guns, you start with, single pistol, shotgun, Uzi, Medical Kit to heal yourself.  Along the way, at certain safe points, you can find upgraded weapons of similar kinds, Like, an assault rifle, automatic shotgun, hunting rifle, and you can also grab a second pistol (duel wield).  As well you can grab secondary attack weapons, like pipe bombs, and Molotov cocktails. Health wise, you can get pain pills, which is a temporary way to get health.  Now the negative is that the weapons get old quick, sometimes you wish their was more stuff to shoot.  However, the beauty of having limited weapons in a way improves game play, instead of debating on if you should take the rocket launcher, or the grenade launcher, you just grab a gun, and keep moving, which is the point of the game.

Last but certainly not least, is the reason this game achieves “bad ass” status.  Multiplayer.  This games multiplayer is the reason you will keep coming back.  There are a couple different multiplayer games to play online. They have a campaign mode, where you and up to 3 other people complete the game like normal, Or there is the new survival mode, were you are fighting endless hordes of zombies with your friends, and limited equipment, last there is Versus mode, which is where you and 3 others battle human controlled zombies.  The reason multiplayer is great for L4D is the interactive ability it gives you the gamer.  Some of the greatest times had playing this game was during online play.  For starters, human players are always smarter, so it adds a bit of realism to the game itself, it also provides for a even balance of skill, If you have a leader personality on your team, they can lead you to survival, or maybe you have someone who loves to jump into the zombie swarm and just start shooting away, put them up front.  Basically multiplayer makes this game.

The Negatives are few and far between, but should be addressed, so here they are.  As discussed before, the weapons can sometimes become boring, now the overall point of the game is survival, but a few extra guns couldn’t hurt replay value. I am hoping that in a game update at some point Xbox will give us a few added weapons.  The next thing is that if you are playing single player, just on your own, the game is short, there are multiple levels to beat, but if you are a super nerd and dedicate a whole day to the game, you can beat it, however with the multiplayer feature, you will never be bored.

Well that’s about it kiddies, I would for sure recommend this game to everyone that likes to get online and spend a few hours fucking around playing a game. It’s not difficult to just pick up and play.  Overall I am going to give this game a 4 ½ out of 5 stars of david.  Mazeltaf you yenta’s.

Unlike the regular Halo everyone is used to, this game is a real time strategy game, not a first person shooter.  So instead of bull rushing into 10 guys and trying to kill as many and last as long as you can… this time you actually have to think, which for a huge Halo fan might be tough.  Halo is meant to be an A.D.D, instant gratification type game and this new style calls for a little intelligence, and strategy.  I believe this was well known by Ensemble Studios, the developer of the game, and taken into account when constructing it.  So they made it simpler and designed the missions pretty tight, and its not as in depth and insanely free as Starcraft or Command and Conquer.  So if its your first time playing a RTS game, then your in luck because its retard friendly, and A.D.D. friendly as well.  It keeps the action happening and you don’t have to pause the game every 10 seconds to figure out a map, or set up buildings for the sole purpose of giving your town paper or something homosexual like that.  You flat out build an army and destroy the enemy.. simple, bare bones RTS… me likey.

Halo Wars was built brand spanking new for the Xbox 360 so the controls aren’t something taken from a nerdy PC game with 5,000 unique combinations of buttons to take action.  Halo Wars can be dictated in almost every way with only 2 buttons to take action.  Morons, and people who want instant gratification rejoice… It also has awesome explosions and graphics for the battles and makes you want to kill somebody yourself, but in a friendly gaming kind of way.  More than just cool looking gameplay, there is also a top notch quality cut away every time you beat a level.  So this adds another level to the game, and gives you another epic story to follow which is cool for any Halo fan.  The story isn’t quite as bad ass as the original, but its still cool to have the epic beginnings to the trilogy we like. 

Although its friendly for a beginner its still fun for any Halo player, and still allows for good gameplay.  Who wouldn’t like bombing evil aliens with a 600 TON ROUND OF AMMO.  C’mon, even the pussiest person alive would enjoy that.  Its also got the legendary multiplayer that everybody needs with a Halo game, and in multiplayer the game opens up and loosens the tightness it has in the campaign mode.  Also unlike the campaign mode you can be the Covenant.

All in all, Halo Wars is definitely an entertaining game sticking pretty closely to the way halo fans like a game, with the strategy of an RTS.  The developer sacrificed a lot of depth to make for an easy and fun control system, but it wasn’t a huge sacrifice for anyone new to this type of game.  So in the end I reccomend this game to anyone, except die-hard nerdy RTS guys who appreciate the “realism” in building a library for his citizens to read… why dont you build a bath house, so your game people can go have dirty anal sex with each other… prick.



As a guy who has played street fighter since the first version, and has actually seen the Jean Claude Van Damme film adaptation (Cinematic Masterpiece) I feel as though Street fighter has definitely been a part of my life.  Although Im not Asian, Ive got a soft spot in my heart for this game and when word came that Street Fighter IV was happening, I was stoked.  The previous street fighter games are still fun to play and have the highest replayability I can think of… even before online gaming was a reality. So Id expect nothing less from the 4^th. 

This new game is bad ass.  It has kept the same 2D environment its always had from the beginning but now the visual look has been upgraded hardcore style, characters have a soft texture painted style, that looks almost like comic book characters. Also with the illustration and static drawing it’s all accompanied by great attention to detail. You can actually watch each character move their heads and eyes to track their opponent as they jump and block, and big hits show painful expressions and popping eyes. The gameplay has also changed and it has been made imore friendly to newbies or average joe douche bag to pick up and play.  But this accessibility does not sacrifice depth and the game could take months or years (and a social life) to really master.  Im not gonna bullshit you, if you’ve never played before and picked up the sticks against a veteran your gonna get your ass handed to you.. but if its casual player against casual player it’ll still be fun and still look good.  You don’t have to have extensive technical knowledge to pull off cool moves, and make a good fight.

One big thing Ive found is that the set up and use of special moves is a lot easier to pull off than past games.  So you can focus on busting a guy up more than just trying to press all the buttons the right way.  I also noticed that they yanked the parry system, or the “fuck you, im so much better than you I can move towards you while fighting” system.  Also to help in lopsided matches theres another addition, Ultra moves.  Basically theres a meter they call the revenge meter, and it builds up as you take hits, so I call it the bitch meter.  So once you’ve gotten yourself beaten up like a straight up hoe, the meter glows showing its ready and when its used its like a super move only more like anal rape without lubrication.  Massive damage.  I understand this feature is really to let everyone compete and not have a vicious perfect beat down with a great player every time so I don’t knock it too hard, and the animations look insanely cool.

Theres also a new feature called a focus attack. You can charge them or tap them, and hitting an opponent with a charged focus attack stuns them, dropping them to their knees and allowing you to knock em again. And if there wasn’t enough to help out with the new players they have now added challenges set up to show a player how everything works from throws and specials to super blockers and hardcore combos for the die hard people.

All in all I give it a thumbs up.  It’s a cool game and I had a good time playing it.  Im sure theres going to be several drunken street fighter matches that may turn into actual fist fights, and that’s just super.  Check out the trailer below.