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If I could turn back time... ooh baby

I really haven’t played a scrolling shooter in some time, the main reason being that it isn’t exactly an evolving genre. Pull almost any of the “new” games off the shelves and you have another Contra or 1942 waiting for you to dodge waves of bullets, collect power-ups, and obliterate massive bosses that take longer to beat than the actual stage you traversed to reach them. Zeit² tries to be one of the games that falls outside of the “almost any” pack previously mentioned. While it definitely has the same general rules as the genre dictates, it adds a twist with the introduction of time travel.

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"Welcome to Review!"

Magneto, we meet again - only this time, I don’t need quarters to beat you. Your hordes of henchman and sub-bosses with cheap unblockable attacks - no longer a threat to my allowance! Having to conserve my wonderful, room clearing mutant attacks that eat into my life energy - not this time. You’re getting beaten down as many times as I want, and I only have to spend $10 once, as an electronic transaction. The day is mine!

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While it isn't the Gothic series we know and love, it is still an entertaining story.

The Gothic trilogy was one of the few distinct fantasy RPG’s to appear in the first decade of this new millennium. While the gameplay was definitely buggy - I remember losing all save files twenty hours into Gothic II - each game immersed you into a cleverly expanding world with a heavy Germanic mythology influence. This series was not cartoony or happy, it was rough and unforgiving. Arcania is the fourth game in the Gothic series, developed by a new team, Spellbound, and while it tries to carry on the traditions and story of the Gothic series, while also refreshing it for a new group of players on the console, it ultimately fails to deliver the necessary experience to attract more followers.

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Some call it Zen, I call it boring.

I find reviewing The Undergarden to be a difficult prospect; it’s another game added to the growing catalogue of independently published games focusing more on the presentation and visual design of the world rather than story or character development. While the other games in this genre, Braid or Limbo for example, try to throw in some complex puzzle interaction The Undergarden instead goes a different route, marketing itself as a “Zen Game”.

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It's Fallout 3 with a better story.

I guess Ron Perlman wasn’t joking when he said, “War never changes.” At the very least it seems to stay pretty consistent in Fallout: New Vegas, the sequel to Fallout 3 the 2008 video game of the year. Rather than developing the game in-house, as they did with 3, Bethesda Studios turned over the production of the game to Obsidian Entertainment, the spiritual successor to the original creators of the Fallout franchise.

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