Gamzsone V3 YouTube Channel Updated (13/5/2008)

Okay, a few of these videos were posted yesterday but I never got round to posting something about it so I'll put them under the one update.

Banjo Kazooie 3: Bolts or Nuts
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Japanese Story Trailer)
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
Final Fantasy VII (PS3 Tech Demo from E3 2005)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chornicles: My Life as a King
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Prologue Introduction)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Cinema Trailer)

The Return of The Gamzsone V3 Show?

After what seemed to be a delay, there are some sort of plans being kicked around by myself and Johnny to bring back The Gamzsone V3 Show in the Summer, due to my life being devoted to school everytime a Gamzsone project is announced. It is only talk at the moment and nothing could happen unless myself and Johnny agree to a final plan which is along way off yet because of our busy lifes. The basic idea is to have myself and Johnny host The Gamzsone V3 Show Live (unlike before where it could have been edited ect) on a Live Stream website - Blogtv.com (I host my show on there) or JustinTV which Johnny is keen on. Theres loads more but they are the main 2 in the running as far as i know, Johnny may say different. When could we see this i hear to ask, i think E3 would be good because it could offer some debates between myself and Johnny on announcements my the big 3. As already stated this is only talk and nothing is final yet. What about Brendan? I don't think he's part of Gamzsone V3 anymore, he doesn't appear when i click into my profile to see who i work with so i think he's gone for good and after the comments made towards Gamzsone V3 last night in an MSN conversation, it seems to be fact that he is gone.

Mirror's Edge is Sexy Looking...But Is It Going to Have the Cloverfield Effect?

Yeah, crap pic I had to whip up...but its the truth.

Cloverfield was a great movie, may I point out, and Mirrors Edge is shaping up to be a great game (It is starting to get doubts of a overhyped game though, ala, Assassins Creed) but its crown jewel? The graphics.

D.I.C.E have something to be proud of with Mirrors Edge, especially its graphics as they are without a doubt, near enough realistic...but is it too realistic?

Let me take you back to February back when Cloverfield came out in the UK. When JJ Abrams, creator of Lost and Alias as well as director of MI:3 and the new Star Trek, came up with the idea of the movie, it was a mix of Blair Witch and Godzilla.

And while the movie was nothing but brillant, there were reports coming out of the US that when the movie was released in January that people were suffering motion sickness out of it.

What that means is that it's too real, despite the fact its a movie and isn't real. Of course I never suffered it while I seen Cloverfield but as I'm writing this, I'm getting bad feelings, it's acting really weird (Well, that or I'm hungry)

So, is Mirror's Edge going to be the same? Most likely, the graphics are great but a little too real and authentic so it could cause a fair bit of motion sickness. Who knows but the thing is this, if you know your going to get motion sickness, dont get the game (OK, now I'm feeling more queezy, no joke)

So, if you do get Mirror's Edge this Autumn and have motion sickness, enjoy the game...but please, have a sickbag or a toilet next to you while you play the game, it just wouldn't be right if you threw up on the most likely sexy coverart or as you are about to make a big jump and miss the grab by so many miles...

OK, I aint feeling too good...

*throws up*

Biasism in Gaming: Is It Ruining an Otherwise Perfect Industry?

We'll always have fanboys for each console or each of the big 3. Xbots for the Xbox as well as fanboys for the Playstation and Nintendo.

Well, if you had have asked me about 3 years ago, I'd have been a total fanboy of the Playstation 2 but then again, who wasn't considering that Playstation 2 was, and actually is, the most successful console of all time (100,000,000 sales says it all really)

But I guess if you are a gamer for so long, you start to mature a bit as a gamer. On average now, people have up to 2 of the 3 current gen consoles with only a few (myself included) having all 3 with most people going for a 360 and Wii combo while others go for the PS3 and 360 combo.

Since the time of me looking forward in excitement at that time when I was a PS2 fanboy to the PSP which was due 4 months after the announcement and unveil of Playstation 3, the now defunct PSX entertainment system (If you know what that is click here) which if you thought was the PS3 at first, you'd be forgiving as it could have well been and of course, the Playstation 3 itself.

But since them 3 years, I have to admit I have mostly grown up as a gamer in all honesty...well, when I say mostly, I was still in love with getting the PS3 but had my 360 and Gears of War to do me then and I also thought the Wii was a novelty.

But while I experienced so much joy and great gaming with my PS2 (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater without a doubt the best game I've ever played on my PS2, what happened to The Boss brought a tear to my eye literally after what happened), I've run into even more joy and fantastic gaming, even more so at last by finally getting online last year (Sadly, no online right now but it should be back soon pending on 3rd party stuff ¬_¬) helped even further by experiencing fantastic games on the PS3 and 360 over the past year such as Gears of War's Multiplayer (Can not wait to play Gridlock in 2), Halo 3 (The story was just brillant, much better then Halo 2's. Level 7 is probably the most epic level in gaming and the multiplayer is the best in gaming right now) as well as The Orange Box (One hell of a great deal with Half Life 2: Episode Two being the finest episodic gaming I've ever played, Portal being the most innovitive game I've ever played and Team Fortress 2 being the most funny multiplayer I've ever played in my life) and of course...Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

As well as all that, the Playstation 3's free online service on the Playstation Network has sent me some great fun with Warhawk, Singstar, Motorstorm and Resistance: Fall of Man as well as a great story mode in the PS3's best game yet (Which is a exclusive so GTA IV doesn't count), Uncharted: Drakes Fortune.

And despite the fact that I only got my Wii a few months ago, I am enjoying Super Mario Galaxy and when it eventually comes out, Super Smash Brothers Brawl should be amazing.

What it basiclly means (Hang tight, we'll get to the subject at hand) is that as long as your true to your beliefs, there shouldnt be biasism, not in this business anyways. Sadly, GameTrailers has seen fit to have money over values and beliefs.

Now, in all honesty, I'll try and keep the reviews as honest as I can be and all the reviews posted on the site so far have been to my true feelings of the game (But I do think now, having looked back on it, Motorstorm didnt deserve a 9.6. Deserves a 9...but not 9.6) and any other reviews that will be posted on the site by someone other then myself will be kept to their true thoughts of the game.

But what GameTrailers has done with it biasism for money from Microsoft has seen the sites moral values go out the windows and is quickly turning into something similar to the Gamespot controversy which if you remember saw Jeff Gerstmann fired from Gamespot over his review of Eidos' Kane & Lynch: Dead Men despite the massive advertisement boardings on the site.

Quite frankly, if Microsoft has been paying GameTrailers (and Eurogamer seems suspiciously bias towards the Xbox 360 as well, as probably evidenced by their GTA IV comparison on their site despite the fact several other sites labeled the PS3 verison the best, even we couldn't tell the difference on both), it may seem that they care about money more then the consumers compared to Sony and Nintendo.

Peter Moore, now at EA Sports, only issued a statement last year while he was at Microsoft just before the E3 conference for Microsoft extended the 3 year warranty on RROD effected Xbox 360's. At this time, it could have been thought at that time, despite his brash insults on PS3 and Wii, he was setting the rules at Redmond and doing it well.

2 weeks later, he was gone to EA.

And since then, while the quailty of games for the Xbox 360 hasnt dipped since then (Halo 3, Mass Effect, Project Gotham Racing 4 to name a few), the quailty of Microsoft has dipped with an announcement coming on Tuesday at Playstation Day that the Playstation 3 has overtaken the Xbox 360 in sales in Europe.

And they now know that sales of the PS3 are on the up while sales of the 360 are going down or steady with a possibillty that despite a year headstart on the Wii and PS3, the 360 COULD potentually end up 3rd in the console war.

And this is why there could be such cases of Microsoft paying sites to give 360 games the upperhand in Multiplatform games such as Assassins Creed, Grand Theft Auto IV and paying sites to give the Xbox 360 verison a better score then the PS3 verison (Could they have had a hand in the controversial review of Assassins Creed by IGN last year?)

TBH, we dont know what happens behind closed doors. I just hope that very soon all this of publishers, developers and even the big 3 paying off sites for great reviews of the game and would instead go back to the moral instinct of the gamer and of how he truly feels about the game...but in all honesty, it wont happen...not for now anyways.

Nintendo: The Only True Gaming Company Left

I recently was surfing YouTube and the Wii Vs 360 Vs PS3 argument was being tossed around and wii as usual were getting the usual treatment, but i was forced to say that, both fanboys of Sony and Microsoft were talking shit about the only true gaming company left from when this whole thing started and that Sony and Microsoft may have the killer games but how come they are still getting their ass' kicked by Nintendo. One simple reason, Nintendo have the experience and the fanbase which both the other two can NEVER match. So i ask this question. Why the nintendo hate?

Gamzsone V3 YouTube Channel Updated (10/5/2008)

Okay guys, we've updated our YouTube channel and a quick note to point out for uploading the PS Day videos of Killzone 2, Little Big Planet and Mirrors Edge, we got 72nd for Highest Watched Guru Channel on YouTube today, thanks guys.

Anyways, we've updated it like we said with...

Gears of War 2(GDC Trailer)
Gears of War 2 (First Gameplay Footage)
Grand Theft Auto IV (US TV Advert)
Grand Theft Auto IV (UK TV Advert)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Revived)

Enjoy, folks.

Welcome to the New Members Blog

Its here that we talk about all sorts of things which we cant put on Gamzsone V3 (Well...we could...but...it woudl suit the place) so instead, we made this place.

OK, its a little bare but give it time, it'll start to grow within time with posts such as...

- What the guys are going to buy next.
- Our personal thoughts on the gaming industry is.
- Our little ourburst at Jack Thompson each time he has a go at Grand Theft Auto or Rockstar.
- Our own opinions of what is going on in the gaming news.
- Tell you some cool new features to the site and here.
- Ryan's personal outbursts on the site once and a blue moon.

Hope you keep up with this blog as well as V3 itself, we have got a great fair bit of stuff coming very soon.