Pure - New sports off-road action game for PS3, Xbox 360 & PC

Pure is a new action sports off-road video game due for release on 25th September 2008 for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

The much acclaimed and anticipated release of Pure - the computer game has been developed by Black Rock Studio, Disney Interactive Studios’ award-winning development studio based in Brighton and the quad racer and film director, Wes Miller.

Pure features vertigo-inducing massive aerial jumps and delivers heart-pounding experiences unique to the genre.  It has recently won the title of best racing game for the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2008.

The press release states that Pure takes off-road action sports to a new level. Featuring vertigo-inducing massive aerial jumps and spectacular airborne tricks in photo-realistic real-world locations all over the globe, Pure delivers heart-pounding experiences unique to the genre.

The video trailers make the game look awesome & we can’t wait to get our hands on a copy.

For more information, log on to www.purevideogame.com.

Fight your friends or the computer with your favourite characters using the best scenes from Nintendo games.

Single player
The main story of the game is the Subspace Emissary where you travel around defeating enemies and finding other team members. You play as different characters on each level destroying evil to get to the door at the end. The characters are usual in pairs until they all meet up around the halfway point of the Subspace Emissary.

What is interesting is that when you defeat, for example Bowser he then becomes GOOD??? and joins your team without fuss.

In the Subspace Emissary there are 50 save files, so 50 people can have a file.

Multiplayer
The Multiplayer mode allows for multiplayer brawling, which is one of my favourite parts in the game as it allows you to play against friends and family, each playing as your favourite characters.

Whilst playing Multiplayer Brawls you can also unlock new characters. If you play well in a Multiplayer Brawl a screen with “a new foe approaches” appears also with a shadowed picture of that character. You then have to win a brawl against this computer controlled . If you win the brawl you will unlock the character. If you lose, the opportunity will pop up again soon allowing you another opportunity to defeat the character.

Events
Events are available in both single player and Multiplayer modes.

With Event Mode you have many different missions to complete/by completing a mission you get to unlock more events.

There are 41 available in Single player and 21 available in Multiplayer.

Trophies, Stickers and Items
There are many bonuses in the game such as collecting trophies and stickers which you collect mainly from the Subspace Emissary and Coin Launcher. The Coin Launcher is a mini-game where you fire coins that you have collected from levels in the Subspace Emissary at either moving trophies to collect that trophy or spaceship-like objects to collect stickers. You can then view the stickers and trophies you have won in the Vault, from the Main Menu.

There are many different items in Super Smash Bros Brawl which can prove to be very helpful in fighting enemies. Many of the items used are copied from other Nintendo games – for example, Pitfall Seed as featured in Animal Crossing and Pokeballs as featured in Pokémon.

As well as Super Smash Bros Brawl being a fantastic game on the Wii, there are some extras that come with the game, that I think are also worth mentioning.

Masterpieces
There are some demos of Nintendo classic games to play

Challenges
Take a look at prizes and special things you have unlocked plus see hints on how to unlock more.

Stage Builder
Build your own stage or arena from scratch to brawl on.

Mini-Games
There are many different Mini-games which are available in both single and Multiplayer. Here are the ones you start with:

Target Smash – simply smash all the targets in the fastest time. Great fun!

Home Run Contest Hit the poor defenceless sandbag as far as you can with the bat.

MultiMan Brawl Fight enemies to win in the following modes:

10 Man Brawl: destroy ten enemies
100 Man Brawl: Destroy 100 enemies before they destroy you
3 Minute Brawl: Brawl for three minutes
15 Minute Brawl: Brawl for 15 minutes
Endless Brawl: Fight an endless supply of enemies until you die
Cruel Brawl: Face the toughest enemies with no item assistance

Wi-Fi
The best part about this version of Super Smash Bros Brawl is it comes with Wi-Fi internet connectivity, so you can brawl it up with anyone in cyberspace and become heavyweight champion of the world or by using a friend code you can connect with your friends.

As you may have guessed by reading this review, I think Super Smash Bros Brawl is brilliant and right now, I would be surprised if any game could top it this year.

I would recommend this game to everyone as it is absolutely fantastic, a must have game for 2008.

Buzzin Games Rating: 97%

In this competition you can race in any of the karts or bikes and with any of the characters you have unlocked whilst playing the game. All you have to do is collect all the coins that have been left laying around in Coconut Mall in the fastest time possible. Good Luck! And remember the number one person in the world so far has just over 30 seconds.

Deadline for entering the 1st July Competition is the 10th of July

Super Smash Bros Brawl replaces the Playstation 3 action game, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots.

Looks like Nintendo have a massive hit on their hands.  Game review to follow shortly.

I can’t wait to play it with my friends and experience one of the most anticipated games of 2008 on the Nintendo Wii.

This means that now small developers without the full amount of resources can now see there imaginations run free thanks to Wii Ware.

Although this is used like a the Virtual Consoles games it is quite different and offers many of the things available when you play big name games on the Wii console.

Another handy feature is that if you are worried about the amount of memory left on your Wii console don’t worry because each game has a maximum of 40 MB so get loads.

Tuesday the 20th May will be the release day for Wii Ware and most of the games.
The games released in may include:

Defend Your Castle
Dr Mario & Bacteria Extermination
Everyone’s Pokemon Ranch
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicals: My Life as a King
Lost Winds
Plattchen: Twist ‘n’ Paint
Pop!
Saku Saku Animal Panic
Star Soldier R

If you do not have the Wii shop Channel you will unfortunately not be able to download these unless you connect your Nintendo Wii to the internet.

Get all 120 stars then return to Rosalina on the Comet Observatory and ask to fight Bowser again. Finish the credits and you will get a message saying that Luigi is now playable.

Grand Finale Galaxy and star 121 for Mario and Luigi

To unlock the finale Star and Galaxy, collect all 120 stars with Luigi and beat Bowser. Doing so unlocksthe Grand Finale Galaxy, accessible from the green trial galaxy planet, which is the Star Festival seen in the begining of the game (collecting the 100 purple coins in this Galaxy gets you the final Star).

All Coconuts become Watermelons

Gather 9999 Star Bits in the hub, and all the Coconuts in the game become watermelons.

Starting Boost when racing Cosmic Mario

When the countdown timer starts as you are racing Cosmic Mario, hold forward, then as it hits 2, hold down Z” to crouch, and when the race starts hit ‘A’ right away and you will turn yellow for a few seconds and get a really fantastic speed boost that will put you miles ahead of Cosmic Mario. A bit like when you get a rocket start in Mario Kart.

It is all free and you can enter as many times as you like until the 10th May.

What you have to do is do one race around Mario circuit on Flower Cup with 11 other computer racers and get the best time and then send that to Nintendo.

So try your hardest, enjoy the competition and the game.

Baby Daisy: Get at least a 1 star rating in all new 50cc cups.
Baby Luigi: Unlock 8 expert staff ghost data records in the Timetrials.
Birdo: Timetrial on 16 different courses.
Bowser Junior: Get at leat a 1 star rating in all the old 100cc cups.
Daisy: Come in first place in Special cup 150cc.
Diddy Kong: Complete all cups in 50cc.
Dry Bones: Come in first place on 100cc Leaf cup.
Dry Bowser: Get at least a 1 star rating in all new 150cc cups.
Funky Kong: Unlock 4 expert staff ghost data records in the Timetrials.
King Boo: Come in first place on 50cc Star cup.
Mii outfit A: Come in first place on 100cc Special cup.
Mii outfit B: Unlock all the expert staff data records in the Timetrials.
Rosalina: Have a Super Mario Galaxy save file and then win some Grand Prix’s.
Toadette: Timetrial on all courses.

This game can only mean good things for the Wii as it is already a hit around the world. So I would suggest that you pre-order Super Smash Bros Brawl to avoid disappointment.

The character line up includes the best heroes and villains available in the gaming world. Here is the full character list:
Bowser, Captain Falcon, Cartoon Link, Dedede, Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong, Falco, Fox, Ganondorf, Ice Climber,Ike,Jigglypuff, Kirby, Link , Lucario, Lucas, Luigi, Marth, Metaknight, Mr Game & watch, Ness, Olimar, Peach, Pikachu, Pit, Pokemon Trainer, R.O.B, Samus, Snake, Sonic, Wario, Wolf, Yoshi, Zelda, and you can also play as your mii.

The arenas are basically scenes and places in various Nintendo games, including Green Hill Zone and Luigi’s Mansion.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is also Wi-Fi compatible which means up to four players can play wherever they are.

Super Smash Bros Brawl would get 5 out of 5 from me, because it is so much fun.
Super Smash Bros Brawl will cost £40 in most places, and is currently in 2nd place on the Game website pre-order chart.

Only 47 days to go until it’s release day.