Leveling Down

Last week cmfl3x and I presented you with a list of games that we felt were good value from a standpoint of being enjoyable for pretty much every type of gamer. This week we’ll share more “niche” titles – games that you can enjoy – provided you’re into the genre. Again, we want to look at games that are good value – ones that either have a lengthy/replayable single player campaign or plenty of multiplayer hours to keep you coming back while at the same time being enjoyable while being inexpensive.

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Fallout 3′s Operation Anchorage – really worth $10?

cmfl3x asked me a little while back if I was looking forward to the Fallout 3 downloadable content. He seemed pretty excited about it and I felt bad telling him but no, I didn’t share in his excitement. In fact, while there are games I may fully enjoy, like Ninja Gaiden II or Fallout 3, I’ll never buy their DLC. To this day, I have not paid for downloadable content for any traditional game, and I don’t plan on ever doing so. Why? Because I don’t believe in what it stands for. Obviously if downloadable content is free, such as Burnout Paradise’s motorcycles and whatnot, or BioShock’s extra plasmids, then sure – it is always welcome. It’s when it starts getting charged for that it gets on my nerves.

I actually wrote up an entire article just knocking on it, but then felt it may come off as too much of a rant so I held off. I figure that if I could turn it into a discussion topic with cmfl3x, it’d be a little more civil.

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Virtua Fighter 5 contains playable characters as this old guy who specializes in drunken kung fu.

I’ve probably spent maybe 10-15 hours playing Virtua Fighter 5 offline and online. The game doesn’t exactly have a storyline or something so I feel like I’ve played it enough to provide a review. My brother has played the online a lot more extensively than I have, and I have also taken his thoughts into consideration when writing this review. After all, he’s the more serious fighting game player that enjoys the online competition; I’m the more casual fighting game player that is just happy with a strong single player component. Is this game good enough to satisfy both the casual and serious fighting game fans? How about even non-fighting game fans?

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