Sypnosis
The game takes place in a haunted mansion when Luigi wins a contest that he never entered. He told his brother to meet him there to celebrate his victory. Luigi is searching for his brother Mario, who came to the mansion earlier, but went missing. To help Luigi on his quest, an old professor named Elvin Gadd or E Gadd has equipped him with the "Poltergust 3000", a vacuum cleaner used for capturing ghosts, and a "Game Boy Horror", a device used for communicating with Gadd. He also uses it as a map and to examine ghosts.

Story/Gameplay

Alright let me get something straight here... Back when I was 5, this was the first EVER video game I got. Used to scare the sh*t out of me but it definitely gave me hours of fun! Now, many years later, I actually went back to playing my ancient GameCube and this game still remains one of my favorite through the times. The story is about Luigi (If you didn't know, Mario's brother) trying to find his missing brother who went into a mansion and never came out! Little did he know, it was filled with a bunch of ghosts that literally get Luigi to freakin' jump every second of the game.
You go through many different parts of the house doing little missions (defeating boss ghosts and such) and ultimately trying to save your brother. Lots of fun if you asked me but this is surely no "shoot em up" kind of game. Just old school Nintendo style lol.

Graphics

How should I talk about graphics? Well compared to today, you might just think the game's graphic card runs on a potato haha. But seriously, they're quite obsolete. Go back to 2001 though, they were great. Of course, Nintendo isn't known for having superb graphics but they follow the usual "Mario" outline when it comes to what you're seeing on the screen.

Controls

Controls are very easy. Open things with "A", turn off your flashlight with "B" and just your usual easy to learn controls! When you're capturing ghosts though, you have to spin the stick in circles for a very long time that my thumb used to go through minutes of soreness after a hard to capture ghost. Lol

Rating:
Story: 9.0 (Still pretty great now)
Graphics: Now, 5.0 Back in the days, 9.0
Controls: 9.5 (Easy to learn)
Lasting appeal: 7.0 (You can replay the game but that's really all)
Overall rating:9.5 (Hey, I still like it to this day and this is 12 years old!)

Fable TLC "The Lost Chapters" - Review
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Game Information

Release Date: 14 September 2004
Platforms: Xbox, Xbox 360(Games on Demand), Windows, Mac OS X
Developers: Big Blue Box (Original), Lionhead Studios (Lost Chapters), Robosoft Technologies (Mac OS X)
Publishers:Microsoft Game Studios, Feral Interactive (Mac OS X)
Genre: Action role-playing
Ratings: "MA" 15+

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Synopsis

In this game, you take on the role of a boy in the town of Oakvale, which get's attacked by a group of bandits, seeing your sister get kidnapped along with your mother. You have no one left as your father has died, but the Heroes guild decides to enroll you into there academy. It's up to you to be a good guy, or bad guy and save the land of Albion and re-unite with your mother and sister... Do YOU have what it takes?

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Gameplay

This game is quite fun, being a fan of RPG games it hit's the spot for me. Now you may be wondering a 2k4 game still being played in 2013? Well it's true. This series has gone down-hil with the release of the game "Fable The Journey" For Kinect, so why not talk about the series within it's prime. (Let's not talk Fable 2/3).

The gameplay was great, it was hard at some points and each city was amazing. You got to kick chickens and make them angry which gave your player the original title of "Chicken Chaser". Amazing right? Well I think so. Anyways, if you are to continue on your nice adventure you can meet some ladies, and well you know do what you do. You can buy-out properties and even rent them out to gain more money.

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Graphics

The graphics style is old, considering it being an XBOX ORIGINAL Game, for it's time they where quite amazing, but compared to the games we have now they are quite bad. But that's not bad news as they will be re-booting this game with Updated graphics, but the same game. So if you're wanting to play the game for great graphics wait for LionHead Studios to re-release the game with Achievement support, and updated graphics. If graphics aren't your thing then this is quite the game for you if you enjoy a nice RPG.

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Recommended For..

I would recommend this game to RPG players, if you've played Fable II or Fable III you are knowing the current play style of 3RD Person with loads of legendary weapons, and many quests to do. If you just love a nice RPG this will be the game with decision making and armour wearing, title changing, combat anywhere, bandit fighting. Just about anything any RPG will offer. It's no elder-scrolls but it's quite a game.

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Controls

The controls are quite simple, there isn't really anything to say bad about them. the D-Pad is used to do some Emotions, or eat food when you need to restore your health. Everything is smooth and easy accesable. Nothing to worry about when playing this game, very easy to get along with and very fun to use.

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Final Ratings

Story: 9
Graphics: 4
Gameplay: 8
Overall Rating: 7

The rating would be higher, but the graphics aren't that great. But graphics don't always matter, and if they do remember they are making an HD redefinition of this game which could increase this up to a 8-9.

Released: September 30, 1998
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Developer: Black Isle Studios
Publishers(s):Interplay.
Platforms: Microsoft Windows and MAC OS
Genre(s): Role-Playing/Single Player
Rating: ESRB: M

Ok now to the gameplay, Ok so basically this game is mostly free roam,(most information is in the story above.) and your free to go anywhere, but like the original fallout when you get attacked you must fight, but i believe they added a system to allow you to run. but basically just like the old game your given action points to attack, switch weapons, change Armour, all that good stuff during combat. Now after you run out of points it is no longer your turn to attack it switches to the npc and they attack you now. well other than that your free to explore dont worry you don't have a short time limit like you originally did. Now doing a speed run i've beaten this game in 37 minutes, and fallout 1 in 18 minutes. But if you play this game like normal it should take you a decent amount of time. there is alot of stuff to do in this game. Beware children there is crime,drugs,alcohol,prostitution,and slavery. Yes btw the S.P.E.C.I.A.L system is in this game to.

Ok so just like the original fallout everything is pretty much controlled by pointing and clicking, and ocasionally use the arrow keys. but to engage in a fight click the enemy, to attack click the attack button which uses your action points. But its all interfaces and mouse movement. So if you played the first game you've pretty much got the controls down.

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Release Date: June 14, 2013
Developers: Naughty Dog
Publishers: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platforms: PlayStation 3
Genre: Action-Adventure, and Survival-Horror
Players: One Person Game
Rating: Mature 17+

The Last of Us has unbelievable graphics because when your in the game you feel like your actually in the game!

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GoldenEye 007

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Game Information
Name: GoldenEye 007
Genre: Shooter, Stealth
Release Date: 23 August 1997
Developers: Rare
Publishers: Nintendo
Series: James Bond
Modes: Single-player, Split-screen
Console(s): Nintendo 64

Plot
The game begins with James Bond being deployed to a secret base in Russia along with his associate Alec Trevelyan. The two have been tasked with finding out about a rocket launch the Russians planned on acting out. However, the mission goes wrong and Alec Trevelyan is captured and assassinated by the Russians and James Bond only just escapes with his life. The story continues with James Bond travelling to a few locations and completing tasks to help track the where the rocket is but he is eventually caught and put in prison. He escapes from prison with a programmer who was thrown into prison for betraying the operation called Natalya Simonova. The two escape the facility just before it is obliterated. The game continues and Natalya Simonova is captured twice more, both times being rescued again by Bond. In the final missions of the games James Bond finds out that Alec Trevelyan was actually undercover for the Russians and not only was he not really executed but he was running the whole operation. James Bond destroys his armoury and assassinates his top men before tracing down Trevelyan who was frantically trying to regain contact with the GoldenEye missile and defeats him in a gun fight, ending the game.

Gameplay
GoldenEye 007 has a very long storyline for a game which is so old and so many different features you wouldnt believe it was developed in 1995. Throughout the story, the player plays as James Bond and plays through twenty different missions, each on different maps completing a set number of objectives and then escaping the level to earn maximum points. The game offers a lot of variety with different enemies which wear uniforms to match their surrounding environment, a massive variety of different weapons and a large amount of unique gadgets which resemble gadgets used by James Bond in the movies. The game has three different difficulties ranging from easy to hard which can offer more experienced gamers a better experience. Another point definitely worth noting is that the game offers multiple save files so the player does not have to erase all of their progress if they want to re-play the game unlike most older games. The game is also highly factored around remaining undetected to complete most missions, this means that the player must try to take out their enemies whilst not alerting other guards to their presence, else risking an alarm being set off which will make the mission near impossible to complete. Another great advantage about this game is that it is a free-roam first person shooter so the player can spend as much time as they like exploring each map for different and unique weapons. This game also has a split-screen mode with a decent variety of game modes where players can play against each other in a game set up exactly how they like. Split-screen mode allows the players to choose from a huge variety of different characters from James Bond movies and a very large variety of guns.

Graphics
This game had average graphics when it was released and although they were nothing special, this aspect of the game was definitely redeemed by the outstanding gameplay. The game was developed nearly twenty years ago hence the fact that graphics would obviously be a joke if released nowadays, however, the game can still easily be played today and the graphics can easily be suffered through as the game is so great. The graphics are quite jagged and rough but what does anyone expect from such an old game?


Controls
The controls are fairly simple alike most first-person shooters on the Nintendo 64. There are a few control techniques which may take while to pick up such as changing and using gadgets, however most features like jumping, shooting, aiming and moving around which are the essentials are very easy to pick up and can be mastered after only playing for a short period of time. Overall, there are no problems with the controls.

Ratings (Personal)
Plot: 8/10
Game play: 9/10
Graphics: 5/10
Controls: 6/10
Overall: 8/10