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    Game Freaks 365's PlayStation Vita Guide
    Game Freaks 365's PlayStation Vita Guide
    Game Freaks 365's PlayStation Vita Guide
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    Game Freaks 365's PlayStation Vita Guide

    By Kyle W. Bell

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    About this ebook

    Game Freaks 365 was founded to help consumers choose games that are worth their hard-earned dollars and avoid duds that are an expensive waste of time. Writing about video games is our passion. This guide aims to help consumers pick the best games that the PlayStation Vita has to offer.

    Over 15 reviews from some of the finest games on the PS Vita are included in Game Freaks 365's PlayStation Vita Guide, including popular titles like Escape Plan, Gravity Rush, Little Big Planet, MotorStorm RC, Rayman Origins, Super Stardust Delta, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, and Wipeout 2048.

    The 2nd Edition is an update that includes all new game reviews for Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, SteamWorld Dig, and more. It was released in January 2019.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKyle W. Bell
    Release dateMar 13, 2013
    ISBN9781301228805
    Game Freaks 365's PlayStation Vita Guide
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    Kyle W. Bell

    Kyle W. Bell is a Master of Public Affairs graduate student at Indiana University South Bend. He resides in South Bend, Indiana, where he was born and raised. He was the recipient of the Indiana Black Expo's Martin Luther King Jr. Award in 2002. The following year he was awarded the Presidential Award for excellence in education. His research on sports development appeared in Indiana University South Bend's peer-reviewed Undergraduate Research Journal and a piece on gender stereotypes in the university's New Views on Gender publication. His writing interests have more recently taken him into the world of fiction. The 2011 short story "Ozzy" was inspired by real-life events surrounding the life and death of his grandparents. "Operation Bald Eagle" (2012) was his first spy novella, taking readers inside the role of a CIA operative as he embarked on a mission to prevent a Chinese cyber-attack on the United States. Its sequel, "Dusk Before Dawn" (2013), sees a Russian invasion of Ukraine in a plot that weaves international intrigue with the ugly underbelly of American presidential politics. Kyle is an avid reader, enjoys exercise, follows sports, and relishes a good meal whether it is prepared at a family-owned restaurant or in his own kitchen. He is the owner of Game Freaks 365, a video game website founded in 2003 with news and reviews. His personal blog, http://kylebell.com, focuses on both politics and his books. It is meant to generate ideas and debate on policy in a constructive manner.

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      Game Freaks 365's PlayStation Vita Guide - Kyle W. Bell

      Game Freaks 365’s PlayStation Vita Guide

      Kyle W. Bell

      Smashwords Edition 2, January 2019

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      Copyright © Kyle Bell 2019

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      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      Cover design by Angel Cortes cortesangel@live.com

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      A-D

      E-I

      J-M

      N-Z

      Acknowledgements

      Other Books

      About the Author

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      Introduction

      Game Freaks 365 was founded to help consumers choose games that are worth their hard-earned dollars and avoid duds that are an expensive waste of time. Writing about video games is our passion. This guide aims to help consumers pick the best games that the PlayStation Vita has to offer.

      Over 15 reviews from some of the finest games on the PS Vita are included in Game Freaks 365's PlayStation Vita Guide, including popular titles like Escape Plan, Gravity Rush, Little Big Planet, MotorStorm RC, Rayman Origins, Super Stardust Delta, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, and Wipeout 2048.

      The 2nd Edition is an update that includes all new game reviews for Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, SteamWorld Dig, and more. It was released in January 2019.

      Reviews

      Asphalt Injection

      Developer: Gameloft

      Publisher: Ubisoft

      Release Date: February 14, 2012

      Platform(s): Vita

      If you have ever experienced one of the Asphalt games in the past you already know how underwhelming they historically have been. The original was actually not that bad for an N-Gage title, but all subsequent iterations have proven to be budget quality at a full retail price. Does Asphalt Injection buck the trend?

      Asphalt Injection is a straight-up, unapologetic arcade racer. While it has some light customization elements, the focus here is clearly on quick races rather than authentic, real-to-life mechanics. Whether you will have the least bit of interest in Asphalt Injection depends on if you are more of a Ridge Racer fan or a Gran Turismo fan. The latter should look elsewhere.

      The problem with Asphalt Injection is that it is not a particularly good arcade racing game. You don’t get the sense of speed that would make the game exciting. Instead it feels like you are going at varying degrees between slow and somewhat fast. Even though the speedometer says that you are going 300 mph in a Honda sedan that your grandmother probably drives, don’t believe it. Even more frustrating is the fact that things like turbo seem to have no real effect on your position in the race.

      Surprisingly, Asphalt Injection has a decent amount of cars to choose from. Whether you want to race in the aforementioned Honda, a BMW or a Ford Mustang, Asphalt Injection has you covered. The same cannot be said for tracks, though, as there are only fifteen of them. The game has a ton of events to choose from, as well as a variety of game modes, yet racing on the same tracks gets old really fast.

      While other arcade racers like Burnout will dazzle graphically, Asphalt Injection merely earns a passing grade. Certainly it is a major improvement from last year’s atrocious Asphalt 3D, but it is hard to say that they pushed the Vita to its limit. Worse yet, the sound will annoy the hell out of you. For whatever reason the developers chose to have an obnoxious announcer spouting off lines that are better suited for arcade racing games from the 90s.

      While Asphalt Injection is a marked improvement from past games it still has a long way to go in order to catch the competition. The fact that you can play essentially the same game - including identical tracks - on the iPhone for $0.99 should infuriate anyone that decided to buy Injection for about thirty times that amount. If you have an iPhone you might consider buying Asphalt, but Vita gamers should definitely pass up Injection.

      6 / 10

      Written by Kyle Bell

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      Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate

      Developer: Armature Studios

      Publisher: WB Games

      Release Date: October 15, 2013

      Platform(s): 3DS, PC, PS3, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360

      Armature Studios was more than willing to admit that it wanted to go with the Metroidvania theme when developing Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, the handheld tie-in to the console game Batman: Arkham Origins. Unfortunately, it might have been better off thinking about

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