Game Review: Intense Games
In what has to be one of the strangest requests ever, I was contacted a few weeks ago by Frivolous Entertainment to review their new DVD party game entitled Intense Games DVD. This is one of those DVD party games that you might see in your local adult gift store where you might find various juvenile challenges to play with your drunken college friends some night. Things like “Do a blowjob on a cucumber” or “Take a dump on the hood of someone’s car” etc. Generally wholesome games that any fratboy or girl would enjoy playing after downing dangerous amounts of liquor. And let’s be honest, most college kids do that kind of stuff without any alcohol at all these days pretty often. This game however, takes things much, much further than what you may be used to seeing in your typical party game. (more…)
I finally managed to play through Silent Hill: Shattered Memories a while back. Being a huge SH fan over the years, this one really put me off initially. I’m not a fan of Wiimote waggling at all, and it seemed like this new SH was about to take it to all new pants-shitting levels of annoyance. And while I wasn’t entirely wrong with that initial assessment, I’m glad I finally took the time to play through it. Overall it’s probably one of the more unique games you’ll play regardless of all the frustration you may have with it. It’s such a strange game in overall concept that it will probably take a few days of going over it in your head after you’ve beaten it to really rein in the things you saw and did in a way that will make sense. And even then, there’s going to be a hazy cloud of uncertainty sitting around. This is a good thing, BTW. Just in case you were wondering. Well, except the waggling. 
Back in the nineteen hundred and nineties, Maxis released a game for pcs that I thought sounded like a heck of a lot of fun: SimAnt. I had played, and been impressed by, the original SimCity, so I was enthusiastically looking forward to a game that did the same thing but with an ant colony. My inner science nerd was way more advanced than my inner city planner, you see, and I wanted nothing more than to control an ant city located deep under a human lawn. 
Remember Kyle Petty? Maybe? Of course you don’t. He’s some guy that raced cars or something in the 90s. The point being that whether you remember him or not, he had a completely baller mustache. And people with amazing mustaches get games made about them. This guy just happened to race in Nascar, which thankfully made for an easy game to be cashed in on the SNES. I mean, imagine if the guy was a professional waiter or something. A game about professional waiters with awesome mustaches would only suck slightly more than Kyle Petty’s No Fear Racing. 
Spike McFang is just stupid. But stupid in a good way. It was one of those SNES games that really only stood out for being completely strange on every level. Essentially what you get is your typical top-down action RPG that Zelda and Secret of Mana had made famous for years. In that regard, Spike McFang is nothing too special. Sure it’s fun, but it’s not until you get into the actual storyline and characters that you realize that you’re dealing with something that may be worth more than a ten second glance at your local video store. 
