The Outlaw's Favorite Game Moments: Freedom Fighters

Yes, I know it is Tuesday, but my charger died yesterday. Thus, you are getting this a day late. I'M SORRY!!!! There, now that we've gotten that out of the way and we can be friends again.Anyway, It's that time again (shut uuuuup) and this time I want to talk about a little scene from Freedom Fighters. If you never played it, you are indeed the fool. Ya see, Freedom Fighters was a last gen game about alternate reality. Instead of America winning the Cold War, the nasty Soviets did. Bring us up to modern day, and they decide to invade the good ole U. S. of A. Your character, Christopher Stone, was once a plumber (you were in fact going to a job...

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Least Favorite Video Game Moments: Number 2

    First, allow me to formally apologize for our huge amount of lame the last week and a half. We have both just moved back to A&M for school, and have been settling in, unpacking, buying books, and attending many many housewarming parties. (The latter may be the primary reason....) But, with school starting up on Monday, we decided that it would also be a great time to get back on the schedule. So, with that, I bring to you my second least favorite video game moment.      When I realized that this need to be written in less than 48 hours I then also realized that I had not actually come up with anything...

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Mafia II Review (Move over stupid Facebook app. The real Mafia game is here)

Last night Mafia II was vanquished. Thus, I have opinions to write about. I believe these things are called reviews. I suppose I should just get on with it.I'm not going to lie. I've never been more excited for a game with an awful predecessor. Maybe it's because I love Mafia related things. Maybe it's because I love the time period (1940's-1950's) for video games. Maybe it's because the game started looking great as more and more came out about it. In any case, I will tell you right now, it is.Let us get the usual stuff out of the way shall we? The core mechanics simply work. There was never a time when the controls screwed me over. I cannot...

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Monday

Monday Monday MondayThings will be posted MondayMonday Monday MondayFeatures up on MondayMonday Monday MondayI will most likely write things in class on Monday...That was dumb. I will now sleep to my roommate playing Twilight Princess. Then, more work on Mafia II.Monday Monkey lives for the weeke...

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Sowwy Part 2

Remember when I said we would have things back on track by Monday? Turns out I am a filthy liar and cannot be trusted (also, I cannot use contractions because my internet is acting screwy.) I am such a horrible human being that baby Mario would cry in my presence. I am not ugly, I just resonate evil that can be sensed by the innocent and wildlife.Enough self-loathing... for now. I know our main features go up on Monday, but we decided to see Scott Pilgrim instead. Do not judge us, though, as we are probably going to write a feature on all the gaming goodness it contained (See, technically we were working). We were going to end the night with some epic Starcraft playing, but my co-writer had computer problems. That gives him a better excuse, though as I spent the rest of my night failing...

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Sowwy :-(

We apologize for the lack of updates over the past few days. We have both been moving back to our college abodes and one of us is without internet. We will do our best to get things back up and running with more consistent updates by Monday at the latest. Check back for updates and a special announceme...

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Metroid: Other M Trailer: Metroid and Me

          So, today has been really exciting for me, a new look at Portal 2 (just scroll on down and check it out!), and now a pretty sweet plot description for Metroid: Other M. What Nintendo released today was a look at the Metroid universe's time line from the original NES Metroid to where Other M fits in, excluding the 3D Metroids and Metroid Fusion (Fusion is actually speculated to come after Other M), which is okay with me, because well I never beat any of the 3D ones which you should know, or else Satan will will burn you with his fingernail. To save your soul, go read my other Metroid article Without further adieu.            The thing that I like most about this is that it puts a place...

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Mafia II Demo Impressions

I have never been more excited for a sequel to a game that was, to put it bluntly, a bit shit. Playing through Mafia was one of the worst experiences in my gaming life, especially because I played the console version which was even worse than the horrible PC one. It was an open world game with barely populated streets, horrible shooting mechanics, and terrible AI. For one of the first times ever, I could blame not finishing a game on it rather than myself. It wasn't hard because it was challenging, it was hard because it was broken. However, the one thing it did right was story.The developers have had years to make the sequel, though, and it...

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Mass Effect 2 Comes to the PS3

Let's get a few things straight as early as possible. I love the PS3, I have a PS3, but I HATE (and I mean more than most things) PS3 fanboys. They are the reason that I waited so long to get one, they are the reason that I wanted the 360 to win the console war (Even though Nintendo games are my favorite), and they are the reason why I almost didn't cover this at all. and speaking of reason, they rarely use it. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, I can talk about the actual news. This is great for PS3 owners who have been dying to play Mass Effect. It is one of my own top contenders for Game of the Year. However, I will say this, only buy it if this is your only option. If you have enough money for a 360, go with that instead. This is NOT bias, and I will tell you why. The...

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Gamescom 2010: Portal 2

          Having played through Portal multiple times myself I became as a giddy as a school girl when I found out a 10minute game play video had been released during Gamescom. A teaser trailer was released several months ago and that was enough to get me all riled up, as it portrayed ridiculously complicated and ever changing environments that will make the puzzle solving quest that is Portal so much more difficult and therefore, so fantastic. This video shows that my speculations on the complexity of Portal 2's new environments were correct. Take a gander.           So to continue my, at this point, mostly unnecessary blather about the thing you just watched and already know; what we just watched...

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Halo: Reach- A Spartan Will Rise

We recently took a look at the new Halo: Reach trailer (and by look I mean we've watched the whole thing) and it's become apparent that Bungie has decided to pay more attention to character in their final two Halo games. The other one being last year's ODST. I say this because the newest Reach trailer is all about introducing you to the Spartan team that was present during the fall of Reach. Watch below.The new engine is still looking great and I still love how the graphics have improved without taking away from how colorful the series has been. In fact, it's one of the reasons I love Halo. The series has taken a lot of heat from people who hate it just because it's an Xbox exclusive or because it's so popular, but i still think the games are damn fine shooters. Sure, there might be "better"...

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Gamescom 2010: Dragon Age 2 Trailer

Gamescom 2010 is here! You know what that means! Lots of new awesome trailers. It's a little difficult for two people to keep up with all of them (this might lead to a special announcement sometime soon), so we will do our best to cover as many as we can. Of course, we have to cover our favorites first, so when I saw the new trailer for Dragon Age 2 I jumped all over it (We here at The Outlaw and The Elitist loved the first one). Watch in awe now!Now I know that you should take trailers that are completely cinematic with a grain of salt (as awesome as the E3 Old Republic trailer was we all know it won't play anything like that), but sometimes things can be inferred from them. The only thing I know about the game so far is that it's going to be more console friendly, which is great. An Executive...

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Gamescom 2010: Star Wars: The Old Republic. Space Combat Gameplay Trailer

          For those of you who care at all for MMO's, you should be really, really, stoked for The Old Republic. Why? It's going to be awesome for many reasons, one is, well.. just watch. Edit: Because of that HTML sorcery that I could not cure, the video would play on it's own and was pissing me off, watch the video here instead.                    Like? Some people may watch this and think this is the game itself (and upon reading some of the silly comments on TOR's website, I think some people did) but in reality this is little more that a mini-game. A really awesome and probably very important mini-game, but a mini-game nonetheless. The game itself is obviously...

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Gamescom 2010: Dead Space 2 Zero G Gameplay Trailer.

    Dead Space 2's terrify and curious environment just got a little more interesting as seen in the video. The Zero G moments in the game have apparently received a tune-up. Not to mention the new bad-ass armor, new weapons, and AWESOME flight sequence at the end. I am so pumped for this game Video Games | Dead Space 2 | GC 10: Space Walk Demo (Stream)XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii Side note: I'm really excited to hear Isaac's voice, I'm glad they are making him more of his own character. The faceless hero is kind of cool, because if you are a nerd like me, you imagine yourself there, but I am really interested in getting to see how the events of the first Dead Space effected the man, EA obviously wants us to get to know.   The old Zero G combat wasn't...

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The Outlaw's Least Favorite Game Moments 1: Bionic Commando

Warning: Major (stupid) Spoilers await you.Bionic Commando was a game that had a lot of questions surrounding it. Why did they wait until 2009 to release a direct sequel to a game made in 1987? Why did they make a character with an awesome bionic arm that could grapple onto almost anything follow a usually linear path (sometimes the fighting would take place in a more open playground of destruction)? Why did they put so much cursing in it? Why did they make the main character emo all of a sudden? Why won’t they just call the “fascists” Nazis? However, the twist that takes place at the end of the game raises the biggest question of all: “Why…...

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The Elitist's Favorite Video Game Moments.

          Intense firefights, plot twists, photo realistic cut-scenes, and revolutionary game play; these are the things that made Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1 & 2 two of the best First Person Shooters on the market. Both CoD4 games had campaigns that did what really no other FPS campaign, save for maybe Halo, has ever done (for me anyway). It connected me to characters and settings that truly tapped into my emotions. When characters died, I was angry at the man who killed them, when civilians were killed, I was shocked and appalled, when cities were destroyed, I watched the mushroom cloud caused...

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Metroid: Other M New Game Play Trailer.

Killing Aliens, Liberating Worlds, Saving the Galaxy. These things are-all-in-a-days work for the beautiful and powerful Samus Aran; and it would seem that her skills are being called upon once again. Team Ninja, the renowned creators of Ninja Gaiden, have teamed up with Nintendo to create the next installment to the Metroid franchise. Metroid: Other M. So far all we have really seen are a few cinematic trailers and a short game play trailer. However, on Saturday, a new game play trailer was released! and it looks really, really awesome. Video Games | Metroid: Other M | E3 09: Debut TrailerXBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii^ I wish to...

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Bioshock Infinite Debut Trailer

Originally, 2012 meant two things for me. 1. I am going to graduate college and 2. We are all going to die a horrible, firey death, and not necessarily in that order. However, now I can add another thing to that list; the Release of Bioshock Infinite.If you don't know anything about Irrational Games, they are the ones that made the original (and fantastic) Bioshock. Trust me, that game will be featured in an article at one point or another. After a related company took care of the equally great Bioshock 2, Irrational recently released a new trailer for their new contribution to the series, Bioshock Infinite. Click the link to watch.Bioshock Infinite...

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The Outlaw's Favorite Game Moments 1: The Darkness

Warning! Spoilers, violence, and naughty words!!! Also, sorry that you have to copy and paste the URLs! But they are important.Not many people know this, but The Darkness was one of my favorite games of early current generation. Every time I revisit it, I always find I've forgotten the few problems I have with it. It has everything most people who don’t actually play a lot of games would expect it to have; guns, demons, the mob, and so on and so forth. However, it is the things you don’t expect that make it great. Now, I could go on forever about how the great the voice acting is, how awesomely realized all the characters are (The villain is...

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LEAST Favorite Game Moments, From The Elitist.

It didn't take me long to come up with this idea. It’s a little cliché and literally anyone and everyone who has played this game, will agree. It’s unanimously agreed upon that this moment in an otherwise fantastic franchise is possibly the most frustratingly annoying piece of crap level one will ever play. I’m referring to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s…. Water Temple.             I know, it’s almost a cop-out, but I suppose first one has to understand how much I love the Legend of Zelda, especially Ocarina of Time, but that will have to be a story for another day. So why do I...

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Welcome!

Welcome, everyone, to The Outlaw and The Elitist. It's a simple blog dedicated to our favorite things: Video Games. The Blog is run by Chris Smith (The Outlaw) and Stephen Dickson (The Elitist). If you are cool enough, you might find out how we got our pseudonyms. The goal here is really just to have an outlet for a thing we love. As it stands, one writer will write a "Most favorite...", and the other a "Least favorite video game moment" article each time we update, and as more ideas come to us, we will write more (if YOU have any idea, let us know!).  Follow us, tell your friends, comment, criticize, email us with suggestions. Love us, hate us, care not about us, we are just having some fun and hope that you will too!  ...

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