Mad Good Add-on: “Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot”
Jan 4th
“Mad Moxxie’s Underdome Riot” is an add-on to the original “Borderlands”. It introduces a welcome battlefield playground to the main story’s quest-based structure, as well as (of course) new levels.
What’s the story? The amazingly sexy, but off-the-wall sadistic, Mad Moxxi introduces you to her Underdome where your senses are automatically overwhelmed by the flair and style of the game. With three failed marriages under her belt (of which circumstances are questionable), Moxxi is now looking for her fourth husband. But in the meantime, she’s satisfying her need for pain and pleasure by holding a tournament where treasure hunters battle each other in her underground arena. Who knows? Mad Moxxi may even consider the victor a suitable fourth spouse.
Watch the trailer:
Rules are simple: A wave of bloodthirsty enemies will charge towards you and your group, try to kill them all, dash around trying to collect health and ammo refills that fall from the sky, and then it starts again. Mindless murderous fun? Yes.
To break up the wave after wave of murdering, there’s constant narration, angry encouragement from Mad Moxxi, and the thunderous applause from the crowd to keep your spirit high and your blood rushing. It’s not just a game – it’s a spectacle.
Though not a brand new game and there’s not much more than excessive killing offered, for $10 it’s worth a go.
Get “Mad Moxxi” for $10 now. It’s already out on Xbox 360 and will be available on PS3 starting on January 7th.
“DJ Hero”: Where DJs become Rock stars
Oct 28th
DJ Hero, the newest addition to the family of peripheral-based video games, makes its debut on Oct.27, 2009. If it looks like Guitar Hero but with turntables – that’s because it essentially is. DJ Hero is a single-player mixology simulator which in itself already sounds very, very cool. While Guitar Hero is focused on performing music, DJ Hero allows players to perfect their mash-ups.
The usual guitar is substituted by the plastic likeness of a turntable – the necessary tool of any DJ. Created by RedOctane, this is not some cheap plastic box – it’s solid, functional and even pretty to look at. The turntable platter has three buttons and spins freely, which allows the player to scratch and rewind tracks just like pro DJs. It spins and clicks where it’s supposed to and includes a mixer on the side that houses the fader switch and euphoria button among other features.
Whereas Guitar Hero focuses on rock songs, the heart of DJ Hero is the mash-up. These are songs that have been mixed and mashed to an almost indistinguishable track, but that’s part of its allure as a very challenging peripheral-based rhythm game.
The game’s original soundtrack is definitely one of the highlights. You get to play and listen to the work of skilled DJs like Grandmaster Flash, DJ Shadow, Daft Punk, and the late DJ AM. The tracks they will be mixing up are numerous and from artists like Gwen Stefani, Beastie Boys and Public Enemies just to name a few. The game gives the player access to more than 100 licensed songs in 93 tracks. Players get to really experience the creative mind behind the world’s top DJs. (And on a more sentimental note, DJ Hero has made their game a tribute to DJ AM’s passing since his visionary work is a good chunk of the mash-ups.)
