As lots of people will be writing on the subject of co- op gaming and I thrive on the need to be seen as original I decided to come at this topic from a slightly different angle. I started thinking about some of the best times I had playing games with friends and a few…
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United We Blog: Our First Subject
Hello all! We here at UWG are excited to announce our first effort as bloggers united! For this first foray into unified posting, we’ve all decided that the next round of posts should have a common theme to them. Who picks that theme? Well, we all do! That’s right, our next round of posts will…
Top 5 Most-Memorable Sly Cooper Bosses
The Sly Cooper series introduced us to quite a few colorful enemies during its tenure on the PS2. From pirate frogs to clockwork birds, if you can think of an unlikely combination of animal-criminal, you’ve probably seen it while playing one of the Sly Cooper games. With such a arrangement of baddies, you’re bound to…
The “Triple A” Fun Factor
Big budget “Triple A” video games are more complex and immersive than ever before. It’s gotten to the point that when you buy a major title these days, you’re buying more of an experience rather than just a game. That’s really become the point hasn’t it? Major developers aren’t trying to make just games anymore; they’re…
The Duck Discusses the GCN, PS2, and XBox Generation: Part 3-The Second Station of Play
And now we come to part three of my posts on the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and XBox generation of consoles. I saved my favorite one for last, the PS2. Not only is it my favorite console of that generation, but it is my favorite console of all time. This was actually my very first non-Nintendo…
The Duck Discusses the GCN, PS2, and XBox Generation: Part 2-The Box
Hello, the Duck is back to discuss the next console of the GCN, XBox, and PS2 generation, the hefty, yet powerful XBox. This console was the very first video game console made by Microsoft and so the brand is a relative newcomer. While the console, by virtue of its newness, did not feature classic series that…
The Duck Discusses the GCN, PS2, and XBox Generation: Part 1-The Cubester
Hello, everyone. I see you’ve come to read the Duck’s very first post on United We Game. Well, for my first post, I thought I would start by discussing the pros and cons of a very nice generation of consoles, the time period that gave us Nintendo’s GameCube, Sony’s un-creatively named PlayStation 2, and Microsoft’s…