Worthplaying reports:
''I think there are three main categories approaching a review of Heavy Iron's THQ-published WALL-E licensed movie tie-in game: You're buying the title for kids to play, yours or someone else's; you're buying the title to play with your children; or you're a Pixar maven, and you're buying the title for yourself, as much for collectibility as gameplay. Were I picking up WALL-E at my local game or electronics store, I'd nicely fit in any or all of those groups, but your experience of WALL-E as a game, just as with the movie, will vary depending on where I can pigeonhole you.
Notably, when I gathered the gaggle of our kids, ages three to 13, popped the disc in my (I meant to write, "our," really I did) PlayStation 3 and fired up the game, the first thing I did was mutter, "Oh, my stars; they didn't screw this up." My four-year-old son has been awaiting this movie for months - eons in preschooler time - since he saw the first teaser trailer. He got one of the inconsistently available WALL-E interactive robot toys perhaps a month back, a couple of days after perhaps three of them magically appeared on a back shelf of our local toy superstore. He got to the play this game a week before we were to see the movie; I certainly didn't want his bubble burst by the usual movie tie-in schlock rife with bugs, horrid graphics and execrable camera perspectives and control.''
The PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup for February includes:
🕷️ Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
🏎️ Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown
🐲 Monster Hunter Stories
🐉 Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
🐺 Neva
🚲 Season: A Letter to the Future
⚔️ Echoes of the End: Enhanced Edition
🍛 Venba
🏉 Rugby 25
And joining the Classics Catalogue:
🤖 Disney•Pixar Wall-E (PS2)
All of these will be available to play 17 February
Solid line up.
I knew TDU SC eventually come on PS Plus. Glad I cancelled preorder for Astro or instead.
I heard TDU SC was a mess at launch. Did it improve? I'm going to give it a try
This is unrelated to the actual post, but can anyone tell me what happened to this site? It used to be the best place to get news, but now it seems like barely any big news comes through, there's little discussion, and it seems to be dying overall. I know there was awhile where I couldn't access the site, but that's been taken care of for a long time. What happened?
There are a lot of technical issues and it doesn't seem there are many people left who approve stories, so they take a long time to get approved, if they get approved at all.
Money. It was sold to someone who wanted to maximize the ad revenue while investing nothing into the actual site. Money killed it.
I'll add to what Nyxus and Eonjay said
Another reason is trolls are allowed to run rampant. So the few times discussions might happen, they get derailed fast.
There's also the fact that they're more strict on what gets approved now compared to what they were back in the day.
Site’s been slowly turning to garbage over the past 5 years. It’s currently almost unusable. Full of utter shit adverts covering everything. You cant even access your profile notifications and it’s been like that for what must be over a year now. It really has become an amateur shit show here.
True, I tried opening "my submission" and it opened someone else's list of submissions...
An endless amount of rude trolls, along with terrible and inconsistent moderation. I once got banned for saying S***, but then there are other people who can drop F-bombs and not get banned. Mods also punish the wrong people often, just stupidity all around. I stopped submitting stories and I rarely comment these days due to the lack of proper moderation.
Always thought this was just a Sony pony troll site lol. But it used to be nuts. I used to check this site every day same as siliconera. I do still check here and there but yeah ain’t what it used to be
Love the article description!
Also someone had the foresight to put Neva on there... and monter hunter Stories. Solid additions all around.
They had a strong classic library last year, I don't hope they plan to double down on disney releases again this year, like they've done before.
Licensed games are all rubbish, right? Well, THQ's take on Disney/Pixar’s Wall*E would like to argue that point.
Took me a min to figure out this is a review of a 2008 game. I love Wall*E and this looks interesting so added it to my Steam wishlist. Thanks!
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "There are few brands out there that have anything like the appeal and recognition of Disney. Thanks to decades of beautiful and critically acclaimed animated films, the company is a household name that has expanded beyond just movies to include a variety of other ventures, including videogames. Disney has also grown its lineup considerably in recent years by acquiring Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars (although for the purposes of this article, I’ll only be covering Disney/Pixar output).
Thanks to their broad audience, Disney games usually show up on every viable platform out there, meaning that despite the brand’s affinity with Nintendo’s younger-skewing audience, both the PSP and Vita received a number of titles throughout their lives. Some of this was through Disney's own developer/publisher (Disney Interactive Studios), but the firm also licensed out its IPs for other companies to try their hand at – with somewhat mixed results."
