DLC Review: Assassin’s Creed 2 – The Battle of Forli & Bonfire of the Vanities

Game: Assassin’s Creed 2: The Battle of Forli & Bonfire of the Vanities & Secret Locations
Format: 360, PS3
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher: Ubisoft

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series has a love-hate relationship with me. I was not the only one who to put it quite mildly, didn’t like the first instalment (my review of it can be found here: http://rt.nu/_d74sc) as despite it’s huge sales, every games critic under the sun gave it the good hard bashing it rightfully deserved. To my surprise then that last year Assassin’s Creed 2 released and not only did it garner huge sales, but this time it was good. Very VERY good in fact, a gargantuan improvement on it’s predecessor and subsequently it ended up being my personal game of the year (although I was out voted in The Newb Review “Game of The Year” awards, article found here: http://rt.nu/boju5y, by about a quadrillion to one).

So naturally, since I enjoyed the game so much I’ve decided to splash out on the 2 brand new(ish) DLC packs. Sequence 12, The Battle of Forli and Sequence 13, Bonfire of the Vanities & Secret Locations. Are they worth the money? Well, hold on…I’m getting onto that bit now.

DLC Review: Borderlands: The Secret Armory Of General Knoxx

Game: Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
Format: Xbox 360
Developer: Gearbox Software
Publisher: 2K Games
The Newb Review Game of the Year nominee Borderlands received it’s third piece of downloadable content last week, and to cut to the chase, it is brilliant. After the shambolic mess that is Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot which cut out all of [...]

DLC Review: Resident Evil 5: Lost In Nightmares

Game: Resident Evil 5: Lost in Nightmares
Format: Xbox 360
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
With the arrival of this generation of consoles and the advent of paid for downloadable content, the life span of your average game has increased dramatically. While most games receive their additional content within a few months of release, Resident Evil 5 owners have been [...]

The Newb Review Episode 11

This week Braindead_hero and Crofterz are joined by the lovely Spanjj from 7bitarcade to help them in their podcasting duties. Among the topics discussed are;
the iPad,
Exclusive GTA IV DLC no longer exclusive
and the popularity of naked blue aliens.
We also bring you this weeks new releases and site updates as well as giving you the chance [...]

iRate: DLC Exclusivity and Me… A Hate/Hate relationship

Ah the joy of gaming… You finally sit down with the latest multiplatform release and let the gaming goodness wash over you, fully enjoying everything there is on offer. But hang on a second…There are bits missing aren’t there? It’s seems you can’t enjoy the same game as your rival console owners, not because of shoddy porting issues (we’ll save that for another iRate article), but because the developer has decided to sell off their reputation to the highest bidder and screw over around half of us gamers in the process. Oh well, at least they make a bit of extra cash…

The Newb Review: Episode 10

A very special guest joins Braindead_hero, Tom01255 and Crofterz this week, the emperor and owner of newbreview.com Steve ‘Kamiza’ Garrett to discuss this weeks video gaming news inclding;
Borderlands and Assassin’s Creed DLC,
Tony Hawk prepping to ride again
and Nintendo renewing it’s licence to print money thanks to New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
As usual we also have [...]

DLC Review: Borderlands: Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot

Game: Borderlands: Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot
Format: Xbox 360
Developer: Gearbox Software
Publisher: 2KGames
Any devoted readers of our site will know how popular last year’s Borderlands was amongst the staff. We must have loved it, because it was one of our nominations for Game of the Year.
The real joy we found in Borderlands came from not only the tight controls [...]

DLC Review: Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky and Pinncale Station

Game: Mass Effect DLC Bring Down the Sky and Pinnacle Station
Format: Xbox 360
Developer: BioWare
Publisher: Microsoft Games Studios
When Mass Effect was first released, BioWare discussed the possibility of releasing numerous additional missions as downloadable content. With a game that has a gigantic open universe to explore, you would think that they would have every opportunity to [...]

Newb Flash Episode 6

This weeks Newb Flash with Tom01255 and Joefeesh as well as an additional extra special guest. This week’s news including; Reggie Fils-amie talking about the next Wii, Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY edition and Dragon Age: Origins DLC released and then withdrawn as well as much more.
Check back each week for the run-down of each weeks [...]

Newb Flash Episode 3

Welcome to another edition of Newbflash – the bitesize micro-podcast that brings you all the latest gaming news from Tom01255 and Joefeesh
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