G'Day fellow tuxers……. Its Bruce your host here once again…….


[+..••] As for gaming this week in Emulationville I played [+..••]


Console

International Superstar Soccer 2000 (2000 Konami) - Nintendo 64 - Sports (Soccer)
Madden NFL 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Football)
MVP Baseball 2005 (2005 EA Sports) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Baseball)
NBA Live 2005 (2004 EA Sports) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Basketball)
NFL Blitz (1998 Midway) - Nintendo 64 - Sports (Football)
Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (2006 Konami) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Soccer)
Resident Evil Code: Veronica X (2003 Capcom) - Nintendo GameCube - Survival Horror
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000 Activision) - Sega Dreamcast - Sports (Skateboarding)


PC

My Summer Car (2016 Amistech Games) - Steam - Simulation


Resident Evil Code: Veronica X…...



Resident Evil….. Alabama Incest…...

The graphics….. The looks great….. The power of the GameCube really shines here….. The environments looks great as does the character models and enemy models……. The use of colour is excellent and same goes for the lighting…….

The sounds……. Sounds are……. Ok……. The voice acting is bad with many characters sounding very odd….. Alexia and Alfred sound like over the top pantomime villains……. Steve sounds like a whiny 12 year old…… Claire sounds mid 30’s…… Wesker sounds like hes bored to be there……

The ambient noise is really well done as is the sound effects…… But damn that voice acting really detracts from the sound department…...

The controls……... Tank controls….. Need I say more???…….

The storyline....… On a remote Alabama Island…….. Alfred tries to being meaning back to the family name with the help of his beloved and beautiful sister Alexia…….

To do that his scientists have created a new strain of the T-vrius….. Known as “Code Veronica”……..

Meanwhile Claire has spent the past thee months working on her action hero skills…… Just like with Jill in RE3….. Claire is a totally new woman in Code Veronica X…… Able to outrun a helicopter gunship…….. Can defeat a small army of Umbrella mercenaries in the most stupid way possible……. Dodge bullets better than Superman………. And then still gets captured and taken as a prisoner to the remote island……

Can Claire survive her ordeal with Alexia and Alfred???……. Can Chris Redfield come and save the day again???…….. Who is that scientist wearing sunglasses at night???……….

The gameplay…… This is where the game falls down for me…… While the gameplay itself is fine…… The level design and puzzles are not……. The levels are a maze……. I felt more like a rat in a maze looking for cheese when playing this game……. This is even more of a problem when playing as Chris Redfield with his sections of the game feeling like padding to meet a gameplay hour quota to put on the back of the box……..

While the puzzles are ok….. The rewards for them are shite……...Travel across the maze to get X items……. Travel back cross the maze to open X door……. Then in that one room theres a Y item that opens Y door…… So back across the maze you go…….

It drags the pace down to a crawl and just increases the tedium..……

Another issue is that every even slightly cool happens in a cut scene……. You have way less control in this game than in others……. The entire final fight in the game and escape is a cut scene that you have ZERO control over……..

Finally everyone can dodge bullets with ease… Claire, Chris and even Steve have no problems dodging bullets……. Either that or the bad guys have Stormtrooper aim……..

Overall…… I was expecting more from this game and was let down…… Between the very confusing maze levels……. The dodgy voice acting…….. The awful writing…….The final fight in the game being a cut scene……. I was not impressed at all…...

And that is why my final score for Resident Evil Code: Veronica X is a T-Virus infected Wesker out of 10……...



Resident Evil Code: Veronica X……...


The Road To PES Penguin 6


The road to unlock the PES Penguin in Pro Evolution Soccer 6 is at 3900 PES points out of 5000……….


Other Screenshots……...


Madden NFL 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo Gamecube - Sports (Football)



MVP Baseball 2005 (2005 EA Sports) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Baseball)



Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000 Activision) - Sega Dreamcast - Sports (Skateboarding)



International Superstar Soccer 2000 (2000 Konami) - Nintendo 64 - Sports (Soccer)



NFL Blitz (1998 Midway) - Nintendo 64 - Sports (Football)



NBA Live 2005 (2004 EA Sports) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Basketball)



My Summer Car (2016 Amistech Games) - Steam - Simulation


Well thats it from me…… Hope all you tuxers have a good week……

Now for my bad joke of the week……
Q: Why did the transgender man only eat vegetables???.....
A: Because he was a her before.......
*ba dum.... tssssh…...*