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The Sims 3 Review,Cheats,Hints and Videos

The Sims 3 Review:For most of the past decade, The Sims franchise has maintained a permanent presence on the Top 10 sales charts of PC games. Often, it occupied multiple slots on those charts. That’s because for every hardcore gamer who scoffs at The Sims, there are many more non-traditional gamers who love the series. Yes, many of those people are female. That makes it easy for some to simply describe The Sims as the equivalent of a virtual dollhouse, but that oversimplifies things. The Sims, like almost any game, is about living a different life than your own. Some people escape reality by diving into MMOs. Others jump straight into shooters. It turns out that whole bunches of people turn to The Sims. And in this regard, The Sims 3 won’t disappoint. With the third chapter in the series, EA has introduced some overdue growth and made some bold changes, yet much of this brave new world’s potential remains relatively untapped.

I’ve been a fan of The Sims since the very beginning; Will Wright’s idea of letting you control virtual people in their everyday lives taps that desire that we all have to be ruler of the world and tell everyone else where to stuff it. The Sims is the closest that many of us will ever get to Ed Harris’ character in The Truman Show; that’s the movie where he plays the director who gets to “cue the sun” and manipulate events around the unsuspecting Truman Burbank, played by Jim Carrey. The thing is, Truman doesn’t realize that the quaint, coastal town that he lives in is in fact a carefully staged set and that his every move is caught on camera and beamed to the outside world. The Truman Show is an apt description for The Sims 3, because it too takes place in a quaint, coastal town that your sims can go out and explore. Yet wherever they go, you’ll be carefully watching.

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The Bigs 2 for PS3 Review and Trailer

Review:

The Bigs 2 is 2K Sports’ second baseball game released this year. It is also the baseball counterpart to titles like NFL Blitz and NBA Jam. The only question is does the world of baseball need a game like this, or are big hits better left on the football field?

At its core, The Bigs 2 is a decent baseball game.  There are four game modes included: Exhibition, Season, Become a Legend, Home Run Pinball, plus four different mini-games to choose from. The exhibition mode is pretty straight forward: select a team, an opponent, the number of innings, and then play. You also can select your starting pitcher and starting lineup, but that’s about it.

If you’re looking for more depth, the season mode is for you. Take your favorite team through the regular season and attempt to win the World Series. But say you have dreams of making it to the Hall of Fame. If this is the case, then your best option is try out Become a Legend and create your very own ball player. After creating a player, the story begins on a journey to Mexico.  In Mexico, your player will be going to rehab after an almost career-ending injury.

Once you get into the Majors, it is your goal to make it to the Hall of Fame. In order to do this, you will play games and mini-games  to increase your stats and open challenges up in Cooperstown. When you compete in challenges at Cooperstown you will gain Hall of Fame votes, and it takes 500 votes to get in. The best part about this mode is that your player will be facing some of the  greatest baseball legends of all time.

Perhaps you prefer big hits and smashing things, then the Home Run Pinball is the mode for you. Set in one of four locations it is your goal to get as many points as possible; by hitting signs, cars and lights. The round is over when you swing and miss three pitches.

Now besides those four game modes there are also for mini games. These mini games will test your skills in power, contact, glove and speed. Each mini game will have you facing off against one other opponent in order to gain the most points. Once on the field the core game play is like any other baseball game. When your at bat you hit X for normal swing, circle for power and square to bunt. You also can direct your swing by pressing the left analogue stick in the direction you want to go.

Defense is also just like other baseball games. Each pitcher has four pitches to choose from and is mapped to a different face button. Simply hold the designated face button until the meter reaches the top then let go to throw the pitch. This is the first area that can cause problems since if you’re not perfect you can give up quite a lot of easy hits. Playing the field is also simple X is used to dive or jump and each face button represents a different base.

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Source:http://playstationlifestyle.net/2009/07/24/ps3-review-the-bigs-2/

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Xbox Online Servers Down

Xbox users are having some problems connecting to Xbox LIVE.It seems that Xbox Live is down due to server problems.

The Xbox Live support site posted the following status update:

Users may experience difficulties with the following services: Users may experience difficulties connecting to Xbox LIVE. We are aware of the problem and are working to resolve the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.

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Problem playing Modern Warfare 2? Xbox Servers Down

The Live Servers of Xbox are down and because of that xbox users can’t play online games.Xbox users are connecting to servers but they can’t able to play games especially Modern Warfare 2 because the highest amount of users complain that they can’t play Modern Warfare 2. This is a really sad day for those who wanted to get out of the Mobile World Congress 2010 fever, but what can you do now?

Communication with the Xbox live servers has been interrupted for few hours now.

Microsoft is still finding solutions for the ongoing Xbox Live outage and give Modern Warfare 2 gamers some relief.

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