Injustice: Gods Among Us (2013) - Video Game Review

Official Score = 3 Devils

Now I know that in both the Marvel & DC Universes, that  the concept of parallel has at least to some extent kind of become a standard bearer for some of the story lines, as a matter of fact, I have discovered that sometimes there are universe crossovers... As a matter of fact, there was a crossover that I saw in an episode of one of the Justice League cartoons that was extremely fun!

But for me, with a few exceptions, I have only recently begun diving in tot he world of the, 'Parallel Comic Book Crossover', but I have to say that I have found that I really like it!

A great example of this in video game format is: Injustice: Gods Among Us (2013)!

The box cover art for: Injustice: Gods Among Us.

Published by: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the: Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Playstation 4, Playstation Vita, iOS & Android, Injustice: Gods Among Us, tells the story of how:

In an alternate reality, the Joker destroys Metropolis with a nuclear weapon, killing millions of people, after tricking Superman into killing Lois Lane and their unborn son.  Because of this, Superman looses it, and along with the former, 'Justice League', forms a new repressive world order...

After being transported over to this world, members of the Justice League will have to fight to stop the Deadly Superman and the new world order that he has imposed, before the deadly Superman can essentially conquer everything!

Cyborg Vs. Wonder Woman... I mean how cool is that!

Now this game is done in a fun competitive fighting style, so you could end up fighting as one character, and fighting the alternate universe counterpart... Also, beside the story mode, you can actual play in the more standard competitive mode as well...

I am going to say that the graphics for this game are also a lot of fun, as well as the effects... The one thing that I did like, but also didn't, was the fact that there were far to many videos... Well made, but it cut in to my playing time, and frankly, after awhile it kind of got on my nerves!

Star Wars: The Force Unleased (2008) - Video Game Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

I will admit that I spent some time away from the video game world... So coming back in to the world of video games I found that I was a little bit of a novice, but I got to say that I was really quite impressed! The X-Box 360 is an amazing system that has taken video  games to that point where it has come very close to being a sort of controlled movie! And one of the first Video Games that I played as a novice to the X-Box 360 Was the video game, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008)

Based on the Star Wars movie saga, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a video game that was released by LucasArts for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 consoles and on the iOS, second-generation N-Gage, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, and Java-equipped mobile phone handhelds, and told the story of how just after the Emperor betrays the Jedi, Darth Vader decides to take on his first apprentice in the child of another Jedi...

Now this child's name is, 'Stakiller' and at first would ultimately do anything that his Sith master, 'Darth Vader' asked him to do, including infiltrate the newly formed Rebel Alliance... But while on this mission, the light side of the force so to speak begins to take hold and the longer he spends with the rebels, the more and more he ends up defecting to help the Rebellion... (You could almost say that he did what Luke could never do for Anakin in the movies! )

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="533"] The dark apprentice for Darth Vader is about to get a rude awakening to the truth about his dark master![/caption]

And in the end, Starkiller will end up going after the man who was his father and trying his best to destroy him!

In the end I played this game on X-Box 360, and so I can't really  say how the game was for the other systems, but I can say this about the X-Box 360, it took me a little while to figure out the controls on this one. As for the story, it was pretty awesome... (Although if we consider the fact that the whole reason that Anakin Skywalker went over to the dark side was to protect his family... Then why through out this video game did they not get mentioned?

As for the special effects, they were obviously pretty awesome! And as for the music... Well what can I say... They did a pretty amazing job!

In the end, the only other thing that I don't really understand is why non of the characters from the prequel trilogy were not more predominantly displayed?

This video game is a hard one to get used to, but if you really work on it, trust  me when I say that it is worth the effort!

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