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Features

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3Edition: Skateboard Bundle

• Just step on the board and SHRED. No complicated button controls to master. Just step on to SHRED through awesome modes including Trick, Point Rush, and Challenge!
• Go big! Clear huge gaps, perform over-the-top tricks during massive drops, and ride out roller coaster grinds!
• All new snowboarding: Feel the rush as you speed down mountain peaks filled with breathtaking big airs, crazy spins, and incredible flips!
• Updated Tony Hawk Board Controller with bold, fun design! Use your feet to control the action!
• Includes game and new Tony Hawk SHRED board controller

Description of Tony Hawk: Shred Bundle: Playstation 3

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Customer Reviews

It’s a shame that bad reviews regarding technical issues tend to derate this product in the eyes of the perspective buyer. I feel sorry for those with technical issues because this is a great game. I have a large gameroom, but the clear space around the circumference of the board is only a few feet. Not even enough to be considered ‘safe’. Still, calibration was surprisingly quick and I was up and training in minutes.
WARNING: This game is physically challenging for overweight 40 year olds. But, I’m personally very happy about that because I am one. To be honest, 1st person shooters are doing nothing for my belly, so a bit of enjoyable exercise was welcome. Also, this isn’t ‘Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland’ = No storyline. The Gameplay involves getting through courses and going for high scores. Plenty to unlock. The presentation is lighthearted and fun with a strong Wii-like influence. There is quite a bit of live video commentary which only adds to the fun. The music is excellent like most Hawk games, 64 tracks!
IMPORTANT: I’ve read complaints about linearity and lack of freedom of gameplay and poor responsiveness. There are several modes of gameplay which exist to help players get used to the innovative controller. The board is responsive yet difficult to master. Give it a chance and step up to hardcore mode before judging. Free Skate is available for levels that have been unlocked. There are also several multi-player mode challenges similar to older Hawk games that can be played on one controller.
VERDICT: Fun! Buy this game if you are looking for good clean fun.
CAVEAT: Challenging! Avoid this game if physical activity is contraindicated.
I saw mostly negative reviews for RIDE. I was lucky too busy to try it nor any game back in then.
As a casual skater/boarder and serious gamer,
I enjoyed great original games like Tony hawk Pro skater, SSX, GTA3, Antigrav, GrandTourisumo, JetSetRadio Future, as well as Top Skater on arcade. They showed me new possibility of game and was FUN.
Some reviewers say Shred is not realistic and kiddy. They say SKATE is better. Fine. To me, controlling virtual board with finger is so 20th century and nothing new. No reason to spend my precious time for. Kinect and Move, I don’t know if this they can do better job than what EyeToy and Wii already done.
Shred. So far I played 3hours, The board controller works well. Menu is well designed. Loading time is okay. I like graphics.
If you demand dirty street feel and reality, grab your board and leave home. I enjoy this virtually enhanced version of these sports. Well worth the price.
Run don’t walk away from this game. Could not get the board to complete initial calibration. Instructions read “make sure there is four feet of clearence around the controller”. However , the fine print on the Activision help site reads “It’s possible that walls, people, or other entities are triggering the IR sensors on the sides of the board. Large metal objects such as filing cabinets can also cause this issue, even outside the four foot range. To prevent this issue, make sure that there are four feet of free space on all sides whenever playing. Ensure no large metal objects are nearby (within 10 feet.) If that doesn’t resolve the issue please try a different set of batteries, and reattempt the calibration process.” And “It’s possible that walls, people, or other entities are triggering the IR sensors on the sides of the board. To prevent this issue, make sure that there are four feet of free space on all sides whenever playing and that there are no large metal objects nearby. Return to the main menu and select “Options”, then select “Calibrate Board” and follow the onscreen instructions. Make sure to follow the steps exactly and hold the board in the calibrating positions for the amount of the time the video that is playing is telling you. During the initial IR sensor calibration process ensure that you are standing away from the board and that you are motionless. When it is time to calibrate each individual IR sensor you will then be asked to stand on the board and will be shown some positions on the board to hold. Ensure that your entire foot is covering the lens of the particular IR sensor you are instructed to cover. Also ensure the board is facing the right direction. The buttons on the board should be on the left side of the board. Cover the whole sensor for the full count. Tony Hawk will say “Got it” when the timer is finishing. Continue to hold that board position until the button prompt to continue appears. Stepping off of the board before that will cause an error even after Tony Hawk says “Got it”. You do not need to press a button to continue to move on to the next step. The calibration video will move on to the next step on its own. If you still have issues with the calibration then try lowering the lights in the room. Sometimes bright lights can interfere with the IR sensors. If failure to calibrate persists, move the board over a few inches in any direction from the start point of the failed calibration. Repositioning the board from the start point has shown to help during calibration issues. If all else fails try a different set of batteries, and attempt to recalibrate the board.” 1) moved ALL furniture out of the room, 2) replaced batteries, 3)closed the blinds in the room. NOTHING worked. I have prepared for a return and will update when my refund is received.

Features

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3Edition: Standard

• Play as custom 3D characters featuring the likenesses of Green Day members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tr? Cool
• Enjoy 47 Green Day songs
• Unlock prizes as you progress through the story
• Sing in three-part vocal harmonies
• Import Green Day DLC onto your Green Day game disc

Description of Green Day: Rock Band: Playstation 3

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Customer Reviews

First off, let me say that I’m a big fan of Harmonix, Rock Band, and Green Day. But I can’t help but be miffed about this.

As another reviewer has already said, where Beatles Rock Band was big, beautiful, and lovingly crafted, Green Day Rock Band feels slapdash and rushed out. I understand being locked into the real band characters, instruments, and venues…but do there have to be only three venues? There’s even only one loading screen background for each transition, for heaven sakes! Lazy lazy lazy.

I love Green Day, which means I love the music on the disk, which is why I’m giving this four stars for fun. After all, it’s cheaper than if they’d sold it as DLC, right? Might as well just pay the extra $10, add it to your RB2 library, and pretend the disk never existed.

But there’s one other thing that really, REALLY sticks in my craw. You’ve made a real band Rockband title – an homage to the look and music of Green Day, and then you CENSOR the songs?!? That’s outrageous! Take the mature rating already! At the very least, put some sort of parent controllable feature to switch between “clean” and “original” modes. Yes, I know this isn’t the first time we’ve been stuck with clean versions, but those were single tracks, and sometimes they were clean versions put out by the band (i.e. Creep) rather than blanked out.

The early Green Day catalogue in particular is now full of mysterious blank spaces in the lyrics that damage the rhythm and vocal play experience. I’m not a “go profanity in music!” person, but I don’t mind at all if it fits the music’s theme and other lyrics rather than simply being used for shock value. I am very annoyed that I am being forced to play the FCC approved versions of the band’s music in a product that’s supposedly built from the ground up for the fans.

I’m an adult! Let ME make that choice…and if I wasn’t an adult, my PARENTS should be making that choice.

Thanks for protecting me from those bad four letter words Harmonix…you really, really shouldn’t have.

Length:: 8:27 Mins

This is my review and game play video of Green Day : Rock Band.

The video quality will be a bit low due to it having to fit in the 100Mb requirements here.

Background:
I was into the punk scene back in the late 70′s early 80′s. The bands I grew up listening to all had a very tough time making any real money. Even the big ones like Minor Threat, 7 Seconds, Black Flag, all did pretty well but never were able to achieve any sort of real fame. Move ahead to the 90′s and bands like Nirvana took some of the punk sound and changed it enough to become what we called Grunge. Those bands did well to get enough popularity to make it big on the college radios and eventually made it mainstream. It was not until Green Day came around did I hear what I enjoyed so much as a kid. By then I was an adult serving in the military over in the Gulf. It was really cool to hear those 3 chord progression riffs and wickedly fast drum beats that got my blood pumping.

Now I am a dad with 2 kids. I missed out on the real punk years and I guess I could be called a sell out poser or something. Instead, I think that I moved on, but my taste in music still has its roots in the old days of the Sx Pistols. Green Day adeptly captures this sound and because so many of us are now in our 40′s we hear this sound on the radio.

As I was playing this game my mother was visiting for my daughters birthday. She watched me play it and commented on the fact she liked 4 of the songs. Thats pretty incredible considering when I was a kid, more mild music she said was awful and wouldn’t listen at all…

About the game:

This game is very similar to what you saw (if you had it) of Playstation 3 The Beatles: Rock Band . You play different periods of time. You start in the early successful years of Green Day. About the time of Dookie. You can jump in each concert and play a few different songs from a couple of their early albums. Or you can jump ahead to their most recent release 21st Century Breakdown and play a 2009 concert. Each concert has a set list that you play through. As you get at least 3 stars you earn a sticker and can move on. The more songs you finish the more fan songs open up. What is cool is if you just like Green Day as a passing interest and know just 1 or 2 of their songs, you will probably find enough to play as a rental. If you are a deep fan, loving every song they have ever made, you can unlock almost all of them by finishing all sets and challenges.

Trophies:
The better you do the more stickers you can stick on Billy Joe’s guitar. Also for hard core Rockband people you can do some really tough challenges to achieve trophies. Some are pretty easy like playing 10 songs at 3 stars or more, or, you can go and play left handed and score 100% on 5 songs in a row. There are like 300 different trophies from what I have seen and I have only unlocked 2 of them. So there is a bunch of replay-ability.

Rockband:
Like other real band titles you cannot change the look of your character. Instead you play as one of the real members of the band. They are stylized and pretty accurate models of the members of the band. If you have ever played a rock band game you will feel right at home here with this title. I do recommend doing the calibration right off the bat. I thought I would be ok and it took only 2 songs of me missing 95% of the buttons for me to see it needed to be calibrated. Manual calibration was pretty easy and there is an auto mode if you have a controller equipped with that.

Overall:
I really like this release from Harmonix. I was in a punk garage band with my friends back in the 1980s. We wanted to be big time. Alas it never worked out, but, with games like this I can at least pretend. That is what gaming is all about. Its a way to leave reality and be something you are not, and probably will never be. Thats cool.

Recommendations.
Hook your PS3 output up to a large amp receiver or system and turn it up to 11.

Thanks for reading / watching my review.e shredding.
Green Day Rockband is great as a track pack for Green Day fans. As a standalone game, it is mediocre when compared to any of the other Rock Band games.

There is no customization for costumes, instruments, or venues like in RB1-2 or L:RB. Beatles RB didn’t have this either, but compensated with the absolutely beautiful music video style visuals and variety of venues. Here you get neither. There are only three venues which show the standard Rock Band style visuals with a Green Day skin. The new motion capture technique used in the game looks awesome and authentic… until you notice that they use the same animations for every other song.

Completing songs unlocks photos, but there is no way to zoom-in and pan around them, nor is there any form of caption. There are also challenges that unlock music videos and rare footage, but only the biggest fans are going to sit and watch it. Anyone else would be better off getting a copy of Bullet in a Bible on DVD.

It really is NOTHING compared to what they did for the Beatles, which is both understandable and sad. If they were charging $40 for this, that would be OK. But it seems as if they rushed it out the door because they didn’t want to have an RB2 engine game on the shelf with RB3.

If you’re a HUGE Green Day fan, you’ve already got your copy. If not… pick it up in a bargain bin in a few months so you can export it into RB3.

Features

Edition: Legendary Edition

• Grittier Visuals
• Enemies are in amazing detail.
• All-new engine
• Darker story

Description of Halo Reach Legendary Edition: Xbox 360

Edition: Legendary Edition

Customer Reviews

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