F.E.A.R. - I get a distinct HL2 feeling from the controls. The atmosphere is appropriate enough, but it's hard to say anything about storyline when the demo drops you right in the middle without any explanation. The little running Ring girl was kinda creepy, I guess. Sort of gives off a Condemned vibe, but with heavy weaponry. I like the clouds of blood you walk through when you kill someone up close. It didn't sell me a full-price copy.
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG - Hahahahahahahahahahahahawhatapieceofshit. Every second of my life I wasted playing this janky munge is a second I will regret and will never regain, no matter how much begging I do on my deathbed. Who thought up this control scheme? The only thing that would have made it worse would've been some sort of plastic breather controller attachment you'd have to blow into to make Sonic move left or right. Pretty? Yes, certainly. I bet if you drank a whole bottle of blue food coloring you'd squeeze out some pretty turds - but they'd still just be colorful shit, much like Sonic The Hedgehog.
RAW VS. SMACKDOWN - Port-up as far as the animations go. Nice texturing. The actual wrestling in most wrestling games is ass, and this is no exception. No, the fun part is creating a wrestler and humiliating your friends with it. When the first RAW came out for PS1, a bunch of us chipped in and bought it. We played it every day at lunch, making drink bets on the winner, etc. I made The Incredible Hulk (we had a "loser has to make his wrestler wear bra and panties" match, and Hulk lost, little mental image for you), Lex Luthor (in his 80s green and purple costume), and various other freakish "wrestlers." We must have played that game nearly a full year. I got on a losing streak once that made me so mad I created a wrestler called Fucking Loser, who was pretty much just me in a T-shirt and jeans. I was undefeated for a couple of months. Good times. So, the selling point for me will be how deep and weird the Create-A-Wrestler is in Raw VS. Smackdown. This was not present in the demo, so I can't make a final judgement yet. You only get to choose from Lemmy - I mean, HHH - or The Wrestler Playing Kane Needs Dental Work. I got my ass handed to me in about thirty seconds because I was too impatient to sit through the "training" videos. Fuck training videos, by the way. For wrestling games you should really only need a couple of active buttons. Anyway, if I can make Fucking Loser 2007 in the Create-A-Wrestler feature, then SOLD. If not, eat a plate of dickheads, Raw Vs. Smackdown.
