We’re back on our normal schedule as this week we get to play Chair Entertainment’s “Shadow Complex” for the Xbox Live Arcade.  A great take on the “metroidvania” games, this one would be better off with a take on Super Metroid’s opener: “The Last Liberal is in Captivity.  The Nation is at peace”.  Political arguments aside, for a game that doesn’t present a great amount of story to the player, a solid experience, live leaderboards, and a fantastic return to gameplay of old really drove this game home for the crew.  We tangent (as always) on the Metroid of old, the changes good and bad, and debate whether or not the hand-holding experience the “metroidvania” games give us these days make the game too easy.  So, join us – as we play through our first Xbox Live Arcade game and come out feeling refreshed with our experience.

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Season 2, Episode 8 – Sarcastic Killer (Splinter Cell, Chaos Theory)

July 7, 2010

After an extended break due to 2/5 of the cast being at E3, the F.U.D.Cast returns with our take on Sam Fisher’s third game, Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.  While it was a game that was mostly liked by the crew, some of us felt that a game like Metal Gear might be a better [...]

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Season 2, Episode 7 – Gruff-Off (Infamous)

June 9, 2010

Our first PS3 exclusive episode finally hits with Sucker Punch’s “Infamous”.  Curt, Javier, Ryan, Jeremy, and Drew debate how open this game really is, whether or not we like being magnetic to what seems like everything, and how much of completionist whores some of us are.  We also try and figure out if Cole is [...]

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Season 2, Episode 6 – Firefly: ODST (Halo 3: ODST)

May 26, 2010

Halo 3: ODST is the topic of our most recent F.U.D.Cast and surprisingly, Jeremy didn’t hate it!  Overall, the game as a whole is a rather approachable FPS, if not viewed by members of the show as “Baby’s first FPS”.  Past that, we comment on the acting, whether or not having the big names (and [...]

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Season 2, Episode 5 – Jeremy is Holding All of the Cards (The Witcher)

May 12, 2010

In what could easily be called the most “mature” of games we’ve played so far, not only for graphic and sexual content, but in general theme, we bring to you CD Projekt Red’s “The Witcher”.  Based completely on Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels of the same name, the game brings forth some very adult themes that surprised [...]

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