Sentences with phrase «game of a series used»

There are also those times when I buy the first game of a series used and become such a fan that I buy every installment of the series new after that.

Not exact matches

Through a series of YouTube videos, viewers will see players like Minnesota Wild defenseman Ryan Suter and Edmonton Oilers forward Ryan Nugent - Hopkins use the credit card company's payment system as they go through a skills competition, which is a fun variation to the NHL All - Star Game's annual skills competition.

The Cubs won their first World Series game in 71 years, 5 - 1, and they used the help of a beefy metaphor to do it.

To use the words of Magic Johnson, the Celtics «got blew out» the first two games of the series against Cleveland.

Armored personnel carriers had to be used to protect representatives of Malaysia's national soccer team before a game in Jakarta after the team's fans were accused of using laser pens to distract the opposing Indonesian team during the first leg of the AFF Suzuki Cup home - and - home series.

The first half of Tuesday night's game between the Memphis Grizzlies and Los Angeles Clippers proved to be as tight as the series itself, as the Grizzlies used stifling defense toward the end of the second quarter to initiate a run that gave them a 54 - 48 lead.

That's also what makes it the most jarring of the Kart games for players who aren't used to the style of this particular entry: it's the only one of them my wife refuses to play with me, as my Super Mario Kart muscle memory remains strong, and there's just not much you can pull from experience with the rest of the series to help you combat that.

The Angels and Giants clubbed more home runs (11) than had been hit in the first two games of any World Series, prompting both sides to suspect that the specially marked baseballs were harder, smaller and livelier than the ones used in the regular season.

But in this week's ATO situation, the game winning — nay, series winning — action was the result of an All - Star player recognizing an instant opportunity and using his speed and skill to destroy an ill - prepared defense.

You can use this method of analyzing matches to set lines for any series bet, or many prop bets such as «Will the Yankees win its playoff series in exactly six games».

What you're really weighing in this decision (if the series even gets this far) is the potential lost production from Price starting on short rest against the benefit of being able to use Marcus Stroman over R.A. Dickey in one of the remaining games.

Football Manager and the FIFA series have become regular pastimes of the game's real - life professionals in the last few seasons and many enjoy using their own avatar on the virtual pitches.

The governor used campaign money to pay for his trip to Kansas City Tuesday night for game one of the World Series.

He chose to use his campaign contributions to pay for his plane ride to Kansas City to watch the first game of the World Series between the Mets and Royals.

WHEREAS, effective on August 1, 1998 Erie County, the Buffalo Bills, the Erie County Stadium Corporation and the Empire State Development Corporation entered into a series of leases and other documents for the use of what is now Ralph Wilson Stadium for home football games of the Buffalo Bills;

Gov. David Paterson's former Communications Director Peter Kauffmann, who quit in March after a Public Integrity Commission report made it clear the governor had not been truthful with his top staffer regarding the payment of tickets to a Yankees World Series game, showed up at the CPI to testify today and was swarmed by the very reporters he used to spin during his Capitol days.

In a series of studies Dr. Véronique Bohbot (Douglas Mental Health University Institute; CIUSSS de l'Ouest - de - l'Île - de-Montréal) and Dr. Greg West (Université de Montréal) demonstrate that the way that action (first - person shooter) video game players use their brains to navigate changes the impact the games have on their nervous system.

Use pick - up games, NBA games, and a series of other life - like

But I digress fire emblem fates gameplay is the best of awakenings and the past games combined into one and as a long time fan of the series I would actually say play revelation and ignore the rest... But you'd be missing out on 2/3 of gameplay that you didn't play but (Mild Spoiler) I can't stand the plot miguffin they use for Azuras reason for not telling anyone about the kingdom, curse?

Fan of the first three Metroids will quite enjoy this game although there isn't much in the game that uses the tradition Metroid «sixth sense» that fans of the series have come to aquire it does have it's own flare.

This game was my least favorite in the paper mario series, it is extremely hard to finish without a game guide, it doesn't communicate with the player enough, the boss battles require specific hidden thing stickers that if the player doesn't find or use in battle, they will not be able to finish the boss fight, the availability of stickers is good though, and the levels (most of them) are

The only recent need for speed game that had anything good about it was Most Wanted, NFS Rivals just makes me angry every time I put it in my Playstation 4, I used to love this series, I don't know who is the anti master mind behind the newer instalments, but it's like they put these out and say to themselves, how many fools will buy this, it's going to take a lot of convincing to prove

The only recent need for speed game that had anything good about it was Most Wanted, NFS Rivals just makes me angry every time I put it in my Playstation 4, I used to love this series, I don't know who is the anti master mind behind the newer instalments, but it's like they put these out and say to themselves, how many fools will buy this, it's going to take a lot of convincing to prove Need For Speed will ever be worth buying again

Super Chariot earns the title of best porting of the original game without too much effort, being able to count on a series of features - typical of Switch - nothing short of ideal for use in local co-op.

Although it uses a tried and successful gameplay design - that of the Monster Hunter series - Lord of Arcana feels like a rushed, poor - man's version of Capcom's games.

Pro Evolution Soccer series used to be the top selling football game during the PlayStation 1 era, but its reputation quickly faltered thanks to a string of bad decisions and the emerging popularity of EA Sports» FIFA series.

I think tournaments like EVO and others streamed on Twitch will use past games in the series instead of Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite.

Such was the scale of the problems at launch, that the organizers of the Evo Championship Series in June opted to only use the Xbox 360 version of the game.

In the wake of Ultra Street Fighter 4's shaky release on PlayStation 4 last week, organizers of the Evo Championship Series fighting game tournament have decided not to use that version at this...

In the grander context of the series, this game is usually considered the most difficult of the bunch, mostly thanks to its absolutely dreadful endgame crawl and a final boss who can and will use a spell that restores every last one of his HP.

After wrapping up development of Paper Mario: The Thousand - Year Door, director Ryota Kawade wanted to make «other type of games» using the Paper Mario series [2].

Although this is a spin - off game, a great deal of content from the Animal Crossing series, like characters and furniture, is used smoothly and you get into a trance while creating elaborate rooms.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

The switch from a Japanese style is one that takes some getting used to, particularly in some of the already more Western - looking Marvel characters, but there's no doubt that MvC3 is still every bit a looker, making this one a worthy - looking HD upgrade from the Vs. series last game, the Wii - exclusive Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom.

The game is titled Guilty Gear Xrd: Sign and is the first in the series to use the Unreal Engine as well as polygonal graphics instead of sprites.

To be honest I think one of these (Sonic Forces) looks crap, but the other, Mania, seems to be everything I've wanted since 1994 — a Sonic the Hedgehog game in the style of the first 5 entries in the series, built as a sort of «what if» — what if we'd gotten a traditional Sonic game on the Saturn, using the Saturn's power?

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild producer Eiji Aonuma has discussed the reasoning behind using voice acting in the game, which is a first for Nintendo's beloved adventure series.

That's the MA5B Individual Combat Weapon System, the standard machine gun used by most military characters in the Halo series of video games.

In fact, the only real story in story mode is in the prerendered movies between chapters, and while they're bordering on well made (the modeling and art style are high quality, but apparently the motion - capture budget was used only for the game itself, as the animation is done by hand and sometimes isn't that good), they are mostly just a series of scenes that show the next boss character preparing to try to destroy the heroes.

Konami Digital Entertainment B.V. today released free DLC for Super Bomberman R which gives gamers access to four new stages for battle mode and two new series of accessories using gems acquired in - game.

The series draws on real - world events like seasons, day and night cycles, holidays etc. but I could imagine Animal Crossing mobile doing things that might have been more difficult on consoles, like pulling local weather data to reflect it in - game, or making use of GPS tracking to move between cities.

Although clearly targeted at a younger audience, mature gamers couldn't help but weigh in with the mostly negative thoughts on the series» debut outing, mainly due to its use of Spyro license.

Capcom will closely look to see how the recently announced console version of Resident Evil Revelations is received by the series» fanbase, using the game as «a signpost» for its fut...

It has all the adventuring mechanics of all the other Mario games, with a splash of colour (See what I did there), humour, easy to learn RPG mechanics and a truly unique spin on the Paper Mario series by using «things» that seem like normal household object and turning them into weapons of mass destruction... to paper villians of course!

After all, Redmayne is the latest in a series of performers from across the pond to play complicated historical figures using an almost Method - level of research — others include Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in the upcoming «The Imitation Game» and Colin Firth as George VI in the 2011 Oscar winner «The King's Speech.»

Of course, Monster Hunter players will be used to the series» style of combat by now, and many new players will surely find the high level of preparation and weapon mastery necessary to make it through the game refreshinOf course, Monster Hunter players will be used to the series» style of combat by now, and many new players will surely find the high level of preparation and weapon mastery necessary to make it through the game refreshinof combat by now, and many new players will surely find the high level of preparation and weapon mastery necessary to make it through the game refreshinof preparation and weapon mastery necessary to make it through the game refreshing.

It features 300 microgames (many from past games in the series) that use a variety of input methods.

The removal of the series» iconic timer that used to provide incentives for the player to complete the game and its objective as soon as they can, doesn't really dampen the overall experience.

So, instead of Happy Home Designer becoming the next game in the series, it's a spin off, and now the cards that were exclusive to it and Amiibo Festival are about to be able to be used in New Leaf who's also seeing a price drop.

It's odd that Retro — of all studios — has such an issue with loading times, especially considering how they smartly used the blast doors to make the entire game seem like a seamless, load - free world in the Metroid Prime series.