I know what you’re thinking: “I have Rock Band. I have Rock Band 2. I have The Beatles Rock Band. Do I really need another Rock Band game?” The answer, quite simply, is yes — especially if you have younger children. Let’s take a look at the newest Rock Band game and see what makes LEGO Rock Band stand apart, and what makes it a worthy addition to your collection of games.

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I actually had more than one person ask me how this game is; apparently, I wasn’t the only person out there in the vast land of the interwebs that was reluctant to play Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 because of my hatred for Civil War. When I heard that they were making a sequel to Marvel Ultimate Alliance, I went through a range of emotions.

At first, I was elated. MUA is one of my favorite games, though it admittedly has a few problems as far as gameplay and dynamics go. However, when they released info about the plot of MUA2, I was angry. Civil War?! Again?! I understand that there were actually people out there that liked that particular (with a poorly written, poorly executed, and convoluted plot, people acting completely out of character, and no real resolution except to make people hate each other for the most stupid of reasons) part of the Marvel storyline, but why did it need to be stretched out? We’re still being inundated with Civil War throughout the Marvel Universe, even nearly three years later, do we really need a video game that takes the story line and turns it into video game format?

Apparently, as far as Marvel is concerned, the answer is yes.

For me, the answer was no, however, and so I put off playing this game despite my love and great enjoyment of the first title. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 laid dormant in my GameFly game queue for nearly two months after its release as the game’s popularity apparently soared and I received other fun games to preoccupy myself with. Finally, after returning the latest rented game to GameFly, I received MUA 2 last weekend. I’d come face to face with my greatest fear: would I be unable to enjoy this game because of my utter and complete dislike of Civil War?

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I’m sure there have been a lot of reviews of The Beatles: Rock Band already, so I won’t bore you with more of the same by telling you how awesome it is (Scott over at Eat.Sleep.Geek. wrote a fairly to-the-point summary/review) when you already know. However, I will share my experience of The Beatles: Rock Band and some halfway-decent cell phone pics with you since I was up for the midnight release.

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Title: X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Uncaged Edition
Company: Raven Software, Activision
Platform: PS3, XBox 360, PC (Note: There are also versions for Wii, PS2, DS, and PSP, but these are not the same version of the game and I will not be reviewing them as I have not played them.)
Rating: M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language

Fans of both comics and video games usually cringe at the idea of a video game based on a movie based (very loosely) on a comic book. These are usually the types of games that we cringe at, because we know they’re going to be horrible. Still, as plot hole-filled and contrived as some parts of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie was in some parts, there was still a part of me that hoped that this game would be a little bit better. Is this the game to break the curse of horrible movie-based video games?

The answer is: only if you like adamantium claws and lots and lots and lots and lots of bloody violence.

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Title: Dead Space
Company: Electronic Arts, Visceral Games
Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Microsoft Windows
Rating: M for Mature

It’s the 26th century, and the USG Kellion has been dispatched to answer a distress call from the USG Ishimura. What the crew of the Kellion finds when they arrive isn’t pretty; the mining ship Ishimura is infested with beings called Necromorphs–an alien virus has transformed and reanimated human corpses, turning them into violent and grotesque beings.

I have a pretty bad feeling about this.

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