In the game you play in 15 cases and for each case there are 5 stages.  There’s a good bunch of criminal investigations so for those of you who want to work together with friends to deduce the criminal, this game is for you.

Cate West: The Vanishing Files Gameplay

Gameplay

There are 5 stages in the game and each stage involves you doing criminal investigation.

• Stage 1 – You explore around the city looking for clues.  Each location you visit you’ll have a list of items you have to find.  Sounds easy?  Well, I’m telling you, it’s not and you’d be thankful with a friend to help you look for any items.
• Stage 2 – Now Cate has found 2 evidence that helps in the case and they shatter into pieces and you have to find them in a jumbled up images, once again, it’s just like Eye Spy, except harder since there’s no list of items you’re looking for
• Stage 3 – Now you have the evidence you have to go to the criminal’s hideout.  The game here is to find the difference between 2 pictures.
• Stage 4 – Now it’s time for something different, you have to play a game of guess who.  With the evidence and information of suspects you have to find out who the criminal is.
• Stage 5 – Now finally we looked for clues, found evidence, found the criminal’s hideout, and found the criminal, what do we do next?  We go to court of course!  What were you thinking?  Hiring a hitman?  This is the reverse of stage 3.  You have to rebuild the fragmented evidence and shatter the criminals dreams of freedom ;P

That’s all there is, trust me it’s longer and much harder then I lead on, but don’t worry there are tools you can use to make life easier.

Cate West: The Vanishing Files Multiplayer

Multiplayer

The multiplayer in Cate West is pretty simple.  There are two modes you can have:

• Co-Op – This is self explained, you and a friend work together to figure out the case.
• Competition – In a case you and your friend compete for points.  The person with the most points win!  Hope that’s you…

Conclusion

Cate West: The Vanishing Files might look short, but once you get started you’ll realize that it’s not just long, but it might be a lot harder then you think.

With 5 stages for each of the 15 cases combined with the multiplayer aspect of the game, you’ll play the game for a long time and you’ll never get bored of it when you bring it out for a friend who loves Eye Spy!

Buy Cate West the Vanishing Files now!

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I’ll be friends with you for only 20 dollars!-Yoink!

Give me my clothes back! –Already Yoinked!

The only game where someone will give you the shirt off there back-BECAUSE YOU TAKE IT! In this game, you get to beat up people, and steal their clothes!

You can also break stuff with the sheer agonizing sound of your ridiculously overly loud yelling, but still, you’re yelling at stuff.

Of course, you could always throw a rabid at it, but that takes all the fun out of it!

Rabbids Go Home Gameplay

Gameplay

For some reason, the Rabbids believe they belong on the Moon. It’s most likely because they habitually sleep on large glowing objects, like lamp posts. So now they’re on a quest to gather random items and stack them up to reach the moon!

The game simply makes you pull a shopping cart with you and you gather everything you run into.

After you gather everything you can give it to a rabbid with a trombone.  Then he’ll blow it back to your giant stack of loot.  After every level you’ll see the rabbids as they disappoint failed to reach the moon.

Rabbids Go Home Multiplayer

Campaign

Okay, I’ll be frank. The multiplayer kinda stinks. I mean, one of you guys will be able to run, and jump, and yell, but the other one…well, they can’t do much. They must…PICK UP RANDOM OBJECTS THAT ARE LOOTABLE! Like clothes. Oh, and they can throw rabbids, too, but that’s about it. Not to good, see?

So it’s basically like Mario Galaxy’s multiplayer if you played it before.  The 2^nd player can’t be a character and play.

Rabbids Go Home Conclusion

Rabbids Go Home is a great single player game, but not that great of a multiplayer game. I mean, I was kinda expecting a second cart to appear from no where to be able to assist you, but that’s not the case. However, it is still a really good single player game, with tons of hilarious antics.

Rabbids Go Home is an excellent game that has good controls (That bad teammates cannot mess up!), a good sense of humor, and some really silly rabbids. Rabbids go home is a must have for platforming fans that have annoying friends/relatives that always beg to play (But you won’t let them because they suck), because they can only help!

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Are you ready for mind boggling head aches, mystery, Genghis Khan, murder, and action?! Well, not as much action then adventure game! The game starts kindly, but then, after a “cat attack”, throws you into the harsh world of Paris.

Play through a world of lies, deceit, and secret, but beware it’s a dangerous place in Paris, with danger around every corner.

Danger is not the only thing, you must solve the mysteries going around Paris.

If you need help you could always go to the hint screen, or you could invite a friend to come help you solve the mysteries going around.

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars Gameplay

Remember the days of Monkey Island? Well, the point-and-click gameplay comes all the way there. Relax your extremely trigger happy “Bang-Bang” finger by using it to slowly, and CALMLY finding that little sweet spot and clicking.

Point with the Wiimote’s pointing ability, use/get/talk/almost everything else with the “A” button, examine with the “B” button.

Solve puzzles by pointing and clicking on every little millimeter in search of items and little holes in walls so that you may solve a puzzle.  It may sound dull, but you’ll be into the game at one point or another whether it’s the story or the joy of figuring out what to do.

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars Multiplayer

The multiplayer is exactly like single player, but one player has all the controls, while the other points and looks around. The players switch the main controls with the 1/2 button, respectively.

Is it a scam of multiplayer? Yeah, well, two heads are better then one, I suppose. Specifically when one uses the left side of their brain for logic, and the other uses the right for creativity, like Josh and me (I’m a lefty).

That and having someone to make fun of the characters and solve the game is always better then being by yourself.

Conclusion

The simple point-and-click may not appeal to some, but rest assured, that the game is plenty entertaining; it has a special charm to it. Some games just got that special little charm. While the multiplayer isn’t super-awesome-tabulious, the story itself is quite awesome.

The game is totally worth the extremely awesome plot, the neat and complex little puzzles (That usually aren’t little, by the way!).

if you’re interested, you should try renting this game first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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This time in this multiplayer wii game, you get to play the bad guys as well, and you get the ability to play all your favorite Batman villains. Ranging from the Joker to the Riddler, you get to play their scenarios in their special mobiles of mayhem.

Lego Batman: The Video Game Gameplay

The gameplay itself is pretty fun. While you still press “B” to attack, the enemies will be pushed a lot further back.

Enemies flying away aside, you can also take the power of Bat/Robin suits to become adapted to a certain situation.

To top it all off, you can throw a boomerang at enemies (Though all bosses will dodge it), and causes massive destruction to breakable objects, but it can’t break glass…

Lego Batman: The Video Game Multiplayer

No wi-fi in this game, but, like all Lego games your friends can drop in and out whenever they want in the game, just as long as they have a extra wiimote.

Find villan profiles througout the loading pages

Adventure Mode

In multiplayer, you basically play campaign mode and fling people around. When in doubt, hit something, use a special power, or big a friend to come and help you. Friendly fire’s pretty fun, too, as well as messing with friends in the two-player. Just don’t over do it!

Conclusion

I personally prefer this game over the rest of the “Lego” series, and it’s not because it’s Batman. One of the major differences is that your allies’ AI will actually DAMAGE an opponent.

If you’ve played the other “Lego” games, you’ll notice that the AI will only block, and if they attack, it’s ineffective. Also, the fact that you have mad judo skills and can grab and fling people around helps too.

So in another words, if you can’t decide which part of the “Lego” series you want, I recommend this one.

Who would win Batman or Superman?  Oh, and Batman doesn’t have any kryptonite.  Wrong, Batman will win, he always has kryptonite! (Taken from: Batman: the Brave and the Bold.  Batman for the win!)

If you like this multiplayer adventure game you should look at Lego Star Wars: The complete saga and Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure.

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If you play any other type of Lego games, then this game will still have a few surprises up its sleeve that keeps this game refreshing and having that new game feeling.

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga Gameplay

Like all Lego games Lego Star Wars: The Complete has a very simple yet addicting gameplay.

Your main goal is to get to the end of the stage by whatever means possible.  If you die you lose studs, and then you come back with 4 hearts again nice and easy.

You can slash, shoot, punch, and do much more things to the enemy droids in your way.  One of my personal favorite things to do is to use the force and push a droid into a mob of other droids, kind of like bowling.

Each character has something special about them.  Some know how to use the force, some jumps higher, and some use guns and know killer karate.

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga Multiplayer

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga is a giant game with 6 episodes, and 6 stages per episode.  There are a lot of stages to play, why not invite a friend?

It’s a 2-player Co-Op game, and there is no Nintendo WFC.  Look on the bright side that means no friend codes for you to register.

To play some other multiplayer games you have to enter Arcade Mode where there are some multiplayer games for you to play.  It’s next to the door to Story Mode.

Duel Mode

With so many lightsabers swinging around it's hard to count how many there are.

In this mode you choose who you want to play, and where do you want duel at.

You have to kill your friends 5, 10, 25, or 50 times, and yes, you can drop them into an endless pit of death for easy wins.

Collect Studs

This is similar to duel.  You choose your character (press 1 to change character, by the way) and then choose your map.  You can collect 50,000 or 100,000.  You have to do this 5 times and then the first to do it wins.

Destroy Enemy

Same as the above, pick character, pick amount of droids to destroy, and then choose the level.

Story Mode

You each play a character (chosen for you).  At times, there will be more then 2 characters in a level so you can switch by pressing C on the nunchuck.

In every stage there are things you interact with like making things crash and blow up with the force.  Doing things like this will lead you to getting studs.

Conclusion

The 2-player action of Lego Star Wars: The Complete (and all of the other Lego games) is a welcome addition to any Nintendo Wii.  The ability to drop in the game with a friend is greatly welcome as you could literally jump into the action.

Even after beating everything there are still lots more you can do.  One of the things is to get all of the secrets items.  The final thing is to go back to stages and gather money to buy new stuff!

If you like this game you should check out Lego Batman: the Video Game and Lego Indiana Jones: the Original Adventure.

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This multiplayer wii game offers 2-player mode, and you’ll be thankful.  Some of the games puzzles aren’t easy to figure out.

All characters have some special moves that help you solve puzzles, but it doesn’t matter the game gives you all the characters you need.

Finally don’t forget the most important thing…the theme song!  Do-do-du-doo-du-do-duu do-du-do-duu-do-do-do-do-do

Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Gameplay

Playing this 2-player adventure game is simple.  You just run around punching and kicking all of the enemies in your way, and your friends too if you have to.

Indiana Jones is drunk...with poison!

That’s the basic idea.  Is it easy?  At first, but things get harder and harder as you move on.

Eventually you’ll get frustrated and start a 2-player battle where you kill your friend multiple times (I know I did).

You have to use your characters special abilities sometimes to get something to happen.  A good example is using Indian’s whip and swing across a branch or push down a tree for your friends to cross.

Every stage you can gather studs, and every time you die you lose some.  No problem, because you can easily pick up what you dropped.

In every stage you can find things like guns, chairs, and even cups.  You can use these as weapons smacking (or shooting) whoever you want, including your friends

Lego Indian Jones: The Original Adventures Multiplayer

Traveling around takes a long time.

Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures has no Nintendo WFC like the rest of the Lego games, but instead it has a great local multiplayer: it has a great 2-player Co-Op mode.

Adventure Mode

Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures features a drop in/out Co-Op mode.  That means your friend can come and leave as they want.

Unfortunately the only way you can play this multiplayer wii game is to play locally on your television.  It’s only 2-player so don’t tell all of your friends to come over play.

Once your friend (or you) jumps into the game you each play the character in the mission.  There will be arguing about who plays who, but remember if you’re angry you can always kill them (in the game, I know what you were really thinking: P).

Conclusion

Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is a very fun, if not friend-killing-stress-relieving-fun game that you can play.  Solving puzzles together, defending a friend with your body while they solves a puzzle, or just killing him/her for fun just shows you how well of a Co-Op game this is.

Remember, it’s not how you kill your friends, it’s how many times in a row you can kill them while taking their money that matters.  If you like this game you should check out Lego Star Wars: The complete saga and Lego Batman: The Video Game. So, in other words, Legos are awesome!

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