Review: NBA Game Time App

The highlight packages are well done.

While we’ve experienced NBA League Pass through DirecTV in the past, we’ve never had the chance to check out the Game Time app with NBA Broadband until recently. To be clear, the app itself is free, but to watch full games you’ll need to pony up for the Broadband League Pass — the cost is either US$199 for access to all 30 teams or US$140 to watch any five teams of your choice.

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Video Game Review: Beyond: Two Souls

While those sections could be classified as dull, the action segments just don’t work very well. In theory it should function smoothly as all you’re asked to do is move the right stick in a direction corresponding to the action when the screen slows. For example, if you’re delivering a kick at an enemy on the left side of the screen you move the analog stick left to connect. Unfortunately, a large number of actions take place in an ambiguous position, causing you to essentially guess which directional input is needed.

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Video Game Review: Final Fantasy XIV

Combat is pretty straightforward, and the game does a good job of metering out new abilities and upgrades so that by the time you’ve got lots of them at your disposal you already have a pretty good handle on things. It’s not all chocobo feathers and moogle pom-poms, though, as the targeting system continues to give me trouble even after tons of battles. At issue is how easy it is to accidentally attack a second foe, which can lead to a quick death under the wrong circumstances. Along those same lines, during hectic encounters it can be nearly impossible to pick out a specific enemy from the pack.

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Video Game Review: rain

There are only a handful of moves at your disposal, and all three of them work as intended. Holding down square makes you run, “X” jumps and circle interacts with specific objects that glow brightly. That’s it. And outside of a moment here or there when it would have been nice to be able to control the camera, I never found myself at odds with the setup.

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