Vampire Chronicle The Chaos Tower (PSP)

Advantages: boring
Disadvantages: to hard

...Between Street Fighter and Mega Man, it's clear that Capcom really knows how to run with an idea...and often, they'll run that idea all the way into the ground. That's not always a bad thing, though, since the ground is where zombies come from, and we love zombies. We also dig monsters in general, especially when we can make them fight. Luckily, Capcom knows a thing or two about that, and in the wake of Street Fighter II, the company delivered a decisive change of pace when they introduced the Darkstalkers series. Instead of sensitive martial artists, Darkstalkers featured ghouls, ghosts, vampires and other delightful denizens of the underworld duking it out for no good reason whatsoever. We were pleased, except the series really never went anywhere. But via the PSP and Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower, you can now have... Read review

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Advantages: Good graphics and gameplay
Disadvantages: Just isn't as good as the street fighter series

...! There are 18 characters available to choose from and 5 modes: Arcade - single player (7 opponents) Network - You against your friends Tower - Progress up the tower by winning fights (using 3 characters) Chronicle - View art work + movies Training - Practice special moves In my opinion i'd wait for street fighter to come out on the PSP which it definately will in the future. Price: around £25 (new) Rating: 12+ Players: 1-4 (up to 4 via wireless) Value for money: 6/10 Graphics: 7/10 Gameplay: 6/10 Load times: 7/10 (good) Overall: 6/10... Read review

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Advantages: Good detail, one great story, background info on Anarchs
Disadvantages: BBN: very little; LABN: difficult keeping track of relationships

..., but I will say, it's worth running it, even though it has odd implications for a chronicle. BBN includes the usual coterie chart, which helps in working out the relationships between characters, and full and useful write-ups of the NPCs. It also includes, in the various descriptions of the different places, little titbits of information which could be used in writing up your own stories. What it lacks is a list of story seeds, as in CBN, to extend the chronicle in a direction other than the single supplied super-story. Los Angeles by night is radically different. The most likely use for LABN is if you have a coterie of anarchs which you are running to, and need a new city for them to go to. LABN is utter chaos - in character, that is, the supplement is well laid out and tries to assist the storyteller in deciphering that chaos... Read review

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