AREA 5 - READ - CO-OP 0107 -- Mother Mission's Fruits -- Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, GTA: Chinatown Wars, iPhone Favorites

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CO-OP 0107 -- Mother Mission's Fruits -- Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, GTA: Chinatown Wars, iPhone Favorites

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We’ve been wanting to cover iPhone games every since we started CO-OP. The problem with that is that there just isn’t any way to capture video save by pointing a camera over someone’s shoulder. So, at last, we just gave in and did exactly that. Tell us what you think! If you’re not too annoyed by the off-screen footage this could give us a quick-n-dirty way of covering iPhone games going forward. More after the show:

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I was really happy to finally get to play The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena since it included Butcher Bay—a game I missed the first time ‘round. Definitely the best movie-to-game license that I know about and I think the people we had talking in the segment on Dark Athena this week would most likely agree. Speaking of guests, Brad Shoemaker makes his first ever CO-OP appearance, Philip Kollar dropped by as well and then Cesar, Ryan, and I filled out the rest of the peeps for that segment. <raises beer> Here’s to hoping that Starbreeze Studios continues to make interresting, first-person experiences that blend genres like no one else!

It’s a pretty amazing to us just how good the DS version of Grand Theft Auto is. I know that I felt like Chinatown Wars was going to simply be a return-to-form of the 2D glory days of GTAs I and II, but not so! While the game’s story and characters fall short of the DS version’s bigger brothers, myself, John Davison, Sterling McGarvey, and Ray Barnholt still found quite a bit to love.

And, as mentioned above, iPhone games! The platform is clearly shaping up to be a major contender for your gaming dollars and we’re tickled peach (we can’t go full pink. Never go full pink) to finally be able to share some of our favorites with you all! We give some brief looks into Karma Star, geoDefense, Topple 2, Drop7, Eliss, and Field Runners.

And yes, we’re poor, but that doesn’t stop us from needing to do a few things. Like eat. While Rob insists that a $.99 value meal is the way to go, we’re in The Mission District of San Francisco! This place is the queen of quality, cheap eats and we go on a quest to prove it!

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First of all, thought the iPhone coverage was really neat, and I don't even own an iPhone! Thought it was shot well & seemed very casual and realistic--one of the reasons why I like co-op so much to begin with.

CO-OP 0107 -- Mother Mission's Fruits -- Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, GTA: Chinatown Wars, iPhone Favorites

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