I reviewed Ign Podcast Beyond 113, which is located at www.ign.com. They have a very well put together podcast with four people including Greg Miller, Ryan Clements, Colin Moriarty, and Chris Roper. These four are the editors for various video game systems such as Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Playstation 2, and the various portable systems. They went through and explained certain aspects such as up and coming news for each system, what is coming out this week, new features, reviews on games, rumors for new games and games that have the best trophies and achievements.
I found very little problems with the podcast, it seems that they had very good editing down so that they are constantly talking. Little overlapping within the audio and they keep you involved in the podcast the entire time. They place new up to date news that pertains to the audience they are targeting. They have sound effects and music that adds to the presence of the podcast. Small mistakes make themselves known such as umms and some parts where they overlap but for me that makes me feel like its more casual and I feel like I can relax and just listen to the podcast. It is somewhat random with the topics but it works in a way. Overall the podcast does a great job of informing you to the week’s better topics.
In this podcast they touched over a variety of areas. They started off introducing their selves. They then pushed on to God of War, which is a huge exclusive for Playstation 3 that everyone owning a Playstation 3 should be interested in. They tell you about the game and how a downloadable demo will be in District 9’s blue ray when it releases. District 9 is a movie that came into theatres as a science fiction movie dealing with aliens from another planet that live on earth. They then proceeded to Rock Band and the possible creation of Rock Band the Who edition, which is a rumor that is floating around. Netflix is also coming to the Playstation 3 and you will be able to watch Netflix for free if you just use your Netflix account on the PS3. They then switch to Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, which is coming out in about nine days to the PS3 and XBOX 360. They bring up a controversial scene that takes place in the introduction of the game. There is a spoiler alert in this so if you don’t want to hear it they give you the option to skip forward to a later time. They switch to reader mail later and answer questions, which also allows for audience involvement. The readers will ask certain questions that these four will answer for them also giving more topics to the talent. I find that this podcast was very successful and they were very entertaining. For a scale of rating I would give this podcast a 4 out of 5. Let’s just say they know what they are doing.
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