X-Play, the brutally honest television show that serves up reviews, previews, and features about your favorite videogames every day on G4TechTV, brings its insights to print! With its blend of sarcastic wit and genuine passion, the cast and crew of X-Play examine the best and worst of recent games, plus chat with game developers and designers, give you cheat codes to some cool games, and answer all your burning need-to-know questions about the cast and crew. Best of all, the information is delivered in the funny, edgy voice of the show and its creators.
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Co-author Marc Saltzman has reported on the high-tech industry for the past nine years as a freelance journalist, author, lecturer, consultant, and radio and TV personality. His specialties lie in video gaming, computers, Internet trends, gadgets and computer electronics.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
First Book For One Of TV's Best Shows,
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This review is from: The X-Play Insider's Guide to Gaming (Paperback)
I'm not much of a video game player, but X PLAY is one of my favorite shows on TV. While essentially a video game review show, the writing on it is so smart, so funny, filled with all sorts of obscure pop culture references, it feels like it was written by Quentin Tarantino, Dennis Miller and the writers of THE GILMORE GIRLS combined. Some of the best comedy writing anywhere. And Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb are the best comedy team on TV.
Now, they have released their first book. X PLAYS INSIDER'S GUIDE TO GAMING At close to 500 pages, this book is filled with game reviews, interviews and stories by the cast and crew of the show. It is a must for all fans and for those looking for video game reviews. The only drawbacks to the book are the reviews just aren't as funny without Adam and Morgan reading them. And, the book has the look and feel of a computer manual. While there are a lot of photos in the book, they are all in rather washed out black and white. Plus, with all of the talk in the book about certain skits they performed, I wish they had a companion DVD to watch some of them. It is a good book, although it is more for the people who watch the show for the reviews rather than for the writing. Still, it is well worth buying. I give it a 4 ... out of 5.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Disappointed Fan,
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This review is from: The X-Play Insider's Guide to Gaming (Paperback)
Don't let the title totally throw you, I wasn't completely disappointed, but there are several flaws with this book, stopping it from being something much better. First of all, the cosmetics of this book were not too great, lots of grainy black and white pictures. Also the thing that really started to grate my nerves was all the typos, misspellings and format bloopers. I wasn't really looking for them, but I bet there was one big error per review, including repeating verbatim entire paragraphs!!! I mean come on, for a show that nit-picks games, they should have really edited this book a lot better. Now the reviews in general were pretty good but I'm asking you, what the heck was up with the review of Prince of Persia, it was insane, I can't believe they published that thing, I read it sometimes just for a laugh it's so bad. So it seems like the book was really rushed, probably to get the reviews out for games that are still relevant, but that's just the thing, I don't think that published books are really the best medium for this kind of venture. Stick to websites and TV, this book will become totally irrelevant in two or three years. But to end this positively the reviews are good and pretty funny and I liked getting the interviews for an inside look so for fans it might be worth it.
I give this book a... 3 out of 5. Sorry guys, but I'm brutally honest and I'm concerned about people throwing away their 20 bones.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
ok read,
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This review is from: The X-Play Insider's Guide to Gaming (Paperback)
I'm not a big fan of Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb because many times they spend the majority of their time being ignorant and sarcastic towards famous people who have nothing to do with video games whatever, which is probably just a clever way of wasting time to avoid talking about the main thing they *should* be talking about, and that's video games.
However, I will give them a lot of credit for being some of the most intelligent reviewers on television. They aren't afraid to call it exactly the way they see it, whether it's about video games or those unrelated things, and they're obviously both very smart, knowledgeable people. I just wish they didn't feel the need to speak their mind seemingly every other sentence. It really does become a distraction. There aren't many video game review shows on television, and we really need Adam and Morgan to focus on the games. A little bit of sarcastic humor is okay, though. Just a little. Also, a note to the G4 network- just because we like video games doesn't mean we are fans of Star Trek. God no. However, this book is a decent read and you mine as well read it if you are a loyal viewer of X-Play.
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