Tuesday 29 October 2013

Applogies for lack of posting recently unfortunatly , ...



This is what happends when you think you have played everything that is to be played out there . The best of the best, and than one game comes out something that croses everything else out. This is GTA 5 . I have played this game and completed it ,twice so far ending the stories differently each time. It was a great game id say probably the best of the year so far. I havent had a chance to play everything else that is out there but what i have played was outdone by this masterpiece.

The story was great, amazingly done actually to be more exact. For a game where the majority of the fans of the franchise want to just roam around and have a blast , this game offers the other people a chance to have a go at it. It attracts a diversity of people , if you are into Rpg's well there's elements here which you will find interesting and captivating. If your into action and shooting theres plenty of that too, whether just race and causing havoc is your thing or your more interested into a deep story this game has something for everyone.

Great soundtrack , great graphics -though a bit disappointed to see the graphics are not quite as polished as they said they will be but still just a minor let down-  this game seems to have it all, with a great interacting map with great locations and places available to explore. You got "Freaks" to interact, fast cars to run around in and pull crazy stunts.

You can pull amazing robberies, earning money to buy expensive properties, yachts faster cars customise the ones you have or just invest it in whatever it is you feel you want.

This game I have to give 10 out of 10 with a fascinating story with amazing designed characters that you feel part of their lives as you make the decisions that affect them.  Its one of the best GTA game of the series with a great improvement into the controls, accessibility, graphics. I loved every hour I played , and i will probably pick it up again. So If you havent picked this game up please do its just worth all the pennies.

One of the last things this game has received a lot of controversial due to its contents, its strictly designed for mature context if your not 18 or even over than this game is not for you. I agree with other reviewers as well , this game will attack controversial subjects so you have to be of age otherwise this game is not for you.

That being said this game is simply amazing. SO keep playing geeks, this is a great game with an even bigger contents for on-line. :)


Wednesday 14 August 2013

GTA 5 Coming out guys ...; this is not a review just a list of games from Rockstars i personally enjoyed and Looking at the new GTA 5 coming out soon

Rockstars have put their print on our games world for some time now , with titles such as GTA , Red Dead Redemption and many many others that have created franchises of their own.

 LA Noire

 Their first game with a CSI style investigation LA NOIRE, was something new in matter of gaming. You take control of Officer Cole Phelps , around 1947 Los Angeles. As you close more cases you become more and more engrosed into an world were corruption is a way of living . You get to drive fast cars, intervene in gun fights and arrest the culprits.

Something all new to Rockstars and I'm keen to see what they will do with this new franchise and where they will take it . With this autstanding graphics you travel the streets on Los Angeles and you get to see the city quickly expanding and with it its people changing.

 The enviroment, the cars the people are driving, the way people dress changes in the time of the gameplay and creates this amazing universe of this game. Though a lot of reviewers out there have pointed out the way Phelps acts, is sometimes to the extreme (screaming at all the people he interviews or acting nice), I have to point that one out as well with hopes that Rockstars will address that  in the future games of this series if any will come out. So all in all this game is another success for Rockstars and hope the best for them with this franchise that we may see many other LA Noire games out there soon.








Red Dead Redemption

A huge success the Read Dead Redemption game combines elements of RPG with shooter and adventure. Its pretty much like many reviewers have said , GTA with horses and cowboys, however this game brings a lot of new things to the world of  'Rockstars Games' where before in GTA , the action happend inside a town or a city, here now you travel in between towns with a huge map to explore places to see animals to hunt.

I was taken back by the great graphics that the game had as well as the story. The story was just greatly written with characters well shaped. One thing I wish it would have had was multiple ending or a change to somehow do things differently rather than being taken there in a straight line. Other than that though the game offered many, many things to do. Hunting, catle hearding, everything that Wild West Film Genre would have in it.

In the game, you take control of John Marston an ex-outlaw who gave his other life up to settle down with the woman he loved. Though he did think he left that life behind him it cought up with him pretty fast.

 John Marston 's family is being taken by the Bureau of Investigation , and so John , has to go on an adventure half across America and Mexico , to find his older members of his gang and kill them or make them come freely. Being blackmailed he has no other choice but to fallow pursuit and us as the players are astonished by the journey's that Marston has to go on. Across ravines , swimming, hunting, doing pretty much anything and everything to survive. Its an amazing game that I recommend to everyone to play. It brings something in different from all the other things weve seen in the game.

I have spent more hours in this game more than any other Rockstar's games before so I hope they will do even better on future releases of this series. Plans have been made already to release a Red Dead Redemption 2 which would be a prequel. Still to be announced it has raised a lot of interest already and I will be looking forward to it no doubt.


Enjoy!!

GTA Franchise

Grand theft Auto has a large base of fans , all over the world. Now their fans are waiting (myself included) for the new instalment of the series GTA 5. Although I have done loads of research about the game butt  I dont want to spoil it to those who want to wait for the game to come out and play it so I shall leave my commentary to minimal pinpoints that other reviewers have put up already.

I am going to say however  is that the game has improved majorly. From what I have read about the pre production and also story-plot. the world itself has grown a lot since San Andreas and the other games came out.

Rockstars learned from Red Dead Redemption, and so , the world has grown 3 to 4 times as much, with places to explore and animals to hunt, to waters to swim and scuba dive in. The world is bigger than has ever been before.
Now the playes will not only be able to select one character but play with 3 characters and change between them to gain advantage over the enemy. The fighting is easier to control and the action flows easier. You can set up the way you want to do things, and also you can invest your money the way you want to .

This games is right now on most peoples minds so I'm not going to put to many pictures up here or spoilers all im going to say is this is probably going to be game of the year or some say decade but thats probably ambitious.

So 17 September is the official release for this game!(In some countries)

Enjoy!!!








Tuesday 13 August 2013

Hotel Dusk Room 215


Hi everyone,

In our last post we have talked about the amazing Broken Sword and its great game the Shadow of the templar, in this post we will move forward and talk about a great little ventures from "Cing" unfortunatly the went bankrupt so we wont be able to see any continuation in the series but this game was amazing.


Its name is Hotel Dusk -  Room 215 . The creator combines Dark Noir motives with a great story and puzzles that will make you want to play this game over and over again. Your playing an ex cop, Kyle, that has become a road salesman after he has given his job away on founding his partner was corrupt.  He works for an old friend of his father at a company called Red Crown.

In the game Kyle Hyde, has to pass a series of tests and puzzles that uncover information or items. Than you can interact with the members of the hotel which unlocks further areas and therefore complete certain champters.

Although I have found the game extremely short, its concept was quite new. In gameplay you have to use the funcitons of the Nintendo Ds to pass certain areas, such as listening whistling and blowing. Its great fun although sometimes quite frustrating when you dont find the right thing that you have to do at that very second.

While you receive the Room key -215 you are starting on a quest to learn more about thethe cop, Brian Bradly , friend and partner . Everything seems connected its a beautifull small compact world and soon enough youll find yourself sucked into the story and think everyone is connected somehow.

The game could have done with a few more locations, I guess thats the only thing I found lacking in my opinion. A beautifull game none the less but one that lacks variety, you could eventualy see other rooms within the hotel but that doesn't change the start is kinda slow.

The failing part of a certain puzzle can be quite stresfull as you are sent back to a previous save game, and lets face it I have either died a lot or have been cought by people I shouldnt have in rooms that I didnt had any reason to be in. I was nosy I know, but you have to be otherwise you wont get to find that one item that will push the story forward.

Its a game that at times seems it was stil in production when realesed but the whole package gives you a new feeling of something that myself as a player havent found in another game so ill have to give it to the creators for originality and inovation .

So all in all I'd have to give it a 7 out of 10  with a lot more to offer than some other adventure click games out there.
Enjoy!!!





Monday 12 August 2013

Casting myself as a player-reviewer

Hello everyone,

I thought i'd introduce myself as a player and what better way to do such a thing than by , posting about the first game I have ever played.

This would have to be the Broken Sword: The shadow of the templars. It was a great adventure game that offered you a great story, an outstanding graphics at the time and all for a great price.
Once completed i got myself addicted to the genre and I started to try to find the other games in the collection. I was so ingrossed into the story of the two characters that I'd see myself play it for hours just to try to pass a puzzle (which by the way are greatly designed and some with quite a high difficulty in my opinion).
I was sad to see it end at game number four and than again happy to hear that they are trying to go back to the bassics of the story and create a 5th game. The 5th game is meant to release on September 2013 and it is said to be returning at its 2D original looks ^_^.
 
The adventures of Nico Collard and George Stobard have made my days at that time and even now I think its a great game. Even better it has been relaunched and repached with a great graphics modeling giving it a fresh breath of air.

You travel across a high number of destination in the game trying to solve the mistery behind an organisation knows as the Templars.  Though from a historian point of view the subject has been approached before and it has become quite an oversaturated subject, on films and different games, Broken Sword brings its own twist with a great story.

In the game George Stombard find himself into a series of situation that makes him stumble onto Nico an excelent jurnalist whos story is refused to be printed. He feels in need to help her discover the mistery behind everything. This not only makes you fall in love more with the two characters as you change between different perspectives, you feel yourself addictingly fall in love with the world, as you travel to different locations , (Paris , Ireland etc) unlocking memorable funny characters ( Npcs) that George stumbles upon.

All in all i give this game a full price with an amazing gameplay great puzzles that gave me a full return for my money.

Enjoy!!!