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Spore Review

2011-07-15T11:14:00.000-07:00

In Spore your goal is to raise your own species of creature from its start all along its evolutional chain. This is done with five stages throughout the game: Cell Stage, Creature Stage, Tribal Stage, Civilization Stage, and Space stage. Each of these stages is an actual different genre of game further making spore unique besides the fact that you watch over a species for “billions” of years.

The cell stage is basically a Top-down arcade. The main goal in it is simple, Eat as much as you can as fast as you can; other then collecting parts that’s the main thing to do. Before starting the option to make three different cells is available: Herbivore, Carnivore or an Omnivore. While playing as a Herbivore your main source of food is going to be plankton while eventually upgrading to seaweed as your cell gets larger. The Carnivore however eats bits of meat floating around until large enough to eat smaller cells or attack cells to burst them open and get meat from them. The Omnivore can eat both meat and vegetation so if you’re into having an open path once the creature stage opens up this is the choice to make.
As you continue on killing creatures you’ll eventually start unlocking parts by killing creatures who have parts you don’t have, or you can find them in asteroids or creatures others have killed. As you evolve further and further you’ll start growing and see that you’re now hunting cells who were previously hunting you, so it’s a way of getting revenge. While food you’ll be earning Evolution Points which you’ll spend in the creature editor to buy parts to help you survive. To get into the creature editor you have to send out a mating call, so the creature editor is basically millions of years of adaptions.
Even though this sounds quite simple I must admit its pretty fun especially once you’ve got your character done with all the evolution upgrades. You’ll be top dog for the most part, king of the food chain, hard for other cells to take you down since plenty of defensive parts are now protecting your cell.

Once you finish off the Cell Stage, it’s time to start the Creature Stage. After growing legs it’s time to go on land and further evolve your species. This Portion of the game is a Simulation. During this stage you’ll find you need to eat to stop your creature from dying of hunger. If you made a herbivore you will eat fruits from bushes or high trees if your creature is tall enough; while carnivores will need to hunt other animals. This is where the evolution points come in; you can befriend another species or hunt them into extinction to earn points. Befriending/Hunting another species will also earn you unique parts that the creature has. Another way to find parts is searching bones on the ground. As your creature evolves you get more and more health. During this stage if you are connected to the Spore network you may see creatures created by other users/buddies/ your own creations. In this stage you can make anything as awesome looking, wacky looking, or a real life animal. The only limit is your imagination. But watch out for epics! Epics are giant creatures with a thousand or more hit points. It’s next to impossible to kill them because they can take you out in one hit. When an Epic comes through its common to see entire nests of creatures fleeing the area in fear of dying. One thing I would enjoy doing in this stage is killing off a species that didn’t like mine from the start, or attacked my creatures nest. Once your done running around in packs you’ll be a sentient being and it’s time to start up tribes.

The Tribal Stage is essentially an RTS where you have to take care of a tribe. During this other species are becoming sentient enough to form their own tribes. There are two ways to deal with these other tribes. The first way is by being social towards them: sending them gifts and performing music for them. Gifts are food that you have collected so you’re giving them what they need to survive. When you perform songs depending on how developed the other tribe is you’ll need more instruments. So then you play what they want when you want it and hopefully they’ll like you more. However even if your being friendly to most tribes there’s still the chance of being raided by an enemy tribe.
The second way of dealing with other tribes is to attack them, kill them, and destroy their hut. For this you’ll be able to make weapons, however the ability to do this depends on your actions in the creature stage. If you were very social during the creature stage then it’s probably a good idea to continue in this fashion since it would be easier for your species.
You’ll also need to gather food for your tribe. There are several ways of doing this. If your social then you’ll be occasionally be given food. Carnivores will have to send out members of their tribe to hunt other creatures. There is also the option of fishing and eating that. Herbivores however just need to gather fruit found in bushes and trees. You can also domesticate animals in the wild by giving them food and then you’ll keep them as a pet behind your hut.
After every tribe you’ve defeated or allied yourself with you’ll add on to your totem pole. What I would always do as a little celebration at the end of the Tribal stage I would take all twelve members of my tribe and have them dance around the bonfire at the center of my land. Give it a try its hilarious watching all your tribe members dance together. Now that you’re done dancing around a fire, it’s time to start up a civilization in the next stage.

The civilization stage is also an RTS like the Tribal stage, however this time it’s about building an economy, and building your military/ religion. Depending on how you’ve approached other creatures throughout the game, aggression or with non aggression. All of the opposing cities will be members of your own race just with different beliefs, the way to pass this stage is to convert them to your beliefs, or force them into it. Instead of sending out tribe members to do things, this time you’ll be sending out vehicles “cars”, “boats”, and “planes”; which you will design yourself to look however you want. You’ll also be designing homes, work industries, and entertainment buildings. You must strategically place these in your cities for your people to be happy/ angry and to optimize money made. Once you’ve got the planet conquered where else do you do? To space of course in the Space Stage!

In the Space Stage you’ll be going to space and exploring further then no creature has explored before. Or so you’ve thought, in the creature stage you may or may not have been visited by sentient beings in their own spaceship. However now it’s your turn to go from planet to planet in this god game/ space simulation. You can expand your species to another planet by Terra forming that planet into a suitable environment. You’ll also get to enjoy abducting and relocating animals, even if you’re relocating them planets away and you get to watch them thrive and see the planet grow.

Even though Spore was a great game it was still a letdown in some ways. The game is very short, it’s possible to beat the game within a day if you played it straight through (there is an achievement for this). This is not the original game we were shown where it was more realistic. Instead we got a game with bubble looking creatures and less realistic gameplay. For example there was the ability to stay in the water and create water creatures. However this was scraped from the game among other things because it was too realistic. Instead we were given the colorful Spore we have today.

I would give Spore a solid 8 out of 10

-Theipaz

Gameplay:

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Review

2011-04-17T14:51:00.000-07:00

In the nation of Amestris there are people who one would consider gods, the Alchemists. Alchemy is a science of equal exchange, where to obtain something you must first be willing to give up something of equal value. For example, if you clumsily knock over a radio and break it into tiny pieces one would think that it’s gone for good. However with alchemy it can be fixed, an alchemist would draw up a transmutation circle, place the broken parts on the circle and then activate it, at this point the radio is rebuilt, like magic.

Alchemy is based on equal exchange, this isn’t always the case, for some things there is no equivalence. Our protagonists Edward and Alphonse Elric learned this as young children. Around the age of seven Ed and Al’s mother Trisha died of an illness that burdened her for years that her children didn’t know about. Heartbroken from their loss they decided they would bring her back to life. During the transmutation the reason human transmutation was illegal became clear, there was nothing you could give up in place for the soul. Regardless of having the right ingredients of the body, they didn’t have what it took to make a soul. Instead they made a monster, something that wouldn’t be described as human, it was simply horrifying. As sacrifice the little brother Alphonse was taken, along with the left leg of the older brother Edward. In dear attempt to get his little brother back Ed sacrificed his arm to attach Al’s soul to a suit of armor in the corner of the room. Ed was then given auto mail, metal limbs, by a family friend and vowed to get their bodies back. With this in mind Ed joined the military and became a State Alchemist.

State Alchemists are funded by the military to research their specialized field; Amestris is a military nation so alchemy is used in war unlike other nations. With state funding Edward researched the Philosophers stone, a mythological stone that allows one to do alchemy without abiding to the laws of equivalent exchange, even human transmutation.

Along their journeys Ed and Al run into a group called Homunculi, Artificial humans, at their core: Philosopher stones. Another group is also looking for the philosopher stone as a key to immortality, a prince from the nation of Xing. Along their journeys to get their bodies back the military becomes ever watchful, this becomes apparent from Führer King Bradley visiting Ed when he is in the hospital and telling him good luck finding out everything he can about the philosophers stone and human transmutation and to report the results to the military.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is a breathe taking story about two brothers who wish to get their bodies back, want to make everything right, and want to make sure no one else dies on them along the way. Each episode is brilliantly made; when one episode ends it has you begging for the next one. Each episode makes you emotionally drawn in and you feel for the characters thanks to the great writing. There are parts that will make you laugh hysterically such as Edward throwing a fit about being called short as he exaggerates and changes what the person said. There are also times where you will cry, you will feel sorry for the characters loss. Lastly there will be times where you feel uncomfortable (in a good way) because of the animes dark storyline. Time after time I would recommend watching this anime, it truly is a masterpiece.

The story flows nicely; since the series is 64 episodes some people would think it would be very drawn out. However every episode sticks to a topic and finishes it within the episode and leaves you will a nice little cliff hanger making you want to see the next episode.

While watching the series you are constantly on your toes because the characters you care about are constantly being put in life or death situations. Whether they’re fighting a Chimera (a creature born from fusing two animals together with alchemy) or fighting some crazed man who wants you and what you represent dead. The main characters have no real advantage over everyone in the alchemy world so they are fighting to save their lives at many points with a lot of close calls.

The writers did a great job in creating their own world, filled with people with emotions, real reactions; you could believe these people really could exist. They are bold and stand up for what they believe in and love the hobbies and fields of work they are in such as Winrey Rockbell and making automail (metal limbs).

Note: This series is called Fullmetal alchemist: Brotherhood, not to be confused with the original series Fullmetal Alchemist. When the first series was being developed it caught up with the manga, at this point they were given the permission to create the rest of the story themselves. Brotherhood is not a sequel to that series; it is the original story in the manga. So some episodes of Brotherhood will be similar until the point where the first series split from the manga.

Skate Review

2011-03-08T15:15:00.000-08:00

In the world of skateboarding games there is one that really sticks out as unique. That game would be Skate. Skate revolutionized skateboarding games. No longer was skating unnatural like in the tony hawk games. In the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series, regardless of these games being fun there was a very unnatural feel to it. You would press all sorts of button combination's to do tricks. However in the Skate series the right thumb stick controls the board and your feet, for example, moving it down and then up makes you do an Ollie. Tricks are done by adding to this: moving the thumb stick down and then out to the left or the right would make you do a kick flip or a heel flip depending on which way you moved it. Many feel this game is one of the more realistic skating games. When you go to grind along a rail instead of somehow being gravitationally pulled into the rail like in the TH games, you must now land on the rail or else you are going to fall off.

The whole story line in skate is to try to get your name out there and become famous. You do this by beating scores on spots, skating for sponsored and famous skaters, make skating videos of you grinding rails jumping gaps, and take pictures of you hitting sweet spots. Once you start getting your name out there you start doing more and more and you end up doing photo shoots for magazines.
When you design your character you’re able to choose all sorts of things ranging from his hairstyle, his clothes, and his board. The skateboard is fully customizable with a variety of parts from different companies you can mix and match. Both the clothing brands and skateboard parts are real world items so chances are you’re going to be able to find something you may own or want to own in game. I was pleased to find a zero that I owned was in the game, so of course I was set with the board I was going to use the entire game.

Like most games this game has its flaws. You’ll actually notice the game’s biggest flaw right away; you can’t get off your board. This makes it pretty hard for getting to certain spots you may want to start off from, and of course this makes stairs impossible. Luckily the game makes up for it by having what’s called a session marker, it’s kind of like a save state. Basically you mark a spot and once you go hit LB and up you’ll return to that spot. This makes re-doing the same spot over and over until you are satisfied with your accomplishment so much easier.

I would give this game a good 7/10

Here is some game play; remember to subscribe!

Super Mario 64

2011-01-20T04:36:00.000-08:00

When the Nintendo 64 came out Super Mario 64 was one of the first titles available. This game was the first game in the Mario franchise to take the jump to 3D. All sorts of Mario fans loved this game when it first came out, and many still love it to this day and say it still stacks up to games today.

The game starts off with a letter from princess peach asking Mario to come to the castle for cake. Unfortunately once Mario arrives he is told by Toad that the princess peach and himself have been kidnapped by the evil Koopa King; Bowser. Luckily the princess is in this castle, so you don’t have to look forward to being told “But our princess is in another castle.” Yes Mario, This is the castle you are looking for. All throughout the game you are running around collecting stars in worlds hidden in paintings locked away in rooms. You need to collect the stars because Bowser locked the doors and you need a certain amount of star power to open the doors. Bowser also enchanted certain parts of the castle, such as the endless stairs where you need 80 stars to be able to climb them, or else they will be endless. As for the paintings having a world inside of each of them... well, this is the Mushroom Kingdom, you never know what to expect. However considering the worlds are filled with Bowser’s minions I would say the enchanted paintings are Bowser’s doing.

Being the first time a Mario game has been in 3d (unless you count Mario Tennis for the virtual boy as being 3d… I don’t) Nintendo has certainly out done itself on making a very fun game. Mario is introduced to all sorts of new jumping made possible in the 3d world such as back flips, slide flips and other unique abilities. Not only was Super Mario 64 fun and enjoyable back when the Nintendo 64 first came out, but it’s still very enjoyable today and aged very well. This game is HUGE with levels all over the place and hidden levels scattered throughout the castle. If you still have a Nintendo 64 and don’t have Super Mario 64 for some odd reason, I urge you to buy this game, you won’t be disappointed.

I would give this game a fantastic 10/10

Here’s some gameplay, enjoy!

Battlefield: Bad Company Review.

2010-12-05T18:25:00.000-08:00

From start to finish Battlefield: Bad Company is an action packed FPS that requires you to not only have some skill, but to pay attention. Enemy AI is pretty smart and will require you to think strategically and think things through. At the time bad company was pretty innovative because it was one of the few games in its area to have destructible environments in this fashion. Parts of buildings are destructible so when you’re trying to hide from and enemy RPG in a house, he’s going to blow up the building you’re in and force you to hop between buildings until you’ve got a shot on him. Like other battlefield games you are able to drive vehicles which are unique in some war games and special missions.

The missions in Bad Company are never the same. The missions range from capturing enemy posts, guiding tanks, swarming a fortress, and destroying machines with C4.

However Bad Company does have its downfalls. On hard mode there are parts that are entirely too easy, or parts that are way too hard for the simple fact that you are ridiculously out numbered. This is overcome by using deaths to your advantage. When you die any enemy that you’ve killed will still be dead. If you were in a vehicle then you’ll respawn in it and it will be at 100%; which is a way to get through a lot of tanks. But there are also part where you are given nothing and expected to fight a tank, At this point I resorted to running around finding vehicles to ram the tank with. I would also run around picking up enemy weapons so I could get grenades to throw at the tank. The AI of your squad B Company isn’t the best, In this same situation Haggard had a rocket launcher. But instead of destroying the tank he was standing out in the open and watching me fight the tank while pointing his rocket launcher at it. Adding to this there were multiple times where when we were fighting soldiers on foot and he would do the same; just stand there staring at them while eating bullets. If hard mode means no one does anything but you then this game nailed it on the head.

Despite the games few flaws it is a memorable gem. It has fun and engaging gameplay along with a rememberable and funny story line. As you Progress with the Sergeant, Sweet Water, and Haggard you become attached to them as they crack jokes, talk about women, and what they’re going to do when they finish their service. I would recommend picking this game up or renting it if anything.

Enjoy some gameplay!

Super Mario Stikers

2010-10-24T07:34:00.000-07:00

When I was younger and all these Mario games were coming out I thought it would be really cool if Nintendo made a Mario soccer game. Finally for the GameCube they did. Although some Mario sports games are a bit cheesy and slow paced, you would be wrong if you came to Mario Strikers with that in mind. You would also probably be caught by surprised. Mario Strikers is an action packed fast paced game which allows for hours of replay as you try to get further and further in the tournaments. Like other Mario sports games you get basic starter characters and you’re able to unlock more characters to play as your team captain.
Mario strikers isn’t like other Mario games in one way, instead of having a team of Mario stars you pick a star and a team of Koopas or Hammer Bros. But this game does have its setbacks. You’re able to tackle an enemy and take away the ball and get a reasonable distance down the field while they are being electrocuted on the fence. But hey it wouldn’t be a Mario sports game without Nintendo shenanigans.

I would give this game and average 7 out of ten.

WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!

2010-10-09T01:41:00.000-07:00

Wario Ware inc. is a party game for the Nintendo GameCube. It’s a series of mini games which require you to not only be fast, but be precise in what you’re doing and be able to follow directions. This fast pace game can be fun with friends trying to see who can get further in the game or just on your own for plain old fun. The whole idea of the game is you must complete the levels within the time limit, the further into the game you get the harder the mini games get and faster paced they become. The game tries to sike you out by increasing the speed of the music between mini games making you feel uneasy. This makes you react faster than you can without thinking and mess up. Which just makes you come back to play more and more. Though the game gets boring after some play, it’s still a worthy pick up for gaming with friends.

I would give this game a Mediocre 4 out of 10 due to poor replay value.

Stardust

2010-08-14T00:48:00.000-07:00

Stardust is a flash game/ simulation of stars catapulting dust between one another. In this flash game you can move stars around creating elaborate patterns throughout the cosmos. If you get everything perfect you can have the dust orbiting some of the stars. I’ve only been able to have stardust orbiting 3 stars at once. But in the larger version it’s easier for the most part considering there are more stars and more dust paths to cause orbiting. After a while the color of the stardust changes, and varies at all times, although it usually matches at the head and tail of the stream. There is no real goal in the game, overall you are supposed to look at all the pretty colors and do anything you could really think of. Such as me, as I already said I like getting start dust orbiting the stars, but I also like making the stars bump wildly around the play area. I also think its cool to keep the stardust from reaching a star by keeping the star away from it, all the stardust builds up and follows in a sparkling shower. This flash game can keep you occupied for some time as long as your imagination or attention span allows it.

Seven stars:
http://wonderfl.net/c/6Z8A/fullscreen

Many stars:
http://wonderfl.net/c/gK47/fullscreen

Here is one of the elaborate patterns you can make:

Here it looks like the stars ganged up on eachother:

Many stars:

Transformice

2010-07-28T04:27:00.000-07:00

Transformice is a flash game that is becoming quickly popular. You play as your own mouse where your objective is to simply collect cheese and return to your mouse house. That seems simple enough? Well there are obstacles and you have to depend on other players to help build useful contraptions to cross, or fail miserably with things that “seem legit”. Each time you play you have what’s called temporary cheese, which determines when you are shaman, the head mouse whose goal is to help you. Although there can also be two shamans in a certain stage which can become competitive and turn into a shaman fight and other mousey shenanigans. There are also competitive stages where you have the ability to push your fellow mice around, which makes you have to work together or fight to the death. Of course in a mousey world there are trolls, which you can group together and ban someone if it comes down to that. There is also the treat of dressing up your mouse in clothing you can buy with cheese in the shop, which is why you are collection cheese in the first place. Although it’s not much more then collecting cheese, it’s very addictive.

Servers:

http://www.transformice.com/en/
http://www.transformice.com/en2/

Double Dragon NES

2010-07-28T04:00:00.000-07:00

Double dragon was made in 1987 as an arcade game, later ported to the NES, the Sega systems as well as various other home consoles and handhelds. This classic beat ‘em up tests anyone’s skills at video games, as you can see in my game play video I’m not the best at it. Sadly as a kid I did much worse at the game, constantly needing help from my older brother. This is what adds more fun to the game to the game, the two player story mode, or versus mode where two players can fight head to head. It’s also one of few games of its time where two players will appear on screen together in story mode. The game was loads of fun to play back in the late 80’s-90’s and is still a mass enjoyed game loved by people of many age’s. This game has withstood the test of time earning its spot as a classic game.

Pokemon V

2010-04-13T07:40:00.000-07:00

Also known as Pokemon /v/. Like its name insinuates this game is being made by many users over at 4chan on the /v/ideo games board. This game is entirely fan made and a Pokemon game. There aren't just 3 starters; in fact early on in the game you answer a few questions with no right answer, these answers choose your starter pokemon that you may choose from.
I for example had gotten squirtle ,charmander, and bulbasaur as my starters. While my friend got others.

This game is still under development, for a year now, but it's creators kindly accept the help of anyone willing to work. Right now there is a very impressive demo out showing off the story, graphics, characters and more. I urge you to check it out!

http://www.pokemonv.com/ here you can find screen shots, a live chat, forums, progress updates and a download for the demo.

Billy Hatcher And The Giant Egg

2010-01-04T09:35:00.002-08:00

At first glance Billy Hatcher And The Giant Egg looks like a game for kids. Actually many adults play and love this game.

Billy Hatcher is quite the normal kid, he may not be able to do much aside from jumping, but once he get's his chicken suit he becomes rather powerful. With the chicken suit you get to control eggs, which allow you to maneuver the egg in effective ways whether your throwing it or doing a ground pound with it. From these eggs once you feed it enough fruit, you can hatch a creature from it which helps you overcome obstacles and fight off crows.

The plot of the game is the world of chickens called "morning land" has been taken over by evil crows. Billy has been asked by the god of the chickens "menie-funie" to bring the light back to the darkened morning land. To do this on each level you must hatch a golden egg containing each villages elder.

I myself really like this game, there's just something about Billy Hatcher that is just awesome. The game play is really warm and welcoming. Not only is his Chicken suit pretty cool but all of the game is very well designed and very easy on the eyes as far as graphics go. Sadly Billy Hatcher has not received his well deserved sequal. Although the Sonic Team hasn't forgot our young hero just yet because he is a playable character in the upcoming game Sonic & Sega All-Star Racing.

Last but not least here is some game play of the first level of Billy Hatcher And The Giant Egg.

Star Wars Battlefront

2009-12-21T15:02:00.000-08:00

Star Wars Battle Front 1 & 2, Oh what great games for the Play station 2. I still remember playing countless hours of battle front 2; I never played the first one though. I was always playing the instant action battles as opposed to doing the campaign mode. My favorite things to do were to play on hoth and fly around, or steal an enemy AT-AT since I would always play as the rebels. Other then that I absolutely loved the space battles; at one point I got so good I was unstoppable during a space chase.

The Campaign mode basically you verse the enemy trying to take over the universe and all the planets in it. This was settled by having a battle every time your planet was attack, and if you won you kept/claimed the planet and if you lost you lose/didn't conquer the planet.

Then there was the instant action battles which allowed you to choose where you wanted to battle and what part of the saga. I for one would always fight on hoth because i loved taking down the AT-AT's. there was also a world where it was full jedi vs sith battles which got rid of having to unlock the jedi or sith lord during battle. This battle would be full of force powers and it was quite the experience.

In the summer of 09 it was announced by IGN that the company that was making star wars battlefront 3 has gone bankrupt and dropped the project, according to Wikipedia another company has picked up the project and is continuing it.

Luckily for now we have got Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squad to play for the psp, which plays like the first two star wars battlefront games which is a great edition to the series.

Dragon Ball Z

2009-11-03T20:21:00.000-08:00

Alot of people grew up with the show Dragon Ball and its follower Dragon Ball Z.
We loved this show and when games for the PlayStation 2 were coming out we went crazy. Dragon Ball Z Budokai was pretty damn fun, fighting your way through the sayain saga and the fFreiza saga and the cell saga, playing as all your favorite hero's and re-living fights. It sure was great. then Dragon Ball ZBudokai 2 came out which had all the same stuff but also had the Majin Buu saga, We forgave it for repeating the beginning but it only made sense for it to have it. Next up came Budokai 3 which had super sayain 4 Goku and Omega Shenron, once again we had to fight from the beginning of the series which after doing it twice got boring. Then the Tenkaichi games came with the 3D fighting,It felt like a brand new game even tho we were just fighting the same characters again. after that i just stoped paying attention to the games because i knew that its just going to be the same old thing over and over with a couple of new characters thrown in.

Once again a new dragon ball z game is coming out, infinite world, this actually looks pretty good and is going to have 70 playable characters from what i heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIeS2KU8OPQ

It definitely looks like a game worth playing and I'm looking forward to it. What i do expect from future games is maybe one will start with the dragon ball series and work its way up to GT? Well just have to wait and see.

Assassins Creed

2009-10-29T07:50:00.000-07:00

In November of 2007 a lot of gamers were busy playing Assassins Creed. Everyone was talking about how awesome it was, running around cities; jumping from platform to platform. Everything about this game was great. The first time you climb up a view point tower, you look out and you've got the entire city beneath your feet, you feel on top of the world, like you've done something completely awesome.

Remember the first time you did a leap of faith? How awesome it was to see your character plunging to the ground from hundreds of feet in the air, the camera zooms in, and then you have your nice soft landing in a pile of hay.

The missions made sense and were fun, run around gather information on someone, save a civilian, interrogate information out of someone, pick pocket someone, or ease drop on someones conversation to see what your target is up to.

All of this was fun for a little while, then the repetitiveness kicked in, only 4 different types of missions, having to do the same thing in in each town over and over. Most of the game was just going out gather information then go kill your target, sometimes it was simple and boring, but some targets ran, which made it fun to have to chase them through town on roof tops. But even then the controls are bland, on screen everything looks awesome, scaling buildings, jumping from object to object, but all your doing is holding the a button pushing forward and hitting the action button. It gets kind of boring if you ask me. But having too much buttons to press can be a bit complicated and may scare some people away. At least the story was somewhat interesting and had its twists, which is what had me constantly playing the game until the end. oh how the end teased you, which brings us to know there is going to be an Assassins Creed 2. Even though we definitely now know there will be one.

here's the trailer for Assassins creed 2 in case you havent seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVWhWsgHzKM

In this game you play as another ancestor. It takes place during the renaissance and you take part yet again in shaping the history of the world. As you can tell from the trailer this assassin named Ezio has all of his fingers unlike altair, which could mean that Ezio wasnt originally planning on being an assassin, until the death of his father like the trailer points out. Unlike Altiair ; Ezio has 2 hidden blades, I guess killing your target with one blade wasnt enough. But the graphics look stunning, the plotline sounds interesting,Were just going to have to wait and see on November 17, 2009.

turned 18 today and modern warefare 2

2009-10-28T05:21:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, as some of you may know today is my 18th birthday. Yay for me, to bad its raining out, but hey at least i get cake.

So anyway now for the actual interesting part. Everyones seen the leaked footaged for modern warefare 2. If you havent here it is http://www.liveleak.com/item?a=view&token=364_1256689255
Also if you dont want any of the game spoiled for you then dont watch the video or read the rest of this blog.

*WARNING SPOILERS*

So the leaked footage starts you off in the airport as a terrorist, your goal is to maul down every civilian there whose trying to run or just not quite dead yet. Basically its an Airport Terror Simulator.
I'm kinda wondering if this game is gonna last very long because what government would want that kind of game in their country, sorry this probably means you Australia seeing as how left 4 dead 2 was banned. I also cant wait to see the media blow this completely out of the water saying you are forced to kill innocent people. At no point does it force you to shoot, at no point are you even forced to play the game; so hey if you don't want to do it then don't play the game. They probably wont even go into actual details like the fact that your an undercover CIA operative disguised as a terrorist. But i still see this getting banned in Australia, Germany and New Zeland. Because apparently killing people in a video game is bad. Hopefully its not ReCalled in America and changed like fallout 3 and the morphine being changed to Med-X. And don't even get me started with GTA, if you can steal a car from a little old lady and think its priceless, but then think its wrong to kill civilians in a shooting game, well that just wouldn't make much sense now would it? Like I said before you don't have to kill anyone, I'm sure your AI partners would be more then happy to do it for you. But like any other game I for one am looking foward to playing this game.

well thats about it for now, sure hope nothing gets changed its fine how it is, world just needs to stop being so sensitive about video games.

A New Start.

2009-10-26T20:15:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,

My name would be Kevin, i decided i wanted to give blogging a try. I hope to cover a wide range of topics like current events, current fads, things going on in my life, random things Ive been thinking about. Ill even ramble on about some stuff you guys may be interested in and tell you guys about stuff. I am open to ideas so if anyone has idea's on any topics they would like to see done ill gladly give it a try.