Borderlands

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Maria Barr

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Ever since little dwarfs father passed away he has been very much mesmerized into finding the family treasure, but truth be told it’s not going to be easy, after all our little dwarf is so little and his quest he is when it comes to to take on is an exceedingly long journey, he will need energy and endurance to finish it.

Get ready casual games because yet another retro arcade platform game has been released, and I might add a very fun one indeed. Endeavor is a simple pixel adventure game regarding a dwarf who must search for gems and other interesting collectables to help him along on his quest.

The game little dwarf has such simple graphics with interactional characters you may talk to along the way. Try to locate characters who need support along the way, if you take time to help you they will give you items for you to use on your quest, keep looking for those gems!

Some of the items are a little difficult to find, numerous humans tend to have trouble finding items like the parachute, lightning attack and the tiger, if you are having trouble locating gems or other collectables you may refer to the endeavor walkthrough for further and added tips and solutions.

According to the developer the game was produced in roughly a month, very impressive taking into account how nice everything ran for me the primary time, galore users did complain in regards to a bug/lag issue for the duration of the flower share of the game, it turns out it was just a save point, this bug has been fixed so everything will have to be working fine as of now.

Overall the game is a well made platform game suitable and gratifying for all ages. If you take pleasure in adventure games such as Mario and other puzzle games with a bit of a challenge/twist you will unquestionably get enjoyment from endeavor, anyways hope you find the review helpful, feel free to check it out sometime on your free time.

Borderlands

Gearbox Software has developed revolutionary new engineering to construct Borderlands’ unbelievable layers of gameplay depth. Borderlands features a groundbreaking content generation system permitting for near-endless potpourri in missions, environments, enemies, weapons, item drops and reputation customization.

Amazon Sales Rank: #698 in Video Games
Brand: 2K Games
Model: 39329
Published on: 2009-09-30
Released on: 2009-10-20
ESRB Rating: Mature
Platform: Xbox 360
Number of items: 1
Dimensions: .50″ h x 5.25″ w x 7.50″ l, .25 pounds

Borderlands supports 2-4 players by way of Xbox LIVE.
Borderlands is built from the ground up to be an intuitive co-operative experience for up to four players that rewards players who work together and invest in co-op skills. Split screen is also supported.
In this rpg shooter, choose one of four distinct characters, each with their own person skill sets. As your reputation grows all around this fast-paced FPS, you choose and custommake your abilities to suit your style of play.
Jump behind the wheel and engage in high-speed vehicle-to-vehicle combat, finish with spectacular explosions and road-killed enemies.
Choose from in a literal sense hundreds of thousands of weapons, each with their own manufacturers, specifications, and vantages by way of a revolutionary content generation system.

A sci-fi/action RPG from acclaimed developer Gearbox, Borderlands combines the best in first-person action gaming with constituents of a traditionalisti role-playing game (RPG). The excitement of this hybridization is further magnified by the game’s groundbreaking content generation scheme which allows for a near-endless assortment in missions, environments, enemies, weapons, item drops and reputation customization, making the game’s single player, multiplayer and online campaigns not to be missed. .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -15px; } table.callout { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1. 3em; } td.vgoverview { height: 125px; background: #9DC4D8 url(http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 250px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; }

FPS/RPG hybrid gameplay in 'Borderlands'

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Story
In a distant future, the planets at the outer edges of the galaxy have become a beacon to fortune seekers and those yearning for a better life off world. But there are no warrants in deep space. Pandora, one of these distant planets, was reported to be rich in undeveloped solid homogeneous inorgani substance wealth, and so drew galore hoping to get rich quick, but in the end little was found beyond the scattered ruins of a past alien civilization. With not one thing to gain, any who could soon abandoned Pandora, leaving those who remained to deal with the lawlessness of a world gone bust, and the mystery of the long-dead alien civilization. But as chaotic as these times were, there were worse days yet to come. After assorted years the planet’s big orbit tardily brought it near to it is sun and once unknown and horrifying creatures sprang from their long hibernation to terrify the stranded colonists. The only hope of the colonists seems to be a vault came upon in the side of a mountainside, rumored to integrate alien technology and mysteries with regards to Pandora. Will this invention be the colonist’s salvation or their end? Discover their fate in Borderlands.

Gameplay
As in a established RPG, Borderlands is built around the continual leveling of characters as they delve into quests. These quests include both story-driven adventures and side quests that offer players rewards such as items exclusive to quest completion and/or forward motion of the story. Players may look forward to action set in both single player and multiplayer modes–including co-op play–as well as vehicular combat, in a literal sense thousands of dissimilar types of weapons that modify each time you play and randomly generated maps and map features.

Playable Characters
Borderlands features assorted playable characters, each with it is own distinguishable backstory, abilities and skills. Skills may be leveled up, permitting for betterment of things like health, accuracy with weapons and capacity for items. In addition to this, characters possess distinguishable skill tree development, ensuring that each will develop differently disregarding of time spend leveling them up.

Key Game Features

Co-op Design – Borderlands is built from the ground up to be an exciting, intuitive co-operative experience for up to four players simultaneously that rewards players who work together and invest in co-op skills. Split screen is also supported.
FPS Gameplay – In this role-playing shooter, choose one of four distinct characters, each with their own person skill sets. As your reputation grows all around this fast-paced FPS, you choose and custommake your abilities to suit your style of play.
Art Style – The game’s distinguishable art style combines conventional rendering proficiencies with hand-drawn textures to paint a bold and eye-catching spun on the FPS genre.
Vehicular Combat – Jump behind the wheel and engage in high-speed vehicle-to-vehicle combat, finish with spectacular explosions and road-killed Skags.
Frontier Planet – Search the wasteland planet of Pandora for the legendary alien vault. Fight your way through bandits, discover nine native (and aggressive) creatures, and help the few settlers on the planet in your search for a Vault rumored to integrate a great prize – if it even exists.
Gun Lust – Choose from in a literal sense hundreds of thousands of weapons, each with their own manufacturers, specifications, and advantages. The revolutionary content generation scheme warrantees that you’ll find closely infinite tools of destruction to suit your play style.
Online Multiplayer Support – Borderlands supports 2-4 players thru Xbox LIVE.

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156 of 167 people found the following review helpful.
Phat Lewtz
By T. Edwards
Borderlands has so far proved to be an immensely enjoyable game delivering in many ways where Gearbox promised. I feel it will be equally appealing to fans of shooters and dungeon crawlers alike.

76 of 85 people found the following review helpful.
Shoot and Loot
By Bruul
So I got my copy of Borderlands last night and played up to level 11. Here are my impressions one day in.

-The game is beautiful. I personally love the cartoony style of the graphics. Extremely detailed and even the barren wasteland is nice to look at. The characters while not customizable are all highly detailed as well and look great. You can change the name and colors, that’s about it.

-Controls are excellent. Feels like COD4 with a few changes. Any FPS player can pick it up and play very easily. The one vehicle I’ve seen so far controls exactly like a warthog from halo.

-Guns, guns, guns. Only a few hours in and I’ve seen so many kinds of guns I can’t count them. One of the best parts of the game is that you’ll never know what will drop out of the next enemy. Could be that acid rocket shotgun you’ve been waiting for! The pure crazines of the weapons is awesome.

-Story. What story? Your looking for a vault full of alien technology. That’s it so far. If your looking for deep story, this is not the game for you. Try Fallout 3. On that note, this game is nothing like Fallout. Other than the fact that both games are set in a wasteland like place in the future there is no comparison. It’s more like COD4/Halo meets Diablo/Baldurs Gate.

-Co-op. Tried the co-op last night and it was the best online experiance I’ve ever had. I sent my friend an invite and he joined my game with his levleed up character. No lobby, no re-loading, he just appeared in my game, we played for a few hours and when he left I was back to single player. All seamless. Amazing. Can’t wait to try it with four players.

-In the couple of hours I played it I was glued to the XBOX360. If I didn’t have to work today I would have played all night. Now that’s a sign of a good game. Well spent 60.00. I’m sure I’ll more than get my monies worth on this one for a long time to come. With four characters that you’ll not likely max out on the first play through this game has some legs to stand on. Enjoy.

156 of 180 people found the following review helpful.
Almost great, picky gamers beware
By T. Caughey
I wish I could give this game three and a half stars but I can’t. I also wish that I could climb aboard the “this game is amazing” train but I can’t do that either. To be clear: this is a fun game and if you enjoy copious loot and you’re FPS/RPG hybrid genre fan I’d recommend this game, even at retail price. On the other hand if you find yourself leaning more one way or the other in terms of either a solid FPS or a real PRG then there are safer bets coming down the line for your $60. It’s a good game but it just didn’t live up to the hype more for decisions that the design team seemed to have made than for any failing in execution.

With that said everything that Gearbox set out to do it looks like they accomplished. The game looks great, the mechanics are solid, the audio is good and the art direction is absolutely fantastic. I’m also happy to say that with the exception of some very questionable decisions regarding pop up windows in split-screen play there are no bugs or obvious quality control oversights. This game is highly polished, a treasure to look at and smooth to play. Technically speaking this is quality software. From here on out if it seems I’m ragging on this game a little hard it’s because there are already a ton of 5 star reviews on here so it’s easy to find emphasis on the better aspects of the game if one desires.

The problem with Borderlands is that it doesn’t really do any single thing really well. It’s not a solid combat FPS and the RPG elements are so insignificant they’re essentially just a mildly customizable scaling system. The vehicles also appear more an afterthought than anything. There aren’t enough options to really customize your character and leveling decisions are more tactical considerations than broad gameplay choices. There’s just no role play in the role play. There are also exactly zero interesting or functionally interactive NPCs, the towns are simply a series of empty buildings and vending machines where you conduct business transactions. The few NPCs that do exist are immobile “come here and get you next quest” cut-outs. Borderlands is a dead world alright, just not in a good way. This is very disappointing and retro in an age of complex NPC AI and living, breathing worlds. There appears to have been a design decision along that way that “more is better”. I’d generally agree but here that ends up being a “tons of guns” gimmick that only leads to you simply hauling “tons of guns” back to vending machines to sell, only looking at their price tag. The other thing this leads to is a long series of uninspired missions that are largely “go here, collect item/kill boss, return”. With little or no depth to the missions they quickly start to feel less like a series of epic quests and more like a list of errands.

The FPS combat element is only adequate. Again, the feel is retro. The level deign is very dated with transition points between maps which are largely a series of canyons or other linear pathways interrupted by bizarrely unpleasant loading screens. Often at the end of the canyon is a load point which takes you into a building. Guess where that widget you have to find is? Yep, at the back the building in the big room with the boss. At least you won’t get lost, there’s generally only one way in or out. In the day of open, persistent outside worlds this is pretty unacceptable for a top shelf game(paging Bethesda). The enemies along the way have sufficient by undeniably rudimentary AI. The number of animations is limited and the group tactics non-existent so instead of fighting groups of enemies that work together and utilize cover and flank you instead you just fight multiple independent enemies simultaneously that strafe back and forth and advance or retreat depending on their health. It’s rather uninspired and the game uses a leveling system for enemies that radically alters the game’s formula for dealing and being dealt damage. This is used to prevent you from “playing ahead” by having enemies that are almost impossible to defeat without leveling. Having all your FPS skills be thrown out the window because you can only do 10 damage per shot instead of 50 and you take 50 instead of 10 because the game wants you to be a lvl 20 and you’re “only” a 17 is frustrating. Die hard FPS traditionalists will also be very unhappy with the HALO like shields and the checkpoint save system. Oh, and your little robot helpers are a blatant rip off of Grrr from Invader Zim.

Still, with all my complaints this is a solid game. It’s fun and can draw you in. On top of that there is more than enough unique gaming hours in it to justify a purchase instead of a rental. Bottom line: FPS fans would be better served waiting for Modern Warfare 2 and RPG and RPG hybrid fans should wait for Dragon Age but it’s still a safe bet if you have time and money to burn.

Pros:
*Very polished, had no bugs. Quality coding.
*Beautiful art direction and smooth, engaging graphics.
*Simple, fun controls.
*Very large world, plenty of unique game play hours for your buck.
*Achieves “just one more quest” syndrome at times.
*Easy learning curve.

Subjective qualities and food for thought:
*Very light on RPG elements, this isn’t Deus Ex or Fallout 3.
*Not a run and gun shoot ‘em blood and guts ride.
*Not a lot of variety in the loot just guns/shields/mods.
*Tons of guns. More likely to be sold to a vending machine than shot at anyone though.
*Check point save system.
*Shields.

Cons:
*Irritating inventory.
*Simple AI.
*No interesting NPCs, no interactive world.
*Little true character customization.
*Vehicles end up as mere transportation.
*Dated level design.
*Unreasonable level scaling system that takes away from the FPS element.
*Boring story.
*Slow to start.

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Jack’s House

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Everett Green

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Magic Jack is a newcomer to the VOIP (voice over internet protocol) family of internet phoning. It’s quick to install, easy to use and the price can’t be beat for making limitless local and long distance calls in the United States and Canada. But is Magic Jack too good to be true?

Like most products, Magic Jack has it’s good points and it’s not-so-good points. It will be up to you to determine what is most essential to you in internet phoning and to choose the product that ought to work best in your situation.

Magic Jack Pros

Low cost to undertake out. For $39.95 plus shipping and handling, you receive the USB device and the license to use it for unlimited local and long distance calling for one year. Each further and added year is $19.95. There are likewise multi-year packages to buy at a discount.

International calls may be free if you are calling someone who also has the device. For example, if you have a family fellow member that lives in another country, you may buy a Magic Jack and mail it to them. Then you may call them for free and they may call anyplace in the US and Canada free.

Includes a good deal of features such as voice mail, caller ID, call waiting, call forwarding, 411 and 911.

Save on your cell phone minutes by using it to make calls from home.

Uses any ordinary landline telephone, including cordless phones. Headsets and your computer microphone and speakers may likewise be used.

Magic Jack Cons

Your computer has to be turned on to use Magic Jack.

Service may be intermittent. New company with growing pains, I don’t commend relying on it for your only phone.

Directory assistance, or 411 is promotion based if you call it from your phone. If clicking on the soft phone screen that lives on your desktop, you are taken to a web internetsite to look up phone numbers.

911 is through a dissimilar system than the 911 you call from a regular telephone. When setting up your Magic Jack it will ask you the physical emplacement of your phone in case of calling 911. Until this service is a lot more stable, I would not rely on their 911 in an emergency. Another reason for keeping your landline phone.

If your internet service does not work for the duration of a power outage, you will be without this phone service also. Unless you have a cell phone that will work, this is another reason not to cancel your landline phone service. Make sure you keep a phone that doesn’t use electricity on hand for emergencies.

As with most or all voip services, you must have a high speed internet connection to use this service. These services include broadband, DSL, WiFi, FIOS, cable internet or WiMax. It is not commended for use with satellite internet.

If you are mesmerized in having a service that allows you to make free long distance calls, give Magic Jack a try. If dumping your current landline phone service is what you need, investigate the other VOIP services that are available and that have a longer track record of performance.

Jacks House

Construction-equipment loving boys will adore this humourous twist on the classic nursery rhyme. Someone has done a lot of work building a house. Someone has been operating a cement mixer, driving a bulldozer, and using a forklift to build walls, frame windows, and nail down a roof. Someone has built a big, strong home for Jack. But is this the house that Jack built? One tired puppy dog disagrees in this story when it comes to getting what you work for.

From School Library JournalPreSchool-Grade 2—A fantasti twist on an age-old rhyme. This book actually focuses on the building of the house, and the a great deal of hands (or paws) that it takes to make it. You see, while Jack the homeowner (a human) takes credit for it is construction, it is genuinely Max, a hardworking frequent contractor dog, and a number of other skilled canine laborers, who do all the work. So at the end of the story, it’s easy to understand why Max gets a little trouble at Jack resting on his laurels at the finished site. What he does to Jack results in a laugh-out-loud moment and a neat flip of the ongoing power struggle amongst builder and owner. Wohnoutka’s full-page acrylic paintings are big scale, but are likewise full of little details for readers to enjoy. The vehicles that drive up to the web site delivering materials and excavating are rugged and tough, likeable to the construction enthusiasts, but the soaring house is the centerpiece of the story, and Max’s care in building it is obvious. This beguiling book will be a hit both at storytimes and in circulating collections, for those who actually want to know how Jack’s house got built.—Susan E. Murray, Glendale Public Library, AZ
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Review”Delivers in spades.” (Kirkus Reviews )

“A terrifi twist on an age-old rhyme….This beguiling book will be a hit both at storytimes and in circulating collections, for those who in truth want to know how Jack’s house got built.” (School Library Journal )

About the AuthorKaren Magnuson Beil is a former reporter for Chicago’s City News Bureau and has also worked as an editor and science writer. She has written various books for children; including “Fire in Their Eyes”. A New England native, she now lives in New York State with her family.

Mike Wohnoutka has been creating art since his childhood. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, he has illustrated “Cowboy Sam and Those Confounded Secrets”, “The Foot-Stomping Adventures of Clementine Sweet”, as well as a number of other books for children. He and his family live in Minneapolis.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great Illustrations and Words with Rhythm
By Elizebeth Wheeler
With humor and a gift for writing descriptive vocabulary, Karen Magnuson Beil has written a delightful book for young children. The words have a wonderful beat and is fun to read aloud. This is the real story of how Jack’s house was built and all the different trucks, equipment and materials that were used. Mike Wohnoutka’s pictures are colorful and full of detail, right down to the flames on the pick-up truck and tools on Max’s tool belt. This book is the best I’ve seen lately for young children and I can’t WAIT to read it to my first graders this fall. The girls will love it as much as the boys because it is so much fun. I know my class will laugh out loud as I read the ending too!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great for kids who love trucks
By Mindy
My two-year old son loves this book. He’s one of those boys who’s crazy about transportation and the great thing about this book is it not only identifies what each truck is called, but it shows it doing a specific job to help build a house.

The illustrations are cute, bright and attractive; the words are simple and repetitive enough that my son has memorized it already.

I see that other reviewers think this book sends a bad moral message but honestly, I didn’t even think that until I came here. This is how I saw the events of the book happening:

1. At the beginning it has a picture of a house and the text says “This is the house that Jack said he built.”
2. Through pictures we see Jack owns a dog named Max. Jack has a house built but the dog does all the work while Jack lazes about in a hammock and doesn’t lift a finger.
3. When it’s all done, the dog gets a little miffed and has Jack (in his hammock) hauled away in a pick-up truck.
4. Finally, the last page says that it is a house that *Max* built.

Nowhere does it indicate any “stealing” happens. The dog built the house, not the owner Jack. It never says Jack doesn’t live there, or that the dog now owns the house.

I think when adults impose their moral interpretation on books meant for children, things can go awry. We see malice when all children are concentrating on are the cars and the cute dogs.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Who is Jack?
By Shirley A. Renaud
Truly intriguing illustrations in Jack’s House capture the attention of the reader even before the story does. The colors are vibrant and clear with beautiful detail on every page. From scraping the land before the cellar is dug to nailing the shingles on the roof, this book is interesting to my grandchildren. A bulldozer scrapes dirt, walls are bricked, trucks bring supplies and the house gets built. There’s a play on words that is totally missed by my young children, but it’s humorous to the adult reader. Entertaining as well as informative, this is a book worth sharing.

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Maniac Sports

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Rylan Burton

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How much may take place to one boy in the space of a few years of his life? A lot, if you are the stuff that legends are made of. The legend is Jeffrey Lionel Magee, likewise known as Maniac Magee, in the book by the same name, by Jerry Spinelli.

He was born in an ordinary house, to general parents. But when a trolley crashed into the river, killing them, Jeffrey’s life begun to change. He was sent to live with his Uncle Dan and Aunt Dot, who lived together but shared not one thing and never spoke to each other.

After eight years of this, one day Jeffrey started screaming for the duration of a school play. Then he left the auditorium, running, and he never stopped.

Thus begun his life as a homeless child. He found himself in the black division of town, with a girl who hauled her entire library in a suitcase, back and forth to school. After he pleaded with her, Amanda in the end lent him one book to read.

After that, the stories with regards to him began. He was the only boy…ever…ever!…to not be scared to enter Finsterwald’s back yard. If you lost your baseball or model airplane because it flew over the fence into his back yard, you didn’t dare go in there to retrieve it. Nobody would deliver papers there. Nobody would shovel that sidewalk, not even for a zillion dollars.

But Jeffrey Magee wasn’t afraid. He rescued Arnold when a lot of high school kids were attempting to throw him, screaming, over the fence into Finsterwald’s back yard. These things, plus his athletic feats, are what started persons calling him “Maniac,” and the name stuck.

But he didn’t have a home. He jumped the fence at night to sleep with buffalos at the zoo. He snuck into Mrs. Pickwell’s house for dinner each now and then, and not anyone thought anything was wrong, because they had so a lot of kids to commence with, and ordinarily a couple of friends over as well, that everyone figured he was just someone else’s friend.

More than anything, though, this is a story of Maniac and the friends he makes, the fights he fights, and the challenges he faces. So much happens to him, there’s more stuff in here than an encyclopedia.

The chapters are short, and the way the persons and events in his life weave together as the book goes on is interesting. Through it all, Maniac keeps running, running, running, looking for a place and people to go home to.

This has been a general book with kids since it was published in 1990. Part of it is just that there is so much going on, and share of it is that Maniac and the things he does are so unusual. Kids may relate to his not sentiment like he belongs anywhere, yet he keeps trying.

It’s a hard book to categorize. It’s not genuinely regarding sports, though there is numerous baseball and running in it. It touches on racism, but that’s not the biggest portion of the story, either. You’ll have to read Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli, yourself, to see what you think.

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Madden 2005

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Reed Patrick

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The most notorious sports video game of the year is available. Many critics and even consecrated Madden fans have been perturbed with Madden lately because they have been the same old Madden. Some would even go as far as to say that there has not been numerous progressed features after Madden 2005 (which introduced the hit stick). Others believe that Electronic Arts is not endeavoring to make the best NFL game because there is no competition. Since EA purchased the exclusive NFL rights, they have been making the same old Madden video games. Madden 2008 is an exception to that rule because it is brilliant.

After an intermediate three iterations of Madden that have disappointed fans, Madden 2008 will unquestionably please fans. The visuals are awful on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but they are frightening on the Nintendo Wii. Players will observe is that the more or less vexing Tony Bruno is no longer doing his absurd radio show, and the gratuitous newspaper info is nowhere to be seen. The gameplay is more liquid than former iterations of Madden. Gamers will realize that the players do not arbitrarily run around the field like Bobby Brown addicted to crack cocaine anymore. There have been galore minor alterations to the hit stick; moreover, high and low tackles may be executed. The pass rush is more realistic in Madden 2008 than in Madden 2007.

You can not suppose to pick up the blitz with only five offensive linemen; you ned to modify your shelter and blocking schemes. Quarterbacks will be more precocious because high IQ quarterbacks like Peyton Manning will be capable to see what play the defense is running. To counter this, defenders with high IQ will be capable to view what play the offense is running. Players with low intelligence like Michael Vick (dog killer) will not be capable to read defenses. This feature is only available if the defense or offense runs the same three of four plays each time, but it is still a nice touch and prevents any team from running the same plays each time. Offensively, the spotlight stick has been revamped; more maneuvers may be performed on your way to scoring a touchdown. This is unbelievable because it reduces contemplating what to do next on the field. Wide receivers have some brand new things to do as well.

Spectacular catches and possession catches may be employed in Madden 2008. Many expert Madden fans will realize that each receiver plays differently. For instance, Hines Ward will try a conservative catch because he is a possession receiver. Conversely, Torry Holt will undertake an aggressive catch because he is a spectacular receiver. Another factor when it comes to receivers is the chess match with defenses. For example, Terrell Owens (the guy who sabotaged the Eagles 2005-2006 year and helped the New York Giants win their division) will be much more comfortable to play bump and run coverage than a swift receiver like Steve Smith.

This is because Terrell Owens is an requiring little effort player to press at the line of scrimmage. The same rule applies for Randy Moss. Substitutions are more of a factor in Madden 2008 than last season. Teams like the New Orleans Saints will run a two back system, and Reggie Bush will share the load with Deuce Mcallister. Superstar mode has been overhauled in Madden 2008.

Players will have more control on the rating of their produced Superstar. He will compete in 40 yard dashes, lift weight, and respective other drills to bolster his attributes. This is much more proficient than the asinine DNA mode which was random. Subtle icons are shown beneath each player to accentuate their field of expertise. For example, Brett Favre has a rocket under his name because he has “rocket arm.” Overall, Madden 2008 has given even the most novice NFL fans something to be elated about. It seems that the Madden franchise is at last heading in the right direction.

Final verdict: 8.5 out of 10

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Fallout 3 Game Of The Year Edition

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Keven Harvey

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When The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was freed for the Xbox 360 in 2006, it was considered by some to be the best role playing game of the year. Fortunately, PlayStation 3 owners will now be competent to delve into the world of Tamriel. Oblivion is based on a user invented reputation that is immersed in a world of tyranny. The gamers role is to find an heir to the throne because the former heir was murdered. As a result, the gates to the Oblivion open. Consequently, nefarious demons come from these gates and attack innocent civilians. Players must find a way to find the heir and prevent the destruction of Tamriel. The game starts by customizing your reputation from the ground up. This entails race, gender, class, and traits (ala Jade Empire). A few of the classes include thieves, warriors, and wizards. Each class has their own pros and cons. For instance, a thief will be proficient in pilfering items. A warrior will be an astounding fighter, and a wizard will be a brilliant spell caster.

The gameplay is where Oblivion genuinely shines. It is more than a linear role playing game. One factor of the game that sticks out like a sore thumb is the exploration. There are a plethora of video games that give you an objective, and you have to see it through until the end. That is not the case with Oblivion. Players are in control of when they want to further the main storyline. In regards to the main storyline, you will be encountering a myriad of malicious monsters that want to crush Tamriel. Gamers may follow the main plot, or they may fool around with the seemingly endless reputation interactions. What would a role playing game be without side-quests? Nothing. Luckily, Oblivion does a noteworthy occupation of giving you a laundry list of optional missions to complete. One of the optional missions may be to retrieve an item. But it is not as rudimentary as that. While recovering the item, you might be ambushed by galore thugs or creatures. I would spend so much time away from the main storyline that I forgot all with regards to it. Secret caves and dungeons are places that are scattered all around the world of Oblivion.

The combat in Oblivion feels more like a introductory person shooter than a unfeigned role playing game. You may attack with respective magic spells, swords, arrows, and so much more. For example, gamers may assail a foe from afar with magic or arrows. After that, they may close in on their contestant with a sword attack. Having versatile combat like that is unexampled for a role playing game. Sometimes you do not even have to fight. Stealth may be employed in order to circumvent your way through the next stage in the game. The audio in the game is not bad. The sounds of weapons hitting versus each other do sound realistic.

All of the dialog in the game is spoken. In contrast to the lifeless reading of text in role playing games like Zelda and Final Fantasy. Conversely, a good deal of of the same voices are applied for multiple characters. The visuals in Oblivion on the PlayStation 3 are marginally better than on the Xbox 360. Frame rate flaws on the PlayStation 3 edition are slim when equated to the Xbox 360 iteration. Loading screens are no longer a concern with the release of the game on the PlayStation 3. If any individual came all over a loading screen in the Xbox 360 adaptation of the game, he or she could have more than sufficient time to make a sandwich and eat it. Unlike the Xbox 360 version, there is minimal load times allround the duration of Oblivion on the PlayStation 3. Overall, Oblivion is an epic role playing game from beginning to end. Over forty hours of gameplay is well worth anyone’s time.

final verdict 9 out of 10

Fallout 3 Game Of The Year Edition

Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition X360

Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactional reproduction of Wasteland life for you to receive pleasure from from the ease of your own vault. Included is an expansive world, distinguishable combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an unbelievable cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival versus the terrors of the outside world – radiation, Super Mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. From Vault-Tec, America’s First Choice in Post Nuclear Simulation.

_{PUBLISHER: Bethesda Softworks
DEVELOPER: Bethesda Game Studios
RELEASE DATE: 10/13/2009
PLATFORM: Xbox 360™ / PLAYSTATION®3 systems, Games for Windows
GENRE: Post Nuclear Role-Playing}

With Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a reputation of your choosing and descend into an awe inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where each minute is a fight for survival. Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition includes the initial game as well as all five of the Fallout 3 Game Add-on Packs:

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Operation Anchorage Enter a military simulation and fight in the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from it is Chinese Communist invaders. &nbsp	The Pitt Travel to the post-apocalyptic remains of Pittsburgh and become embroiled in a conflict among slaves and their Raider masters.	Broken Steel Increase your level cap to 30, and finish the fight versus the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime. &nbsp &nbsp	Point Lookout Embark on a mysterious and open-ended adventure in a huge, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland. &nbsp	Mothership Zeta Defy hostile alien abductors and fight your way off of the alien mothership, orbiting miles above the Capital Wasteland. &nbsp
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About Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks, portion of the ZeniMax Media Inc. family of companies, is a premier developer and global publisher of interactional amusement software. Titles from two of the world’s top development studios – Bethesda Game Studios and id Software – are featured beneath the Bethesda Softworks label and include such blockbuster franchises as DOOM®, QUAKE®, The Elder Scrolls®, Fallout®, Wolfenstein™ and RAGE™. For more info on Bethesda Softworks’ products, visit www.bethsoft.com. Fallout and Fallout: New Vegas are trademarks or registered trademarks of Bethesda Softworks LLC in the U.S. and/or other countries. All Rights Reserved.

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160 of 167 people found the following review helpful.
A great deal. Must buy if you’ve never tried Fallout 3 before.
By Sergio S. Lamadrid
This is the 3rd time I’ve tried Fallout 3, and I must say, the third time’s a charm.

57 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
Bethesda Strikes Again
By Postman35
In 2007, I purchased Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Game of the Year Edition) after finally jumping into this generations gaming systems. Close to 400 hours later, I decided that game was the best value for my money in terms of content, quality, and overall fun that I would ever play.

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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Angelo Wolfe

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The notorious Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 at long last makes it is way to PlayStation 3 owners. The game is more than an abysmal port from the Xbox 360 (ala FEAR). Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 on the PlayStation 3 is almost identical to the Xbox 360 version. In Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, players reprise their role as Scott Mitchell (leader of the Ghosts).

The storyline in the game is regarding Mexico and nuclear weapons. The protagonist (Scott Mitchell) and his squad is sent to Mexico to neutralize the terrorist threat. The gameplay ranges from the much maligned escort mission to the more engrossing eradicating your adversaries mission. All of the tasks from the Xbox 360 game like taking cover, and exploiting the Mule drone remains intact in the PlayStation 3 game. The six axis controller gives players the capacity to dodge, dive, and carry out evasive maneuvers instantaneously.

This is peculiarly utile when you are attempting to shoot, give orders to your teammates, and move simultaneously.The six axis controller was imposed perfectly in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2. This is unquestionably a welcome addition to the more or less cumbersome controller of the Xbox 360. There are some more multiplayer maps that are available as well. Graphically, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 adaptations of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 are clones. There is no decrease in the frame rate on the PlayStation 3; the game runs at a nice and smooth frame rate allround the duration of the game. The audio holds up nicely on the PlayStation 3.

Radio chatter will make gamers feel like they are in a war zone. Overall, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 is merely a mild betterment on the PlayStation 3 than on the Xbox 360 due to the controls and multiplayer.

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Lego Rock Bands

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Brayden Cohen

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“Take Care” is a brilliant hip hop album featuring seventeen (17) hot songs that deliver pure heat. Drake brings intense, penetrating lyrics, captivating beats, and stunning production. The music is always agreeably diverting as each and each song delivers the goods.

The album sets off with “Over My Dead Body” which is a cool track packed with Drake’s thoughts on his journey, and success. It’s a good introduction to the rest of the music to follow. Up next on set is a hot song titled “Shot for Me” which brings relationships into focus in a contextual space most fans may relate. Drake’s lyrics are deep and woven together with threads of realness. The beat has a cool ambiance and is a smooth melodic ride. The album proceeds with a plethora of powerful songs that will captivate and entertain fans. The music featured on “Take Care” highlights Drake’s story telling abilities, and his deliverance which seams effortless down the line. The gems that line this album are bright sufficient to send fans in a crazy dash for their pick axe to get mining on the spot.

The best songs on this album are “Headlines”, “Take Care” featuring Rihanna, “Make Me Proud” featuring Nicki Minaj, “The Real Her” featuring Lil Wayne and Andre 3000, and “Look What You’ve Done”. The leader of the pack is “Take Care” featuring Rihanna. It’s a song that features an uplifting beat, lyrics that are easy to understand and relate with, and a personal and powerful context. Honorable mentions for songs such as “Under Ground Kings”, and “Lord Knows” featuring Rick Ross are a given. These are all stand out tracks that could without apparent effort be singles that fans would devour, praise, and tweet in regards to for days. The beats benediction “Take Care” are always banging with galore songs chill as ice and a lot of scorching hot like fire.

Some hip hop music critics may critique the album for it is number of slower songs as not all the tracks are explosive by the intermediate hip hop heads definition. Whether slow paced or explosive the tracks are dynamite in their own distinguishable way – Cuz they blow up spots regardless. There isn’t one track on “Take Care” that would leave a fan wishing they were hearing impaired; whereas, with most releases there is always one or two songs that do. Some critics may critique, and label the personal nature of the lyrics as gimmicky or cliché but since when is speaking from the heart, rooted in what you believe and experience gimmicky? Other fans would direct those critics to a class called realism 101 for proper schooling.

The contributions from hip hop heavyweights such as Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Andre 3000, Rick Ross, and Birdman add the extra seasoning to heighten this delicious plate of goods that Drake serves up hot to hungry fans with appetites for flavorful hip hop music. Each song featured on this album connects together with it is successor and predecessor songs utterly like Lego. The production on this album is always on-point, hitting the mark with a payback like a professional “angry birds” gamer. The music Drake delivers on this release will sling fans into action to get “Take Care” to connect with his hot hip hop music. “Take Care” is a hard testament to Drakes growth as an artist. Drake keeps the music systematically hot.

“Take Care” is mandatory listening material and a sure shot album that will get heavy rotation for sometime to come. The music is unique, creative, passionate and something dissimilar than most hip hop albums. Drake’s got a lot to say and the music on “Tale Care” commands unseparated listening attention. The album is deep, and personal giving fans a circuit to plug into to charge themselves with Drake’s energy. “Take Care” is one of the best, and brightest hip hop albums freed this year. Sleeping is the recipe for regret.

Track / Song Listing

1. Over My Dead Body

2. Shot For Me

3. Headlines

4. Crew Love

5. Take Care

6. Marvins Room / Buried Alive Interlude

7. Underground Kings

8. We’ll Be Fine

9. Make Me Proud

10. Lord Knows

11. Cameras / Good Ones Go Interlude

12. Doing It Wrong

13. The Real Her

14. Look What You’ve Done

15. HYFR

16. Practice

17. The Ride

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Imperialism 2 Age Of Exploration

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Jasmine Blankenship

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Advancements in technology, valiant journeys, and indispensable people of the Age of Exploration invented an impressive step toward the modern era. Improved technologies, such as the compass, which helped sailors along their journeying to reach their destination, were promoted for the duration of this age. The brave journeys by a heap of men were incredible, like Gil Eanes’ short, but substantial voyage all over the Green Sea of Darkness. In the Age of Exploration, a lot of indispensable people decisive to move beyond their ability, for example Ferdinand Magellan, who circumnavigated the Earth.

Many of the substantial improvements of the engineering science were made for the duration of the Age of Exploration. First, the caravel’s smooth hull, lateen sail and two rudders were bettered by Prince Henry’s designers for the trips that the sailors had to make. The compass, that is essential share of any type of journey, which was used for looking at the direction one was going, was promoted allround this age. Prince Henry’s plan for sailing necessitated the astrolabe, which determined latitude to prepare for their voyage. Improved maps were portion of the technology’s improvements for the duration of the Age of Exploration and were used to find their destination.

Additionally, the valiant journeys of a great deal of essential figures were all very astonishing. Gil Eanes’ voyage all over the Green Sea of Darkness was short, but he was the captain of the basi successful voyage all over the ocean. The well-known traveling of Columbus was an stimulating journeying that led to the Native Americans and discovering of America, which he did not know was America. Journeys of Vasco De Gama were significant because he was the man that begun to go on a tough and a lengthy journey. Magellan’s circumnavigation is one of the most valued voyages of all time because it was not a very high chance of success and numerous of his crew made it.

Finally, the noteworthy figures of this time decisive to go beyond their skills. Prince Henry, the navigator, was the man that destined galore humans and a great deal of engineering science to become an necessary percentage of history. Gil Eanes, the valiant sailor of Portuguese is a respectable person of this time because he was the man the broke the fear of the Green Sea of Darkness. The two people, Columbus and Vasco De Gama, are both gigantic humans that made a great deal of tough and long trips that impacted the history immensely. Lastly, the outstandingly momentous man of this generation would be Magellan with his unrealistic circumnavigation that surpassed respective abilities in his time.

To sum up, a heap of significant accomplishments were accomplished for the duration of this time. Old technologies were modified for the significant figures that made successful journeys in their lifetime. Respectable persons of all time represented this time amount of time showing consummation for the duration of the voyages and improvements. The time amount of time of exploration was an tremendous accomplishment for the venerated people of the time.

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An unknown land unfurls before you. In this scheme game, to become one of Europe’s outstanding powers, you’ll have to parlay this invention into conquest. You’ll be called upon to exploit the New World’s exotic resources and, in doing so, swing the remainder of power to your advantage. An anchor in the New World means this: the riches and resources to dominate Europe once and for all. Strengthen your power base back in Europe. Deploy spies to help stay in front of the engineering curve. Build a formidable military, because you may get more with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone. And don’t forget, the object is to unite Europe under one flag–yours!

GameSpot ReviewImperialism was a bit of a surprise. A low-key, visually stylish economic and military conquest game, it didn’t have much flash, but it had good gameplay in the Civilization/Railroad Tycoon mold.

Imperialism II sticks close to it is roots. The maps and unit graphics are nearly identical to the first, and the rudimentary gameplay is very similar. The main change is in the setting. Instead of playing as a robber baron in the age of industry, you play as a conqueror in the age of exploration. Those are two very dissimilar milieus for a system game, which helps make this feel like a unfeigned sequel rather than an elaboration pack, but just by a whisker.

Developer Frog City has done a great deal of interesting things with the ordinary explore-and-conquer format, grounding it more with resolute determination in history. It is still a turn-based system game with a tactical military element, but the particulars have changed a bit. When you get started a new game, the known world is composed of the “Old World.” This may be either a historical map of Europe or a random map. The Old World is made up of conventional neutral nations. To win, you must control one-half of this Old World. You may do that through military aggression or through economic and diplomatic means.

The rest of the map is made up of the blacked-out, unknown “New World,” which you ought to explore and exploit. Forging confederations with native tribes and at last taking over their land adds not one thing to your total victory requirements, however. If you own the entire New World but still only have control over your introductory nation in the Old World, you won’t win. The intent of the New World is to add to your economic might: Exploitation of New World resources is necessary to funding wars and elaboration in the Old World. It’s an interesting distinction grounded in historical reality. In the time amount of time of the game (1500-1800), the New World’s affect on the Old World was largely one of providing resources and influence. The unfeigned battleground was still Europe.

Other changes to the system reflect the new systems and economic realities of the period. Since this isn’t an industrialized society, there’s no need for mills and factories. Instead, goods are employed for trade and sustaining your population. The population in turn is necessitated to procedure the goods. The most noticeable addition is the ceaseless need to feed your population, which makes agriculture of central importance. Processing raw materials – the core of economic growth – takes a backseat to feeding the populace. This gets a bit tedious, even if it is with respect to history accurate.

The most welcome addition is the capacity to direct research. You may now choose which engineering science to fabricate next. Technologies improve the abilities of respective units (ships move farther, military units are more powerful) or the yield of tile improvements, such as farms and mines. Internal development is still based on using particular units to develop tiles to give rise to resources (food, minerals, etc), but these tiles ought to now be linked through a network of roads. Transportation part has been removed, so the goods now travel automatically. The military factor has likewise undergone a lot of subtle tweaking. Sieges are more mutual than skirmishes, and you may move units in any order now.. The latter remains an optional and not very interesting share of the game, but it’s there for humans who want more control over battles.

Imperialism was a good game with a cult following. You either liked it and stayed with it or found it is low-key gameplay boring and quickly moved on. Its burnished bronze and sepia look wasn’t inevitably what we suppose from computer games, but the look was distinct and worked well in the context of the of the game. Imperialism II is a more refined and interesting use of the same system, with an magnificent interplay of elements. Expansion is always checked by practical realities, and each confederation and war has a price. A well-balanced game with these constituents is hard to create, and Frog City has done an splendid occupation of it with Imperialism II. –Chet Thomas
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Everything the First Game Should Have Been, and Then Some
By Rod D. Martin
Plenty of people have said what’s right with this game, so letme take a different tack. What was wrong with Imperialism One was primarily three-fold:

1) Time-frame. By setting the game in the 19th Century, rapid technology change was inadequately represented and often overwhelmed the game. Imp. II two solves that by stretching over three centuries, and not only that, but three centuries where the change is extremely significant and yet not overwhelmingly so (plus Imp. II has a better tech tree anyway).

2) Victory conditions. The victory conditions in Imperialism One were so horribly put together that you almost never got a truly satisfying victory, and “victory” often got in the way of a good game. Imp. II corrects that and then some: the victory conditions are realistic and well-designed, but more than that, they actually drive the game the way it ought to go, and force you again and again to act as you “ought”, by which I mean within the economic and political realities of the time you are modeling.

3) Lack of scenarios. Because of all this, scenarios were vital to making the original game work, because you usually didn’t want to play the game “as-is”. There were a few scenarios included with the game (and two of them were pretty good), but no additional scenarios were ever released, and there was no way to program any of your own. This game, by contrast, is so well done that any scenario would be a waste: simply altering the starting parameters will create just about whatever scenario you’re looking for, and I never found myself longing for one the way I did with the original.

(ONE KEY TECH NOTE: I’ve played this both on a Performa 6400 with a 200MHz 603ev chip and on an iMac with a 233MHz G3. The iMac, which should have been a lot faster, wasn’t. The box minimums will work, but you’ll be frustrated and it will run almost intollerably slowly. Try to run this game on at least 300MHz G3 machines if at all possible.)

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Outstanding!
By Paul Emmons
Perhaps I’m a stickler for playability. One of the design challenges of any empire-building game is that the more territory you conquer and govern, the more details you typically have to manage. If you (and the designers) are not careful, you can eventually get swamped with them– especially if you are a perfectionist.

An outstanding feature of Imperialism II is that this does not occur nearly as much as in other games of its type. It is, instead, a true strategy game. You are not a paper-shuffler, you are the pilot of the great ship of state in a multi-dimensional ocean. You need to think carefully under ever-changing conditions to decide where to chart your course and keep it in good trim. If you are going in the wrong direction, heaven help you if you don’t realize it soon and face the facts: and then you need a sharp lookout and patience, because a ship of state doesn’t turn on a dime.

A key concept is balance. You can never do everything you want or need with available resources. At every turn you face policy decisions: Should you increase your road and port building? Your food production? Develop forests, mines, or plantations? Build transport ships– oops, not enough food for the sailors, but how do you get more food without more ships? Do you sell goods to get money to buy various raw materials? Do you buy raw materials because you need them, or can you afford buying something just to curry favor with a potential colony or ally? Invade Indian territory, or invest in it and try to keep your rivals from invading? Build up your armies, even if it seems that you never have the funds to send them into battle? Join alliances and risk being drawn into a war before you’re ready? Or stay aloof and risk the rest of Europe’s ganging up on you? Do expensive research yourself out ahead of the pack, or spend less (usually) money and resources for spies, forever playing catchup learning what others already know? The choices are innumerable and the relationships among them infinitely subtle.

I do not place a lot of stock in fancy graphics, but must say that the colorfol look of this game, compared to the muted and vaguely depressing colors of Imperialism [I], is another attractive feature. The sugar… the tobacco… the spices, gold, and gems in the New World: they make your mouth water with the desire to reach out and grab’em. It’s hard to remember that they are just means to an end, as territory in the old world is the key to winning or losing.

I’ve played many such games, and aside from Civilization, I think Imperialism II has gotten the most things right to date.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Weak Gamers need not apply
By A
When I heard about this game I was addicted to Age of Empires 2. I lived AOE2 and my blood was AOE2 I was over at my friends house playing AOE2 24-7. “The most in depth and greatest game ever” Little did I know 6 months later I would be playing a older game that could easily top that hype. This game is by far and away very deep. There is about a hundred techs. that you can get to improve your society, army, and navy. This aspect of the game can give you an early edge over your enemy or a early death sentance. Once that first obstacle is cleared you must also have earned, conquered or aquired, New world countries to supply the home world with materials needed to defeat the other Great powers. While these prior goals were being obtained you must also prepared your great power to be a strong one. Will you be a diplomat or a Glorious General? Will you be a friend or foe of the natives? Will you be strong at sea or strong at land? Will you be a nation of knowledge or simply use knowledge to obtain weapons? These questions face every ruler of the six great powers, and the path traveled is always different. Sound difficult don’t fear. You are lead through a easy tutorial which will get you on your feet and walking into a world of depth and endless choices. There is also a multitude of options one being the tactical field option. If this is on you can fight your own battles which adds a very intresting concept of crushing the enemy or being crushed.

While the graphics are nothing to ohhhhh at it works in a turn based world. I feel like I have just covered the surface of this game so just take my word it is awesome.

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Stranglehold

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Gregory Duran

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This is a video game sequel to John Woo’s blockbuster hit movie Hard Boiled. The game transpires after the events of Hard Boiled and has everything you would suppose from John Woo. Stranglehold is a PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC exclusive. Gamers will be in control of protagonist inspector Tequila, and Chow Yun Fat reprises his role as the stylish hero. The plot in Stranglehold is regarding a little girl being employed as ransom; consequently, Tequila is sent to rescue her.

The storyline seems impertinent and takes a backseat to the slow motion and fast action. The gameplay is a swift action packed adventure from begin to finish. Players will be immersed in a world that entails bullets flying, cinematic deaths, and a great deal of weapons. Virtually the entire surroundings may be used to a sure extent.

If you can not destruct a pillar, you may in all likelihood use it as cover or respective other ways for the duration of a firefight. In a nutshell, the paramount goal in Stranglehold is to eradicate anything and everything that moves. Players will have a usual arsenal of weapons that include handguns, assault rifles, shotguns, a rocket launcher, and machine guns. In addition, inspector Tequila will be capable to apply four abilities known as Tequila Bombs. These abilities are mapped to the D-pad for easy access, and they all fit the game nicely. In Stranglehold, a visible meter will be at the top of the screen. You have to fill this meter in order to carry out a Tequila bomb maneuver. Killing oppositions is the only way to charge up your meter, so do not be scared to pull the trigger.

The firstborn Tequila Bomb is a rudimentary health increase. The second Tequila Bomb is precision aiming. Precision aiming gives you a chance to slow down time and accurately target your adversaries. Firing at a queer body part will cause your opponents to act accordingly.

For instance, shooting at his head will cause him to die. Likewise, shooting him in the groin will coerce him to grab his private share and die (my personal favored place to shoot). The camera will genuinely zoom in on the bullet in precision aiming mode. The third Tequila Bomb enable you to enter barrage mode. This is very similar to Scarface which gives you a “balls” mode rampage of destruction. It works the same way. You have a fixed amount of time where your traits are enhanced, and you are invincible. The fourth and final Tequila Bomb is a smart bomb. When used, it cause you to pulverize all opponents on screen without any delay by way of a cinematic scene. The inspector will spin, (ala Max Payne 2) and only he will stay standing. Another gameplay aspect that will appease Max Payne fans is the aforementioned slow motion bullet time. There is a discerned meter for this, and it fills up in the same manner as the Tequila Bomb meter. Slow motion may be initiated when running, walking, diving, and interacting with the environment.

Some of the things you will be capable to do are running up and down railings and slide throughout counters while spraying your rivals with bullets (ala Hard Boiled movie). There is no doubt that a good deal of players will receive pleasure from the standoffs in Stranglehold, but I found it to be rather arduous. The standoffs play drasti differently from the actual gameplay. Your goal to be attained is to evade and fire simultaneously, but this part of the game is cumbersome. The audio is astounding as you will listen gunfire and persons soaring through the air. The graphics are more or less hit or miss. Chow Yun Fat looks precisely like his real life counterpart, and the setting do look like Hong Kong. However, a good chunk of the foes appear insipid. There is multiplayer in Stranglehold, but it is not as engrossing as the single player campaign. Stranglehold does have it is flaws which are it is short length, and the plot is a disaster.

If anybody is intrigued to get their next Max Payne fix, then answer is Stranglehold. The comparings amidst Max Payne and Stranglehold are uncanny. From the slow motion bullet time effects to the breathtakingly short game, Stranglehold is with regards to as close to Max Payne as you may get. Even altho avid gamers will cruise through Stranglehold in one day, that must not deter any person from playing the game.

final verdict 8 out of 10

Stranglehold

Honor is his code. Vengeance is his mission. Bloodshed is his only option… Experience the excitement of the unfeigned next-gen action while continuing the story of John Woo’s influential action film, “Hard Boiled” starring Chow Yun-Fat. Ensnared by a crime boss with a gripping secret, Inspector Tequila is forced to cross the line from sworn obligation to bloody revenge. Engage your oppositions with intense cinematic gun battles and cause massive environmental harm in real-time or revolutionary slow-motion Tequila Time.

Honor is his code. Vengeance is his mission. Bloodshed is his only option.

Experience the excitement of true next-gen action while continuing the story of John Woo’s influential action film, Hard Boiled, starring Chow Yun-Fat. Ensnared by a crime boss with a gripping secret, Inspector Tequila is forced to cross the line from sworn obligation to bloody revenge. Engage your oppositions with intense cinematic gun battles and cause massive environmental harm in real-time or revolutionary slow-motion Tequila Time.

Features

Cinematic Gun Battles
Engage the enemy in “Tequila Time” by targeting and firing in real-time while the world dramatically slows and take delight in the exhilaration of running up railings, swinging from chandeliers, and leaping onto moving objects – all without complex controls.
Unbelievably Destructible Environments
Using the Massive D physics engine, fetch the world down on your enemies, carve your own realistic path of destruction through environments and maneuver through distinguishable piles of debris which persist in the environment.
The Only Authentic John Woo Video Game Experience
John Woo collaborators with Midway to create the extreme action video game with all of the director’s signature cinematic action, reputation concentered storytelling, and revolutionary directing style.
Online Action
Prove you are the uttermost renegade cop as players from around the world show-off their gunplay attainments and compete online in the most realistic next-gen environments.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
It’s action movie in a box, baby!!!
By H. Crosland
Wow…what is there to say about Stranglehold?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Shoot, Tequila, Shoot
By Lestor neeker Wong
You can see Stranglehold from two different perspectives. You can see it as a repetitive shooter that pits you against waves after waves of (cheap) enemies that suddenly appear from nowhere. Or, you can see it as a great homage to one of the great action movies of all-time, Hard Boiled. I choose the latter, and it was no wonder I had so much fun with it.

The story isn’t important, since intense action featuring Chow Yun-Fat as Inspector Tequila is the order here. But if you must know, it involves some dead cop and the kidnapping of Tequila’s ex-girlfriend and daughter. Reason enough for a massive surge of killing? You bet.

Playing through seven levels, you get to control Tequila and his array of skills (most have to be unlocked). Apart from the usual third-person shooting, you’ll get abilities like the precision aim, which allows a first-person view, zoomed in, for a free-aim at whichever part of an enemy’s body you see fit. Shooting at balls is highly recommended if you’re sadistic. Like me.

Other skills like the barrage allows a moment of mad, unstoppable shooting and invulnerability. But the most dramatic skills of them is, you guess, the spin attack. Much like the 1,001 movies that Chow has made, this attack involves the guy turning 360 degrees while shooting two guns at various enemies surrounding him. Doves are complimentary. I guess the doves must be there to moan the death of all those goons that dare stay within your vicinity when you does this thing.

Using these skills are not free though. You need to earn the juice (ok, “tequila bombs”) to use them, and using them reduces the juice. You earn it by performing stylish kills, helped by the fully destructible environments in the game. See a signboard above an enemy, shoot it, and it falls straight down to send the idiot to his maker. See a roll cart? Jump on top of it and start shooting people while moving around. See a gas tank near an enemy? Shoot it and enjoy the explosion takes care of matters. You can also combine these actions to score combos for more juices, so that you can use the above-mentioned skills more liberally.

There’s also the matter of “tequila time”, which basically happens when you perform kills while interacting with the environment (like, when rolling on a roll cart or sliding up and down on a banister). What happens is that time slows when tequila time is on, giving more time to shun bullets as well as kill morons. You can also activate this by simply diving around and pressing one of the shoulder buttons. It looks great, and it works well. In fact, it’s probably a life-saver for most players trying to beat the more challenging levels.

On challenging levels, the game features four different difficulties. But even on casual, it becomes extremely painful to play through towards the end of the campaign. The enemy’s AI is ridiculously aggressive, and you don’t get to hide behind a wall like Gears of War for health recovery. Expect to die (many times) as you search for the best way to neutralize the threat. Things can tougher on the hard-boiled challenge (the most difficult mode) – a hit on you takes out 3/4 of your life! That’s how it goes, and it isn’t apologetic at all about it.

It should be apologetic, however, about the last-gen graphics though. It wasn’t so glaring on my old SDTV when I first played the game. But recently, I bought a HDTV, and the flaws are pretty obvious. I mean, when an environment looks dull even on HD, you know it’s bad. The character models also look dated, even though they manage to capture the movement of the models quite smoothly. Audios wise, it’s just a bunch of explosions and some action music. Nothing of major note here, but it does what it was required.

All in all, Stranglehold is a fun shooter that recycles some old gameplay ideas (from Max Payne, I believe) rather successfully. The various attacking methods are fun to use, but the insane difficulty may scare some shooter noobs away. Engage with caution.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Like it for what it is and not what it isnt.
By C. Smith
I went into this game expecting a no nonsense, fast paced, action packed, arcade like 3rd person shooter…. and it was everything I expected. Midway and John Woo do not pretend or attempt to make this game anything else. The game in a nutshell has 7 levels (about an hour each for skilled gamers) filled with hordes of enemies, countless ammo at your disposal, and tequila time (bullet time) mixed in. At times you can also kill enemies using the enviornment (explosive canisters and overhead signs mostly. The sniper mode, barrage mode and spinning mode upgrades come in handy when the enemies get overwhealming (and they do at times). In an era where games are becomming more complex (I like these games too), sometimes its nice to play an adreneline filled game where its not required to think much. The games only down fall is that its over within 7-10 hours, however I plan on keeping this game on my shelf for when I just want to blow things up. If the short game play bothers you… rent it… its worth at least 7 hours of your time.

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Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 X360

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Matthew Guerra

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The notorious Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 in the long run makes it is way to PlayStation 3 owners. The game is more than an abysmal port from the Xbox 360 (ala FEAR). Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 on the PlayStation 3 is almost identical to the Xbox 360 version. In Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, players reprise their role as Scott Mitchell (leader of the Ghosts).

The storyline in the game is with regards to Mexico and nuclear weapons. The protagonist (Scott Mitchell) and his squad is sent to Mexico to neutralize the terrorist threat. The gameplay ranges from the much maligned escort mission to the more engrossing eradicating your adversaries mission. All of the tasks from the Xbox 360 game like taking cover, and exploiting the Mule drone remains intact in the PlayStation 3 game. The six axis controller gives players the capacity to dodge, dive, and carry through evasive maneuvers instantaneously.

This is peculiarly utile when you are attempting to shoot, give orders to your teammates, and move simultaneously.The six axis controller was imposed utterly in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2. This is unquestionably a welcome addition to the more or less cumbersome controller of the Xbox 360. There are a lot of more multiplayer maps that are available as well. Graphically, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 adaptations of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 are clones. There is no decrease in the frame rate on the PlayStation 3; the game runs at a nice and smooth frame rate allround the duration of the game. The audio holds up nicely on the PlayStation 3.

Radio chatter will make gamers feel like they are in a war zone. Overall, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 is plainly a mild betterment on the PlayStation 3 than on the Xbox 360 due to the controls and multiplayer.

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