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South Park: The Stick of Truth

August 17, 2014 · Filed under Games · Tagged , , ,

thWell All know about South Park, You love it or hate it. It just so happens I love it Have done for many years it did not how ever start that way. I saw a episode her a episode there and I did not really get it, the I got older, Started to understand, started to enjoy. South Park fast became a favorite and after many hours of laughter and enjoyment and some half assed, lets make some money games it happened, And boy it was worth the wait.

You start off as your very own south park character which you create when you start, Using the same style as the TV show you enter what is to be a funny, classic, totally out this world typical South Park story that has all your favorites and more.   The game takes place as you have just moved into South Park with your parents, a total outsider your first task, to make some new friends.

It does not take long till you come across the oldies (cartman, Kenny, Butters) you stumble in the middle of what it a war between the humans and the elf’s fighting over the magic power of the stick of truth. You are brought before Cartman where he takes you in on his team to help fight against the elf’s this is where you can choose your class. A Warrior, Mage,Thief or Jew. Each class has there own ability’s but when it comes down to it that is all that’s unique to them. Weapons, Melee and ranged as well as a armor is all the same apart from the few set you get for your class thought natural progression of the game.

You get to team up with one of the guys in a classic turn based RPG, unlocking the reset as you progress thought the game but only being able to have one by your side at once some times is a pain when you are out numbered six to two and with some of the damage I found my self dieing a few times going thought. You are able to switch between the south park crew in and out of battle costing a full round of that character to do so but some times it has to be done.Each member has has there own ability’s like kyle can kick Ike or Cartman can use his language chip to shock People. Apart from that you have no customization over any of you team they have the same weapons and cloths all the way thought the game.

There are side quests to do to make the game longer than what the main story was, some of witch don’t take long to do and some you can complete just by playing the game. These are all given to you by the likes of the major who you need to get rid of all the homeless or Al-Gor who needs you to track down Manbearpig, just some of the classic charterers to be found though out South Park, There are collectables in the forum of CHINPOKO MON, which are hidden though out South Park.

All in all there are some funny bits the parts that are censored are insane its stuff we see in the cartoons so to take it out was an outrages decision. It did feel like some stuff was put there just to make the game feel longer but it never stopped me enjoying it. It could have been better, the map was small and there was not enough enemy’s to fight. But what was there worked and stayed true to the South Park name.

How ever it has no reply value at all so now that I am done with it ( I am just glad I did not pay the full amount for it) Its time to say goodbye and hopefully there will be future South Park games but this time more full of stuff to do and more in depth game play then we will have a what could be a top rated Game. 

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Xcom the Bureau

July 25, 2014 · Filed under Games · Tagged , ,

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The First XCom game I played was enemy unknown which turned out to be one of the games I enjoyed so much I played  over and over again even tho I never completed it mainly due to losing the team you built up and came to love. losing one of them is the worst thing ever knowing you built them up for a recruit to major only for them to fall and then you are stuck with a recruit again only to find they are not good enough later in the game, ah well lets start over.

The Bureau Tried to put a new spin on things by having the game as a third person shooter instead of the traditional turn base we came to love from the set of games.

You play as a special agent called William carter in the 1960’s who was given a case what contained an unknown item that needed delivering when all hell starts to break loss as you are attacked by an unknown intruder who gets evaporated upon opening the case.

The game feels more like mass effect when you playing more than anything else, the whole way how you can slow down the action in order to give orders to your team (Movement, what target to attack and what ability’s to use) unlike mass effect tho if your main man goes down you have a chance for a team mate to revive you before you bleed out. the full control system to control your men are very clunky indeed. The slightest movement of your mouse while you are hitting the key to use ability’s will make you jump to a totally different ally than you where trying to give orders to, making you panic in tight combat areas when you don’t need to.

Carter him self can level up to level ten gaining special ability’s as you go up, from being able to call in a combat drone to using a alien blob to fight for you, your team however  can only go to level five and with only four classes to recruit from (recon, support, commando and engineer) your options are limited and you will find you will use the same classes thought out the game. On the mission map you are able to send your spare team out to do missions by them self’s in order to gain XP and over useful items, exactly like you can on assassins creed.

 

The AI how ever is as most use as a chocolate fire guard, there random movement and change of positions made it hard to lock down a area to defend against many enemy’s. In one of the levels I played one of my team went down in the pen after going on a crazy run to no where and ended up getting downed. but instead of my second team mate helping take out what remained first he ended up going by himself to “help” revive him and all he ended up doing was causing more hassle. he managed to get him up but upon this he was downed and then the revived one started to get the other guy up and he went down again….. well this is fun until we ended up getting killed due to the insane AI. this happened a couple of times making some areas a complete nightmare to get thought.

Unlike the rest of the XCom games you could not improve your base or research new items, A Massive part of the game in my eyes was missing there alone, the only way you could get new weapons was by picking them up in levels. Biggest part of the fun of XCom is the ability to decide what you wanted to unlock and when but this was taken away from you.

All in all The Bureau is not the worst game I have played but then again, no where near the best. some people say “change is good” and some say “dont fix something that is not broken” and for me XCom was never broken.

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X-Blades

May 24, 2014 · Filed under Games

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It Has been many years since I played this first time round so I thought why not give it a replay and see how its held up….. Kind of wish I didn’t. this turned out to be the longest 6 hours of my life!

Playing it on the PC second time round using the keyboard was a complete pain so I had to end up using my PS4 pad instead witch was the correct choice in the end, how ever I did have problems when it came to combat rolling forward in the end I had to do this with my keyboard just to be able to get past two parts of the game.

X-Blades is a third person hack and slash with some gun play and quite a bit of magic you are able to use to help mix up your combat options. as you progress thought the game you will collect souls off every enemy you kill this is what you use to unlock new spells, gun ability and health regen. The hack and slash is a case of hitting one button over and over again, there felt like no challenge in just doing that. you are able to hot key four spells which allowed you to dispatch enemy’s  with ease, well at least it did early on in the game. the gun play was easy to use pull the trigger to shoot (has a semi-auto lock) pull one to lock on to enemy’s and the D-Pad to change what kind for gun ability you want to use.

The Map was not massive and the areas small, the time in each area only extended by how many enemy’s you had to fight to progress. You have to do two laps of the map before you can reach the final part that is the castle. Now this felt lazy with only the time of day and a few different enemy’s  in the areas that made the difference and even then it was small. It got boring going in the same areas, and at time you had to go back to grind in order to progress.

There where very little enemy’s thought out the game (spiders, lizards, ghosts and elements) not including the bosses. once you got over run with the spiders you could not move due to the silly attack speed and range getting stun locked and losing a lot of health made this a pain. the elements where just as bad not in the way they attacked but how you had to attack them, if you did not have the right spell you could not do any damage to them meaning you had to go bad and grind in order to buy the spell to take them down. Not know what was in the next area till you arrived was a pain, you had to wait to buy spells you needed over the spells you wanted.

The first boss you come across is a wolf who is easy to take down at first but you meet him three times in total and each time he gets, no so much harder just more annoying  many it be having to kill loads of enemy’s before you can hit him or gain having the right spell to do some damage to him, this became more and more important in order to do damage to more and more enemy’s. There where so many bosses that when badly designed and where so annoying to take down I found my self shouting at the TV in frustration. 

The last two bosses (which where the same person) tuck so much longer than it need to. with him freezing you in place every ten seconds and having ghosts flying around witch stop you hitting him with your magic and having to get rid of them first while being frozen was a complete pain. I did finally finish the game and a sense of relief  come over me when I did.

Would I play it again? Not a chance.

Did I regret starting it? Yes

Would I recommend it to anyone? No

Stay clear, save our money and buy something better.

Now to find me a better game to play

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The wolf among us: Part one

May 17, 2014 · Filed under Games · Tagged , , , , ,

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Telltale Games are making some of the best games i have played in a long time, they may not be long or have the graphics of the new gen consoles but thats one reason than makes then so good. The graphics used in there games are fantastic and add that extra special something to the games and this is why they are becoming successful. The wolf among us is just one of there (hopefully many) new games that give the gamer something to get excited about.

After playing the walking dead series one game I was very excited for the next projects to start to be released and these did not fail to disappoint. From the classic Movie spin-offs that include Back to the future (still playing) and Jurassic park (Again still Playing) to the second series of the walking dead and the game I am going to tell you about today, The wolfs among us.

 

The wolfs among us I had not seen anything about and was excited to start playing it and even just after episode one I am sure its not going to disappoint. The game follows the store of a sheriff called BigBy. You roam the foul streets of ‘80s-era New York as Bigby Wolf, a detective/policeman who’s employed to help keep things peaceful amongst New York’s population of Fables. Yes that is right BigBy is no other than the Big Bad Wolf, I know how awesome is that. If you have ever seen a TV show Called “once upon a time” you will feel very at home as you could say this is where the idea came from.

As the game starts out you are called to a disturbance to a run down flat that houses none other than the frog and the woodsman, and this is why you are hear, to sort out a disturbance caused by the woodsman knocking around some unknown women you do not recall but all becomes clear later. The game works just like the walking dead, you just point and click and interact with things laying around and the combat as well as the quick time evens work just as well. I am happy to see they have not changed to much in how the games play due to the fact that it works so you feel right at home with the controls.

The game takes a quick turn for the worst as the women (Faith also known as Donkey Skin Girl) you meet with the woodsman’s head is found on the stair case to your flat and it quickly turns into a murder puzzle game in witch you need to find clues as well as running into other trouble with some of the other fair tale characters inc, Tweedledee  and Tweedledum, the beast (from beauty and the beast) and red riding hood alone with others. The game takes yet a fuhrer bad turn as right at the end red riding hoods head is also waiting for you to return home, there is only one thing worse than a serial kill and thats one that kills fairytale’s.

the first episode might have only taken one and a half hours to complete but it was worth every second and with part two and three already out I cant wait to get them started while waiting for the last two parts. Up to know its been full of characters, back story’s and BIOS on the main ones you have meet on the way.

I have no fear that the remaining parts are going to be just as fun all filled packed of gaming goodness and at £18.99 for all five parts its a steal and i recommend anyone who liked the walking dead series to strongly think about investing in this yet another top class game by Telltale Games.

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Zeno Clash

May 13, 2014 · Filed under Games · Tagged , , ,

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Now Zeno Clash would not be a game I would Have bought for myself but thanks to my Brother I was able to play it .

Zeno Clash is a first person shooter/beat them up, more a beat them up than a shooter. Based around a character called Ghat you are being hunted by your bothers for killing the farther-mother. Your reason for doing this is because you find out the farther-mothers secret and that secret is how you became its child. Take as a baby from your mother you discover this and take revenge. Your bothers are unaware of the real reasons for you doing this untill the end after you have defeated the evil farther-mother  and there the story ends.

Now at first glance the graphics were average at best and there was not a lot going on in the small areas that where to be the full levels, the character designs were very strange some tall, slim and had arms and legs as long as the body to normal human models. the amount of characters you came across were few and far between, not in the sence of how many enemies where on the map but how many different character models you came across. there where no more than 15 different enemies in the game and on each chapter you came across the same ones fighting them in every level up to the point you had ten of them coming at you at once.

The hand to hand combat was good and worked well with the option of locking on to the enemy for better focus but this became old really quickly and the lock-on was more of a problem than a help when you could not just run away to get some distance to find some health, A lot of the time you would find yourself dying due to the fact you could not get away. once two or more enemies came at you at once and started hitting you with combos from a few sides there was no chance of getting away from them and I ended up dying a lot of times due to this and it got very frustrating. the weapon combat was slow and a pain. you stopped reloading once you got hit and there was no auto reload once your gun was empty so remembering to reload while getting rushed was a pain, and the fact you dropped your weapon when you got hit by a melee attack got old fast when you had to run around trying to pick it up again only to drop it while reloading, there where only a small amount of guns to use and two different melee weapons which where only really effective after you charged up your power attack but that tuck so much time you found your self getting hit before you could use it effectively. There was not a great deal of action all in all it just made it longer than what it was due to the blocking of you attacks and the number of enemies you came up against at once.

The overall game play was Ok at best and the graphics where nothing to shout about but add into that the main story only taking three and a half hours to complete was very poor indeed. There is a challenge mode in there but i did not waste my time even trying it as I was just glad when the game was finished with.

Anyone that wans a quick, very basic built game that looks like something that was put together quicker than a piece of Lego go and buy it other wise stay clear and use that cash to buy something much better.

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Mass Effect 3

June 5, 2012 · Filed under Games · Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

It has been awhile since I last did a post, so I thought I would start again with one of my favourite series of games Mass Effect.
Mass Effect for me and many others has been a game where we have been able to connect very strongly with the characters, may it be with love or hate there has been an attachment with everyone who you meet. At the end of Mass Effect 2 I was so excited for the third game in the series to arrive, but in the run up to release when the multi-player was announced I have to say I was more than upset to hear that what was a full blown single player was going to be affected by what happened in multi-player. I have to hold my hands up and say I was mistaken and that the multi-player worked really well (apart from when you died and ended up spawning under the map and destroying what tactics you were using) but all in all it added extra fun to the overall gaming experience.
Starting out a new game again being able to transfer Shepard into the game continuing on the epic story that you have moulded into your very own. The very core game play was the same, decisions that you made effecting how your game played out, the combat felt a lot more smooth apart from the A button did far too much and sometimes hindered movement.
Depending how you did and what you did in the first two games that effect what characters you were able to team up and run into during you mission to save the galaxy. Luckily I was not a complete twat and ended up being the nice hero keeping my team together and helping save their lives in Mass Effect 2. Coming back into contact with some of the more loveable characters put a tear in my eye seeing how they had grown and made their own mark in history.
Mordin Solus a salarian geneticist that managed to cure the genophage with the help of the research which I kept during ME2. But how his story ended was emotional, seeing one of my favourite characters die knowing the only way to save him was to stop him from completing his work and destroying a friendship with Wrex was to hard to do. In the end doing what was right and saving a whole race at the expense of a close friend will always leave a mark.
Then we have Grunt, the test tube Krogen. The outcast of his race turned command of Aralakh Company, the meanest Krogen unit on Tuchanka. Again I came to love Grunt more so than I did Wrex. His remarks and his kick ass attitude was what made him in my eyes are one of the best companions to have with you. You meet up with Grunt while you go to help out his unit take out an old enemy, one which you help save in ME1, the Rachni! They had been in slaved by the reapers to make a more formidable enemy. Fighting your way thought the catacombs, taking out many Racni, you finally get to the main chamber where they have the queen entrapped making the endless supply of soldiers. Now me being me I thought I saved you once I will save you again, not realising that the Krogen’s would have to buy us some time, and then it happened! Grunt went on a mad killing spree destroying ravagers with parts of them self’s, ripping them apart left, right and centre, as the cut scene came round and your crew were running to the LZ that was it I thought there goes one more will it ever end. Then from no were covered from head to foot in blood Grunt walks out as you run over to help him the line made me chuckle he says “ has anyone got any food” thats why we love you grunt.
Legion the Crazy Geth, one of a kind, a Geth that wanted to end the war between them and their makers the quarian’s, in one mission you get hocked up into the Geth and you get to see all their memories and what happened between the two of them shining new light into what caused the war between the races. After seeing I choose to try and bring them both together, by freeing the Geth with the software that again we saved in ME2. The quarian’s were about to start a war within a war as there were about to blow the Geth out of the sky’s, or as they thought. Holding them off for a while, while Legion uploaded the date to help say his people there was a problem, an incompatibility issue with the software, there was only one way to solve it. Legion had to upload himself into the rest of the Geth leaving his body a empty shell but saving a lot of lives, again a good ally and friend ended up gone. But Heroes are the people what made a difference and he did that for sure.
There are still a lot of characters that I could bring up but this post is getting really long, there is just so much to talk about. But to the ending. The ending in my eyes was not as bad as what people were making out to be, yes there were unanswered questions, but the biggest one that got me was the very end. I was very anal when it came to playing the game I got the maximum resources I could which gave me the very last ending, it came after climbing the citadel, and it came after the cut scene after you made your choice. It was Shepard laid there under some rubble and you got to see him take one breath. Wow! Common give me more I say. But to this day i don’t know if I was dreaming climbing the citadel or if it happened or not, But it leaves it open for us the gamers to make our own decision on it. But me I see this being the start of something bigger.

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Mass Effect 2

February 6, 2010 · Filed under Games · Tagged , , , , , ,

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I said in an old post that Mass Effect was my favourite game that was until I played Mass Effect 2. I though the game could not get any better but they proved me wrong and the game was perfect. At first there were a few things that made me think they should have left that how it was like you now need ammo for your weapons instead of them over heating, but when you played it for 60 hours over 3 days like I did you know you have a special game in your hands.

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Assassins Creed 2

February 5, 2010 · Filed under Games · Tagged , ,

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Now when someone asked me about Assassins Creed I always went into the same rant, every mission is the same it’s so repetitive, nothing changes, you help a few people, you kill your target then you run away then you repeat. This is all you did and because of this I never finished the game and never got to find out the whole story behind what was going on. So needless to say when I heard that Assassins Creed 2 was on the cards I always said “I am not getting that, I hated the first one” and in fact I didn’t buy it I stole my brother’s copy instead and I was not disappointed with this one.

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The only thing to fear is fear it’s self, and fear fears Alma

December 8, 2009 · Filed under Games · Tagged , , , ,

Fear 2 is set minutes before the end of Fear, this time you take control of SGT. Michael becket, part of a special forces team sent to recover Genevieve Aristide, President of Armacham Technology. You arrive at your target just to be hit by the aftermath of a nuke set off by the original fear team at the end of the first Fear. Not only do you wake up to discover that you have lost your target, but also that the city is all but destroyed, and that you are separated from you team.

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X-Men origins Wolverine, He’s a bit of a animal

September 29, 2009 · Filed under Games · Tagged , , ,

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X-Men we all know the story behind them, who they are, what they can do, were they come from. Wolverine is not just one of the main characters but one of the fans favourites. Now this game did not come out for any of these facts, it came out as a film tie in, now we all know film tie ins are never good but yet we still buy them. This one how ever was a very good game,  a lot of effort went into the game play it may only be a hack and slash, action adventure which will follow some of the film but with the flash backs as well as the main story line, it tells you some of the things that he got up to before he became a X-Men.

Wolverine has a leveling system like most games now, you get XP from killing enemy’s with which you level. You can spend your points in upgrading your health to your different attacks which increases attack power and speed. You also pick up different perks as you go though the game that also increases different areas of your abilities which help you a lot as you go though the game.

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