Archive for November, 2008

Fallout 3 review

Posted by Greatdictator On November - 28 - 2008

Well everything is FINE and dandy in vault 101 the game starts …with what has to be the youngest starting age so far in any RPG it starts you off at BIRTH so thats quite suprise the first time you play through it .Then you have quite a nifty selection of beards,hair styles and lots of other things I didn’t capture them all,but am sure that everyone thats watching this now probably already saw this somewhere else , but anyways the game is huge has a good story and above all has good gameplay so lets start with the story.

Basically put without spoiling the story you were literally born and raised in vault 101 starting from your birth till you 10 years old through the infamous GOAT test till the day that your father escapes the vault …and ill say it right now the game has 4 ending …not 400 .While your in the vault the game cleverly introduces the you to the games basic mehanics such as use of the VATS system and you create your characters look as soon as your born .You will also have a birthday party when your 10 .

Well once you exited the vault you get your first glance at the Capital wasteland where many dangers await…but first lets go to Megaton the first town that you’ll probably either save or destroy
depending on which path of karma you’ll choose ,the game has one of the best and is among the best of games that have a very good morale system, for those of you who have played Oblivion the games talk system might seem familiar except for the different look but still its nice…although I wish that they would have give your character a voice though ,since its kinda hard to imagine what tone of voice and all your character is using while you talk .But anyways if you have a high enough speech skill or a perk sometimes it opens unique dialog options.

No matter what you heard Fallout 3 is not a shooter it has a FPS perspective but you can go to a 3rd person perspective but its only recommended if you wanna check out your characters gear , the game offers a lot of exploring and a lot of stuff to collect such as bobble heads ,find secret areas such as the Bethased studios building , schematics for self built weapons and perhaps and an old favorite for the fans …Hermin…or was it Herbert …well anyways its an old character from the previous games hes a Ghoul that grew a tree out of his head and now it grew big enough to have a nice little sanctuary of green in that barren brown wasteland .

The games world moves in real time so its always different in one place of the world you might encounter an encounter between super mutants and some Talon company mercenary’s or your in danger and are being attacked and you run into a caravan on their way to the next town and they save your life …no matter where you are theres always a chance of something else happening on the other side of the area or in the middle of D.C . The game has a HUGE list of places you can visit sometimes you will wonder maybe they should have put a bit less environments since most of them have multiple places to explore within them you will always wonder whats there and whats there especially if your like me and search every little square of these places for First aid kits if your like me to cheap to pay for new stimpaks .

You can even break into houses too see if anythings available there,such as guns or books…now books are one way to increase your skills during your play time ,the game also has a rather fun way of both hacking terminals and lock picking.
Now onto the combat part of the gameplay well that and perks, perk enable you some special attributes or powers or add extra point to your stats …but you will grow fond of some more use full ones such as my favorite the mysterious stranger perk which if your lucky every time you use the VATS system you will have your guardian angel kick some ass .
The real time combat is somewhat more difficult and is mostly used when the player doesn’t have anymore action points to spend to use the VATS system…in the end you will find yourself using the system the most especially if you have the Bloody mess perk which for some strange reason no matter where you shoot your enemy’s they will fall apart completely most of the time but it’s still sweet to watch that cinematic camera zoom in on your face before you blow off your enemy’s head in glorious slow motion.

The music in this game…well I cant say anything more but the radio station music has some pretty sweet tunes and old classic’s such as I don’t want to set the world on fire and some more and if you like such songs then theres several more that am sure you’ll enjoy as well ,you will find lots of different other stations ,such as a Chinese army or liberation station or whatever , later on after you complete a quest one that has you retrive an violin from an old lady and my favorite Galaxy news radio which a pretty cool DJ which gives you updates on the things you have been doing and calling you whatever title your karma level has given you …although by the time he finally reports one of your latest deed’s you will most probably have done 2 or 3 others.

The graphics are up to todays standard’s and deliver a great atmosphere of atomic bombs hitting the 1950’s futuristic America …even though they could have made less debris in the streets its seriously annoying trying to find the right subway tunnel. And just for a side note this series was originally a 2D game .

If you have an house or an apartment you can spice them up with one of several themes such as wasteland explorer ,laboratory,vault,raider ,LOVE MACHINE …or something like that and my personal favorite the pre-war theme you’ll also get several different things like a book for your stats or stimpacks and food,your house or apartment will also be where you put your bobbleheads which add to your attributes or skills , oh and if you want to keep your beloved dogmeat safe you can put him in your house or apartments since sadly he cannot be revived. And just on a quick side note … I never really saw exactly why radiation is damageing never did much to me.

My only major annoyance is that unlike the previous 2 to 3 games this one doesn’t have animated endings which is sad since the games intro pretty much shows that it probably would have been sweet.

Overall if you liked or loved the previous 2 Fallout games then you shouldn’t be disappointed by this one even though I haven’t played the previous 2 am pretty much sure that this is a bigger ,richer and above all more bloodier game then the previous 2 , even if your a hardened explorer or recently got out of a vault yourself you’ll love the wastelands of DC .

Veni Vidi Vici

Posted by simmy.uk On November - 28 - 2008

A Rome Total War movie. Battle clips and montages from the game.
Enjoy
x

Command and Conquer Chinese Final Mission

Posted by simmy.uk On November - 27 - 2008

I got a new youtube account, so all my videos here will have different web addresses. I will upload them all again very soon.

This is my command and conquer video showing the last mission for the Chinese side.

cheers

Youtube in HD

Posted by shadowzack On November - 27 - 2008

Youtube is now allowing high def content. If you uploaded a file with a resolution of 1280×720 and a bitrate of 2000+ kbs , you can watch it at 720p. Right now theres no button, but if you add the code &fmt=22 , it will go into hd mode. You’ll have to watch it in full screen to really get the full effect. Now this is still youtube, so theres still gona be a good amount of compression on the videos in hd. but its alot better then watching it in normal or high quality mode. Also should point out that your files have to be in mp4 or flv format, and im pretty sure use the h.264 codex, 1280×720, 25or 30 fps, 2000+kbs bitrate.

i put a few samples up. testing around my encoding settings. just click link and go to full screen. or watch it in the normal player, you’ll see a big difference from normal and high either way.

Call of duty 4 – 1280×720 2.4mbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56qz0vZQwu0&fmt=22
Spore – 1280×720 3.4mbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEZnSqtbRGc&fmt=22
Crysis 1280×720 3.4mbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KiQfUXd8QE&fmt=22

Left 4 Dead Blood Harvest Campaign Walk Through (Ending)

Posted by shadowzack On November - 24 - 2008

The Woods

The Tunnel

The Bridge

The Train station

Farm House Finale

The last campaign Blood Harvest walk though for left 4 dead.

Left 4 Dead Dead Air Campaign Walk Through

Posted by shadowzack On November - 24 - 2008

The Green House

The Crane

The Construction Site

The Terminal

Runway Finale

Left 4 dead dead air campaign walk through

Left 4 Dead Walk Through Death Toll Campaign

Posted by shadowzack On November - 22 - 2008

The Turnpike

The Drains

The Church

The Town

Boathouse Finale

the 2nd campaign walk through of left 4 dead

Left 4 Dead Review / Walk though No Mecry Campaign

Posted by shadowzack On November - 20 - 2008

The Apartment

The Subway

The Sewer

The Hospital

Rooftop Finale

Left 4 dead review times. The game is about escape different places infested with Zombies.Well i played threw it several times. The campaign its self its about an hour and a half long. Its pretty short by anyone’s standards. I was a little disappointed as i am a valve fan boy. The graphics are pretty good, running on the source engine. It is repetitive. You leave spawn, go to point a to point b, kill all the zombies on the way, repeat 4 more times, and hold off for 6 minuets at a end mission. then repeat this 4 more times and thats the entire game. Its not to linear as you have multiple ways to get to point B. I didnt find to many invisible walls. most of em were on top of large fences it tried to jump over. The friendly ai is sluggish and sometimes just plain unresponsive. I only played single player so im sure this games big selling point will be its Multiplayer.

Legendary, Chapter 2.

Posted by BiscuitDude On November - 19 - 2008



Chapter 2: Escape from…

Crawl around New York’s subways and rendevous with Vivian.

Legendary, Chapter 1.

Posted by BiscuitDude On November - 19 - 2008


Chapter 1: Flashpoint.

Escape the New York museum and rendevous with Vivian, whilst surviving an onslaught of mythological beasts.

Legendary Prologue.

Posted by BiscuitDude On November - 19 - 2008

The truth about Pandora’s Box…

Legendary (PC) Review / Walk Through Episode 1

Posted by shadowzack On November - 19 - 2008

Episode 1 Part 1

Episode 1 Part 2

Heres a game i didn’t know anything about to i saw it. The game story is interesting kind of. You play a mercenary who is tricked into open Pandora’s box and you unleash all kinds of creatures into the world while u acquire some strange new power. The gameplay is pretty linear, only one set path.Cant jump over most stuff and theres a few invisible walls ( no where near as much as Quantum of solace or Call of duty world at war ) Although theres only one path, to progress through the path you have to solve puzzles ( kinda like in half-life 2 ). Theres some good cinematography moments going on in this game , and the cute scenes are alright. The combat is average. The graphics are pretty good. Just wish i could enable AA , but you cant under xp with the ut3 engine =[. Its definitely worth a rent if your a console owner, id think about “downloading” it if you are a pc owner.

Need For Speed: Undercover Review/Walk through

Posted by shadowzack On November - 19 - 2008

Part 1 of Many ( more soon )

Well, here it is. One of the games iv been waiting for a while, ever sense Pro Street, which i thought was okay but no were as good as most wanted or carbon. Well after playing a good 30 minutes i can safely say this can be a spiritual successor to Most wanted. The graphics are amazing ( so good i had to turn off shadows and world detail to get a steady 30 fps while recording ) but they need more optimizing ( thats EA for ya ). Its the open world arcade street racing style i love so much. A new feature added in is the leveling up system for your character that gives you extra tuning stuff. Theres also the normal tune up for your cars and tweaking thats been in the Underground series for a while. Also so new is the Now Cut scene styles, its no longer cg with models based on ppl, its all real scenes ( i think, from what i read and herd ), that not including the scenes where they are showing like a helicopter view of the city and race area, those are still cg. all and all, id give this a 5/5 hands down. sure its more of the same, but that same is awesome.

Quantum of Solace Walk Through Chapter 13-End

Posted by shadowzack On November - 18 - 2008

Chapter 13

strong>Chapter 14

Chapter 15 (Last)

The last parts of my walk though of Quantum of Solace.

Quantum of Solace Walk Through Chapter 9-12

Posted by shadowzack On November - 18 - 2008

chapter 9

chapter 10

chapter 11

chapter 12

Chapters 9,10,11,and 12 of my Quantum of Solace walk through.

Quantum of Solace Walk Through Chapter 5-8

Posted by shadowzack On November - 17 - 2008

chapter 5

chapter 6

chapter 7

chapter 8

Chapters 5,6,7, and 8 of my Quantum of Solace walk through.

Quantum of Solace Review/ Chapters 1-4

Posted by shadowzack On November - 16 - 2008

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Heres my review of Quantum of Solace, a game not really based on the movie of the same title.
On a scale of 1-10 i would rate this game “Crap”. The game is made by Treyarch , who also did Call Of Duty: World at War. They are also both run on the call of duty 4 engine. Like CoD5 like game is riddle with invisible walls, Extremely linear game play and Bad Ai. Only this is more linear and less entertaining then cod5 if you could believe that. There is only one path in the game to follow, and even that path is some times hard to find or move on. You cant jump over anything, and the fews things you have to jump over are hard as hell cause you have to be right a certain spot for the action icon to pop up. Its pretty much follow the path, kill all the bad guys, wait for a door to open, repeat.And lets talk about the quick time mini games. Every now and then you have to either play a bad simmons said game to hack a door that takes away from what little feeling there was of being in a game. or on several occasions have to a quick time event where you fight a person by waiting for a cursor to appear and then lining up your cursor to the centre of the other cursor and clicking on it. Its super annoying and just plain bad? Like i said earlier the level design is kinda bad. Theres only one way to move forward, and where you think should be another place to go, theres an invisible wall there… The Sound effects are kinda bad. The ai can shoot threw walls, and im not talking like normal walls, like 10-15 feet thick pillars. The cover system is horrible. Either you cant get to cover half the time, or you cant get out off of the cover. The story is Meh, nothing special, rather go watch casino royal and the quantum of solace. Personally i think Treyarch should stop making big triple a titles. They ruin several cod games, now ruin what could of been a good game linking the gap between the 2 James Bond movies. The only reason i even did a walk through was because some one ask me to because their main one got taken down.

Call of Duty: World at War

Posted by Kinshejsi On November - 15 - 2008

This is a fan-made trailer I made for the game Call of Duty: World at War.

The game looks quite good from a first view and although I haven’t played it yet but it looks like a worthy successor for Call of Duty 4.
The addition of a flame thrower is a nice addition for single player and even better for multiplayer.
It does look a lot like CoD 4 in WW2 style but that doesn’t mean it’s worse. I think that the players who are sick of the modern weapons of CoD4 and want something new in the same genre, will find their needs in this game :)

Buy Call of Duty World at War on Amazon
In USA
In UK
In Canada
En France
or on Ebay

Call of Duty:World At War Misson 13-Ending

Posted by shadowzack On November - 13 - 2008

mission 13 part 1

mission 13 part 2

mission 14

Mission 15 (Last Mission)

An early look and run through of the New call of duty game, World At War. Please note that Youtube is having problems so the hiqh quality mode doesn’t work and will just say the video is unavailable, so you have to watch it in normal mode. The audio goes out of sync alot, its a problem with the rendering engine and fraps. They game its self is pretty good, but not as good as cod 1 or 2.

Call of Duty:World at War Walkthrough Missions 10-12

Posted by shadowzack On November - 13 - 2008

mission 10

mission 11

mission 12 part 1

mission 12 part 2

An early look and run through of the New call of duty game, World At War. Please note that Youtube is having problems so the high quality mode doesn’t work and will just say the video is unavailable, so you have to watch it in normal mode. The audio goes out of sync alot, its a problem with the rendering engine and fraps. They game its self is pretty good, but not as good as cod 1 or 2.