Dateyourgame: Attila's community blog about Video Game – Walkthrough – Gameplay – Reviews – Tips and Tricks

Take On Helicopters is a flight simulator that focus on civillians choppers there is a few military choppers but overall it’s all about doing contract as a civilians contractor. It allows you to fly at least in Seattle and In South Asia. The map is highly representative of the area with an nearly insane quantity of building around the place as well it forest and lot’s of type of terrain. The physic of flying is realistic and the immersion is amplified by the environment.

This video show one type of mission you can do, Time trial. In that type of mission you have a set of waypoints to follow and you need to cross them all before a set amount of time. So it will test your pilot skill well.

While this type of mission is fast paced, it’s very likely that the campaign will require you to be more careful with your choppers since the chopper models are highly detailed and you may end up having to fix those part if you not careful.

While this game doesn’t focus on the fact of getting shot at like most flight sims now a day, I think it worth a look and I’m very curious to see how the final game will be. Not to mention that this game use the Arma engine that has one really proactive moding community. So it clear that moder will tweak this game, adjust stuff, create great things with it.

Now this was recorded on a Preview Build. This mean it’s still in developement stage and doesn’t represent the final product. so you may notice a few minor bug like traffic disappearing at crossing, this should be fix very soon.

Arma 2 Combined Operation, Missions Editor Tutorial Show the Very Basic stuff you can do in the Arma 2 Editor. This really isn’t anything too complicated and mostly aim at tell only what you need, when you need it to create a simple missions. Once you understand those basic aspect explained here, you should already be able to create a simple and effective mission in a very short time, without even needing to use scripting or more advance functions.

Essentially this video show 1 of the main quest that advance the story line. Note that in this videos I cuted a good potion of the fight against the Thugs at the beginning. because i didn’t had much to fight them and that took forever… Also in this game you can modified you weapons, something that i actually didn’t used yet at that point. Other then that i think this videos pretty much cover most aspect of what the game has to offer. The only thing missing are guns that you get much later on in the campaign. But the main focus of the game remain a very bloody melee combat action.

Some more Arma 2 Combined Operations Gameplay where we get ambushed and we have to go get a spec ops out of trouble.

Dead Island is what we would call a zombie killing game. Now a day nearly everybody experienced Left 4 Dead Series and many people could say that quote “Dead Island look like Left 4 Dead 2″. Well turn out this game really has little in common with Left 4 Dead.

Dead Island offer 5 well looking and well design large map that you are free to explore as you wish. These map are fill with zombies that are randomly generated as you move around. This mean that no matter where you go you will likely find stuff to kill. So you will have the chance to travel into a vacation hotel, a town, a jungle, a sewer system (fortunately it doesn’t smell) and a Jail. The maps are also fill with tons of bags, crate, can, tool box, dead body fill with useful stuff that you may need for your zombie survival vacations.

Now killing zombies all over the place could become kinda repetitive. Killing zombies for killing zombies can feel a little pointless in anygame to be honest. This is why this game provide a main story and many side story fill with characters that ask for your help in very concrete, logical, justified ways in this zombies infestation context.

The main story story start by requiring you to feed the basic needs of zombie survival. Then once your apparently in “secure” position in term of means to fight and survive the story start to explain the source of the infection. As you find the source you meet people try to find a solution to it and then the mess get deeper and you barely make it out. It’s a fairly simple main story and while it attempt to be kinda emotional and dramatic you can’t really get attached to any characters after killing so many zombies. While the game kinda fail at making you committed to the characters it’s very nice that the story didn’t make the characters immortal and many of them end up as zombies and that’s really nice. It make the context of the game much more believable and send the message that every stronghold may be overwhelmed by zombies so you can’t be safe anywhere. So overall the main story is certainly more developped then many zombie games but at the same time it’s really not a deep story.

On the other hand this game offer a lot of side missions that you can accept of not when you find them. Many of them are fairly silly, like providing alchool and teddy bear. But most of these side quest actually offer some charm. Not so much because they are deep, but because they are believable in the context. So you may have to help peoples dealing with multiple aspect that you may face in zombie invasions. For example save people from crash, bring a wife to safety, kill family members that became zombies, find somebody’s insulin and of course bring food to peoples. All these side quest really give a purpose to exploring the maps and make this game a very immerse zombie game and make you much more immersive then in Left 4 Dead universe for example.

Now story asside it’s important to speak of how unique is the gameplay mechanic of this game. This game is an Role Playing Game (RPG). This mean that your character will level up and you will be able to choose specific abilities and become stronger. But like Oblivion or Fallout the enemies will gain in strength as you level up. This mean that you won’t become overpowered. But while the rpg element play a role, it’s not what make the combat system good. The combat in Dead Island is mostly melee and that is where this game really shine. First of all you can use a very wide variety of tools and weapons to kill zombies, ranging from the pipe to the katana. Your can trow those weapons but the main interest is that you can use them to hurt the zombies in specific ways. Exemple you can cut their head, yes… but you can also cut their arms, legs, break some bones and all that is achieve with a great bloody attention. This melee system is certainly one of the most entertaining we tryed in a FPS, it’s very smoothly done, intuitive and just silly fun.

Not to mention that at each hit you do you can actually see the resulting damage in very bloody ways where you did hit the zombies. So you can have a zombie with his bone broken with the arm kinda floating without zombie will in it. That lead us on the topic of violence… Now this game is very very very violent toward zombies. We are not big fan of free violence in games as a rule because in most case it’s free and without justifications. Well Dead Island did manage to break our usual taste in term of violence. In this game it’s actually fun violence, there is nothing like rushing into a hordes of zombies with a katana and cutting them all into pieces that fly everywhere. So yeah that game is bloody and violent, free violence but fun violence. That also mean that it may not be a good idea to get this game for children, even if that probably won’t turn them into psychopathic zombie hunter.

Melee weapons and fight are a big part of this game and there is a good reason for that, finding ammo for your gun is very hard and that’s to the merit of the game. It’s clear that in the real world you won’t find ammo everywhere and that truth is part of this game. In this game you should make each bullet count. But when there are a lot of zombies it can be a lot of fun to use those few rounds you kept and blow their heads off, in a once again bloody way. On the other hand when it comes to fighting humans that have guns, this game show some limitation in term of enjoyment. The aiming is sloppy, the humans AI is not particularly fun to fight. In clear while there is some firefight, it really isn’t the game strong point, Zombie killing is.

The game also offer some coop experience, so you can deal with zombies and the campaign with friends, it’s a lot of fun but the RPG element of the game make it a little strange sometime. You can play coop with you already leveled up character so you can essentially play a game where a lvl 40 play with a lvl 1 if you want. None the less it’s entertaining if you play with friends.

To conclude if you like zombie games you probably should get this one. It look good, it’s fun, there is a lot to explore and it’s probably a good 15 hours of fun minimum if you finish it.

Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead Tank Mini Guide show how to use the different role inside a tank in Arma 2 Combined Operation. It tells what does what and different capacities of each roles. This guide apply to Arma 2, Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead, Arma 2 British Armed Forces. So in Clear Arma 2 Combined Operations.

As soon as i started this game, 20 people in my steam list asked if it was good. Well instead of explaining i guess it best to show it. Essentially this video show 1 of the main quest that advance the story line. Note that in this videos I cuted a good potion of the fight against the Thugs at the beginning. because i didn’t had much to fight them and that took forever… Also in this game you can modified you weapons, something that i actually didn’t used yet at that point. Other then that i think this videos pretty much cover most aspect of what the game has to offer. The only thing missing are guns that you get much later on in the campaign. But the main focus of the game remain a very bloody melee combat action.

Red Orchestra 2 Heroes of Stalingrad Closed Beta Gameplay show a couple of good moment i had last night as i was axis defending against the allies attack. At the begining i was using a smg mp-40. But switched to the good old bolt rifle kar98k leading to some very nice moment. So i hope you will enjoy this 25 min of intense action on a 64 players game. I deceided to cut the waiting time after i died to save some time and space. Enjoy! =D