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Far Cry 2 …even though i haven’t played the original that much i can see that these 2 games are a sequel in name only.

Far Cry 2 is definetly one of those games that literally requires you too SHOOT everyone…no seriously I mean it everyone that isn’t in A ) a house , B)one of the people you talk to ,WANT’S to kill you…it has to make you wonder….how the hell does everyone know that they NEED to shoot you it just doesn’t make sense and just by the fact it makes you wonder…is there any story to this killing of hundreds of black and white people …Why yes yes there is.

You get to choose one of several characters that mainly serve for looks but its still nice to have a bit of an option. You enter an unnamed country in Africa that is like probably the rest in a state of chaos and war with 2 rivaling factions going at each other’s throats like dogs but your not here cause of them your here for the Jackal a mysterious arms dealer that cant seem to be captured unless he wants to .Oh and lets not forget you also have Malaria so you will need to try and find medication through out the game Malaria will rarely appear but you don’t want to be caught with it in the middle of a gunfight do you ?

SO… what does one need as a mercenary thats hunting a mysterious figure ? Guns ,guns and MORE GUNS (insert small sample of killing people and blowing stuff up here in video)…why do you need them cause just as mentioned before EVERYTHING wants to kill you cause pretty much everything has a gun with them…and thats why its always a good idea to use the flamethrower and burn them….as well as sometimes the environment.

You have to buy most new guns since the ones you get from enemy’s are used,dirty and will often jam and if overused break down all together ,you pay for the guns in diamonds and there are only 2 ways to get them work as a gun for hire or try to find them …although the first option is more preferable since you’ll only find 1 or 2 in each brief case and rarely 3 but its sometimes good to try your treasure finding skills since the game has an interesting way of trying to find them sometimes just trying to find them is a reward by itself .Before I forget to you have to buy the weapons from a Arms Dealer that when your not on a mission he can give you a mission that will unlock some new toys to purchase you can also purchase upgrades such as manuals to increase accuracy on certain weapons or getting certain equipment that increases ammunition storage for certain weapon types.

Why is it a reward by itself to explore you ask well thats simple the game’s world just feels stunning and great and full of life as tree’s and grass go gently with the breeze ,during the daytime its preferable to use the boat since those pesky checkpoints are a lot more rare on the river and its just relaxing to drive the boat through the jungle with the sun up atop at some points I wished I was there so i could take a nap cause the environment seems peaceful…and trust me when I say this if you have a computer that can run the highest setting set it to that cause I have been playing the game one medium setting and it SIMPLY looks gorgeous ,the animation is fluid ,everything resembles a living breathing Africa…well if you take away the part where factions do war with each other …well anyways back to the topic at hand the game also comes with a nice array of vehicles but you’ll find yourself useing technicals since having a mounted gun for protection is always an option..the game could have profit more from a more quicker and safer traveling system such as an instant jump to a location if your in a vehicle but the games environments more then makes up for traveling through the dangerous checkpoints where the africans shoot at you on sight.

If you get shot and lose a lot of health and your on your last line of blood you can preform a quick self surgery…viewer discretion is advised though ,and patch yourself up ,in case you DO fall in battle an addition to what makes the games realism better and keeps the game less frustrating is the buddy system basically if you have a buddy thats rescue ready you will always get a second chance at the battle and he will support you and drag you away from the hot zone but not to far of course.
But die a second time after that and your done for. The vehicles in the game handle great you’ll find yourself mostly using the technical a vehicle with a mounted gun since it will probably offer a lot more protection from the random encounters of other patrolling technicals and yes I forgot to mention this early .There are also gliders which will at times definetly give you a nice view of the surroundings some of them can be found at safe houses the games besides towns ONLY safe locations there you can go and get some sleep and make sure that some time passes since the game has a 24 hour day night cycle which translates from day to sunrise to night very smoothly at times you will hardly notice that the sun is going down until the environment looks a bit orange but its always nice to have a look at it.

One of the things you will see most of are explosions and FIRE fire adds realism and danger to the environment it can scare off enemy’s ,you can light a whole field of grass and watch it burn fire will also catch on fire..he he other building and object to and it will char everything just like in real life another cool deatil is is that you can light or shoot the cannisters where ammo or rockets and grenades are stashed and they will blow up and probably kill some people if they are close its always fun to watch this firework go off even if you didn’t shoot it intentionally.

The games MP is most seen is in the map creator you can create nearly any kind of map go to the site to see the crazy map editor trailer for the game …damn it sure did impress me I mean someone made the pyramids and Venice like maps…thats really impressive in the video you see here I tried my own hand a bit the map still isn’t finished but its for demonstration purposes only so far.

Overall Far Cry 2 is a fine looking and fine working game and with its map creator tool its a creative one too….even though all you do is kill people and torch things but that only adds to the fun
and after all you are a mercenary ,and if you like any games where you are a mercenary and blow shit up then this game is a must buy .

Pros:
-beautiful environments and fluid animations
-intense combat and fun weapons
-approaching your targets any way you want is fun
-and it has a crazy map editor
Cons
-could have been better with a quicker travel system
-AI simply shoots only you the 2 different factions never seem to be fighting each other
-getting shot by everyone gets annoying especially since there are a lot of checkpoints on the roads

A full video guide in spore showing from start of cell stage, to the end game at the center on the galaxy.Posted it because I was invited to share my walk throughs and gameplay videos of this and other games, by Greatdicator. I’ll just embed one video and link to the full walk through play list

Call of Duty 1 is a first person shooter, in the times of the second world war. I hope that you like my walkthroughs, and I hope that they will help you play the game even thow it is old.

Yup, thought I’d swing a new walkthrough this way, still in process of doing this game, but other priorities come first. Plus I’ll probably put some Far Cry 2 up in a day or two.

Peru, Level 1: Mountain Caves.

From the creative mind of the guy that made making a person eat,sleep and poop fun and loveable,namely Will Wright called Spore

The game in total is totally based on the players creativity and depending on what kind of creature you want to create it can be one of 4 things cute,scary ,awesome and….really REALLY BAD! And the story as Will Wright said it so many times goes the way the player wants them to and the story is really ones own when the player is capable of making nearly anything in the games huge variety of creators which we can definitely hope will be more off in the future.

Gameplay wise it has 5 stages the Cell stage which resembles an old school Pac man game,after you crawl out onto land thats where the Creature stage which resembles an MMO starts you will either befriend yourself with neighbouring species…or eat them soon afterwards you will start looking for new parts by either finding ones laying around ..or eat other species for their as you evolve with each new generation of your species you will be able to add more of the parts that you want and have currently found you will also be able as your brain evolves be able to recruit more members to your pack,when your brain finally pops out and you start building a small village you will be in the Tribal stage where the game takes the form of a traditional RTS depending on the way that your diet has been so far you’ll either need to collect meat,fruits,fish or all 3 so far and in the other 2 stages depending on what you chose to be in the previous stages will determine what powers or special abilities you will have in later stages such as calling a large beast of the seas to get you lots of fish or to set traps in the tribal stage or to use nukes in civilization stage,just like in the last stage you will be able to befriend other tribes or destroy them and you’ll get more tools and stuff for your tribe although i do feel that they should have made the tribal buildings also available in a creator …i also think that they should have put up wall’s …but depending on what path you choose the main hut will change , and once you either destroyed everybody or made friends with them or both you will enter the Civilization stage and conquer the WORLD…well your world at least weather it will be ruled by some of the cutest beings in the universe or some of the literally biggest D**** is your decision since the start of the game in this stage you have the most options as far as customization goes you can create depending on what path you have already chosen to go military,economic or religious land vehicle’s ,ships or planes and buildings as well too bad you cant do the same with turrets though and the gameplay is basically civilizations meets Real time strategy and after everyones either converted or conquered and you got the whole planet to yourself you can make a nice little spaceship and enter the Space stage where now you can go to various planets and you can pick shit up with your tractor beam and throw em around or you can gather information from creatures,buildings ect. ..or as the usual just blow stuff up with your standard laser or the nice array of nifty weapons and tools that you can purchase,the game’s space stage is pretty much the end phase of the game and is close to endless and you have lots more to do…although as a imperial AT-AT fan i only wish that i could have had a bit better way to conquer enemy planets,but still you can do alot of things with other planets such as terraform them to a T3 planet so that you may place more colony’s and produce more spice which is the civilization stage’s and space stage’s main resource which you can later on trade for Sporebucks although you will most probably be declared war upon as soon as you’ve colonized your first planet…no actually that will happen after you jump to a couple of stars later….some missions will definetly start to annoy you such as it always says planet attacked by unknown species means you never know if its pirates or enemy ships which can get annoying or the destroy 5 of that species or the ecosystem collapses those 2 get annoying but the missions from other planets are rewarding and have some variety and i might as well say it now and you can blow and entire planet up the weapon will cost ya around 2 million sporebucks but if you manage to find earth and then blow it up then its just as rewarding and the game has its own little achievements and most of them can be won within the games short campaign…oh and btw to conquer a planet you’ll first enter a dogfight style battle before you can commence bombing the planets colony’s.

The game is at least 60 % creating and just letting your imagination loose especially if your talented the game’s creations can look like anything but one things for sure…everything looks like its a Pixar creation,and the best thing is if you wanna see stuff made by other people VIA Sporepedia the game’s catalog of other user created creatures,buildings ,vehicles and so on and there are over 20 million creations for you too choose from. You can even subscribe to other players created content so that every time the guy you subscribed to it uploads his latest creation but lucky if you don’t want to download the stuff theres always the pre made stuff from the Spore developers.

The game has definetly one of the best technology’s so far even if not graphically the fact that you can create…say a spider with like 10 legs 4 arms and 6 eyeball’s and it will still find a way to animate all the different animations is really impressive no matter in what stage your in and its usually just fun to see your creatures make gun parades or praise thi lord later on in the civilization stage.

The game’s music is well executed…oh and did i forget to mention you can even compose your creatures own national anthem once you enter the civilization stage.

Basically the game is literally for everyone the game can take even those that don’t play that much video games and make them addicted to the game just by seeing the amount of things that one can create within its various creator’s which makes the game an excellent gateway game.

Some parts of the game are shallow without a doubt but the game has been made simplified for the casual audience which makes the game more appealing but will definetly turn most hardcore players off of the experience but after all this is a Maxis game and we can definetly expect to see future expansions that will change up the gameplay or add even more parts for us to tinker with…but just like the Sims…its easy to say and see that Spore is definetly a game of its own genre even if it had to take elements of others to create it but no matter if you like it or hate it …until you played it you’ve definetly never experienced anything like it.

Pros
-Gameplay is going to appeal to wider audience due to simplistic design
-music and graphics give the feel of pixar quality
-expansions will most probably pep things up
-and creating stuff is INCREDIBLY addictive
Cons
-its abit TOO simplistic at times
-hopefully the expansions wont have to litte material
-its gets TOO FREAKING addictive

Hegemony 268 B.C. is a mod for Mount&Blade 0.960 that will bring back the times of the Romans, Greeks and Macedonians, but many other factions too. You can find info about this mod here: http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.php/topic,34293.0.html

I will do chronicles with Rome. I don’t know how many episodes i will make. Probably until the mod will appear for Mount&Blade 1.003. Until then, enjoy these videos.

The Nordic Campaign of 1257. Lords of the Kingdom of Nords met in Tihr in 1256. During this meeting, they plotted to take multiple Khergit castles. From all over Calradia, vassals were called to Sargoth to begin the campaign. From Sargoth the campaign started, as the armies of the Nords marched forward past the Vaegirs and Swadians and into the borders of the Khergits. The Nordic Campaign of 1257 was a success, the Nords took four castles, two villages, and succeeded in taking out multiple large armies of the Khergits that were moving towards Nordic lines.

**Note- Be sure to watch in high quality! It’s really blurry in LQ.