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Orcs Must Die! is an action, humoristic, tower base, 3rd person, fantasy game with a World of Warcraft kind of graphic. Just saying that you should ask yourself, what the hell can that be.

Well the first thing I would say, is that normally I would not have bought this game, and actually somebody gave it to me. If not this review would never have existed… And that would be a shame. Because this game is actually a lot of fun and certainly worth buying.

One of the first thing you notice as you launch this game is that it run extremely smoothly at all time. This is clearly due to the fact it’s a cartoon or artistically form of graphic as oppose to aiming for realism. The graphic really remind us of World Of Warcraft for some reason, with colorful environment and big gray castle environment. The enemies are funny looking and your character is an undisciplined wizard, last survivor that defend the real world from the orc invasion. In clear it’s a not too serious kind of mix that make this game really joyful to play.

The main concept of the game is that an evil wizard took over the minds of the orc and force them to rush toward the gate between this world and the reality. When we say rush, it’s really a mindless rush. The enemies nearly don’t care about anything else then going to that objective and literally ignore you for the most part. This mean that your job is not so much to fight them but simply to slow them down and kill them all. To do so you have a wide range of traps as well as a few spell, weapons and upgrade to your character that you unlock from level to level. The fun of the game consist mostly in figuring out the most creative way to combine the traps in order to stop of flow of orcs. While that may appear simple it actually is much more challenging then expected since the level design pose all kind of constraint. These constraint are mostly due to the fact that you need to finance those traps by killing orcs. This mean that you can only get as many traps as the number of orc you kill and since your character cannot be everywhere at the same time you need to rely on those traps. On the other hand it’s rare that a trap system will be flawless, even with tons of traps you will still have to stop some orc by yourself.

These constrain make this game smart and fast paced. This is even more true when you start playing at nightmare difficulty that is certainly one of the most fun and challenging gameplay we had in single player in a long time. You may end up being totally exhausted after playing such level due to the intensity and concentration required by this game. This game really did impress us in how well design it is and how fun it turned out to be.

To conclude we highly recommend you to get this game, it’s fairly cheap and does provide between 10 and 20 hours of enjoyment that will make you happy. The only down side of this game is that it doesn’t have any coop or multiplayer. While there are 24 well done level, once you know them all and how to finish them it can easily be call linear or repetitive since they are like puzzle that once resolved are easy to resolve again. The fun you will have in this game will certainly compensate for those few minor complain not to mention that the gave is well supported and has been patch many time already and two DLC have been released already to prevent you from getting tired of it.

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad unlike many first person shooter is a game that aim at giving you a realistic world war 2 experience on the Eastern Front.

The localization of the action is a welcome aspect of this series. It put you on the eastern front, a front that has been certainly one of the decisive part of the War and is largely under explored by the main stream games, if not only to reproduce scene from movies everybody saw. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad actually put you in some important moment of the war on the eastern front and the single player experience gives you some introduction with videos that explain the context of each map that center around the battle of Stalingrad. The story of the game tend to limit itself to these videos and the singleplayer is a mirror of the multiplayer with bots. Those AI offer some good training in preparation to the real deal the multiplayer.

The action happens in a very well designed environment that seems to come out directly out of black and white film of the real event. The maps are very well done graphically and are rich in details, the texture are maybe a little dark but this give a dark war movie style to the game that seem appropriate when it comes to recreate the atmosphere of this bloody front. While the environment is largely undestructible, few spot can be blown up by engineer explosive to open some alternative path, allowing your side to advance in this very deadly environment. The lethality of the environment is due in great part to the narrow nature of the maps that rarely give you more then 3 or 4 possible ways to advance or defend. Because this game really is mostly about advancing or defending.

To advance your team need to outnumber the enemies in a zone to capture it. These zones are represented by a square on the map. To push the front you need to hold a series of zones before being able to push to the next series of zones. This principle is actually very effective at keeping the action going, forcing both side to move to these different zone to achieve victory. As a rule the hard part isn’t so much to capture the zone, but mostly to actually reach those zone. The game make you spawn pretty far away as a rule allowing the defender to entrench themselves in very easily defensible position forcing the attacking side to play tactically or simply outnumbering the defenders that will run out of ammo at some point.

It’s clear that the maps of Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad as well has the game mechanic are well design with teamplay in mind. There is plenty of cover and ways to flank the enemies, on the other hand the realistic nature of the game prevent any form of cohesion between the players, this is due to the fact that everybody die in one hit (nearly). The game allow you to spawn either at one of 2 spawn position or on the squad leader. As a rule the squad leader dies, so that usually mean you spawn at one of 2 spawn position. There are no guaranty that the rest of your squad will spawn at the same position. If they didn’t die at the same time as you, there is no point waiting for them. It’s also unlikely that they will wait for you. So the squad system of the game appear to be very much an illusion and the action generally consist at being a bunch on individually running and gunning spread out a little like Call of Duty Series and it’s a little disappointing to say the least.

In fact one of the amazing feature of the game, the cover system, should be a great teamplay enforcer. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad offer one of the best system of cover we ever saw in a first person shooter. The most impressive aspect of this system is that it’s intuitive, effective, easy to use, fun to use and all that while keeping you inside your first person view. So you can suppress the enemies with blind fire, you can use nearly every thing as a position to increase you gun stability. You can take take a small peek and really this system is great! The only issu with this system is that if you use it, your nearly as good as dead both in single player and multiplayer.

From our experience at it, the reason why this amazing cover system turn out to be nearly useless is that Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad aiming system is actually way to easy. One of the main charm of Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 and it’s popular mod Darkest Hour: Europe ’44-’45 was that aiming was really a pain. To actually manage to be good at it, you really have to play a lot and train yourself at it. While in Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad it’s really really easy to hit somebody even beyond 200m with a rifle even without any scope. With submachine gun you can also aim very well bellow 100m and with machinegun you can single shot the enemies from a far easily. The ease of use combined with the realistic nature of the damage those weapon gives, mean that you will die a lot playing this game. Also the fact that it’s so easy to kill your enemies as it is easy to die make the multiplayer of Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad a bit frustrating. We explain this by the fact that killing your enemies is easy and doesn’t give you much of a reward, while dying so easily is frustrating. The multiplayer experience as a result gives more frustration then pleasure in the end and it’s a fairly surprising result since the game main focus is the multiplayer. Such a “frustrating” result probably could have been avoided by randomizing the bullets spread and could have been justified by wind or poor quality of weapon due to the cold or something. One thing is sure the game feel little a like the original and the firefights are usually short and rarely feel satisfying especially in the context where the team play is nearly none existent and useless.

To conclude this game is well done, visually the game look good but the requirement to run it smoothly seems a bit high. The cover system did impress us a lot and it’s just a shame that it doesn’t turn out to be an effective way to fight in the multiplayer. The multiplayer is well design but the nature of the aiming system turn what could be a fun experience into something fairly frustrating. One thing is sure Tripwire seem to be determined to support the game well and address the community complain and they have already released many updates that have fix many issue. They will also release a DLC that focus on the pacific theater. So we are looking forward to where Tripwire Interactive with lead the game base on all the community feedback they received since the release.

This is the Playlist of my Battlefield 3 Walkthrough that show you the entire gameplay element of the game without spoiling the side story and stuff.

Hey world, join me on a Epic Lets Play Skyrim journey as I fight evil monsters of doomness and other stuff related to
evilness, you know the deal xP. I will be uploading 2 videos a day around 15-20 min each, hope to see you there “traveling” with me ;) I will be doing as many side-quests and exploring as possible, I will also try reading and doing what you write in the comments. From time to time I will get Co-Commentators to “liven” up the videos with lots of fun and epicness.

This is my third LP series so I’m decently new to it, so if you got any tips feel free to comment. It is also the longest series as it will probably be around a 100 episodes

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.

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Total War Shogun 2 Date Campaign 15 show and explain the first step of a campaign with the Date faction at very hard. Of course i’m explaining how to play based on a very small short experience of Shogun 2 Total War. But this game largely work in the same way as they previous games.

Now i don’t know if i will comment all videos. It’s likely that I will put commentaries track on dateyourgame channel video gameplay on attila16. This first episode being a kind of bonus video to remind you guys to subscribe to http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dateyourgame

Now I’m playing at very hard because, I did try legendary difficulty and it seem impossible to have any good diplomacy at legendary. The game seem better at very hard. Essentially legendary turn any diplomatic contact into a war so it’s not much fun. The units also seem boosted and bowman dominate the battlefield while melee units die way too fast.

Now if i do stuff you wonder about in the video and that i don’t say anything about it, feel free to ask.

This is a guide about video games and the look your character has. This guide explain the advantage of having a special looking character over a normal looking character in relation to how skilled you are. Character appearance is an aspect people don’t always explore with an actual strategic mind set, this is probably not helped by such game like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 that offer a clone war. When it comes to in game action it becomes very important. Every detail that make you stand out and make you identifiable can be important and play in your favor or make you a target. So how you look is important in many games such as Mount & Blade Warband, Halo series, Rainbow Six Vegas, F.E.A.R and many more

This is the first video of probably many video to come from this new stand alone expansion of Men of War.

Men Of War Assault Squad at the time of the recording is still in beta and yet to be publish in a few days/months to come. So what you see here is work in progress and if you see bugs, they should be fix by the release.

Men of War Assault Squad stand alone expansion offer a new kind of single player call skirmish and this video actually show you a full game of skirmish in coop with 3 players (you can also play solo if you want).

The objective is to capture all flags on the map. Each of those flags gives you more resource and give you access to more expensive equipment to continue your push forward into the enemies lines.

In this case the mission Battle Axe is in North Africa, we play the British Army against well entrench German defender. The final game will offer you to fight skirmish missions in 15 different maps with the USA, UK, Russia, Germany and Japan. Each map offer different kind of challenge and environment and the fun part is that the action is rarely the same each time you play it. The gameplay also allows a great diversity of gameplay style for all kind of player. If you like being sneaky you can do so but at the same time if you like large scale assault you can make a glorious charge. So it’s a lot of fun no matter the style of strategy you like.

Now some people that have Men of War may wonder what is the difference of this expansion as oppose to the original Men of War?

Well there is a lot of difference, essentially from my point of view this expansion is turning a good game into a great game. Assault Squad simply doesn’t feel like Men of War anymore, it feel better.

The graphic have been improved a lot. The squads system has been redesign greatly with a diversity of squads. The soldiers load out has been diversified and totally rebalanced. Infantry now play a much more important role into multiplayer and coop battles. Making a good use of tank require much more strategy. Heavy Tank are much more rare on the battlefield. The Artillery and mortar system has been change toward a barrage kind of strike. In clear the this expansion put you into a much more believable combat environment where tactic is how you win a battle instead of being won by who have the biggest tank.

Since this game isn’t out yet, I would recommend you guys to join the Steam Group.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/mowas

When this steam group will reach 10k members the beta that you will see in my videos will be open to every one. Until then it’s a good way to keep yourself inform about this game.

Starcraft II Wings of Liberty Gameplay is a campaign level i recorded while on the trial version of the game. So it’s one of the rare video i will release from Starcraft II Wings of Liberty. Starcraft II Wings of Liberty is like Starcraft I and by being so it’s not what I seek. It’s a kind of game I stopped enjoying a long time ago. So enjoy if that’s what you like. =)

Men of War Multiplayer Gameplay , This is an other fun multiplayer match with Greatdictator, Deryni and Kyledk. In this case I hold the left flank. There wasn’t much action on it but it allowed me to deploy my troop in a good position to hold the flag and support the center. Once again I ended up calling a panther. But the enemies ultimately disable it.
It was a fun round, but i didn’t do that much overall other then support my team.

This is an other fun multiplayer match with Greatdictator, Deryni and Kyledk. In this case I mostly supported Greatdictator and Deryni with a few paratrooper, storm trooper and a Panther. The adversaries were not very experimented from what I understand of the communication we had. 1 of them even left half way because Kyle pushed him back too much. Even so Deryni had a hard time in the center with two player rushing him with infantry and tank. I probably could have help him earlier but I wanted to keep my point to spawn a panther that would certainly have no problem killing future tanks the Russian could spawn. At the rate the adversaries were spending their infantry and tank there was no doubt that victory was ours. But even if this battle wasn’t the greatest achievement ever I think the second half of the round is good entertainement Men of war style. Panther owning is priceless…

X3 Terran Conflict Gameplay 1 is a combat video from a game where you don’t actually fight that much overall. X3 Terran Conflict is mostly a game about adventure, exploration, trading with risk of ending up in a fight. While in this fight I manage to destroy lots of ships i could have die many time if I had a weaker ship and in this game you learn quickly not to engage enemy fleet. But in this case I have the help of couple fighters and 2 covert. So I had plenty of decoy and cover to survive the mighty Xenon fleet.

Thanks the the free week of Men of War Multiplayer me and a couple of dateyourgame forum members had the opportunity to play this game together last week end. This is a 4 vs 4 game of victory flag. The objective was to hold the center of the map and increase the % captured of the flag to win.

Supreme Commander 2 Gameplay 1 is probably one of the rare video I will do of this game. The reason is that while the this game is entertaining and very well done, it is way too simple to play and the combat could be resume by two square formation shooting each other. There are always the experimental units that are useful at blowing up stuff but they are soo weak that they feel like what a normal unit should be in term of size and effectiveness. This game may be a lot of fun for a beginner but if you like strategy or tactic Supreme Commander 2 may not be the game for you.

This is a video Arma 2 gameplay where I’m alone playing a custom mission I created to have some action against a horde of enemies that are set to suppress me a lot. This probably isn’t so representative of the usual action you would see in Arma 2, but it was a lot of fun to play

For people that don’t know much about Arma 2 or never heard of it, this game is like a simulator of war. It’s very realistic and you can die in 1 well place shot. there is 2 map in this game and they are just huge, one of them is 225 km2 and you can go anywhere. The main interest of this game is to play multiplayer coop with up to 36 players in small or large scale user created missions. You can also play with up to 60 players in adversarial.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 multiplayer gameplay 11 show a Rush round. I use the Engineer kit. My team were random people.

This is a video of Shadowgrounds Survivor, a small game that very few people seem to know. It’s not a new game but it’s a fun singleplayer game. There are two game in the series and Survivor is the second one. The most interesting thing about this game is that by now the price is so low that it will entertain you much longer then a movie rental while costing nearly the same. This game will also remind you of many universe from movie and games you may have seen before and capture the feeling of those universe in this entertaining 3rd person shoot. Enjoy the video and comments and if it attract you check out where to get it on our Shadowground Survivor game page.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 multiplayer gameplay 10 show a Rush round. I use the medic kit with the mg3. My team were random people.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 multiplayer gameplay 8 show a squad deathmatch round. I use the assault kit with the m416. My team were random people. There is a cut in the middle of the game because i ran out of space. Enjoy and make sure you listen to the commentaries.

Mount and Blade Warband Campaign part 3 show you the beginning of a game of Warband single player. This will be a 3 parts campaign. The third part shows small skirmish battles against random enemies and gives some trick about it.