Atom Zombie Smasher and TRUST Keyboard

I am still working on Skyrim review trying to give it a full and comprehensive review should be done soon just depending on how much work I need to do for my brother's house I mean shed if the government asks I also wanted to talk about my new keyboard and mouse so I felt I should review an indie game with them and say how well they work.

Settings for the keyboard mouse test

First off my keyboard and mouse are not what you call brand name the brand name is TRUST which is incredibly ironic as you are forced to trust them I got a mouse keyboard combo for 30$ just so I could pause and play music while full screen playing computer game like I used to be able to before my old keyboard broke. The game Atom Zombie Smasher is a strategy game where you have to stop a zombie invasion by sending troops to kill zombies and collect survivors you win by gaining goal amount of points before the zombies do you gain points per round depending on how many area's are under your control and by how well you do in fighting to gain control of an area.

My keyboard had number keys so I could easily switch between the units I was using.

the mouse moved so I could select which area I wanted to go to.

I WON!

I could pause play music when I wanted I could even turn it up or down skip go back mute un-mute it does all that I want it do problems with it some of the keys are in the wrong spots and so when I press them they respond by giving me the wrong character so I have to use memory of a real qwerty keyboard to what keys do what. things I like about it is like a laptop keyboard really easy to type with as the keys are half as tall as a traditional keyboard on the mouse I can set two cursor speeds so one is over sensitive and other is not sensitive.

In conclusion Trust in TRUST.

2011 Awards season

As you should know it is award season all over the place in sport, literature, cinema and video games all giveing  out their best of blank stuff I always love this time of year as it shows what things they believe to be good this year and I then go out an buy and experience it myself. A lot of speculation is flying and nominations are rolling out preparing for their balls and event shows but I think of it as a great time to look back on the year and the accomplishments we have achieved.

In the year of 2011 Australia started it with fires and floods, deaths and stories it was stinking hot and a lot of talking to each other as we had no power then the rivers receded and we all headed back to work and school with our stories in hand. The autumn came around with the games that were not ready for Christmas now without a great holiday deadline left to finish their works with the animes of Madoka and Stein's gate with smash hit movie Paul ok ok sucker punch also here all of you would agree Game of Thrones Sean bean may of died again like he always does but he is good at it.

As the cold harsh winter fell wait I live in Brisbane our winter is an England summer as the slightly less hot winter hit so did the steam sales which breathed life into my gaming library with new Vegas with so many dlc packs and the indie game Bastion around this time I also started my reviewing of games on this blog. While discovering Archer the Adventure bros and Bob's burgers all great cartoon's with the voice acting skills of H. Jon Benjamin  also in cartoons Batman/superman: Apocalypse came out with under the red hood: batman also hear saying good bye forever Harry Potter 7 part 2 to think over 10 years ago they first hit the big screen and i was there with my scout pack good times.

Now time is catching up to us with the tv shows and video games and movies all fighting to get top dog we can only wonder who will win to say this was a big year for gaming is an understatement so many AAA games came out mid November it was INSANE!!! not to mention all cool Movembers around. I know will never for get how intense Breaking Bad was this season as well as the ending of Batman Arkham city with is fully Taboo for some reason. Comics went through a great change as well they reset all DC character back to null to reinvent themselves again this is going to stick (yer right) which brings us to Zelda and Skyrim fighting for our souls wait I am thinking of CoD MW3 and BF 3 my bad guys.

This year was great and life is great lets hope the world does not end in 2012 you crazy Mayans' all the best next for the rest of this year peace guys hope you have a good holiday break you deserve it.

SKYRIM

Just WOW umm.. so yer, Skyrim!, I am done, go home... ohh your are home ok then.

Skyrim is the fifth instalment in the Bethesda series the Elder Scrolls not to confused with Scrolls they aptly used the Roman numeral V to show this at least it fit the theme of the game unlike most game series looking at you GTA the theme of which is medieval fantasy. This is the opposite of their other series Fallout which is set in post apocalyptic future and uses numbers to name it's game pretty futuristic am I right enough of paying out the title lets talk about the game. Now where the hell do I start Skyrim boast choice more choice then you could ever want there is choice everywhere in this game to much of it even this has always been the best and worst feature of the this series depending on how you look at it. Even with all this choice only at the start of the game do you really feel like you had a choice though and that choice is what race you want to be a strong Nord or scaly Argonian this choice effect your base skills and your passive ability and race power rest of the game you can do what ever you want as these base effects mean very little as everything in this game levels up at the same rate.The rest of the no matter what you do it feels like you have done nothing for instants in my game I became the archmage of the mages' guild and one of the people I entered the guild with walks up to me and says "your new here too aren't you we should work together". This really annoys me so much as when I become the boss I want people to come up to me and go "hey man I LOVE YOU" as I work hard to be bad ass.

I am a huge dick when it comes to exploiting games as it is just like cheating except it is not by manipulating the source code (incidental a great movie) I decided to be a wood elf archer mage that is right no melee and with sneak being bugged to the point you can shoot an arrow 2 feet away from the enemy and they will say "did you hear something?". When they do eventually find me I just burn them away with hellfire with the skill when you dual cast a spell it knocks them back there is also a skill in archery that does the same thing so I have two knock back abilities depending on how far away my target is this allows me to run away and create some distance to heal and regain mana. Now to compare and contrast some of Bethesda's other products to Skyrim and how the improved or devolved the franchise the most notable change between Skyrim and Oblivion is the writing and the voice acting has drastically improved making it a more engaging experience. Only change I dislike is the fact that when ever I walk near a npc that no longer has even one answer dialogue box will spout their lifestory to me when ever I go near them for instance a sea captain constantly says "they call me captain because I used to be the captain for the east trading company so now they call me the captain anyway even though I retired."

There are some bugs in the game that may get fixed on patch coming out on the 31/11/2011 in Australia 30/11/2011 in america these bugs include when you try to fast travel Skyrim crashes and you return to desktop without so much of a warning. Lastly is when you try to sell item it sometime exit's the sell window for no reason this also happen sometime when you read a book you cannot select another item by the use of a mouse you have to instead exit then re-enter these are the two most annoying bugs there are some others but they are more funny than annoying like dead companions falling from the sky at your wedding. Speaking of weddings there are many optional side-missions in each town from getting married to hunting down a serial killer which is just a most interesting find do not tell the media they will flip out :P.

Now for what people care about the most the gameplay This game can be played in wither 3rd person or 1st person depending on your preference and can easily be switched between the two the combat system is a lot more diverse than it's predecessor with the use of dual wielding one handed weapons and spell it would be nice though if you could combine spells together for new spells like a fire ice ball but i can understand why this has not happened as they are polar opposites. Depending on what you are using the skill will be leveled up allowing the player to train strongly in one skill set or even evenly train all his skills both work just as well from what I have been told from my friends they tend to drift towards dual one hand weapons and spells. They also mostly removed the seven statistics to stamina, health and magicka each of these are just as important as each other for how ever you want to play except magicka as if you want to not use spells you can just not improve this. Stamina improves the amount to capacity you have and the amount you can run or use power attacks, Health is self explanatory increases your maximum health and regeneration outside of battle, Magicka like health increase maximum amount and regeneration both in and outside of battle. Also when you level up you gain a skill point that can be used in your skill trees except they need to have the correct skill level in that tree and the proceeding point before it these points upgrade yourself in the use of that skill and give bonus passive abilities. Lastly their is the headlining feature of this game the fact that you are dragon born which means you can speak the dragon language which results in giving you the ability to shout to either improve yourself or effect your surroundings. To gain these abilities you have to first gain dragon souls by killing dragons and stealing their souls then you have to learn the dragon word on walls all through Skyrim then you use the dragon souls you have collected to unlock the dragon shout or improve it then SHOUT at the world as you are DRAGONBORN.

That about covers the gameplay there is also smithing and enchanting of items to improve stats but they are a little complicated to explain in a review already way over limit they are also great for speed levelling if you have the money to spend on iron bars and leather straps. Now to talk about something else how does that sound, sound you say ok I will talk about that Skyrim has a great original score with the coding to back it up so that it plays the correct music in the correct spots. For example when you’re about to fight a group of enemies or a dragon it picks up to enhance the mood to fit what you’re feeling or when your sneaking around there is only the sound of your footsteps ringing in your ears and the creaking of the wood under the heel of your iron boots. The score also nicely melds to just exploring the land to a seeing an idol or a new town. Which brings me to the engine the new graphic’s engine of Skyrim has fantastic lighting and smoke effects in only downfall is like most MMORPG’s they have to reuse the same textures a lot to flesh out the entire world which makes it look disjointed in some places even though everything has been placed by hand and none have been randomly generated like in previous Elder Scroll games. There are plenty of mods out their which are fan made textures to make places look less disjointed and more natural these are only done with replacing files at the moment once the mod tools come out expect a lot more retexturing and even new area’s to explore which is one of the best things about Bethesda’s games they have a great mod community.

There are many reasons to enjoy this game but it is an extremely involving RPG so it will suck a minimum of 40 hours of your life be prepared for this when you get it, also there is no multiplayer as much as it would be nice to have a co-op partner in some dungeons or quests except that multiplayer can easily ruin the experience of this game as you are very much the strongest person in this world and having two of you would imbalance the game. If you are looking for a fantasy game with great co-op I would suggest Lord of the Rings: War in the North the gameplay in that game is much like Balders gate games like Dark alliance. Also spoiler and forewarning there are some very controversial things in Skyrim that I am ashamed to have in it one being a serial killer’s house with severed heads on bodies lying around the other is once you beat the Dark Brotherhood missions you can train your skills on living torture victims chained up in the dungeons torture in games is the one thing I cannot stand I hate any games that force this on a player as they do effect people and you should not be forced to participate. I did not like this being in amnesia and I hate it being in Skyrim but at least you’re not forced to do this. Until next time I hope you do not get killed by the Dark Brotherhood, also I forgot to mention people hold grudges in this game and will send people after you to kill you this is a nice feature PEACE. Got skyward Sword played a little bit of it already miss the sweet sweet Skyrim graphics HD to SD never a nice change sword play is great far to much talking at start like usual in Zelda games but looking forward to it expect a lot  of Skyrim screenshots to come very soon I have heaps of them will make a post full or them.

Limbo (cause of steam sale)

If you have not played or purchased Limbo it was on sale on steam on 27/11/2011 so get it if you can if not just watch a lets play of it you will understand it and feel same satisfaction of playing it.

Limbo is a game by independent developer Playdead I think they are French if I can remember correctly now before I played this game I had heard that it was an interesting take on a platformer style game and was meant to be hard and frustrating at some points. This did not happen to me only thing that frustrated me was occasionally  the controls would be annoying like he would do a 2 jumps instead of one big one or vice versa other than that I beat they game very fast and without little hiccups.

Now on to the good stuff although it was a short game it was compelling and made me want to keep playing from luring a spider onto a trap to deceiving kids to traps without as much as the kid looking back just kept heading right, RIGHT TO THE END. How I solved every puzzle was deliberately do the wrong thing to understand how the trap works then on next life do it so you do not die only on a few of the puzzles I died more than once and on those ones it was because it required timing which has never been my strong suit which I why I suck at all Mario games even the easy ones. The sound in the game correctly matches what is happening in the environment the control even though annoying still work perfectly with simple button to use button to jump and left and right. The artistic theme of using black and white with some shades of Gray this hides some of the trap to get a cheep jump and to make sure you keep an eye on your surroundings without needing a bright YELLOW dodge this or go here hint system.

There are three sections to each area first is the explore and puzzle solving next is the escape the area requiring you to be constantly moving and being extremely aware of your surrounding then finally killing something that is trying to stop your progress or your boss fight. Although you can only notice this if your paying attention and constantly review the game as you play like I do or notice it in hindsight like most people most do, and yes this is the same thing all games do it is also the same in movies it is called the three part system in it's base form it is setting, problem and solution they usually then follow it up with a small resolution but not everything has this.

I do recommend you play this game if you want something different from just blindly shooting guys or stabbing people or bashing in zombie brains but if you have the extra 15$ get portal 2 much better puzzle game but it has more humour in it and PORTALS and LASORS what more could you want a jet-pack well to bad!.

desert bus for hope (Loading Ready Run)

http://desertbus.org/

The desert bus for hope is a charity event held by the loading ready run crew for a charity this year it is Child's Play in this they play the game desertbus which is where you drive a bus through the desert for 8 hours to get 1 point then drive back to get another point they will be doing marathon of this game and they will increase the amount they play it from the amount we donate. If you do plan to donate, donate a minimum of 5$ otherwise paypal charges will eat up donation making it mute.

Throughout the stream they will be giving away prizes to people who donate holding competitions which I have entered http://sliceofkris.blogspot.com/2011/11/monkey-wrench-and-robo-duck.html. So if you have some money to spare and you want some entertainment this is the place to go the website is at the top of my page and will be at the bottom of the page as well give generously it is for a good cause.

http://desertbus.org/

monkey wrench and robo duck

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League of Legends: Spectator mode; new masteries

As a lot of you will either know or not know LoL (league of legends) have gone through their "season start" update they do every year where they either revamp old features that are not working correctly and add new features last year they re-vamped summoner profiles and introduced Ranked play. This year they revamped summoner spells and masteries and added spectator mode by summoner revamp they edited duration and effects of lots of spells plus re-adding promote removing rally and replacing it with serge.

Summoner Spells all new pictures and two new spells currently selected Surge

Also if you do not want to hear my opinions about this LoL's website has these lovly post about basic mechanic's and changes:
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/how-spectate-custom-game
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/inside-design-summoner-spells-and-season-two
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/inside-design-masteries-season-two

I do not believe these give justice to the changes and are hard to stay interested in while reading as they are mostly a wall of text that would make next to no sense to people who have not been playing a long time.

New Masteries

The above picture shows the three reworked skill tree yes they look a lot like WoW skill trees go figure anyway basic knowledge red is offence blue is defence(used to be yellow) and green is utility(used to be blue). To put these into rpg terms red means dps unit either by spells or by basic damage, blue is tank or durability unit, green means Support or assistance traits like improved exp gain or gold gain. Major changes from previous besides new colours is that red now offers more support to spellcasters and blue allows tanks to gain increased gold as well as huge improvement to defensive stats, green has a lot more diversity which gives user more choices like weather to improve exp gain or get bonus gold. In all tree that have removed indvidual improvements to summoner spells that required you to build your masteries to allow you to improve them instead an each tree the summoner spells can be improve by the general skill that improve spells that fall into that category like red would be offensive summoner spells blue defensive etc.. With all skill trees the improved player choice so that your choices have more effect on the meta game (pre-game optimisation for best build for your character of choice) that then effect the in-game experience.

Spectator champion select

I do not know all the changes to Summoner spells but I do know they remove rally with Serge serge is a spell that is effective for both spell casters and basic damage users it helps both by improving attackspeed and ability power. Promote used to be in the game back in the beta days of LoL where you could promote any minion creep to help push a tower as a supercreep this got exploited and was removed from the game it was exploited by the entire team getting promote and 5 man pushing mid with a full creep wave of supercreeps that were almost unkillable at level 1 they then brought it back with the new game mode dominion. To stop this from happening they changed it so that the only siege units could be promoted and they only come in every third wave which stop the massing of super creeps at level one which effectively stops the exploit but will most probably be a rarely used skill.

Spectator lobby

The spectator mode in LoL has been long in the making like the clan system that has not been made yet we still wanted back from the beta days of LoL and now a beta version has come out 2 years later which lets face is ready for release but just needs a good opportunity to be released correctly most probably a tournament will be the best bet for release. I would most definitely love some extra customisation with this mode as not every game needs a three minuet delay before the spectators are allowed to join this should be left up to the host of the game's discretion as well as clearly stated in the lobby screen but that actual spectator mode is fantastic with lots of features. My favourite feature is when you double click on a hero it locks the camera on that target so that you can follow a player and look at various stats while doing so, next would be the amount to stats you can look at including in the champion selection screen you look at the player's summoner profiles while you wait for the timer to time down so you learn more about the people your about to watch. To give you a little hint of the amount of stuff that you can look up during the game you can check full current character stats items current gold and total collected gold as well as many more features that are based on the entire team not just one player. It would be nice if they had gold per minuet and experience per minuet but it is still beta they may have it in the works just not released yet.

Spectator reconnection screen

I hope you enjoyed my take on League of Legend's new spectator mode and revamped spells and masteries trees we do have a new tv so I will be reviewing Batman Arkham City challenge maps as well as Skyrim which I will be getting very soon until then peace.

Drawfag fun post 14/11/2011

WASSUP!!!

Anyway I enjoy to draw did ya know.

sorry about low quality I suck at drawing and do not own a working scanner.

VAN THE SLAYER 

My best 3d legs to date 

 Van the Slayer cough totally not based off of Van Hellsing

 Yoshi has gone through a rough patch

 really love the hair in this one

 crazy hair

Bard's Tale

  Tracing of Bard's Tale cover art

Cottontail Teemo with no arms as they are hard to draw on small scale doodles

News post 14/11/2011

I am not making a news post here by extreme choice I just have nothing else to put down here as we had a power serge and it killed my tv so I cannot play Batman and I should of beaten it by now with some challenge missions but I had study and much easier to study and play pc games like dungeon defenders, DC universe and SKYRIM! note: I do not have skyrim yet by choice so I could focus on studying.

Biggest news CoD still on top in sales over 6.5 million units shipped in UK and US on first day grossing in over 400 million$ which is the largest to date beating a lot of cinema releases at box offices, goes to show how far gaming has come and how stupid people are at picking movies and computer games. Yes I hated avatar and the CoD series in more interesting news SKYRIM! surprisingly less than 10gb install compared to bf3 with it's 14 gb install which is great news to people decide which games to fit on their small hard drives. In less main stream news Xbox and Ps3 have started remaking their dashboards and pshome has undergone a full revamp with loads of free stuff Xbox website has also gone a revamp.

Dc universe has reached 1 million players since going free to play breathing fresh life into the game and it's first dlc release of green lantern rings. To the proud people of steam users it has been hacked well only the forum server has been but it did have some user information and encrypted credit card info so if you use the steam forums they suggest to change your password to be safe and not to worry about credit card information as they were heavily encrypted and should not be able to be decoded unrelated valve has given out free copies for portal 2 and tf hats.

Assassin creed movie rights have been put up for bid except that whom ever buys them they have to be supervised by the creative team behind Assassin creed, not entirely sure if this will make it any better but never the less at least Ubisoft is trying not to repeat the mistakes of prince of persia. HD collections of various games are all coming out over the next few months including MGS, ICO&SoC, DMC, RE4 and Halo if you do not know what these abbreviations mean then gamse your looking for with HD remakes are not there for you.

People in France have armed robed a truck containing copies of MW3 this makes me sad also more controversy of violence against civilians in the MW3 single player gameplay. Some Mass Effect 3 beta has been leaked in the beta version of xbox's new dashboard which showed the 3 game modes of the game which were story, action and rpg modes this could be difficulty or something else entirely has made fans of the series worried that Bioware may just be catering more to action fans than their rpg fans.

also SKYRIM 6 more years till elderscrolls 6 who else is counting down the days :P

Until next time slice of kris news team out!

DC Universe Online (free edition)

As you should know by now DC Universe came out around this time last year as a MMO for the consoles and demonstrates the three reasons why MMORPG should never be made on consoles I will get to this soon but for now lets get some reasons why to get into this game. DC Universe is much like it's predecessor City of Heroes a MMORPG with super heroes and villains fighting each other with a greater evil looming in the background except it has been given a franchise so they do not have to set up a background and lore for why we should care about the story of your and the characters in the game. Which is a big reason why a lot of the other MMORPG's failed because we had to learn the storyline while getting used to the gameplay and the story going on at the moment but because the viewer has prior knowledge of the series they can more easily make their character fit to the setting and pick up the story of the world. Now quickly I will name some of the more popular MMORPG's of the past five years World of Warcraft (of course), Lord of the Ring online (also free to play expect you caped a lot for being non premium), Starwars Onine (very old cannot remember the actual name), Everquest 2, Tibia and Maple story out of all these you can quickly pick up that you know some of the background of the games except Tibia, Maple story and maybe Everquest this goes to show that people tend to play the game they know the story and lore over something they have never heard of like lets just say Rift.

After that long sidetrack I shall explain my first 10 levels of the game in less than 10 minute I hit my first road block MMORPG's without CDs take for ever to download a whopping 18 Gb so 8 hours latter I was ready to go and hit the second roadblock to an Australian gamer only servers available are Eu or US I mean come on guys we level directly between the two of you give us a server and they give you the stupid option of PvP or non-PvP what a waste of bandwidth to split a server just so pansies can not worried about getting killed by random's during their quest and still not give us a server. Now I am finally in character customisation which I felt was a huge amount of choice you pick your ability background like use of ice fire magic and gadgets then you pick what weapons you want you character to use from hand blasts to pole-arms to dual pistol's. Next you have your choice of metor for the side of heroes Superman, Wonder Woman or batman and for the villain's you have Lex Luthor, The Red Circle or the Joker (you got me I have no idea who this Red Circle is something to do with Wonder Woman) as well as your ability move about acrobatic's like Batman Flying like superman or Super speed of the Flash. After all these tough choices you come to everyone's favourite thing character creation that is right you get to pick what your superhero or villain looks like from cape to boots they have a lot of customisation to make you look like a superstar!.

ME stuck in the ground shows the UI though! and some costumes of my in the ground friends

Now for a quick story setting Lex has killed superman in the not to distant future in the hugest fight between villains and heroes as soon as the battle is over if superman dead Brainiac (The reason for superman's home planet's destruction) comes over and conquers the planet after many years of oppression future Lex invents time travel and warns the justice league of what is going to happen. Lex then release Brainiac's nanobots into the Earth's atmosphere which has all of the powers from meta humans that Brainiac has harvested over the past years and the future that then infect normal humans giving them superpowers and that means you!. Here is a link to the trailer which pretty much is what I have just said above expect cooler with good CGI graphicshttp://www.g4tv.com/videos/47678/dc-universe-online-cinematic-trailer/. You wake up in a large open room of what seems to be a spaceship a stranger's voice contacts you saying ohh you have woken up what I have must of worked they then tell you that you are on a Brainiac invasion ship and you have to escape by using your powers taking out your guard the stranger introduces him/herself. Make a long tutorial short you learn the basics adding skill points, how to use your movement trait and how to fight you break out and destroy the ship with the aid of a more experienced player namely Lex or Superman.

The Game has a large storyline dependant on who you chose as your mentor and which faction your on much like WoW with it's different races and horde or alliance Factions but I decided to use my two available character on a Superman mentor as a magic hand-blasting metahuman that can fly and a twisted nature controlling dual pistol weilding psychopath under the mentor Joker both were incredibly fun to play. When you beat a raid/campaign fight the person you beat give you their stake in the world on my hero route which was Gorilla Grodd and Hive Queen they explained what they want to have as their ideal future when you beat them. After beating these chumps I was invited onto the Justice League space station which is like the huge cities from WoW they then told me to go to other cities from the giant world to tackle stronger enemies and help other heroes.

In my entire experience I have found two annoying things one being not enough ability to set macro as you want in a MMORPG the other was a random bug where I Logged in and was stuck in the ground randomly which made me have to delete my character and start again the other just made me feel like I was Pigeon toed into playing a console game on the computer problem number one of console MMORPG number two is the graphic control in the game there are very limited things you can change for your computers performance it also does not save your setting after you change them after you quit (maybe this was just my computer being stupid). Number 3 general control of you character feels slightly off not saying that it is hard to play or is anyway stupid just did not especially feel 100% like having right click be ranged and left click be melee which just always makes me feel like left and right trigger from a controller at least it is not as bad as Assassin Creed on computer now that is the most annoying control system for a computer ever.

Sorry about the length maybe you like longer and more comprehensive reviews as compared to my whole part review strategy where I break up the review of a game into three parts depending on the theme of the post I am sure I will eventually go into the standard of the industry Gameplay, Story and Multi-player segregated reviews till next time and if you cannot wait for Skyrim that comes out in 24 hours! or just want a free fun well paced MMORPG with very little trouble learning how to play and have fun with it's simplistic UI and gameplay give it a shot.

Battlefield 3 The Guns part 2

The most important thing in modern fps is not gameplay or graphic it is the guns from ironsights to recoil they are the linchpin that holds the entire game together. In some games the guns are completely over the top and ridiculous but because they are they set the tone of the entire game for instance the arsenal in the Unreal franchise each having a unique feel with an incredible destructive force. The guns in Battlefield 3 do set the tone for the game with intense eye for detail biggest example when you use all the bullets in the clip and the one and the chamber before you can fire again you have manually place one in the chamber by cocking it.

The diversity of guns in battlefield is astonishing with over 50 guns to unlock from sidearm's to rpg's each with it's own range damage and effectiveness in certain environments some of these include shotgun for close quarters/indoor environments or the smg for short burst with low accuracy short to mid ranged gun fights. To add to this each weapon has an abundance of attachments to unlock from sights to extra handling with stocks depending on your needs you can even add a flashlights to blind you enemy or a laser sight so you can aim easier from the hip. Now lastly the thing you all care about the most is guns attached to vehicles this is the hardest to do as you want to have it so that a player in a vehicle can feel protected but also so that those not in vehicle do not feel completely hopeless to stop it's onslaught. They have achieved this fairly well by creating other vehicles that can counter other vehicles not force people to rely on the trusty rpg team first their is the mobile anti-air tank that can position itself on a hill out of the range of enemy tanks and rpg team to take out the pesky helicopters and aeroplanes.

This is a nice short post this time it was specific about guns though was not a lot I could talk about I could go into detail on how each gun works but even if I did I do not think  I could correctly state on the accuracy of how each gun feels compared to it's real life counter part as I have never held a gun let alone fired one enough to understand how this gun works and how it compares to this video game. Until next time do not come knocking if the boat is rocking you know what I mean!.

Batman Arkham City part 1 as the dust settles.

Forewarning

Batman Arkham city is made by rocksteady games and is the sequal to the 2009 smash hit Batman Arkham Asylum. I recommend playing Batman Arkham Asylum before you play Arkham City as the plot assumes you have played it and it does not give the greatest tutorial on how to play the game. This is a major flaw of the game as it prohibits new players from being able to simple pick this game up and play it with the same enjoyment of fans of the series. Myself I have not played Arkham asylum since I beat it and the challenge maps I did not even come back when more dlc challenge maps came out as they were essentially the same fight in a different locations so without a tutorial it took me a while to get back to the feel of the game.

Setting

Much like the previous Batman title there is a a world to explore and learn about but unlike the previous game it is easy to get lost while gliding as bat around the city controlled by various factions even more so when you weaken or take out one the bosses the various factions take over that area. The riddle trophies are more mini puzzles or mini-games while also being spread among the entire city making collecting every single one seem more of a hassle over being a reward for exploring as you need to backtrack a lot because you do not have the gadget to get the trophy in the first place. The scan for clues are back but they are not explained at all in the game which pisses me off a lot as I have forgotten almost everything about the game.

I sure am lazy to not post my screenshot

Gameplay

The movement in this game in combat is incredibly fluid in most cases as you watch Batman jump from guy to guy like a pogo stick but gliding and running around does not always do what you want it to or even expect it to as the game does not allow Batman and Catwoman to climb or jump over every single object or grapnel to all ledges. Speaking of Catwoman she has her own side storyline missions not as much as the big bad Bat but has enough attention to enjoy climbing up a wall like a cat to a tree or whipping to a building further away than the whip should be able to hit as well as her personalised fight style and items to flesh out the individuality of the character. You can also play Robin, Catwoman, various Batman skins and Nightwing in the upcoming dlc in the challenge missions which I have yet to play or see but I will you be rest assured.

Graphics

Using the unreal engine like the previous batman makes it have a nice gritty vibe with nice aesthetics as you fly from turf to turf. As the game progresses the entire city changes depending on who the main villain is your chasing at the time including Batman's costume with new gear and as it gets ripped. These things create as sense as if what you do correctly effects the game world unlike other sandbox games where the game world does not change and you feel as if your actions do not mean anything.

Summary

As I am playing this game on the ps3 as it is much more enjoyable to play a 3rd person camera game on a dual analog sticks over a mouse and keyboard so I cannot post screenshot but I have gotten some from various websites on the Internet! Also do not forget to check out my other reviews (they are a lot better than this one as it was one of my first reviews) and to click on the ads to support me doing this as a hobby.

News post for 3/11/2011

Doing news post as it has been a while since last one and there is a lot to talk about

First gta 5 is back on the west coast or fake La like San Andreas from the trailer we can tell that the person wants to start a new life on the west coast because life there is meant to be better then things take a turn for the worse he probably is forced to live on the street then does small gang violence and moves his way up to the top.

Next is a new Mortal combat movie is in production based off the mini series by machinima, Felicia Day has made a Dragon age mini series for the dragon age expansion with her in it also hosted by machinima. Battlefield 3 Batman Drakes have all came out and MW3 is coming out tomorrow (do not buy just because I hate CoD series).

MMO news DC universe has gone free to play lots of people have told me this is a good game so if your over WoW or segway to other news waiting for panda's to come out in WoW back to topic give it a go but bad news is 17 GB on a only possible good MMO. While we are on the subject of WoW news you can get Diablo 3 for free if you purchase a year subscription to WoW personaly this is a great deal if your going to be playing WoW anyway but for non-fans of the series unless your going to play WoW do not get it just get the Diablo 3 collectors edition which is cheaper overall it comes with a USB!!! plus Diablo 2.

It is almost fighting season in the gaming games that are coming Kindom fighter (Number) or something like that Streetfighter X Teken and Capcom vs Marvel (Number) as you can tell I do not care for fighting games they are pretty much all the same.

In local news NOTHING because Australia does diddaly squat! Till next time i know there are better sources for news but u am the only won who types one with won.

3/11/2011

Dungeon Defenders updates updates UPDATES!

It has been a long time since the release of Dungeon Defender since then 3 things have changed and one thing still needs to be changed.

First they have nurfed the squire a lot to bring him down to the other characters levels but even this is still not enough when the other characters have to watch out for immunity of creeps where as squire can take on them all with any turret. Next they buff the apprentices turrets have increased damage over the board while increasing the life of monk's offensive auras so they do not need to be constantly repaired. The archer has not been improved and is still the hardest character to use except her second spell is very good at clearing enemies in a long row.

Halloween in dungeon defenders

A wild pirate scouts the field ready to strike

short quick expect more improvements in this game and unless your going for speed levelling do not play the Halloween event match it is so damned long to beat 1 and half hours never again and you only get special skins if you beat it on hard, till next time.