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Hoardes of Reviews

2008-07-01T11:05:44Z

The blog's again enriching with reviews this month. With two new reviews upcoming.

That are Sim City and probably Deus Ex. The SC is probably on the count but not sure of the other it may change.

The Magazine

2008-07-01T10:52:57Z

Yes, guys there's an exclusive 1st issue magazine that me and my Romulation bros have done. Lots of new buzzes of the gaming world. The guys have really made the things happening with mag. The check out for�the RuR would amaze you. Under the work you would find a lot of exclusive things to the magazine. Since, the mag will be out this week the pressure and anxiety is building. Mag's team is superbly heading for anonther issue and I'll probably be a permanent part again. The magazine's release specifically is on 4th of july, Friday. The mag amounts upto a sum of 21 staggering pages. So, be tuned to check out the mag on Romula.....

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Vincent-V

[ PS2 ] Bully

2008-05-20T13:57:22Z

publisher: Rockstar Games, Rockstar
Games

developer: Rockstar Vancouver

published: October 17, 2006

category: Action

players: 1

also for: Xbox

Rockstar's one of the best and most
unique action-adventure game which is a aptly named as Bully. As the
name suggests the game puts you in situation to handle the torments
of bullies, learn to fight with them or even knock them down on their
knees. The game has such a wonderful storyline which is a package
full of plots and twists which makes Bully really exciting.

The game starts with a cutscene
involving the protagonist of the game, a 15-year-old troublemaker
Jimmy Hopkins. Jimmy ends up in a boarding school by her newly
remarried mother and her wealthy husband. Actually, their idea is to
leave him in the school and happily spend their entire year living
free of troubles. The school is run by many small groups of people
belonging to different sections. There are many students you will
meet in the game. You become friend with Gary, a student who wants to
take over the school. But, Gary removes his picture really early off
the game leaving you behind the eyes of the authority.

The gameplay, storyline, and the
setting of the game is really worthwhile. The characters are really
well-made and you can expect nerds,greasers or even cheerleaders to
roam around the school. Jimmy has strong character and is quite a
smart kid. His excellent dialogues makes him away from any
personalities in the game portraying his right character and
importance in the game. Though being made by Rockstar the game really
keeps up for its Teen ESRB rating and not being violent like most of
the Rockstar games (For example - GTA, of course ).

The game has practically a non-linear
storyline, but the options are specifically fixed on your first
decision. At the start you're in a school and you're allowed only to
attend about one class at minimum. You always wake up at 8 AM, and
have classes to your accordances, each class has a specific day and
time. So, if you accidentally miss a class you'll have to wait till
the next week. For example- You go in class at 10 AM and you go for
one more class at about 2 PM and if you want to go out night you
might be breaking the rules of the school or even the city, if you're
getting up at about 12 PM night, apparently you're attending a curfew
( Things get a little boring when you don't break rules ), you can be
safe if you how to get rid of prefects in the school or the police in
the city. The game time goes really fast, so you can do missions
according to your speed. The problem is that you have limited in a
day to get your things done.

You might get bored being at the
school. But, you'll realize that the classes have a lot of benefits,
each class gives you really strong bonuses that come handy throughout
the game. Eg- If you do your gym classes well your fighting skills
get concreted and your accuracy rapidly increases- The gym has 2
types of games one is the Dodge Ball that of course increases your
accuracy and other is wrestling where you learn more stronger
fighting tactics. In English classes, you are provided with set of
letters and you have to find as much words you can before the time
runs out. English classes have a very important bonus, if you get
caught by the police you can beg/apologize to them and avoid getting
busted. Chemistry class gives you bonus of keeping a chemistry set in
your room so that you can make stink bombs and firecrackers. There is
one garage that has one extra class in which you have to put together
the parts of a BMX, which in return you can use after the class is
over. Photography, which is the least essential in the game gives you
an ability of using a camera. These classes are not so time consuming
and you'll find that not even half way through the game you finished
all the classes.

NOTE- The Scholarship Edition includes
a new class that is Biology class. Since, I don't know more about it
in detail you can find it out yourself on many sites.

Bully's storyline is made up into
chapters. Each chapter will teach you about the different segments of
the game. Eg- A mission tasks you to wipe out the Preppies ( bloody
rich kids ) in their rings and teach them a lesson. Another mission
tasks you to wipe out the Jocks ( Hefty, Bullies and Rugby players )
from a certain area to help the Nerds out. The game includes many
naughty missions- Like, when you sneak into the girls dorm and take
naughty pictures. During the game you'll also help out many teachers
also. Like the psycho gym teacher asks you to panty raid or help out
the alcoholic English teacher in his personal matters. All missions
in the game are generally not to lengthy or difficult and all the
missions have such suspense that they will keep you curious to know
the end.

Jimmy learns many things as you voyage
through the game. Later, Jimmy learns to interact with people .. you
can greet them nicely or badly, start flirting with girls or even
kiss them. These can also be used to hire bodyguards and bullies. The
game has lot of strange,unusual and of course strong weapons- the
slingshot, a bottle rocket launcher, itching powder, stink bombs and
your most used weapons your hands and legs. As I said the really
keeps up to its Teen ESRB rating- their no guns and weapons that
would cause a death. The enemies in the game are as strong as strong
as you because they can block your kicks or even fist attacks, the
best way to avoid a long battle is to use a weapon. However, battling
with a single person is manageable but fighting with a group of enemy
can be difficult. The fighting system is quite nicely implemented in
the game and even if the groups are too hard to fight, defeating a
person drops many life restoring things and can be easy.

Looking from the point of graphics,
Bully provides real-looking faces and has showcased graphics of which
PS2 is capable of... it really makes them alive. Though the graphics
really good but the frame rate not 100%. The voice cast in the game
is fantastic, providing the suitable voices for each character.

The sound is also perfect but the
sounds that play during the gameplay is somewhat taken from '' Harry
Potter'' but these sounds really give a cinematic feeling.

Bully is not like most of the game,
it's perfect storyline, gameplay and sound are really memorable and
is one game that every gamer should give it try despite having some
minor problems. Pesonally, it's one of my best game on PS2.

Presentation � 10/10 � the game is
presented neatly, and it's nearly difficult to find faults in it.
Besides, the storyline really suits the game well and gives one
unique experience.

Gameplay � 9/10 - The game is really
good. But, still you might get in a confusion while learning the
basic gameplay of the game. The game's fighting system is different
from other games and merely gives you a complaint.

Graphics � 8/10 � The graphics are
really good, the faces are charming to look at and the environment
feels really nice and remembers you of your childhood. The main
problem comes between the perfect graphics is the a little unusual
frame rate.

Sound � 9/10 � The sound is also
nice and brings the game alive. The sounds are good and soothing to
hear.

Replayability � 9/10 � It's fun to
play the game again...

Full description

You're not going to take it anymore.
From edgy publisher Rockstar's Vancouver development team comes this
dark comedy set in the most vile and sadistic setting yet in a
Rockstar videogame: the schoolyard. As a troublesome schoolboy,
you'll laugh and cringe as you stand up to bullies, get picked on by
teachers, play pranks on malicious kids, win or lose the girl, and
ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform
school, Bullworth Academy.

[PS3] Grand Theft Auto IV

2008-05-17T16:50:48Z

Publisher:� Rockstar Games

Developer: Rockstar North

Release Date: April 29, 2008

Category: Action, Adventure, Racing, Third-Person

Players: 1-16

Also for:Xbox 360

Entering
the Liberty City at the start of GTA IV recalls you you of CJ(''Carl
Johnson''- The GTA San Andreas protagonist) landing on Los Santos,you
can tell that Rockstar is ready for one more heck of a ride and the
game has to offer something special. Yes , be ready for another GTA
game and some extraordinary action and hunting criminals or cops down,
but I bet it's more than that. GTA IV is a game with testing and
nonlinear storyline, a game with a great protagonist who you can't
resist to love and with extraordinary online features. Though it's not
a flawless game but still it's the best GTA ever.

One of the
main things that made GTA IV really special was the Liberty City, which
I would prefer to say '' New Liberty City'', which has a better urban
environment than its predecessors. Niko is surprised to see the diverse
people who are not aware to the crime going on in the city , when he
understands that his cousin Roman got sunk in fatal gambling debts.
Niko's military experience makes him a player for employers in the
business of killing or assassinating� each other and gives him
confidence to complete his own mission.

Actually, it's not
pretty straightforward it's entirely on you than blindly following
instructions in missions . You don't necessarily kill the target , you
might don't know his presence may come useful to you in future , or
even have work for you in bonus missions. Warning : you might miss some
of the most interesting feature of the game and you'll likely fall in
playing the game again.

GTA
IV can be likely beaten in 35 hours, and there are so many optional
missions and side missions to take part in comfortably. Majority of
missions in the game task you to kill the people. The easiest thing in
the game are missions than the previous games because Niko is such a
aggressive and a strong killer than any GTA protagonist, and the cops
have more busy things like eating donuts than catching Niko
assassinating people around. Some really unique missions in the game
include kidnappings, a bank heist and a job interview. The excellent
cinematic cutscenes are superbly presented. The characters have been
greatly animated, great voice acting, and extremely life-looking faces.
There are always problems when you fail a mission, you have to go long
distances in order to that mission again but the new ''replay mission''
option is really helpful.

New abilities in Niko's including
scaling fences and walls anywhere, cover behind objects, so on. Ability
to cover makes the targeting and gunplay system really efficient in GTA
IV and with a new targeting system it's just awesome. The enemies are
not smart enough to hit when you are in cover. Locking on the targets
on their torso or on their legs by default takes long time in killing
the enemies, but you can hit with the use of your right-analog button
to kill more efficiently. I think the only flaw with the targeting
system is that there is no more lock-on feature which makes it
difficult to kill, instead you will have to master the technique so
that you can blindly hit the enemies either from the cover position or
free.

After realizing you are giving to much trouble to the
city, it's sure that the cops have to stick their nose in your
business, but this time they are really easy to deal than the other
GTA's. First, because they are really slow while persuading you. And
second, because they don't even bother to block your ways. It's so easy
that even if you destroy the whole city you'll come back alive. You
have one more advantage, the GPS- it helps you to show the exact
locations of the patrol cars and even the policemen strolling around,
and brushes the area where they are heading and also the place where
they are in search of you. To escape, you just need move outside the
brushed/highlighted mark. The easiest thing you can do is to just stand
at one place and find your way out until the police car is out of sight
this. This is very easy trick when your wanted level is low and the
brushed mark is small.

When you are getting bored of doing
missions, racing or even destroying the city. Eventually, you will find
that their to many things for your fun like- you can watch television
or listen to many of the amusing radio stations, being a audience in
many comedy clubs and best thing to do is the in-game Internet. GTA
IV's Internet has diverse kinds of websites. Mainly you find them in
searches or spam e-mails. You can find computers in ''TW@'' Internet
cafes.

Dating
& socializing you'd love to do in girls. Like, when you are on the
Internet� there is an interesting site where the women see your
profiles and if they like it they might go with you on a date. Besides,
you can make friends and get many important benefits. You'll waste a
lot of time with them to impress them. Different people like to do
different things, for example- some people like to eat, while some
people like to play pool,bowling etc. Later, you will realize that
dates are really frustrating at times... they get impressed according
to various factors like whether you pick them at time, where you take
them and several more detail factors like what you wear and how you
drive. There many rewards you can get through socializing and dating
�example- if you make friend with a nurse/doctor you can get health
advantages.

� � �You can know more about them by a new GTA IV
feature- the cellphone. This new feature so well implemented that this
new feature really distances the other GTA's from GTA IV. With the help
of the cellphone you can all many of the acquaintances and take calls
even when you are driving. It's really easy to use the phone you just
need to take up the friends phone number, it depends on whether the
person takes the call or not. There's one funny thing with the
cellphone whenever you're engaged in a gunfight or a mission you can
expect majority of calls. You can also add new ringtones and themes for
your phone from the Internet which represents the amount of detailing
in the game.

Talking
of details, Rockstar has made act of stealing more interesting, which
still can be done by just a click of one button, but this time you can
expect different things to happen. If the door is locked, Niko will
smash the window with his elbow or even the foot. Once Niko is inside
the car, Niko does hot-wiring in order to start the car. In some cases
when you smash up the window the car may trigger a alarm, and it may
attract the nearby policemen� to come after you.

To make GTA IV
more easier than its predecessors, driving has become very loose which
helps you in making stylish U-turns, skids and sharp turns easily. To
make the driving really amusing the positioning of camera is very
important which is done just perfectly in the game. Like , when take in
hand of something fast the camera comes closer and shows the need for
speed. But, there is one of the most important minor problem in the
game is that it's really difficult to halt the car whether it is a
stallion, dumpster, motorcycle, boat or even a helicopter.'

Getting
online GTA IV couldn't be easier. You simply select the multiplayer
mode from cellphone, choose the game you want to host or join. You
certainly won't have to wait longer and get bored. The multiplayer mode
offers about 16 players to do just anything around the city. To ensure
that things don't get too friendly the weapons are scattered around the
city.

The multiplayer mode offers many things for you to
customize freely if you want to host a game session, you can customize
various things such as police presence, traffic levels, friendly fire
and so on. You can also choose where you want the game to be held. The
multiplayer modes such as deathmatches� and race are amazing. You also
task-based games similar to a single-player mode. The multipalyer mod e
also offers many team-based games like � Turf Wars, Cops'n'Crooks and
so on. The online mode offering upto 16 players to play all� together
with a variety of modes to play is as compelling as the single-player
mode. The GPS is also made to great use in the online mode, so that you
can track the players objectives and engage their doings in certain
situations.

If
you're curious to what difference do the PS3 version or the X360
version have. Frankly speaking, they don't have much in difference. The
PS3 version starts only after a crucial installation that makes the
time taken by loading a little shorter.

The sound effects are
really efficient in the game and impressive during gunfights. The
soundtracks in the game are just amazing which has vast number great
licensed songs. And if you are curious to know more about these songs,
a song recognition service has been introduced that gives you
full-proof information about these songs back on your cellphone.

GTA
IV is a game with everything you ever wanted and in case you still
don't have a copy of the game, get out and go to your nearest
video-game stores. GTA IV has some really minute faults but still
stands up to more than our expectation and is truly the best GTA ever
created.

Presentation- 10/10
- The game is presented with ease and excellency and everything is an
inspiration from the game. The storyline is really good and non-linear.

Graphics- 10/10
- The graphics just can't get better than that, GTA IV looks realistic
at every side of the game. The streets, the water, the sky , the city
almost everything looks real and gives the pleasure of playing the game
in the superb urban environment.

Gameplay- 10/10
- The gameplay is really the backbone of the game respecting the the
new cover system, great use of the GPS and the cell phone. Besides, all
this the game provides an entirely new feature of in-game Internet and
the television.

Sound -10/10
- The sound is just perfect and really brings Liberty City alive. The
game has plenty of great licensed soundtrack which are extremely
addicting.

Replayability - 10/10 -
The game will be the same and amusing while replaying because as I said
before the game has lot of alternatives and hidden things to be done.

Overall Rating - 50/50
- It's just the perfect game you want and if you are real gaming fan
you'll surely have to check this game out once in a lifetime.

Game summary

The
fourth installment of the popular series by Rockstar features improved
graphics, new features, and new gameplay. Players take on the role of
Niko Bellic, a rough-around-the-edge chap from Eastern Europe. Niko has
arrived in America, in Liberty City -- a land full of promise and
opportunity. His cousin convinced him to emigrate, to join him in his
mansion and life of luxury, but as soon as he steps off the boat, Niko
discovers the truth about the American way. Still, the wealth, the
comfort, the bliss of the good life, it all really is here ... And it's
all for the taking.

GTA IV reinvents the series with a renewed
version of Liberty City detailed to the last pothole and rooftop vent.
There are now four boroughs to explore plus extra area outside of
Liberty City proper. With the ability to climb obstacles, drive cars,
steer boats and pilot helicopters, the world of GTA is more accessible
than ever before.

More reviews to come.

2008-02-19T18:39:06Z

I have recently being working on a lot of reviews lately. Let me tell you what all games they are from - probably you have seen of PS3 and PC, working on PS2, NDS and GBA. If possible I could write some X360 reviews also. Here's a list of upcoming reviews-

PS3

Devil May Cry 4

Call Of Duty 4 : Mordern Warfare

Burnout Paradise

Unreal Tournament

Rock Band

PC

Sins Of the Solar Empire

Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion

Deus Ex

NDS

Pokemon Diamond

Advance Wars Days Of Ruin

LOZ : Phantom Hourglass

FFXII : Revenant Wings

Contra 4

Dementuim

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PS3 > X360

2008-02-19T12:41:08Z

1. Playstation 3 will surpass Xbox 360 sales in 2008.

2. More and more games will be added to the shelves of PS3.

3. Excellent updates to the PS3 are being added date to date.

4. Rpgs, which are one of the best genres are going to be ported to PS3.

5. PS3 is more durable than X360.

The New Sub-Blog

2008-02-18T19:31:38Z

The group has decided to spread the news to another sub-blog. So, it is to the lower right corner.

Turok

2008-02-17T21:09:17Z

Publisher: Disney Interactive Studios, Touchstone

Developer: Propaganda Games

Published: February 05, 2008

Category: Action, Shooter, First-Person

Players: 1-16

Touchstone,
a branch of Disney were ones who published the game.This new game is
the first in franchise in 6 years. Movies like Jurassic Park have
aspects of the time-traveling, but in its stead is a science-fiction
story that involves a distant ship that crashes into a world of aliens.
Game includes of interesting plot twists and nasty dialogues. Aside the
senseless action.

Presentation - 7.5/10
You play as Joseph Turok, an American solider who is trained to hunt a
rogue military company of which he once used to be a member of. Turok
freely imitates from many resources, the plot feels much like ones from
Jurassic Park. There's also not to the game in the storyline. Ship
crashes on a planet, Go find the mystery voice that's pretty
straightforward and out of fashion. Turok could have made an
interesting plot but failed to do so. The story line is of 10 full
hours of playtime more than any FPS.

Graphics - 8/10
The visual designs of character and vehicles feels to be taken from
Gears of War. The environment is confusing and camouflaged. The visuals
are powered by the Unreal engine, gives that they are not sharp or
crisp as in other Unreal-engine games. Granted, there are some great
animations, particularly when a dinosaur is dying on the ground
twitching in pain. The PS3 version looks nice in graphical lighting and
shading, though X360 game suffers. However, they both are quiet
identical.

Gameplay - 9/10
The only thing in the game is fighting dino's. You encounter many
varied species of dinosaurs such as quick raptors, docile and our
favorite T-rex. You have rare selection of your firearms in the game.
The game includes many cinematic action, move or thrust down buttons
continuously. It's so well done that it's a bit unsettling fighting
with your knifes.

The gets frustrating when fighting waves of dinosaurs. For example, you
are attacked by dinosaurs the first wave is going to be itself hard
and in no time minutes another wave attacks. This process of
frustrating fights goes on, and further the checkpoints for saving are
not much so, you would have to replay from the start. The human
hostiles is quiet easy in contrast to the dinosaurs.

Sound - 9/10
The sound is somewhat perfect with great voice acting and some nasty
dialogues make it a little cheesy. The sound effects are sure no trites
with excellent sound of footsteps and the cries of dinosaurs.

Replayability - 7/10 Depends on the gamers. But, I would prefer it.

Misc [for extra info.]
There's support for up to four players in co-op in multiplayer, and the
action is a lot more intense than in regular single-player because the
number of enemies and dinosaurs have been increased to extreme. The
downside is that it's difficult to find an available game at times
online, even in the evenings. The multiplayer very difficult to handle
in many occasions.

Overall Rating - 40.5/50

Full description

Turok
is an epic, story-driven FPS game set on a dark, mysterious planet in
the near future. Players take on the role of Joseph Turok, a former
Black Ops commando, now part of an elite Special Forces squad on a
mission to take down a war criminal on a genetically-altered planet.
After the ship is shot down while approaching the planet, Joseph Turok
must use his instincts and elite military training to elude an army of
well-trained soldiers, and the ravenous, unpredictable creatures that
populate the dangerous environment. Joseph Turok's mission? Survive at
all costs.

Change in review rules

2008-01-29T19:44:16Z

Review
titles must be of this format: [CONSOLE] Game Title - Author of Review.
Console title can be [NDS], [X360], [PS3], [WII], etc.

Actual reviews only. No biased/sarcastic reviews. These will be deleted.

Reviews
must be thought-out and substantial. Any reviews consisting of a line
such as "This game rules, go buy it" will be classified as spam and
deleted.

Cover art for the game must be provided at the beginning of each review.

Each review must contain a score of 0-10 on the following areas: Storyline/Presentation, Graphics, Sound, Gameplay, and Replayability.

Each review must contain an overall score that is the total of the criteria score. This means that the final score will be between 0-50.

The above criteria also must be discussed in the body paragraphs of the review.

-Winterr, Thanks

The reviews have changed accordingly to the rules.

Skate

2008-01-28T19:00:33Z

Publisher:� ��Electronic Arts

Developer: ��Black Box, EA Black Box

Published: ��September 24, 2007

Category: ��Sports, Other, Extreme

2007
has been a year of several skateboarding games since the Tony Hawks
series.Most of them failed abruptly as they were duplicate with the
same technique and gameplay.The Activision prominent maker of
skateboarding games had a severe competition with the arrival of EA's
Skate,At times Skate looks like simulation style Tony Hawks but aside
the skateboards,the two don't have whole in common.Great thanks to
Skate's superb control system, Which adds relevant joy to the
players.Skate adds excellent analog controls and triggers,this makes it
an awesome system of tricks.Unfortunately,the usage of these controls
is done on challenges and goals that extremely annoying.Moreover,the
Skate provides with a unstable frame rate.

Presentation - 8.5/10 The
Skate story/career mode is straightforward. It starts when you get
slammed by a bus and going in for surgery.This makes you change your
face and body type.Once,you are ready to go it's time to win.The
benefits of winning-be on the cover-page of a magazine, you'll have to
finish may photo goals.Some of them are quite easy just like achieving
points on certain periods,Doing some specific tricks,some of them are
time attacks or beat trick contests.Some of them are also to skate on
no-skate zones which are patrolled by security guards,Some require you
to do a lot of spins,remaining in the air for 10 secs and so on.The
film goals are probably the trickiest ones in the entire game.As you
progress to through the game you will come across many places including
such indoor locations as the Plan B Warehouse and the X Games
Stadium.There is also a community reason . You can use replay editor
and capture several masterpieces and share them around the world.These
can be viewed through the menu in the game or the game's website,it's
nice because you can see the replays even if� you don't own the game.

Graphics - 9/10
On visual aspects,Skate has realistic looks and presents the
environment nicely.The skaters look good and the animation is just
perfect.The crazy visuals gives it street look.By realizing the supreme
use of next-generation consoles Skate presents the graphics in a new
style.

Gameplay - 9/10
Skate moves the movement controls to the left analog stick.The right
analog stick is for tricks such as flips,Ollie.For doing small tricks
such as kickflips is a more complicated part.The triggers are used to
perform grabs in the air.Their is a depth in the game of such modified
controls but it isn't the best of all.A lot tricks are done in quite
similar ways in achieving goals sometimes when you get in contact with
one of the tricks you would be performing it again and again which
in-turn gets frustrating esp. in Skate competitions, where you have to
perform the same tricks as your opponent.Grinding in Skate is easy,just
get into the air and land on an edge.During the game the camera is
zoomed to your skater which means you will be blocked and unable to see
a clear view.Skate is very crucial on timing meaning on how long you
crouch.Their is no skater skill boosting,unlocking tricks etc. except
the personal skill boost.

Sound - 8/10 As for
soundtracks they are a mixture of weird mixes of music that actually
don't play throughout the game often.Skaters often carry radios with
them and then you faintly start to hear them.But most of the music is
little too shabby to hear.Besides the soundtracks the audio effects are
tremendous like when you skid the skateboard hard the wheels make
noise.The presence ingame audio is really well detailed.

Replayability - 6/10
So,as there are both ups and downs for Skate but still is good choice
on your collection with high potentials.Truly a game to try for
skateboarding fans.But,in turn I believe the replay of the game is
another pack of� annoying and frustrating matters.The game is not at
all comfortable for replaying.

Misc.( For extra information ) -
Like other sports games, Skate is filled with plenty of sponsored
equipment and other product placement.EA and Adidas sponsor for the
shoe equipment.These are often introduced and advertised.The offers
different advertisements downloads but still the lacks the majority of
ads.Resulting you would see the same advertisements over and over
again.

Overall Rating - 40.5/50

Full description

Skate
delivers the real feel of skating in a fully reactive skateboarding
city, utilizing the power of the Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles for advanced
new control and physics techniques to feel through every kick-flip and
land every aerial. The game features professional skaters such as Danny
Way and PJ Ladd. Skate's unique control scheme captures the true feel
of skating -- with physics-driven animations, gamers will have a unique
gaming experience every time they pick up the controller since no two
tricks will ever be the same.

World In Conflict

2008-01-26T14:42:46Z

World In Conflict

World In Conflict for the PC

Publisher: Sierra

Developer: Massive Entertainment

Published: September 18, 2007

Category: Strategy, Real-Time

Players: 1-16

The game tells us about the World War III that didn't erupt, LUCKILY..

WOW
tells us about the imaginary WW III between the USA and the Soviet or
the Ivans as in the game.Sierra and Massive Entertainment's created a
marvelous scene of WW III.The Soviets attack western Europe and siege
is communed , as any story the Americans rush to the west and pushes
back the Ivans.

Presentation - 9.5/10
However,the game provides you with
deadlocking,destructive,swashbuckling 14-pack of missions with only
American campaign.But,you can not play as the Red army on the main
story .. but you can on the multiplayer prospective.The campaign blends
superb story with twists and weaves,letting you fall into the story.You
take a role as junior merge of US defense who makes his part into the
story and heads for glory.The story is long and a bit overstretched but
WOC really pays up to its expectations of standing high.

Graphics - 10/10
Nice graphics are offered through novel-graphics like in-game cut
scenes while some through drawings and also some really nice
prerendered scenes but, there aren't much in the game.The environment
is soo good that you will not hesitate to destroy anything within your
reach.The game is excellent on DX10 than DX9.. this lightens up the
atmosphere.If you don't have DX10-NO WORRIES You won't miss anything at
gameplay or ability.This a nuclear strike a perfect example of the
games graphics.. The mushroom does a lot effect on the environment and
is quite helpful around...Everything in game the works superbly even
the close up camera ,just hover your mouse and then rotate the wheel of
the mouse to zoom in or out.Even,when you throw up nuclear strike the
sky turns black.The detailing in the game is specular.

Gameplay - 10/10 The game
isn't to hard like some of the other RTS games.You straight forward ask
for air-drops,air attacks.. this all provides it with open battleground
for a destructive environment..Lot of army premeditated weaknesses and
advantages are there like the Tanks are not good against infantry but
are good against other tanks.This isn't the game ..when you want to
take tons of army to attack the opposition,thats why you get a handful
of units to fight with.The resource is also excellent introducing
reinforcements points that help in purchasing the units and than deploy
them to constant points under you.Now that seems easy to you..Now here
comes the hard one WOC provides you with several time limits for
comple- ting a particular objective.This sometimes becomes a
headache.Besides the reinforcements points you have tactical aid points
which are added to your tally whenever you do something to care
for.Tactical strike means destroying the enemy hard and easy like
several artillery,napalm strike etc,.one of the best thing is the
nuclear strike.It creates a deadly sound and explosions of death
trigger.Its easy if tactical strike is around,for instance its hard
killing a group helicopters then you can call the air-strike to clean
up the hood.Everything in game the works superbly even the close up
camera ,just hover your mouse and then rotate the wheel of the mouse to
zoom in or out.Even,when you throw up nuclear strike the sky turns
black.The detailing in the game is specular

Sound - 10/10 Thats because
of storytelling which is narrated perfectly by Alec Baldwin.He is
backed up with excellent voice acting by the actors in the story which
adds a real lively act to the game ..the game offers both emotions and
humor at times.The SFX are really astounding like the trigger of a bomb
creates superb noise.Also the nuclear attack's sound is really well
back upped.

---Multiplayer - As good is
the single player mode .. much better is the multiplayer mode.That
plays quickly with no smirk waiting for the server.everything works
warm and quickly at the multiplayer mode.This works so fast that you
are snatched to the current playing game and in other RTS games no need
to work on the base and building protection.just use your
reinforcements points.Again thanks to the excellent resource system.

Team
coordination can be handled through a through voice-IP chatting lets
you talk to your team mates.Use anything on the battlefield you have
from your mind to your game.

Replayability - 9.5/10 At
the end, this is a real game for the RTS fans .. and also for juniors
.. so far the best strategy game ever made its a masterpiece from story
to the visual effects.everything in the game works to the top.Its a
superb piece to your collection.Really the ones who want to play it
again will get a more thrilling experience.

Overall Rating - 49/50

Full description

World
in Conflict presents a chillingly authentic Cold War scenario where the
Berlin Wall never fell. Created by Cold War authority and best-selling
author Larry Bond, the story begins in 1989 as the Soviets, fearing
certain collapse, boldly advance into Europe. NATO responds in force
only to be met on a second front -- a full-fledged invasion of the
American homeland.

Players take on the role of field commander,
leading the era's most powerful military machines in the campaign to
retake America's cities and suburbs. The RTS gameplay features
completely destructible 3D battlefields, aggressive team-based
multiplayer action and a focus on fast, hard-hitting battles.

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