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Crysis Review

Even though I have not yet finished the game, I have played enough to review this game. You might be hearing allot on Killzone 2 and allot of Sony Fanboys calling it the mother of all FPS. Well until that comes out and we test it, Crysis is the mother of all FPS. It is the benchmark of modern gaming PCs and what a fun Benchmark it is.

Graphics: Some of the best ever. Texture work is unreal, lighting is outstanding, best water in any game, destructible background, interactive items, huge maps. Needs a fast PC though. So do not think this one is modest. Wait till you blow up helicopters or use some of the weapons in the game at later stages 9.8

Sounds: Great effects, Very good Music, Very good voice acting 9.2

Replay: Multiplayer goodness. Game can be played again easily in single player 8.5

Control: Perfect Mouse and Keyboard controls. Easy to learn. 9.0

Gameplay: Fun gameplay. Medium AI. Medium Difficulty, Excellent Vehicles 9.0


9.1 (Excellent)

The Last Remnant and Left for Dead are out

Will play and post impressions soon. I am hoping the Last Remnant is not a flop.

Meet your favorite VG composer.

Greets. Every one of us at some point wanted to know how does a video game music composer looks like. those people's music made the games we play actually feel, without them it's just a bunch of lifeless bits and texts. i was browsing the web and stumbled upon this:

http://www.squareenixmusic.com/composers.shtml

so, who's your favorite composer?

Mirror's Edge Review

First you start with the demo material, same same same, ah its over, you are hung to the helicopter and can not wait to jump off and kick ass. Ah the prologues ends there. Still cool. The game will start off somewhere cooler for sure. Mmmm, no. After that,....ah no the game is not evolving. First chapter is done and no, still the same. Ah I am in the sewers and ah boring......Ah a weapon...not for long.Running running running. Blues shooting you. You jumping around like a monkey. Falling 1000 times. Restarting at shitty checkpoints most times. Falling again. Blues shooting. Linear paths. No chance to enjoy environment and graphics. Frustration, frustration. Turns off game.


graphics 9 great art, crisp graphics
sound 8 very good sound effects and music
control 7 not the best, but it works
gameplay 6 frustrating at times, good at other times, repetitive at most times
replay 6 short game, limited mulitplayer

Overall 7.2 (OK)

My review system is a hybrid ratio system not an average (it will give graphics 20%, sound 20%, control 15%, gameplay 30% and replay 15%. I will also start to round to the nearest 0.05 from now on).

0-6.9 (Fail, there are other games you would rather play)

7-7.4 (OK)

7.5-7.9 (Almost Good)

8-8.4 (Good)

8.5 -8.9 (Very Good)

9-9.4 (Excellent)

9.5 - 10 (Revolutionary)

IGN just game this game 7.3 and they use a similar system. So I guess I should be proud of my reviews.

http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/927/927781p1.html

Titans Quest: Immortal Quest Review

After seeing the mouth watering HD trailers of Diablo 3, I got to admit, my mouth has been watering for sometime for that game. I went and bought a new PC for that. Since then I have been playing allot of PC, old and new. A game that I have started sometime ago was Titan's Quest. That was around 3 years when I had my Athlon 170XP and fx geforece card. I was getting really crappy framerates on that POS, but I still went on. After doing so much overclocking, the PC friend and I ended up having to stop playing the game after thinking that I have reached the end. Trying this on the new PC, the resolution was a 1920 x 1200. Everything ON. For an old game, it looked gorgeous. Lighting, texture work and animation is really good for a game that old. The game hardly dropped one frame below 60 thoughout all the game. Sound is also very good, One of the dungeon tracks is very catchy, the sound effects make you feel like you are really out and about with birds, animals, waters, people crowds in markets and so on. The game excels in the sound department.The mechanics of the game are pretty good too. The fighting system is very easy to use, you get a mastery meny and an equipment/status one. Masteries are the most interesting part of this game. You get two choose 2/8. Example are Storm, Earth, Nature, Dream, etc... They give your warrior spells and powers that you can use as you gain skills from leveling up. As much as it is a great system, growing and improving it takes allot of time as you only get 3 skill points when you level up. And leveling up is not really a quick thing by all means. Another interesting thing in this game is the equipment. Swords, Axes, Staffs, Bows, Shields, enhancements, rings, amulets, armour, boots, and relics. You will spend most of your time in this game on equiping your warrior. After leveling up, you get to choose between strenghts, dexterity and intelligence in addition to health and magic energy. Choose wisely and different equipment need different attributes. Strenghts to wear big armour or hold big axes for example. Intellgence to use wizard staffs, dexterity to use bows, etc... The overall system is that good that you will be addicted. The more you play and kick baddies arses, the more goodies you will find, the more relics you will combine and the more fun you will get while you build artifacts, or enhance gear. The story is straight forward and linear, you are a titan, some roman god goes berserk and you need to stop him. Being a Muslim, stories about roman and greek mythologies do not really ring my bell. But I will not get into that much and turn this review intoa relgious critique. I found this story the only let down in this game. I only turned it on for the mastery and equipments and fighting, not for the story. The quests are ok. Motivation was also for experince and equipment, but the latter did not come from quests that much, you get your best gear from caves and fights and not even from merchants. merchants will get used more for selling not buying. Money is fun to get in the first couple of acts, but it gets really boring after as you see your money reaching 15,000,000 gold and you have really no use for it. The only use I found was restorting relics from enhanced gear or withdrawing skill points used on certain masteries. You will start get bored of money trust me. Other frustrations can come from having to start a birth fountain everytime you die. Yes you get to gain experience from recollection your tombstone, but it is so little you will hardly see your level bar move, its not motivating. I would rather reload where I died instead of this time wasting process. At some stages, I was about to give up. I even used a trainer at the end of this game as I really was about to leave the game and hit uninstall. It is that frustrating. Overall as the credits rolled, I felt a certain level of satisfaction, but it was not that huge. I was glad I was able to end this really unique game. Diablo 3, ready when you are.

GRAPHICS 8.5 Very good textures, animation and design
SOUND 9 Excellent music, lively fresh sound effects
REPLAY 6.5 Hard to play again, unless its multiplayer
GAMEPLAY 8 Fun Addictive Mechanism, Good fighitng and leveling system
CONTROL 8 Easy to learn, Easy to use, minor issues

OVERALL [8.5 x 2 + 9 x 2 + 6.5 x 1.5 + 8 x 3 + 8 x 1.5]/10 = 8.1 (Good)