In BioShock 2, the next instalment in the franchise that has won more than 50 Game of the Year Awards and has sold more than 2.5 million units worldwide. Developed by 2K. BioShock 2 features the perfect blend of explosive first person shooter combat, storytelling, multiplayer.
Set 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea city of Rapture. Step into the world of Rapture as a Big Daddy, as you travel through the decrepit and beautiful fallen city of rapture, chasing an unseen foe in search of answers and their own survival.
Multiplayer in BioShock 2 provides experience that expands the origins of the BioShock fiction. Set during the fall of Rapture, assume the role of a Plasmid test subject for Sinclair Solutions, Use all the elements of the BioShock toolset to survive, as the full depth of the BioShock experience is refined and transformed into a unique multiplayer experience that can only be found in Rapture.
This will be my first bad review ever, the Game stinks, I know it sounds harsh but it’s true,
the Game play isn’t that great and for a Espionage game it’s not that great, now when you think about Espionage games you would expect some good controls and movement, after playing for a couple of hours I got tired and bored.
The computer hacking system is ok, it required you to have good control and keen eye on the screen to get it working, and this can also be a strain on the eye as you look at the numbers and letters flicker until you find a stationary one that matches your code. The response can be very slow while moving to the code.
The controls aren’t that great and restricted; think of Splinter cell, when sneaking around you can nicely aim and take out an enemy, the aiming system on Alpha protocol isn’t that great and looks like something that was thrown in at the last minute.
The movement of the player is also restricted and you don’t have the function of doing all those moves that you get in most Espionage games. Which was let down.
The weapons list isn’t bad and I will admit you get some nice choices if you have enough money to unlock them.
The Graphics isn’t that bad and is ok; in fact it’s mostly one of the pros of the game with the weapons list.
Normally I would say something like how I would recommend this game to you guys, in this case, don’t buy it, Rent it first before buying it as you will be kicking yourself in the right side after you buy it and then find it’s not that great to play.
This Game is great, I don’t normally say this about allot of Games, but Just cause 2 is one game I just can’t put down, it’s a great game to relieve stress as you can just go around blowing stuff up or just fly around blowing stuff up,
Just cause is like Grand theft auto apart from some differences, Grand theft auto you have missions to complete from different people, in just cause you earn your missions by causing Chaos by destroying government infront structure and causing mayhem.
These missions allow you to help the factions out to capture certain objective points and increase their hold on the area.
Now before thinking its all gun hoe and blowing stuff up, the game does have an objective, this to keep it brief and not spoiling it is to find and kill a rogue agent who has gone AWOL and the only way you can do this is by helping out the locals.
(There is a nice twist to this which you will have to find out yourself, but I will tell you it’s a good twist)
As you increase your influence and the influence of the factions you help, you unlock some nice toys to use which are air dropped by the black market supplier, the impressive part about this is if you’re in the heat of battle and out of ammo, call in the shipment, the only downside is you can’t get airlifted out of the area if you are in the middle of the mission or being chased by the police
Now you have the most impressive kit that you will never be bored of, that’s right the grappling hook, the most indispensible kit you will carry, it’s great to get out of that moment where you’re about to be wasted by barrage of bullets as it allows a fast exit, high jacking vehicles hasn’t been much easier, what other game allows you to hook onto a plane while its taking off and then be able to throw the pilot out and fly off into the sunset?
The use for this piece of kit is great and its functions are basically limitless with all the things that you can perform with it.
In conclusion the Game is great to play, the weapons and military hardware are great and used properly are priceless,
the controls are easy to master and not overly complicated, the Graphics is great and the Cut scenes aren’t that bad either.
I would recommend this game, if you don’t think it looks good, Rent it out from blockbusters and try it out. You will find the Game very addictive as you go through it.
Welcome to another racing game, you see the cover and it’s oh yay it’s another racing game how original, there are shed loads of Racing Games for the 360 and PS3, Well it is another racing game but on steroids,
the Graphics is excellent, can’t really complain as the details on the cars really show,
it does have that wipe out feel to it, blow the shit out of your competitors with weapons strikes and slow them down generally with the nice airtime, and after playing the Game demo I am very much sold,
Racing is a blast, takes a few moments to get use to the steering but that’s easily done, and only took me a couple seconds to adjust to it.
The Tracks very interesting as you would have thought when you do a lap it would be the same lap on the same track, but it’s quite good how the destruction effects it as it will change the track layout and put new obstacles’ in your way as you have just thought to yourself you have figured it out and your route is set for the last few laps.
the game is great to play and you can’t really get bored of it like general racing games where it seems to be all Lenya, you go around in circles and try not to get over taken.
This game brings new things to racing games which is great and I will say this, nice one to the developers as they have added some great features which are enjoyable and not over the top.
I would recommend this game to anyone, if you don’t believe that it’s a good game, a Demo is available to download from Xbox live and the PS3 market place,
If you disagree with me, feel free to vent it on the forum
Finally a crackdown 2 demo has been released on the Xbox market place (30Min play time),
the Game isn’t that impressive from what I have seen in the demo, Crackdown was a great game to play, go around blow shit up and generally have some fun, they did kind of kill the first one by making it so the update didn’t just allow you to spawn the bad guys to use as target practice but return you to the start (minus you not losing your new weapons and skills) hopefully it won’t happen with this crackdown and after you finish it they don’t implement the same rule, which to be frank ruined it for me on the first game.
Enough about the first Crackdown game and let’s get some dirt on the second one,
The game play is ok so far, the controls aren’t hard to master and only takes a couple of seconds to learn to use, the auto targeting can be annoying though as it will auto target any red object closest to the sight, so if you have a car and an enemy firing at you, and you want to focus your fire, chances are you will focus on the car instead of the person shooting at you. For me that am the issue with the controls I have had, other than that they good.
The game uses the same skill system as the first one with the added extra skills which you have to catch, (kind of like cat and mouse) its set lose and you have to get to it to earn it, this as usual is split into speed, weapons skills and other essential boosts which allows you to get that edge over your foes in the game.
The Vehicles are great, if you are the type who liked to go around running the bad guys over in the first one, you will love the second one as at night you have some great targets on the road just to run over, and like the first as you kill more people with your car’s the more points you gain to improve your car skills.
In Crackdown 2 you are given a better selection of weapons to choose from which I must say are more impressive then the original ones, (then again the multiple rocket launcher to did pawn when it came to taking out multiple targets)
After playing the game for 30 min I am impressed at the game play and the brutality you can vent on the AI, you get to do full missions which only seem to be restricted by the demo time limit. If you have the time I would suggest you download this, it’s just over 1GB download.
News of Gears of War 3
Looks like the franchise continues with Gears of war 3 with the fight for human survival against the Locust continues after the fall of the last refuge falls, (aka the last human city)
A review on Gears of war will be posted as soon as possible
A quick recap of the Game, you are John Marston, you are a former crook, bank robber, thug, your basic western outlaw out to fend for himself, you have left your life of crime behind to raise your family, only to have them kidnapped by the authorities to send you on their payroll to do their bidding, and the only way you will see your family again is if you do what they say.
Being Made by Rockstar, one wouldn’t be surprised or should be surprised at the game play,
easy to get into and hard to stop playing, it’s a game when you start one mission and go through it, you just don’t want to stop playing,
As you progress through the story and do the missions presented to you, the story slow unravels in front of you, so get Ready for a story that you will enjoy and get into as the twists and turns unravels in front of your eyes.
As a gamer who can’t stand old western games and those games with old school weapons, Red Dead Redemption is a big exception, I loved every bit of it,
the Game features were great, (the combat modes with dead eye for me was the biggest bonus)
this allows you to go into slow motion and target each point at which you want to unload your weapon, and then unleash hell onto the targets with each bullet hitting the designated target area.
As you go through the game you are given unique opportunities to improve yourself in rank (legendry being the highest) this is gained by completing missions and helping strangers in need,
there is also a nice little way to improve your standings and get 100+ in hero points, go to poker game in Mexico or any other place and cheat on the game, and get into a duel with someone, don’t kill the person, shoot their weapon out their hand, and there you have it easy 100,
The weapons in the game impressed me, they weren’t as bad as I first thought these old western weapons would be, they are realistic which means you have to compensate for height and movement of target at different range (unless you’re using dead eye then that SOB or SOBs are dead)
Now with the weapons you are given an opportunity to buy them after unlocking them as you progress through the missions, some weapons don’t cost you anything as they are found laying around in the missions, if your unlucky you can only obtain certain guns from certain gun smiths in different areas, but are easy to obtain and you will always be going to these gun smiths during the game as you complete mission objectives or go onto side quests.
As mentioned before you get some nice side quests in Red Dead which are great as its easy way of adding to your characters honour and earning more cash to spend on those nice weapons and items.
one of my Favourite side quests is Bounty hunter as you always get a nice reward at the end of it (the further you get into the game, the harder they become and larger the reward) so keep an eye out for the skull and if you do have a chance take your bounties alive as the cash reward is more and so is the honour points granted to you.
I would recommend this game to anyone, even if it’s for casual wondering around the wilderness hunting animals or to save that damsel in distress. It’s a game that everyone would enjoy and I would like to thank Rockstar for giving us this game,
