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Prototype 2

Posted by Bodrul on 04/05/2012 – 9:24 pm
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Prototype 2

 

it’s just been over a week since Prototype 2 hit the shelves worldwide

Lets start

In Prototype 2 you play as James Heller former US Marine Sergeant with self destructive tendencies, which seem to get the better of him after his wife and daughter were casualties of the outbreak.

After this he is mostly hell bent on revenge and getting to Alex Mercer who he believes to be responsible for the outbreak and the loss of his family.

So far we have the following,

A second Outbreak
Black Watch quarantining the city and taking up control
A suicidal ex US Marine.

Now you would think to yourself easy story and all straight forward and we know who the bad guys are.

Wrong!

The story truly begins when you meet Alex Mercer and he infects you with the Black Light virus
which enhances Heller’s abilities allowing him to consume the forms of his targets to the genetic level where he can go undetected in almost all areas without arousing suspicion.

Granted this doesn’t work when you run into Censor radars or are caught attacking someone who isn’t a mutant.

Apart from consuming the form of his targets, Mercer can also consume their memories which allows him to access computer terminals and extra side quests.
as you progress through the game you pick up new abilities which helps you along the game as you face stronger adversaries who get a lot tougher.

By consuming Targets you also gain their abilities (this is mainly Boss fights) which get upgraded as you gain experience during fights or when you take out set targets.

one thing I enjoyed is the ability to defy gravity and run up almost all surfaces to out run or to get to a better advantage point to take out your targets.

The game also contains vehicles which you unlock the ability to use as you progress through the game and unlock during missions which require a vehicle to be used to reach a certain goal or objective.

Now back to the main story.

Before you were hell-bent on taking out Alex mercer was told by Black Watch that the infection was caused by Mercer and its thanks to him that his family are dead.

You meet new allies who will help you find your targets and will also use you to get their dirty work done.

As you play the game Heller has always been hell-bent on self destruction and revenge, this will change at a point when he gets that one news that will give something to live for and something to actually fight for, (this I won’t say and it’s up to you to find out, or check out the forum for spoilers)

and as said before, nothing is what it seems as you progress through the game you find out Alex Mercers true motives and the reason he has been giving the Black light abilities to people.
Now it’s up to you to stop him and his plans before it’s too late.

Game Play

The game play is quite straight forward and the controls have been mapped in a way which allows ease of use.

There are two main attacks which are assigned to Y and X or Triangle and Square, Abilities can also be activated when gained using two buttons at once to activate them.

This has been set up in a nice way as it doesn’t require the user to use more than two fingers but using his/her thumb to press down on two buttons at once.

I have found the game to be pretty much too easy on normal mode, mostly because like other Free roam games it suffers from one flaw,

You can play a couple of the main Missions, but after that if you just go for the side quests you can level up or gain abilities to the extent where you can just pretty much walk through the game.

Boss fights I have found to be very much repetitive as almost all bosses can be taken out the same way, Dodge and attack or when you gain shield

Shield up and repel the attack and then counter attack when they are knocked off their feet.

Don’t get me wrong the story line is somewhat great and as you play it you see his other side when he will almost do anything to defend the life of his pastor who guides him through the game.

At the end of the day I have enjoyed the game and it was fun, the cut scenes were nicely choreographed with a nice movie theme.

The game to me just lacked the challenge, if you like a casual game where you want to fly (Well glide) about and explore and kill some bad guys occasionally then this game is for you.

if you are a hardcore gamer who wants a challenge then this game isn’t that much for you as you will most likely play this game and finish it in a few hours and get bored of it.

Clash of the Titans

Posted by Bodrul on 02/05/2012 – 6:35 pm
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Clash of the Titans

In Less than six months Two Games will be released

Halo 4 and Call Of Duty Black Ops 2

Why you are wondering I have labelled this  Clash of the Titans?

Both Games are Pretty much the most hyped games of their times and in respect both Brands have their followers in large numbers.

This is shown by the sales figures when these games hits the shelf’s of Game stores around the world by selling million+ copies in just the first few days of launch.

Before you look at the Chart and laugh your head off, do take into account Halo has only been sold on Xbox/Xbox 360 with 1 and 2 only debuting on PC, while the Call of Duty Series has Sold on all Major platforms giving it a Far Larger target audience.

Why clash of the Titans? in November 2012 both Activision and Bungie will be launching their games within days of each other.

Now you may be thinking so what and both games have nothing in common?

In that respect you are pretty much correct, both games are different in respect to story and game play and the immersive experience is different.

The only common ground would be both are FPS and requires a player to get from objective A to Objective B through enemy soldiers and in case of Halo Aliens.

With Both Games containing similar online multiplayer game play.

Being two blockbuster games and the time frame in which the publishers have set them for launch, it is a scenario where both Activision and Bungie want to see who sells the most games compared to each other (not that I am saying the two parties running bets on Sales)

Lets have a little back story on the Games.

Halo Series

The Halo Series first started off with Halo Combat evolved and was based on a planet (Well artificial planet shaped like a ring) where Humans are at war with a species called the Covenant who are on a Holy war to wipe out the heretics which are humans in this case.

As you Progress through the series you learn new things about the Rings and their true purposes and who created them and the reasons for their creation.

Unlike Normal Games where you have a series go from 1,2,3,4 and so forth with each game carrying on from its predecessor, The Halo Series jumps from one time to another where for example in Halo 3 you are at the end of the line and are taking out the Covenant to Halo Reach where it all began and almost at the start of the conflict of the interspecies war (Humans Vs Covenant)

The Halo Series hasn’t changed much in terms of game play apart from Halo wars which was a more of a RTS where it involved more of using strategic thinking to get to and reach certain objectives in the game. (Think Command and Conquer, ok its almost exactly like Command and conquer)

In Terms of Sale Bungie did make a slight mistake as compared to the other games Sold in the series, Halo Wars took the least money globally.

Call Of Duty Series

Call of Duty hasn’t been around as Long as the Halo Series and unlike the Halo,
Call of Duty is Cross platform and designed to played the major consoles.

For Call of Duty unlike the Halo Franchise which has been developed by the same studio,
Call of Duty has turned into a Franchise name instead taken on by two or more studios for launch every year with a different storyline model.

Unlike the Halo series which has somewhat of a reoccurring theme where you follow a set storyline,
in the Call of Duty Series you are presented with different stories on each game that has been released.

Only after Call of Duty 4 Modern warfare has the developers kept to a main storyline for the game,
Granted Treyarch didn’t start following the trend after Modern warfare 2 with the release of Black ops which will have a sequel later on this year.

Looking at figures Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare with 16.76million+ Units sold worldwide
It took the Call of Duty Series and truly put it on the Map with the game style and bringing into the modern era with true immersive game play.

with that into account the way InfinityWard designed and developed the game they have brought one thing to the series which its predecessors wasn’t able to, and this is the hype and anticipation from millions of Fans worldwide who now Lap up the game as soon as it hits the self.

Once a company has built the hype and has the base it truly can expect to carry on a franchise.
this is something both Activision and Bungie have with these two Brands.

Personally I look forward to trying both games out and see what things have been improved on the games and how the developers have exceeded themselves.

 


 

Feel Free to use Search to Look up Halo 4 or Call of Duty Black Ops 2 :)

 

Quick Correction, Before I branded Bungie as Bungie Microsoft, which has been corrected lol.

Bungie had become independent from Microsoft with microsoft now only owning a small share in the company.

 

Don’t think because Microsoft don’t hold all the cards for the company they will allow cross platform release of Halo 4 though.

Due to the game being a hardcore exclusive for Microsoft they won’t let it happen lol

James Bond Returns In 007 Legends

Posted by Retired on 18/04/2012 – 4:50 pm
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Everyone’s favorite 00 Agent will be returning to the silver screen this fall in Skyfall, the 23rd Bond film in the series, and gamers hoping for a video game follow-up are in for some good news.

 

Publisher Activision and developer Eurocom (the team that brought gamers other Bond games such as Nightfire and Goldeneye: Reloaded) are working diligently on 007 Legends, a game that will include not only events from Skyfall but five other Bond films as well.

 

In addition to the game’s campaign, players will also be able to play through “Mi6 Ops” missions that feature online leaderboards as well as four-player split-screen multiplayer.

 

David Oxford, the executive vice president of Activison Publishing, gave fans and gamers a little teaser on what to expect:

 

“To honor 50 years of the world’s top secret agent, 007 Legends offers a collection of his most famed moments in the smartest and most treacherous Bond game yet. Creating a video game storyline that ties together six popular, yet very different, Bond movie narratives can be challenging, but together with EON Productions, our developer Eurocom has pulled it off to create an homage that we think will be a unique and highly entertaining Bond video game.”

 

007 Legends is set for a fall release and I wouldn’t be surprised if the exact date ended up coinciding along with Skyfall’s.

 

Source: GameInformer