review: Team Fortress 2

TF2

Team fortress 2. a very different style game, that includes very funny and cool characters, with different guns and ability's. their is two sides, red versus blue, and the main aim of the game is to capture certain points on the map, or all the points on the map, to win, or their is a simple team death-match option. TF2's graphics aren't really good and realistic, but really good in a cartoonish and 'anime' sort of way. this really works because it makes the game look quite new, even if it is a few years old when you start to play it.

TF2 has made quite a fun game, since there are a lot of classes, with different ability's, - like the heavy - more health, but slower than others, or the scout -  runs faster and jumps higher, but less health, for example. TF2 made the class system really well, there a lot of good combos, that encourages many people to work together, and sometimes that is the best way you can win, having two medics healing two heavy, - just cant beat it unless you have 4 demo's grenade bombing them :)

 

One bad point, as always - their is no single player in team fortress 2. This disappointed me a little bit, since i would love to see a small campaign for each character, and do stuff like sniper missions for the sniper character, or a 'defend your base' for the engineer character, i think that would make the game 100% fun for me.

Overall, this game has cool graphics, a cool gaming system and multiplayer system, i think this game is really worth a play, either for fun, or shits and giggles. :)

GRAPHICS: 6/10
PERFORMANCE ON PC: 9/10
GAME-PLAY:  0/10 (multiplayer only)
MULTIPLAYER: 8/10

Review: Counter-Strike: Source

CSS

Counter-Strike source: one of the most played fps shooters of all time, and still is a very popular game, even though its quite a few years old.

I'm not going to begin on the graphics. they are old, choppy, and very outdated, but people put up with these graphics for the online multiplayer. The multiplayer is so fun that people actually hold tournaments, with large prizes, and there was an actual professional CSS gaming league called Civo-CivoA (amateurs) CevoM(Moderate) CevoP(professional) - i think their is more leagues, but cannot remember them.

 

The reason the game is really good is not because of its graphics, but more because it has great aiming and a good style of an fps game. - instead of someone getting shot in the head, then there screen flashes red then there back to full health, (stupid C.O.D) in CSS you have 100 health, and 100 Armour if u buy a Kevlar and helmet, and that's it for the round. - this game requires lots of skill to get good. you cannot just spray around like on C.O.D - you actually have to control your spray and burst fire, because the recoil in this game is very sensitive, which makes the game more enjoyable.

I still find this game fun to play, even if you get bored with just killing people, there is many other man made maps that can be very fun, there is all sorts, - my favorite is a map called Death Run, where you must get to the end of the maze to kill the terrorists, but the terrorists can set of traps to kill Count terrorists on the way, a very fun game. - there is also many other maps, Bunny hop servers, Surf servers, Gun game servers, - so many maps and play-styles and objectives, this is what i love about Fps games.

In my opinion, this game can not get old. it was revamped from 1.6 to source, and i think they will do it again in the future to keep this gamin franchise going. i still think i will play counterstrike when I'm 60 years old from time to time, its that fun :)

GRAPHICS: 4/10
PERFORMANCE ON PC: 10/10
GAME-PLAY:  0/10 (multiplayer only)
MULTIPLAYER: 9/10

Review: Test Drive Unlimited2

TDU2

Test Drive Unlimited 2 - a game where you may buy quite exotic cars and take them for drives in a HUGE, HUGE area, with heaps of side quests and championships, to be the absolute best and skilled driver in Ibiza!

The graphics in this game are unrivaled against any other car game. the cars look absolutely stunning, and the landscape is perfect. no other car game beats the lovely views while driving through the Ibiza hillside in a GT mustang (only a starter car, but so cool!) The sound the cars make, sound so real -  having a small fiat sounded not too bad, but when i stepped into the gt mustang, it sounded like the huge 5,000 CC 8cyl engine it was. everything in this game is really realistic too, they have three settings - a hardcore mode, for drivers that can drive really well, a "sport" mode, where you get a bit of traction control and help, and a beginners mode where u can turn corners at 150 km's per hour with out braking and not skid. :)

One thing i love about this game is how realistic the driving experience can be. On hardcore mode, it is so challenging to drift around corners at 200km/h in a Ferrari, as it should be! this game is so realistic, when u drive manual, u have a clutch and everything, so u can drop the clutch, go down a gear, and rev lock through turns! ITS SO FUN....once u get used to it. :)

One thing i do not like about this game is there isn't really and modifications u can make to the cars, I'm more of a need for speed person - I like customizing and improving my car, but nonetheless, a very real looking car game, that is very fun to play, that is great for casual gaming!

Weekend!

Howdy guys!
think i might take the weekend off from blogging, will do a review every weekday though :) SORRY :) < 3

Review: Diablo 2 LOD

Diablo 2: Lord Of Destruction

Diablo 2 - is one of those simple graphics mmo's, that is just absolutely amazing.

For its time, there was NO other MMO game that could match Diablo2, not Rune-scape, not Battle-on - not nothing in my opinion.

Diablo 2's graphics are very, very bad - crappy sprites, - not even really 3d at all, except for the characters.I had more fun looking at the map on screen then the actual ground!!  But for its time, Diablo 2 was amazing, simply because of its online community, its massive massive array of weapons and runes and because of the PvP (Player Versus Player)

One thing i did not like about the leveling system they had, was once you finish the game, you'd be about level 20/25... then you must go to the next difficulty, "nightmare" and do the SAME THING again to get to level 50/60... then theirs a hell difficulty to level up to 99. its simply stupid and repetitive, all it was was Tristram runs, Tomb runs, Cow runs D2 and runs Baal runs, but times that by 3 for each difficulty (yeah i played the game a fair bit when i was younger)

In Diablo2, once you reach a certain level, about 75+ (max level is 99) u can start doing Duels. This is how diablo2  is and always has been popular, - Diablo 2 has 3 talent tress (much like wow or League of legends) this allows for people to make their own builds, duel each other, which is actually really really fun, it caught my attention for about 3 years when i was a kid aged 12/13, blizzard did there job well.

another important thing to mention is that Diablo 2 is completely free to play online, all you gotta do is buy the game, which cause of its age is now only 20 dollars! It's so cheap, so fun, so cool - Diablo 2 has my seal of approval.

Sadly, performance on PC is not a 10, because it has compatibility issues with windows 7 64-bit. which is understandable considering the game is 10 years old. but nonetheless, still a very good game.

GRAPHICS: 2/10 (ROFL)
PERFORMANCE ON PC: 8/10
GAME-PLAY:  5/10
MULTIPLAYER: 9/10 

Game Review: World Of Warcraft

World of LOLcraft

Okay i know what your all thinking, why the heck am i doing a review about WoW?

Because after stopping for 6 months (after playing for 3 years) i realized how annoying this game is.

For an MMO the graphics are very unique, its what i would call "cartoon-ish" style of graphics, which is good because it can never get old, no matter what year you play wow in it will look decent cause that's how they meant it to look, but you know you can never be really pleased with how the graphics look.

In World Of Warcraft, there is the original and the 3 expansions, this means a lot more "fun" but one hell of a lot more exploring and getting used to all the patch changes etc. what i don't like is, if you were just starting off a character, (being a total n00b) back 3 years ago, you'd have to get to level 60, which was quite demanding after level 50, it involved either heaps of grinding, dungeons runs quests etc. but now with all the expansions, you need to get to level 85. 85! It takes twice as long to get to top level, and everything once your top level is  the boring same routine, either doing daily quests to get gold, doing endless amount of the same dungeon to get gear or badges to buy gear. You might get a little sense of achievement from this, being better geared than someone, thinking your "leet" but in 6 months, the new expansion comes out, and all that gear is USELESS. i just don't see the point.

Wow has a very, very interesting lore and plot though, - in the newest expansion, "cataclysm" the corrupted fire dragon aspect Deathwing has awaken, which broke the world pillar, and you job is to kill Deathwing and return the world back to normal. its not a bad plot, but not an insanely good one either. the multiplayer on this is one of the best Ive seen, but that is probably because i was so addicted to this game, or because its purely an online only game, so it had to be really good.

Over all i think this game is fun - but its way too addicting for the amount of effort u have to put into this game, is consumes peoples life (including mine at times) but over 100 million account made shows that it is still the leading MMO around, and will be for along time - until RIFT comes out (nicknamed the wow killer) which i too, will probably play.

GRAPHICS: 6/10
PERFORMANCE ON PC: 9/10
GAME-PLAY:  8/10
MULTIPLAYER: 10.1/10 ( +0.1 for addiction)

Review: Farcry 2

 Frycry2

FarCry 2, the only game that has on the box "Most realistic fire in any game" so being the gamer i am, i though id play it. Oh, my, god. the graphics in this game are close to CRISIS(future review) very, very nice looking game, smooth too, if your computer can handle it.

From what Ive seen, single player has a great story line, it tends to pull you in for little while, but about halfway through the game, its the same as Farcry1 - mission after mission after mission after mission etc. Their is however, very good physics in this game, the gun sounds, looks and fires like what id think to be a real weapon. Another thing that's cool about Farcry 2 would have to be the gun "jamming" yes it is very, very annoying, especially mid combat, but it adds more realism to the game, too often games like C.O.D and BFBC2 the guns seem to have that "game" effect, Farcry really shines in this respect with gun durability. another good thing about the physics engine in Farcry2 is the weapon shake of snipers, and i know C.O.D BFBG2 etc have it too, but i think Farcry2's recoil and shaking of the cross-hair is better.

Taking into account that Farcry2 was not meant for multiplayer, the multiplayer was still god-awful, the same happened to Crisis, their is no "re-playability" theirs simply kill people, no achievements or anything like that, its choose a weapon and spray and hope u kill something. this is what i hate about this game, their should be a new match type, like when capture the flag came to play for the first time, everyone loved it! - same with things like the assault match type, but you can tell Farcry2 was really meant for single player campaign

Overall i think this game needs a few tweaks, and i personally think it was trying to be too good for its era of technology, (it kills your video card and CPU) but all in all it is still a fun playable game, not one i recommend buying, torrenting however, go right ahead :)

GRAPHICS: 9.5/10
PERFORMANCE ON PC: 5/10
GAME-PLAY: 8/10
MULTIPLAYER: 3/10