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• 26Dec 09

  Arkahm Dragon Faction

  Impressions on the games I got from my family over christmas All are on the Xbox 360, which I now have at my mums for a couple weeks.
  

  Dragon Age Origins

  Definetely the best RPG experience I have had so far on the 360, it's done by Bioshock,simply your given morale decisions to make throughout the game which effect how your character turns out, and eventually how the story unfolds.

  In Dragon Age you get to choose your race, proffession and heritage, for example, I chose to be an Elf Rouge who lived with the Dawlish tribe (not just a city elf) from the very start you had to make decisions that effected who your character was.

  You encounter some humans in the woods- you have to choice to kill them or release them.. or even negotiate, some of the possibilities also lead to romances with other characters, and some of the women are rather great if I say so myself

  Eventually whatever choices you make you will join a group of warriors named the grey wardens and follow a set story- but you still make morale choices that effect who follows you in your party and the eventual ending of the game.

  Combat and storyline are typically traditional though, you'll feel influences from games like Jade Empire, Knights of the old republic and Baldurs gate, combat may not be tat exciting, but it does the job, each proffession has their own path of talens to unlock.

  So, let's say I'm a rouge, I can then choose what talents I specialise in, like lock picking to get into chests, stealth to pickpocket enemies and sneak around- or am I going to be a weapons expert.. and then what would be my main weapon? dual swords or longbows? the possibilities are very broad.

  I've already done 8 hours of the game, and I am loving it, a definite buy for any RPG fan!
  

  Batman Arkham Asylum

  After playing the demo, I rather liked it, however I still think it was a little over hyped, despite being the dark knight of the year (heh, good joke eh?)

  I haven't played that far into it, obviously if you've watched the Dark knight, or your a fan of Batman, then you'll know all about the joker, anyway, Batman is taking him to Arkham Asylum when the jokers plan unfolds to release all the prisoners and cause chaos throughout the dark scenery.

  So far, loving the combat, it feels so smooth, definetely the best beat em up mechanics I've played on a next gen system, so far very dark and very smooth, we'll see how it goes.

  Red Faction Guerilla

  What happens when an oppressive force in command of an inhabitable Mars kill your brother who is prt of the red faction whose aim it is to liberate mars?

  Of course, REVENGE! and in great $tyle Red Faction is a lot of fun as you blow up buildings, smash down walls and much more as you liberate mars, it's got an amazing physics engine, you can bassically destyroy everything in an open world feel but there are also set missions to follow that slowly lead you to your goal..

  Another great game.. I'm really pleased with all my gifts

  Have a good new year guys!
  

  • Posted Dec 26, 2009 10:47 am PT
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• 19Dec 09

  Games with secret communist messages

  Call me crazy, but it's become apparent that some of the games I've recently been dealing with have acctually some secret hidden left wing ideas in them (being a marxist, I pick up on these things)

  First of all, Red faction Guerilla, politically red usually stands for communist, and as the aim of the game is to control mars, I was instantly lead to think your a socialist or communist faction,- so, the title really shouts out to me, communism- the name red faction is very similar to the red army faction, which was a german COMMUNIST group who used guerilla tactics, it even says on the wikipedia page.
  

  

  Supposed to be a wallpaper for the game, which seems a lot like propaganda
  

  Red faction is definetely communist influenced (or at least has heavy communist undertones) you even get to use a hammer as a weapon, the hammer is one of the signs on the communist flag (the other being a sickle)

  Ok, this ones probably a bit less obvious, but it's acctually Advanced wars, those who have played it may have realised the red (sometimes yellow) star on your armies equipment, the red star is also a well known symbol of communism.

  

  it's not as strong as guerilla red faction, but the RED ARMY (considering all your army is bassically covered in red) was also the shortened name for the army of the Soviet Union

  If you think about it, all your tanks are red, your symbol is a star (which is often red or yellow, both communist colours) they also have counter imperialist plots, like in Dual Strike, the 'black hole army' are going around exploiting the land for their own good, this also represents the capitalist system..

  There are a few more games I could probably point out, but this blog is looking quite big at the moment, I know my sisters got me Red faction for christmas So I'm looking forward to playing it
  

  • Posted Dec 19, 2009 5:04 am PT
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• 12Dec 09

  Living for tuesday afternoon

  Hey guys- you've probably noticed my recent absence.. i haven't been that well and I've just had two big coursework deadlines- although i did promise a major update to my union I think that will have to wait until tuesday night when we finally break up from school- I still have yet to do my history and english coursework which are due in monday, shouldn't be hard though..

  I took the afternoon off yesterday and this morning saturday school off, over this winter break I have to study for all my exams.. but I'm probably gunna be around, it's probably likely I'll be around more since I'm at home..

  Been playing a bit of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 on PS1 (on my PSP) - and since I'm at my Dads this weekend I've been on the Xbox a bit as well.. the usual, Cod4, L4D as well as the L4D Demo.. since there isn't much purpose to this blog I'll do a quick review of my thoughts on the L4D2 demo.

  - Three short levels

  - New and crazy melee weapons like the frying pan and the guitar

  - New weapons and special items make a nice change

  - New boss infected like the jockey and the charger

  - Daylight makes a nice change to the first game

  

  In a short conclusion your given more choices as to where to go and what items to use, however I found myself sometimes getting lost and going around in circles during the short 3 stage demo, it's definitely a huge improvement on the previous game- I'm probably going to wait for it to go down in price and hopefully get it in the new year.

  I'm going to my Dads for christmas this year, so I will be gaming, hopefully tuesday afternoon.. I will be as active as ever, see you guys then.. I'll try be around as much as I can until then.. but.. if I'm not, forgive me.

  • Posted Dec 12, 2009 11:24 am PT
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