• 27Feb 09

  Street Fighter 4 Player Review

  Street Fighter IV, the absolute masterpiece that was developed by capcom. Street fighter IV is the latest installment of the venerable fighting game series known since the days of DOS computers. Street Fighter IV is the First Street Fighter to go 3d and yet maintain the fight style of the 2d fighters. Capcom got the formula right this time, EXcellent graphics, SUPER fast gameplay and ULTRA awesome moves.() The game has all the original world warrior fighters plus a few new characters. There are several modes available to choose including the classic arcade mode which allows you to battle a series of fights with a movie clip before and after you complete the fights. Each character have their own story which interrelate in certain ways allowing the major plot of each organisation to be discretely told.

  Then there comes the versus mode which includes Player vs Player, Player vs CPU, and even watch CPU vs CPU battles.

  Network battle mode is online versus, a ranked battle works on the use of battle points, the higher the battle points the more your worth is shown to the world. There is also Player battle which is just a casual fight between friends and players. Connection usually work quite well after 3 bars, but when the lower bars hit noticeable lag is noticed.

  Challenge mode allows 3 different modes to be experienced, time trial which is a series of beat your opponents with a limited amount of time. Survival mode where you HP is the only thing guiding your success (note: HP is slightly regenerated after each battle) and Train mode, this involves following certain commands for the character to progress to the next round.

  Training mode allows you to learn how to use movesand specials or even muster up some great combo's.

  Gallery mode includes artwork, movies from the game and a medal tally which is collected from online mode.

  Fighting style uses the classic controls with some minor modification such as the removal of just guard and air guard, but they included force attack which compromises a bit of health (regainable if not hit) to block a single attack and parry the opponent.

  The music is absolutely amazin, the classic songs are brought in and have had a little revamping as well as new songs entering the great song library that originally existed.

  This game is reccomended for fans and people who want to try the best that the fighting genre has to offer.

  10/10

  • Posted Feb 27, 2009 9:48 am PT
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• 15Feb 09

  Lord Of the Rings: Conquest

  This is the first review that will be posted by me on the rate your game thread!

  Lord of the rings Conquest is a 3rd person action adventure that allows you to play the role of villians or heroes. The modes available are single player, co-op story and multiplayer via split screen, system link and xbox live. The game set in the era of the third age where the attacks of Sauromon and the orcs were wide spread through the land of middle earth.

  The story mode lets you take the role of both the heroes and the villians from the Lord of the rings series. Each mission gives you the opportunity to fight with a range of classes such as knight, mage, archer or stealth. Each class has the pros and cons making them quite balanced. With each character also comes three special moves again varying depending on the class chosen.

  The action is quite fast paced and moves easy enough to pull off for a newcomer to the genre, though this doesn't help the single player/co-op from being quite short and dull. The multiplayer mode compensates for the single players weaknesses.

  There are are variet of game modes available to play on xbox live ranging from your traditional team deathmatch mode (team deathmatch mode includes normal mode, where you can have the chance to use a hero if lucky, or hero mode where every person you pick is a hero) to conquest mode (similar to territories[Halo] or Domination [COD]) and to this new mode known as ring mode where the allies are to get the ring and destroy it, while the forces oif evil attempt to save it and fight to get their hands on it. The same character selection applies to multiplayer, the forces of evil and the forces of good have the same classes, so everyone has a chance to use the style are excel in.

  The graphics of the game are sub par and do not match with some of the powerhouses out there, jagged edges are noticeable and environment is not as bright and vivid as something like Elder scrolls IV Oblivion.

  The sound is good with the well known music from the LOTR series being used fairly well, good voice acting and good SFX.

  Replayability is more for multiplayer not much for single player

  Rating 6.5/10

  • Posted Feb 15, 2009 5:47 am PT
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• 27Oct 08

  Introducing the what not to do guide

  As of late ive been seeing this super beautiful girl, everyone knows if you are seeing someone you have to take them out to nice places and maybe introduce them to your hobbies !!!!! Oh Shi+. Hobbies!!! Well my hobbies arent the best for women to well introduced to.

  To begin with it was fine, wonderful even AMAZING!! we were going to restaurants, letting her do her girly shopping thing, going to the park etc. She eventually met the family and all is still sweet.

  One day me and some guys decided to go Clay target shooting.... (bad music starts playing) I invited her to come with us, she happily accepted (Total Surprise!!!!).

  Anyway I picked her up and drove to the club, i let her sit back and watch the first round. After the round had finished i asked her if she would like to have a few shots, (its legal now to teach someone without a licence) and she agreed. My little darling weighs about 45 kg and is about 165 cm in height. I was going through the instructions on how to hold a shotgun and aim at the ridge of the projectile shooter. That would have been good if she was able to hold the gun, she absolutely had no power to hold what i believed to be a manageable weight. Anyway after letting about 15 targets flying she managed to hold it decently, i told her to call out the target, and to fire at it.

  She practically dropped my shotgun which i managed to save in time, and started swearing and hating me.... Her shoulder and body went 5 steps back and she was confused whether to hold her shoulder or block her ears from the sound of the shotgun. I knew when to quit by that stage so i slowly walk away from the range, trying to apoligise endlessly to her.

  After 24 hours of hatred and not speaking i got a messgae from her (someone play the funeral song) anyway she said she had forgiven me and that it was my fault that she stopped talking to me. I just agreed and took the blame considering she agreed to shoot.

  The purpose of this Blog is let your interests be yours and your partners interest be hers. This is lesson 101 on the how to date guide.

  • Posted Oct 27, 2008 1:17 pm PT
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