Archive for March, 2008

“Play Beowulf, an epic hero tormented by desire for power and glory. A slayer and a king – torn between the nobility and brutality within him.

You are Beowulf, legendary Norse warrior with the strength of 30 men. Arrogant, self-serving, and lustful for gold and glory, you journey to Denmark to destroy a bloodthirsty beast wreaking havoc on a frigid land. But evil persists, and you succumb to its lure of even greater fame, quietly maneuvering to claim the Danish throne. As King, you must face the consequences of ambition, even as war descends on the realm. Lead your thanes into battle, slay the Titans of a dying age, and crush the enemies that threaten to annihilate both your kingdom and your people.

Only then, when you look Destiny in the eye, will you know what kind of hero you truly are…

Key Features
• Delve even deeper into the adventure and play through 30 years of the Beowulf story not seen in the movie. Experience more of Beowulf’s life and mold your own legacy.
• Unlock an army of up to 12 thanes as you increase your heroic experience (by saving thanes, killing giant monsters, etc.).
• Carnal Power allows you to use stronger attacks and special weapons such as pillars.
• Giver orders, assign your army’s position, and tailor weapons to the situation or enemy.
• Use your army to trigger mechanisms (e.g., open doors) and row Drakar.
• Carnal upgrades include less daze after use and prolonged use of carnal fury.
• Combos, parries, and skills increase as you progress.
• Grab allows you to hold on to walls or climb, as well as fight in hand-to-hand combat with enemies and giant monsters.
• Use legacy experience points to gain thanes, replace weapons, and upgrade your carnal abilities.
• The mystical world of Beowulf comes to life in stunning fashion. Powered by the next evolution of the award-winning YETI technology used to create the critically acclaimed Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter® and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter® 2, Beowulf™ delivers an unrivaled graphical experience.”

Beowulf, let’s just start by saying that it’s a alright action game, and if you search for something with lots of blood, carnage, killing and brutality Beowulf is a game for you.It’s a action game that follows Beowulf’s life for a 30 year period not seen in the movie.Now the main focus in the game is the way you fight you can fight in the carnal way, gaining huge levels of power but at the cost of your men, or the right way by not going carnal and fighting side by side with your thanes, and thus making both them and you stronger.Now the weapons varry from your bare fist to swords, lances, bones, staves, maces, shields(yes you can fight using shields too), and another cool way of disposing of your enemies is the grapple where you catch the enemy in your grasp and you can throw him, crush him, smash him or steal his weapon(if he has one).It is said that Beowulf has the strength of 30 men, and using that strength you can also use as weapons pillars, stones, baskets and any other thing that can be trowen or used as a weapon against the enemy.Now your enemies vary from simple undead to huge trolls and dragons and sea monsters, as for each of them you need to use a different strategy.

Now the gameplay, after an hour or two can become pretty repetitive and boring, becouse at one moment you will get sick of doing the same old combo, or grapple.The game graphics is pretty good with the post processing enabled and a reasonable resolution of at least 1024 x 768.The sound and the musics are ok, suitable for the game.

Beowulf is not a genere defining game, but neither a end of the bottom, so if you look for some action and an interesting game, you shouldn’t miss Beowulf .

8.0/10 

Experience the power of a feared Assassin. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos; and your existence will shape events in this pivotal moment during the Third Crusade.

* Be an Assassin - Plan your attacks, strike without mercy, and fight your way to escape.
* Realistic and responsive environments - Every action has its consequences. Crowds react to your moves, and will either help or hinder you on your quests.
* Action with Total Freedom - Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever, and however. Do whatever it takes to achieve your objectives.

Assassin’s Creed, it, let’s just say one of the best games released this year, and not only becouse it has writen Ubisoft un him.Starting with the great storyline it has about assassins, crusades, ancient egypt, to the very part where it’s gorgeous graphics amazes us with each and every structure being done to such a detail where you belive it’s almost real.

The main plot in the Assassin’s Creed is to eliminate 9 men, who, are the most influential people in the ancient egypt.Once they are eliminated, it is said that the peace will come back.Talking about the main character, Altair is the perfect assassin, capable of climbing any building with ease, assassinate with perfect accuracy and able to become unseen when the situation requires it.His ring finger was amputaed as part of his initiation in the Assassin’s Creed, and to be able to use his hidden blade for assassination.

As for the other weapons Altair can use there are the small blade wich is very useful in all the fights for quick counters becouse almost every time it’s killing the one you counterd, and there is the normal blade wich i guess is the one you will use almost each time, and there are the bare fist wich, i guess you will use them only for interogations becouse the are useless against armed guards, and there is the hidden blade, a blade useful for assassasinations and not only.

As for the end of the review, Assassin’s Creed is a game available for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, so if you got the chance, money and want to play a good game, you shouln’t miss Assassin’s Creed.

8.9/10

“The northern lands - that is the Nordling Realms, described by Andrzej Sapkowski in his novels and short stories, are threatened by unspeakable doom. According to the prophecy of Ithilinne, an elven seeres, the world will be destroyed during the Time of White Cold and White Light - frost, snow and a glacier that will cover the lands from the north.

A cruel and bloody war with the southern empire of Nilfgaard and the elves has recenly ended, but left the northern lands ravished and destroyed. The reign of quarrelling and short-sighted kings is falling. Amongst the chaos and confusion, a new bastion of peace rises - The Order of the Burning Rose. The monk-knights promise to bring peace and prosperity, and unite all the Nordling realms. The knights claim that the coming frost may only be defeated by the power of fire, which they worship. However the ones to survive the cataclysm are generally the pure-blooded Nordlings. The Order is getting more and more powerful. It has been given lands in the kingdom of Aedrin and fights there against the elves from the Valley of the Flowers. The monks want to win favors of the monarchs from the twelve northern realms, and strive to acquire the wastelands inhabited by elves.”

The Witcher, let’s just say that 2007 wasn’t a too great year for the RPG-s, it wasn’t just a not so great year for the RPG-s, it was the WORSE DAMN YEAR for the RPG-s, but it all this thing, one of the only 2 good RPG-s is The Witcher.

Now, talking about the game, The Witcher has some very interesting combat mechanics, pretty simple, and yet very intresting, and it’s about timing your atacks to result a combo of 2,3,4 or 5 strikes.Now the game main characteris Gearlt, a witcher, who everyone thought he died, but wakes up follwed by something, and he reaches at the Fortress of Kaer Morhen, an ancient witcher fortess, where all the witchers have thier origin.

Now, talking about witchers, they are a special kind of human, mutated by using of specials potions, and all looking pale, almost like a dead.They have super human strength, agility, preception(and in Geralt’s case also charisma).

Now the main porpuse of the witchers are monster killing, because witchers are professional monster killers, and they are born and trained to do that thing since childhood.It is said that a witcher has no emotion, an unparalled sword mastery and skills to acomplish anything.What will you see in the game just proves everything that is said about a witcher is true, becouse Geralt is a witcher, if not the best witcher.

9.1/10 

The Club is a moder shooter,where 9 guys, 9 killers are kinnaped and forced to play an underground blood-sport, and the winner is set free and gets a whole lot of money and infamy.

Now,resuming at the game, the whole point of this game is shooting the enemies while finding an exit to your curent level, and the one with the highest score wins.There are different ways of obtaining a huge score, including headshots, certian parts of body shots, such as hand, feet, legs, neck, shoulder, forearms, etc.

There are a lot of weapons to use in this game,starting from a simple pistol to the most complex and interesting rifle on the market.You start each level with 3 weapons, + the ones you get from the guys you kill, the ones in certain places, such as secret areas are especially more powerful than the regular ones.

The Club features a roster of eight playable characters, each of them purportedly play differently as a result of their individual speed, strength, and stamina attributes, the most well-balanced being Killen and Renwick. Current previews have shown Dragov, an escaped prisoner from Russia; Renwick, a former New York police officer; Finn, an American gambler with life-threatening debts; Seager, an extreme sports junkie from Canada; Kuro, a Japanese double-agent posing as a Traid Society assassin; Killen, an Australian legend in The Club whose daughter’s life is at stake; Adjo, a Nigerian man with a mysterious and violent past forced to play to keep the village he protects safe; and Nemo, a psychopathic man from England who only lives to kill.

With all these said, The Club is a average, worth of playing for fun,but not a game wich you cand spend very much time.

7.4/10 

“Infernal tells the story of Ryan Lennox, a fallen angel now recruited by hell to fight ‘Etherlight’, heaven’s own secret agency. Etherlight has eliminated most of hell’s earthly agents and is planning its final blow against its archrival. Ryan, hunted by his opponents, is left to take them on single-handed, armed with a vast arsenal of weapons and supernatural powers. The captivating plot sends him from ancient monastery catacombs and secret mountain hideouts to sprawling harbour docks and oil refineries, before finally facing the ultimate showdown…

Ryan Lennox will need all his powers to find out what’s really behind Etherlight’s plans, while he unleashes hell with every single weapon in his hand!

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS:
Stunning shooter action in a deep, gripping storyline
Explore beautifully designed in- and outdoor environments
Control a variety of guns and weapons as well as supernatural forces to increase their power
Use teleportation and telekinesis, and interact with your surrounding to overcome obstacles and enemies
Fight intelligent opponents that use the environment to their advantage
Absorb the live energy of your enemies to heal and to replenish your mana
Supports Ageia PhysX hardware”

Infernal is an nice fantasy shooter, where you are Ryan Lennox, a fallen angel, drinking at a bar with a friend, but after a few moments you are assaulted by heavenly corporation, as a bunch of troopers attack you, you’re only option for revenge is to join the hell corporation.As you joined the bad guys, you are blessed with infernal powers, and that powers are to teleport around, levitate objects, see the invisible and fire powerful magical blasts.

Lennox arsenal of weapons isn’t to big, but nither to small either, as he gets to wield a nice colection of weapons.The story is prety cool, the graphics are amazing for a game like this one, the sound is ok, but the bad part is the dull shooting, as for about 30min or 1h you will get bored shooting the same repetitive enemies.One cool thing about game’s power is the soul absotion thing, wich as i said it’s cool at the begging but in time you will get bored with it, it can scan the dead enemies body, of any weapons, keys & stuff like that, it also replenishs your health.

Overall,if the game’s shooting mechanics and enemies wouln’t be so dull this will be a great game.

7.6/10