A game that received very little notice when it first came out is Brink. It is an objective based FPS.
The game is set around a militaristic/utopian city known as The Ark and there are two factions fighting within. One group The Security are attempting to maintain control and keep everyone within, while the other faction The Resistance are attempting to escape the city and live in freedom.
There is a loose storyline tying all of the missions and objectives together but it has no real impact upon the game itself. The game never changes much from one of two endings, one for each faction.
There are four class sets that you can play, Medic, Engineer, Operative and Soldier, as well as a general set of skills. Each class can perform specific tasks to complete objectives as well as helping the team in certain ways, such as healing and boosting damage.
The unique aspect to this game is the parkour. Depending on what body type you choose, you can leap over obstacles, climb walls and sprint. You would think it would be fairly clunky and un-usable but it actually flows quite well. With a combination of three key presses you can slide beneath enemies and then leap up onto a wall or rail and take them out from behind, the one problem being you have to be fast enough to press them at the right time...
The AI is quite intelligent, and by "quite intelligent" I mean it will kill you very easily if you don't watch out but most likely won't heal you... When your AI partners aren't spazzing out in the corner getting shot they usually do a fairly good job of assisting you but there are always issues when it comes to AI.
Overall this is yet another entertaining title under Bethesda's flag and with the sales right now well worth the purchase in my books. However if you don't like to play as part of a team or would rather be a one man army I'd say you won't enjoy it much, if at all...
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Monday, May 2, 2011
Vault 101
Fallout 3 is a game set in a post-apocalyptic 50's-esque period. The storyline is that the Cold war broke out and mankind was forced underground into fallout vaults in order to avoid the nuclear blast.
It is an open world, sandbox shooter. You are given a main storyline mission that you can complete immediately or you can completely ignore it while you traverse the wasteland in search of fame and riches.
There is a wide variety of weapons, armour and items that you can scavenge from stashes or enemies (or even from friends) providing you with many different ways to tackle each situation.
The game is very entertaining and interesting and has many ways to deal with every encounter you have but can sometimes lack direction. You can finish a quest and not pick one up and then find yourself wandering around for hours just looking for something to do. (Not to say that you do not find plenty of things all over the entirety of the wasteland but it can all be a little bit aimless with no defined quests to do things.)
As always I played through originally as a stealthy, pistol wielding character. This proved to be rather difficult as pistols don't tend to deal a huge amount of damage and the stealth isn't the greatest stealth system i have ever seen.
My second play through was more successful as i used melee and rifles, providing me with the close combat skill as well as the ability to pick off distant enemies.
The game included a "Decay" system in which weapons, armour etc begin to wear out and you can use several of the same type of weapon to repair them (similar to reality where you would use parts from one to fix another.)
My overall impressions of the game were positive, the world was in general interesting and entertaining, the combat was not clunky or unresponsive (despite being frustrating at times if you haven't repaired anything in a while.), the conversations were somewhat entertaining, and the quests, while some were rather repetitive, they generally felt immersive and entertaining.
If you are interested in RPG games and don't like the medieval/fantasy setting then this is the game for you!
It is an open world, sandbox shooter. You are given a main storyline mission that you can complete immediately or you can completely ignore it while you traverse the wasteland in search of fame and riches.
There is a wide variety of weapons, armour and items that you can scavenge from stashes or enemies (or even from friends) providing you with many different ways to tackle each situation.
The game is very entertaining and interesting and has many ways to deal with every encounter you have but can sometimes lack direction. You can finish a quest and not pick one up and then find yourself wandering around for hours just looking for something to do. (Not to say that you do not find plenty of things all over the entirety of the wasteland but it can all be a little bit aimless with no defined quests to do things.)
As always I played through originally as a stealthy, pistol wielding character. This proved to be rather difficult as pistols don't tend to deal a huge amount of damage and the stealth isn't the greatest stealth system i have ever seen.
My second play through was more successful as i used melee and rifles, providing me with the close combat skill as well as the ability to pick off distant enemies.
The game included a "Decay" system in which weapons, armour etc begin to wear out and you can use several of the same type of weapon to repair them (similar to reality where you would use parts from one to fix another.)
My overall impressions of the game were positive, the world was in general interesting and entertaining, the combat was not clunky or unresponsive (despite being frustrating at times if you haven't repaired anything in a while.), the conversations were somewhat entertaining, and the quests, while some were rather repetitive, they generally felt immersive and entertaining.
If you are interested in RPG games and don't like the medieval/fantasy setting then this is the game for you!
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Stop right there criminal!
As i have been playing a load of old games that either have had saves deleted or that i come back to again and again i was bound to come back to Oblivion at some stage.
First off i will say, No game should have DLC better than the game itself.
Shivering Isles is the best part of Oblivion BY FAR! While i do enjoy the game, the style, etc. There is no way it can compete with the fun, interesting areas and quests that shivering isles provides. There are several very interesting quests such as the daedra quests and faction quests as well as random encounters and occurrences.
That being said, there are several reasons to play on after completing the DLC. If, like me, you are a collector/completionist, there are several houses to buy and armour sets to own, including each city's guard armour set, as well as several factions to gain reputation with.
I usually start off as a sneaky melee or spellcaster character, but in an effort to experience all aspects of the game i decided to play as a heavy armour, ranged character. First of all i noticed that having ranged weapons is a fairly fantastic way to fight as you rarely if ever get hit. Secondly heavy armour means you take almost no damage from any hits you do take.
Due to the fact that i was using no magic or melee it changed the way the game played out for me completely, i ended up finishing quests in completely different ways than i normally would.
For instance one of the quests involved finding a missing mage. The original playthroughs i ran around the house using detect life and other skills and found the mage hiding. The latest playthrough i didnt have any spells to find him with so i ended up asking other mages to help and having to go on a brand new quest.
In summary this is a great game but even someone who loves rpg's and open world games it was a bit of a struggle to continue past some major points in it. If you enjoy open world rpg's this IS a good game and one that you will continue to come back to again and again. If you dont enjoy those type of games then i be rather hesitant to recommend it to you.
First off i will say, No game should have DLC better than the game itself.
Shivering Isles is the best part of Oblivion BY FAR! While i do enjoy the game, the style, etc. There is no way it can compete with the fun, interesting areas and quests that shivering isles provides. There are several very interesting quests such as the daedra quests and faction quests as well as random encounters and occurrences.
That being said, there are several reasons to play on after completing the DLC. If, like me, you are a collector/completionist, there are several houses to buy and armour sets to own, including each city's guard armour set, as well as several factions to gain reputation with.
I usually start off as a sneaky melee or spellcaster character, but in an effort to experience all aspects of the game i decided to play as a heavy armour, ranged character. First of all i noticed that having ranged weapons is a fairly fantastic way to fight as you rarely if ever get hit. Secondly heavy armour means you take almost no damage from any hits you do take.
Due to the fact that i was using no magic or melee it changed the way the game played out for me completely, i ended up finishing quests in completely different ways than i normally would.
For instance one of the quests involved finding a missing mage. The original playthroughs i ran around the house using detect life and other skills and found the mage hiding. The latest playthrough i didnt have any spells to find him with so i ended up asking other mages to help and having to go on a brand new quest.
In summary this is a great game but even someone who loves rpg's and open world games it was a bit of a struggle to continue past some major points in it. If you enjoy open world rpg's this IS a good game and one that you will continue to come back to again and again. If you dont enjoy those type of games then i be rather hesitant to recommend it to you.
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