Tuesday, September 29, 2009

CrossFire



 Intro: A first person shooter thats lots more fun than other free online FPS. CrossFire is a unique free FPS, here's why.




 Pros: During gameplay you can pick up enemy weapons and use them yourself. You also can buy weapons from the weapons shop, with "money" you get in-game, forever! Usually free online FPS games let you buy weapons for only a few days. After you play a match you have the option to "save" the match. This lets to save it for later replay. In replay mode you can view the game from anywhere in the map, from every player's perspective, or from a third person view. You can pause rewind and fast-forward the game. The graphics are ok.

 Cons: Sometimes in replay mode the game glitches and the view gets messed up. It takes a long time to gain "money" and you have to repair your weapons or they will get bad, and less effective. The repair option wastes all your money, and only if you're an ace player will you really start earning money.

 Overall: A great game has it's "money" making problems and some glitches. But it's completely free, so it's worth it.



Overall Score: 7.5

Monday, September 28, 2009

Conflict: Desert Storm





 Intro: Basically you are a squad of soliders in fighting terrorists and try to blow up certain targets. WOOPEE, another FPS game with absolutely zero fun, cliff hanging, suspenseful storyline.

 Pros: You get a squad of soliders so if one gets hurt you can heal him with the other. You get four different types of men, heavy weapons, sniper, detonations, and machine gunner. It's moderately fun playing with friends since then each of you control 2 men and can see who finishes the level first, or you can work together. You can pick up weapons, ammo, and health from inside buildings and if this wouldn't be possible I probably would stuff this game down a toilet at first chance.


 Cons: The third person targeting system is the most horrible thing ever, you can't get a shot to hit a guy a long range, even if you're certain you're aiming at him. The enemies glitch out and one time while I was playing an enemy appeared that was completely black and bullets and grenades couldn't hurt him. He could still hurt you though. I even used a rocket launcher on him ( called an RPG ) and guess what, it went right though him. After my team and I hid behind a box for about three minutes, he suddenly, disappeared into thin air. The graphics are bad compared to other XBOX titles, Halo, Elder scrolls, and lack the fun those games contain. There is no cliff hanger, or suspenseful storyline. I'd rather play Pac-Man.

 Overall: This game is probably the result of a developer that didn't have enough money and staff to support this "project", if you could even call it that. Nice try though, still, I would have more fun with Pac-Man. That might have been a good ending statement, but guess what, when Desert Storm first came out they were asking for $20-$30 for it! This game really is in a big mixed up "Storm".

 Overall score: 3.0

Burnout Revenge



 Intro: Your first thought about this game is probably this, if you haven't played it: It is probably just one of those games like Need for Speed, which puts a lot of cheesy cars, tracks, and stunts into one game. WRONG!




 Pros: This game has one of the best graphics I've ever seen in a XBOX game. The cars zip by, hardly even visible because of the realistic blur. The sound is perfect, getting it just right when you hear a car go wizzing by. Burnout Revenge tops it's predecessor, making it more fun with the added effect of getting revenge rivals, being able to smash cars (if they are not moving, or facing away from you) and not crashing when you smash them, and leveling up your revenge rank, the game's sort way of "leveling up". The cars seen faster, bigger, more powerful, and more fun to drive than in Older Burnout games. The game lets you crash into other racers, and crash, bash, and smash them into other cars, or walls to get a takedown, like shown in the picture below.



 Cons: Some glitches, sometime you might think you hit a car, but you didn't. To some gamers this might be great, but rivals seem to go down to easily, but to even it out, you smash easily too.  There is not a definate story line, all you really do is participate in different races, never for a reason, or cause.

 Overall: The game has no serious cons, and way more pros than cons. The graphics are top notch, and the gameplay is pretty fun.

 Overall Score: 7.5

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Elder Scrolls III Morrowind


Intro: Morrowind is an expansive game set in the land of Vvardenfell. The game is great and it makes a great game for everyone.



 Pros: Great replayability, graphics are nice, huge areas to explore. Diverse lands, and people. Lots of weapons and quests. The combat system is nicely made and makes all my expectations of this game very high. Over 200+ hours of gameplay on just the main quest. Probably over 500+ with sidequests.
Leveling up is easy and fun. It's not like other games where you really have to spend 6 hours fighting monsters to gain 2-3 levels, you can gain lots of levels fast in Morrowind.



 Cons: Gets boring if you've played through the game over twenty times. Glitches sometimes and some AIs are so dumb you could kill someone right in behind them and they wouldn't know it. After buying and selling weapons through the course of 20 games the weapons start to get boring.

 Overall: Recommended to everyone who likes or might even dislike RPGs. Great game for friends to enjoy you playing, or for you to watch them playing.

 Overall score: 9.0

Halo CE



Intro: Halo CE started the Halo craze. The game starts a new and exciting era of game play. Character models and ok and the games engine is smooth and doesn't lag.


 Pros: Halo CE has a fun story line and diverse weapons. The games character models are ok, as I said before, and the game runs smooth. Multiplayer is fun and each map is extremely different. There aren't lots of glitches and the enemies are very smart AIs. The story mode is very expansive and can take from 20-30 hours for a amateur, and from 5-10 hours for a master of FPS.



Cons:
 The Graphics aren't perfect and sometimes you feel alittle lost when trying to find a certain area. You can't board enemy vehicles like in Halo 2-3 and there aren't many weapons. The Flood doesn't really even need to be part of the story. Now Bungie is going to come to me and be like "We need the Flood to make the story advance!". Well they could have left out the Flood, which are a pain to fight, and just have Master chief fight new races of Covent.

 Overall:
A great game and really worth it for the price of $5-$10 on Ebay. Nice addition for Halo 2-3-3ODST, and Halo wars fans.

 Overall score: 8.0-8.5

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Wizard 101


 Intro:
My friend asked me to do a review for Wizard101, and I can proudly say that this game is probably great... if you're a seven year old. It's filled with child friendly little wizards running around using spells to destroy monsters.


 Pros:
 I ask myself.  Do I even want to do this section this time? There isn't anything that's fun about this unless you're going to dedicate twelve hours on the computer trying to get some new wand, which is utterly pointless.

 Cons:
 Bad-good graphics, Takes too long to make money, and it takes too long to level up once you're a high level. The quests start to dwindle unless you subscribe you become a member, which is $10 a month!!!!! =X

 Overall score: 3.0-4.0

Warrock Review



 Intro:
 Warrock is a free online FPS and is very good for a free game. It still has its faults, alittle bit more cons than pros, but a great game nonetheless.



 Pros: Fun multiplayer,very interactive and lots of weapons. Good player models and graphic secenery. You can drive vehicles, helicopters, planes, tanks, trucks and boats, this makes the game a lot better and more fun. The helicopters make this game the most fun, for people who know how to fly them. The maps vary from small to huge, and usually huge maps have more vehicles. The replayability is very high and the better you get the easier it is to get the fun factor from this game. When you're horrible at this game getting kills is impossible.

 Cons: Glitches, lots of lags, even if you have super fast internet. All the guns can only be bought (with money you win from matches ) for either one day, seven days or 30 days. You never get to keep weapons forever or pick weapons at the start of matches ( like Counter-Strike ) which is a let down. Sometime your teams color ( green or brown) gets mixed up with your enemies, resulting in a team mate, whos really a enemy, killing you. Lots of people hack and that makes the game more boring.

 Overall:
 This game is fun to play and I play it though after awhile I'd rather play something else. Recommended for people who have had experience playing FPS games, not complete amateurs.

 Overall score: 6.5-7.0

If anyone wants to have help playing this game, my ID is 0verkillz. Contact me!

Halo 2 review

Intro:
Halo 2 is an amazing game. Despite the "Halo: Combat evolved" game which set off the craze for Halo, but had bad graphic capabilities, Halo 2 has amazing graphics for an Xbox. Halo 2 has a lot of glitches. But most aren't noticable unless you dedicate your life to trying to find these elusive little annoyances.


Pros:
Halo 2 has a great storyline and the mutiplayer will keep you hooked forever. The weapons are diverse and take along time to master certain ones. The graphics are awesome as I said before. The storymode is surprisingly replayable compaired to other Xbox FPS. You'll have lots of fun blasting aliens with different weapons, and playing the level over again but trying to destroy a Covenant patrol a different way than last time. The difficulty level is a fun addition to the game, you can pick from fighting super easy Covenant to fighting crazy strong Covenant. Also customizing your mutiplayer character might seen boring but Halo 2 gives you lots of options for armor colors, and clan symbols. The game's AI are incredibly smart and will backup a Warthog if it hits a wall, not just keep driving into it. Xbox Live adds so much replayability that this game will never grow old and be set aside... ever... ever!



Cons:
After playing the storymode over and over again half a million times it starts to wear out, and you start getting bored of finding the same Elite or grunt around the same corner. The game will start to develop more glitches as the disc gets more scratched up, like when selecting random spawning weapons for mutiplayer, all you get is sniper rifles spawing. Without Xbox Live, after putting in half a thousand to a thousand hours of game play the game will get boring and non colorful. Playing as the Arbiter ( a Covenant elite) might be discouraging and boring when you have to play as him a few times in the game.


Overall:
Halo 2 is a great game and is completely worth it if you would buy it for $50-$70, but it only costs $10-$15 on Ebay and lots of the deals on Ebay will give you a non-scratched version. I would recommend it for a person that has never played an FPS in his/her life or a person that is a Master gamer. This game is great for everyone!

Overall score: 9.0-9.5


Introduction

Hello guys and gals,

I'll be making mixed reviews on different platforms: Comp, DS, GBA, PS2, Xbox, and when I get an Xbox360, I'll be making reviews for it too. I have a lot of experience with all types of games, and have lots of friends to help me out if I have trouble reviewing a game.
Hope you enjoy!