The Walking Dead



Zombies just want some hugs

     The walking dead is the newest video game from telltales games and is currently one of the thirty best-selling games on steam. It is not hard to see why this is happening as the game is a point and click that actually challenges the way point and clicks normally work with having the fact that you can tell whether or not you will need an item for a specific task instead of trying absolutely everything in your inventory before working out the puzzle. Puzzles is this game are scarce and the main point of this game is the choices you make as well as the interactions you have with the NPCs around you, no matter how small a choice you make it will effect the game and will come back to haunt you in the end. Although the game does introduce new elements into the point and click genre it still has some of problems such as quick time events that require you to just bash a button as many times as possible until the sequence ends. Anyway the game is set around your character Lee Everett just as the police car that was taking him to jail crashes. You find yourself in the suburbs and rescue a girl called Clementine from her zombie babysitter.
    The main goal of the game is find a safe place to permanently stay for you and Clementine. Throughout the game you meet other survivors and your interactions effect how they act around you for example if you choose to try and save someone or leave them to die. The characters in this are well acted as well as well -written and you come to see them as more than video game characters. My personal favourite character is Clementine though as Lee's relationship Clementine is the best part of the game and you see how she handles all these different situations and how what you say as Lee can influence her behaviour. The ending to this game is the most heartbreaking things I have seen and will bring a tear to the eyes of any video game player out there.
    The most fascinating thing about this game is just how much they actually focus on the characters which doesn't take away from the mechanics and make it some movie but the style of the gameplay compliments the story. The visual style which is sort of comic bookiness look gives you sense that it will be light hearted this is not the case and surprisingly adds to it rather than creating tonal whiplash but thankfully doesn't. Due to the number of choices present in this game it is highly replayable as even one line of dialogue can change someone's attitude towards you. Walking Dead upon its release had an interesting idea split the game into episodes now I would've liked to have seen this in a way to buy a chapter as I go along and still have the option to buy it all at once. Unfortunately you could only buy a season pass on this game
     Now if that isn't enough of an endorsement I recommend checking out a few videos of gameplay on the interwebs to get an idea of whether you'd like this. But personally I will give it a 9/10 is an amazing game and I don't know why you aren't buying this game right now. Stop reading and buy it!!!
"A brief message from me!!!!"
We are reaching my last few posts which undoubtedly will upset both of my readers and also there will be a first person shooter of  the walking dead in 2013 so I look forward to that.

Fun 2 Play

Super Crate Box

 

 Play this game and play it now!!!!!!!!! Why are you still reading this go and get it.
Stop reading and download it now!!!

Digital d23 plays Assassin's Creed 3

  

This game puts the ass into assassin's creed



Now I like the assassin's creed series I got into at brotherhood and have played most of the games and liked them despite their flaws. So I had some hope for this game to be good and it was hyped up before the launch with that video of Connor just slaughtering British troops left, right and centre. Unfortunately the game isn't like that.  (There will not be any spoilers except for notes at the bottom with an  ' beside them) So the game opens with a little cutscene that doesn't help to explain what is happening to newcomers, who will be confused by this and are there really that many people who are going to buy this who aren't fans of the series? The opening to this game is a five to six hour tutorial that restricts as much as possible.

The game is just so slow to pick up and when it does there is limitations to what you can do such as the fact that there are guards perched so close together that it is an accomplishment not to be detected while trying to free run on the rooftops which you could do all of the other games. The problem with free-running is the restrictions as you must follow the path given by the game or fail which in comparison to the last games is ridiculous as you were given the freedom to forge your own path.

So the plot is of course rather silly but the main problem lies with the ending and how moronic what happens at the end. It revolves around Desmond making a choice either one is stupid so I calling this game "mass assassin' effect creed 3". Although I do like the revolutionary setting and have to admire the towns look and feel to them. The one good thing I can say about the plot is at least John De Lancie's(Q see Star Trek The Next Generation. ) character was actually interesting. Desmond is now more involved than ever I really don't care that much as Desmond has no personality behind his derp face. I mean Desmond exists and that is about it.

Speaking about main characters let's talk about our new protagonist, Connor is mainly just angry and humourless throughout the entire game except for one scene that is actually amazing. Allow me to elaborate "Your village is burning and run through it crying out for your Mother you find trapped under a fallen log as you enter a quick time event you realise there is no way to save her she tells you to find your Father while you refuse to leave eventually on of the villagers drags you off, kicking and screaming". That is really well crafted in the game. So he has vendetta against the man who burned his villager but at points he becomes ridiculously obsessed with it almost costing other people their lives or causing the revolution to be hindered, which he supports!. Connor is humourless, aggressive and bland and I never really cared about what happens to him.
Side missions in this game mainly involve either liberation missions, trinkets, war at sea, almanac pages or homestead missions. War at sea and liberation missions are the only fun side missions in this game the rest are just boring and tedious. Naval combat in this game is some of the best I've seen and I hope to see in the next one.The liberation missions are great because the combat system allows you to go in Rambo style and just mow down all the guards in your path and I am not complaining about that. But the rest are boring especially the homestead mission as they are incredibly linear for example in one mission this couple are making a crib as the wife just became pregnant the next mission she is giving birth in the woods.
So overall the game is a mixed bag as there is a lot to complain about but it still has some good if not great elements I would give it a 7/10.


'So Desmond must sacrifice himself to release Juno to save the world but turns out she is evil and wants to rule it, the end.
This makes no sense as she has no reason to want to conquer the world as all she has ever known was destroyed millenia ago also why does she want to what possible reason could she have to rule the world and finally what will she do once she has conquered the world all she is is a ghost in a machine. This is the height of laziness all they did was write turns out she is evil!! OMG!!!. More on this later.

  

First Impressions: Halo 4









So this a first impression series will be about games I might review in the future but not right now and in the future I may do some walkthrough.
(Warning spoilers just skip down until you see the gap to avoid them!)
Now onto Halo 4 and how I think it is awesome yet flawed.
The campaign at the start revolves around Masterchief being attacked by a covenant splinter cell until you crash on a  forerunner planet. From this point on you are searching for a way to get of the planet and return to Earth to save Cortana before she becomes Rampant. Throughout the first few levels you are receiving signals from the ship "Infinity" and the main goal to find it.  While on the planet you discover some friendly security guards called prometheans who merely wish to kill you. Unfortunately this was all trap by a Forerunner named Didact  who you have just released (how did he survive the halo rings?) and now is in command of both the elites and the prometheans. So Didact wishes to wipe out all humanity, great job Masterchief! So now you must escape before the planet explodes and that's as far as I'm going to go.

The controls in this game are different again, I really don't know why they keep changing the controls in the past few Halo games if like me you're used to Halo 3 style controls set it on recon. The game does have some interesing new features such as the climbing minigame during the first level in the ship which requires you use the thumbstick to climb up and try to avoid the falling objects. In the game the graphics are absolutely amazing and push the Xbox 360 to the limit with some cutscenes looking almost photorealistic and the voice acting is phenomenal with many of the original cast reprising their roles.
The game features some amazing new guns from the prometheans that just look amazing and really fun to use. While playing this I noticed that a lot of the guns had been given boost such as the plasma pistol actually being slightly useful now but this also makes the Elites less of a threat in the game which can get really boring after mowing an army down but not being able to take down one promethean. Let's talk about the enemies in this game first Didact so far he is okay he does intrigue as he as telekinesis, managed to survive the Halo ring blast and for some reason wants to annihilate all of humanity.
The prometheans in this game are impressive as they seem to an almost unstoppable force for even Masterchief but this comes at the cost of the dignity of the elites. The sailbacks have experienced no change what so ever, they're still useless.
I have to say so far the game is looking good and I would highly recommend buying it or at least watch some playthroughs before deciding.

Cringeworthy Comics

 

So, this comic freaking awesome! I'm not even going to talk about the cover because well it's a gimmick plain and simple.So lets get this review started.

We open with a monologue by commissioner Gordon talking about the omens and the coming doom on Gotham while a van drives around in the rain and lightning. We cut to Gordon and Harvey talking about the next crime will have some superstition behind it. As they talk a van pulls up to the police station when suddenly the power is cut out and a figure stands ominously in the doorway while making some hilarious jokes like "...A man walks into a bar...". So all the police are murdered except Gordon when Batman arrives a talks with Gordon about what happened and how the Joker told a joke.

Now we're back in the batcave where Batman is analysing fiber traces left by the Joker and Damian decides to speak about how the Joker isn't really credible because he got his face cut off by the Dollmaker. But Batman points out that the Joker allowed his face to be cut off to send a message to Batman. So Batman contacts all the other Batman related casts such as Batgirl, Red Robin and Nightwing. 

So as they discuss the Joker's return a special broadcast featuring a man in Joker make-up being forced to threaten to kill the Mayor at the end of the broadcast the Joker shoots the man. It turns out this man was the son of a former Mayor who was the first person the Joker killed. Next we see the Mayor's guards, Gordon and Batman preparing for the attack on the Mayor they've tested the Mayor several times to make sure he isn't poisoned.

As he and Gordon discuss the Joker's plan and Batman begins ponder about why the Joker would re-enact his former crimes when Batman realises that he has poisoned everyone else but its too late as the guards beg for help as they die. When the guards are all dead it is revealed that the toxin worked because half of the compound was in their clothes and the rest in the floor cleaner these reacted to form a toxin that causes them to frown. The analysis also shows that there were three unnecessary chemicals that are all found in the ACE chemicals plant where the Joker was born.

 We see the Red Hood talking about how he died and the Joker was born. Then Batman realises this isn't the Joker but Harley instead as Batman runs at her but is hit by a hammer and knocked into a vat which is sealed shut before he can escape. Harley tells Batman the Joker is different now as we cut Alfred answering the door to find the a two headed lion cub there when suddenly the Joker comes at him with a hammer.

Now the comic does have an extra bit explaining what happened to Harley which really just highlights Joker's change as he pretends to cut off her face and leaves her alone calling out for help.

This comic was amazing the writing was superb as well as the art each character looks different and you can really feel how painful  it was for the guards as well as the other main characters. Now one minor criticism would be the pacing in the seen with Harley Quinn as it doesn't flow as well with the rest of the story. S o this gets a 5/5 this is superb and I would highly recommend finding a copy somewhere,