Marine Sharpshooter 4 - Review
Waiting, as the installer zipped through Marine Sharpshooter 4, I set myself up for a serious disappointment. Groove games doesn’t have a very good track record; except for maybe Playboy Mansion which I played for probably a total of 2 hours. I always like to give games a chance, I also always like to be as positive as possible when it comes to reviewing them. A no-name franchise from a no-name game development company doesn’t give me much to hope for, but alas I did what I always do; break out a can of coke, put on my headphones and got cracking.
Silent Hill 1 - Review
After getting Silent Hill 1 to work on my PC I powered through it-refusing to put it down. I can now see why so many people obsess over this series. In a couple hours I will have my hands on Silent Hill 2 and will be ready to continue the saga. For a PSX game Silent Hill is still fairly new (the PS2 came out after a year of this games release), but still as it stands this game is an amazing example of what the PSX is fully capiable of.
No comments(How-To) Silent Hill 1 on PC - Using ePSXe
I’ve always been a Resident Evil fan… maybe that’s why Silent Hill never sparked my interest. It just simply flew under my radar waiting to be discovered at a later date. With all the hoopla about the newest Silent Hill at this years E3 I decided to try out the, world renowned, “scariest series” known to the industry. I dug up my old PSX sitting in the cubby-hole, preceded to my nearest “used video games” shop, bought Silent Hill and began to play. Unfortunately, I’m not home as much as I would like to be so I decided I would find out a way to play this game on my laptop. Read more to find out how you can do it too!
5 commentsBeen a while - Little update.
Well it has certainly been a LONG time since I last updated. I know that’s usually how blogs go eh? Writers get seriously interested, write an article a day then go AWAL for months on end. I can’t promise it won’t happen again - in fact I’m not even sure if anyone still reads this, but honestly I enjoy writing. So screw it… I don’t care if I am talking to myself!
On the games front I’ve completed a few more: Vikings battle for Asgard, Turning Point Fall of Liberty, Dark Sektor, GTA4, Iron Man, Alone in the Dark 4, Mario Kart Wii, Lego Indiana Jones. Well I guess thats more than a few. I’m not at home right now so I can’t check the full list, but those are ones I can throw out off the top of my head. I have also discovered Age of Conan. A great MMO, unfortunately my external drive failed and I have to reinstall all 30gigs of it. Save that for another post.
What I really want to share with everyone (or no-one) is my rejouvinated obsession with Star-Wars. A couple weeks ago Escapist Magaizine ran a whole bunch of Star-Wars articles. I happened to be bored at work that day and read through all of them. Found out that the writer of both Mass Effect and KOTOR had his own series of Star-Wars novels based on Darth Bane and the Old Republic. I read both books in a matter of a week and instantly became upsessed. I’m not talking a healthy obsession, I’m talking full blown lets get all the old republic comics obsession… yea I did. I read those too. So I’ve read/played/obsessed over everything Old Republic and now I want to dabble in a bit of the abandoned-ware LucasArts has been leaving lying around. I’ve heard awesome things of games such as the X-Wing series and the Dark Forces series, but I have never played them. Well expect some posts about those games because I’m currently getting my hands on them.
Other than that not much else to say except I’m trying real hard in math.. which is a first since grade 9.
No commentsPrelude to Life - IT’S DONE!!
Well some of you may have already noticed that I haven’t been posting much as of late. This is because of a multitude of reasons, but mainly because of all the projects I have due towards the end of this semester.
One of the biggest projects I have due is my independent film entitled “Prelude to Life”. Simply put it’s a zombie film without zombies. It questions how people interact with each other in survival situations. Staring Mike McMahon as Matt this short story follows the lives of five survivors as their routine quickly gets disrupted as an injured new comer shows his face.
I’ve uploaded it to youtube:
Let me know what you think.
No commentsHumanities moment of triumph - Mass Effect
As I sit here overwhelmed by the ending of mass effect, being envolped in its credits, having awarded the completionist achievement I now remember the reason why I play video games. This game, amongst a small amount of others, prove what real video game developers are capable of. Mass Effect shows a true genius of creativity knowledge and most importantly dedication towards work. Games like Mass Effect are few, but when we are granted such a marvel the gaming community fully understands what we stand for. It isn’t about who’s the “biggest developer” it isn’t about NPR stats and other financial graphs, its about an overwhelming satification. It’s that feeling a gamer experiences when completing a game in all its glory, about involving himself in someones dedicated work, about experiencing someone elses creation. Video games aren’t a hobby, its not something you do to waste time with some friends, its an obsession; an interactive obsession that can envoke true emotion in someone. Emotion that is able to overwhelm the player to the point where they feel they were truly emersed. If this didn’t convince you to play Mass Effect then I don’t know what will…. this game; and its ending shows humanities moment of triumph.
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No commentsDevil May Cry 4 - Review
I would never call myself a Devil May Cry veteran so before I started to play through this game I decided to do my research on the devil may cry story line. I’ve played DMC2 for a short while when I first got my PS2, but I didn’t fully understand what was going on. After reading the plot synopsis and talking to a few friends I figured I was prepared to play Capcom’s newest action adventure, DMC4.
From what I can tell DMC4 takes place after the events of DMC1 so its not another prequel like DMC3. However, with all that said, DMC4 plays much like a standalone game. There isn’t much reference to the other games, except some returning characters (Lady, Trish and Dante). In DMC4 you play as a new character Nero, he is a naive character who starts out believing Dante is the “bad guy” since he killed off Sanctus, the Order leader. Your girlfriend, Kyrie, is captured and as you progress through the game you begin to understand your true power and the true motives behind the Order.
8 commentsTurok - Follows orders but doesn’t follows it’s heart
Yes, I have already finished Propagandas new game; Turok. Upon completion my cousin asked me: “How did you like it? Was the ending good?” Allow me to share what I said to him. Turok is a like delivering a baby only to find out you have to perform a c-section. You go in hoping for a miraculous creation, following a messy incision, followed by a short lived spectacle then you are forced to close what you have started. I went into Turok expecting an awesome experience; I remember the glory days of the N64 playing this game to no end. In fact I recently bought Turok for a friend who currently owns a N64 just so I could go over to his house and play it. Sadly I was mistaken… if I wanted to play another bullshit Gears of War clone using the new Unreal Engine I would either play Gears of War or Unreal Tournament 3… not this piece of crap.
The picture to the left would be the best way of describing my weekend in a mash-up of pictures. Read more to dive into a weekend full of XBOX 360 re-modding, Turok, Groundhogs day excitement and Super Mario Smash Brothers Brawl.Prelude to Life - Screenplay
Prelude to Life
Original Screenplay by: William McMahon
Janurary 27, 2008
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