Well I had ORIGINALLY planned to go ahead and do a full review on spider-man 3, with audio by me. I spent six hours playing that game. Six GOD-DAMNED hours of my life I will NEVER get back, and I recorded it all. I was right and ready to rip that game a whole new ass. But unfortunatly because the tape I used happened to be a piece of SHIT, it came out almost impossible to identify. So for the time being, i'v put that game on hold.
On to the game I had waited FOREVER to get, and missed school just so I could get it early. It's Army Of Two. I thought this game was going to change my life, because from everything I saw on it, it couldn't disappoint. And for the most part, it didn't. Overall the game had an amazing idea planned into it, but there are still some nit picking I can do on it.
This game basically centers around team work. In the single player campainge you go around as Salem and Rios, two PMC (Private military contractors) who basically are better then the army and everyone else. They get there jobs, do it, and get alot of money for it. The game was entertaining, fun and always kept you wanting to play, especially since there were an infinite number of fucking AI who just so happen to friggen run out of places you were just at. The single player game was about six hours long on medium, and was pretty fun.
Now I know I like to do reviews about the online, but the single player in this game is BAD ASS! It sucks it was so short, BUT it was sweet. Salem and Rios basically go through the game only to earn money, and it turns out to be an entire conspiracy where they were framed for the assassination of president Eisenhower. They're personalities are opposite of eachother. Salem is a smaller and younger man who's there do get the job done and get paid. Rios on the other hand is an older man, bigger who's got a bad feeling about the shit going on with their contracts. The game involves ALOT of two man tactics, and not just like "help me get up here" but more like, "you better start shooting or my ass is gonna be bootin' it the hell outta here". Because if only one person is doing all the shooting.. your aggro goes up, and you become a glowing target that says "TBAG ME". If you don't know what aggro is, it's a neat little thing that lets you know how much of the enemies attention each person has. If you have the aggro on you, your character glows red, and then that mean's your partner has no aggro, so he starts to look a bit transparent. The cool thing about the single player if you get to buy and upgrade your weapons. Now this goes a bit beyond the regular "add a scope and silencer to your weapon". In this game, you can increase clip size, accuracy, silencers, and even shields on your guns! There is one cool little thing I enjoy, and it's called "appearance". Now there is only one appearance, and guess what its called?
PIMP!
IT'S CALLED PIMP! It actually makes your guns all gold, silver and bronze and they all look different! Some have diamonds too. It's fucking SWEET! Like it's so amazingly unaccurate to have this in there, but it's just so awesome! All in all i'd rate the single player 9 out of 10. If it was longer, i'd definatly give it 10 out of 10.
For the online play, it's pretty unique from whats out there. Like the fact there are actually AI ONLINE! That's pretty bad ass, especially when the AI are so good they kill you most of the time. So online, it's two-on-two, and both teams compete to complete the objectives that pop up on the map. Each time a team completes an objective, they earn cash, and at the end, the team with the most cash wins. Another unique aspect is you have to BUY your weapons while in the game, so however much you spend on weapons, comes out of your cash, thus subtracting from your teams total cash. There are assassination objectives, destruction objectives, protection objectives, and escort objectives. There are also things in the map you can find which give your team cash. Killing the AI as well as the other team also rewards you with cash.
Another cool thing is an online campainge where you play through the campainge with another person online, instead of the AI you'd normally get.
Once I got to the online, this is where I started to notice problems. The online cosists of 4 players, teams of two-on-two, and then the map is RIDDLED with AI who constantly fuck you up. Now for the first problem. You know the thing in the world that pisses you off the most? Like, you could with full honestly say it's the worst thing ever and you'd do anyhting for it to change or be gone? Well this is it for me. The MOVEMENT of the online play BLOWS! I will later upload a video of me (with clothes on) T-BAGGING THE GAME! Like god damn! The delay between moving and aiming, from when you hit the analog to when you actually move SUCKS. If your aiming sensitivity is on high, you'll never beable to focus on the bloody target. You'll move to aim, go past it, and do the same thing back and forth. If it's on medium is does pretty much the same thing. NOW, if it's on LOW, it will take you like 5 god damn minutes to turn around in a fucking circle. This shit is HORRIBLE!
The next thing is the guns! There are some Ridiculous fucking weapons in this game. There is actually a GATTLING GUN ONLINE. Now I know what your thinking. "Gattling gun? woah thats bad ass!!", but no. If you managed to actually fucking hit someone with that shit, it would be badass. But that isn't possible. The most ridiculous gun though, is most of the sniper rifles, which are one hit kills! But see, your thinking "well thats not to bad, you still have to aim and sniping can be hard.". But no. You ever played a game where you got an AMAZING weapon, but it was harder to use? Well not in this case. You can run around WITH a sniper, not zoom in and shoot in a STRAIGHT line each and every time. And it STILL kills you with one hit. Also, I musn't forget to mention the fucking ROCKET LAUNCHER which kills EVERYTHING INSTANTLY thats within 50 FEET OF IT. Not to mention, the AI don't miss when they shoot.
Another thing, that really pisses me off, is the god damn way the game actually WORKS. You find a room, your all happy n shit, your playing. Then one person leaves. You say "well that aint to bad, right? I mean, you can still play and try to win by yourself". But you really Cant, due to the fact if ANYONE fucking leaves, the game ends INSTANTLY! Now not only are hosts in call of duty 4 bad people. EVERYONE on Army Of Two are bad people! If you actually MANAGE to finish a game online, i'd be fucking amazed.
Other then these small problems, the game is good. I think the best thing would of been if they made it two man teams, but put maybe.. 4 teams in and take out the AI. But thats just my opinion. I'd have to give the online 6.5 out of 10 just because the movement blows pube infested balls!
Hopefully I can soon revideo my spiderman 3 gameplay and have a new review up for you guys. Take care, until next I post!
Monday, March 31, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, The Online?
Good day good day, hello hello, and greetings to all. This is the first official post of my game reviews. It just so happens that this videogame review blog is focusing on the online aspects of games that are out there. I will occasionally also do a game that is single player only. Because I am a Playstation fanboy, well not really, I decided to focus on Playstation games. I am not limiting this to the newest games either, because as all gamers know, the oldies are the classics. My reviews to some others may be a bit different because, just for the pure blissful feeling, I love to tear a game a new rectum. And lets face it, some of these games deserve it! And I'm sure I can point one game out that is the worst in history that has come out for the Playstation 3, LAIR! I don't own this game, but i'v played it, and I refuse to ever do a review on it.
But one game I WILL review is my current all time favorite online game, Call Of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare. Now, Call Of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare is easily one of the best games i'v ever played in my life. Up until this game I hated every first person shooter that has ever existed, except for Golden Eye 007. This games got it all; some bad ass guns, some bad ass graphics, some bad ass game types, and some bad ass towel heads, yanks and limeys! Infinity Ward took a huge step out of there... "ordinary" game series, as every other Call Of Duty game has taken place in WWI and WWII. That's the reason I hated the games, because those bloody campaigns are so damn overused! But when I heard the game was set in Modern Warfare, I ran right out to rent it, to see if I'd play it. And let me tell you, I played it, and played it, and played it. I bet if I had a girlfriend at the time she would of dumped me because of it. Actually, now that I think of it, she did dump me, but AFTER I took it back.
The grand thing about this game, is how they keep you hooked on it. In many online games, you play them, and after awhile you get bored of them because there really isn't anything new, and there is nothing really to work towards, and the stuff you can work towards, usually don't take all that long. But with Call Of Duty 4, they went that extra mile. There are 55 different ranks, and you start at rank 1. You then gain experience through killing others, planting bombs, and capture objectives. Then you proceed to go to rank 55 while unlocking new weapons, perks, and challenges along the way. At level 55, once you cap off your experience, you can enter the most epic shit in the world! It's called prestiege. This shit is so epic it makes "Epic Movie" look like "Movie". Yeah, it's THAT EPIC. What is it you ask? Well you'll find out in my next blog post.
Nah I wouldn't do that. Prestiege is where you offer up everything for a shiney new medal. "What do you mean 'offer up everything?'" you ask? Well in exchange for this shiney new medal, you must give up every unlocked weapon, every unlocked and uncompleted/completed challenges, and every unlocked perk. "Who the hell would want to do that?!!?" you ask? Well why not? Not only do you have your goals to go through again, some of the medals look pretty bad ass... And hey, it's not ALL that bad. You start off with two of the best weapons in the game anyways. And guess what, you can do this 10 times! There are 10 different prestieges!!! I am currently on my 8th, hopefully gonna hit my ninth this weekend.
Another thing that keeps you hooked, is probably the longest and toughest thing to do. There are 5 classes of weapons. Assult rifles, SMG's (sub machine guns), LMG's (large machine guns), shotguns, and sniper rifles. Under each class there are a variety of weapons, and each of these weapons have challenges. They each have kill challenges with that particular weapon, and head shots. To do all these take FOREVER! And I mean for bloody EVER! You should ONLY attempt this at your 10th prestiege or if you don't plan on going through prestieges. But when you do every challenge under each gun type like assult rifles, you unlock a skin that is golden. There is 5 total, one under each weapon type! They do look sexy though :).
Another really cool aspect is the special things you get after so many kills in a row;
3 kills - UAV. This sweeps over the map every 5 seconds or so, and shows the position of the entire enemy. The only time someone won't show up is if they have the perk UAV jammer on. It lasts 30 seconds.
5 kills - Air Strike. This is awesome in huge games like ground wars, domintation and headquarters. This calls in three jets one after another on any point of the map you wish and drops balistic missiles. If you have a UAV up when you get this, you can direct this perfectly. The only downside is they come from a random angle, so sometimes they will hit roofs of random buildings.
7 kills - Helicopter. This is usually easy enough to get once you use an airstrike if you haven't died. This calls in a helicopter, which flies around and kills everyone, or everyone on the opposite team, depending what your playing. And the awesome part is, every kill it gets, it adds to your kills! Unfortunatly if you die, when it kills people, it's kills don't count toward new UAVs airstrikes or helicopters lol. It's a great asset to have too!
There are a few bones I have to pick with this game though! One of which is some of these god damn mother &^*#(*^ weapons! One of the weapons you start off with, is the M16A4. This gun, has got to be the most all around perfect gun in the game. It's one of the strongest, one burst can kill someone instantly. It's one of the most accurate. You can hit someone who is in a different country from you. It's range is &%*$(#@ phenominal! This weapon honestly shoots JUST as far as a sniper rifle. This gun is only semi-automatic, so it does only shoot in bursts, but to me this gun is WAY to over powered. Another gun I have to pick a bone with, is one of the SMG's, the MP5. If you have the stopping power perk, and steady aim perk [which is more damage and increased hip fire accuracy] you can point the gun at someone and kill them. Not only is this gun WAY over powered, but it can actually shoot the same distance as an M16A4!! How is that possible?!?! IT'S AN SMG! AN SMG!!! WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TOO!
Another bone to pick is with the friggen hosts! They are going to be implimenting an update in which is fixes this, but this has been a pain in the ass long enough. If the host of a room leaves, the entire game ends! So if the host is being a pissy poo-poo tard and decides he sucks and he wants to become emo now, he can leave the game and ruin it for EVERYONE ELSE! And you know the old saying, if something bad can happen at a bad time, it will happen. It always happens when your doing amazing, and your kill/death ratio is awesome. They are bad people those hosts.
The single play aspect of the game is alright, it's got a nice little cheats aspect' to it which can be entertaining. It's a short single player game, but this is after all an online based game. The real fun part of this game is going online and annoying the hell out of people. I actually pissed some little kid of so bad he started screaming and swearing at the top of his lungs online, and his mom started yelling at him and I believe she hit him too. If I were a professional game reviewer, which im not, I would have to give this game a 9.5 out of 10. This game is amazing, and the graphics are so well done that you can do anything. I actually spent 10 minutes in a private match, rolling a bucket down two sets of stairs, and across a map. All in all this game is awesome to play, and it's especially fun when you play with your friends on a team. There are lot's of game types, lots of maps and lots of weapons. I'd have to say this is the best FPS i'v ever played in my life. This concluds my review for call of duty 4!
But one game I WILL review is my current all time favorite online game, Call Of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare. Now, Call Of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare is easily one of the best games i'v ever played in my life. Up until this game I hated every first person shooter that has ever existed, except for Golden Eye 007. This games got it all; some bad ass guns, some bad ass graphics, some bad ass game types, and some bad ass towel heads, yanks and limeys! Infinity Ward took a huge step out of there... "ordinary" game series, as every other Call Of Duty game has taken place in WWI and WWII. That's the reason I hated the games, because those bloody campaigns are so damn overused! But when I heard the game was set in Modern Warfare, I ran right out to rent it, to see if I'd play it. And let me tell you, I played it, and played it, and played it. I bet if I had a girlfriend at the time she would of dumped me because of it. Actually, now that I think of it, she did dump me, but AFTER I took it back.
The grand thing about this game, is how they keep you hooked on it. In many online games, you play them, and after awhile you get bored of them because there really isn't anything new, and there is nothing really to work towards, and the stuff you can work towards, usually don't take all that long. But with Call Of Duty 4, they went that extra mile. There are 55 different ranks, and you start at rank 1. You then gain experience through killing others, planting bombs, and capture objectives. Then you proceed to go to rank 55 while unlocking new weapons, perks, and challenges along the way. At level 55, once you cap off your experience, you can enter the most epic shit in the world! It's called prestiege. This shit is so epic it makes "Epic Movie" look like "Movie". Yeah, it's THAT EPIC. What is it you ask? Well you'll find out in my next blog post.
Nah I wouldn't do that. Prestiege is where you offer up everything for a shiney new medal. "What do you mean 'offer up everything?'" you ask? Well in exchange for this shiney new medal, you must give up every unlocked weapon, every unlocked and uncompleted/completed challenges, and every unlocked perk. "Who the hell would want to do that?!!?" you ask? Well why not? Not only do you have your goals to go through again, some of the medals look pretty bad ass... And hey, it's not ALL that bad. You start off with two of the best weapons in the game anyways. And guess what, you can do this 10 times! There are 10 different prestieges!!! I am currently on my 8th, hopefully gonna hit my ninth this weekend.
Another thing that keeps you hooked, is probably the longest and toughest thing to do. There are 5 classes of weapons. Assult rifles, SMG's (sub machine guns), LMG's (large machine guns), shotguns, and sniper rifles. Under each class there are a variety of weapons, and each of these weapons have challenges. They each have kill challenges with that particular weapon, and head shots. To do all these take FOREVER! And I mean for bloody EVER! You should ONLY attempt this at your 10th prestiege or if you don't plan on going through prestieges. But when you do every challenge under each gun type like assult rifles, you unlock a skin that is golden. There is 5 total, one under each weapon type! They do look sexy though :).
Another really cool aspect is the special things you get after so many kills in a row;
3 kills - UAV. This sweeps over the map every 5 seconds or so, and shows the position of the entire enemy. The only time someone won't show up is if they have the perk UAV jammer on. It lasts 30 seconds.
5 kills - Air Strike. This is awesome in huge games like ground wars, domintation and headquarters. This calls in three jets one after another on any point of the map you wish and drops balistic missiles. If you have a UAV up when you get this, you can direct this perfectly. The only downside is they come from a random angle, so sometimes they will hit roofs of random buildings.
7 kills - Helicopter. This is usually easy enough to get once you use an airstrike if you haven't died. This calls in a helicopter, which flies around and kills everyone, or everyone on the opposite team, depending what your playing. And the awesome part is, every kill it gets, it adds to your kills! Unfortunatly if you die, when it kills people, it's kills don't count toward new UAVs airstrikes or helicopters lol. It's a great asset to have too!
There are a few bones I have to pick with this game though! One of which is some of these god damn mother &^*#(*^ weapons! One of the weapons you start off with, is the M16A4. This gun, has got to be the most all around perfect gun in the game. It's one of the strongest, one burst can kill someone instantly. It's one of the most accurate. You can hit someone who is in a different country from you. It's range is &%*$(#@ phenominal! This weapon honestly shoots JUST as far as a sniper rifle. This gun is only semi-automatic, so it does only shoot in bursts, but to me this gun is WAY to over powered. Another gun I have to pick a bone with, is one of the SMG's, the MP5. If you have the stopping power perk, and steady aim perk [which is more damage and increased hip fire accuracy] you can point the gun at someone and kill them. Not only is this gun WAY over powered, but it can actually shoot the same distance as an M16A4!! How is that possible?!?! IT'S AN SMG! AN SMG!!! WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TOO!
Another bone to pick is with the friggen hosts! They are going to be implimenting an update in which is fixes this, but this has been a pain in the ass long enough. If the host of a room leaves, the entire game ends! So if the host is being a pissy poo-poo tard and decides he sucks and he wants to become emo now, he can leave the game and ruin it for EVERYONE ELSE! And you know the old saying, if something bad can happen at a bad time, it will happen. It always happens when your doing amazing, and your kill/death ratio is awesome. They are bad people those hosts.
The single play aspect of the game is alright, it's got a nice little cheats aspect' to it which can be entertaining. It's a short single player game, but this is after all an online based game. The real fun part of this game is going online and annoying the hell out of people. I actually pissed some little kid of so bad he started screaming and swearing at the top of his lungs online, and his mom started yelling at him and I believe she hit him too. If I were a professional game reviewer, which im not, I would have to give this game a 9.5 out of 10. This game is amazing, and the graphics are so well done that you can do anything. I actually spent 10 minutes in a private match, rolling a bucket down two sets of stairs, and across a map. All in all this game is awesome to play, and it's especially fun when you play with your friends on a team. There are lot's of game types, lots of maps and lots of weapons. I'd have to say this is the best FPS i'v ever played in my life. This concluds my review for call of duty 4!
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