Assassin Creed Collector Editions

Morning folks,
In the week Ubisoft finally announced the special editions for the new Assassin's Creed 3 that will arrive in October and my god do they look amazing. First up is the Join or Die edition which can found with most retailers. This beauty comes with the following:

• Copy of the game (of course)
• Collectors Box 
• Connor's Medallion (new assassin)
• George Washington's Notebook containing detailed information about the role of the Assassins in the war
• Singleplayer Mission "Ghosts of War"
• Multiplayer Package "Sharpshooter"

The second edition which is the bigger one is exclusive to Gamestop but can be pre-ordered/bought from the Ubisoft website store. This ultimate bad boy edition contains the following:

• Copy of the game
• Collectors box
• Steel book case
• Connor Figurine
• George Washington's Notebook
• 2 Singleplayer Missions "Ghosts of War" & "Lost Mayan Ruins"
• Multiplayer Package "Sharpshooter"
• Exclusive Lithograph

How amazing do these look? the figurine is so much better then the past ones and it's meant to be somewhere around 24cm high. Looks like a lot of thought as been put into them, both boxes look amazing and I'm happy to see I can get the steel book case as well. Hoping the notebook goes into some good detail like how they did the Encyclopedia for Revelations, that was an outstanding book.

At this current time I've ordered both editions, Freedom is a must but I did want the Medallion and I normally do pick up the game later on the PlayStation. So I've ordered the Join or Die edition on the PS3 using the excuse that I was going to get the game again anyway so might as well just order the other edition.

By the way just an heads up for UK customers, Gamestop require you to pay the full amount for their pre-orders in advance so if you don't want to fork out the money straight away go with Ubisoft. I did that with the Animus Edition for Revelations and they don't charge until it's shipped.

So what editions you picking up? Join or Die? Freedom? Normal? Both? or none at all?
~Iznic

Late Results

Afternoon folks,
Sorry for the late results for last week but it's been a crazy week for me so far. Good news though I did complete two games last week which is a feat in its self for me right now. Finally sat down and started Captain America which turned out to be amazing and could not stop for several days until it was finished (yes I did the full 1,000 gamerscore). Then I took advantage of the Xbox Live Arcade weekly sale and picked up Costume quest, again another amazing game that I've missed out on in the past.

Although I did finish two games I was still short of my weekly target but compared to the last few weeks it's a lot less.

Week 10 - This week
Starting Total: 132,719
To Earn: 1,694
Achieved: 95
Difference: -1,599

Week 9
Starting Total: 131,549
To Earn: 1,680
Achieved: 1,170
Difference: -510

Total So Far -
To Earn: 13,371

Achieved:6,440

Difference: -6,931


So my plans for this week? well whats left of it anyway, going to be working on Grubbins on Ice which is the expansion dlc for Costume Quest. Also Lovefilm have sent me Marvel Hero Squad Comic Combat for the Udraw, so I will be working on that since its quest short and easy.

Also expect to see more posts over the weekend where I will be catching up on the gaming news and review the games that I finally finished but for now I'm going to go update the stats page then do some gaming, so until then have a good one.
~Iznic

New Highest Score

Yesterday Stallion83 set the new record for highest legit gamer score with a whopping 700,000!

Check out the awesome video he's put together showing off most if not all the achievements earned from 600,000-700,000. Makes me want to sit down and start clocking some stuff, really want to get my 200,000! anyway check out his web post for plenty of details on his journey to One Million




website link


Big Congratulations to him anyway!
~Iznic

Some Ideas

Been toying around with some ideas for the last few weeks for posts for the blog, more in the way of "Adventures in Azeroth". For those who where not reading my blog at that time I basically get a journal of my adventures in World of Warcraft of my new character that I started levelling. It did not go into massive 100% detail but it did give a good run down on what I was doing.

Anyway I was thinking of booting it up again since I want to really put some time back into since I've got a time card that I'm wasting (Old Republic too), but I'm still in two minds if I want to do it. The main reason my mind was on this idea is because I bought Pokemon White a few weeks back in the sale and I was going to do the exact same thing with it.

Every time I play it keep a blog journal of the adventures, was even thinking of having ago on what I saw posted a few weeks back where a guy had only his starter Pokemon. Spent the entire game battling with just that one and got it to level 100 by the time of the Elite Four and owned everything pretty much thanks to the exp all going to that one.

I was curious to see if that was possible since different types have advantages over you but then when its level 100 I don't think that matters anymore, plus add some potions for back up would help just in case.

What do you readers think? would you read it? food for though I guess
~Iznic

My Top 10 Platinum Trophies/1k Games

Morning one and all,
Was thinking about the top platinum trophy list the other day and started to wonder what the Xbox version would be (betting that Avatar Burning Earth would be near the top if not number one). Anyway after those thoughts I started to think about what would be the top 10 that I wanted to get, well it was instantly filled since I wanted all the Mass Effect games which is 3 plus. So I came up with idea that the series would be classed as one, so Mass Effect 1-3 on Xbox and 2-3 on PlayStation is one (yes its that good I would play it again on the other console for the trophies). So here is my list of 10 games that I want to clock...

1. Mass Effect (1-3 Xbox 360 / 2-3 PlayStation 3)
2. Dark Souls
3. Star Ocean (Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3)
4. Uncharted (1-3 PlayStation 3 / Golden Abyss Vita)
5. Assassin's Creed (1/2/BH/R Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3)
6. Gears of War (1/2/3 Xbox 360 & 1 on PC)
7. God of War (1/2/3/CO/GS)
8. Batman (Both AA & AC on PS3/Xbox/PC)
9. Elder Scrolls (Oblivion & Skyrim PS3/Xbox 360)
10. Warriors Series (Dynasty/Samurai/Gundam/Warriors Orochi PS3/Xbox 360)

Quite a list right and I'm sure I've not put all the variants on it either, but those are the top 10 I would be super proud of to have. If I did enjoy Dark Souls as well I would do it again on the PlayStation and attempt Demons Souls. So my question to you readers is this, whats your top 10 that you want?

~Iznic

More Lego Games

The Lego game series is one of my all time favourite and in fact when a new one comes out I've always bought them day one. It's even come to the point I would shelve other games just so I can focus on them, brilliant fun loving games.

So coming soon Lego Batman 2 and this time it brings in several new superheroes including Superman! cannot wait and last week saw the release of the first trailer.



Love the concept of Lex Luthor and the Joker joining forces and I can see it being a fun game to play but ...voice overs? ... really?? ... I actually like the games with out the voices so not sure what to think about this. Will hold judgement off until I get to play it since for all I know it could turn out awesome for the characters to have voices finally.

Anyway that was not the only news for Lego Games, last week Shopto.net posted up pre-orders for Lego Lord of the Rings on 3DS. Then tonight the Wii version just went up for pre-ordering as well, so really praying right now for the Xbox/PlayStation versions and a trailer to be up soon. It's going to be so awesome! Lego Ring Wraiths, Lego Hobbits...can see it having some funny cut scenes.

If anyone else knows more information about it give me a shout please, I'm all ears!
~Iznic

A Look Back

Morning folks,
Just posted last weeks results for my challenge and archived the last four weeks onto one post (link can be found on the Challenges page). Barely did 10% of the required gamer score last week but I was just out to have fun this time around, finally finished all of Kane's Challenges which was very tough on the Nods last level. I did think I was almost done with the game because I was sure there was only one achievement left for completing the game on hard mode but it seems I had two more achievements on top of that to work on.

Both where secret achievements but after checking out the on line achievement I've found that I missed two bonus missions, might give them a shot when but I think on hard mode it could be a pain so might redo the levels later on in a lesser difficulty.

So apart from that I also took part in the Mass Effect 3 community event on Sunday, basically needed to complete a Silver Reaper challenge to earn a nice special equipment pack on Tuesday. This pack gives one rare N7 weapon (random picked) which at this time is only in the singleplayer part of the game and through the collectors edition only as well. If the community also  killed 1,000,000 Brutes across the event another different pack will be awarded to everyone (even people who did not take part) granting some extra bonus items.

Found myself playing with a friend off Twitter for the first time, now when I say it was hard...well we started at 1pm (did have some breaks) and finally clocked the challenge at 10pm.

Brute

Mass Effect 3 multiplayer is basically Gears of War horde mode with a few random side quests thrown in like kill important targets before the timer is up. It's ten levels long with the eleventh level being a hold out for five minutes until extraction happens.

Starts off quite easy but at level four you start getting Brutes (See above) and then at level five you get Banshees. Those things give me nightmares, there horrible screams indicate they coming and then they can teleport around chasing after you. If they get to close they do a stab attack which basically picks you up and stab you in the heart which is pretty much 90% chance of instant death.

Most of the day we kept failing on level 5-9 but at the end we got grouped up with two awesome guys and finally did it, but the whole thing was insane! on the last level everything just spawned around us in large numbers. It was the most intense 5 minutes of my life, the countdown started and in front of us spawned three brutes, two banshee, ravagers, marauders argh!! too much.

I barely lasted the first two minutes, quickly revived a team mate and dodged back since I was being shot at while I was reviving for only to roll right into a brute. Next thing I know every one was down but luckily one of the random players that was part of the party had a medipack, revived himself and ran around the map for the last 20 seconds to finally get extracted. Thank god you only need one person to get extracted to win the mission because there was no way all of us would had made it.

Watching that mission success window appear was amazing though and did make up for all the failures. I cannot wait to see what the results are today for the rewards, hoping for the Shotgun or Pistol since I could not see the Assault Rifle on the list. Have to admit it was very challenging and I cannot imagine how bad Gold challenge will be, actually I can since Bioware released some stats yesterday for the multiplayer. Of all the successfully multiplayer matches less than 1% are done on Gold (check out VGI site for all the stats) which I can believe after doing silver, there is no real thought put in to make it challenging other then less spawn tons of things to overwhelm them.

Would had been awesome if they threw in some kind of giant boss that required team work to take down parts of it, or a cruiser comes over head and bombs the open areas every few minutes so have to dive into buildings before the timer is up. You know something just spice things up instead of that mess.

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 Anyway enough rambling and get back to the point, I did crap on the gamer score increase but then again it as been like that for a few weeks. This week I want to get some time in on some games so hopefully you will see some increase this week so watch this spot.

Week 9 - This week
Starting Total: 131,549
To Earn: 1,680
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,680

Total So Far -
To Earn: 11,691

Achieved: 5,270

Difference: -6,421

 

 Plans for this week? Mass Effect 3 and Uncharted Golden Abyss!! I really need to put more time into these two great games. Anyway that's it for this post so take care all and hope you had a great week of gaming last week.

~Iznic

Results: Weeks 5-8

Total So Far -
To Earn: 11,691

Achieved: 5,270

Difference: -6,421

Week 8
Starting Total: 131,384
To Earn: 1,645
Achieved: 165
Difference: -1,480

Week 7
Starting Total: 131,134
To Earn: 1,631
Achieved: 250
Difference: -1,381

Week 6
Starting Total: 130,839
To Earn: 1,582
Achieved: 295
Difference: -1,287

Week 5

Starting Total: 130,449

To Earn: 1,512

Achieved: 390

Difference: -1,122

 

Calendar man Event Tomorrow

Afternoon folks,
Just realised tomorrow is St Patrick's day and that means the next Calendar man event in Batman Arkham City. So don't forget to visit him in the cells under the court house to hear another wonderful bed time tale and of course one date out of the way towards the achievement/trophy.

For me it means I will be making a quick trip home to login before heading back for work, the things we do for achievements and trophies....well the things I do anyway. Of course I know I can change the dates/times on my console but I prefer to get it the legit way.

So no doubt I be seeing lots of people playing Batman tomorrow, until then have a good one!
~Iznic

Assassin's Creed 3 Details

Morning folks,
Just catching up on all the stuff I wanted to talk about on the blog and realised this morning that I never came back about the stuff announced for Assassin's Creed 3. Before go into anything if you not watched the announcement trailer then check it out below, if you have seen it well watch it again! its awesome.



This time around the game looks a lot more brutal in the way of fighting, check out that awesome kill move with the rifle under the soldiers chin. There as been talk that they have scrapped the combat engine and rebuilding it from scratch, should be interesting to see how that turns out because I did like the combat in the other games.

Did you also notice through out the trailer that he's always on the move, never stopping to get into a fight. I remember reading before the conference it was mentioned they wanted it to be like that and I can understand it since you could be in the middle of giant battle so you really don't want to stand still with bullets flying about.

Anyway check out this post on Xbox360achievements.org that as a huge list of details/information about what will be happening in the game.

Overall I cannot wait to play the new Assassin leaping through the trees, stalking patrols and maybe just maybe get some more answers finally.
~Iznic

Top 10 Platinum Trophies

Found the PlayStation blog last week very interesting when it posted up the top 10 platinum trophies that most people have.

1) Assassin's Creed 2
2) Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
3) Uncharted 2
4) God of War 3
5) Resident Evil 5
6) Infamous
7) Uncharted
8) God of War (HD Collection)
9) Borderlands
10) Sly Cooper (The Sly Collection)

I'm not surprised with Assassin's Creed 2 since its a pretty doable platinum, I am shocked with some of the others though. For me I have none of those games but there are several on there that I would like to finish off and get. Check out the link below for the post on the blog since it as some interesting trend information as well, like none of these have multiplayer trophies, all have 89%+ review scores etc

Personally I'm not a fan of multiplayer trophies/achievements since it puts a time scale on getting them, eventually people stop playing and servers get turned off.

What about you readers? how many on that list have you got?

~Iznic


Source: PlayStation Blog

Arcade Changes & Achievements/Trophies

In the week it was announced that the policy for the Xbox Live Arcade games gamer score cap will be increasing finally. In the past the game had to launch with a 200 gamer score, now it must launch with 400 gamer score and with DLC can go up to 800 with up to 62 achievements in total.

Sounds awesome to me and about time, the arcade achievements are always just a quick throw in at the end and now maybe we will see some thought put it in since they will have more room to play with. This new policy starts in April and all games from then on must abide from it, anything this month can still use the old policy if they wish.



Speaking of achievements what are your thoughts on the matter readers? do you love or hate them, same for trophies too. I know this is a big topic that keeps being used over and over but I never really get involved, personally I both love and hate the concept.

I love collecting, it's in my blood, only got to look around my room at the huge collection of games, books, movies etc to know that. Same for in some games as well, in World of Warcraft I collect mounts and pets. When Star Wars Galaxies was running I had a house full of rare items and turned into a museum of collectibles. So it's naturally I would be into achievements and trophies, it's nice to be able to show off what you have done in game. In fact thanks to achievements I swear I get more out of my games, in the past I would never play the other difficulty settings except normal or easy. I wouldn't bother with collecting the treasures or getting all the unlocks.

Also I'm more open to different games than before, if it wasn't for achievements I would have never tried Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires. The game was brilliant and from then on I've been playing and purchasing every single one since and the spin offs too. I do get quite a bit of lip from people saying I only play the easy games for achievements and that they don't count, they really don't think on how much time and effort that as to go into finishing those games. In fact some of those games I love to bits, Shrek 4ever after, Spiderwick Chronicles and Meet the Robinson's are brilliant games. You know when I found a game I love because I usually will make the time to play it both on the Xbox and PlayStation to get both achievements and trophies.

So at the start I did say I hated the concept as well and I do, I love collecting achievements and in a way I think my back log of games is due to that. In the past any major long games where put to the side for the sake of playing the quicker easier games, my other consoles that don't do a reward scheme are pushed aside. PSP, DS, 3DS, Wii and PC don't get as much time as they use to as well because I'm usually working on clocking a game on the Xbox or PS3. Maybe spending less time collecting trophies and achievements, more time gaming I would get a lot more done.


So my final thoughts on the matter? Overall I think they are good idea, you find yourself doing more in the game then you originally would, I find myself playing more different games and to have something to show what you done and be rewarded for it is great. But like everything in this world there is a downside, just need to make more time for the other platforms that don't do it achievements.

So give a shout with your thoughts I would love to hear from you, until then have a good one!
~Iznic

Battlefield 3 Close Quarters

Hello again folks,
Remember last week when I did all those posts and talked about Battlefield 3 expansions, well a trailer went up this week for the first one "Close Quarters".



How awesome looking is that? looks intense and I really could do with getting online ASAP to try out the online. Love how the walls and building pretty much comes apart around you, wonder if you can blast through the walls to make a short cut.

Think I really do need to get online soon, need more time!
~Iznic

Week Review

Morning folks,
Sorry for the lack of updates but there is a lot going on in my life and all I need to say is I work for GAME, says it all really. Anyway last week finally got my hands on Mass Effect 3 and my god it's brilliant, not played it non stop like I said I would since well it's the last game...I don't want it to end. Hearing a lot of bad talk about the ending so I'm not looking forward to seeing that as well, anyway I will be back on it later and yes I am writing the review as I play so expect to see that shortly after I finish the game.

Now onto some really good news, remember how I always talk about finishing online achievements? well I finally did it! completed all the online achievements last week for Command and Conquer Kanes Wrath. If you have been reading the blog for a while you will know I kept saying I would go online and do it but never did, finally got a mate to work on co-op with me so we nailed it in one night and now working on Red Alert 3. It's pretty sweet clocking some unfinished games finally, also talk of doing Portal 2 which would mean I be on the 900+ for that game. Cannot wait! might have another co-op buddy soon for Dynasty Warrior stuff as well, will have to wait and see.

Not much on the gamer score increase again this week sorry to say, seems to be a steady 200-400 each week instead of the need 1,500-1,700.

Week 8 - this week
Starting Total: 131,384
To Earn: 1,645
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,645


Week 7 - last week
Starting Total: 131,134
To Earn: 1,631
Achieved: 250
Difference: -1,381

Week 6
Starting Total: 130,839
To Earn: 1,582
Achieved: 295
Difference: -1,287

Week 5

Starting Total: 130,449

To Earn: 1,512

Achieved: 390

Difference: -1,122

 

Total So Far -
To Earn:10,046

Achieved:5,105

Difference: -4,941

 

 

So my plans for this week? well I will be working on Mass Effect 3 of course and I will be doing the co-op on Red Alert 3. I have started to get back into RTS games again so I have found myself enjoying Kane's Wrath so no doubt I be playing that too. Finally I could do with starting and finishing Captain America since it's a rental that I've been sitting on for the last two weeks!

 

Hope you all had a good week and have been enjoying some new games, catch you all later

~Iznic

Several Pokemon Events

Plenty of posts today since I'm trying to catch up for the week and this week of course seems to be announcement week as well. Since I'm still waiting for Mass Effect 3 to arrive in the post I might as well catch up while I got the chance, no doubt I will be distracted when the game arrives.

In the week there as been several new Pokemon put up for download so thought it be a good idea to group them all up into one post so easier to find.

Reshiram 
Game: Pokemon White
Date: 10th March - 8th April 2012
Editions: English - America, Europe & Australian, Non-English - Europe
Where: Wi-fi download
Details: Level 100 and holding the Dragon Gem, special moves Blue Flare, Fusion Flare, Mist & Draco Meteor

Zekrom
Game: Pokemon Black
Date: 10th March - 8th April 2012
Editions: English - America, Europe & Australian, Non-English - Europe
Where: Wi-fi download
Details: Level 100 and holding the Dragon Gem, special moves Bolt Strike, Fusion Bolt, Haze and Outrage

When these two Pokemon are sent to the global link they open up the special Pokemon Movie dream house and it will unlock the C-Gear for each Pokemon.

Lucario
Game: Pokemon Black & White
Date:  Ends 23rd May 2012
Editions: English - Europe & Australian
Where: Global Link
Details: English Password LUCAEUROGAMERNET, Spanish Password LUCAEUROGAMERES, Germany Password  LUCAEUROGAMERDE


Well that's it folks several new special Pokemon so make sure not to miss out, in fact I don't think I've downloaded them yet myself so better do that today.
~Iznic

Update (2nd April): My apologises, I did not realise I missed out a letter for the English password for Lucario. The password is now correctly typed and working, again sorry about that.

Battlefield 3 Expansions

It was announced in the week that Battlefield 3 will be getting three new expansions and you know what I felt sad about it, want to know why?

I've still not played online yet!!! I still cannot believe I've not been online with it yet after the fact Battlefield Bad Company 2 was pretty much my number one multiplayer game for ages and still is. Think this needs to be a kick up the ass for me to start playing and in fact I'm determined by the end of the week to have at least played one match. So enough with the ranting and time to talk about the new expansions that are upcoming.

First expansion will be "Close Quarters" (June 2012) where you will find yourself put to the challenge with no vehicles and levels that are designed to be tight and close up fighting. I'm expecting knifes and shotgun fun for this expansion, it's described that the environment will be exploding around you and debris piling up on the floor so sounds fun to me and can imagine grenades will be a pain in the ass. Also listed is new weapons, dogs tags and assignments.

Following that is "Armored Kill" so as you can guess its the opposite to the first one where you will be in the biggest map ever made for Battlefield (cannot wait to see that!). New maps, vehicles (tanks, ATV's, mobile artillery and more). I'm sensing this expansion could be my favourite of the lot but will have to give the game some time finally to see.

Last one as no details yet other then the fact its called "End Game" but it will be this winter so hopefully will get some details in a few months.

So what do you guys think? excited? I am for that Armored Kill expansion and hopefully in a few days you will see me posting that I've finally sat down and been online, anyway that's it for now so take care all!

~Iznic


Source: xbox360achievements.org

Medal of Honor Warfighter (Part Two)

Hello again folks,
Welcome to the second part of the Medal Honor post and why bother with a second part? well a teaser trailer appeared in the week for it so why not check it out below and see what you think.



Not sure what to think about it to be honest, does look action packed and could be a good story if done right. I really want it to be better then the last but still I do wonder if it will be just the same and I'm glad to see a lot of you felt the same with the last one.

Hopefully we will see some game play at E3 this year and it will be everything it should be, until then we can only hope!

~Iznic

Very Late Stats Update

Morning folks,
Sorry it's took me nearly a week to finally update last weeks stats but you know what it is like when you get busy, anyway enough excuses time for a chat. Since I'm waiting for Mass Effect 3 to arrive I thought I would start catching up with all my posts I wanted to do. Last week I did not earn much again but mostly because I started to work on Enchanted Arms (yes a JRPG!), I knew it would be a while before I earned any achievements due to the fact I've attempted this game twice already.

So I got up to the main city in the game which was a few hours off where I last played and it went south from there. What happened you ask? well I was barely surviving the fights after leaving the city, every fight I saw half of my party going down on the first turn. Then it hit my why I stopped last time I got really far and then could not progress since the enemies where too hard for my party, travelling back wasn't an option since the nearest heal point was ages away and my last save not in this region was over five hours back.

I realised it was the same thing going to happen all over again, so I took a look into a nice guide on Xbox360achievements.org and my god the game is a lot bigger then I first though. Everyone quotes around 20 hours and the game is very linear in the case it always points where you need to go. What I didn't realise is there is a ton of side stuff to help you and there are load of option quests on the side to explore temples to find some of the best golems for your party. The guide even explains that at the first city there is a casino (I walked right past) where it gives you tips to earn some quick money to use on getting some powerful golems from the local shop (missed them). Then it explains several important tips on levelling with what stats to aim on and the best parties to use to pretty much own the game.

So I stopped after reading that and decided I will be following this guide from now on but not right away, when I realised all this it was barely a week away for Mass Effect. I don't want to be half way through only shelf it when Mass Effect arrives so I will continue after instead. Lesson learnt though and that's to explore more in a RPG, you never know what you are missing.

Apart from that I did complete Sudoku on my phone and did another massive marathon of Gears of War 3 on Sunday with some friends, in fact we did another 1-50 sitting on horde insane. Clocked around five achievements worth 180g so it was a brilliant night to end the week with.


Week 7 - this week
Starting Total: 131,134
To Earn: 1,631
Achieved: 0
Difference: -1,631

Week 6
Starting Total: 130,839
To Earn: 1,582
Achieved: 295
Difference: -1,287

Week 5

Starting Total: 130,449

To Earn: 1,512

Achieved: 390

Difference: -1,122

 

Total So Far -
To Earn: 8,415

Achieved: 4,855

Difference: -3,560

Wow I am falling behind but in the end it cannot be helped unless I just work on easy games all year and even then there are not enough to cover it. I am working on some old games with some friends so hopefully now and again will see some boosts but in the end I'm not worried, it's all a bit of fun!

anyway that's it for now, catch you all later
~Iznic

Medal of Honor: Warfighter

This week wasn't just one new game being announced (AC3), oh no there as been plenty of stuff announced. Earlier on the week I was a little surprised to see Xbox360achievements.org talking about the new Medal of Honor.

I don't know what to think about this, you see I do love my shooting games mostly because I can just pick them up and play then quit when I feel like it. Plus the fact there is nothing massive to learn about them like an RPG for example, its simple point and shoot.

Of course I do like a shooter to have some kind of story to keep me entertained, now Medal of Honor world war 2 games do that. Call of Duty does that well, I know the characters, I know what's going on and I do feel like I'm part of the game. But with the latest Medal of Honor I could not connect with the any characters and my god was it short it as well. I remember finishing it (on hard as well) in a few hours and saying "that's it?", the only thing I can remember about the game is the great sniper level in the mountains and that's it. So as you can tell that game really was that good.... so not sure what to think about this new edition.

Maybe they learnt their lessons and made a jaw dropping brilliant shooter that could take on Call of Duty. Guess will have to wait and see for some trailers and more information, although they have confirmed there will be a lot more player choice this time around when involving missions so maybe it will make me feel part of the game this time around.


But until I see more I have plenty of doubts, what did you guys think of the last Medal of Honor? great game for you? or a massive disappointment?

~Iznic


P.S. Just read they will be adding a hardcore mode with a one hit kill system, ok now that sounds interesting but could turn out to be terrible if they do it wrong.

Assassin's Creed 3

It makes me laugh to read news sites and comments about the leaks this week and the confirmation that Assassin's Creed 3 will take part in the American Revolution. It was already talked about months ago in the survey that was done along with numerous hints in AC2 and Brotherhood but this week was the solid hint. 

*SPOILER ALERT*
Highlight the text to see the spoiler

Last week saw the release of the lost archive dlc and half way through there are several rooms you go through with memories of....yes you got it the American Revolution, could you get any more of a bigger hint than that?

*SPOILER OVER*

Anyway on with the point of this post and that is I cannot wait for the 30th October, check out the box cover just below. How cool does that look and Game Informer as posted up tons of information, this could be a huge contender against Mass Effect 3 for Game of the Year.

I be interested in how it play out since the lack of huge cities and buildings, its going to be quite a difference from the past series. Also add in the effect of more guns as well will probably mean a lot more stealth elements but then again this is just me guessing. Ubisoft have confirmed that tomorrow evening there will be some announcements and talks, maybe a trailer too?? I hope really hope so!

So fingers crossed for plenty of answers tomorrow so until then have a good one folks!
~Iznic