Summer Heat

Well it's finally cooled down in the UK today and less of a heatwave compared to the last few days. Since I'm no longer suffering I thought it would be a good time to do a update for the blog and to remind you I'm still alive.

So onwards to my gaming progress which is not a lot to report about this week, did a few levels of Company of Heroes 2. So far I'm really enjoying it but I don't feel the spark like I did with the first game, although the current mission I'm playing right now has opened more gameplay features so my mind might be changed soon.

Other then that I have put a few more hours into XCOM for the PS3, working my way through so far but man I'm struggling trying to keep one of my team all way through every mission I play. Started with four candidates and now I'm down to two, plus I'm not even close to half way through the game yet.

Final game I've been playing is Defense Grid the tower defence game on the Xbox Live Arcade, yes it was a free game for several weeks but I had purchased it years ago (just never got around to playing it). I have to say it's one of the best tower defence games I've played in a long time, really stuck into it and I'm about three to four levels to go from completing the story. I probably will go back and work on getting gold medals for every level but right now I'm just making my progress through the game.

That is it for my gaming progress, not a lot really but I have been busy and my spare time that I do have has been taken up trying to stay cold during the heat. My action plan for this week is, well ... I don't know really. I guess work on these games some more and see if I can clock something, I need to continue with Phantasy Star as well. I was really doing well with that but I stopped some time last week half way through a level, really should get back onto that before I forget the controls and need to start over.

Could do with some Warcraft time as well since I've got a brand new time card sitting on my desk waiting to be used, no doubt I've lost some items that I had in my mail. Really need to be a bit more organised with that. Actually speaking of Warcraft I wanted to talk about the new figurine sets and micro transactions that was announced this week.

This awesome figurine has turned up at Comic con this year and I really want it, I know from the size this thing will cost a small fortune but it would be so worth it. For those who don't play Warcraft this is Deathwing one of my the main bad guys in the lore, anyway I'm looking forward to seeing the painted outcome. Also announced was the first line of new micro transactions for the game, cosmetic armour helmets.

I like all of them but the Eternal Winter looks the best in my books, although they do look awesome the cost is not. £10 each is a ridiculous price for what you getting, it is cool that every character you own and any future ones you make will get this item. It's just hard to imagine paying £30 for all three which is the cost of the expansion at full price on day of launch. I really do wonder how many people have forked out the money for these items.

Anyway on that note let's change the topic to one more announcement before I end this post and that's a new game has been announced, well sort of anyway. Angry Birds Star Wars is finally coming to the consoles, took long enough to port it over. I'm really excited because it was announced that the PlayStation Vita will be getting it as well, this will be perfect for the Vita touch screen. Plus it's finally another game to get on the Vita but of course there is a bad side to this announcement. Europe release date is the 1st November 2013, yeah they launching it on the same day as Assassin's Creed 4 and Battlefield 4. Plus a few days after is Call of Duty Ghosts and any time around there the next-generation consoles. What a bad time to release a casual game like that, you would think they would aim for September/October or even wait until January/February next year. I would had got it on day one but since of the time it's going onto the wait list for now.


That's it folks for today so thanks for taking the time to read my thoughts, have a good one and I will catch up with you soon.
~Iznic

Time Flies

The saying time flies when you having fun is very true, plus when you not having fun as well. Hello all and sorry for the delay in posts recently but I've been a little busy. Anyway I thought I would get a quick post in before I need to start rushing around to get ready for work.

So where to begin, well I've bought the Last of Us but really not got that far into it, to be honest I really want to play it but I had a few games I wanted to get sorted before I started to get stuck in with it. For example I had Bioshock Infinite from Lovefilm for the last month (maybe more) and I was about half way through when the Last of Us came out. So over the weekend I spent two evenings playing it and I'm now happy to say it's finished.

Not got the 1,000 gamerscore on it but I can do that another time, right now I just want to finish the stories on most of my games. Anyway Bioshock is a brilliant game! opening is good the middle was a bit dull and could had done with some work but the ending made up for it. It was one of those that left you stunned with the information you just learnt, I won't spoil it but give the game a try.

Anyway so yeah that was one of my games out of the way, the second was Saints Row the Third. It's been on my list to play since the start of the year so I did say to myself that over the summer that I would work on it since there is really nothing coming out. Well Sony decided to throw the game into the PlayStation Plus free games for next month, kicking myself for buying it now. But the version I did pick up was the complete package with all the DLC, so I decided to get all the DLC done before I traded it in (I can complete the main game another day now). That was done on Sunday so I'm doing pretty well with my goals, the last one I've got now is to get the last trophy in Ratchet and Clank QForce which is a proper grind.

I will be working on that on the side while I'm playing The Last of Us this week. Finally going to give it the time it deserves now but the only problem is that Company of Heroes 2 is launching today, doh!. Going to have to split my time for both games since there is no way I can let that sit there on my shelf waiting for a week or two.

On that note I need to go and sort myself out ready for work, it was good catching up with you folks and I promise to try and get another post in the next day or two. Really could do with finishing off the E3 posts lol.
~Iznic

P.S. Really should not have made that promise since I've got two great games to play which no doubt will keep me busy

Pre-Order Bonuses

Morning folks,
Thought I would start with a post that I've been meaning to do for a while and I was unsure how to write, see a few games have been given a few pre-order bonus items when you place your order. Originally I was going to do them as separate posts but then they would be really sort, so thought why not do just one big post listing everything. So let's start with Call of Duty: Ghosts and if you remember from my earlier post if you put a order with GAME you would get a gun skin for Black Ops 2 (See my post here). Well they now also giving away a giant poster with the skin as well, similar to the past games this is a double sided A1 poster.

Side A

Side B

So I'm doing pretty well with my posters this month since I've had a Diablo 3 one with my pre-order and now a Call of Duty one. Anyway that's the COD pre-order out of the way so let's go to it's rival Battlefield with it's latest game Battlefield 4. This offer is not being advertised too well since I only stumbled across it by accident and again it's a GAME exclusive offer in the UK. If you pre-order the Premium edition you get a set of Battlefield dog tags plus some bonus in-game content. Now the reason why this is not being fully advertised everywhere is because one there is no information on wht the in-game bonus content is and two no information on what you get in the premium edition as well. Of course I'm going to guess the Premium Edition will be like the Tier One for Medal of Honor or the Physical Warfare Pack for Battlefield 3 so we talking early access to multiplayer weapons, bonus weapons and maybe a DLC pack. Anyway this pre-order bonus so far is only on the website so don't miss out if you into your knick knacks.

Image belongs to GAME.co.uk

Finally coming to the end of the post and I'm ending it with Company of Heroes 2 for the PC, I've been a bit worried about this game since it was made by THQ and with the studio falling apart it left many questions if this game would be released. Well SEGA bought the rights and finally they have updated with a release date of 25th June which is great but the GAME exclusive Limited Edition as been cancelled. In it's place they are now offering a pre-order bonus of a single player mission set with some bonus items for the Multiplayer.

Which to be honest looks like all the stuff from the Limited Edition anyway so it's all good again. So that's it folks for this post and yes I know it was all about GAME today but they seem to be doing well with their pre-order bonuses. For those outside the UK then I would recommend checking out your local retailers to see what they offering.
~Iznic