Rumour: Xbox One Games

It wouldn't be E3 without rumours going around before or in fact leaks of upcoming announcements. Last night it was posted around what could be the line up for the Xbox One console, don't take it as fact though folks since it could be a fake. No Kinect titles are listed and this is Microsoft we talking about so we should be expecting at least two-three. Also the image of the Halo game logo just looks wrong, so right now I'm 50% thinking this could be a fake but if it wasn't though then my god Microsoft could be on a winner here. Check out the list below...

• Halo 5
• Killer Instinct
• Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty Land
• Forza Motorsport 5
• Quantum Break
• Halo: Spartan Assault
• Ryse
• Fable IV
• Crackdown 3
• Fortnite
• Dead Rising 3
• Call of Duty: Ghosts
• Battlefield 4
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Dying Light
• Prey 2
• Homefront 2
• Beyond Good & Evil 2
• Mirror's Edge 2
• Rainbow 6: Patriots
• Brother in Arms: Furious Four
• League of Legends

So big names to talk about we have Crackdown 3 which is one of my favourite open world games ever, if they make it as much fun as the last two then my god I need an Xbox One to play it. You then got of course Halo 5 which needs to be really good after 4 being a little of a let down. Halo Spartan is in fact meant to be revealed today, not sure if it's a game or the TV series but people are saying it will be all cleared up today.

Fable 4 I'm not shocked about but I am looking forward to seeing a new one since I loved 2, 3 was brilliant as well except the ending war terrible. Hopefully they can bring back the magic and end the next one good. The thing on that list that jumps out to me is League of Legends, my god if that comes to consoles it would be awesome.

As I said though this is all rumours so not going to get excited until E3, there was a list of Capcom games announced as well. Dead Rising 3 is meant to be a Xbox One exclusive but PlayStation 4 gets Dragons Dogma 2, I think I will need both consoles at this rate. Check out the xbox360achievements.org post about this rumour, they have a lot more information plus the Neogaf source where this list appeared.

Less then a week to go for E3
~Iznic

God of War Ascension Collectors Edition Unboxing

Thought it would be a good idea to get another unboxing post up, this one has been on the cards for the last few weeks now. This is the God of War Ascension Collector's Edition, it contained the steel book special edition plus the extra season pass and Kratos figurine.

The box was just simple cardboard design with the golden dark shadow effect that's been used for the theme through out the advertisement campaign of the game. On the one side you could see the front cover of the steel book and the other side shows the figurine it self.

As you can see in the top picture there was some assemble required when it came to the Kratos figurine, both arms needed to be attached. I was bit disappointed with the figurine it self due to the fact the plastic was quite cheap, the figure was painted nice and the detail was good. What was really annoying though was the arms had to be slotted onto pegs to be attached and who ever did the design cut the peg shape wrong on the one arm. It took me nearly thirty minutes to finally get the arm on and I had to use a knife to cut the shape inside better. This was a huge mistake on their part and when you forking £80 out for a edition like this, this should not be happening.

Another thing you will notice is that on the head is a red dot where a bit of paint was splashed, I've ignored it and counted it as blood but overall I really expected better quality control. Least it still looks good on my shelf with the rest of my collection. So other then the figurine in the box was the special edition which was a steelbook case with several DLC included (plus the season pass for the collectors edition). In the way of the DLC it was all multiplayer bonuses and the soundtrack, so lets skip over that and talk about the steel book.

Steel book Cover and Slipcase

The outside is just black with the God of War symbol and a slip case cover for protection, the inside though had some amazing artwork. It features two warriors from the multiplayer mode and I loved the work gone into the drawing, I would preferred this on the cover to be honest.

Steelbook artwork

Overall it was an ok Collectors edition but I really did not feel like I got my money out of it, a lot of the bonus DLC was multiplayer in the ways of XP boosting. The season pass content has not gone live yet, well I don't think it as but there is no options on the menu to find out in the game. Guessing I have to complete the multiplayer tutorial to find out. Anyway I'm getting off topic, nice steel book and the figurine was just ok but could had been a lot better. Not the best collectors edition out there and if I was given a choice then I probably would had just picked up the special edition instead. So that is it for my short unboxing today folks, I will find a much nicer collectors edition to talk about next time but until then have a good one.
~Iznic

Summer Begins

Afternoon folks,
Well the summer has begun and it's been nearly two weeks since I've done anything really on my blog. Sorry about that folks but I thought I had only missed last week but checking back I let the side down on the week before as well.

It's been quite busy here and I've had a lot of my plate, any free time I had spare I decided to use for gaming of course. Anyway I'm off for the week now so time to chill, have a few days out and maybe get some gaming in as well. In fact I just got back from the Last of Us lock in in my local GAME store and I got to say I am shocked and amazed on how great this game is.

The demo I played is an extended version of the God of War demo that had just gone live on Friday. So starting off I was given a run down of the information I need to play through with, first up I had only four bullets and told not to expect to find many either. Nice start and I feel really weak now, next up yes I have shiv type knife for stealth kills but be careful it can break after use. Dang I was not expecting to be this defenceless, good news there is a crafting system so through the game you can search for items to use to make useful stuff. So for example scissors, tape, cloth etc can all help to make med kits, knifes, hell there is batteries to power your torch. At one point I combined a plank of wood with scissors using some tape to make a pick club.

I will say this now do not expect to run through blasting away and full on attack, the horrible mutants are blind but can hear noise. Soon as you start shooting they know where you are plus it takes some good head shots to kill them, if they get close it's over. The game is about strategy, using stealth and cunning to get through the level. For example they blind but can hear noise, later on in the demo I got a Molotov cocktail so I had no regrets throwing it on the floor to watch the mutant charge over to the noise only to set it self on fire while I move past quickly. I even got into a one versus three brawl mid way through the game after killing a mutant with an headshot because they heard the gun go off.

The game is brilliant and hard if you not thinking about what you doing but my god folks I would recommend this game to anyone after playing this short demo. I really cannot wait for 14th June now so I can start getting into it.

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So other then going to play the lock in I have finally finished Lego Lord of the Rings on the PlayStation 3 last week, clocked the platinum trophy on Sunday I think it was. Very happy to finally finish it and get it sent back to Lovefilm and since then I have been working on Ratchet and Clank Qforce which is a tower defence game. It's quite short with only five levels so I finished the story this afternoon and now just moping up the missing trophies.

I've currently not really got any plans for this weeks gaming other then just play what I feel like, found it quite hard to be honest to get into anything. Got plenty to finish up and plenty to start as well, just need to find something that will take my interest. Well anyway that's it for now folks because I want to go play some games, have a good one and I will try to get a few more posts up later.
~Iznic

Call of Duty Ghosts Full Trailer

At the end of the Xbox One conference we finally got to see the full trailer of Call of Duty Ghosts, well actually we saw behind the scenes video, the announcement trailer and a comparison video with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3.

What amazed me was how negative everyone was on the Internet about it, seriously folks it's a first person shooter what are you expecting from it? because from what I see they taking some massive positive steps forward. Right time for the trailers so the first is the announcement trailer for the game.



Now below is the behind the scenes and the comparision video with Ghosts vs. Modern Warefare 3.






As I said I really don't know what people are expecting if they hating this, the graphics are taking a massive leap forward and looking amazing. The new environment A.I is brilliant and yet people was taking the piss out of the fish reacting to players, think about it folks a environment that reacts to you. If you scare those fish it could cause bubbles and alert npcs on the surface, scare animals in the jungle can attract attention to you.

Multiplayer was another issue everyone had but yet we getting fully customisation characters finally, least now you will be able to tell who is who from a distance. The environment effecting the maps is a great new feature, the map can change at any time thanks to natural disasters like earthquakes or the players themselves. In the clip you see what looks like a lumber truck having the lumber fall off, great trap right there but that could block a path but also at the same time could be used to climb up to a new area.

Everything I saw was a positive step forward in my books and I'm looking forward to playing the game, also getting a ally dog is brilliant. You might make fun but think about it, it could sniff out traps in the game and if you got open areas that could be brilliant. You exploring a jungle or abandon buildings he could warn you of bombs that are rigged up nearby. Don't jump to conclusions yet because I think we have a winner right here and hopefully E3 will show some gameplay to back it up with.
~Iznic

Xbox One Announcement

So it was finally announced last night and confirmed that the next generation console for Microsoft would be the Xbox One. Why a name like that? well it seemed I did call it and it's an all in one entertainment unit and not just a video game console. Below is the replay video from Gamespot.com so if you not seen the conference then check it out, if you have jump over the video to see my thoughts.



This is the second attempt to write this post because I'm finding it hard to write my thoughts for this console. When I first saw it I was really impressed with the look of the controller, it looked comfortable and brought all the great stuff from the Xbox 360 one. The console itself though looked just ok, one giant beast of a machine but as long as it does its job then I don't mind.

So it comes with 8GB ram, great that means it can cope at least then you got 500gb hard drive. Liking the extra space because I'm getting close to hitting my 250gb xbox 360 one. Then we finally have Blu-Ray player, hooray for taking a step forward. Then it went down hill after that, I think Microsoft forgot that the Xbox should really be a video game console first. Instead we spent a good part of an hour listening to all the TV features that it can do, don't get me wrong i love the snap feature if it can be used for gaming as well. I would love to open the Internet Explorer mid game so I can check out a collectible guide or a guide what Ingredients I need to make a potion. 

But how great that could be they never did once mention it about being used with gaming, if I did miss that please comment at one point in the conference it was so I can re watch it. It really got to me how they skipped over all the gaming stuff, Xbox Live was barely talked about. A lot of us want to know what the new features are, it's great to know we can transfer are profile over but will it be permanent. If I transfer over am I stuck there for good because I want to be able to continue to turn my Xbox 360 on with my profile since the new Xbox One is not compatible with Xbox 360 games.

A lot of people was shocked they could not play their old games, I'm more shocked you did not see that coming since the Xbox One hardware is a massive step forward over the Xbox 360. To run the old games they would have to put more stuff in to get them to play, so to sum it up more money would have to be spent so the cost would rise up. Don't get me wrong I feel your pain because I would love to play all my games on one machine.

Anyway back to the poin at hand, Microsoft paid way too much attention to the TV part and the worst part is after the conference ended it was announced the Live TV would only work for America on launch day. Nice one Microsoft because it's not like the rest of the world was watching today.

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I walked away not impressed with the console and the amount of conflicting interviews yesterday is just making it worse, everything from it can run pre-owned to having to pay extra to play co-op. Microsoft really need to step up and do some damage control, answer a lot of the questions because right now they making Sony look angels at this point. If I had to decide on a console right now this minute I would say none, don't get me wrong the PlayStation 4 sounds a lot better right now over the Xbox One but that's the problem, the console was never shown off working. It was all this is what we want, this is what we doing so it was concept stuff so I'm waiting to actually see the thing running all their the stuff they promised first.

In around 18-19 days is E3 so hopefully we will see more and a lot more games to make buying these consoles worth it. Too many so called next generation games are going to come out on current generation meaning that the next generation versions are just ports with slightly improved graphics etc. Not really worth the extra £10 price tag and really not worth forking out £400+ on the console to play them when the console sitting under your TV right now can play them.

So that's my thoughts folks, like everyone else on the Internet I was not impressed with the conference and I just hope E3 is better then I hope because right now I'm worried that won't have this great show. For now though I'm going to sit on the fence and wait to see what they do with the next generation.
~Iznic

P.S. Kinect 2 having to be plugged in all the time, what the hell was they thinking! I hope it takes less space because I could not get it working properly in my living room.

PlayStation 4 Teaser Trailer

You all know this would happen yesterday and to be honest I had bets that it would happen today but oh well. Sony has officially posted a quick teaser trailer showing of a blurred version of the new PlayStation 4. At the end the data shows that the full reveal will be at E3 so make sure to be there.



It's causing quite a stir and it will be interesting to see how Microsoft will top it today with the new Xbox, but anyway back to the PlayStation trailer. Well looking at the blurred image and the quick clips shown it reminds me a lot of the PlayStation 3 slim model. What do you guys think? anyway there quite a few sites that have slowed the trailer down to show off each image but to be honest you not going to get the full picture. Just one more reason why this years E3 will be epic.

~Iznic

Batman Arkham Origins Trailer

Well it was finally put up yesterday, the first official full trailer for the new Batman Arkham game and I got to say it looks awesome. Yes I know it's just a CGI trailer but it as potential so check out below if you not see it yet, if you have then skip below to the rest of the post.



So interesting things, well if you Pre-order you get to play as Deathstroke but I think that is just like the past Robin for Batman Arkham City. Just a challenge map player and not actually in the game like Catwoman, it would be a stupid thing to put a full ingame character to play has for a pre-order bonus.

Anyway the story looks good and you get a glimpse of Deadshot again and of course Black mask is taking a bigger role this time. I be interested to see if some of those moved will be in the game that you see during the fight, especially at the start with Batman coming out from the under floor to do a take down. Guess time will tell and mostly likely find out at E3 which I'm hoping for a gameplay trailer this year. Pre-orders have started and most companies are offering the Deathstroke bonus so start ordering so you don't miss out.
~Iznic

Going to be a busy one

Morning folks,
Currently waiting on my PlayStation 3 to finish installing Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, seriously forgot how terrible the load/install times can be. Reason I'm doing this is so I can redeem all the codes in my Anthology edition, spent the morning so far doing it for all different games since I keep putting it off and knowing my luck the codes will expire. Anyway while that is sorting out I thought it be a good idea to get a blog post up, especially with the fact my weekend was crazy and nothing was posted up. Plus this week will be a busy one since we have the Batman trailer going up today and of course the huge Xbox Reveal tomorrow.

Not sure how I'm watching the reveal tomorrow but I will be Twittering either way about my thoughts, then my plan is to copy all the Tweets onto a blog post to put up here. This is going to be test practise since this is what I was planning for E3, should be interesting to see how this will turn out.

So other then being excited to see what is revealed tomorrow I think it's time to update about my gaming adventures so far. Well in the multiplayer area I've got up to level 39 on Tomb Raider so getting close, of course it's taking more XP each level so it is dragging a little. Really cannot wait to hit level 60 so I can just focus on the kill achievements. On Gears of War Judgment I clocked the 10 wins on Team Deathmatchs in the week and now working on the 10 wins for OverRun, after that it just levelling up and working on the 100 kills for each Locust which will probably be a huge pain in the ass.

I did do some Call of Duty Black Ops 2 multiplayer this week, mostly because I redeemed my COD Ghosts weapon skins and wanted to see what they look like. Not bad to be honest just black with the white skull but the nice touch is the code gives the skin for every weapon in the game, thought it was just for the one gun so really happy about that. Had a few matches and laughs, in fact came top in my team on the one match which was shocking. I did plan to do some Battlefield 3 as well but Skyrim took over and well it was nearly midnight when I finished.

I bought a house in the game (cheer) and then took on another random Dragon who nearly had me, ok that's a lie the entire fight was not my best. So need to restock on health potions and find a better way to fight a Dragon because I struggle. Oh yeah I was in Windhelm and ran into a Orphan girl, as I walking past her I overheard her say that no one bought her flowers again.

Now folks when I heard you could have a family in Skyrim with the new patch I wasn't fussed about it, in fact I planned not too because my thoughts was "what is the point". I had a family in Fable and it just annoyed me, plus I love having the great warrior with no ties background. Anyway back to the Orphan story, so I over heard her saying she had not sold anything. Yeah who ever said that gamers are heartless and that video games cause violence have no clue because I had to turn around and talk to her. I thought buy a few flowers from her and help her to be nice (dang my good nature!), well I got the fully background history from instead. Both her folks are dead and she now selling flowers to buy food so she can survive.

Good lord my heart broke! damn myself for being nice and getting into stories too much. So I tried to adopt her but at the time I had not bought my house yet since I was still 600 gold short. Hearing her voice sound happy at the chance to be adopted then go sad when I don't have a house yet so I couldn't adopt her. Well as you can imagine I charged out to get more gold, of course I was so determined that ran right into a Dragon (the one I mentioned earlier) and was nearly a BBQ. Next time I load the game I will be adopting her, well I think I need to sort the house out first so she can stay there but that is the plan.

So that my friends is why I love games! because the story can really suck you in.

~Iznic

P.S. My plans for the week? other then watching a ton of new stuff being announced I will be working on my multiplayer games again, cleaning up lego Lord of the Rings and of course Skyrim.

This Weeks Posts (12th May - 18th May)

Week Three - Sunday 18th May to Saturday 18th May

Sunday
Lots to Play - All about my gaming sessions from the week before plus the plans for this week, also videos from the OXM Minecraft Birthday Party.

Monday
Pre-Order Bonuses - GAME Exclusive pre-order bonuses are covered in this post for COD: Ghosts, Battlefield 4 and Company of Heroes 2.
The Minecraft Journal: Entry One - The first post in my new Minecraft blog series that covers my adventures in the Xbox version of Minecraft.

Tuesday
Start of the Week - Another general post covering my gaming advantages for the week so far, also covers my thoughts on the FUSE Demo and the plans for the rest of the upcoming week.
Free Gears of War Judgement Map - Free new map for Gears of War Judgement goes live, covers the details and shows it off with the new trailer.

Wednesday
Phoenix Wright 5 Coming to the West - Capcom confirms that Phoenix Wright 5 is coming to Europe and America finally, narrows the release date down and releases a trailer as well.
Wolfenstein: The New Order - New Wolfenstein game is in the works and to be released at the end of the year, teaser trailer is live and screenshots.

Thursday
No Posts

Friday
The weekend is here - Last general post for the week and covers my gaming sessions for the end of the week, also talks about Terraria and Farcry 3 Blood Dragon briefly. Small update is also given on my 2 for 1 challenge from the start of the year.
Batman: Arkham Origins Teaser - New teaser trailer has gone live for Batman Arkham Origins showing Batman and Deathstroke fighting, full trailer to be released next Monday.
More Gears of War Judgement DLC Incoming - Confirmed that the next DLC pack is coming June for the game, new maps, new mode and plenty of skins.

Saturday
No Posts

More Gears of War Judgment DLC Incoming

EPIC have announced on their community forums that a new multiplayer DLC pack will be released in June. The Pack will be titled "Lost Relics" and with it comes a new mode, several maps and skins. In the way of maps Checkout is returning which was one of my favourite maps in Gears of War 3, not much has been said about the three new maps but they did say they will release details very soon. What we do know is they are called the following "Lost City", "Museum" and "Ward" plus the fact the last one is for OverRun mode only.

Hopefully there be some interesting maps to play because the selection right now is not very huge but I am happy they returning some of my favourites. Oh yeah they did give some information on the new mode to play, it's title Breakthrough and basically it reminds me of Rush from Battlefield. Two teams with one defending and one attacking. The attacks must carry a flag to a set objective and have a limited spawn number for their team to work with, while the defenders have unlimited resources to stop them with.

Could be fun in theory but we will see, not a big fan of the new mode that took over for Horde (OverRun) since of the unbalanced issues with it. Besides there was nothing wrong with Horde and was one of the main reasons I loved Gears of War so much, such a shame they didn't keep it.

Anyway hopefully over the next few weeks more details and probably trailers will be released to show off this new DLC pack.
~Iznic

Batman: Arkham Origins Teaser

How to start this post off? well how about this...


Excited now? I know it's quite a short teaser trailer but you got to be a little excited about it. The video went up yesterday and it was just to tease that the full trailer will be launching on the 20th May. Interesting date to put it up since the Xbox reveal is the next day and then a week or two later is E3, really cannot understand why they putting it up early. Guess we will have to wait and see but either way October cannot come quick enough!
~Iznic

The weekend is here

Morning folks,
So Friday came around quickly and so I thought it be a good time to get a post before the weekend started off. In the ways of gaming I've not really done much with Skyrim this week since last Monday, I did kill my first random Dragon which was awesome but I really could do with picking up some more potions though. Hoping to get some time back in over the weekend and next week to try and sort an hour or two a day dedicated to the game.

Mostly this week I've been working on Lego Lord of the Rings in the ways of collecting all the red bricks I need to 100% the story levels. Doing alright so far but still got quite a lot of collectibles to find so it's still a long way off from the Platinum trophy. Also this week I've still been playing the multiplayer for Tomb Raider and Gears of War Judgement, clocked another four achievements in Gears and working on levelling up slowly. Might jump on the special event this weekend and play on the VIP list to get double experience points. Tomb Raider I've hit level 35 out of the 60 I need and slowly going up but taking it's time, might try and have a small session over the weekend and see how close I can get to 60.

Plans for next week will still be the same and that's continue with these four games for now, not adding a new game until one of them is finished. Oh that does remind me and yes I am still playing Minecraft but I need to get a journal post up about it. I will try and get that up in a second, sorry about the delay but it completely slipped my mind.

Speaking of Minecraft did you see the release of Terraria on consoles a month ago? I had ago at the trial and really unsure what to make of it. It's like a 2D minecraft but with a lot more action in the ways of more monsters, boss fights and lots of stuff to collect (e.g. armour sets).



Has I said I was really unsure what to make of it and I did play the trial, I will admit I was getting confused very quickly. Might have to try it again because it looks to be an awesome game and right up my street. If anyone has played it drop a comment on the post since I would love to hear some user reviews about it.

Now since I've seemed to have jumped the topic over to arcade games and trials I might as well stick with this topic for a little longer. I did download the Farcry 3 Blood Dragon trial to see what all the fuss is about. Yeah it's a very retro 80's scifi game and I got to say I love the old style cut scenes and dialogue for the game. Once I've clocked a few games I will be picking it up, I was going too but I know I wouldn't play it straight away since I'm working on a ton of things.

Ok I think that is it for ramblings in this post and I will leave you readers be for a bit, but before I do there is one last note I need to make. If you read my blog you know I've forgotten all about my two for one challenge I was working on a few months back. I did realise in a post a few weeks back and said I will sort it out, well I am going to it's just I need some more time to sit down and to update the list. Plus I need to work out what I've bought in the last few months so that will take a bit of time as well. Keeps your eyes open and I will put up a general post once I've updated it so until then have a good one folks.
~Iznic

Wolfenstein: The New Order

I was a big fan of the very original Wolfenstein game and was even a fan of the Return to Castle Wolfenstein (had a copy on both PC and PS2). Never really gave the latest one a try or though I did hear it wasn't too bad but of course too much came out at the same time so it never had a chance. Anyway seems Bethesda announced a new game in the series and looks to be changing quite a few things.



It's been confirmed for Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 with next-generation consoles listed as well for Q4 this year. From all sounds of it this will be a reboot of the series in some ways and I am interested in the altered history story. The good news since the announcement that it will be singleplayer only which made me very happy, not every game needs multi player and I'm glad all focus will be on making a great singleplayer.

Before I end this post check out Xbox360achievement.org since they have two posts showing off some awesome images from the game, first one is here and the second one here. I will be waiting to see gameplay footage before I start to take a massive interest.
~Iznic

Phoenix Wright 5 Coming to the West

This news made my day the other night when Capcom finally confirmed the newest Phoenix Wright will be coming to North America and Europe. The Ace Attorney series on the DS are brilliant and I would buy a DS just to play them, although I will hang my head in shame since I still need to finish the third one in the series Trials and Tribulations plus the fourth one I never started Apollo Justice. Not to mention the spin off series as well around Miles Edgeworth. So yeah I better dig them out and start playing them to see how the story ends ready for this one, check out the trailer below for the teaser.



So far Capcom have confirmed it will launch some time in Autumn and that it will only be digitally released. Unsure about that since Nintendo in the past sucked when it came to downloads, no transfers and if you console went faulty you had to re buy the games on your new one. I have heard things have changed since then but still left a bitter taste though. But Phoenix Wright is amazing so I will be buying it anyway no matter if it is a digital release.

Seriously cannot wait to play this! I did tell you guys we will be seeing quite a few new games this year. Of course I was not expecting to see this though, this is just the icing on top of the cake for me and in 3D as well! oh man I'm too hyper now.
~Iznic


P.S. What would be amazing if they confirmed the release of the crossover game with Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton for the west, dream come true!

Free Gears of War Judgement Map

From today for the next two weeks you can download the new map Dreadnaught for free, another MAXIM sponsored map like Haven from the launch day. This map is for the OverRun mode and after the two weeks will cost 160 Microsoft Points so if you miss out don't worry too much. Below is the official trailer for it and the background story if into learning a bit of history.



"In the months immediately following Emergence Day, the COG managed to capture some Locust Berserkers. Thinking that a ship at sea would be safe from an underground enemy, the COG decided to transport their prize to a secure research facility via the CNV Pomeroy. Little did they know that the Locust had waterborne beasts from the underground rivers of the Hollow, or that the Locust soldiers would use them so relentlessly to rescue the captured Berserkers. The Pomeroy was corralled into a narrow channel and forced ashore, where the Locust sent a mass of troops to assault and overwhelm the beached vessel."

Just added mine to my download que and will be giving it a blast tomorrow as work towards my ten wins on OverRun achievement. 
~Iznic



Source: CVG

Start of the Week

Morning folks,
I've had a blast over the weekend and got plenty of gaming in, in fact I finally caught up with where I was on my first playthrough on Skyrim (not hard really) and now surpassed it. In fact I encountered my first random Dragon as well which was bit difficulty since I was designing my character to be full on melee plus I had not used a bow yet so that was interesting.

Anyway I'm loving it and I cannot believe how big the game is, I've been walking around for hours searching and exploring. In fact I just stopped following the main story to go off and find different ores so I can upgrade my weapons and armour. I can see myself losing hundreds of hours to this game over the next few months but god it's worth it.

So other then that I have been playing Minecraft but I will cover that part in my Minecraft Journal posts, I've also finished the story levels on Lego Lord of the Rings. Now got to start doing the collectibles part which is probably the longest section of any Lego game. I picked up the X2 multiplier and now got to save up for the x4, so this is the boring part and that's working on saving up money until I've got the first few multipliers to help me. I will be working on that this week and fingers crossed that I will be able to get all the stuff I need so I can adventure out and 100% this game.

Hmmm what else, oh yeah I tried out the FUSE demo and believe it or not I was not impressed at all. Shocking to say how much I enjoyed watching the trailers and it looked right up my street but no I found the demo to be basic and annoying. You can play all four characters and switch between them mid game but there is no information what type of classes they are (if they have any) so it's trial and error. The effect weapons are well boring, you can see the black holes or spikes happen but honestly it's like watching a grenade go off. Once you since it once in game you really don't care, in fact the game felt very arcade style with the points from each kill flashing up.

A.I sucks since your team mates will barely pick you up and they didn't bother on the mini boss level, thank god you can switch characters so you can revive them yourselves. Also the bad guys have the run to you rule so expect them to charge at you a lot of the time, bosses too! as I said it was basic and boring. Try it out for yourselves you might like since every ones taste is different but I'm taking it off my want list which is good thing with how much I need to save up this year.

Other then the demo I have been putting a few more minutes into my multiplayer games again, in fact I clocked level 31 in Tomb Raider. It's going slowly but I'm getting to that 60 marker plus I'm spending all my salvage to buy the extra upgrades and characters. Same goes for Gears of War Judgement and I'm now level 20 and clocked quite a few of the starting multiplayer achievements, working on the 10 wins for each mode right now which is a lot of fun.

So my goals this week I will be still working on Tomb Raider and Gears of War multiplayer, I could do with getting some Battlefield 3 time in this week since I've only played a few matches. Continue Lego Lord of the Rings and of course Skyrim. There you go folks my plans for the week and I hope you having fun yourselves, on this note though I'm going to shoot since I need to get ready for work.
~Iznic

The Minecraft Journal: Entry One

Well I had a blast yesterday on Minecraft yesterday and I got to say I've got quite a few ideas I want to work on now. I spent a few hours playing multiplayer with a mate on survival although we only got to build a small house with a fort wall around it, spent way too long dealing with creepers and had a few heart attacks with spiders.

Did get time to check out his world and my god does it give OXM a run for their money, mage towers, castles, huge houses, arenas, giant creepers and a giant Iron Man. It's amazing what you can do with the new creative mode and it's left me thinking about a lot new projects I want to work on. Thing is though I love creative mode but I like Peaceful more, I find it more rewarding having to find all the materials myself and having to make them or mine them. Of course this does limit you with what you got in the world and increase the time a lot to the point huge projects are near impossible.
Also some materials have to be harvested off monsters so survival will needed to be switched on as well, so yeah there are few issues but I still enjoy it none the less.

Last night I started up my Peaceful world, not sure yet what I'm going to build but I don't want there to be plans just log in and build. I did start making a small house to start with so I will get some pictures up later but it's nothing special, I just need a base of operations.

I do want to have several worlds on the go alongside my peaceful one, thinking a survival map and of course a creative map. Although I did have two projects I wanted to work on the week and only one that jumps out to me. Thinking a map that is taken up by a giant castle, I'm talking hundreds of rooms, corridors, towers and walkways. I want it to be huge and when you walk inside you get lost in a giant labyrinth. This could be my fourth map if I ever start it so yeah I've got plenty I want to do.

That's it for this post folks and yes I know it's short but I wanted only to do a quick introduction to my Minecraft Journal posts. I will be doing these Journal entries as I work on my projects and yes I will add pictures so you can see my progress on them as well, I might even open the world up to allow others come visit. Anyway until next time have a good one and hope you enjoying Minecraft!
~Iznic

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

Lots to Play

Afternoon folks,
Been one of those weird weeks this week so I'm happy to say I'm off for a few days now, time to chill and game of course!

So let's talk about my gaming last week and what I want to do this week, well my plans for Lego Lord of the Rings did not go to plan like I had hoped but it's not too bad. After my post last week saying I really need to work on this game I realised I've had the disc for nearly a month, well since I'm renting it this does increase the cost the longer I have it (still cheaper then buying it though). Anyway so my plan was to complete two of the story levels each day since the game as three movies with six levels, I had already done a few levels so with this plan I should had clocked the Fellowship of the Ring by the end of the week and nearly done the Two Towers. Then my plan was to have a long session on one of my days off to finish the story off, then that leaves the hard part of doing all the collecting which I could work on next week.

Of course things went wrong so yesterday I finally finished the Fellowship and today the Two Towers with the Return of the King still waiting to be played. Hopefully after writing this post I can get the last six levels done but I do have some gaming plans later. But good news is least I'm working on the game and made some progress.

So that's my one game I'm playing but my main game is Skyrim which yes I'm still playing, I'm like one quest hand in from catching up from when I first played it. Really enjoying the game but I am spending way too much time having to make trips back to the vendors to sell my loot that I keep gathering. I cleared out a mine the other day which had a bandit camp in, should be around a ten minute job to clear it out but I had to do four trips back and forth to sell everything I looted.

Having a great laugh with it anyway and again I'm hoping to get a small session in today, I really want to get the next quest done which will mean I've gotten up to where I was last time. But the reason I keep saying I hope to do things is because I have plans to play Minecraft with a mate later.

I want to start up a community map and make it a regular thing again, I had a lot of fun when the game came out with mates so I want to get it up again. Especially with it being the 1st Birthday for the Xbox version, I even have two projects I want to build on the side as well which I will talk about another day. Speaking of the Minecraft Birthday check out the video below for the Official Xbox Magazine server party, they have a dedicated xbox switched on most days with a map that's been running for a year. This video shows off the first part of the other night where they celebrated by building awesome stuff and of course doing a tour of the world they got. I love all the amazing projects that people have built and how they made a city to link them altogether, I want to do something like that.



Well I'm going to call it for now folks since I really want to get some gaming in before I jump into my marathon multiplayer session, so have a good one and I will try to get another post or two up tomorrow morning.
~Iznic

This Weeks Posts (5th May - 12th May)

Week Two - Sunday 5th May to Saturday 12th May

Sunday
No Posts

Monday
Sunny Day - My thoughts on my gaming sessions over the weekend with the pain in the ass Hitman 2, talk about the Unfinished Swan and PC Skyrim mod's again.
Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm Collectors Edition Unboxing - Brand new unboxing post dedicated to the PC expansion Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm.

Tuesday
No Posts

Wednesday
Beyond: Two Souls Special Edition - More details have appeared for what you get in the special edition
Deoxys Pokemon Event Update - The Pokemon event is live and the full details have been announced
Plenty of Games - General blog post updating with what I've been playing and what I hope to achieve/play in the next week.

Thursday
Plants Vs Zombies 2 Coming Soon - Teaser trailer is up and narrows down the release window 

Friday
Rome 2: Total War Release Date & Collectors Edition - Full details of the new collectors edition for the new total war game and the release date has been confirmed by Sega.
Kingdom Hearts HD Pre-Order Bonus - Square Enix have announced a pre-order bonus for the HD collection along with the release date for the west finally.


Saturday
No Posts