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.

Kingdom Hearts HD Pre-Order Bonus

It's been a while now since they announced there would be a HD collection for Kingdom Hearts. I've been looking forward to it since I never really gave the games a chance, I do have the first two and I think they still sealed on my shelf somewhere.

So yeah I'm finally determined to give them a chance with the HD collection, of course there is no 2 in this collection. It's the updated first one that never arrived in the West then the other two are in fact from the handheld so that will be interesting to see.

Anyway the other day it was finally announced that the west will be getting a pre-order bonus in the way of a artwork book, check out above to see two pages from the book. Looks pretty awesome and in fact I love the concept artwork in the announcement picture as well.

With the announcement of the bonus Square Enix also finally gave a release date of 13th September for Europe and 10th September for North America. So far Shopto.net is the only one taking orders in the UK but GAME did post on their twitter feed that orders will be up soon, no signs from any other retailer just yet.
~Iznic

PlayStation 4 Games

Morning folks,
To start this weeks posts off I thought I would do a little post about some of the upcoming games for the PlayStation 4 which was shown on the reveal day. I would give them a post each but in the end I found them to be a really short post. So let's start with the new puzzling game, the Witness which looks to be a PlayStation Network game.



I'm a huge fan of puzzle games and stuff like Professor Layton and Portal are up there on my favourite list. This looks fun and pretty addictive, not much to say about the game though since the only information released is that you are on abandon island. Talk about being vague with the story but oh well least the puzzles look fun and I love the idea you get to explore the island, so no doubt I will be getting this on day one.

The second up game is Diablo 3 which I want to say I'm shocked to see coming to the console market but at the same time I'm not. There have been rumours for a long time now about Blizzard releasing a game so it was bound to happen. I own the PC version and I do have to say I do enjoy playing the game even though I'm not that far into it. Problem is the game had massive trouble at the start with online issues (needs constant Internet connection), graphics and lag issues. It kind put me off and I've not been back since, I do keep saying I need to go back and play but you know how it is.



I have my fingers crossed that the console version will have a lot less problems then it's PC counterpart. The game is huge and the maps are randomised so you might be exploring different dungeons each time you load up the same area. Plus plenty of loot to be add and I've heard now they done a huge levelling system after you finishing with plenty of extra hard bosses to fight.

Anyway next up is a new IP from Capcom called Deep Down, fantasy action adventure game that really does shown off the new graphics on the PlayStation 4.



Here is the thing though about this trailer, was that gameplay? because if you pay attention to the bottom left you will see a item menu select there. Of course this would not be the first time a fake ingame trailer is put together that looks amazing but turns out like nothing like the real product, but one can hope.

So on that note lets end the post with the Final Fantasy tech demo which looks beautiful and I really hope they will turn into a game.
~Iznic