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
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Monday, 13 May 2013
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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| Image belongs to GAME.co.uk |
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
Sunday, 12 May 2013
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
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
Friday, 10 May 2013
Rome 2: Total War Release Date & Collectors Edition
Well it seems September is now starting to fill up with new releases as well, with Kingdom Hearts being added to that time slot the other day we now have the new Total War joining it.
I love the Total War series mostly because I love to start up a Skirmish map with several thousands troop on the screen and duke it out. I really could do with trying out the singleplayer story more but that's for my to do list. Anyway the release date was announced as the 3rd September and will be a world release so that's pretty sweet. Also if you watched the trailer you will also see that for pre-ordering you get the first DLC pack for free.
The Greek States pack offer three factions to play with their own units, buildings, tech tree, missions and win conditions. I would love to play the Sparta but I think everyone would since how much attention they have had in the movies and tv shows.
Big that got me was the announcement of a collectors edition, normally the games come with a Limited edition that will offer extra DLC. Sometimes they do come in a nice looking box case and then with Shogun 2 we had a chess set which was ok, mine was broken when it arrived so I was never able to keep it.
This time they have gone to town with it and the collectors edition is also numbered with only 22,000 being made worldwide.
In the UK this is exclusive to GAME and can be picked up for £109.99, just put my order down for one last night as soon as they started. So what do you get in this great edition? well a nice giant box that looks stunning with the Roman eagle. Steelbook case for the game which looks so nice, my steelbook collection is getting some nice additions this year. Also since they putting a number on each edition it will be done in Roman Numerals, the little details always gets me.
You get a working catapult kit to put together, meant to be around the 26cm mark so it's not a small thing. Canvas campaign map from the game as well and finally two games to play as well. First a Punic wars card game in a total war style art work and a set of replica Roman dice and roundels which the collectors box can be opened to make the playing board for. No idea how to play these two games but I cannot wait to give them a try.
I'm very impressed with SEGA and this collectors edition, they have really out done themselves with it and although the price tag is quite high it makes sense with what you getting inside. Especially when you normally have to fork out £35 for a board game these days. So yeah I've got my order in and I cannot wait to play it.
~Iznic
I love the Total War series mostly because I love to start up a Skirmish map with several thousands troop on the screen and duke it out. I really could do with trying out the singleplayer story more but that's for my to do list. Anyway the release date was announced as the 3rd September and will be a world release so that's pretty sweet. Also if you watched the trailer you will also see that for pre-ordering you get the first DLC pack for free.
The Greek States pack offer three factions to play with their own units, buildings, tech tree, missions and win conditions. I would love to play the Sparta but I think everyone would since how much attention they have had in the movies and tv shows.
Big that got me was the announcement of a collectors edition, normally the games come with a Limited edition that will offer extra DLC. Sometimes they do come in a nice looking box case and then with Shogun 2 we had a chess set which was ok, mine was broken when it arrived so I was never able to keep it.
This time they have gone to town with it and the collectors edition is also numbered with only 22,000 being made worldwide.
You get a working catapult kit to put together, meant to be around the 26cm mark so it's not a small thing. Canvas campaign map from the game as well and finally two games to play as well. First a Punic wars card game in a total war style art work and a set of replica Roman dice and roundels which the collectors box can be opened to make the playing board for. No idea how to play these two games but I cannot wait to give them a try.
I'm very impressed with SEGA and this collectors edition, they have really out done themselves with it and although the price tag is quite high it makes sense with what you getting inside. Especially when you normally have to fork out £35 for a board game these days. So yeah I've got my order in and I cannot wait to play it.
~Iznic
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
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
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Plants Vs Zombies 2 Coming Soon
This is what I mean about having a upcoming games page so I can remember what is coming out, I had completely forgot about this being announced last year. Anyway time to celebrate since it was over Twitter that the sequel is still in the works and will be released this July! just in time for my Birthday. Popcap sure knows what to get me for a present and I cannot wait.
There is a small teaser trailer but it's just a lot of famous gamers asking for the sequel then the logo and date appearing at the end, so not really that much of a teaser. Hopefully we will see some game footage and information around the E3 time, anyway I will leave you with the weird trailer to watch for the time being.
So cannot to see what the new game is going to be like, new plants and zombies, wonder if they will change the game mechanics or stick with what they got just with new features.
Damn them I'm excited now to play this!
~Iznic
P.S. Really hope they do another Vita version because it really works on it
There is a small teaser trailer but it's just a lot of famous gamers asking for the sequel then the logo and date appearing at the end, so not really that much of a teaser. Hopefully we will see some game footage and information around the E3 time, anyway I will leave you with the weird trailer to watch for the time being.
So cannot to see what the new game is going to be like, new plants and zombies, wonder if they will change the game mechanics or stick with what they got just with new features.
Damn them I'm excited now to play this!
~Iznic
P.S. Really hope they do another Vita version because it really works on it
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Beyond: Two Souls Special Edition
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| Steelbook |
- Extra in-game scene
- Avatar pack
- Soundtrack
- Dynamic Theme
- Making of feature
I'm betting the soundtrack will be awesome for this game and not sure what to think about the extra in-game scene. This is not the type of game I had expect to have extra stuff added to it so I'm wondering how good this extra gameplay will be. Plus the steelbook is really putting me off getting it, seriously how can you make it so boring. Anyway a few retailers have started taking orders so if you are interested in getting it then make sure to pre-order since the rumour is this will be really limited.
I've put my order down just in case but still unsure, the steelbook is really putting me off it.
~Iznic
Deoxys Pokemon Event Update
Morning folks,
If you remember a week or two ago I did a post about a upcoming download event for Pokemon where you get Deoxys. Well it went live yesterday and I nearly forgot, anyway serebii reminded me and put up some more details about it.
First up it's for the English games of Pokemon White 2 and Black 2 only, the event will end on the 31st May. Just connect your console up to the wi-fi and download it through the mystery gift system like normal.
The Deoxys is level 100 and holds the life orb plus it comes with the following four moves:
Nasty Plot
Dark Pulse
Recover
Psycho Boost
Sounds like an awesome addition to any ones team so yeah make sure not to miss out and keep an eye on serebii for any more future events. I will post about any that do appear but Serebii is the best place for all things Pokemon.
~Iznic
My Original Post
Source: Serebii.net
If you remember a week or two ago I did a post about a upcoming download event for Pokemon where you get Deoxys. Well it went live yesterday and I nearly forgot, anyway serebii reminded me and put up some more details about it.
The Deoxys is level 100 and holds the life orb plus it comes with the following four moves:
Nasty Plot
Dark Pulse
Recover
Psycho Boost
Sounds like an awesome addition to any ones team so yeah make sure not to miss out and keep an eye on serebii for any more future events. I will post about any that do appear but Serebii is the best place for all things Pokemon.
~Iznic
My Original Post
Source: Serebii.net
Plenty of Games
Morning folks,
I've got plenty of gaming time in this week so far and yes I did start Skyrim the other day, not got very far into it yet since I need to dedicate more time to it but I am enjoying it so far. I will do a more detailed update about it once I've got further into it and put a few hours in. Skyrim though is not the only game I'm currently playing, I do have few projects I'm working on is the best way to describe it. Of course I'm trying to get a level done here and there for Lego Lord of the Rings since it's currently my latest rental.
I've also been playing the multiplayer for Tomb Raider and Gears of War Judgement, slowly grinding out the achievements that I am missing. It's a mixture of ranked matches and private (especially Tomb Raider since I'm getting zero exp and people keep quiting mid match), slowly getting their but I am enjoying myself. Starting to like the new Gears of War finally but I do miss the old horde mode, this new survival mode as nothing on it.
Other then that I have been putting a few minutes into Warcraft each day since the faire is in town, once a month the Darkmoon Faire appears for one week. There are daily quests where you playing fun rides to earn tickets to buy cool prizes, anyway with the latest patch they updated it so you now have a chance to win a prize on each ride (pets, trinkets etc.). Plus they added a new rare boss to fight on the island, the white rabbit! takes a huge team to kill it so hopefully I will be lucky and get to fight it once it's spawned.
Although I have been getting plenty of game time in there are a few games I wanted to play and disappointed with myself for not giving them the time of day. For example my time card as run out for Star Wars Old Republic, barely got a few hours out of it so I let it change over to the free-to-play option. I wanted to try out a different class before the time runs out but never got around to it, I know I still can it's just there is lot of restrictions for the free-to-play stuff.
Second game would have to be Defiance, I was really getting into last week and not been back since. I need to put some time into it because there as been two events so far and I'm missing out on the cool rewards for taking part. Might try and get a session started tonight, fingers crossed anyway on that. So yeah as I said I've got lots I want to play and oh nearly forgot I was meant to be working on Minecraft as well, built a small house and I've finally started expanding it. I wanted to give it a blast since tomorrow is the one year birthday for the Xbox release, in fact there is mean't to be a birthday skin pack going up for free tomorrow to celebrate with.
Well that's it really for me, I've got plenty to play so I will be busy the next few weeks and on this note I'm going to end this post so I can work on the other posts I've got planned. So have a good one folks and I will catch you later.
~Iznic
P.S. I forgot about my two for one challenge and only just realised about it while I was working on my new "Upcoming Games" page. I will try and get the stats updated soon so I can see where I stand.
I've got plenty of gaming time in this week so far and yes I did start Skyrim the other day, not got very far into it yet since I need to dedicate more time to it but I am enjoying it so far. I will do a more detailed update about it once I've got further into it and put a few hours in. Skyrim though is not the only game I'm currently playing, I do have few projects I'm working on is the best way to describe it. Of course I'm trying to get a level done here and there for Lego Lord of the Rings since it's currently my latest rental.
I've also been playing the multiplayer for Tomb Raider and Gears of War Judgement, slowly grinding out the achievements that I am missing. It's a mixture of ranked matches and private (especially Tomb Raider since I'm getting zero exp and people keep quiting mid match), slowly getting their but I am enjoying myself. Starting to like the new Gears of War finally but I do miss the old horde mode, this new survival mode as nothing on it.
Other then that I have been putting a few minutes into Warcraft each day since the faire is in town, once a month the Darkmoon Faire appears for one week. There are daily quests where you playing fun rides to earn tickets to buy cool prizes, anyway with the latest patch they updated it so you now have a chance to win a prize on each ride (pets, trinkets etc.). Plus they added a new rare boss to fight on the island, the white rabbit! takes a huge team to kill it so hopefully I will be lucky and get to fight it once it's spawned.
Although I have been getting plenty of game time in there are a few games I wanted to play and disappointed with myself for not giving them the time of day. For example my time card as run out for Star Wars Old Republic, barely got a few hours out of it so I let it change over to the free-to-play option. I wanted to try out a different class before the time runs out but never got around to it, I know I still can it's just there is lot of restrictions for the free-to-play stuff.
Second game would have to be Defiance, I was really getting into last week and not been back since. I need to put some time into it because there as been two events so far and I'm missing out on the cool rewards for taking part. Might try and get a session started tonight, fingers crossed anyway on that. So yeah as I said I've got lots I want to play and oh nearly forgot I was meant to be working on Minecraft as well, built a small house and I've finally started expanding it. I wanted to give it a blast since tomorrow is the one year birthday for the Xbox release, in fact there is mean't to be a birthday skin pack going up for free tomorrow to celebrate with.
Well that's it really for me, I've got plenty to play so I will be busy the next few weeks and on this note I'm going to end this post so I can work on the other posts I've got planned. So have a good one folks and I will catch you later.
~Iznic
P.S. I forgot about my two for one challenge and only just realised about it while I was working on my new "Upcoming Games" page. I will try and get the stats updated soon so I can see where I stand.
Monday, 6 May 2013
Sunny Day
Afternoon folks,
It's a wonderful day right now and the Sun is out with no clouds, so of course I'm planning to spend the day inside gaming. Well I'm not sure what I will be playing to be honest and I better explain that, as you all know if you read my blog regularly that I've been working on the Hitman HD collection for the PS3. I started last week working on Hitman 2 Silent Assassin and had some real bad luck with glitches and bugs, after nearly two hours I was able to get the first mission done.
Well since then I did get the first missions down with a lot less restarting and I was able to nab the 5 Silent Assassin ratings trophies. So the other day I got up to level 13 and then, well it was like running into a wall. It hurt and smacked me down, no matter what I did I some how had to restart because of a glitch. Buttons not responding, freezing or the weird A.I going crazy and able to spot me through walls. Anyway after an hour I finally clocked it and went onto level 14 then just gave up, why you ask? after my tenth restart I just couldn't do it no more. The game is slowly putting me off gaming for good, I know games need to be hard and especially when I'm playing on Professional difficulty. But when you got glitches and bugs it really does not help, it's worse since on Professional you get no saves so if something happens you have to do the entire level over again.
Hell I had it several times say "Mission Failed" soon as the level loaded up, not even had chance to move my character. So the game is being shelved for the time being before I brake my pad in anger and give up on gaming.
Of course that means I have no clue what to play now, I did pick up the Unfinished Swan on the PlayStation this weekend since it was half price off. A beautiful game I must say and I would recommend it to everyone, it's short but amazing. First person shooter except instead of guns you have paint, you start in a white room and I mean white. It's blank there is nothing there but fire the paint and you can start to see the walls, you use the paint to find your way outside and my god it's just amazing. Here is a gameplay trailer for the first opening trailer and it explains it better then I can describe it, the only thing I have noticed is this is an earlier gameplay so it's missing the soundtrack in most places.
All the levels have different art styles and tools to work your way through them, it's all about exploring and finding out the story of the world. It took me around three hours to get all the trophies in the game so I would say an hour to two to finish the story. Short but brilliant and just go buy it while it's cheap.
I think I might have a game to play, well that's a lie I have a pile of shame to play but I think I know what I want to play. You see yesterday someone on Twitter posted up a link for a new mod for the PC version of Skyrim. This mod basically changes the dragons in the game to be a lot tougher, we talking graphics, A.I and skills improvement. The article is over on PC Gamer and the writer describes in a lot of detail about his journey with the Mod and I got to say I had chuckle hearing about his mistakes. Check it out if you got a minute or two since it's a very good read, PC Gamer Mod of the Week.
It's one of the reasons I would love to play the PC more since there are a lot of fans out there that build and improve the game with their own mods. Of course my PC gaming time as decreased a lot since I've got into the consoles more, a lot more easier to play games by just putting the disc into the tray where with a PC you have to install and hope your PC can run it. Anyway I'm getting off topic again so yeah, I really want to play Skyrim since well I never really gave it the time of day that it deserves. In fact I own two copies of the game (Xbox and PS3) and I'm sure I have all the DLC on the Xbox as well since they went into the sale at one point.
So this week I might just jump into Skyrim finally, I do still have Lego Lord of the Rings from Lovefilm to work on as well so I can work on that when I want a break. That's it anyway folks for my update and I will no doubt catch you soon with more posts, until then have a good one and enjoy the sun.
~Iznic
It's a wonderful day right now and the Sun is out with no clouds, so of course I'm planning to spend the day inside gaming. Well I'm not sure what I will be playing to be honest and I better explain that, as you all know if you read my blog regularly that I've been working on the Hitman HD collection for the PS3. I started last week working on Hitman 2 Silent Assassin and had some real bad luck with glitches and bugs, after nearly two hours I was able to get the first mission done.
Well since then I did get the first missions down with a lot less restarting and I was able to nab the 5 Silent Assassin ratings trophies. So the other day I got up to level 13 and then, well it was like running into a wall. It hurt and smacked me down, no matter what I did I some how had to restart because of a glitch. Buttons not responding, freezing or the weird A.I going crazy and able to spot me through walls. Anyway after an hour I finally clocked it and went onto level 14 then just gave up, why you ask? after my tenth restart I just couldn't do it no more. The game is slowly putting me off gaming for good, I know games need to be hard and especially when I'm playing on Professional difficulty. But when you got glitches and bugs it really does not help, it's worse since on Professional you get no saves so if something happens you have to do the entire level over again.
Hell I had it several times say "Mission Failed" soon as the level loaded up, not even had chance to move my character. So the game is being shelved for the time being before I brake my pad in anger and give up on gaming.
Of course that means I have no clue what to play now, I did pick up the Unfinished Swan on the PlayStation this weekend since it was half price off. A beautiful game I must say and I would recommend it to everyone, it's short but amazing. First person shooter except instead of guns you have paint, you start in a white room and I mean white. It's blank there is nothing there but fire the paint and you can start to see the walls, you use the paint to find your way outside and my god it's just amazing. Here is a gameplay trailer for the first opening trailer and it explains it better then I can describe it, the only thing I have noticed is this is an earlier gameplay so it's missing the soundtrack in most places.
All the levels have different art styles and tools to work your way through them, it's all about exploring and finding out the story of the world. It took me around three hours to get all the trophies in the game so I would say an hour to two to finish the story. Short but brilliant and just go buy it while it's cheap.
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I think I might have a game to play, well that's a lie I have a pile of shame to play but I think I know what I want to play. You see yesterday someone on Twitter posted up a link for a new mod for the PC version of Skyrim. This mod basically changes the dragons in the game to be a lot tougher, we talking graphics, A.I and skills improvement. The article is over on PC Gamer and the writer describes in a lot of detail about his journey with the Mod and I got to say I had chuckle hearing about his mistakes. Check it out if you got a minute or two since it's a very good read, PC Gamer Mod of the Week.
It's one of the reasons I would love to play the PC more since there are a lot of fans out there that build and improve the game with their own mods. Of course my PC gaming time as decreased a lot since I've got into the consoles more, a lot more easier to play games by just putting the disc into the tray where with a PC you have to install and hope your PC can run it. Anyway I'm getting off topic again so yeah, I really want to play Skyrim since well I never really gave it the time of day that it deserves. In fact I own two copies of the game (Xbox and PS3) and I'm sure I have all the DLC on the Xbox as well since they went into the sale at one point.
So this week I might just jump into Skyrim finally, I do still have Lego Lord of the Rings from Lovefilm to work on as well so I can work on that when I want a break. That's it anyway folks for my update and I will no doubt catch you soon with more posts, until then have a good one and enjoy the sun.
~Iznic
Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm Collectors Edition Unboxing
Morning folks,
I did have planned to post up the unboxing for the Assassin's Creed 3 Freedom Edition but I cannot find the photos I took anywhere. So instead I've got next week's unboxing instead, say hello to the Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm Collectors Edition.
I love how much effort Blizzard put into their collector editions and this is one of my favourites, as you can see from the picture the box is designed like one of the security doors and opens up like one. The box is high quality cardboard and the scratch marks and dented in to give it that feel like the Zerg have attacked it.
As you can see the top part slips off and everything is slotted in, there is a holding area at the bottom so there is no loose items rattling about to get damaged. Like I said Blizzard go to town on everything they do and nothing feels cheap, it's made to last. So anyway onto what you get inside the box, well first up you get a nice artwork mouse mat (see below) and the soundtrack. Also you get a copy of the game of course, behind the scenes making off disc which for the first time comes on both DVD and Blu-ray. Not many collectors edition have Blu-ray discs for the behind the scene stuff, it's just showing how much the times are changing.
There is also quite a bit of in-game DLC included, most of the Blizzard stuff come with in-game items plus items for their other games as well. So for the Starcraft game you get three exclusive Portraits for your profile (zerg, zerg night elf and zerg pandarian). You also get a new skin for one of the units in the game, the Torrasque Ultralisk which can be seen below.
Looks awesome in the game but anyway that's what you get for Starcraft, for World of Warcraft you get a new in-game pet the Zerg Baneling to follow you around and to join in the pet battles with. For Diablo 3 you get the Queen of Blades wings for you character and a banner with Zerg logos and portraits.
So that's it for the extra DLC items and there is just one more item left to talk about and that is of course the awesome artwork book. Like I keep saying Blizzard go to town and this artwork book is not one of those small A5 paperback books that are only ten pages long. It's A4 hardback and around 140+ pages. Take a look below at the cover and yes the book is grooved so each spine and spike stands out. Every collectors edition so far done by Blizzard comes with one of these amazing artwork books and you can a few hours going through them easily. Check out below of two photos from the book to give you an idea on how nice the artwork is.
So that's it folks for this unboxing and I do hope you enjoyed it, hopefully by next week I will find my missing photos and put up the Assassin's Creed 3 unboxing. If not I can also just retake them again but anyway on that note have a good one and I hope you enjoyed this post.
~Iznic
I did have planned to post up the unboxing for the Assassin's Creed 3 Freedom Edition but I cannot find the photos I took anywhere. So instead I've got next week's unboxing instead, say hello to the Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm Collectors Edition.
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| Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm Collectors Edition |
There is also quite a bit of in-game DLC included, most of the Blizzard stuff come with in-game items plus items for their other games as well. So for the Starcraft game you get three exclusive Portraits for your profile (zerg, zerg night elf and zerg pandarian). You also get a new skin for one of the units in the game, the Torrasque Ultralisk which can be seen below.
Looks awesome in the game but anyway that's what you get for Starcraft, for World of Warcraft you get a new in-game pet the Zerg Baneling to follow you around and to join in the pet battles with. For Diablo 3 you get the Queen of Blades wings for you character and a banner with Zerg logos and portraits.So that's it for the extra DLC items and there is just one more item left to talk about and that is of course the awesome artwork book. Like I keep saying Blizzard go to town and this artwork book is not one of those small A5 paperback books that are only ten pages long. It's A4 hardback and around 140+ pages. Take a look below at the cover and yes the book is grooved so each spine and spike stands out. Every collectors edition so far done by Blizzard comes with one of these amazing artwork books and you can a few hours going through them easily. Check out below of two photos from the book to give you an idea on how nice the artwork is.
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| Artbook |
So that's it folks for this unboxing and I do hope you enjoyed it, hopefully by next week I will find my missing photos and put up the Assassin's Creed 3 unboxing. If not I can also just retake them again but anyway on that note have a good one and I hope you enjoyed this post.
~Iznic
Sunday, 5 May 2013
This Weeks Posts (28th April - 4th May)
Welcome to the first weekly round up post for my blog, every week on a Sunday I will post up a full list of links with a mini description of the post for those who missed out. A week for me starts on a Sunday (work got me into this habit) and ends on a Saturday.
SUNDAY
Weekend Update - What I've been playing for the week before along with my plans for the upcoming week, plus Call of Duty Ghosts Rumours are about again.
MONDAY
PlayStation 4 Games - My thoughts on three of the upcoming titles for the PlayStation 4 (Diablo 3, The Witness and Deep Down) along with the tech demo for Final Fantasy.
BEYOND: Two Souls - New trailer appears giving more story information for this amazing upcoming game, plus a release date is finally announced for it.
TUESDAY
Watch_Dogs - Lots of new information is release so quite a long post with new trailers and the full details for all the special editions and collector editions.
WEDNESDAY
Midweek and Start of the Month - Update on my gaming progress over the week and start of the week, the nightmare that is Hitman 2 Silent Assassin.
Call of Duty: Ghosts - The game is finally confirmed after weeks of leaks/rumours and a teaser trailer is up along with a date for the full announcement.
THURSDAY
FUSE Trailers - New game coming out at the end of the month gets my attention with lots of amazing trailers.
Future Plans - Another general blog post for the week covering Diablo 3 for the PS3, Last of Us trailers for the specials editions and my plans for the future of the blog.
FRIDAY
No Posts
SATURDAY
Gears of War Judgement Limited Unboxing - Brand new unboxing blog post is finally up and covers the GAME UK exclusive limited edition.
Week One - Sunday 28th April to Saturday 4th May
SUNDAY
Weekend Update - What I've been playing for the week before along with my plans for the upcoming week, plus Call of Duty Ghosts Rumours are about again.
MONDAY
PlayStation 4 Games - My thoughts on three of the upcoming titles for the PlayStation 4 (Diablo 3, The Witness and Deep Down) along with the tech demo for Final Fantasy.
BEYOND: Two Souls - New trailer appears giving more story information for this amazing upcoming game, plus a release date is finally announced for it.
TUESDAY
Watch_Dogs - Lots of new information is release so quite a long post with new trailers and the full details for all the special editions and collector editions.
WEDNESDAY
Midweek and Start of the Month - Update on my gaming progress over the week and start of the week, the nightmare that is Hitman 2 Silent Assassin.
Call of Duty: Ghosts - The game is finally confirmed after weeks of leaks/rumours and a teaser trailer is up along with a date for the full announcement.
THURSDAY
FUSE Trailers - New game coming out at the end of the month gets my attention with lots of amazing trailers.
Future Plans - Another general blog post for the week covering Diablo 3 for the PS3, Last of Us trailers for the specials editions and my plans for the future of the blog.
FRIDAY
No Posts
SATURDAY
Gears of War Judgement Limited Unboxing - Brand new unboxing blog post is finally up and covers the GAME UK exclusive limited edition.
Saturday, 4 May 2013
Gears of War Judgement Limited Edition Unboxing
Morning folks,
Thought I would start the weekend off with a small unboxing post and what better then the GAME UK exclusive Gears of War Judgement Limited Edition.
This was just a copy of the game with a exclusive steelbook plus some extra DLC for the multiplayer. The packaging was just an outer cardboard sleeve that wrapped around the standard box and the steelbook. The DLC that was included was the "Classic Hammerburst" and the "Emergence Era Marcus" character skin (also known as the Young Marcus), both are multiplayer items. Also included was a code for the original Gears of War game since that was a day one offer for everyone who purchased the game.
As I said there was a copy of the standard game, the steelbook was one of the nicer ones with Baird being arrested on the one side and then on the back the Locust attacking the city. Inside the steelbook was a picture of the city with the COG flag burning.
So that's it folks for the Limited edition of this game, it was not exactly a huge collectors edition but still a nice steelbook none the less. Shame the game did not go full out like Gears of War 3 with the Epic Edition. Anyway until next time have a good one folks and take care.
~Iznic
Thought I would start the weekend off with a small unboxing post and what better then the GAME UK exclusive Gears of War Judgement Limited Edition.
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| Gears of War Judgement Limited Edition (GAME UK Exclusive) |
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| Standard game and Steelbook |
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| Inside artwork |
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| Outside artwork |
~Iznic
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Future Plans
Good morning readers,
Hope you enjoyed watching the FUSE trailers in this mornings post and that I might have persuaded you to get another game, if not oh well there is always next time. So I have quite a few things I wanted to talk about today which is unusal for me since I only normally do a general blog post once a week and this will be the third one.
Anyway first up pre-orders have started on Diablo 3 and not for the PlayStation 4 but in fact for the PlayStation 3. I honestly could not remember the announcement about this and was a little shocked, anyway I've put my order in mostly because GAME is offering a pre-order bonus. You get a in-game "Infernal Helm" which offers bonus xp when it's equipped and a giant poster (see below) which is doubled sided.
I love my poster collection so it was a must have for me so my pre-order is down, hopefully a few friends will pick it up as well so I can get a team together for a laugh or two. Speaking of upcoming games Sony posted up two trailers showing the unboxing of the Last of Us UK special editions, the Joel and Ellie editions. They are both exactly the same just focusing on one of the main characters, personally I've got my order down for the Ellie edition.
I was a bit uncertain about the canvas wrap box but after seeing it there I've changed my mind, it looks pretty sweet and perfect for this type of game. Also very happy to see the awesome poster is included as well, I've seen a couple of them in stores for display purposes and they look awesome.
So that's for gaming news the last thing I want to talk about is the main topic title for this post and that for future things I want to do for the blog. I'm thinking about doing a round up post each week which will list all the posts I've done for the week with links to them. Of course if there are no posts for the week there won't be a round up post.
Another plan as to do with yesterday when I was on shopto.net website, I cannot remember for the love of life why I was on there but I was searching for a game that was coming out. Anyway as I was searching I was shocked on how many games I found that are coming out that I've not seen in ages, we talking last E3 and beyond. Plus plenty of games I've never heard about but the main ones that stood out to me was the games I remembered seeing that I had forgot about. So what I want to do is create a page on the top of my blog where it will list everything, bit like the next generation and E3 pages where the games will be listed in categories so like keep an eye and must buy.
I want to keep this list updated regularly so once a week or two weeks, of course adding new games as it happened. But this way I won't forget these awesome games that get forgot about because of the main triple A games come out and push them to the side.
That's my idea anyway for the next two updates/changes for the blog, plus I need to start something for Game of the Year this year. I've played through several new releases so far so I need to start a list on where I think certain games stand so far. Right I really could do with finishing this post and get ready for work, if you guys have any ideas you would like on the blog don't hesitate to comment or send me a message on the Facebook page or even my twitter account. Both are linked on the bottom right of the blog, I'm always up for hearing new ideas.
~Iznic
Hope you enjoyed watching the FUSE trailers in this mornings post and that I might have persuaded you to get another game, if not oh well there is always next time. So I have quite a few things I wanted to talk about today which is unusal for me since I only normally do a general blog post once a week and this will be the third one.
Anyway first up pre-orders have started on Diablo 3 and not for the PlayStation 4 but in fact for the PlayStation 3. I honestly could not remember the announcement about this and was a little shocked, anyway I've put my order in mostly because GAME is offering a pre-order bonus. You get a in-game "Infernal Helm" which offers bonus xp when it's equipped and a giant poster (see below) which is doubled sided.
I love my poster collection so it was a must have for me so my pre-order is down, hopefully a few friends will pick it up as well so I can get a team together for a laugh or two. Speaking of upcoming games Sony posted up two trailers showing the unboxing of the Last of Us UK special editions, the Joel and Ellie editions. They are both exactly the same just focusing on one of the main characters, personally I've got my order down for the Ellie edition.
I was a bit uncertain about the canvas wrap box but after seeing it there I've changed my mind, it looks pretty sweet and perfect for this type of game. Also very happy to see the awesome poster is included as well, I've seen a couple of them in stores for display purposes and they look awesome.
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So that's for gaming news the last thing I want to talk about is the main topic title for this post and that for future things I want to do for the blog. I'm thinking about doing a round up post each week which will list all the posts I've done for the week with links to them. Of course if there are no posts for the week there won't be a round up post.
Another plan as to do with yesterday when I was on shopto.net website, I cannot remember for the love of life why I was on there but I was searching for a game that was coming out. Anyway as I was searching I was shocked on how many games I found that are coming out that I've not seen in ages, we talking last E3 and beyond. Plus plenty of games I've never heard about but the main ones that stood out to me was the games I remembered seeing that I had forgot about. So what I want to do is create a page on the top of my blog where it will list everything, bit like the next generation and E3 pages where the games will be listed in categories so like keep an eye and must buy.
I want to keep this list updated regularly so once a week or two weeks, of course adding new games as it happened. But this way I won't forget these awesome games that get forgot about because of the main triple A games come out and push them to the side.
That's my idea anyway for the next two updates/changes for the blog, plus I need to start something for Game of the Year this year. I've played through several new releases so far so I need to start a list on where I think certain games stand so far. Right I really could do with finishing this post and get ready for work, if you guys have any ideas you would like on the blog don't hesitate to comment or send me a message on the Facebook page or even my twitter account. Both are linked on the bottom right of the blog, I'm always up for hearing new ideas.
~Iznic
FUSE Trailers
Morning folks,
Go back a few months and the game FUSE suddenly appeared on the scene, for me it did not even register as bleep on my radar. It only got my attention with the box art pre-order sleeves started to appear in stores, what was this orange box with a picture of four bodies with no faces. So I checked out youtube for a trailer and found well I'm going to go with a cgi trailer that just had one of the main characters talking about his team.
Unfortunately I cannot find the trailer right now so I'm guessing it was made by a FAN or something, anyway the game was now on radar but still not a massive thing. Well that was until yesterday when this trailer appeared and well the game is now on my list to keep an eye on.
Well that was until I started writing this post, you see while I was writing this post I had to start searching for the links for the trailers and well I found several more.
So we got giant boss fights, four man third person shooter with plenty of action and a ton of cool aliens weapons that can blow people up or cause different effects. How can I say no to this game? it reminds me of Gears of War and Bulletstorm, some of my favourite games so yes I will be pre-ordering and I have no doubt right now that I will be getting it day one.
Wow just checked it out and it's hitting the stores at the end of this month, looks like I do have a game to buy this month after all. Anyway anyone else interested in this game now? leave a comment with your thoughts.
~Iznic
Go back a few months and the game FUSE suddenly appeared on the scene, for me it did not even register as bleep on my radar. It only got my attention with the box art pre-order sleeves started to appear in stores, what was this orange box with a picture of four bodies with no faces. So I checked out youtube for a trailer and found well I'm going to go with a cgi trailer that just had one of the main characters talking about his team.
Unfortunately I cannot find the trailer right now so I'm guessing it was made by a FAN or something, anyway the game was now on radar but still not a massive thing. Well that was until yesterday when this trailer appeared and well the game is now on my list to keep an eye on.
Well that was until I started writing this post, you see while I was writing this post I had to start searching for the links for the trailers and well I found several more.
So we got giant boss fights, four man third person shooter with plenty of action and a ton of cool aliens weapons that can blow people up or cause different effects. How can I say no to this game? it reminds me of Gears of War and Bulletstorm, some of my favourite games so yes I will be pre-ordering and I have no doubt right now that I will be getting it day one.
Wow just checked it out and it's hitting the stores at the end of this month, looks like I do have a game to buy this month after all. Anyway anyone else interested in this game now? leave a comment with your thoughts.
~Iznic
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Evening folks,
Well it's the 1st May and the rumours about the next Call of Duty game was confirmed today but then we knew they would be. It was very unlikely for a Super Market to make a fake artwork and then stick up on their site for pre-ordering (Rumour post).
So what happened then, well they posted up a Facebook page with teaser images saying the Ghosts are Real then a teaser trailer finally went up on their youtube channel a few hours ago.
As I said it's a teaser trailer and not much is known about the game but saying that there is some interesting information in this trailer. First of more information is coming at the end of the month at the Next Generation Xbox conference, so this could mean a new partnership again with Microsoft. So far the last several games for the Call of Duty all the DLC map packs have been timed exclusive to the Xbox giving nearly a whole month or two before they see the light of day on the PlayStation.
Second bit of interesting news was once again it says "New Generation" instead of "Next Generation" for the Xbox, really want to know why they keep saying new and not next. Are they changing their console so it's not a console any more? all the patches and updates for the Xbox 360 have pushed it towards more of a full entertainment system then just a console.
Anyway I'm getting off track here and let's get back to the Call of Duty game, as I said there really is not much to go on right now. Some stores are already taking pre-orders and already GAME are offering a pre-order bonus, if you pre-order you get Ghost themed weapon skins for Black Ops 2 multiplayer.
So that's it for now folks, come back at the end of the month where hopefully we can see game footage and finally get some information about this new series for the Call of Duty franchise.
~Iznic
Well it's the 1st May and the rumours about the next Call of Duty game was confirmed today but then we knew they would be. It was very unlikely for a Super Market to make a fake artwork and then stick up on their site for pre-ordering (Rumour post).
So what happened then, well they posted up a Facebook page with teaser images saying the Ghosts are Real then a teaser trailer finally went up on their youtube channel a few hours ago.
As I said it's a teaser trailer and not much is known about the game but saying that there is some interesting information in this trailer. First of more information is coming at the end of the month at the Next Generation Xbox conference, so this could mean a new partnership again with Microsoft. So far the last several games for the Call of Duty all the DLC map packs have been timed exclusive to the Xbox giving nearly a whole month or two before they see the light of day on the PlayStation.
Second bit of interesting news was once again it says "New Generation" instead of "Next Generation" for the Xbox, really want to know why they keep saying new and not next. Are they changing their console so it's not a console any more? all the patches and updates for the Xbox 360 have pushed it towards more of a full entertainment system then just a console.
Anyway I'm getting off track here and let's get back to the Call of Duty game, as I said there really is not much to go on right now. Some stores are already taking pre-orders and already GAME are offering a pre-order bonus, if you pre-order you get Ghost themed weapon skins for Black Ops 2 multiplayer.
So that's it for now folks, come back at the end of the month where hopefully we can see game footage and finally get some information about this new series for the Call of Duty franchise.
~Iznic
Midweek and Start of the Month
Morning gamers,
Thought I would get another post in before work and update you with my latest gaming news. So I've pre-ordered the DEDSEC Edition and the Vigilante Edition for Watch_Dogs, I'm still excited for that game. In the ways of gaming not much as happened since Sunday/Monday where I had a nightmare with Hitman 2 Silent Assassin.
The game is quite old now and back in the day it had quite a few bugs that I had forgot about, well they back since they just ported the game over and gave it a quick HD look. It took an hour to two just to finish the first level, I had everything happen to me like the game froze so had to reboot the PS3. Best one was the fibre wire would not work as in it just went through the guy and not kill them, buttons not registering is the best so trying to go into sneak mode quickly is luck based (lost count how many times I've failed mission because of this).
Oh and the beautiful one when I loaded up the level and got a warning that I had been spotted, yeah this guard on the other side of the map (two buildings, trees, fences walls etc in the way) somehow spotted me doing something bad. Loved to know what it was since I just loaded the level and not even moved, was quite comical really.
Anyway after two hours I've finally clocked it and got the Silent Assassin rating (pure luck), the second mission went a lot better and nothing to report wrong. So fingers crossed it was just the first mission that was the problem but it did leave me annoyed.
Other then that I did play Minecraft for a little bit on Monday, it's nearly been a year since the game came out on Xbox Live and got me addicted (9th May). So I thought about starting a new map/game as a Birthday Celebration, so far I've just got a small one room building made and had some bad luck with creepers on my second day. Will be putting some more time into this week and hopefully get some screen shots up for you with what I make.
That's it then folks for what I've been up to, I will be continuing Hitman and Minecraft this week. Oh there is a new game that as caught my attention, Zombie Tycoon 2 which is hitting the PSN today.
Zombie vs Zombie real time strategy game and it looks like a lot of fun, so might try the demo if they have one and give it a go. On that note I better go get ready for work so have a good one folks, hope you all having a good week.
~Iznic
P.S. Saw Iron man 3 yesterday evening, how great was that film!
Thought I would get another post in before work and update you with my latest gaming news. So I've pre-ordered the DEDSEC Edition and the Vigilante Edition for Watch_Dogs, I'm still excited for that game. In the ways of gaming not much as happened since Sunday/Monday where I had a nightmare with Hitman 2 Silent Assassin.
Oh and the beautiful one when I loaded up the level and got a warning that I had been spotted, yeah this guard on the other side of the map (two buildings, trees, fences walls etc in the way) somehow spotted me doing something bad. Loved to know what it was since I just loaded the level and not even moved, was quite comical really.
Anyway after two hours I've finally clocked it and got the Silent Assassin rating (pure luck), the second mission went a lot better and nothing to report wrong. So fingers crossed it was just the first mission that was the problem but it did leave me annoyed.
Other then that I did play Minecraft for a little bit on Monday, it's nearly been a year since the game came out on Xbox Live and got me addicted (9th May). So I thought about starting a new map/game as a Birthday Celebration, so far I've just got a small one room building made and had some bad luck with creepers on my second day. Will be putting some more time into this week and hopefully get some screen shots up for you with what I make.
That's it then folks for what I've been up to, I will be continuing Hitman and Minecraft this week. Oh there is a new game that as caught my attention, Zombie Tycoon 2 which is hitting the PSN today.
Zombie vs Zombie real time strategy game and it looks like a lot of fun, so might try the demo if they have one and give it a go. On that note I better go get ready for work so have a good one folks, hope you all having a good week.
~Iznic
P.S. Saw Iron man 3 yesterday evening, how great was that film!
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Watch_Dogs
Morning,
Seems Ubisoft went to town last night and put up a new trailer for Watch_Dogs, if that wasn't enough they then showed off the four special editions for the game. I swear I might as well just give my wallet to them since I want three of those editions (not to mention there is three editions of Splinter Cell and three editions of Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flags I want as well).
So let's start off with the trailer I was going to post up today from the PlayStation 4 reveal conference.
Another amazing game I want for my collection, that open few seconds as you walks down the street is just ... wow. I love how it just simple quick buttons to hack anything you want, blowing the power box in the chase. Lifting the street barriers to take out the Police car and then stopping the train to jump onto it, such small details can make such a big difference. Of course this trailer left me with lots of questions like what the hell is going on and who was hacking the cameras to watch him.
The new trailer that went up last night was just a quick two minute thing just confirming that the main character is a Vigilante and you after a group of people, from the looks they called a love one of yours. Still looks amazing and two minutes of plenty of actions finally with a release date and confirmation of the collector editions.
So lets get down to the main point of the post, well first the release date for North America is 19th November and 22nd November for Europe. Nice Christmas present right there for everyone folks, anyway lets talk special editions and collector editions.
First up is the box standard Special Edition, now folks I will be talking about the UK information mostly so don't forget to check your local retailers and online to see what your country is doing. Anyway first up is an exclusive to GAME in the UK, the special edition is the box standard game with a slight edition to the cover art to show that it comes with just one bonus mission. The mission is called the "Breakthrough pack" and rewards you the "_Vehicle Expert Perk"
So the information for this mission goes like this, there is a meeting going on in the city by a group called the "Chicago Club" and some corporate CEO's. Looks like a power play from the sounds of it and your job is to race around the city finding all the scramblers who are blocking anyone from being able to do surveillance on the meeting. Take them out so you can then photo this meeting to upload to the world to expose them. Sounds interesting and the reward is free cars from your underground contact and discounts, so the mission is worth doing.
Uplay is the Ubisoft online shop this is their exclusive edition, again you get everything from the Special Edition but this comes with a very nice steelbook. I love my steelbooks and I know quite few collectors, this will be a nice edition since I love how they done the silver background with colour for the character. You also get two extra missions in this edition on top of the Breakthrough, the Palace Pack sees a Police Raid on a Internet mogul who has a huge data bank of profiles in his home. One profile is yours so it's a race against time to get into the Palace to wipe the hard drives before the raid happens. You get two rewards for doing this which is a boost to getting more cash from hacked ATM's and a hacking boost which grants more opportunities to investigate in the network (not sure what that is about, guess we will have to wait and see).
The last mission is called "Signature Shot" and this time a Biometric weapon as been smuggled into the city for the leader of a gang called Black Viceroy's. This weapon will only work for the first person to use so you breaking in to get it for yourself. Of course the reward is the weapon it self, a Biometric Assault rifle and the gang's outfit for your collection.
Now this is a collectors edition and you actually get the mask and cap with it. I know it sounds geeky but I really want this and yes I could see myself wearing those!
So yeah you get a very nice collectors box plus the cap and mask, also added is the sound track from the game. Disappointing though is you only get one bonus mission with this edition and that's the Palace Pack again. I would had really thought they would had included at least one more mission pack with this edition but oh well it's still pretty sweet.
The final collectors edition is the DEDSEC and like most of Ubisoft main editions it's the figurine again. The figurine is pretty sweet but I don't know, after the Black Flags one I don't think it comes close to the awesomeness. Would had been sweet if they had done a bonnet of a car with him jumping over it like you see in most trailers.
Anyway again you get a collectors outer box that it's store in, the soundtrack is once again added plus a map of the city. You also get a artwork book from the game along with a couple of pin badges and some augmented cards to play around with. The main cool stuff though is the steelbook which is the opposite to the Uplay edition, this time the background is back with a silver/little colour for the character. Add in all three missions as well and the figurine wraps up this edition.
By the way don't get me wrong I do like the figurine, it really shows off the main character with his phone but I do wish they had gone crazy like the Assassin's Creed one. So which one do I want you wondering? well I want the last three, I love steelbooks and collector items. Which one will you be getting folks?
~Iznic
Seems Ubisoft went to town last night and put up a new trailer for Watch_Dogs, if that wasn't enough they then showed off the four special editions for the game. I swear I might as well just give my wallet to them since I want three of those editions (not to mention there is three editions of Splinter Cell and three editions of Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flags I want as well).
So let's start off with the trailer I was going to post up today from the PlayStation 4 reveal conference.
Another amazing game I want for my collection, that open few seconds as you walks down the street is just ... wow. I love how it just simple quick buttons to hack anything you want, blowing the power box in the chase. Lifting the street barriers to take out the Police car and then stopping the train to jump onto it, such small details can make such a big difference. Of course this trailer left me with lots of questions like what the hell is going on and who was hacking the cameras to watch him.
The new trailer that went up last night was just a quick two minute thing just confirming that the main character is a Vigilante and you after a group of people, from the looks they called a love one of yours. Still looks amazing and two minutes of plenty of actions finally with a release date and confirmation of the collector editions.
So lets get down to the main point of the post, well first the release date for North America is 19th November and 22nd November for Europe. Nice Christmas present right there for everyone folks, anyway lets talk special editions and collector editions.
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| Special Edition |
So the information for this mission goes like this, there is a meeting going on in the city by a group called the "Chicago Club" and some corporate CEO's. Looks like a power play from the sounds of it and your job is to race around the city finding all the scramblers who are blocking anyone from being able to do surveillance on the meeting. Take them out so you can then photo this meeting to upload to the world to expose them. Sounds interesting and the reward is free cars from your underground contact and discounts, so the mission is worth doing.
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| Uplay Edition |
The last mission is called "Signature Shot" and this time a Biometric weapon as been smuggled into the city for the leader of a gang called Black Viceroy's. This weapon will only work for the first person to use so you breaking in to get it for yourself. Of course the reward is the weapon it self, a Biometric Assault rifle and the gang's outfit for your collection.
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| Vigilante Edition |
So yeah you get a very nice collectors box plus the cap and mask, also added is the sound track from the game. Disappointing though is you only get one bonus mission with this edition and that's the Palace Pack again. I would had really thought they would had included at least one more mission pack with this edition but oh well it's still pretty sweet.
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| DEDSEC Edition |
Anyway again you get a collectors outer box that it's store in, the soundtrack is once again added plus a map of the city. You also get a artwork book from the game along with a couple of pin badges and some augmented cards to play around with. The main cool stuff though is the steelbook which is the opposite to the Uplay edition, this time the background is back with a silver/little colour for the character. Add in all three missions as well and the figurine wraps up this edition.
By the way don't get me wrong I do like the figurine, it really shows off the main character with his phone but I do wish they had gone crazy like the Assassin's Creed one. So which one do I want you wondering? well I want the last three, I love steelbooks and collector items. Which one will you be getting folks?
~Iznic
Monday, 29 April 2013
BEYOND: Two Souls
Well I was about to go play some games and get on with same games after that last post but then I saw this trailer on the Sony Youtube page.
Even with the next generation consoles coming out the current generation is going out with a bang with some great games and the PlayStation 3 seems to be getting the best. Last of Us in June and now this in October.
It's been a while since the E3 trailer giving you that small tease but dang it was worth the wait, the graphics look amazing although there was a few moments where I though improvements could be made. But who cares the plot looks amazing! there is so much I want to know and my god why does it have to come out in October with so many other releases, I might as well not bother buying anything else.
I can safely say I'm excited for this game
~Iznic
Even with the next generation consoles coming out the current generation is going out with a bang with some great games and the PlayStation 3 seems to be getting the best. Last of Us in June and now this in October.
It's been a while since the E3 trailer giving you that small tease but dang it was worth the wait, the graphics look amazing although there was a few moments where I though improvements could be made. But who cares the plot looks amazing! there is so much I want to know and my god why does it have to come out in October with so many other releases, I might as well not bother buying anything else.
I can safely say I'm excited for this game
~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
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
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Weekend Update
Afternoon folks,
Thought it would be a good time to update you on my week of gaming and it's been pretty much Hitman dedicated this week. As you know last week I clocked the Platinum trophy for Hitman Blood Money and was undecided on what to play next, well I stuck with the HD collection and picked Contracts for the next game.
It was one of my favourite games on my PC and I've still got in my collection somewhere but I forgot how hard some of the levels can be. Anyway I'm now starting my second play through which I'm hoping to get done by the end of the weekend and then just mop all the weapons as well, so fingers crossed for the Platinum trophy by tomorrow. A lot of people say you can do it with one play through and then mop up but my god you make it a lot harder for yourself doing it that way.
You have to beat the game on Professional then get Silent Assassin ratings on all the levels to get the bonus weapons for the collection trophies. That's hard enough but then you got to get the weapons on each level which usually means gun fighting off through the level so on Professional that's insane since NPC's have extra and deal a ton of damage.
I've gone with the first play through on Professional with the 5 Silent Assassins ratings so that nailed me six trophies since the difficulty trophies stack. Now my second run through is on normal and again all the way through getting Silent Assassin on every level then I can reselect the maps to pick up the missing weapons. A lot easier and overall probably not that much longer time wise as well.
After this game I'm probably going to work on Hitman 2 Silent Assassin but that will take me a lot longer since I've heard the difficulty trophies don't stack so you have to complete the game three times. Hoping to put some MMO time today at some point since I've not been on in the last week, Old Republic I've not touched in weeks and I'm not bothering to renew the subscription at this point since I'm just wasting money on it.
Anyway that's it for small update today and I'm going to head off to play some more games, I won't make a promise but I do want to get another post up later so check back to see but until then have a good one.
~Iznic
P.S. Just read that it looks like Activision will be announcing the next Call of Duty this week, looks like a Gamestop display instructions was posted up saying for the 1st May. Should be interesting to see what they say after that huge leak last with the box art.
Thought it would be a good time to update you on my week of gaming and it's been pretty much Hitman dedicated this week. As you know last week I clocked the Platinum trophy for Hitman Blood Money and was undecided on what to play next, well I stuck with the HD collection and picked Contracts for the next game.
It was one of my favourite games on my PC and I've still got in my collection somewhere but I forgot how hard some of the levels can be. Anyway I'm now starting my second play through which I'm hoping to get done by the end of the weekend and then just mop all the weapons as well, so fingers crossed for the Platinum trophy by tomorrow. A lot of people say you can do it with one play through and then mop up but my god you make it a lot harder for yourself doing it that way.
You have to beat the game on Professional then get Silent Assassin ratings on all the levels to get the bonus weapons for the collection trophies. That's hard enough but then you got to get the weapons on each level which usually means gun fighting off through the level so on Professional that's insane since NPC's have extra and deal a ton of damage.
I've gone with the first play through on Professional with the 5 Silent Assassins ratings so that nailed me six trophies since the difficulty trophies stack. Now my second run through is on normal and again all the way through getting Silent Assassin on every level then I can reselect the maps to pick up the missing weapons. A lot easier and overall probably not that much longer time wise as well.
After this game I'm probably going to work on Hitman 2 Silent Assassin but that will take me a lot longer since I've heard the difficulty trophies don't stack so you have to complete the game three times. Hoping to put some MMO time today at some point since I've not been on in the last week, Old Republic I've not touched in weeks and I'm not bothering to renew the subscription at this point since I'm just wasting money on it.
Anyway that's it for small update today and I'm going to head off to play some more games, I won't make a promise but I do want to get another post up later so check back to see but until then have a good one.
~Iznic
P.S. Just read that it looks like Activision will be announcing the next Call of Duty this week, looks like a Gamestop display instructions was posted up saying for the 1st May. Should be interesting to see what they say after that huge leak last with the box art.
Friday, 26 April 2013
Deoxys Pokemon Event
Starting 8th May and ending on the 31st May you will able to download Deoxys for the first time on Pokemon White and Black or White 2 and Black 2.
This is for the English versions of the games so North American and most of Europe, not much details have been announced yet on the Pokemon except it will be level 100. To get it just simply hook up your console to your wi-fi and download it by the start up menu like in the past.
Keep your eyes on serebii.net for more information like move stats etc once they announced, I will update once I find out as well but usually serebii.net is the best placed for Pokemon news.
~Iznic
Source: Serebii.net
Keep your eyes on serebii.net for more information like move stats etc once they announced, I will update once I find out as well but usually serebii.net is the best placed for Pokemon news.
~Iznic
Source: Serebii.net
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Xbox Conference, E3, Nintendo and More
Morning folks,
Plenty to talk about this morning since yesterday was full of news, of course one of the biggest was the Call of Duty rumour leak which you can find on a separate post. First let's talk about the Xbox, well they have finally confirmed the 21st May date for the reveal of the next Xbox.
Need to look up the times for the UK since so far I've been given 3pm and 6pm, so not sure how they got those times. Anyway it's interesting word play with the "New generation" and not "Next generation" so I do wonder what they got up their sleeve. I was wondering though why do this announce so close to E3 when they could just wait the few weeks and do it then.
Well I'm not wondering no more because after the invite was sent out Major Nelson posted on the Xbox blog some details, link can be found here. This conference will cover the console and talk about the future then E3 will continue with more information and the games line up. So looks like Xbox E3 conference will be heavily software this year.
Not surprising since if you think about it every developer will be getting their current generation games out so they can switch over to next generation. Next generation launch lines up and future releases will be shown, so this years E3 could be amazing and probably kill my bank balance.
So anyway mark your calendars for that date and keep your eyes peeled to see what Microsoft have up their sleeve but now lets change the topic to Nintendo. Not sure what to think at this time about them, it was posted up they failed to hit their income target and that they had another annual loss. Wii U sales world wide not looking good and being one of the main reasons. But anyway I'm not here to talk about targets, money etc. what really shocked me and made my jaw drop this morning was they announced no E3 presentation this year.
Instead Nintendo Direct is doing it's job to communicate new information and that they will do a few smaller events around the time of E3 instead. Since this year for them it will be new software and not hardware it seems it be too much money to waste on a big event. Which in a way I could understand completely but it is still shocking to see Nintendo take a step back. Anyway the full details can be found over on MCV here. I've got my fingers crossed for some awesome games this year for the 3DS and Wii U. Really don't want to see losing Nintendo, they not my all time favourite console but I love the DS and 3DS.
Anyway that's it for news today folks and I'm off to work so catch you all later,
~Iznic
Plenty to talk about this morning since yesterday was full of news, of course one of the biggest was the Call of Duty rumour leak which you can find on a separate post. First let's talk about the Xbox, well they have finally confirmed the 21st May date for the reveal of the next Xbox.
Need to look up the times for the UK since so far I've been given 3pm and 6pm, so not sure how they got those times. Anyway it's interesting word play with the "New generation" and not "Next generation" so I do wonder what they got up their sleeve. I was wondering though why do this announce so close to E3 when they could just wait the few weeks and do it then.
Well I'm not wondering no more because after the invite was sent out Major Nelson posted on the Xbox blog some details, link can be found here. This conference will cover the console and talk about the future then E3 will continue with more information and the games line up. So looks like Xbox E3 conference will be heavily software this year.
Not surprising since if you think about it every developer will be getting their current generation games out so they can switch over to next generation. Next generation launch lines up and future releases will be shown, so this years E3 could be amazing and probably kill my bank balance.
So anyway mark your calendars for that date and keep your eyes peeled to see what Microsoft have up their sleeve but now lets change the topic to Nintendo. Not sure what to think at this time about them, it was posted up they failed to hit their income target and that they had another annual loss. Wii U sales world wide not looking good and being one of the main reasons. But anyway I'm not here to talk about targets, money etc. what really shocked me and made my jaw drop this morning was they announced no E3 presentation this year.
Instead Nintendo Direct is doing it's job to communicate new information and that they will do a few smaller events around the time of E3 instead. Since this year for them it will be new software and not hardware it seems it be too much money to waste on a big event. Which in a way I could understand completely but it is still shocking to see Nintendo take a step back. Anyway the full details can be found over on MCV here. I've got my fingers crossed for some awesome games this year for the 3DS and Wii U. Really don't want to see losing Nintendo, they not my all time favourite console but I love the DS and 3DS.
Anyway that's it for news today folks and I'm off to work so catch you all later,
~Iznic
Rumour: Call of Duty Ghosts
Over the past few weeks the name Call of Duty Ghosts has been going around, claiming to be the next game in the series this year. Normally we don't pay too much attention to this but when several retailers make the mistake to put it up for order well then you have to take notice. Of course sometimes retailers do jump the boat a little early and put up preorders for games not announced that never happen in the end but in this case it's a little different.
Tesco not only put it up but with the box art picture as well, so this rumour is probably the real deal.
So it looks Modern Warfare has been dropped but its still being done by Infinity Ward, there was a date of 31st December but a second retailer let it slip as well later on with the date 5th November. So MCV believes the December date is a placeholder one. Either way so people made a big mistake to put this up, check out the link below for MCV story who first caught the details.
Guess we will find out more when E3 hits
~Iznic
Source: MCV Online
Tesco not only put it up but with the box art picture as well, so this rumour is probably the real deal.
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| Boxart thanks to MCV |
Guess we will find out more when E3 hits
~Iznic
Source: MCV Online
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Defiance Ultimate Edition Unboxing
It's about time for me to start getting these Unboxing posts up so I decided to give it a crack this morning and I'm going to start with one of my latest collectors editions. Say hello to the Amazon Exclusive Defiance Ultimate Edition.
As you can see in the picture above the outer box is huge, a lot bigger then I was expecting but to show it off I did put my Gears of War in the picture to give you an idea on the size. To be honest I was just expecting some rubbish outer packaging to hold this in but I was surprised how much work has gone into the boxes. Anyway Defiance is a third person shooter MMO that ties in with the new Syfy tv series that started last week, both can effect each other. So what do you get in this box? well the ultimate edition contains the collectors edition (GAME exclusive) plus the season pass and a bag.
You can see in the picture to the left it was all neatly put away and I got to say the collectors edition box is amazing but I will go over that in a second. First let's talk about the bag you get which I was expecting to be really cheap but instead I got very nice high quality bag.
Defiance "Defi" logo is on the out side then plastered across the inside. Two clips plus Velcro fastenings to keep the bag secure. Inside there is slot pocket for paper and could fit a small net book but I would not go out the way for a laptop. Plenty of extra pockets and zip pockets for anything valuable as well. Honestly I was shocked how nice the bag and the material is the proper weather resistant stuff, in fact I've been using this quite a bit recently.
So let's talk about the collectors edition, this I was really impressed with since the box was made to look like a containment unit. You see the collectors edition comes with a figurine of one of the creatures from the game, so they decided to make the box the containment unit to hold it. Take a look below at it was done.
There was one problem with this box and that it was tight for the contents, if you take a look below when it's open you can see every fits in snugly. Trying to get the figurine out was a pain and you can hear the clear holding plastic scratching against the box as you pull it out. When trying to put it back in it also catches the opening windows, this could had been cut down slightly to fit better.
This was also problem for the rest of the contents since there is a artbook at the bottom and to get it out I had to turn the box upside down and tap it to force it out. Little more thought could had gone a long way with this but I am happy with the effort gone into making the containment unit box, not many companies would spend time making the boxes look cool.
So in the collectors edition you get the figurine of course, the artwork
book and a copy of the game. If you look in the picture below you can also
see the soundtrack with some postcards and stickers. There was even a
letter from the in game Professor who you start off with inviting you on
the expedition that starts the game off with (nice touch). The game
does have all the codes for the extra goodies, the season pass for the
next several DLC. Extra armour and weapons for the game as well.
To be honest it's a box standard contents for a collectors edition. But I
will see the artbook and figurine are really nice, I was shocked though
since the figurine is not fixed to the base unit. It just sits on top
of it so it can fall off if knocked, a clip to hold it in place would
had been nice. But overall one of the nicest collectors edition out
there and the game is getting better in my books.
So I hope you enjoyed my unboxing blog post for Defiance, hopefully I will have a few more for you guys over the next few weeks since I do have plenty of collectors edition sitting around my room.
~Iznic
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| Outer box is huge |
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| Bag and Collectors Edition |
You can see in the picture to the left it was all neatly put away and I got to say the collectors edition box is amazing but I will go over that in a second. First let's talk about the bag you get which I was expecting to be really cheap but instead I got very nice high quality bag.
Defiance "Defi" logo is on the out side then plastered across the inside. Two clips plus Velcro fastenings to keep the bag secure. Inside there is slot pocket for paper and could fit a small net book but I would not go out the way for a laptop. Plenty of extra pockets and zip pockets for anything valuable as well. Honestly I was shocked how nice the bag and the material is the proper weather resistant stuff, in fact I've been using this quite a bit recently.
So let's talk about the collectors edition, this I was really impressed with since the box was made to look like a containment unit. You see the collectors edition comes with a figurine of one of the creatures from the game, so they decided to make the box the containment unit to hold it. Take a look below at it was done.
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| Collectors Edition |
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| Handles on the side to carry it |
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| Inside the collectors edition |
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| Collectors edition content |
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| Figurine |
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| Inside the artbook |
So I hope you enjoyed my unboxing blog post for Defiance, hopefully I will have a few more for you guys over the next few weeks since I do have plenty of collectors edition sitting around my room.
~Iznic
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
inFAMOUS: Second Son
Not sure what to think of this game personally since I do own the last two thanks to the PlayStation Plus but not played them yet. I hear some great things about them and that I should make them next on my list to play but with so many games to play, kinda bit difficult really but anyway the main trailer is quite short for this game. Mostly because most of the presentation was spent with the guy talking about how many cameras there are and how long people wait in que's for the Airport.
This could be a good game but I'm holding judgement, since one I not played the past games and two it's a cut scene trailer and no gameplay. They say the trailer was made using the game engine but I will hold off getting excited until I see some gameplay, too many times we have been burnt that way.
So we have a checkpoint with a massive amount of cameras everywhere and what looks a like a paranoid government, could be a very interesting game if done right. I guess should play the past ones but anyway again probably going to see more at E3 especially with this being a exclusive to the PS4.
~Iznic
This could be a good game but I'm holding judgement, since one I not played the past games and two it's a cut scene trailer and no gameplay. They say the trailer was made using the game engine but I will hold off getting excited until I see some gameplay, too many times we have been burnt that way.
So we have a checkpoint with a massive amount of cameras everywhere and what looks a like a paranoid government, could be a very interesting game if done right. I guess should play the past ones but anyway again probably going to see more at E3 especially with this being a exclusive to the PS4.
~Iznic
Knack
I really don't understand why so many people I spoke to did not like this game, so what if it might just be a PSN game. It looks great and yes I know it looks similar to other series like Spyro, Jak and Daxter etc. but is that not the point of the game, to be a fun loving great platform adventure game.
Graphics look very good and I love the idea you can build the character up or down depending on the situation, it will be interesting to see what will the limits be in that regard. Like if you down grade yourself how do you rebuild yourself, do you have to hunt around for certain material or does anything in the environment help. Guess we will have to wait and see what happens, probably at E3 this year to be honest but anyway personally I probably would pick this up on the day launch unless too much is coming out.
I say that because my guess is that this will be a launch title so it could be a expensive day. So my readers what are you thoughts on this game? not interested or does it look fun for you? drop a reply below. Plus don't forget there is a poll on the right about picking up a PlayStation 4, would love to see some more feedback and you don't have to register to vote.
~Iznic
Graphics look very good and I love the idea you can build the character up or down depending on the situation, it will be interesting to see what will the limits be in that regard. Like if you down grade yourself how do you rebuild yourself, do you have to hunt around for certain material or does anything in the environment help. Guess we will have to wait and see what happens, probably at E3 this year to be honest but anyway personally I probably would pick this up on the day launch unless too much is coming out.
I say that because my guess is that this will be a launch title so it could be a expensive day. So my readers what are you thoughts on this game? not interested or does it look fun for you? drop a reply below. Plus don't forget there is a poll on the right about picking up a PlayStation 4, would love to see some more feedback and you don't have to register to vote.
~Iznic
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