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New Stuff???

2010-09-28T16:36:00.001-07:00

Yes this is a book review, I have decided that i need to expand my horizons a little bit and include books and maybe even a couple of movies. I have not been on in a while and i think that I have learned a bit in how to write in general and if anyone thinks that I am writing better now please let me know.

Immanuel's Veins by Ted Dekker

2010-09-28T16:36:00.000-07:00

Immanuel's veins by Ted Dekker

"This Story is Meant for Everyone, but not Everyone is Meant for this Story"

What would it be like if this thing that could satisfy our mortal bodies was a sip of blood? Blood, Christ's blood covers our sins and renews us but what does the blood of evil contain? Blood takes on new meaning in Ted Dekker's newest masterpiece "Immanuel's Veins". Toma Nicolescu comes to protect the the Cantemir Estate but is confronted by a great evil. This story is about an ultimate sacrifice and a beautiful poem of how Christ wants to woo each and every person on the Earth.

In order not to make this book sound really weird to even strong Christian believers, you need to read the book. The book will sound strange and unorthodox and to people who have not heard much about some strong symbolism in the blood of Christ, you will find the book dark and maybe even repulsive.

To believe is one thing, to partake is another. When you accept God and take communion you "partake" of the flesh of communion. What happens when you literally partake of the blood of demons that have weaseled their way into the mortal world? How about you do not die when you get shot in the head, you are extremely fast, your senses for pleasure become enhanced thousand-fold and you live for several thousand years. Toma must face this evil and rescue Lucine, the love of his life, from this evil devil-spawn and save her from intense pleasure until she dies and has eternal torment.

"I do not want to gain the whole would but lose my soul" sound familiar?

The story will sound bad I know, and the "This Story is Meant for Everyone, but not Everyone is Meant for this Story" is 110% true. If you are a feel good Christian then you may find you life revolutionized or you may find this book horrible. Great read and I would recommend it highly.

Caution though, vampires are basically what the demon spawn are. They can only be killed with the wood stake through the heart and holy water burns their skin etc. Garlic though is not a part of it. Vampires do not need to be a part of Ted Dekker books. 9/10

BTW:
If you comment on this post I will enter you into a drawing for a free Immanuel's veins T-shirt

2010-06-21T12:55:00.001-07:00

From now on (if any still reads my blog) you may find that I am now also writing book reviews.

Borderlands

2010-02-25T16:51:00.000-08:00

Made by: Gearbox Software

PC, PS3, XBOX360

First-Person > Action > Shooter > Sci-Fi

Rated: M

The Game

The game starts out with a cinematic that has a guy ranting in the background about "The Vault" and how this "Vault" will get anyone that finds it gets fame, power, money etc. A fat guy in a bus drives past a sign that says "Pandora" the planet you are on. He runs over a "skag," a dog like thing that eats everything (including you) and throws up "skag piles," piles that contain things like ammunition, guns, random items used in missions. The guy in the bus starts talking to four figures in the back of the bus you choose one of these people for your character in the game. The first is the Sniper, a thin guy with a mask and a sword on his back and likes to kill with sniper rifles and revolvers, his little "Bloodwing" is his special and it flies about killing people. The Siren is the only female in the group, she looks pitifully tiny but and as the driver says "why don't you bake a cake for us" she turns invisible, the sirens "Phasewalk" makes her disappear with an explosion and return with an explosion, she likes weapons that do elemental damage. The Soldier is the basic all around guy with a "Scorpio" turret, he likes most guns and gets pretty good damage for his turret and it will support any one that is near it while active. The "Brick" is a huge guy, he even dwarfs the soldier, his special is "Berserk" he puts away an equipped gun, punches his fists together and starts screaming and runs up to enemies and punches them until they die. Brick likes guns that explode pure and simple.

Positive

Guns, there is so many of them that you could not write them all down, no matter how much time there is, *there must be a random gun generator in the game that will randomize the damage, accuracy, fire rate and specials*. The game is based upon a level system starting at level one and ending at level 50. With Each level you can level up your action skill (Bloodwing, Phasewalk etc.).The storyline is very good, you have this girl "hologram" in the top left corner of your screen that talks to you throughout the entire thing leading you to the Vault. There are "Claptraps" throughout the game that you have to rescue to get more inventory slots and many assortments of bosses that you have to kill to reach the Vault.

Negative
There is some cussing in the game, mostly the biggest thing is that there are the copious amounts of blood that spray the walls along with heads an limbs that fly off bodies. There is many disturbing images of this sort so it is up to your judgment to decide if this game is worth it.

Conclusion
I think that this game is worth playing, the blood is something that you have to decide if you do not want to look at. 9/10

*(my opinion, may or may not be true)*

Final Fantasy 1

2010-01-27T17:37:00.000-08:00

Made by: SquareSoft
PSP, NES, Wii, PlayStation
Role-Playing > Console-style RPG
Rated: E

The Game
The land is wrought with darkness, monsters prey upon travelers, danger is even entering the towns of the land. Then a group of four warriors appear bearing crystals of light to fulfill the prophecy: "When darkness veils the earth, four Warriors of Light shall come..." These four warriors are about to embark on a perilous quest wrought with danger.
These four warriors are a cute little person that you can name and choose a class. each of the classes have good things and bad things about them: The Warrior is a very diverse member, he can use all but a few weapons and will generally pound enemies moderately well and has the more life than any other character.The Warrior will turn into the Knight who does the same things but adds in more hits and can use up to lv. 4 white magic. The Thief is very fast and can hit enemies quite a few times, he is not as powerful as Warrior/Knight but when it turns into a Ninja it can use up to lv. 4 black magic and hits a lot of times. The Monk at first may seem pointless because he cannot use much armor, only has one type of weapon (nunchuks) and may have a pretty good amount of life but that life gets wasted fast, but as soon as he reaches about lv. 15 his nunchucks become obsolete and his fists become the most powerful weapon in the game, even more powerful than the best sword in the game that goes to your Knight. The Monk will become the Master and the only differnce is that instead of doing about six to eight hits he will do eight to twelve hits. The White Mage is a caster unit that can cast white magic, white magic is support magic that can heal your party, raise defense, hurt undead, revive a K.O member etc. This mage is not essential but is very useful to any party, she will turn into the a White Wizard, who has more MP(magic points) and can use White Wizard spells. The Black Mage uses magics that damage their foes and raises the attack of the party, lowers enemy attack etc. The Black Mage is the weakest of the entire party when it comes to normal damage and life, while every one else has been hitting a hundred damage the Black Mage is only hitting about 10 to 30 damage, but what makes up for this is the fact that his spells hit <500. When he turns in to a Black Wizard his most powerful weapon become equipable giving him about >200 damage. The final unit is the Red Mage, he can cast both white and black magic and gets pretty descent attack due to the fact that nearly all swords are open to him for use. He is limited though, even when he becomes a Red Wizard his black/white spells are not as good as the other two mages.

Positives
This games story line is amazing, its plots, badguys and bosses are enough to get anyone that wants a good turn based RPG to fall in love immediately. There is many enemies that will randomlly attack you, most look the same just have a different color to them and different attack or weaknesses etc. The bosses are everything someone would want in a game except for the fact that their attacks are flash then damage dealt to one of your men. There huge amounts of weapons and armor in the game, most go to the Warrior/Knight and most of the rest go to the Ninja and Red Wizard.

Negatives
Some of the enemies bear names that have the word "demon" along with other people may consider bad like skeletons, goblins etc. Most of the places that you do you are attacked non stop so it begins to get annoying esp. when you are a higher level than them. The map is very large so it gets confusing until you get used to it.

Conclusion
This game is worth the effort to play, the game gets really fun as soon as you get your ship so its good to push to that goal. I would recommend using a walkthrough for the game because some of the dungeons are very hard.
9/10

Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade

2010-01-06T20:31:00.000-08:00

Made by: Sony Online Entertainment
PSP
Role-Playing > Action RPG
Rated: T

The Game
Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade is a story about a young warrior who recently was declared champion to the city of Aven, the guardian charged with protecting the Crown and the Aven. The only problem about this title is that for a long time it has been a empty title, those that had it bestowed upon them spent the their Queen's term drinking and growing fat. Then, the day after the crown has been bestowed, an evil strikes at the great city of Aven. Danger assaults the city from all angles, deadly beasts and mighty warlords attack, with the city's defenders stretched thin, only one can do the key strikes into the heart of the enemy's camps and strongholds: the Champion of Aven.

Positives

There is hundreds of weapons each with individual power, there is also many sets of armor that you can use along with amulets and rings to increase abilities. There are four classes of characters that you can choose in the beginning: 1. An Alchemist uses powerful magics to kill her enemies and is good with smaller weapons. 2. The Knight is the character that uses a wide variety of weapons with finis and style, he uses also has more effective armors. 3. The Druid also has magics like the alchemist but they are more supportive than offensive, he is the archer of the classes and is also is good with blunt weapons. 4. Last but not least is the Berserker who attacks the enemies with a savage ferocity with little regards to her personal safety. She uses small claws, throwing knifes has less armor than other classes but more life. Each class has different strengths and weaknesses that make them so different from each other that you have to play it just to see the different weapons, armor and abilities. Each class also has a "tech tree" of abilities that they can master as they level up.

Negatives
There is still negatives to the class diversity, because of there not only being limited armor to each class, certain weapons are unable to be used by all of the classes (exe. Beserkers cannot use bows) This limitation though only goes so far, it is easily over looked for some people. Several things that people should know about Untold Legends are first that the Beserker class features a scantily clad female doing flips and tearing enemies apart, second, the powers that the Druid and Alchemist have are most definitely "spells." Some people may find this to be uncomfortable. The last is that there are certain enemies (it does not name many of them so no facts a definite) that may be ghosts, sirens etc. These may make some people feel uncomfortable about this game.

Conclusion
Positives in the game make it well worth playing several times, along with the swords, armor etc. The story line is intriguing. There are some bad parts to the Game but over is a definite play for anyone that like RPG's
9/10

Fable: The Lost Chapters

2009-08-10T09:17:00.000-07:00

Made by Lionhead Studios
PC, Mac, X-box, X-box 360
Role-Playing > Action RPG
Rated: M
The Game
Fable is about a boy who sees his entire village destroyed by bandits and his sister killed in front of his eyes, after the village is destroyed, he goes into the village and meets a fighter of the Hero's Guild called Mage, he takes you to the Hero's killed to be trained as a Hero, the legendary fighters of the land. While you are there, you meet Whisper another Hero in training; you have a sort of competition friendship. You learn at the guild the art of sword craft, how to use a bow and the power of the Will. You then become a Hero. All of your character's decisions in the game decide your next one and how this person will talk to you and which quests you will get and how much you level up. If you walk down the path of evil your appearance will change into a dark hair scar faced man who every one runs from or you can be good and you can become a fair and noble person who every one loves and adores, you can become a great warrior or a skilled archer or a user of the Will with great power; you can become a simple trader or a rich merchant; you can be a hero of great renown or a fat drunkard who pukes on the floor. (I am sounding like a commercial)

The Good
There is a good amount of choices you can make that will affect you. A good amount of weapons and Will powers and a whole lot of armor and clothing. Oh yea, you can kick chickens about 20 feet. You can also eat baby chickens( it gives you bad points though).

The Bad
For starters there is definitely a very bad element to the game, for starters there is a whore house and you can kill everything that that moves, you can even kill an entire village. You can change you sex to female just by putting on girl clothes and using the flirt expression on guy NPC's. There is something called Demon gate also. The is hundreds of negative elements that puts this game way past the M rating.

Opinion
I played this game for a long time before I noticed any of this stuff. You need to take some time on every game to make sure that there is no element like in this game. I admit that I kept on playing the game even after some of this stuff. This is not a game that anyone should be playing, period.

Conclusion
DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME.
Preview all M rated games before you play them. This is a good game but there are too many negative elements. 3/10

Remember, you can make suggestions

2009-07-13T17:05:00.000-07:00

Remember, you can make suggestions . For every now and again I do not know what to write. I do not have a X-box 360 or PlayStation 1-3.

Portal

2009-05-26T12:10:00.001-07:00

Mady By Valve
PC
First-Person > Action > Shooter > Sci-Fi
Rated: T
The game
Portal is a first person shooter that your only gun shoots portals from one place to another, you shoot a orange portal on the ceiling and shoot a blue portal on the wall (there is only orange and blue) and you jump through the blue you come out the orange. This system opens a new style of playing games, on some games you sometimes feel as though you are trapped in this hole and there is no way to get out. Portal removes that feeling and replaces it with a feeling of power and control that all other games remove, you need to get up on that balcony you can get there so easy. There is kinda a half-way story line, You wake up in a room with no exit (if you play it will be confusing at first), and a female voice starts talking to you about passing the some tests and how at the end there will be cake. You move through the tests and you learn many different things about the portal gun, then at the end you hop on a moving platform and you see yourself heading strait for a lava filled room...you then escape and start heading; following some arrows on the wall, written in blood, to the AI mind of the female voice.

The Good
A good puzzle game, it is a first person shooter so some people might get dizzy by the falling and jumping and coming out of walls a ceilings. The game is in some parts extremely comical, like right after you escape from falling in the lava the voice says "Haha, for a second there you thought that I was going to kill you, it was just a test"(She puts a lot of infuses on the cake)"now lay down on your stomach and put your hands behind your head." Later she says "remember when I tried to kill you? Someday we will look back and say 'haha.'"

The Bad
The blood writing on the wall is it.

Opinion
This is one of my most favorite games ever.

Conclusion
Good game, there will be a sequel. If you buy the game I recommend buing it in whats called the Orange Box, It includes Portal, Half Life 2 , and Team Fortress 2. 9/10

Quake Wars: Enemy Territory

2009-05-15T08:49:00.000-07:00

PC/PS3/ Xbox 360
First-Person / Action / Shooter / Sci-Fi
Rated: T
The Game
The story line is that that the Strogg army has located Earth an plans to use its populous for "Human Food." The Strogg have been going through the galaxy and have using the meat of their last victims for food on their next planet invasion. The GDF (Global Defense Forces) is there to stop them. For starters this game is another game were it is set up in a battle field where you can capture spawn points, Quake Wars Though has a different spin on the usual Capture the enemy base games, there is only a little bit of that and they added in a assault type of element. You go from objective to objective Blowing things up, Hacking in to them or "Driving the MCP to the outpost so you can launch a SSM missile." It is complicated until you get to know the maps very well.

The good
There is a wide divercity of classes for the GDF and Strogg and you can unlock more weapons, faster reload, more ammo and all of the other stuff, there is huge maps that you can play in single player or online and each of the levels can be about 45 min. to 10 min. average online. There is quite a few veicles. There is no cussing on NPUs though there may be some from other people that are playing online.

The bad
Like I said there will be some cussing and rude things and if your parents are uncomfortable with fighting and shooting other people stay away! (the entire game is shooting other people)

Opinion
(New section)
I have a thing for first person shooters and Assult bassed games so some people will disagree with me.

Conclusion
A fun but fast paced game, you need a first person shooter, you got one of the best.
8/10

LEGO Batman Wii/Nintendo DS/PS2/PS3/PSP/X-Box 360

2009-03-31T15:52:00.000-07:00

Genre: Third Person Lego Adventure Game
The Game
Like all Lego games, LEGO Batman is cute and "cartoony." Also, like all Lego games, pieces are literally flying everywhere. The game story line is that ALL of the villains from Arkham Asylum escape into the city and begin to create havoc in Gotham. There is six chapters in which three you fight as Batman and Robin and the other three you fight as the Villains. There is quite a few suits in the game for Batman and Robin which allows you to travel through the levels. e.x. Batman has a glide suit (allows you to glide to another ledge) and a demolitions suit (blows things up with mines). There is a bunch of differnt enemys you can fight from the Riddler's henchman as batman to S.W.A.T as the villains.

The good
There is a bunch of cute graphics and funny cut scenes throughout the game. There is things you can blow up and build and all the other things you can do in a LEGO game.

The bad
Unless you parents don't like LEGO pieces flying everywhere, this game would be a great pastime.

Conclusion
A good game tough there is not alot to say about it accept really if you want to play LEGO games there is not much difference between one and another. Game 9/10 Originality 4/10

Knights of the Old Republic X-box/ X-box 360/ PC

2009-03-24T19:02:00.000-07:00

Genre: Third Person Role-Playing Game
The game
(I like Star Wars and Star Wars games, so there will be some people who disagree with my views on this Star Wars game.) Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic is fun and entertaining, if you plan on playing it I would recommend having at least two hours to start. The story is about ( your character's name here) who is a soldier on a ship called the Endar Spire, a ship that is right now, under attack from the Sith forces of Darth Malek. Just before you wake up it shows you having dreams about your commander Jedi aboard named Bastila fighting a Dark Jedi (there is a difference in between Sith and dark Jedi, there can be only two Sith a master and a apprentice and there can be as many dark Jedi that are willing to follow). You are then greeted by a man who tells you where you are and things like that. You set out to find Bastila and on the way to the bridge you learn to fight, attack and how your stats and log work. As you reach the bridge you find no Bastila so you head to the escape pods, along the way a door open and there is a Dark Jedi on the other side of it. Your friend tells you to head to the escape pods and he'll hold him off (poor guy doesn't have a chance) until you can escape. You get to the escape pods where you meet Carth, one of the main characters in the game. After you meet him you leave the Endar Spire just as it blows up. You crash land on the planet Taris where you begin your search for Bastila.

The good
This game has the uniqueness of being somewhere in between Final Fantasy and any third person shooter games, when you encounter a enemy the game freezes and allows you to choose the way you want to attack, you then unpause the game and your character does what you told him to do, you can also take control of the people in your party and have them do what you want. You only control your character like this in battles and for the rest of the game you are walking around as you would in a third person shooter. There is a large amount of weapons including lightsabers, grenade, blaster pistols and rifles. Throughout the game you can get a bunch of different characters to play with each with their own strengths. The story line is very cool and you get to be a Jedi which is also very cool.

The bad
There is the negative element of being able to turn to the dark side in the game, for example someone asks you to find their droid/friend/kid and you can either say "sure"or "buzz off," if you say the latter you will gain dark side points and the more you do this the more it will affect your characters during the game. There is a small amount of cussing during the game and not much else.

Conclusion
A game that if you do play you will want to play several times in order to see the different actions you could take in the game. The thing I would say would be is at least tell you parents about all the things in it that even remotely make you uncomfortable. Very well designed game. 9/10

Half Life 2 X-box/PC/X-box 360/ PS3

2009-01-13T09:40:00.000-08:00

Genre:First Person Shooter
The game
Half Life 2 is a first person shooter, the story line is about a man named Gordon Freeman who worked at Black Mesa Federal Research Facility. He wore a protective suit to protect him from the toxic waste he worked in, something goes wrong and he had to fight his way through aliens. In the end he was given a choice of weather you should go through this portal or follow the G-man, that ends Half Life 1 and Half Life 2 starts you heading through security of a very large city were you can tell immediately that in the city there is a dictator who, if he does not get his way, or you speak out against him you will be killed. At a security checkpoint one of the guards stop you. For some reason you have a feeling that you are against this dictator and that this guard will identify you and stop you. He takes you to a back room and then he identifies himself that he is part of the resistance and he tells you to make you way to a new transportation system so that they can teleport you to the main base for the resistance and as always something goes wrong and you have to go the long way to the base.

The good
The game is fun and keeps you always wanting to play more of it. For the X-box 360 and PS3 you must buy it in something called Orange Box which also contains Team Fortress 2 and Portal. The game has some very good weapons along with objects you can throw with the "gravity gun." A good story line and unique health system.

The bad
There is some cussing and a very scary chapter in the middle of the game called "We don't Go to Ravenholm." It is among the most scary parts of any game I have ever played, even Halo 3's Flood level at High Charity cannot even compare to the shocking and horrific scenes throughout this level. There is something called "head crabs," They look like fleshy oval shapes with four legs and their mouth is on their belly, they jump on there target's head and turns them into walking zombies. After they take control of humans, they eat flesh until they evolve into Black Head Crabs and then they become toxic. Throughout Ravenholm keep the sound down because of all the screams you hear. The level is hard and scary, the rest of the game though is very cool.

Conclusion
Very good game except for that part in the middle at Ravenholm.6/10

Super Mario Galexy/ Wii

2008-12-11T07:39:00.000-08:00

Genre:Third Person Adventure
The game
You open on as always, Mario going to see Princess Peach at her Castle. Like always the seems like its going to be a prefect day; and like always, Bowser comes and kidnapped Peach(She really needs like some sorta teleporter or something so that Mario will not need to protect her). You try to save her but one of Bowser's Magicians blasts you away. Mario wakes up on a planet that is about the size of a two story house, now it is kinda weird but throughout the entire game they are playing with gravity so that you are more often on the walls and roof than not. Mario sees a little bunny with stars on the tips of its ears and the bunny tells you to follow it. It'll tell you some of the controls some of which you already discovered and then you have to play "hide and go seek" with him and two other bunnies. When you find them they take you to Roselina who is the watcher of the "Comet Observatory" Then she gives you a Luma who one of those bunny's we saw earlier turned a little fat star shape who gives you the power to spin. Now spinning is the most important control you do throughout the entire game; you it to launch to other planets with launch stars, spin to kill/stun enemies, lastly you use it after you do a jump to get a little bit higher. The way you get to levels after you get to the Comet Observatory is there are domes and in each dome there are about 4-5 galaxies and in each galaxy there are a number of planets.

The good
The game is very fun and if you like Mario or adventure games this is very cool game. The way that the worlds are set up, there is some confusion in the beginning of the game as far as run around on the planets but the game is good other than that.

The bad
There is not much wrong with the game except the last couple of levels are almost impossible.

Conclusion
This is a great game though I would recommend that you do not try to beat Bowser at the center of the universe until you have collected all of the stars, if you do you will lose interest in the game.8/10

Dynasty Warriors 5/ X-box/PS2

2008-12-09T10:22:00.000-08:00

Genre:Third Person Action Strategy
The Game

Dynasty Warriors 5 is a 3rd person game that takes place during the time when ancient China, the current dynasty is the Han dynasty and every one of the people of the land is seeing the Han dynasty come to an end. The land was falling into chaos with three kingdoms rising above the rest. They are Wei, Wu and Shu. You are able to choose from a number of characters and when you complete the story for certain characters you will unlock new characters. The game is played were you are basically a god because of your attacks and your life bar. The game is very simple when it comes to controls and playing styles may very from person to person, some people may play from going from one of objective to an other while some may just kill as many enemies as possible and some people will just head to the enemy commander and kill him and end the game.

The good
The game is one that if you like to play a game that takes almost no brain power to play, this is the game for you. The whole game play is different from usual games. There is a wide diversity of weapons and items which makes the game more fun.

The bad
There is not much to say about it unless your parents are concerned with you killing on average 300-500 computer bots a level.

Conclusion
The game is still my most favorite game and whenever I am done playing another game this is the game I come to play because of how much fun you can have with it.10/10

Zelda : Twilight Princess/Wii

2008-11-26T09:39:00.000-08:00

The game
The game opens up on a man calling to Link (who as in all Zelda games, is the main character) tell him that he needs to get his horse named Epona and help him herd his goats into his barn. Epona happens to be missing so you have to go look for her. She is in a place where there is very pretty waterfall thing. There is a girl there but it does not mention her name until later, you take Epona back and you herd the man's goats and the day ends. You go through a series one of them is you get a wooden sword, slingshot, bottle and fishing rod. Epona gets hurt and the same girl gets angry at you because you were not taking care of Epona. this happens at the waterfall and then completely unexpected she is kidnapped and you are knocked out. You end up turning into a wolf in "The Land of Twilight." Some sort of beast thing kidnaps you and you end up in dungeon and a little two foot thing helps you escape and you learn more from Zelda, the princess of Hyrule. Then you go on an adventure to save all of Hyrule from eternal twilight.

The good
Like Ocarina of Time, there is a wide diversity of weapons and items which some of them are the same as Ocarina of Time there is different name and there is also new armor and weapons. The story line is very well thought up and it is so cool how they are able to use the same characters and still have a unique story line. Zelda games almost have there own genre.

The bad
There is like I said with Ocarina of Time, there is negative element as far as gods and spirits and even though it has good game play there are some lousy graphics.

Conclusion
Over all one of the best games, but if anything should discomfort you you should either stop playing or talk to your parents about how they feel about the game.9/10

Oddworld: Strangers Wrath/X-box

2008-11-13T11:56:00.000-08:00

The game
The game opens up on a graveyard were you see a creature call a Bolamight(it looks like a spider with a swollen abdomen) all of the sudden get hit by a rock. It falls to the ground and a Fuzzle (imagine a brown fuzz ball with teeth and will eat anything) goes up to it sniffs it and is about to eat it when another rock hits the Fuzzle and a hand grabs them both and puts the in a bag. Then you see a silhouette of someone put a couple more Fuzzles near a hole and the later it shows a big fat monster thing chasing the “Stranger” that is the main character in the game. It turns out that the monster is “an’ outlaw” and stranger is a bounty hunter who uses live ammo to fight enemies. The live ammo is a very neat thing to the game and the EGM magazine has it among the top 10 coolest ammo for games. Some of them are Boombats (the grenade launcher), Stuntz (the stun gun) and Fuzzles (the “traps that are alive”).

The good
The game is a very well made and there is a story line that even though it is guessable is still funny and exciting. The ammo is one of the most fun thing in the game, about at the halfway point all off your ammo become upgraded and that were it gets fun to kill the bad guys and use them for “ammo chow” which is a thing that you use to capture outlaws and then “Secto’s Military force.”

The bad
It takes a long time to load after you die and on the last level it takes about three hits to kill you but other than that the game is great.

Conclusion
The game is a great, it is colorful and the choice of word is funny at the right moment. It is great for teens and there is not much else. 9/10

Star Wars: Battlefront 2/X-box

2008-11-12T13:31:00.001-08:00

The game
The game is a 3rd person shooter/1st person shooter were you have to capture you enemy command post on a map. There are 4-6 command posts on the map and you have to capture them by standing next to it. there is a amount of reinforcements that you use up when ever you or one of your units die; when you use up your reinforcements you will lose the battle, the amount of command posts you have also affect your reinforcements.There is Five modes you can play after you select the single player option, Training, Space Overview, Rise of the Empire, Galactic Conquest and Instant Action. Space Overview is a short clip about how to fight in space. Rise of the Empire is the campaign game were you fight with the 181st legion against Battle Droids and then against Rebels. Instant Action is were you can go to choose your own map with play style of your choosing and era(Clone Wars or Galactic Civil War).

The good
The soldier classes are as follows, Trooper(blaster rifle,pistol), Heavy(rocket launcher,mines, pistol), Sharpshooter(sniper rifle,mini turret), Engineer( shotgun, detonation packs,heal/ammo packs) . There is also some special troopers like the Clone Jet Pack trooper and Destroyer Droids. The game Has a multiple choose of maps and four different forces that you can be Rebels, The Empire, The Clones and The Confederacy. The weapons are fine and movement is all you want from a game like this.

The bad
There is only some slightly bad background graphics and not much else.

Conclusion
The game is a game that if you do not like Star Wars you will find it fine and if you like star wars it is another story line that you will find interesting. 8/10

Zelda:Ocarina of Time/Wii/Gamecube/Nintendo 64

2008-10-09T11:42:00.000-07:00

The game

The game opens up on like almost all games with a cutscene about how Hyrule is in danger from Ganondorf and how Navi a fairy must find the boy without the fairy to come to him where he will save Hyrule. The boy has to get 3 spiritual stones and play the ocarina of Time at the temple of time were he turns into an adult and must find the eight sages so he can get their medallions and kill Ganondorf to get back the token to unlimited power called the Triforce at the same time he learns more and more of his past and how his future might turn out.

The good

The weapon variety is so amazing, slingshots, bows, war hammers and things like that. The storyline is great with plenty of suspense and it is almost impossible to guess what new rooms and halls and fields will hold for you to do and fight enemies that are hard but are still beatable.The puzzles in rooms are challenging and not always obvious. Because the only word you hear is "listen" there is pretty much no cussing. Most of the dialog is written at the bottom of the screen.

The bad

As you may have already assumed, the spirits and sages and Triforce do give a negative element. Along with that there is a spirit bad guy called a "Po"that is a dead person. the weapon movement is crummy as far as swinging your sword (over, left, right, over, etc.) and the controls are adequate enough.

Conclusion

The game is a constant battle between good and evil and I think that I is ok as far as you have your parent's permission. 7/10

Gaming

2008-10-07T11:11:00.000-07:00

This is the first post for the gaming review blog that I'm starting. I will be writing reviews for X-box, Wii, Nitendo DS,PC games and PSP.If I have A game for one of these systems that you want me to write about, go ahead and post them. If I get another gaming system I will let you know about it. If I find any usfull cheats, walkthoughs that are usefull or trainers thaat you can download I'll let you know.

DJyavin