Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Reveal Trailer, Release Date November 4
Next instalment of Call of Duty seems to fall into futuristic military shooters with a close mix from Metal Gear Solid, and Ghost Recon, Same developers that brought us Modern Warfare 3, Sledgehammer Games leave us with another fun fulfilling story telling depth of the Call of Duty franchise.
So far just a trailer being released with a little glimpses of what has been installed for us which are HOVER BIKES, cloaking and military battle suit/ exosuits.
A rough idea about the game is about PMC taking over / making a move on some kinda power strife.
Official release date would be on November 4, 2014 which will roll out on Windows, PlayStation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Blizzard has just announced Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, a free-to-play collectible card game set in the universe of Warcraft.
You can play as one of nine World of Warcraft classes, collect cards, and battle people online. No release date yet, but the game will be out for PC and Mac, with an iPad version coming “shortly thereafter.”
The game is coming out soon, Blizzard said—”Not Blizzard soon, but IRL soon.” You can sign up for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcrafton Blizzard’s website right now, and the beta will launch this summer.
This game was developed by a small team of 15 people, Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo said while announcing the game during a PAX East panel this morning. The goal: create a simple, competitive game with a more mobile team than they’ve used for bigger beasts like StarCraft II and Diablo III. They want it to be “small in scope, but epic in gameplay,” Pardo said.
During the panel today, Blizzard brought out an announcer to describe a 1v1 game as it happened. It looks a lot like Magic: The Gathering with Warcraft characters and abilities: we saw Warlocks and Druids facing off, summoning monsters, and attacking one another in turn-based combat.
The characters and beasts chat and comment as they fight, sometimes saying hilarious things in traditional Blizzard style. There are a ton of Warcraft-themed cards, from ghouls and demons to Ragnaros, the fire god. This looks very cool.
Since last Tuesday, an MMO just went from Pay to play to Free to play. Yup, its The Exiled Realm of Arborea (TERA). Just like other MMO its has everything like a MMO. However what intrigue me was the battle system.
Lets talk about the world, since I’m just merely scratching the surface. The world is such an eye candy, where the settings changes as you journey across it. From desert Savannah to the lush green forest and not to forget the most darkness abyss of evil. TERA environment does not disappoint thanks to the game’s UNREAL 3 engine.
As for races, there are not 3 standard MMO races (Human, Elves or Orcs) but a FRIGGIN SEVEN races, each with their own racial traits and passive skills. As listed below :-
The Aman, a race of draconian humanoids
The Baraka, a giant, intelligent race
The Castanics, a demon-like race
The Elins, an innocent nature loving race
The High Elves
The Humans
The animal-like Popori.
The Baraka, Elin, and Popori are gender locked (only male Baraka and Popori, and female Elin exist). Both males and females are playable for the rest of the races. Not to mention the female gender of each races is sexually sexy or loli cuteness. This might attract more virgin gamers into the scene of TERA.
On top of that, the races doesn’t not have restriction to which class to choose from the listing whooping of EIGHT classes. As TERA DEV emphasize on the holy trinity in MMO pretty much alive in this game. As we can see it from the classes range. We have two tank class (Lancer, Warrior) , two melee DD (Berzerker, Slayer) , two range DD (Sorcerer, Archer) , and two healing classes ( Mystic, Priest).
Questing in TERA is very generic where you need to kill number of x monsters or collect x numbers of x items and return it to the quest giver.
Crafting, Gathering, and Enchanting in this game gives many craters a bag for its money where you can mine stuff with imaginary pickax or extracting essence from the palm of your hands. Crafting should be pretty interactive since I’ve yet to explore into it.
Skill and stat based for character progress is pretty linear where there isn’t any much freedom into allotting stats points or skill points into unique builds. However skills get boosted up and a little customization by Glyph which are like additional gems for skill to get more powerful. ( Think about FF7 Materias)
Battle is the most fluid and interactive mechanic I’ve ever played in MMO, up in par with Guild Wars 2 which launch a year ago. TERA is up there in the ranking when it comes to battle scene. Your movements and aiming takes into play of what will the outcome of the battle be by solo or in group.
Dungeon/Instance is very fun where Holy Trinity(Tank, DD, Healer) really feels right, I have yet to enter high level instance therefore thrilled for what is coming next to me.
Community wise, like every P2P mmo went F2P, kiddies around the world wanna get a piece of it, and behold a megaton of trolls, kidrage, kbwarriors, wowfans are being sucked into the realm of TERA.
Overall since its a free just give it a go. My rate towards it would be 7.5/10 due to its wonder presentation of UNREAL ENGINE 3 , battle mechanics, and an awesome BGM
p/s: my IGN is Orztome @ Zuras server add me and I’m a Priest tera-europe
(if you guys don’t understand some of the abbreviation listed above please do leave a comment below)
So over the weeks of my absent posting, I’ve been sucked into a game from Square Enix. The only game company which hold a strong franchise of Final Fantasy, a long running typical JRPG genre.
Since I’ve played the previous game (Final Fantasy XIII) as a curious cat as I am, I eventually fall into the rabbit hole by offering my hard earn wages to this evil franchise once again.Other than that, all I wanted to know was how was the story told so far.
On the first impression, they have a long opening cinematic which felt like Metal Gear Solid 4. Shortly from that, I was greeted by the similar loading screen from its predecessor and right there the game throw me a battle with an Eidolon (Guardians) with me controlling Lightning.
Everything at this point, felt almost like the previous game. After a few more battles, I was greeted again with more cinematic but to my surprised there was cinematic trigger.
There is also tons of Live trigger where players would need to choose their a selection of dialogues and get different outcome every time. This has been confirmed by the developers that its an additional touch in the Final Fantasy series so players would feel more interacted between the games characters in the Final Fantasy World.
A lot of critics, stated a Final Fantasy XIII done right, I feel to defer that. Main reason was if Square Enix would to make it right they should not reuse most of all the monster sprites and similar world maps which was presented in FFXIII. I bet you guys would complain that its the same Universe as FFXIII, but at least they should make an initiative to provide the same area from a different angle. I felt it was a lazy version just to milk more from the franchise. But I like a few touches made by the character design which reminds me of kingdom hearts, Sora as well has other previous Final fantasy related games. But also strangely you will get Serah some weird dress during the starting episode from god knows where.
Furthermore, eidolon summoning was removed and has been replaced by your 3rd party being monsters you capture, this doesn’t make any sense at all when you captured monsters to fight by your side. I felt so Pokemonish. Battle system is still the same where the paradigm shift is there, graphics is still as superb as its predecessor since its design from the same Crystal Engine.
Character progress at first seems like it was pretty straight forward where all of the role class shared the same Crystarium tree which looks like star constellation. So wrong was I when almost maxed level both of my characters, and found them a little squishy side. After hours of research over the internet, different roles on Large nods of the constellation tree has additional bonus depending on which role you place it. From this lesson I had to replay the entire game again, since I’m pretty much a perfectionist. (SO GUYS PLEASE PLAN ON YOUR BUILD BEFORE throwing all your role points into the leveling system).
Soundtrack was marvelous, but I felt it was pretty redundant in the mid-game where battle songs keeps on repeating it self over and over again. Some recognizable music from FFXIII was also in this game. Story wise, well considering my theory was that developers got no more further advancement of the genuine story line, they had to go and throw in the element of time paradox and time travel, where you have alternate story line which further confuses players with “what ifs” scenarios. Exploration has been expanded in this installment.
Also a golden saucer make its comeback in this game which has been renamed to Serendipity. Players now can waste endless time on virtual money to blow on slot machine and chocobo racing. Other then that, we have puzzle temporal rifts, were players would need to solved it in order to progress to the story line. Some are ridiculously hard but doable just get ready to spend some long time and effort in solving em especially the clock puzzle.
All in all, its a decent JRPG and a not too bad installment for Final Fantasy fans that needs a filler in their life after Square Enix failed miserably on FFXIV. Overall 7+0.5/10 (+0.5 because the game has a MOOGLE!!!)
Yes you heard it right, I shall declare this year to be the “Year of Zombies”
Reason given there are so many many and I must say, many Zombie stuff going on the mainstream entertainment of today. Before venturing further let me give you a quick run down on some facts about zombie.
– It is typically a reanimated corpse, or a human being who is being controlled by someone else by use of magic.
– It feeds on living things
– It usually be in groups & uncoordinated.
– Zombies are slow. The fastest one can speed-stumble, but they generally can’t move as fast as a human jogger.
– Zombies react to sound.
– Zombies can use basic tools (rocks, knives).
– Zombies hate fire.
– Being bitten from a zombie causes eventual death.
– Zombies can be killed by a bullet or sharp blow to the head. “Kill the brain, and you kill the ghoul”.
And there you have it, the interesting facts of the zombie. Anyway, here are a few listed games, anime, movies that has persistent into the lately booming trend.
In the terms of gaming scene:-
Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition earlier this year
Dead Rising 2
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (A quest which includes Plant vs Zombie Spoof)
Call of Duty black ops (Developer, Treyarch never fails to add this since its previous game Call of Duty: World at War)
