Minecraft Giant Creeper Head with a Sword

So, this is part of my minecraft city in the ocean. Sorry about the vines but yes, this is a giant creeper head with a diamond sword in it. I couldn't think of any other way to hate creepers by building their head and a sword stabbing it in a enormous scale.

Left 4 Dead 2 Review

Left 4 Dead 2 is made by valve, an independent gaming company. The genre is the first person zombie shooter which may not seem very original but it is to me. I want to keep this short so, the graphics are good but not too good but that may be from my computer (neon zombies don't scare me). The special zombies, especially the tanks, put in a good fight so that it's challenging but not dangerous since there are multiple every where. The gameplay is smooth and fluent with classic fps controls for the computer. The sound track matches the environment and the scene very well and the environments are never the same from campaign to campaign. The enemies, like the witch, add a sense of horror since you know there is one around and you just know you will bump into because you are in the dark. The zombies also spawn randomly thanks to the AI director so every play through is different. The weapons are various and has the valve charm for the melee weapons. The gamemodes are entertaining and for-filling for example, mutation, the gamemode this changes every week so you have something to do when it updates. It also supports user data so there are more hours of fun.

In short, the environment differs from everywhere, enemies add a sense of suspense, every play through is different, gamemodes are amazing and there are a lot of weapons. This is totally worth the $19.99 if you have 3 friends who have or will have that game, willing to play with you.


80/100 pain pills (just because I can't find people to play with for expert.)
By the way, 200th post coming soon...

Toronto Comic Con

Why hello there.
It's Archaen here, I know it's still been a while since I posted, but whatever. Just posting to let you know I'll be at Toronto Comic Con with Rinzler both tomorrow and Sunday... and I'll be dressed as The Doctor. So... yeah, I'll post some nerdy pictures and stuff, some awesome cosplaying, and maybe even some pre-release game footage (Please don't shoot me copyright-type people)! Also, I might play a fighting game tournament, just to annoy people, 'cause I don't know how, so I spam the buttons and some how manage to win. So, yeah, that's a thing.

Kid Icarus: Uprising Review Imminent!

It's been a while since the game's release, but believe me, I have definitely been working my way through Kid Icarus: Uprising's vast amount of content in my spare time. The review should be up in the next few days (maybe even today! Woo!), so just be patient and believe me, it's coming!

We're not dead!

Early Look at Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Cards!

I recently placed a pre-order at EB Games for the upcoming 3DS game Kid Icarus: Uprising, and the person at the store gave me something extra for pre-ordering, that I wasn't actually supposed to get...

You see, those cards in the video I made below are supposed to be distributed to people who participate in Kid Icarus gameplay at GameStop and EB Games stores in early April, but I got them now, before the game has even been released, instead. So yeah, that's a good thing. :D

As mentioned above, this is a quick video about the cards that has been posted to YouTube! Enjoy the early look at these cards in their physical form!

Kid Icarus: Uprising: Early Look at AR Cards!

Left 4 Dead 2

I just got Left 4 Dead 2 a week or so ago. I'm planning on beating the whole game in the March Break. The only thing standing between me and victory is my game crashing. It shall be my new nemesis, OS paged pool memory low or whatever you are called. The review may come in the near future but don't have your hopes up.

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Star Trek Online: Uniforms

In Star Trek Online, if you haven't guessed already, it is possible to edit your uniform by visiting a tailor. The tailor allows you to edit the uniform of you and your crew. This is accomplished by picking a template, choosing a colour palette, and swapping the palette, in some cases. Every week, I will post a new canon uniform guide. The uniform guide this week is from the episode All Good Things and Endgame, the last episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager, respectively. That's all for now, folks.

Command Uniform:

Sciences Uniform:

Operations Uniform:

MotorStorm Artic Edge

MotorStorm is a series of aggressive racing games. Since I never played any of the other games for more than an hour this will not be judged against any of the other games. Likely for all you folk, I have played it on PSP andPS2 so I know both sides of the game. The game is like a see saw. The gameplay is great since all vehicles are fun to play and have different attributes. The small vehicles are fast but crash easily. Trucks and snowplows are slow but can run over the small vehicles.

The maps are fairly large but not too large that you drive for minutes before you actually reach the finish. Even if that happens (which it shouldn't) the boost makes forward driving faster. The AI makes the difficulty slope quick for finishing minutes before everyone to finish with nanoseconds ahead. Even the easy AI is hard since you can still crash from the maps. They have cliffs, mud slides, avalanches, ice, random pieces of metal and really bad respawn points. An example of that is I was doing a speed race. I didn't make a turn quick enough and they threw me in front of a jump, I couldn't get enough speed to jump so I hit the edge of the jump, killing my car and I fell into an abyss. This made me rage quit. Back to the subject, there is enough to keep you winning in the maps.

The controls are good. The only problem is looking around, since you can't look back and steer since you either use your steering thumb to look back or your boosting hand which slows you down. This results in them passing you or you crashing. I hope you are too distracted to turn back and look at the on coming wave of things trying to A) run you over B) kick you C) push you to your doom or D) win the race. One problem I noticed on PS2 and not on PSP is the screen shots. I used to get pictures of random things but the PS2 can't do that.

The graphics aren't half bad. Remember, you'll be comparing this to the PS3 if you seen one. This is the PS2 the slower older brother of the PS3. The music is catchy and never gets old. I'll just let it stop there.

I give this game 90/100 flying cyclist

Star Trek Online Review: Part II

The types of ships available through the C-Store are mostly redresses and refits, but some features are exclusive and cannot be obtained in any other way, such as the ability to replace "NCC" with "NX" on your ship's hull. Another interesting feature I noticed is the ability to change the ship's pattern (the design that is visible from the bird's eye view, on the saucer section). It is also possible to use parts from other ships in the same category, such as using a Constitution-class hull, but Vesper-class nacelles and Excalibur-class struts.

Star Trek Online uses multiple types of currency, but the most widely used are Energy Credits. The other types are: Dilithium Crystals, Gold Pressed Latinum and Cryptic Points. Cryptic Points aren't required, but they do make things easier on you. In order to obtain Cryptic Points, you either need to trade for them using Dilithium Crystals, or purchase them with a credit card. From what I've found out through the game's forum, things aren't terribly expensive. Many things in the game that are purchasable with Cryptic Points (CP) are 400-600 points, which is roughly 2-4 dollars, depending on your currency. Energy Credits (EC), are what you get when you sell weapons/equipment. You can also use your replicator to recycle items to free up inventory space or earn EC. Dilithium Crystals (DC) are refined from Dilithium Ore, obtainable through some missions. You are limited to refining 8,000 DC per day (24hrs), which sucks, but the DC you are allowed to refine can be exchanged for CP, which are roughly 250-60 DC.

Overall, the game is worth it, if you are willing to invest a lot of time (I mean, A LOT) into it.

Graphics - 90/100 (on max. setting)
Story - 85/100
Personality (custom settings, ships, characteres) - 100/100

Overall - 92/100

*Download link is here*

Star Trek Online Review: Part I

Last week (1/18/12) was, as you should know, the Wikipedia blackout. However, a lesser known fact is that Star Trek Online went free-to-play the day before. Although STO is nothing new, (their 2-year anniversary is next month) I thought it would be interesting to give it a try. So I downloaded it, hoping it would provide me some entertainment to make up for the time I would usually spend looking up random astronomical phenomena on Wikipedia. Little did I know, it was going to be more than just a little entertainment...

The graphics are dependent on your hardware, but other than that, you are able to run free. You can choose your character's appearance, gender (I would hope so...) and career (Tactical/Command, Sciences/Medical, and Operations/Engineering), and later on in the game, you are able to choose to be a Klingon character. The game's leveling system is fairly simple. There are 7/8 ranks (I'm not quite sure how many Admiral ranks there are), and you gain skill points by completing missions. Each rank has 10 grades, and each rank grants you an additional ship, and a new officer. Your ship is set by default to a Centaur-class, a Miranda-class or a Shi'Kar-class vessel. After advancing to the rank of Lt. Commander, you are able to switch to a Light Escort, Cruiser or Light Science Vessel, and are able to choose between:

Cruisers:
Constitution refit-class (like the movie version of the Enterprise)
Constitution-class (like the Original Series, but this requires Cryptic Points, but I'll get to that later)
Excalibur-class (viewable in the background on the main STO website)
Vesper-class (like a mix between Excelsior and Constitution-refit)
Exeter-class (requires Cryptic Points, a refit of the refit Constitution)

Light Science:
Nova-class (like the USS Equinox, for those who watch Star Trek: Voyager)
Nova refit-class (essentially the same, except for a bit of added armour)

That's pretty much it for Part I, I'll either get Archaen to do Part II, or finish it when I don't have to leave for exams.

Australia Day

Today is Australia day or something along the lines. It is a little know holiday so I thought I'll give a shout out to all the Australians that visit our site. You guys are our third country with the most views. Also, the sniper in Team Fortress Two is from Australia. Sorry for that somewhat random fact.

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast Review

I promised to review some games so here is a start. (reminder, lazy readers should read last paragraph) I'll start with the pros before the cons. The first pro I see the title itself. Anyone who knows the Half-Life series should be delighted to play another one of their, crow bar bashing games. The "2" part of the title isn't unusual since there is about, six games that start with "Half-Life 2:" The "Lost Coast" part is a bit odd but with reading you find out it is an alternate path that you can take which gets you pumped. A Half-Life 2 alternate path, which means there must be so much to do.

The sound and graphic quality is at it's peak. This is what you expect from Valve and more, complete with scenic views and calm open water to gaze at, but not to swim in (learned by experience). The colors are a bit soft but it fits. I want to explain more but it's just good to look at but not in a way that it stops you from killing the enemies so you can stop and view the ocean and get shot tons of times. This game takes advantage of your graphic and sound card in a very intense game.

Now for the cons, game play is a minor one since it confuses you with different weapons from the story that normally are there at that point. The enemies are the same as the story, combine overwatch and a hunter chopper. There is no new enemy so don't expect much, but since this is a separate game they should have made at least one new enemy. Besides the weapon thing, there isn't anything new. The biggest issue to me is the game length. Even though I tried exploring every corner I still finish the game in about 45 minutes. It's not a quite a full game nor a demo. The puzzles are way too easy, which I found by mistake and the end is a let down.

The quality is nice, it displays nice visuals and audios. There aren't any surprises so don't expect any. The game length is enough to satisfy most people so don't delete too many things to download it. It's a good demo of the physics engine which shows Half-Life without any bugs.

Overall 80/100 crowbars

Emulators

Over the Christmas holidays when I wasn't playing Cave Story 3D or watching Star Trek movies, I found myself playing Pokemon Crystal on my phone. I downloaded an emulator from the Android Market, link is here:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bslapps.gbc&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5ic2xhcHBzLmdiYyJd

Anyway, emulators work well on most computers with a decent amount of RAM and most Android devices running 2.2+.

If you don't have an Android phone, you're pretty much out of luck. But if you have a Mac or PC, you can go to http://www.coolrom.com/ and download most emulators and ROM files there. If you want to play Pokemon Diamond or Pearl, you need to tweak the emulator a bit, but it works if you know how to do it. Sadly, there is no app to download ROM files on the Market, so you have to use the above website, or another source to transfer them to your device. Anyway, that's all for now, thanks for reading and remember to follow us on Twitter and Google+.

A New Year

This is a new year and a fresh start. First of all I'll like to congratulate you viewers for giving us 1,029 viewers in the month of December. 2012 will be filled with many good games hopefully if not, well, we won't talk about the ones that aren't good. The Mayan calendar is a good topic to talk about too. First of all, I probably live in a different time zone than you so if you live west of me, you'll meet your possible doom first. Now that's out of the way, I want to announce that I have a boat load of PC games from steam great gift pile. Look forward to many reviews.