Mass Effect 3:Review

Hi  guys and welcome to the future, welcome to the best shooter, welcome to the best Si-Fi, welcome to the best game I have ever played; welcome to Mass Effect 3.
I know, that was quite a build up but this game is... Words can barley describe how I felt while I played this game.
Before I start the review I would just like to say that this review will be totally SPOILER FREE   


I want to be able to talk about all the good things in the game without hinderence so I will get the one, yes one bad thing out of way, the shame is, is that is a quite anoying feature in the game, but it is still the most flawless game ever.
   The bad thing is, as you play through the story you get the next mission in the story, so far this sounds like your normal game, but the main story missions are marked as priority, and it litterally means it, if you don't do it and instead do one of the many side missions, you will be penilised, let me tell you this, one mission needs you to defuse a bomb, I chose not to straight away and instead when and did a few side missions. I still regret that, and don't think that it is just in the back of the game somewhere sorting things out, one of the main characters actually said that they debated helping me after not sorting the bomb. This iritated me on numerous occasions. There is a mission close to the end where you can do all the side missions with out hinderence, but a) you want to be able to do side missions when ever you want and b) it isn't made that clear that you are free to do them.
     Anyway I said that was the only bad thing about the game and it is. The rest is all pure brilliance, the voice acting is sublime, the faces  are as ever the best I have seen in a game(Yes better that Uncharted 3). Now let me adress the ending, which I assume you have heard about. Let me just repeat this review is totaly SPOILER FREE. The ending is a superb one there are a few problems with it but not enough to make you think it is a scam. Where the problem lies, is the number of endings available, there aren't enough, if you are only planning of playing this game once you will not know what all the fuss was about, if you play it repeatadly you will start to notice the flaws. There are certain things that no matter what you choose in any of the games, will happen. And that is kind of a bummer, but this is still a great game to play.
       Now onto the Multiplayer, this mode made a conspicious enterance to the game, and let me say now I think the game is better for it, the only kind of multiplayer is a survival mode, with 10 waves of increasing enemies, this is not a new idea, but it is possibly the best exectued survival mode I have played, the guns come in random packages, so you have no idea what you are going to get, you also get perks so to speak which auto-refil your ammo or give you certain abilitys. It is a great mode which you really should play.
      That brings me to the end of my review, now lets look at the score.
Graphics: The best I  have seen in a game.                                                                                          10/10
Sound: The best lip syncing I have seen in a game with a very immersive feeling to it.                            10/10
Multiplayer: Very good but could have had more modes.                                                                     8/10
Legnth: If you do all the missions it will take you 25-30 hours to complete, but without side missions will take 15-20.                                                                                                                                                9/10
Story: Sublime that will make you want to cry at one point or another.                                                 10/10
This gives a total of 9.4/10 the highest score I have ever given a game. Play it, play it now.
Thank you for reading.
Ed

Run up to E3 2013: Part 1

Hi guys
 As I'm sure you are aware E3 is approaching, this I would say is the biggest gaming event of the whole year, and this year I thought I would make sure that going into E3 you would know what games you want to keep an eye on. In this first post on E3 I will be talking about Watch_Dogs, Assasssins Creed IV and Destiny, I will be covering some Xbox games as well in a future post, so be sure to check back soon.                                                                 

Watch_Dogs

First up is Watch_Dogs, this game is set in the city of Chicago which is all being controlled by a computer called the ctOS which you just happen to have access to. That will mean that you will be able to hack ATM machines, stop trains, raise bollards, and I'm sure much more. We know very little at the moment about what drove Adian Pearce(The main character) to do what he did, but that is I'm sure what we will be hearing about at E3. All we know now is that there is a family involved somewhere along the road. This is a game that will be launching November 22nd 2013, for current gen and PC, it could be the same date for the PS4 release, but for now we don't know.

Assassins Creed IV Black Flag

Next on in the spot light is Assassins Creed IV Black Flag, this is a game that I am very much looking forward to. It will see our totally new Assassin Edward sailing the seven seas in search of all the best pirate loot. We haven't seen any actual in game footage of this game, but we should be seeing some at E3. I am also very certain there will be a playable demo for any of you who are going. Those of you with a keen memory will remember that last year at Sonys press conference we saw the naval battles for the first time. I doubt it will be more Naval gameplay because we have seen it before. However I wouldn't write of there being some exclusive AC gameplay at Sonys press conference.

Destiny

Last up for today is Destiny, now this game we have see the least about. We saw a very short trailer at the announcement of the PS4 but since that we have seen nothing except a dev diary. I am very excited about this game, it is from the publisher of CoD and the developers of Halo, surely a recipe for success if ever there was one. This is almost certain to feature at Sony press conference this year, and I can't wait to hear more about it.

      That's it for now but I will be talking about other games in the lead up to E3, so do check back soon to read more.

Thanks for reading

Ed

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Assassins Creed IV trailer: Under The Black Flag

Hi guys
 Yes that is right there has been another new trailer on the current and next gen game Assassins Creed IV, this trailer I have to say is much more to my fancy than the previous one; the trailer sees Edward in many ways, mostly on the sea or in battle. Both of which are a true pleasure to the eye, the whole trailer is narrated by Edward himself, which is the most we have ever heard Edward speak. I have to say one of my problems with ACIII was Connors voice, there seems to be no such problem here. I really can't wait for the release of this game in late October. So I give to you, for your enjoyment the new ACIV trailer, Under the Black Flag

What do you think of the new trailer and the game as a whole? Leave it down in the comments below.
Thanks for reading
Ed
 

Assassins Creed IV Black Flag: The Golden Age of Pirates trailer

Hi guys
Yes this is another new trailer in the world of gaming, this one though is a bit more confirmed than the PS4 trailer. This is a new trailer for Assassins Creed Black Flag, a trailer which if I do say so myself is a very very good one. It is a trailer that is nearly entirely in a monochrome or shadow effect. The first half of the scenes taking place on some old paper with ink being displaced on the paper. While the second half are a mix between art work for the game and actual game footage. Of course no actual gameplay is shown but we are introduced to some of the characters we will be meeting in our journey through piracy; Benjamin Hornigold, Calico Jack, Charles Vane and Blackbeard.
     This game is shaping up to be one of if not the best AC to date, join me when the game is released on October 29th to play together. With out further a do here is the trailer.

I hope you like it as much as I do.
For now,
Ed

Major PS4 news: Possible leaked trailer

Hi guys

There has been a leaked trailer for the PS4, which has been called the E3 trailer, there are some really looking shots of the PS4. I would like to stress that there is no confirmation to this trailer, but here are some shots of what the PS4 could look like.

I can't wait for E3 to see if this is real and if not what it will look like.

Ed

Battlefield Diary:C4 madness

Hi guys Rick here talking to you from inside the machine...
     There are days from time to time when the Computer thinks that I should look like a total dork to all my fellow soldiers. The way he does this is by making me use a very bad gun, or on this particular day C4. Now I have been through the basic explosive training and I passed with OK grades, but I am no way near good enough to be using nothing but C4 until the Computer tells us the "Score" limit has been reached. I don't know if you have ever picked up some C4, but it is pretty heavy, and I have lost quite a bit of muscle since my original training, so I'm not that strong any more. So I can't really through the C4 a very long way, I can through it about 5 feet but no further. Now that may sound a long way but when you are facing people who are armed with long range weapons, it is very inadequate. On a side note, I do know some special black ops teams who can through their C4 very long way, but anyway I can't.
     So here I was in the middle of a quite nice looking Parisian cafe, with nothing but C4 in my hand, and then someone burst in to my lovely little cafe and killed me. Right there in cold blood; well it may not have been cold blood because I had a load of C4 in my pockets, but non the less. So then I was in a half sunken boat slap bang in the middle of the Seine, so I thought it would be best if I tried to keep my body in the same shape it was in now. So of I ran and started swimming in the Seine to the nearest ladder. Unfortunately because of how cold the water was, I was very slow climbing up the ladder, and in that time some sniper in the far flung corner of the map managed to line up a shot on me. That trend continued for most of the match, until I managed to sneak up on the very same sniper in the corner who killed me! There I was, sneaking up on this very stationary person, with his scope sticking out the window(no euphemism intended). I was then right behind my very first C4 target, the sweat was congregating on my brow. My legs shaking from the adrenaline, this was it, the moment I had been waiting all day.
     That was it it was over I had my first kill with C4, the only problem of the matter was that I forgot that you had to walk away from the C4 before blowing it up, so I did kill myself, but that is a small matter. For the rest of the match I did manage to get a few kills in there but not as many as I would have liked. Then that was the end of my day, the Computer allowed me to stop using C4 much to my thanks. That was my day, I hope you have enjoyed my second diary I will be continuing this diary soon so do check back.
Rick
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Battlefield 3 Diary

Hi guys

Just a quick fore word before this post, this is a new series I'm hoping to continue with where I write as though I am a solider in Battlefield, for the purpose of these posts my name is Rick. Without further ado here you go.

     Hi guys my name is Rick

I'm going to be talking to you today about my experiences on the 'field. I'll be talking you through my day to day routines of killing and being killed. As much as I try I tend to be more in the latter bracket than the first. That is a small problem though, and one which I'm sure will be ironed out soon.

     My day starts with a quite sudden wake up, usually in the middle of a battlefield, the Computer decides what equipment I am aloud to use, it can be good at times but other times I am landed with some weird guns.  The rest of my morning consists of being filled with lead, and attempting to get some lead into other people. Today in the afternoon, I am usually given a sniper to see what I can do with it, I can get some pretty nice shots on people, and I love it when the Computer decides I am good enough with that gun to get some new attachments for it, they start of pretty bad attachments but they do get better the more I use it. I think my eyes aren't quite what they used to be, because when ever some bullets come flying near me, my vision blurs very badly.
     My favourite thing to do is go prone near a flag and then anybody who comes near me will die pretty quickly as they rarely see me. One thing I always hate is when someone puts down some explosives near a flag and then blow it up when I'm on it. For some reason the Computer likes to watch us fight for key points on a map. I don't know what the Computer did with these maps, but some of them look in a terrible state, there are a couple of areas I have been in that even look like an earthquake has ripped straight through the middle! Although the Computer likes to see up fight, it doesn't like to see us stray to far from the action, there is always a point where you will die if you go past. The Computer does give us some warning, but if we don't turn back when he tells us to he does kill us. I don't quite know how I keep on coming back to life, some times there are other team mates who stab me with some paddles and then I fell all fine again. On other occasions though I die then suddenly I am in a totally different place. These places can be very near other team mates, but most are quite a long way from my friends. My day can go on very late, depending on what mood the Computer is in, but most of the time I am able to get some sleep before the next day starts again.
      So that is the end of my day, it starts all over again the following day, when I am woken very suddenly, and the whole process starts again. I hope you have enjoyed hearing about my day, I will be talking to you more in the coming weeks about my adventures on the 'field. Until then, good bye.
Rick