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Is Dead Rising Online Experience Worthy Of GOTY Or Is It A Total Waste Of Time?

June 16th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Playstation 2 Games, Playstation 3 Games, Playstation Games

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This Dead Rising online article will teach you a little bit about the game and why I like it.

Dead Rising is a good game. I like this game because of the weapons and the storyline.

You play as photojournalist Frank West, a man with a hunch. He believes there’s a big scoop in the quiet peaceful town of Willamette, Colorado. He decides to head to the local shopping mall where (wouldn’t you know it?) zombies are.

He tells his chopper pilot  to pick him up in three days.

In those three days you have to uncover the mysterious origins of the zombies while trying to survive using a variety of weapons.

There’s a variety of weapons from chainsaws to pistols, Katanas to HDTVs to fight the swarms of zombies with.

Dead Rising Online And A Heap Of Zombies

There are a variety of missions to complete if you wanna uncover where the zombies came from.

Along the way you may need to befriend some survivors to gain some PP (Prestige Points) so you can achieve level ups, so you can get past a paticulary difficult bit.

Some of the missions are very annoying and frustrating because of how hard they are so you may lose your temper but in the end it’s worth it.

The graphics and animation are extremely good as well so you can really see what you’re doing to that stupid zombie.

Exploring the mall is great fun as you may be able to find a very effective weapon to a group of zombies or to maybe just one particular Zombie.

Dead Rising Online Map
Exploring is also a good thing to do as you can find various new places like North Plaza or Leisure Park.

There are a few secrets in Dead Rising such as PP stickers (which you take a picture of with your camera and gain PP points) and secret drink combinations.

Drink combination’s are using various items on a blender to create a drink with effects that will help you escape from zombies or do more damage to them.

Two of the drink combination’s are Quickstep (which increases your speed for a short amount of time) and spitfire (which does damage to zombies just by spitting on them.)

Psychos are some survivors who hate you and your survivor friends. Psychos try and kill you so you have to kill them before they can succeed.

Some psychos shoot at you, some try and cut you up and one psycho trys to kill you using mini chainsaws or a very big beach ball.

Dead Rising Online Scary Clown

Dead Rising Bloodbath
In Dead Rising there are also a few submissions that don’t have anything to do with the main storyline. These are called mini-scoops. These mini-scoops can be a range of things from Otis (the janitor) seeing a survivor on the security camera or you finding a psycho.

Completing these can award you some PP and sometimes a new outfit. Escorting survivors is sometimes dangerous to yourself or the survivors you’re escorting, because sometimes the survivors can’t get through somewhere so you have to risk your life to go back and rescue them.

However if you successfully escort a survivor (back to the security room) you will be awarded some PP. As I mentioned earlier you can level up by getting lots of PP. Leveling up is very useful because you can be awarded different things from more hp (Hit Points) to more inventory slots.

You can also be awarded skills from leveling up. Skills are good because they allow you to be more deadly with your hands and feet or maybe hitching a ride on the back of a zombie.

There are 3 different modes. 72 hour mode. Overtime mode. And infinity mode. 72 hour mode is the regular game mode with the storyline and the mini-scoops and you can’t play any other mode without completing this.

Overtime mode is the second mode and is only unlocked by not making it back to the helipad on day three. While in this mode you are able to run around the mall slaying zombies ang getting achievements.

Infinity mode is the hardest mode. In this mode you lose one square of health every 100 real seconds. If you manage to survive in the mall for 7 game days you can unlock one of the hardest achievements.

I think Dead Rising is a very good game on the Xbox 360. I rate this game excellent and a must have if you have an Xbox 360.

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A Heads Up About A Hip Game For The XBox 360 The Orange Box.

June 14th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Playstation 2 Games, Playstation 3 Games, Playstation Games

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It’s also available for PC and plays really quite well on there too, but I’m talking about the xbox360 version here.

This is great value as it is 5 games on one disc and buying pre-owned it is quite cheap.The orange box features Half-life 2, Half-life 2: Episode One, Half-life 2: Episode Two, Portal and the sequel to the classic Team Fortress, Team Fortress 2.

The games are fun as I am a big fan of the half-life series and the easy game play but the complex seeming story lines really captured me.

Being introduced to Portal was extremely fun mainly because of the portal gun that you can control.

I enjoyed Tem Fortress 2 but as I didn’t have xbox live at the time i couldn’t get all the benefits.

Sometime in your lifetime you will have had to have heard of Half-life or Half-life 2, so you will probably be able to grasp the concept of the latest game in the series.

Half-life 2: Episode Two picks up where you left off in Half-life 2: Episode One, but if you haven’t played or finished Half-life 2:  Episode One then that’s there for you to learn what’s been happening to Gordan Freeman (the main character and who you play as in the half-life series) and Alex Vance (Gordans friends daughter).

In Portal you play as a test subject trying to test newly developed ways to get around and benefit people……. APART FROM THE ONES THAT ARE DEAD! That last line is part of the portal ending song “Still Alive”. Anyway You must go through some easy and difficult puzzles with the “Portal Gun” which shoots blue and orange portals. The way it works is you jump though the blue portal and Viola you appear out the orange portal or vice versa.

In Team Fortress 2 (or TF2 for short) you  choose what class you are out of these 9: Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy Weapons guy (or heavy for short), Egineer, Medic, Sniper and Spy while you battle with other players either over system link or xbox live. You can play alone but then theres noone to fight with.

The ambush is my favourite bit of HL2 Episode 2. What happens is you and Alex Vance are on your way to White Forest, Black Mesa’s brother. The road you are driving is windy and you are about to pass the White Forest inn hotel when suddenly… BOOM!

You hit a force field and have to take cover in The White Forest Inn to avoid being killed by Hunters (little mechanoids that shoot Flechettes at you) and have to fight your way out.

My Favorite part of HL2: Episode One is when you have to escape city 17 on a train. It goes like this: you and Alex have just finished escorting survivors to trains and about to board your own.

Unfortunately there is a roller door blocking the way. You find the wheel that opens it and your about to run through yourself when wouldn’t you know it there’s a strider standing there. It then proceeds to blow the wheel up, so you have to run around and up freight containers to find a way to destroy it, so you can meet up with Alex and escape city 17.

My favorite part of HL2 is when you get the organic gravity gun which is so powerful i t can pick up human enemies and even hold balls of pure plasma. The sheer power from this thing is what makes me love that particular part so much.

My favorite part of portal is when you have to defeat GlADoS, the robot that controls most of the aperture science labrotories because she is about to flood the chamber with deadly nuerotoxins that she claims to be able “to eat this stuff on cereal”.

The creators of these five excellent games is valve.

In summary the XBox 360 The Orange Box Is A really cool game that I recommend that you play todau.

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10 Reasons Why You Should Choose Xbox

March 8th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Playstation 2 Games, Playstation 3 Games, Playstation Games

Many people don’t fancy the Xbox 360 simply because it’s made by Microsoft, however, before you turn to the dark side and buy a Playstation 3, check out these reasons why you should choose Xbox over Playstation.

1) The Xbox 360 is the cheapest next-gen console on the market. At only £130 for the Arcade package, it’s the cheapest next-gen console on the market.

2) Compete against the other 13 million players on the fantastic Xbox Live and see if you are the best at your games. You can play your favorite games online, chat with your mates, or even download new content for those games you love.

3) New Xbox Live Experience - Create and customise ake your own avatar with the great new Xbox Live experience, you can also play community games with other Xbox Live players.

4) High Definition Gaming - Play some of the best titles available on the Xbox 360 in crisp high definition picture.

5) Halo series – Exclusive to the Xbox 360, you can complete the fight with the legendary Halo 3 game. There are also other games like the upcoming Halo Wars that is exclusive to the Xbox 360 as part of the Halo series.

6) Amazing range of exclusive content including amazing titles like: Gears of War 1 & 2, Fable 2, Rock Band 2, Too Human, Ninja Gaiden 2, Banjo-Kazooie 3, Left 4 Dead and many more coming in the future including Alan Wake and Splinter Cell: Conviction.

7) Turn your Xbox into a media centre - Connect your Xbox 360 to your PC wirelessly and play music and videos from your PC.

8) Customise your Xbox 360 – You can customise your Xbox 360 with different colour controllers and special Xbox 360 face plates, allowing you to make your Xbox match your gaming tastes.

9) Xbox Achievements – Earn achievement points from the games you play and show off your score to all your buddies.

10) Xbox 360 accessories – Go to the next level with your Xbox 360 and get some of the must buy accessories like the Messenger Kit, Wireless Headset, Xbox Live Vision Camera, Xbox Live Official Steering Wheel and many more.

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Disadvantages Of Full Game Downloads

February 14th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Playstation 2 Games, Playstation 3 Games, Playstation Games

During an interview for Gamesindustry.biz, Peter Molyneux, maker of the Fable games, hinted that Xbox 360 owners could soon see full game downloads coming to Xbox Live.

During the interview, Peter said “I think it would be a great thing for this studio to work on. I can’t say anything else of it – I would be killed to death”.

At the moment, you can download some games from Xbox Live and the Playstation Network, however, the games available are limited to older titles and ones that take up less hard drive space.

Although some people may think that this idea is brilliant, the reality will being them out of the clouds.
At the moment, if you were to download a full Xbox game onto your hard drive, it would steal around 6GB of space and take a very long time to download.

Even though these problems could be worked around, considering the Elite Xbox has a 120GB hard drive, there are still problems that would need to be considered.

Firstly, the second hand market would disappear, as there would be no second hand games, this would also cause the prices of the games to stay the same.
Also, because the games would take up around 6GB each, the hard drives would not last long at all, people would be required to pay the rather large sum of £100 to get the 120GB hard drive, which would still only last around 20 games.
This will all lead to people deleting their games, many people won’t want to buy a new hard drive when it comes to getting a new game, and because of that, they will become more choosy when it comes to buying a game.

Plus, the idea would not work for the arcade systems which have no hard drives.

Even though there are many downsides to full game downloads, there is one upside. Because the game would be online, the prices of them may go down as there would be no costs for packaging.

Overall, I find it rather pointless. The only advantage I can see is that you don’t have to leave your house, but if your order online, you don’t do that anyway, plus the post would probably be faster than download.

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