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Mirror’s Edge Review – Amazing Sense of Motion

Feb
01

Mirror's Edge Review and Information. Details Regarding the game and an exclusive review!Mirror’s Edge is a first-person action-platformer video game, which was developed by EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) and was first announced in July 2007. Published by Electronic Arts (EA), the game was released in November 2008 for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 home gaming consoles, followed by a PC release in January 2009. Mirror’s Edge is using the Unreal Engine 3 with new enhanced lightning by Illuminate Labs.

Mirror’s Edge is a game never before seen in the history and portfolio of Electronic Arts. DICE are known for their continuous development of their successful Battlefield franchise, and despite that, they decided to depart from it and try to make something fresh in order to spice up the First-Person Genre. That is where Mirror’s Edge comes in.

Killing Floor Review – Money Money Moneey..

Jan
11

Review and Detailed Information about Killing Floor GameKilling Floor is a cooperative survival first-person shooter game powered by the Unreal Engine 2.5. Developed and published by Tripwire Interactive, Killing Floor was first released as a mod in 2005 for Unreal Tournament 2004. In its early stages, the mod became popular after appearing in game magazines. The Mod version of Killing Floor had its final official fifth update in July 2008.

The full retail version of Killing Floor was announced in March 2009 and released on the 14th of May, 2009 on Steam. Killing Floor uses a Heavily Modified version of Unreal Engine 2.5, which is originally a game engine developed by Epic Games.

Killing Floor is a cooperative survival horror first-person shooter based on Co-op Multiplayer. The game offers a Solo-Single player mode, and an online cooperative multiplayer.

Elite Beat Agents – Energetic Enough?

Dec
14

Elite Beat Agents ReviewElite Beat Agents is a rhythm-based music video game developed by iNiS. Published by Nintendo, the game was released in North America on 6th November 2006 and in Europe on 13th July for the Nintendo DS gaming device. The game was first released as a Japanese rhythm game titled Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan in 2005. One year later it hits the rest of the world as “Elite Beat Agents”, but with contemporary audio-tracks, and in English. Elite Beat Agents was also released with the Touch! Generations label in North America. The label is a Nintendo brand, which is used to bring the game to more audience than the traditional gamers.

Like in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, Elite Beat Agents is a music game in which the player’s objective is to tap and drag the presented indicators on the Touch Screen in synchronization with the beat and rhythm from the corresponding audio track.

Tekken: Dark Resurrection – In the palm of your hands

Dec
08

Tekken Dark Resurrection Review for PSPTekken: Dark Resurrection is a fighting arcade game developed and published by Namco for the Sony PlayStation Portable gaming device as a port of the Sony PlayStation 2 title – Tekken 5. It is the fifth installment of the popular arcade fighting game, but technically it is the seventh game in the franchise. Tekken: Dark Resurrection was released in July 2006 in North America and in September 2006 in Europe.

Tekken: Dark Resurrection is a port of Tekken 5 for the Sony PlayStation Portable, thus it follow the same story as it, but with a couple of additional elements. Lili Rochefort wants to help her father Sergei Dragunov and end his financial problems by killing Mishima Zaibatsu. Also her father is a Spetsnaz member who was sent to capture Jin Kazama.

F.E.A.R. – Get ready to chop your nerves off

Dec
07

F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) is a modern horror first person shooter developed by Monolith Productions. Published by Vivendi Universal, the game was released in October 2005 for Windows, and was ported for the Sony PlayStation 3 in April 2007 and Xbox 360 in October 2006 by Day 1 Studios. There are two expansion packs for F.E.A.R. released by Timegate Studios, F.E.A.R. – Extraction Point in October 2006 and F.E.A.R. – Perseus Mandate in November 2007. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is the direct sequel of the game and was released in February 2009 by Monolith Productions.

F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) uses a proprietary engine developed by Monolith Productions, which later on formed a separate company named LithTech INC. to deal with the development of the engine.

Half-Life 2: Episode One – Half-Life 2 Continues

Nov
27

Half-Life 2 - Episode OneHalf-Life 2: Episode One is a science fiction first person shooter sequel to Half-Life.

It is the first installment of Valve’s episodic trilogy series.

Published by Electronic Arts, the retail version of the game was released in June 2006, and also online via steam.

Half-Life 2: Episode one is developed by Valve Corporation and is powered by their Source Engine technology.

Rhythm Heaven – Or is it Rhythm Paradise ?

Nov
27

Rhythm Heaven ReviewRhythm Heaven is a rhythm video game for the Nintendo DS portable gaming console. It is also known as Rhythm Paradise and Rhythm Tengoku in Europe and Japan.

Published by Nintendo, the game was released on 5th of April 2009 in America and on 1st of May 2009 in Europe.

Rhythm Heaven is one of the weirdest additions to the rhythm games genre. Nowadays when someone speaks of music and rhythm games, the first thing that comes in mind is “Guitar Hero”, but Guitar Hero is not the only title in the world that deserves some praise.

Half-Life: Blue Shift – Want to play as a Security Guard at Black Mesa?

Nov
26

Half-Life - Blue Shift ReviewHalf-Life: Blue Shift is developed by Gearbox Software and it’s an expansion pack for Valve’s science fiction first-person shooter video game – Half-Life. Published by Sierra Entertainment, the game was released on the 12th of June, 2001 and was the second expansion pack released for Half-Life.

Half-Life: Blue Shift uses Valve’s GoldSrc engine, which is a heavily modified Quake engine. The game was first announced in the Q2 of 2000 to be released as a Dreamcast port of the original version, but was later canceled, and the final product was brought to the PC.

Half-Life: Opposing Force – Ready to see what it’s like from the other side?

Nov
26

Half-Life - Opposing Force ReviewHalf-Life: Opposing Force is developed by Gearbox Software as an expansion pack for Valve Software’s science fiction first-person shooter video game Half-Life. Published by Sierra Studio, the game was released on the 1th of November 1999 and was the first expansion pack ever to be released for Half-Life.

Opposing Force was first announced in April 1999. Gearbox Software was selected to develop this expansion pack in order for Valve to concentrate on their other projects. Half-Life: Opposing Force uses Valve’s GoldSrc engine, which is a heavily modified Quake engine.

Half-Life – The first step of Valve’s Revolutionary Franchise

Nov
25

Half-Life ReviewHalf-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation and it’s the predecessor to the successful Half-Life 2. Published by Sierra Studios, the game was first released in November 1998 for PC and in November 2001 for the Playstation 2 ported by Gearbox Software. Half-Life uses a heavily modified Quake Engine version, which was named “GoldSrc” or “Goldsource”, and was able to render in two application programming interfaces, which are Direct3D and OpenGL. The successor of the GoldSrc engine is the Source engine ran by Half-Life 2. Half-Life won over fifty “Game of the Year” awards since its release, and sold over twenty million copies.

Half-Life 2 – Time for some good old Crowbar Action

Nov
25

Half-Life 2 ReviewHalf-Life 2 is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation and it’s the sequel to the successful Half-Life. The game was released in November 2004 after five years of development, but it could’ve been released one year earlier. It was delayed because of a leak into the internet of the game’s source code.

Half-Life 2 is available for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems and was ported to the Xbox, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in the Orange Box Compilation Package. The game won over forty “Game of the Year” awards for the year 2004.

Crysis – Amazing Visual Quality

Nov
24

Crysis By CrytekCrysis is a first-person shooter video game with science-fiction elements and is developed by Crytek. Published by Electronic Arts, the game was released in November 2007 for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems and it’s the first installment of a trilogy.

Following different perspectives from Crysis, Crysis Warhead was released in September 2008 as a sequel, and also a Multiplayer Expansion pack called Crysis Wars was released in a Compilation Package in May 2009.