Assassin’s Creed 2

For all we know, Ubisoft has been great in developing a action, stealthy game with killing moves that are out of this world. Well, their world is big with all of this games they have been producing, Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, and so on. But Assassin’s Creed is a bit different, because like the first Title, assassin’s Creed is a big sandbox game like, Prototype. It’s got their very own world within a game, while converting real events into the scene. A suited game for a suited RPG genre may I add?

The game setting’s set on a renaissance era of Italy, Venice, Rome and other part of the places, not like in the first Title; it sets in the Arabian lands. We played as a man named Ezio Auditore da Firenze, which comes from a wealthy family. Have a brother, a sister, a loving mother, and unknowingly father as an assassin. Ezio is not an assassin, yet. But he’ll get there, with of course, a shocking event that turn him into an inexperience assassin. 

But before all that happens, remember Desmond Miles? This is the original main character at the present world which was captured and become a test subject for a cooperation company. We know that Desmond would be killed after the evil dudes got what they want, but surprisingly, Lucy Stillman, the apprentice, help us escape as she is one of us, an assassin. She want to take us to the assassin’s lair in, umm, nowhere cause didn’t mention any except it’s in a big warehouse. After that, we met with the rest of the crew, a geek looking funny man named Shaun Hastings and an extreme exciting woman named Rebecca Crane that creates the Animus 2.0 (A machine that see memories of our ancestors; version 2). Which both in this game functions as a supportive character that helps us find the answer we’re searching for. 

Crysis 2

 

Last month I post a review about the original Crysis, and I promised you about having to put a review on Crysis : Warhead also, but something came up and I had to skipped it to our newest series, Crysis 2, the continuity of the futuristic nanosuits technology. We know all about these nanosuits, am I right? We’ve played Crysis before and we had custom ourselves with the suit. Having to cloak ourselves around the Langshin island, jump high and then change our armor drastically into hard rock and anti bullet kind of thing. Crysis gives us only an option to choose the power we want, but Crysis 2 is a little bit different in the system. Not entirely, but I’ll give you the details later.

So, the world of Crysis 2 lies in the urban area of New York, like in the trailers, alien invasion has occurred, why, and what happens to the humans? Gone? Killed? These are the questions I’ve been hoping to find out, but when you started the game, a cutscene of several news pops up and trying to tell us something. It’s kind of havoc, but nice opening I may say. From what I gain from the cutscene is that the world was infected by some freaking dangerous virus that seriously deforming humans into something else, freakezoids? Well, I don’t know exactly at that time, and after the cutscene is finished, we ended up on FPS sight of a man named Alcatraz. Waking up without knowing anything about this guy Alcatraz and of course, everything around him, we cloud ourselves inside a USS submarine to be sent to the coast of New York to help our dying friends in the nanosuits regimen. To be made a story, the submarine was attacked by some big alien dropship and we panicking to stay alive, as of that many died and some survive. Thanks to a familiar face, Prophet, our captain in the first Crysis, help us and get us to safety, which in the side of things, he was infected, saying about ending a mission and give a hell of a fine suit to us. And after that he killed himself! And I was like ‘WTF’! He just given us this freaking damn huge mission to a marine like me? Well, before that Crytek had told us, an answer comes later. Lol

Dragon Age 2

First of all, I am really sorry for the delay, as of course I have promised you before that I would post the reviews last 3 weeks. But due to the busyness I had, (exams and what not), I had to skip the promise. Sorry again.

But enough of that, today I’m gonna write something about Dragon Age 2. We all have been waiting for this Title release and last month, Malaysia had been given a chance to have the opportunity to get me one of the copy. To say the least, thank you. Because I just got the most awesome game ever made in BioWare’s RPG franchise. The graphic detail, the user interfaces, the gameplay, man, I got owned!! All I can say is, it’s more fun and more blood. 

Intel Enthusiast Gaming Rig

I really don’t know why they call it enthusiast gaming rig, but maybe because of freaking high budget they use for some reasonable (high end) additional parts for this rig. But it worth the bugs you spend on the pricing over $1300 bugs (maybe about RM6+++). A little bit unreasonable but the specs are good, with a hell lot of researching, I create two kinds of high-end gaming rig with Intel and AMD core inside each of them. Thanks to PCWizKid’s, I can search for some of the most wanted hardware out there for these enthusiast rig, which PCWizKid’s describe it on the net. Maybe my specs have nothing different compare to the site specs, but I might add or change some on certain hardware to satisfy my needs as well as yours. If you want to look at the original specs, go to the PCWizkid’s Tech Talk forum and get their PC configuration on their site.

Moreover, the price didn’t come from me, but from the list I gathered from the top shops of affordable prices internationally (mostly from Plaza LowYat and the net). So don’t blame me if you don’t get the same price as listed. So expect off budget. The hardware components are some of the premium parts which are more expensive than the mid type of gaming rig. This is because everything on this premium hardware can cost extra bugs.

Intel Enthusiast Rig

• Intel Core i7-950 3.06GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
• ASUS Sabertooth X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
• CORSAIR DOMINATOR 4GB (2 x 2GB) or 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
• MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) N560GTX-TI Twin Frozr II/OC Video Card 1GB 256MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x 16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
• HITACHI Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0GB/3.5” Internal Hard Drive or Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0GB/3.5” Internal Hard Drive
• CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W Power Supply
• NZXT Phantom PHAN-001WT White Computer Case
• LG Black Blu-ray Disc Combo SATA Model 

Crysis

It took me weeks just to write this review, because right I have my own issues. But hell with that, today I’m going to do a review on Crysis. Yes, the 1^st one on the Crysis series. Its been out for years now but the game is just one of the most stunning games I’ve ever seen. Oops, correction on that, we’ve ever seen. Solid detailed weapons, intelligent AI’s, and vast open level designs. On top of that, with the nano-suit powers, the game made an impact that this one is the most or more entertaining ballistic FPS in some time. (Because I still remember every bits in Crysis after 3, no, 4 years after its released date).

Thumbs up for Crytek, the developer of Crysis franchises, they figured out how to create an outstanding story that helped immerse us into a “realistic” and booming near-future. The game features every bit of details, from the characters voice acting, game cut scenes that is well designed, and the aliens that are trying to rip you to pieces are truly dangerous as Crytek use powerful smart AI system that never let you down on any action within the game. Crytek put us into one of the character POV to make us understand the reason, the pain, and the effort they pushed into this action packed game as it helps the game progress even better, forward into the next action. All of this made a gamer like me appreciate the effort Crytek put inside this huge FPS.