Sunday, June 16, 2013

BioShock Infinite

Bioshock Infinite 


Background
Bioshock is a First person shooter series highly focused on a large variety of ways to combat a situation. It was developed by Irrational games and published by 2K games. To all those readers hoping for a relation to Bioshock 2 you can have your hopes crushed as this games has no relation. In fact it might even make for a better setting than the two previous games! Like previous games it revolves around using a ton of guns and magic powers to crush your foes. You play as Booker DeWitt trying to clear a past debt by kidnapping and delivering a girl to some mysterious people but finds out shocking truths and developments as the story progresses.

Specs Required
Minimum Specs
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel®Core 2 Duo E4600 or Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+
Ram: 2 GB
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce GT 340 or Raedon HD 3800 series

Recommended Specs
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 or AMD Athlon II X4 610e
Ram: 4 GB
Video Card: Radeon HD 6950 or Nividia GeForce GTX 560

My Opinion
Bioshock infinite is truly a breathtaking game. The starting introduces you to Booker DeWitt and his past debt. Then you must scale a lighthouse to find your object but you find nothing there? You ring the bells in the order described on the wall and all of a sudden a chair comes out of the ground? Suspicious...? All of a sudden red lights glow in the sky and world shakes as the bells keep ringing. Finally a door opens leading you into the chamber with the chair. You sit on it, it lock you in and you're rocketed into the Sky onto the Flying City of Columbia. Insane amounts of detail are put into the two minutes of you flying through the air in the rocket. details hones down to lines on the sidewalk to children playing in the streets with blimps flying overhead. 
The gameplay itself is as crazy as first person shooters get. You slide on these rails called Skylines and dont stop moving until you die! The amount of weapons and upgrades are overwhelming as new weapons are introduced every chapter as well as new enemies and abilities The way you use these is your ticket to succes.

Where to get it!
Yes it is available on Steam costing around $40-$60
Available on Amazon and the price is around $50
 
My Steam ID
LovepreetSD

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Warframe

WarFrame

Game Play
WarFrame is a third person shooter based in space. Due to its characters called the Tenno looking like ninjas, the game has been called Ninjas in Space in some instances. Although you can't disagree with it if you have played the game. As for the enemies you encounter three factions as well as mutations called infested.
Each faction is weak to different forms of attacks and abilities making it hard for someone to stick to one character and be the best everywhere. The game itself is very different from other FPS because it focuses PvE instead of the common PvP FPS's on the market. In this players work together to complete missions to obtain the rewards. The item system in this game is also very different. 
In this you must run missions and collect materials in them and assemble them in your "Foundry" to make an item. As you can see you must also wait a certain amount of time or you can rush the building with the currency called Platinum. WarFrame features a wide variety of characters to play all with a unique theme and abilities for each. Although obtaining one through free means takes quite a while. Another reason that this game is popular is because everything can be obtained through gameplay so instead of Pay to win its a Play to win game.
Specs Required
Minimum Specs
Processor: 1.8 GHz Intel®Core 2 Duo E4300 or Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+
Ram: 2 GB
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 605 512MB or Raedon HD 5450 512MB

Recommended Specs
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Q6400 or AMD Athlon II X4 605e
Ram: 4 GB
Video Card: Radeon HD 5750 1024MB or Nividia GeForce GTS 450

Where to get it!
Its Client is on Steam so of course its available on steam
The game is free so no need to buy it!

My IGN:SigmaChild
My Steam ID:SigmaChild

Monday, June 3, 2013

Street Fighter X Tekken

Street Fighter X Tekken


Background
Two long standing side scrolling fighters, have come together in an anniversary game. Street Fighter X Tekken with all of the main character from each series to brawl it out in a cross game fighter! The series was developed by Capcom and Namco. These long standing series were worked into a crossover fighting game focusing on the fighting aspects of Street Fighter such as Hadoken.



Specs Required
Minimum Specs
Processor: 1.8 GHz Intel®Core 2 Duo E4300 or Athlon X2 250u
Ram: 1 GB
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT or Raedon X1600

Recommended Specs
Processor: Intel Core E6750 or AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5800+
Ram: 2 GB
Video Card: Radeon HD 3850 or Nividia GeoForce 8800 G S

My Opinion
Being a seasoned veteran to both games series i leapt right in to the fray. Only to have my character's be beaten at world record speeds. The creators sure put emphasis from harder to hardest. On my second try i decided to take more caution and look through my character option instead of picking Ryu and Kazuya off the bat.

Not Every character from both games is available due to licensing issues. The storyline is based around an object called pandora and the worlds strongest fighters are fighting to reach it. The story varies depending on whether you pick a pair of characters or random ones to fight your way to the top with. Also for being a 2-D fighting games there is a lot of customizability as equipping gems to change your stats is possible. My favorite part is the difficulty of "Hardest" as the opponents block almost every and any move timely making it near impossible to land an attack. This really makes you get better as you find ways to get around defences through rigorous defeats!

Where to get it!
No it is not available on Steam and probably will not be in the near future!
Available on Amazon and the price varies greatly depending on whether or not its used  or new.

My IGN
SigmaChild
My Steam ID
SigmaChild