To be honest....

I have done something worthwhile lately ... meeting new people ,finding time to enjoy, better yet. i get to talk with lot more in person than before all because of one good book that i read recently. recommended by my friend. its about law of attraction by michael J. Losier.
to be precise.. it tells you about how to be convincingly good at something by just having the thought and likes of something better than spending time on something you dislike at most conditions.
the power of positive thinking to be exact. i then had the good feel to control every action coming in my way and thought in a better way.. if you like it.. try it....its my new motto.

Almost 6 months...

well people would probably think that..what the hell.. some low living piece of crap is making posts just to make money.. nah.. i ain`t that kind of person i am just a normal guy who wants to make his presence online while i am most of the time a normal guy in real life. i love the internet just because of the reason(maybe social networking sites) to see new people everyday and say hello to them. just imagine, would you love to be in a lonely room and see the same person again and again.. or have an opportunity to know about everyone you see around and have that person acquainted to you so much that by time it would be impossible for the persn to see you just as friend but a real intimate person..

and again why am i writing after such a long time i feel that it is high time i make my presence felt to the keyboard i use as well as the internet diary(blog) to know me better...
hope i do it very often and see that i am much known to the world in this life time...

Bionic Commando... Less time and Play....

At first i thought, seeing the logo of Capcom i was sure that this game, knowing that it has got and given its developers lots of acclaim for its best 3rd person action such as Devil may cry and such with its superb graphics and game play exploration, was very much disappointed. I will tell you why in little less than in 100 words from now...

Story:
the story is like this, the hero is Nathan Spencer, he is the last among the special operative force for the army called the bionic commandos... but sadly they are striped down from their position and are executed due to their wrong doing or whatsoever... he is about to be executed when something really bad happens in astenteon city and he is called in to the army again as the last hope to find or explore the devastated city(by nuclear weapon) for the source of the cause as well as the motive behind it... so here you are with a completely empty city(with some bad guys, of course!!!) to explore and help the military take back the city from the terrorist threat....(here too... stop pulling my legs!) in return to giving him, our hero`s, life back along with his so called missing wife.. who would say no to that...


Graphics:
the game design and its location is superb you would have a number of picture perfect areas like the waterfalls in the underground canyon, a residential park and the city sky scrapers and the lush green forest in the middle of a research facility... but even then there are somethings to taken care of like the weapons to look for and enemy robots in the vicinity...


Game play:
it is so simple like you are given a situation either to find something or deactivate something and nothing else... you are encountered with small groups of soldiers and robots to take down either by close contact with your bionic arm(that i mostly prefer like grapple, smash and throw) or the silly mechanics of shooting with your three switchable weapons a grenade type, a heavy weapon, a light weapon...
The exploration of an area is very limited but the game shows you with a false notion like you can climb any building but sadly you are not allowed so cause the radiation will kill you!!!!!
the boss battles are so simple.... (bleh!!! only took me about minutes or so... for me)

Combat system:
as said the three types of weapons are delivered to you from the military constantly... so you can switch weapons from the crates that are delivered....
mine is the tarantula, its the best and the sniper rifle is good too...

The game has got all the good things you need
1.Nice graphics
2.An okay Hero(if i might say, not that good)!!!
3.A good space to explore..in an so said open environment... (Eww!!! radiation)


the bad things however are
1.non adjustable graphic settings...well it still ran smooth but i prefer to say smooth and not great since i have to exit it once or twice seeing that it is heating my board like a hot cake in the oven...
2.Very rigid mode of transportation like swinging, and running.... i thought it would be more like Spider-man but it was not...
3. the area to explore was limited owing to the stupid radiation that gave us only a narrow way to travel

what i loved in this game was the menu navigation... with the bionic arm to navigate and select the options... cool....
also the city with its splendid lighting and areas where it was really great to have a walk through... and the Alienware systems being the official sponsor to game development...i am a huge fan of Alienware systems and seeing that in the banner makes me god damn sure that the graphics was ought to be good and wow!!! it was... (well occasionally!!!)

But hey people this game too has sadly got the same tag-line
"your Best friend is your worst enemy"
What a waste in story board!!!!

In making a difference.... Your Mind(Machine)

what is there to do on finding yourself in a dead end???

Ask yourself the question again and your mind comes up with an answer as quick as that. Ever wondered how is that possible???

I think i need to do a little bit of explaining... i don`t mean to say that you have to put yourself in the situation.. just think for a second every time you wonder what the answer could be you are given a choice or an answer to a problem you are in currently with.

Take for example this boring Blog you are reading now....

even before you know that it contains craps written by a crazy idiot, you know that's what it contains...

sometimes you would say that "i just knew the correct answer to the question"... you say its intuition, while others say its beginner`s luck.

It is the wondrous power of the Brain that we all know very little.... who knows that maybe there are large amounts of unread data in our brain just stacked up to be read sometime.... ever wondered this fact that even the greatest geniuses in the world like Albert Einstein and others used only about 4% of their brain...

I am just giving myself an odd theory that every thing we know now would have been known earlier or it would be recollected in the future somehow.

Damnation... Its OKay to play....

The game is really good in some sense and very poorly made in the sense of its very bizarre AI, where you need some time for them to react rather than the player(which is you to react..)

the game is quite simple in design. powered by the unreal 3 engine it has got all the required modes of play. It is simply a 3rd person action adventure, where you need to explore the given location to find a way up, or out so that you are either chased around or chased by someone behind you(they don`t always stick around your back..)

the story is about gaining the fortification of prescott, a ruthless leader of the Damnation era... the game has a feel of wild west and all the red indians running around with a mindless drug used to make them super soldiers. the hero is Hamilton Rourke, an outlaw as i told you in the civil war times who has the mission to take out the P.S.I from its strong hold in the US at these dangerous times. what makes the game itself boring is that the shooting and action is like playing ducks on a NES system... the enemies don`t always dodge and fight, they take the fire to them(literally speaking..)



Another interesting thing about the game is its serene locations and fast-paced bikes... i am a huge fan of Star-wars POD racing and when i first drove the bikes in this game i was taken aback,you can ride the bike almost in 360 degree in vertical as long as there is a surface to hang on to.

the weapons are innovative but the sounds are all the same... it looks like a lot of the games nowadays borrow their weapons from Doom universe...

the puzzles are not that tough to solve, they are quite like pulling levers and aligning clock works... but the major puzzle in the game is the navigation itself.. sometimes you are helped with a short video or a panned camera to tell you where to go.... and in other cases you are always on your own... the only way of assuring that you are on the right track is by the games auto save option which would give you a "PHEW... that was close" in your mind...

the game`s downside is its character build, it is some times intriguing to ask yourself is this possible, i meant the AI as well as their voice responses(robotic... Ahem!!),anyway the motion of the game is like stick figures and are mostly made to look like a game developed by puppets... wolverine was also developed from unreal 3 engine but still the characters do look like humans...

the worst thing about the game is its poor refresh rate and i constantly got pain in my eyes seeing the cut-scenes in frame rates like less than 30 FPS.... and whenever i pan the camera to see a new location the screen would look look like it has gone half.... loading one half in its GPU processor and making a refresh frame then... it is so annoying when i get to reload some time after getting hit by a rocket or a gun.
I should say i completed the game in 11 days roughly about 3 to 5 hours a day... and to be honest the most time of it was spent on exploring rather than shooting down enemies.... and the game has also got co-operative mode where you can play with your friends online or through LAN....

ProtoType - The one and All powerful...

What happens when you mix two dozen Super hero characters in to one and make a game out of it.... well you get Alex Mercer, the hero( or better yet the mutated viruses prior host) who has the varying powers of Spider-man, Symbiotic Venom, as well as small time villains and some crazy artistic development ideas for some special powers from the most characters of the X-Men series...

The story takes place in the city of Manhattan, where a lethal biological virus or a weapon is released by Alex and the virus takes the nearest host,that is Alex again due to fact that he is dead because he was killed for his wrong-doing... being dead and born again due to the viruses development in to the body makes him a killing machine but still he loses memory of his past and the story captivates in the narrative style and the pace is carried by lesser character involvement to knowing what has happened to him and what he is to do next(with some twists here and there)...

The game is superb in the sense of varying powers and the damage one can does to the environment with it. You start up with very limited powers in the beginning of the game and starts to earn them one after the other through a unique system called earn and pay by your EP(Experience Points),which you will get by doing missions in the way you are asked to and in doing some side mission,where you will be awarded medals for the achievements you get.

The game is developed by Activision, the company which owns the rights for most of the comic book heroes from Marvel as well as Microsoft... so what they did make out of the game with Alex is equally good in game play and the controls for which is also quite easy in the Xbox 360 controller... (for those of you with no XBOX 360 controller... never mind use the emulators that make your normal analog to be believed as Xbox one by the game) and do you know another thing, Prototype is now being made in to Comic series from seeing the success of the game... boy they sure know how to develop stories from nothing but a single line...

well regarding the game controls you have to memorize lots of movement keys, if you play by the keyboard... but don`t worry one can always develop favourite moves to kill almost every enemy...

The games open environment is a feel good factor there is always some small missions to play in every block of the city and some cool ways to know the past by consuming peoples memories and people too....(EEw that`s gross, anyway the web of intrigue to know about the story plots and movements is cool in some sense, the cut-scene are damn good in it) you will have to change yourself or morph in to someone else for


1.Knowing their intention and about Alex`s association with them.
2.To give yourself out for the identity of some commanders in a base so that you can infiltrate the security.
3.Command someone in disguise of a soldier to take down the enemy artillery or even people( that's so cool, you need to experience it)
4.learning some Techniques such as riding tanks and Helicopter...

All this can be done in a flick of keys in the controller. but in a battle with large amount of hunters( the Villainous creatures in the game) where accessing the wheel of powers is quite tough and every time you morph from Alex to someone else you need to select the powers once again.. the cool thing about it is that you can select and use more than one in combination( my favorite is the Hammer hand and whip slash)

The navigation and the selection of enemies is also quite easy... you can climb almost any building race to its top take down helicopters or even hijack them or if you feel like an adventurer to explore it all in foot then you can always glide to the Bottom of the city from the tallest sky scrapers in a way in which you would only dream of like falling from the sky...


weapon system is also unique you can pick up and throw almost anything in the game cars, broken lamps,tanks,even people, and also the weapons of some of the soldiers hit by you or they dropped it by your force of action.

The game has a feel of longing for more. most of the missions are short like asking you to escort tanks take down some enemy fields and some infectious villains. The longest mission was the one involving the Super villain named Elizabeth Green,where you have to kill three tentacles of Infection and then kill and consume Elizabeth Green.( It took me nearly 25 to 30 minutes and that to my health was reducing in an alarming rate )

The game`s graphics is good as its just 5 GB consumption of the hard disk is very reasonable too... the main drawback is that the crowd in the game is so repetitive in every corner the crowd looks just the same...The best is the way Alex moves its totally fluid you can scale scrapers in seconds jump and make a rummaging attack and still you have quick recovery of your health.. The AI is much intelligent, the soldiers always have a keen interest to your moves any unusual movement noticed on you will be enough to trigger the alarm and start a air strike on you which is usually 2 to 3 helicopters in the sky and 2 tanks on the ground... you chose between either evading the pursuit by running in to a hide spot and transform and disguise yourself or otherwise kill them all( i always prefer the hard way, what use is a game with no power of thrill in kill, YEAH!!)

Altogether, the game is promising to have 15 to 20 hours straight on main missions and some side missions but there is a lot to do even then there are missions involving test of your ability to fly high, sprint in building tops, and take down helicopters and tentacles of infection by given powers such as Rocket launcher or tanks...

one thing that i hate to tell you is that most games i have played in the past seems to be wound around the same theme... You are in a bad situation and you are in search of an unsolved answer and by the end you get to know that

YOUR BEST FRIEND IS YOUR WORST ENEMY....

I hope to see that games in the future jump out of this very old story telling system and come out with something very interesting to listen to and play.....

GTA 4 - Realism and Coolness....

The one thing that you most probably enjoyable in this game is its cool feeling of co-operative game play... with some bad guys... and some hotties (with guns,of course!!!)

The next best thing is that the game gives you the power to either take ones life or save one... depending on which the story changes and that gives you the opportunity to play the game again... its non--repeatable mission and feel of continuous notorious action and character build makes it damn cool as well(not to mention the offensive language of the people... from start to the end.. man... they got some rude ways to spell all kinds of shit...)

The worst thing of all is the way the crowd reacts to you. If you point a gun at them they scream,panic,run(well some of them not all) some beat the shit out of you for good...

The Story is about Niko Belic who comes in to Liberty City,to see his hands in making fortune by working for some local lords as well as screwing some of their opponents and mobs...

There are also some side missions where the story gets its pace and sometimes the crowd makes it so annoying to work(that's when i would say you bump someone with your stolen car or on to someone near when the police is watching or when they are really close encounter with you performing an assault mission)
I get to play this game after reading so many review and all the top game sites like gamespot.com and gametrailers.com gave it a 9 out of 10 which is pretty good..


It has also got some pretty good visual effects and the downside is i get to play it only on low graphics as it kept requiring and consuming lot of RAM and graphic processing. I suggest that this is only the beginning... games to come in future would require graphic cards much powerful than the processor itself and costing more than them as well.

you can blow up things... experience any environment at its cool and varying climate and the AI is so good that i heard people talk and dress up to the mood in the crowd.. (for a game consuming 18 GB of hard disk space surely that's worth noting)
and more than you get to live the life of a man named Niko, you can...
1.Interact with people with Phone,web.
2.Go places like Purchasing clothes,Guns,Ammo.
3.Date with girls,dine with them,play with them,and with luck sleep with them and make love.(Ah,Ah,Ah I know what you are thinking and its not possible yet..., the HOt Coffee Mod In GTA 4 will take time as i suppose... to release... i am hoping that some good guy out there is working really hard in making it in to mini-mission... He he he!!)

The awesome thing about this game is that there is always an element of surprise and as well as story telling as you cross every mission from day 1 to the end... The story telling changes as in tone with the actions you perform and the gangsters you execute or save... likewise the cutscence also changes according to your cloth,style and weapon selection...

I get to be commented very often by the crowd as well as the mission givers.. the one that blew my mind is when on a dating mission with a girl friend i get to hear her say "are you still wearing the same dress from the time we met before?". seriously after finishing about a dozen missions later.. i forgot to change the clothes and still wore the same... the AI was so good in giving a response to it as well... seriously... how many games in the market can do that... Hats off.. Rockstar Games....