Friday, 22 May 2009

Thoughts on the inFamous demo

My thoughts on the demo? Well for most of the day I waited for the demo, then I had a DNS error for like over 3 hours, so I went to bed in a extremely bad mood. Therefore me waking up at 1 am to download and play the demo meant that I had a bad first impression of the game. I found it repetitive, tedious and the controls not easy to get used to.  When I woke up later on at 8.30 am fully refreshed, I started up that demo and boy did my opinion change!

I turned into a saddo. I actually pretended I was a Greek god and everyone should bow down to me, but thats the beauty of the game, you have so much power that you are a god. Compared to games like GTA IV or Saints Row 2, inFamous uses the same basis. Open world. Free roaming. Loads of stuff to do. But it changes the story and gameplay to fit something new, which is superpowers.

Basically I love the demo. The demo is quite long as well. You can easily sit there playing it for over an hour. There's like 5 missions as well. Also Assassin's Creed and inFamous share the the third person parkour climbing. In my opinion there not the same. AC's climbing is more realistic where inFamous is just speed and action. Plus its a lot harder to fall than in AC which I personally don't like. Who really cares? I pre-ordered mine sometime ago and I'm looking forward to it on friday. 

If you a fan of free roaming games like GTA IV or even Spider-Man 2 then this is a must buy. If not... Buy it anyway. 

Till next time

Director Gameplaya 

Thursday, 21 May 2009

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Demo Review



What can I say about Mr 'I don't need knives to eat because I have blades coming out of my hands' ? Nothing really except the words, epic violence. I could basically end the review right here because I've basically summed up the entire demo. Epic violence. However I won't so if you want to know more, then read on bub!

The demo starts with your heli' getting taken out of the air, and you hurtling towards the ground Just Cause style. While falling your able to control Wolverine in the way of moving up and down, and side to side, allowing him to dodge incoming missiles. Now the graphics look OK. Now i when i mean OK I mean... Umm yeah OK. Compared to the likes of GTA IV and even Wanted: Weapons of Fate, it seems that graphics came a little lower in there tick list. I thought that Wolverine's healing would look more dramatic, and we would get to see a bunch of guts and crap. How's red spots for you ?

The gameplay actually is pretty good. There's a light attack, strong attack, throws and lunges (where Wolverine pounces across the screen to stab a guy in the chest) and environmental attacks and kills. The controls are easy to use and fun. Basically this game is a hack n' slash. There doesn't seem to be a real point to it all, but to do it is fun. Not all games are fun, but this one is, so thats the most important thing .

There's little you can say about a demo. It's harder to talk a game when you miss out things like story and multiplayer and stuff like that, but judging from the demo, you might see a full game review of that by me on YouTube. It's just that good.

8/10

Edit: May I just say the opening cut scene where Wolverine is in the future is just..... A-M-A-Z-I-N-G like grace ! Puts most films to shame!

It's been done !

Well only the first part. I finished the first part of the short film I'm making called 'Molly Wants To Play!' I don't want to ruin it too much, or at all. All I can says is two things, 1 the music is sick and is made by TEMPHUiBIS on YouTube (look him up!) and it's a LOT better than Karate Man. With my expert knowledge from Media Studies, I feel that this one will probably be by far the most enjoyable one to watch. Hopefully MWTP! will be released some time between the end of July and the beginning of August.

Watch this space!

Director Gameplaya