Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping dogs is a game that was release earlier in the late summer of 2012 and I meant to do a post about it but unfortunately I got side tracked with other games that had yet to release, so here's my take on it. Sleeping Dogs I a Grand Theft Auto type game that is set in china. You play Wei Shen an under cover cop who was raised in Hong Kong. The objective of the game is to infiltrate the notorious Triads and take them down. However the game gives you options on whether you want to stay on a path that will keep you mostly under cover or whether or not you want to do jobs for the Triads and become more integrated into the gang. This being said the game bring a whole new outlook to the meaning of the phrase "In too deep". If you pick the path to stay as a cop you keep a more professional outlook on things. However if you decide to become close with the triad you gain both friends and enemies which add a sense of depth to the game and it allows you to connect with the character. The game has an amazing story line with a lot of tough choices to be made. The game plays a but like GTA in the sense that it's a third person sandbox game where you can do pretty much whatever you want and go anywhere without ever touching the story. Unlike GTA the controls are very tight with an amazing hand to hand combat system and an array of weapons from crowbars to assault rifles. In all honesty this game is absolutely amazing and deserves at least one play through.

Halo 4 Crimson DLC

Halo 4 now has new downloadable content available for the online multiplayer. 343 studios has released the Crimson map pack for multiplayer. This multiplayer add on is giving players the ability to use three new maps, wreckage, harvest and shattered. These new maps will be available on the war games, forge and custom games menus under the infinity menu. As always the new maps add new achievements to the game for players to obtain such as, Now They Fly?, Size Is Everything, ODST, Bigfoot, David and Goliath, Clay Pigeon, Special Delivery and Pump Yer Brakes. These maps are available on the Xbox Live marketplace for the usual price of 1,200 Microsoft points. However you don't have to pay the 1,200 Microsoft points if you have the season pass which is also available on the market place for 2,500 Microsoft points. The season pass cost more but if you buy it you don't have to buy the individual map packs as they come out because the pass covers all new maps that are going to be released for the game. In my personal opinion I think the pass is worth it because with the past few games there have been 3-4 add on's which will cost about 3,600-4,800 if you buy them one by one so the 2,500 pass is well worth the deal.

Far Cry 3

Far Cry is the story of Jason Brody and his 4 friends who go to Bangkok to celebrate his younger brother Riley getting his pilots license. However the celebration is cut short when they decide To go skydiving on a small island off of Bangkok. Their vacation quickly changes from fun on the beach to a fight for their lives after they are captured by pirates who intend to ransom them then sell them off on the black market. At the beginning of the game you meet Vaas who is the one who captured you and your friends. You quickly com to find that Vaas is absolutely insane. Once he leaves you and your brother Grant attempt to escape the prison camp, but you fail as Vaas finds you and kills your brother. However he lets you go as a sick joke and you have to flee the camp while under heavy gun fire. Once you've completed that mission the title screen will appear and then you start the real game. From that point on your objective is to save your friends and brother and get home. To do this you enlist the help of the local tribe warriors called the Rakyat who want to take back their home from the pirates who now run the island. You later meet a woman named Citra who helps you to become stronger and hone your skills as a warrior so that you can defeat Vaas and eventually take down his boss Hoyt who is the mastermind behind all if this and free your friends.

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Skyrim Dragonborn DLC

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     Skyrim has new downloadable content. Bethesda studios has released new downloadable content for The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim. This amazing game has already had two amazing dlc's so far and this new one is definitely going to keep the trend going. Bethesda Kept a lot about this game quiet until it came out but they did reveal some amazing new additions to the game. For example the dragonborn dlc is going to bring us back to Morrowwind, which is where The Elder Scrolls III took place. Bethesda did an amazing job of recreating Morrowind within Skyrim, giving it the same architecture and Scenery as the previous game along with the clothes and armor of the citizens and guards withing the cities and towns. Another big thing that Bethesda released was the main villain in this new addition to the story line. the Villains name is Miraak, He is a previous dragonborn who sees you as a false profit and has risen from the grave to kill you and reclaim his tittle of dovakin ( dragonborn ). Given that He is also a dovakin he should be a very formidable opponent. I say this because by now just about everyone who owns Skyrim has probably leveled their character to the point where they can kill most of the enemies in the game with the slightest of ease. There is one last thing that Bethesda released in this dlc that had everyone drooling over this expansion is that you'll have to ability to own a dragon mount.This is the first flying mount in any of the Elder Scrolls games which should be interesting to see in Skyrim considering that the main objective of the game is to kill the dragons and absorb their souls to unlock new and more powerful shouts.

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Halo 4 is Finally Here!!

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     Halo 4 has finally arrived! Halo 4 dropped on November 6th and has greatly exceeded the expectations of the fans. This game has gone way beyond what anyone thought 343 was capable of doing with this tittle. The gameplay is smooth and fluent with no real flaws in how the game handles, in fact IGN gave the game a 9.8 out of 10( http://www.ign.com/games/halo-4/xbox-360-110563 ) . Halo 4 is also very ascetically pleasing, the scenery and graphics are absolutely beautiful. As you can see in the picture above there is a comparison of Halo Reach which was the previous game and Halo 4 and as you can see /halo 4 looks much better than Reach. Halo 4's does a great job of detailing the scenery so that you really get an amazing feel of the environment that your in at the time whether it's the moss on some rocks or a slight fog that you can see off in the distance.

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     Halo 4's campaign had to be on of the best campaigns in a halo game so far. They did an amazing job developing all of the characters. They gave Chief more dialogue to help connect to him as a person and by doing that they puled you into the ending. Not to mention the way they developed the new characters that they brought into the campaign such as Lasky who was the main character of the Forward Unto Dawn Series that 343 released prior to Halo 4's release. Not only did they give you development of the character's background they furthered his development with the choices he made withing the campaign it's self. Then of course there's Cortana. She's been with chief from the start and has not only assisted him but formed a special bond with him, unlike one of any other AI and its recipient. From the very beginning of the game they set the tone that one of your main objectives was to save Cortana. This was best showcased in the cut scene when she reveals to chief that she is dying and when she actually does die the mood of that moment is conveyed very well through all of the way the characters were developed  

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Halo 4!!!!!

 

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     Halo 4 is almost here, there are only 4 more days to go until whats will probably be the most anticipated game of the year finally releases. I know that this is my 4th blog post involving Halo 4 which hasn't even come out yet but this game really is a big deal. Halo is the game that made the Xbox famous. I know it sounds kind of bias but to be honest it's true. when the original xbox cam out so did halo and ever since then Halo has been the single highest grossing game franchise excursively for Xbox. Last year Microsoft celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the Xbox along with the 10 year anniversary of Halo Combat Evolved. What kind of milestone celebration would it be if the new owners to the Halo tittle didn't make a high definition remake of Halo combat evolved that also gave the option of switching in between the new graphics and the original graphics with just the touch of a button. Microsoft even has a count down to Halo 4 on the Xbox 360 dashboard if your connected to Xbox live.
    But enough about that lets get back to the actual game. Halo 4 is coming out on election day here in the U.S. and everyone who plays halo is excited. The amount of people who will be taking November 6th off to "vote" is going to be through the roof. There is no doubt in my mind that this is going to be the biggest release day of the year. Halo 4 will probably even win E3's game of the year award this year.

Forward Unto Dawn

 

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     This blog post is going to be a little bit different than my others. Rather than being about a game this post will be about a new show found only on Machinima prime's youtube channel. The new show is a live action series called " Halo 4 Forward Unto Dawn. This is a new show that premiers a new episode every Friday! This series is free to watch and only found on Machinima Prime. this series is being released by 343 industries, which is the company that is making Halo 4. This series is a side story that takes place years after Halo 3. The war against the covenant has ended and the only threat the UNSC seems to face are a local resistance group. That is Until the Covenant launch a surprise attack. When all hope seems lost master chief comes in and helps to clear this innovation the likes of which this new generation of marines has never seen before. It's hard to tell just how far into the future this series is set, but I'm guessing it's based at least 20 years after the war because the new marines have never heard of the Spartan program or the Covenant. I don't know of a single Halo fan who has watched theses videos and no likes them. this series is  astonishing. I honestly didn't think it was going to be that good because it was a nonprofit series and because of Halo the movie being canceled again 2 years ago. However watching the first episode quickly changed that. This series is now biggest highlight of my week.