Review: Mass Effect
After release of Mass Effect on Xbox 360 by EA and after improvements the result is one of the best role-playing game of recent time. This game presents you beautiful galaxy with fascinating alien races. You will play as Commander Shepard, saviour of the galaxy. You will begin with customizing your character in which physical customization is not so deep. Then you have to choose a one class from six, each with its own importance in combat, tech and biotics. As the game proceeds, character will refer to your past judgements, comments and will react according to it on various degree.
In this you have to go through the dialogues and make judgements which can have life or death consequence. Your decisions can affect the outcome of the mission. You can console a suicide attack victim or turn friend into foe and many more decisions which you can make. The decision you make do not affect your abilities but will affect the game-play and you will earn paragon or renegade points, which like good versus evil system. Apart from the main quest you can also have option for side quest while you travel planet to planet to complete your main quest. The inventory system is much more easier to manage and driving the Mako is easier than before.
All things, the story, the characters, the combat, the soundtrack makes Mass Effect great game on PC. Biowrae is also offers the down-loadable expansion ‘Bring Down the Sky’ free for PC players. It is recommended that you go for PC version Than going for Xbox360.
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Review: Microsoft Zune 80GB
The 80GB Zune is a newly design second-generation model of the Microsoft Zune iPod series with its higher capacity, big screen and built-in WiFi. The 80GB Zune iPod is featured with a 3.2-inch glass LCD, a user-friendly interface, exceptional navigation control, audio and video podcast support, a superlative FM radio with RBDS information, wireless syncing and sharing. The 80GB Microsoft Zune MP3 player also offers you a good audio quality, high-quality earphones and a built-in composite-video output along with Zune Pass music support and Zune Marketplace PC software.
The Microsoft 80GB Zune offers a gorgeous and stunning slim looks combined with its luxurious large 3.2 inch LCD screen that provides a more scratch-resistant surface with less optical distortion than the ubiquitous plastic variety. Microsoft includes a unique navigation control in the 80GB Zune MP3 players having an intermediate design between standard four-direction navigation pad and a laptop’s touch pad. The Microsoft 80GB Zune is available in black version where its body is covered with a matte-finished aluminum etched with the Zune logo at the back.
The Microsoft Zune uses the Zune software a hipster-skinned version of Windows Media Player and provides its interface is shockingly clean and bright.The Zune is also very beneficial in iTunes with its Zune Marketplace PC software, but its missing the TV and movie content found through users. In spite of loads of brilliant features the 80GB Zune lacks in the USB connection, Wi-Fi music streaming and the EQ features.
Features:
* 80 GB digital media player stores up to 20,000 songs, 25,000 pictures or 250 hours of video
* wireless Zune-to-Zune sharing so you can swap tracks and other media
* Big, bright, 3.2-inch LCD color screen, 320 x 240 pixels
* Compatible with Zune Marketplace for media downloads and subscription services
* Automatically imports your existing music, pictures, and videos from iTunes and Windows Media Player in a variety of formats
Review: Tales of Vesperia
Tales of Vesperia is another role-playing game with character vividly crafted, dialogues truer than you had expected. It has a long story-line filled with entertaining journey, flashy combat. the game start when a thief steal the core of the blastia which regulates the flow of fresh water. Yuri, the star of the game sets off to recover the core and in his journey he brings various friends into action some of them are Estelle, a castle noble, Rita, a magic researcher etc.
The game is long but the good balance between story and game-play keeps the game from getting tedious. The towns in the are small so you won’t have to navigate through the town for quest or stock up portions and armors. Battles are easy as you take default approach, letting the game auto-target an enemy and you hammer and cast spells to execute them. But you think it’s a cakewalk because as the game proceeds you will encounter tougher enemies and the boss are challenge so you have to put some extra effort to win over them. In your journey you will be accompanied by 3 AI-controlled characters which help you out in your battles. You will always have choice to play with any of them which gives you chance to handle variety of weapons and spells. battles are enhanced by over-limits and burst artes. If you fill your over-limit gauge, then you can attack without pause or can perform burst artes which can be used to create combination of attack and spells.
You will also learn new techniques on various weapons and artes as you level up. This game is beautiful, engaging and fun which will challenge what you had expected from a role-playing game.
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Review: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is combination of return to Castle wolfenstein and the Battlefield games. The two teams duel out attempting to complete the objectives and this time you have loads of different vehicles and aircraft for your mission. Quake Wars starts when year is 2065, the strogg race attack the earth for its raw material to convert into fuel called stroyent. So you can join any of the race, Human global defense or the alien Strogg Force. At start, you have to choose one of the classes before each match. Human races and Strogg races have different classes and you cannot correlate classes like strogg weaponry doesn’t require any ammo so you don’t have to carry them while GDF field oppressors can drop ammo packs. GDF soldiers and Strogg opperssors are front line troops and so on. Every race has their importance like both GDF covert and Strogg infiltrates can disguise as the enemy, but covert can use explosives surveillance camera while infiltrator can send drone to do the battle.
When you are in the game you are given with the primary and secondary objective. Teams share a primary objective and as the game goes on and an objective is accomplished, the objective shifts. The new games in action will also feel that they contributes and as you proceed in the game you will earn medal and persistent ranks. You will also gain improved weaponry, faster sprinting depending on the amount experience earned within current campaign. There are 12 maps which can hold up-to 32 player at a time. In this game it is difficult to be in-contact with your fellow teammates as this game do not provide voice chats.
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Review: SMC SMCWGBR14-N Barricade N router
The SMCWGBR14-N Barricade N router is a latest well groomed Draft N 2.0 routers by the SMC that comes with a fair price, decent performance, and dead-simple setup. The SMCWGBR14-N Barricade N router operates on 2.4GHz band and offers a decent throughput and long range accessibility in 802.11n network setup. The Barricade N router includes a loads of generous features a compact & practical design; USB 2.0 port for print serving, and an always-appreciated for intuitive Web interface to setup and maintenance a snap as well as Wi-Fi Protected Setup. It also features four gigabit LAN ports, one gigabit WAN port, DHCP support and NAT firewall with Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI).
The SMCWGBR14-N Barricade N router offers a smart, straightforward and practical design with three external antennas on the side. The SMC’s router delivers a good performance for both802.11n legacy and 802.11g clients at the same time with 52.4Mbps and the SMCWGBR14-N Barricade N router can broadcast its signal up to 300 feet an impressive distance. With the help of the router’s Web interface you can find firmware, manual downloads, and FAQ pages, as well as contact SMC support by e-mail fron SMC’s website. In spite of decent performance, good range and throughput the SMC SMCWGBR14-N Barricade N router lacks in supporting high speed 5.0Ghz frequency.
Features:
* 300Mbps Wireless Broadband Router
* 4 Gigabit LAN ports
* 1 USB printer server
* NAT / SPI / DoS / MAC filter / VPN pass-through / DMZ / WEP / WPA / DHCP server support
* WDS support
Review: Unreal Tournament 3
Unreal Tournament 3 does not change lots of things but you can find new maps, graphical overhaul, and easy game modes. While the other games concentrate on going more realistic, UT3 focus on its game play. UT3 gives you uneventful storyline in its campaign mode. Campaign mode is 5-7 hours training mode so that you are well prepared with the maps and stand a chance in multi-player mode with 3 more players on your side in campaign mode.
UT3 has 6 different game mode to play like Death match, Team Death match, Duel (one on one). The largest mode is known as Warfare, it’s played on bigger maps with load of guns and vehicles. Warfare is a mode in which one team has to destroy power core of other’s team to be declared as winner. You have to link them togeather till you are linked with opposing team’s base, and at the moment you can destroy the enemy core and hold your victory.
UT uses Unreal Engine 3, the basic set of tools. For high configured machine its a great looking game while for the machine not such high configured it gives you playable experience. The game’s animation, models are all improved and top-notched for high-end machines. The music is high, with great sound of gunfire and explosions. You can hear taunt when get killed from the character. UT is very different from typical first-person shooting, it’s more like a war.
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Review: Creative Zen V Plus 4GB
The Creative Zen V Plus is a stunning, compact, solid-state flash MP3 player featured with the vivid OLED display and great sound quality. The Creative Zen V Plus is packed to the gills with features, including an FM radio, voice and line-in recording, photo and video playback, and compatibility with subscription WMA tracks and offers impressive performance, that makes it an excellent option in the lower-capacity MP3 player / radio. The Zen V plus is creative’s first flash player to be offered with up to 16GB of memory.
The beautiful curvaceous design of the Creative Zen V Plus are available in the two color palette white or black versions. It offers you the vivid 1.5-inch OLED display which is viewable from any angle without compromising screen real estate as well as includes a Creative software consisting very useful applications. The Creative Zen V Plus is very user friendly where all menus are straightforward. The Zen V plus also offers fabulous sound quality and battery life along with an FM tuner with 32 autoscannable presets; FM, voice, and line-in recording; an alarm clock and calendar; and even PIM functionality, with the ability to sync tasks and contacts from Outlook. Inspite of all the Zen V plus lacks in USB host capability and built-in Wi-Fi and it’s small joystick is making bad impression on user.
Features:
* 4GB hard drive holds 2,000 songs
* Also plays video clips
* Listen to FM radio stations
* Records directly to your MP3 player
* Direct Line-in recording from CD player or other source
* 1.5″ OLED display
* 1-touch 5-way navigation joystick for easy access to all menus
* 8 preset and custom EQ settings
* Supports subscription services, synchs with Microsoft Outlook and has a built-in voice recorder
* 1-year limited warranty
Review: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
EA Sports come up with Tiger Wood 09 with more user-friendly controls and further integrated the online feature which is worthy enough to carry the Tiger Woods name seeing the disappointing Tiger Woods 08 game. In this you will get instant feedback through a onscreen meter that will show you how you moved your stick. By seeing the feedback you can improve on your moves. To make you hitting ball easier Tiger’s own coach Hank Haney will guide you through.
TW 09 gives you 16 golf courses, which includes some new courses like Wentworth, Sheshan, wolf Creek and Bay hill. This game provide good level of customization which is simple and worthwhile. Here you can create a golfer with your own photo imported to make lifelike experience. in the Tiger woods challenge mode you can earn cash which can be used to buy gears. And based on your performance coach Haney will raise or lower your driving, accuracy and many more attributes. Sometimes you can get into trouble with Haney as he lowers your attributes even when you perform to your best.
In this game you will find improvement with inline play. The change you may find is that only 3 players can play online simultaneously. To speed up things all player are able to hit their balls at the same time which can be distracting with their colored trails. If you don’t want to go through the searching , you can still play online as periodic pop ups during the single player game rounds. In game you can find real-time swing meter, club tuner and Haney which you getting the perfect swing.
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Review: Canon Vixia HF100
Canon’s first flash-based camcorders, the high-definition Vixia HF100,delivers excellent HD video quality and performance along with its compact, attractive, and comfortable design. With the Canon Vixia HF100 flash memory is making its way into High Definition with Canon’s Vixia line of camcorders. The HF100 is a sleek, matte-gray compact flash-based camcorder which includes a loads of features and can capture full resolution HD video in either 24p Cinema mode or 30p progressive.
The HF100 is a very user friendly camcorder in Canon’s Vixia series, which can record AVCHD video at a maximum of 17 megabits per second and supports the full 1,920×1,080 capture.The HF100 optically stabilized f1.8-3.0 12X zoom with the help of Canon’s new patentet Instant AutoFocus and SuperRange Optical Image Stabilizer. The HF100 can also captures HD vedios directly by a Secure Digital HC flash memory card, with it’s HD CMOS Image Sensor, which works in concert with a DIGIC DV II Image Processor for superior color and clarity.
The Canon Vixia HF100 offers you with aperture- and shutter-priority exposure modes, three fixed/one variable zoom speed options, a video light, Instant AF, and a wind-screen filter for video shooting and for still photos, metering, flash, and burst and exposure bracketing options. The HF100 camcorder also includes mini-HDMI, mini headphone, mic jacks, and USB potrs for supporting its connectivity with computer and television. Inspite of all the wind filter is not as dependable as previous Canon models.
Review: Halo 3
After the gigantic success of Halo 2, Microsoft brings you to good console-based first-person shooter game Halo 3. It provide great balance between your guns, your grenades and your melee attack which gives unique fell in the game in both in campaign or in multi-player mode. You will find new weapons like spiker, an automatic pistol and mauler, one handed shotgun and many huge weapons which will slow you down. This game is a first-person shooter game but when you use these huge weapon it changes to third-person.
The campaign is much the same with loads of chapters and effective streaming. To break the on-foot action there are vehicles fast and deadly like Ghost, the hover craft and Warthog, buggy with turret mounted in back. Some new vehicles are also introduced such as Brute Prowler etc. You would like to steer the vehicle rather holding on the weapon as AI cannot drive vehicles that well. You find that Halo 3 starts from where Halo 2 ends. This game provide you with four-player co-op action which are stronger than players in Halo 2. Halo 3 provide competitive solo and multi-player matches up to 16 players involved on 11 different locations. Here you earn point on every kill and loose points on every die, which turns on the scoring in campaign mode.
Halo 3 has good storyline with suspense at every step you take which will you think what will happen next? You can also edit maps and do extremely unexpected things with Forge mode. Here you will find another mode known as Infection, in this you start as a zombie and you have to convert them killing every member of that team. This game also provide you the facility to share files over the internet like sharing new maps and custom modes. AI are not strong at the driving point, hence its up to yourself to save your life while he is driving.
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