Review: Portal
You wake up in a sleeping pod, you look around and notice that there in no door. A sedate robotic voice alerts you that the portal will be opening soon. A second later, a large, orange rimmed oval appears on the wall and while examining it you also notice similar, blue rimmed oval. Inside that blue rimmed oval stands a woman copying your every move. Then you realize that the woman is you and you were looking at your self image. The starting levels introduce you to application of the portal technology. At start you are handed with portal gun and allow you to create portal anywhere you desire. Then after this you have test chambers where certain surfaces are not portal-able which are difficult. The real complexity of portal lie in the challenge of thinking on portal.
Portal is short and can be completed in a span of five hours. Value has designed 6 advanced chambers, all of them are test chambers with little tweaks to present tougher levels. You can take challenge maps and try to complete them with least number of portal used or least number of steps or in the least time.
Portal is a fantastic game that can be played by those who are interested in unique, well-crafted gameplay and smart script. Portal may not last long but it remains one of the best game.
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Review: Assassin’s Creed
Ubisoft features one of the most unique game-world created. It is a fun and exciting action game with loads of stuff to do and places to explore. You will explore 3 major cities Jerusalem, Damascus and Acre. Each city is featured with towers, market squares and corners where people stand and converse. Altair has deep effect on the world, the cities are entities of their own and their own flow and personality. The cities are huge and at early chapters where they open to let you travel from one side to another side of the city. Every object is textured so fine and animation are equally well done also. On high-end PC, these elements look more stunning then they look on Xbox360 or PS3.
The sound of the game is more impressive than graphics. The game does a good job, making sure you hear what you need to hear. Conversation are delivered with great perfection and lovely musical themes that add even more. The game is mix of stealth, action and platforming. To complete your mission you have to follow all possible leads which may involve pick-pocket, beat information out of target or listen to secret conversation. You can pounce your enemies by your blade or kill them from distance by throwing draggers. In start it feels easy but as you proceed the boss fight against endless attackers, you require perfect timing to counter every strike.
The PC version is not the superior one but if you do not get chance to play it on Xbox360 or PS3, then you can go for this version and immerse yourself in this world. If you have the high configured PC then this is the game you should have in your collection. In this you have ton of stuff to do apart from your official goal, you can spend time in finishing every quest and collecting every flag around the city.
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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: 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: 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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Blast Of HeartPumping Games This Week
Well, here is Ray of hope with a flurry of games inline to be released this week,hitting the stores and filling up the shelves these games could prove worthy of a definite Mention.This arry of exciting games could prove to be the thirst quencher,for those who have been dissapointed by the recent games launched.
- The Club (PC, PS3, XBox360) :It came out and took to fame on the Sega platform with its conventional eight character plays,now its out to rock the bigger platforms.
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Dynasty Warriors 6 (PS3, 360) :This game needs no introduction thrilling the gaming realm forover a decade now the Dynasty warrior series is on a rollwith its 6th part to be out this week.
- FIFA Street 3 (360, PS3, DS)
- History Channel: Battle for the Pacific (PS3)
- Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
- (Wii) .MX vs. ATV Untamed (Wii)
- Pimp my Ride (Wii)
- Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (DS)
- CABAL Online (PC)
Need for Speed ProStreet (PSP) : A game of its sort,already out on the bigger platforms,it has proved to beworth the acclaimation it gets and the popularity it draws form its ancestors.The PSP version would be no less in heat and fever rather it would handover the power completely onto the hands of the player.
These games will certainly provide some excitement to the gaming fraternity and provide a sense gratification to their gaming desert phase.
Turok Now For PC
Today Touchstone revealed that, in addition to the Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms, Turok will be coming to PC on February 5, 2008. Touchstone previously announced that Turok will be available for the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3. Developed by Propaganda Games, Turok for consoles will be available at retail stores on February 5, 2008.
Turok is an epic, story-driven first-person shooter set on a dark, mysterious planet in the future. Players take on the role of Joseph Turok, a former black ops commando, now part of an elite special forces squad, known as Whiskey Company, which is on a mission to take down a war criminal – Turok’s former mentor, Roland Kane. Set on a planet inhabited by Kane and his Mendel-Gruman Corporation soldiers, Turok must use his elite military training to elude Kane’s well-trained army and the ravenous, unpredictable dinosaurs, huge insects and other massive creatures that populate the environment.
Brought to Windows PC by Aspyr Studios, Turok will feature a story-driven single player experience and multiplayer modes for up to 16 players per game. Turok is rated M for Mature by the ESRB. For more information about Turok, log on to www.turok.com .
Tabula Rasa Now Live
NCsoft announced today that Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa, a massive multiplayer online (MMO) game for the PC where players are thrust into an intergalactic struggle, launches commercial service in North America and Europe on November 2, 2007. Tabula Rasa is the vision of gaming legend Richard Garriott, the man best known as the creator of the Ultima series and Ultima Online. 
The game combines a rich game world and deep storyline with military combat and fast paced action. Set in a near-future science fiction backdrop, players must fight to save humanity against hostile alien enemies trying to gain control of the universe.
The standard edition box of Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa will be available at major online retailers at an expected retail price of $49.99 and at the PlayNC store . Customers will be able to purchase the Limited Collector’s Edition box from major retailers at an expected retail price of $69.99. Both products include the first month of online game play. After the first month, players will be charged a monthly subscription fee of USD $14.99. Sixty-day game time cards will also be available at many North American retailers for an expected retail price of US$29.99. The game is rated Teen by the Entertainment Software Rating Board.
Unreal Tournament Goes Gold
Unreal Tournament Does it the Gold way this time…
Fans of Unreal Tournament will be glad to know that the series’ latest iteration – UT3 – has gone gold and will hit the stores exclusively for the PC second week of November.
Unreal Tournament 3 unleashes the full power of Unreal Engine 3, taking graphics, gameplay, and challenge to a whole new level. Players engage in intense battles with other human players online, or against Unreal artificial intelligence that sets the industry standard. With the most powerful futuristic weapons and vehicles available, this is FPS action at its best!
Perseus Mandate in India
Perseus Mandate is a stand alone expansion developed by TimeGate Studios that will allow players to experience more of the horror and action that made its predecessor such a blast to play.As a member of a secondary F.E.A.R. team, you are brought in to discover more information regarding the secret project at the Armacham facilities. Expect the intensity of battle to continue in the second expansion pack to the critically acclaimed first-person shooter, F.E.A.R.
Perseus Mandate will hit stores in India by the 21st of November exclusively for the PC for Rs. 999.