Assassin's Creed II

Join our Creed, and become an Assassin!

I am writing this review for gamers who are interested in this/or who have never have even heard of it.

I recently purchased Assassin’s Creed II from Gamestation. The cashier was rather jolly, and even gave me a personal review on it, which was a nice touch.

Once I started to play it, I got hooked. You play as a young italian boy called Ezio Auditore de Firenze. It is such an involving game, since there are 100 story missions and over 100 side-missions. After a while of doing the story missions you become the owner of an enormous Villa, with a Blacksmiths and a Doctor. As you go on, every twenty game minutes you earn Florins (Money) depending on how well tourism is going on. With this money, you can add new shops or upgrade them. You can also renovate places to increase profitability. I believe that the most important places to renovate/upgrade are the bank so you can earn more and the Blacksmiths so you can get better equipment.

There are a number of other good things about this game including, jumping off really tall towers into hay bales, assassinating guards from up above/down below/ hay bales, searching for the hidden Codex Pages and the mysterious elusive Glyphs, and the hidden loot everywhere.

There are also three factions that can help you along the way. These three are
the Thieves, the Courtesans, and the Mercenaries.

The Thieves will run along rooftops and climb walls with you, and their special ability is to lure guards away from a spot so you can sneak in. They will also fight if they have to. Their specialist weapon is the Dagger

The Courtesans will provide you with cover from guards. Their special ability is to distract the guards so you can walk by. However if a group of guards should happen to walk by while they are covering you, they will instantly distract them, leaving you out of cover. Their specialist weapon is the sword. (Even though they are easier to defeat)

Last but certainly not least, the Mercenaries will walk around with you on the ground, and when you attack someone they will help out. Their special ability is to attack any guards you choose, which will take the guards mind off defending the place that is important. However they are rather slow at walking. Their specialist weapons are two-handed weapons.

As you progress, more items become unlocked such as two capes which makes all your actions irrelevant in a certain area, the guards will still attack you nonetheless. Another fine thing that is unlocked is the dyes that you can use to colour your robes, colours such as Wetland Ebony, and Tuscan Copper.

Most of the achievements are quite easy to get, since each sequence awards you a nice little 30G. However talking of sequences, there is no sequence 12 or 13 which means that there must be some DLC for it in the near future, which means more special editions.

Therefore i believe that this is a worthwhile game to buy. Thank you and Goodnight.

Gaming Console Showdown

Gaming Consoles: The Showdown!

I’m terribly sorry that I have not posted in a while, I have been trying to keep ahead of my Coursework.

My friends and I were having a debate about which console was better, Xbox 360, PS3 or the Nintendo Wii. So we compared our ideas, and arrived at these conclusions!

Terrel’s favourite Console is the PS3, here are his Results.

Good Points

Rechargeable Battery
Free Online Play
High Definition

Bad Points

Rather Large
Hard to Change Hard Drive
Yellow Light of Death
















Joshua’s Favourite Console is the Nintendo Wii, here are his Results:

Good Points

Reliable
Generation Friendly
Can Connect to DS

Bad Points

Cannot play DVD’s
No Decent Games
Expensive Accessories




















Anonymous’ Favourite Console is the Xbox 360, here are his/her Results:

Good Points

Good Quality Games
Cheap
Changeable Hard Drives

Bad Points

Pay to Play online
Unfamiliar Controller
Red Ring of Death




















There We Go. A Public Debate!
Which do you think is best?

Xbox time 2: Defense Grid

I have been a fan of tower defense games for as long as I can remember, because they use both parts of your brain, the intellectual side for working out what tower to put where, and the brawny side for being as aggressive as possible, so you can complete the level easier. I first bought this game after one of my friends said there was a new tower game called “Defense Grid”. I believe that this is possibly one of the best Arcade games on the Xbox 360.

The beginning level is the tutorial, and is very informative, since it tells you lots of information about what will happen. Part of the story line is you activate a security system against invading Aliens, trying to steal your power cores. Almost every two levels, the “system” finds more blueprints for towers. Some levels, are all about strategy, as you can shape the path the Aliens take, by placing towers in certain spots to make them change their direction.

It will cost you about eight hundred Microsoft Points, and very worth it.

Xbox Time: Miner Dig Deep

I recently downloaded this game called Miner Dig Deep for 200 Microsoft points, (that’s about £1.70) and I found it extremely enjoyable. I have always been a fan of digging games such as Dig Dug, and Mr. Driller, since most of them you can play nice and slow, which makes them very relaxing games.

In this version, the further down you go, the more expensive the gems/ores you find. Then when you get back to the surface, you can sell them and buy upgrades such as, better pickaxes, grapple, a bigger bag, and much more! To break through the layer of ice at about 150 meters deep, you have to collect 5 pieces of blueprints for a tool that can break through. Later on in the game, I got tired of constantly picking away at the layers of soil, so I bought an electric drill, it is so much faster, but it requires a lot of fuel. So overall I give this an eight of ten.

The Race for the Crown has begun!

I recently heard from the Gamescom in Cologne in Germany, that there would a third Fable game coming out in foreseeable future. I was really excited since Fable 2 was such a success. I wondered what features could be in this one. From what information I could gather, you are the king or queen of Albion and when you perform an action, be it good or bad, it would not only affect the town that you were in, it would also change your status as king or queen. So for instance, lets say I killed a civilian in Oakfield. Oakfield’s reputation would decrease, and would make you more corrupt, which would make you more of a tyrant! I shall leave you with the link for the advert that I watched. Thank you and Goodnight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLYHipNphk

Pokémon Fans: Is your Heart Solid? Or is Your Soul Pure?

All fans of Pokémon remember the release of Pokémon Gold & Silver, with its new real time setting enabling you to play in day and night. A whole new experience was unravelled for trainers. To find certain Pokémon, let’s say in Cherrygrove, you would have to search at night. Then there was Kurt and his Ability to turn “Apricorns” in Pokéballs, however it would take a day for him to create the Pokéballs. In spite of that, the best feature of Gold & Silver was that fact that you could go back to Kanto and relive the acts of Pokémon Red & Blue.

Now, we know that Red and Blue versions had an “Upgrade” and became FireRed And LeafGreen. From that point onwards, we have wondered if Gold and Silver would ever get an “Upgrade” as it were.

Suddenly there was a rumour about a new Pokémon game, after the release of Pokémon Platinum, and during some serious clue hunting, we found that Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver were hitting the shelves of Japan on the Twelfth of September this Year. However, there is some speculation that the new games will be called SolidGold and PureSilver!

These are remakes of Gold and Silver as you can see. So of course we are all excited, as you can walk around with a Pokémon, like Totodile or Chikorita (like in Amity Square in Diamond, Pearl and Platnium) or the new Pokegear, of which not much information is available.

Also there is a new item, which is like a pedometer, where you transfer your Pokémon on to it, and walk in real life. Your chosen Pokémon will start to walk towards a forest as you walk, this will activate a mini game to find items or other Pokémon to capture. It is called the PokéWalk.

So I leave you with a web address of the site “Serebii” With pictures of the upcoming game, and everything to do with Pokémon. Thank you and Goodnight.

http://www.serebii.net/heartgoldsoulsilver/pics.shtml

<-- PokeWalk

Opening Post

Hello, From now on i will try to post a review for either an upcoming game or an existing game at least once a week.