Showing posts with label Ubisoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ubisoft. Show all posts

4/25/2009

Prince of Persia

All About New This adventure game will take you to the world of action challenging leap of death and the story interesting.

Game series Prince of Persia, known by gamers around the world as a game that involves a lot of action and skip the cool sword fight. In the game Prince of Persia, you will find adventure and the story is truly new about this prince of Persia. In addition to new stories, you can also find many new things in this game, such as the display technology that uses cell shading (3D graphic display technology that looks like 2D image), the easy control, a cool sword fight, the game is able to enliven the prince atmosphere games, and help a colleague who's beautiful.

At this game, the prince who eksentrik working with a daughter named Elika kingdom that he met in an ancient kingdom. The main goal this game is to prevent the resurrection of the god called Ahriman darkness of prison that are in the kingdom belong to Elika. Fortunately, Ahriman could not be free if the prince and Elika successful control of several areas called Fertile grounds. Each area must be cleaned from the darkness with the help of the gods strength and light Ormazd named Elika have one chance.

Areas that you must take over basically divided into four. Each area is divided into several smaller regions and all must be cleaned by using the power of Elika. Exclaim him, each region is guarded by a boss named Hunter, Alchemist, Concubine, and Warrior. To open the last of each boss, you must control all the areas below. To make the game more interesting, you should also have the power Ormazd (divided into four units) to reach the Fertile grounds that there is in each region. Then, to get power, you need to collect the ball is called Light Light Seed to a certain amount. Light Seed will appear after you clean the area with the help of a power Elika.

This game has basically dominated the action jumps more than fight. Fortunately, this game has a control character which is very good and easy to control. In addition, you also need not fear to experiment to get a jump on a Light Seed in a difficult position. Elika will always help when you jump you can fail and start again on the mainland last ever you tread. Sounds easy? Wait until you feel yourself!

Contention that has a distinctive feature in this game. Even though you do not always meet with the army of Ahriman according Elika millions in number, each race can look cool when you can press the appropriate key sequence. You can find a list of attacks on the menu is a combination of Option.

Each combination attacks can also be combined with more than one form. You can combine the attack early with three types of combinations, for example, thrown into the air, attacked from the air, and Elika attacks. Given time to press the button combinations are also due to the attacks will end with a slow movement. In addition to the combination of attacks, you will also find the event to press the button when the fight. If you fail to press the right button, the enemies will increase in energy.

Another feature that is not less interesting is the conversation between the prince and Elika and the costumes are a bonus after you complete this game. You can start the conversation by pressing a button. Sometimes, Elika provides tips to defeat enemies and complete puzzles. Finally, this game has a game and an interesting story!

Minimum Specifications Windows XP SP2 / Vista Processor: Intel Pentium IV-D dual-core processor 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 +
Memory: 1 GB (Windows XP) / 2 GB (Windows Vista) Hard drive: 9 GB
Video card: 256 MB Video RAM with Shader Model 3.0 (Nvidia GeForce 6800 or ATI Radeon X1600) DirectX 9.0c and DirectX 10.0




4/24/2009

Wheelman

Wheelman is a ridiculous spectacle that never fails to capture the feel of a Vin Diesel blockbuster.

I wouldn't say I'm a huge fan of Vin Diesel. My favorites of his roles include him getting sniped in Saving Private Ryan, and playing a big dumb robot in Iron Giant. Still, I do have a soft spot for the absurd stunts in xXx and The Fast and the Furious; Wheelman perfectly imbues the feel of those two movies. It's as if Dominic Toretto and Xander Cage made sweet sweet love, and the resulting bastard man-child not only inherited their "extreme" attitudes, but also looked exactly like them (at least in polygonal form).

In Wheelman, you take control of Milo Burik (obviously modeled after, and portrayed by, Diesel). Milo has recently arrived in Barcelona seeking information, and in the process becomes entangled in a city-wide gang war. Milo refers to himself as a "wheelman," an expert driver who can do the impossible. While in a car, Milo can perform some fantastic moves, such as the Airjack or the Vehicle Attack. For the former, our protagonist leaps from his moving vehicle to propel himself hundreds of feet, lands inside an enemy car, and then takes control without losing momentum. The latter is where, with a simple flick of the right analog stick, Milo smashes his car into the enemy. To further the gratuitousness, kills made with this move will also slow down time, highlighting every flying body and piece of explosive carnage.

Wheelman rewards your propensity for destruction with more gameplay mechanics. As Milo speeds up and causes mayhem, he steadily gains Focus. With a full Focus meter, the player can then take advantage of special moves. The most basic one is a quick burst of speed -- however, there are also attack skills, such as Aim Shot and Cyclone. When using both of these moves, time briefly slows down, the camera zooms in over Milo's shoulder, and the windshield turns into a shooting gallery -- with the cars becoming ducks with bull's-eyes painted on them. Shooting these bull's-eyes (which typically indicate weak spots such as the engine) usually results in the enemy vehicle instantly disintegrating from a single bullet.

Unfortunately, even these amazing tricks aren't enough to boost the game's tedious mission-based system. As a wheelman, Milo must perform odd jobs ranging from escorting VIPs to killing thugs and smashing property. The missions start piss-poor easy (it's near-impossible to fail them without trying), but then they suddenly spike to feeling needlessly-difficult. One particular annoying mission involves saving a thug, Miguel, who had the misfortune of having a bomb strapped to his body.

The original goal is to play hide-and-seek with the cops -- taking back roads and keeping out of the authorities' view -- until Miguel wakes from his daze. As soon as you clear the police's patrol zone, the gangster wakes up and the bomb starts ticking. Your job then has you rush him to a bomb expert on the double. Here's where it gets more annoying: unfortunately, the location never actually appears on your map; instead you have to wait for audio queues from Miguel himself. To make matters worse, Miguel often forgets where to go, and babbles about other subjects instead, all while an invisible clock ticks down towards mission failure. I'd fail the mission a number of times due to things such as missing one turn, going too slowly, or getting caught slightly within the cops' peripheral vision.

Other minor problems include absurd physics goofs. How is it that I can plow through stone walls and turn trees into Snickers bars, but can be helplessly stuck on a cardboard box? "Dead" enemies also occasionally glitch back onto their feet and briskly walk away from their demise. Yet despite these technical flaws, Wheelman's amazing fun comes from exploring the open world of Barcelona, driving to strange locations, and causing chaos in the city. It easily invokes feelings of Burnout Paradise with elements of Grand Theft Auto thrown in to boot.

If you're looking for just having some dumb fun driving in a big sprawling city, smashing and shooting every last thing in your way, then Wheelman is a great pick. However, it never even attempts to reinvent the wheel from any other free-roaming action-adventure. Then again, you could say that is a pretty accurate portrayal of Vin Diesel's movie career.