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Napoleon: Total War

Aviel Yamin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:39:22 +0000

“My enemies are many, my equals are none” so begins another sequel of the grand Total war, this time, we’re playing the armies of the emperor napoleon.

The game, just like every other Total War, offers you the seat of napoleon in both strategic campaign and in game conflict resolving tactical phase (you could of course let the computer do the tactical phases for you, but I find the computer very lame in making decisions).

The game takes place in the 18^th century, and it might even reach to the beginning of the 18^th century (depends on how bad you are in conquering the world).

While playing the game you could either sit on his chair, and follow the imperial path of napoleon, from before conquering the world, through it, and past it (to the great fall of napoleon), or go against it.

It appears total war didn’t have much time to develop this one, so they took the system of total war- empires, and build the new campaigns on it

The combination of missions in game along with accumulated experience is what making this strategy game different from others.

So what’s new?

This time in Total War you’d get to command new forces (guess who’s?), with much more advanced weapons than usually supplied in every version of total war, you’d have fun using swords too, however most of the fights could be dealt with just a handful of defense units, and few good cannons (I know what you think… total war? cannons? Well, yea, they have finally done something right).

The game offers three new campaigns, so take command and lead your battle in the land and sea through Egypt, Italy and eventually Europe.

This version of the Total War, offers a new, highly designed multi- player, with vocal command options, theme designer and extra bonuses (considering you bought the original copy of the game, and didn’t burn it).

The Saboteur ATI Problems

lazza — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:04:03 +0000

Today I wanted to write a review and preview for the latest EA game – The Saboteur. I bought the game yesterday and installed it and got very exctided to try it out. But the game had some major freezing issues. After experiencing that problem I started to google for some article or forum to find out if any other user had similar problem.

Guess what! So far, there are over 53 pages of people posting on EA forums about why EA released Pandemic Studios’ final game after knowing full well it did not work properly. It is not a small bug! If you are an ATI video card user and either Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you’ll have game crash after the title screen. Since the marketshare for ATI is nearly equal to that of Nvidia, and the ATI logo is adorning the front page of the Saboteur website, it seems like quite a large mistake to release the game in its current state.

Yeah I know this one was more flame then news but here are the news. AMD is now working with Electronic Arts to resolve these issues for AMD/ATI users. Let’s hope they’ll fix this problem.

Unreal Engine Developer Kit Now Freely Downloadable

lazza — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:00:23 +0000

We are witnessing big changes in the gaming industry and this one is HUGE! The Unreal Developer Kit (UDK) is now available from Nvidia.

Until now it has been very hard to get your hands on the Unreal Engine and the only thing you could get from it was a headache. It required too many licences. But now, just like that, it’s being made freely available to everyone. You can download the kit and start creating your own game immediately – weather for educational or non-commercial purposes. Even if you want to make your own commercial game!

There is no catch!

Students and all of you working quietly on the next BIG THING – REJOICE!
Commercial developers licence will cost you 25% of your royalty on any revenue revenue over $5,000.
And for everyone else stay tuned for a lot more games powered by the Unreal Engine in the future!

World of Warcraft Tier 10

assimilated — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:38:20 +0000

Good… here we go again… mass hysteria… debates and so on regarding World of Warcraft. With the new upcoming patch (3.3) a new dungeon will be added known as Icecrown citadel. In my opinion Blizzard did it again, they disappointed us once more. I mean let’s face it just look at the glorious T10 armors, the rogue has a bag on the head with a green glowing orb in the middle, how imba is that eh? And the hunter seems like he made turned into a tree hugger! I do have to say though that the warlock set does look really neat. Unfortunately no final pictures have been released for the priests, paladins and shamans yet. Let’s hope that those armors will make things a little better for this patch. No release date has been mentioned so far, but the patch is already in use on the test servers.

We don’t have much info on this one but I’m sure there will be more threads and articles about this one. Here are some previews and stay tuned for more info.

Death Knight	Druid	Hunter	Mage
Rogue	Warlock	Warrior	Others still unknown

Diablo 2 – 1.13 patch

assimilated — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:37:52 +0000

Wait wait don’t you mean Diablo 3 ? No, surprisingly as it is, even though most Diablo fans are focused on the 3^rd version of the game, Blizzard has a announced another content update for the good old Diablo 2. Personally, I was really happy to hear this as it shows that even after 9 years there are still people interested in this game. So what’s with this 1.13 version anyway? Well, firstly I’ll begin by saying that the release date is really uncertain, as it has been moved back a forward quite a few times so far. Some say that this update may never come as it the old version of battle-net can not take all the changes. But let’s hope they are wrong and that Blizzard will find a way to add the things that they announced.

This is not a simple patch made to fix minor bugs. It is a content pack, which means that new features will be added (of course that bug fixing won’t be skipped). One important thing that will be added is the possibility to re-spec. That really is good news no? The one thing that I did not like about Diablo was the fact that once you added a skill point somewhere, it stayed there forever. Many times I re-made characters because minor mistakes in adding those points, so a re-spec option would be more than welcome. Another important feature will be the increment of the stash space (again). Also, this feature was demanded years after years by the Diablo community.

Other changes may include:

Synergy Bonus Changes
A possible change to the way grinding is carried out after level 80-90 ( maybe no more Baal runs)
New items

Let’s hope that this pack will be release, the date for that is not of great importance because as Blizzard’s history has shown us, they never managed to deliver a game on time(not even Starcraft or Diablo 1) but they always created masterpieces.