Sunday 31 July 2011

APB Vehicles?

Browsing around, found out a few things about APB:R... about the Vehicles...

Below is a link telling you a little about vehicle parts and unlocks:

http://www.apbrwiki.com/wiki/Category:Vehicles

However... it seems a variety of players - including people I have personally played with seem to be getting vehicles parts which are not even implemented into the game as of yet... I myself have also been sent one of these vehicles... Not only that, but I seem to have come across a 'Patriot Mikra'; This is a 4 door Mikra, which originally loads as a Patriot (when your game has not rendered the vehicle etc properly) however, after rendering - turns into a Mikra with transparent wheels.

I have been told how its possible and I do not want to say too much as I do not want anyone or everyone who reads this to suddenly look into how to do it, but I have been told that it is no 3rd party program or no actual hack, anyone and everyone has the capability of doing it - just need the know-how! With this, there is APPARENTLY no fix... That's what I have been told, I find it highly unlikely that the programmers and coders at G1 will never be able to fix it, but... Apparently unless they completely remove the customization aspect to the game - anyone will always be able to unlock any item of clothing or any car and even possibly in future patches any wep's (if they become tradable).

But again, I dont believe that there is no FIX... It's just a matter of time, but until then, they are banning people who have these vehicles etc, so don't even buy one from the marketplace, because you DO have a chance to be banned for it.

Amnesia Game Review!

When I first started playing Amnesia I knew of how shocking it was after watching various videos from different youtubers showing how jaw-droppingly scary the experience of playing it was. Even at the start of the game I found that ambient noises were already making me jump and my body was always pumping with adrenaline.

It takes a while to actually see an enemy in the game and by the time it happened I started to feel complacent in the fact that I had not run into any real danger so I was not being as careful as I should have been, when I did run into an enemy I instantly paused the game for time to calm down and a moment to focus on what I had to do. The game is made in such a way that I found myself needing to do this in tricky situations since you need to use 'wit' to outsmart the enemy rather than the usual run-and-gun tactics implemented into most games these days.

This game certainly deserves the title of ‘survival-horror’ with sometimes scarce resources and extremely frightening situations at the best of times. When faced with an enemy you are advised to run or hide since attempts to fight the enemy is usually futile.

Many scenes are obviously scripted which removes a sense of randomness about the game, knowing that each time you play it will be near enough the same... Also, the controls do seem rather clunky, the way you have to manually interact with most objects can become frustrating especially when you are in a hurry; an example being running away from an enemy and attempting to close a door behind you can turn out to be rather difficult when faced with a big monster-type thing appearing at your face when you turn around - saying this, it sure does add to the whole scare factor of the game on a whole. The fact that you can’t fight the enemies is frustrating at times but this again adds to the fear you are faced with in the game and knowing that you can’t defend yourself only makes the game scarier.

Upon completing this game I have found myself drawn to the genre and, despite the negatives I stated, have been inspired to play the Penumbra series, made by the same developer ‘Frictional games’. Kudos to them and I hope to see a sequel as well as the already released DLC for the game, so shall let you know about them also!

I recommend this game to anyone up for a scare.
- Tom John Sullivan

Amnesia Game Website

Thursday 7 July 2011

Too long!

Again, been too long since I last made a post, so for you followers I honestly apologise... Trying to get new things up and running for the blog, be it not only game reviews, but tutorials e.g fps fixes or photoshop things, and even thinking about including some film/movie reviews to throw in here too... so stay tuned, more exciting new things are yet to come! Oh and ofcourse, more giveaways!