Grid Crash

I recorded a crash from Grid Racedriver. You might want to have a look.

Crysis – Windows 7 Vs. XP – Frame Rate Comparison

Today I have done some research on the frame rates in Crysis.
I did I comparison with Crysis on Windows XP and Windows 7 to see how the frame rate differs.

Download the PDF file with all of my results.
It includes graphs and tables.

This link is the savegame file I used while I was testing the frame rates with: r_displayinfo = 1 command in the ingame console window. I was standing in the exact same postion without even moving the aimer to a different postion throughout the whole of the frame rate measurements.

XP Framerates

Windows 7 Framrates

Download PDF: CRYSIS_FrameRates

Rapidshare – FPS TEST Scene Save Game:
http://rapidshare.com/files/278931362/default_FPS_Test_SCENE.CRYSISJMSF.html

Enjoy!

Getting the Crysis Demo!

Hello there everyone it has been a long time since I posted something and now time to post something I’ve been checking out:

The Crysis Demo is a quite interesting game with interactive environments that include shooting a tree will cause it to fall down kind of interactiveness. But is it really worth buying a magazine and then using the disc that comes with it (I use PC Power Play) to play the demo. I say yes, it is worth it to get the demo and play it through to the end of the demo.

I played to the end and the preveiw of the full game is fantastic because it does not rescrict you to a certain path. It is a huge open world but of course if you want to get to the end you have to follow objectives.

The game mechianics are also quite nicely done with three atributies you must switch through quite oftenly are Maximum Speed, Maximum Strength and Maximum Armour. These can be used very effectivly to complete the game this is what I did for fun when playing the game again.

Tutorial: How to kill a guy with a simple barrel!

1: Switch to Maximum Speed and turn on Cloak Mode
2: Spint to an ememy
3: Switch to Maximum Strength before he shoots.
4: Pick up a barrel
5: Throw it at him
6: Ouch, Thats got to hurt!

The game also needs stratigy to complete such as taking cover to reload and getting out of a car before it explodes with ememy fire!

The Verdict:

RATING

9

Good: Requires stratigy which really puts you in the mood and the interactive environments are superb!
Bad: For more casual gamers who don’t really like the rush off having to duck for reloading and the carefull movement required to play the game without dying every time you take one step.

Overall: The game can be quite inspiring but for others the game could be a bit of hard game to play.

Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 for Wii

Hello and once again I will be reviewing another game for the Wii called Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 and this game comes on 2 platforms, the Wii and PC but this time I will be reviewing Wii version, before I start my review, on this review I will be using the term RRR2 as a short term for Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 because it gets tiring when you have to keep typing its long title.

And yes, I know there is a older version known as Rayman Raving Rabbids (1) which has a bigger storyline but is not very friendly when it comes to having multiplayer fun and playing with others.

The story line in RRR2 is the rabbids are plotting to take over the world by invading countries such as Paris, USA, South America, Tropics and China. Every country or in the game Trips, have different Mini-games.
There are 50 Mini-games in total and 10 Mini-games in each trip.
When you complete a trip for the first time you unlock a basic shooting game that can be accessed through the Main Menu of the game by going to the Plaza section of the Main Menu. In the Plaza you can access the Game Credits, Jukebox, Character Customization and Shooting Arcade.
I will cover all the options in the plaza and then get back to talking about the Mini-games but now I will review the Shooting Arcade.
Shooting Arcade
There are 5 Shooting Games that are unlocked when you complete a trip through the trips menu, there is 1 shooting game for completing USA another for China and so on. Each shooter has a animated background which when the game was in developing stages they filmed when they walking and then added rabbids to jump all over the place with pistols that fire plungers and rabbids come with candy canes to whack you.
Also at the end of a shooting game there is a boss or bosses you have to defeat in order to win.

Game Credits
The credits may not seem interesting at first but we infact watched the whole thing and we found something really funny at the end of the credits so when your watching the credits don’t touch anything and just wait, even if you think is nothing coming up, there will be something.

Character Customization
The Character Customization it quite funny with your rabbid sometimes falling of the dressing stand. You unlock clothes when you are playing trips and while playing a trip getting a good or high score in the mini-game you were playing. You can dress your rabbid with 3 categories of clothing, 1. Hats, 2. Torso, 3. Torso Ver.2, the second torso accually has different clothes and styles.

When your dressing a Rabbid the choices are huge ranging from a special toilet cleaner hat with a scrubing brush and detergent, and a matching torso piece of clothing to add to the effect.
I personally like playing as a rabbid dressed up in pirate clothes. Bajo from Good Game really likes pirates too, visit the Good Game website HERE  -and return to this review!.

The Jukebox
The Jukebox is really enjoyable section to go to, the reason that the Jukebox is so nice is that when you select the JuteBox all the Rabbids and Rayman that you use to play RRR2 get organized and dance to the music its very enjoyable to watch and the songs have been dubbed to really sound like the Rabbids are singing the songs, the songs are Smoke on the Water, Teenage in Love, Satisfaction, Papa’s Got, Celebration and Funky Town!

Back to the Mini-Games
The minigames have been made very well and it is amusing to play the various mini-games, some of the funest games could be, TNT were you have to blow yourself up at the closest millisecond to zero, Funky Town Music were you have to use your Nun-chuck and WiiMote to play the notes and get the best score and it also could be a mini-game where you have to unclog the toilet from a blockage of carrots?, and many others that are great Multiplayer, and Single Player fun.

So to another of my reviews on another Wii game ends here and the game box information simplified:

Title: Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
Developer: Ubisoft
Players: 4
Nun-chuck: YES
Modes Supported: 50Hz / 60Hz
Compatibility: EDTV / HDTV

Super Monkey Ball – Banana Blitz for Wii

The game I will be reviewing is Super Monkey Ball – Banana Blitz for Wii and the company who developed this game is SEGA and of course it is Licensed By Nintendo.
The version I got is PAL and will only work on PAL Wiis that are bought I Australia, the reason that Nintendo sell their Nintendo Wiis in different versions (PAL, NTSC, SECAM ect.) is to prevent game piracy*.
The game is also 50Hz and 60Hz Modes Supported and also EDTV/HDTV Compatible.

The game has a title like Super Monkey Ball – Deluxe for XBox and XBox 360 but in the Wii version it has a different mode inside the game known as Party Mode and contians all of the 50 party games are ready for your enjoyment and no unlocking is requied for party games so you can just battle out with your friends.

And also there is Story Mode where at the beginning the evil Pirate Monkey steals the Golden Bunch of Bananas, you play through levels by pointing your WiiMote at the Screen and then by twisting your WiiMote to go left or right through the levels while avoiding obsticles in the level such as bumpers to knock you of the edge and send you falling forever.

At the end of the levels you have completed there are also unique bosses for you to verse after you complete a world in story mode, there are bosses who have rocket launchers and fire at you and you have to jump at the right moment to push the button on the rocket to fire back at the boss and make him lose some of his life.

Something else that is new in Super Monkey Ball – Banana Blitz is that there are 2 new characters known as YanYan and Docter. YanYan doesn’t look very new and could be basicly a copy a MeeMee (An ‘original’ female character) but with a bit of a new hair style.
Docter also looks strange because first of all he has crosses that are on the inside of the glasses he is wearing and that his beard looks like a duck’s beak! (I’m Hoping that he has a beard not a beak).

Now another bit of critsim to this game is that the party games suck when it comes to using the WiiMote with some of them. One of the games could be one of the hardest to use because you have point at screen and move your WiiMote to the side of the screen for it to change direction, but the character doesn’t even twitch, for people who are interested that Party Game, it is known as Frog Ball.

When I played with my friends and my brother we found some good Party Games that handle really well, as well!

So to conclude my review this is some box information simplified:

Title: Super Monkey Ball – Banana Blitz
Developer: SEGA
Players: 4
Nun-chuck: YES
Modes Supported: 50Hz / 60Hz
Compatibility: EDTV / HDTV

* Piracy is when a person makes a copy of a game’s data of its Disc and then puts it on the internet for people to download to their PCs and then put that game data on a disc to use in a console or in another computer.

Unreal Tournament 3 Is Released!

Hey everyone this is a pretty old article but I’m just going to finish it of so tell you about this new game, anyway lets continue:
Unreal Tournament has been released and boy oh boy is looking good.

A quick review, Unreal Tournament Started a long time ago when Epic Games released one of their first in the Unreal Universe, it was called: Unreal.

Unreal was a FPS (First Person Shooter) that was made relating to Unreal things such a aliens, monsters, health packs, and a lot of big guns.
The graphics at the time was some of the best and had lots of buyers, well buying this game, but now if you try to play this game it might not be able to have support with today’s Technology which includes: Intel Core Duo 2 Processors and HD Graphics Cards, so good luck and good job if you can get this game to work.

Next was an expansion pack for the Original Unreal game that was called: Unreal Mission Pack with an expansion to the story line of the campaign in the game and a few extra Deathmatch Maps.
(Now I apologise for some of the incorrect terms I may be writing because the names has changed for some of the map types such as the term Deathmatch witch the term may not exist anymore because of the new terms presented by Unreal Tournament 3 the last of the serries which is explained more about at bottom of the artical.)

Picture of the new Unreal FPS: Unreal Tournament 3

Now if you want more infomation on the Unreal Serries please quickly visit the Unreal website and return back to continue reading thanks here you go: www.unreal.com

Good you returned now I shall start the summarise bit of the article here it goes:
YAYAYAYAYAYAAAAA – VAM VAM ZOOM ZOOM oh sorry got carried away.

The next thing in the series is: Unreal 2: The Awakening which is another Single Player FPS that managed to get it self to PC then next up came Unreal 2 XMP Edition which was sold on two platforms:  XBox Live and PC which that was a massive sell by the reason of letting users compete againist each other.

After that came Unreal Championship and then Unreal Championship 2 which was also a really good sell and then some of the best in the intire Unreal Universe.

When it people thought it couldn’t get any better Unreal Tournament arrived which in it’s time was thought to be the last one in the Unreal Universe
Unreal Tournament 2003 which had fantastic graphics and was one of the top seller games on the market giving Epic Games lots and lots of money!
Unreal Tournament 2004 which was next in line had support when developing Ut2004, Epic Games and Digital Extremes put together the Ultimate game and still UT2004 users aren’t switching the Unreal Tournament 3 because there are so many downloads to download and many expansion mods also to enhance game-play.

Ut2004 was considered the best and still people not wishing to switch to switch  to the lastest and greatest game (some say) in the Unreal Series, UT3.

Personaly I don’t think is worth the switch and I’m still using Ut2004 and I might ask my dad if we can switch to the ‘Lastest and Greatest’ (and slowest for many computers that are not ‘NEW’) and see if Epic Games and Digital Extremes decide to drop total support on UT2004 such as all the servers and try and make UT3 the best of best.

Well hope you enjoy. (Wow I typed so much…)

Guitar Hero 3 Lengends of Rock

Guitar Hero 3 has been a massive success and I say this because yesterday, I went over to my friends place and we played the Guitar Hero 3. It was the Nintendo Wii platform and I had a go at it.

I wasn’t that good but the visit made me better, because it wasn’t my first time playing Guitar Hero 3.
The only other places I played it was at the shopping centres in Sydney -> Chatswood -> Westfield Shopping Mall. I could only play the game a little bit because it was a preview of Guitar Hero 3 for Xbox 360 another platform that has support from Guitar Hero 3.

I have seen other versions of the game such as Guitar Hero 1 and 2 and yes there has been a massive improvement in the game from 1 to 3 the only that many people keep the older copies of Guitar Hero is that it is missing on of peoples favourite songs is the classic rock song ‘Smoke on the Water’ and sometimes these people complain at the developers  of Guitar Hero 1, 2 and 3 is that they excluded this classic song and other that people really like other songs sometime complain about excluded songs, but I’m not quite sure

Anyway in conclusion if your thinking buying Guitar Hero 3 for a Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3 or XBox 360 just play the game… P.S. you need the console and the game together!

The Great Sea Battle, The Great Disapointment

The Great Sea Battle, it is a very well built with 3D Graphics and Sounds, Camera Angels and Water Effects.

Boy do I like this game, in this game you can rotate your ships or even choose a auto set which places you ships in random postitions.
But there is one problem my dad got it for me so we could play together on our computers at home, the problem is that we can’t figure out how to get the multiplayer LAN option going!

And the reason my dad got this game was so we could play multiplayer LAN!!!!!

If you have this game or don’t have it you can download the trial from the website.
If you have any ideas on how to fix this game submit some comments please!

Halo 3

There is a new game avalible at any game store because of this new hit to gaming and for gamers to collect for their own this game allows you do so many things such as film your gaming and save it to your XBox 360, PS3 and other platforms  (Why not PC!!!),go into gravity mode and then you can move objects such as trucks fitted with heavy shotting equipment to gun down your opponents and win the battle.

There is even a menu were you can customize your weapons and change how powerful the weapon is if you think that weapon is either to weak or to strong.
You can also use XBox Live to connect to the net and battle online or share your home made movies and trade with other people and there replay movies on your TV.

But be careful, because this game can contain quite a bit of blood and gore.
This should be recommended to people who are older than 11 at least, otherwise you will have a person who wakes up in the middle of the night sweating like you have just run all the way in the 7 Bridges walk (If your in Australia if not lets just say a long way…).

Enjoy the gaming for all gamers!!! (and other)

Sims 2

The game called The Sims2 has been released with alot new features and improved bodys and skins.
More than 1 year did it take the people at EA Games to create this piece of telling family stories or even make your own and the connect to the web and share your Sims, Lots and toy shops to the world.

This game would be recomend for people who are 11 or older because sometime the sims can get a bit restless and angry when you don’t give them something to eat or if they have to go to the toilet.

I like this game because if have it and the 3D graphics are fantasic. If you buy a telescope and get your sim to look through it he might get a free ticket to an alien spaceship! (If you know what I mean by that).