Jun, 18 2009
Here it is – more than a week before it’s official release, we are giving you a thorough review of the up coming Armed Assault 2 – ONLY at videogamereign.com! The game is set to release on June 26th, so if you are a fan of the series or the genre, be sure to pick it up!
Mar, 18 2009
Below you will find the top 5 PC games that you can find for under $15 that are actually worth playing!
Medal of Honor: Airborne
Medal of Honor Airborne is also featured in our ‘Top 5 Xbox 360 Games’ guide, simply because it’s just so good, and such a bargain under $15! In the PC version, you again take on the role of a soldier in WWII participating in various missions all over the world in single player, and then being able to play an excellent multiplayer mode online so the game just never gets boring!
Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning
Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning is an online role-playing game that allows you to fight against real players online. As well as going head-to-head in player-versus-player combat, you can also go on quests to further the fun of the game. The game is, obviously, based on the original Warhammer collectable models, and therefore you can play as one of the many armies available in the ‘real life’ models, including Chaos, Dwarves and High Elves.
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2 can now be picked up very cheaply (perhaps even $5!) since it’s getting a little old, but is still worth the money. Any serious game fan will want to play the game time and time again as it is a good strategic, first-person shooter based on a modern battlefield. The player can choose to be part of the United States Marine Corps, People’s Liberation Army, or the (made up) Middle East Coalition when playing online. Whilst there is a single player mode to the game, the best fun comes from playing online with lots of other gamers.
Bioshock
Bioshock is yet another first-person shooter game, except with a slight twist; it’s set on an alternate timeline, circa 1960. Stealth can be used throughout the game, which is often better than all-out offensive, and cash is collected to be traded in for weapons, ammunitions and upgrades. Some parts of the game require the player to complete mini-games in the form of ‘Pipe Dream’, a very, very old game that is actually quite addictive!
Medieval II Total War
Straying away from FPS is Medieval II Total war. This game, based on the 2002 release Medieval Total War, allows players to take turns to strategically conquer certain areas of the map. Based on historically true events, and set between the 11th and 16th centuries, realism is to be expected in this game and can be played in battles mode (also for multiplayer) or as a single player campaign.
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 4 is the fourth instalment in the very popular Resident Evil third-person shooter Series, and requires the player to survive against hoards of enemies in massive shootouts with loads of enemies coming at you with few places to take cover.
Mar, 14 2009
Call of Duty 1 is the original Call of Duty game created, based on Quake III: Team arena. Released in 2004, Call of Duty 1 was a new era of FPS gaming. The game was based on 9 real-life historical battles; The battles of Normandy, the Bulge, Stalingrad, Warsaw and Berlin, and the special operations on Eder Dam, Bavarian Alps, Dulag III and Siegfried Lane.
What made Call of Duty 1 different to the multitude of FPS WWII games on the market at that time was that the developers seemed to get it ‘just right’; there is a great emphasis on making the game as user friendly as possible, by not having a large amount of keys to be pressed to carry out an action, or struggling to open doors, for example. It also pulled together the best parts from each WWII FPS on the market at that time, and put them together to make one ’super-game’.
The amount of detail in terms of how injuries were represented in the game were greatly stepped up from other attempts – the characters in the game will reflect the damage done. For example, if the character gets shot in the head he won’t survive, but if he gets shot in the shoulder he can be seen actively aware of this by clutching it, or by limping.
Gameplay
Gameplay for Call of Duty 1 seems to be centred on single player enjoyment. The campaign game format starts with the player being Private Joey Martin in Camp Toccoa, swiftly moving on to Ste. Mere Eglise before finishing that section of the campaign in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont.
With the American section of the campaign over, you take the place of a British non-commissioned officer, Jack Evans, capturing Pegasus Bridge. From then on you become a Russian conscript soldier, Alexei Ivanovich Voronin where you take part in the Battle of Stalingrad. Finally, the players take on a series of ‘final missions’, one for each country featured above, in order to finish the game.
There is a multiplayer mode available to the player, but it’s not as advanced as the future versions of Call of Duty, due to their being more capabilities available to the developers.
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Mar, 14 2009
The second part of the Call of Duty range is Call of Duty 2. Released in 2005, the game hasn’t aged much and is still great fun, and a great game to play!
Gameplay
Single player follows the same campaign-style setup as many games of its time, with the player being able to play as Private Vasili Ivanovich Koslov, Sergeant John Davis and Corporal Bill Taylor.
The three main campaign settings that the player takes on are set in North Africa, Battle of Normandy with the finale in the Crossing of the Rhine. The North Africa campaign sees you playing as the British soldier, Sergeant John Davis, fighting against the Germans taking on their HQ and strategic points they hold. The Battle of Normandy part of the campaign allows the player to take part in D-Day at the assault of Point-De-Hoc, and goes on to destroy strategic points in the German line-up. The final main campaign section, the Crossing of the Rhine (playing as an American), which is another round of anti-German fighting, it would seem, that ends with you having to defeat 2 German Tiger I’s.
Single player mode is relatively easy to complete in the easiest setting, but when you increase this you have to get a lot more tactical in order to win the game, or you just get blown away!
Multiplayer mode isn’t as great as the later versions of this game, mainly due to the capabilities not been in place when it was released. None the less, it does feature a useable online-multiplayer system for PC gaming and for Xbox 360 gaming. Here, players can choose to be American, British or Soviet soldiers to take on other players, on many different maps available from the campaign locations featured in single player mode.
Popularity
Call of Duty 2 has been met with good reviews from the gaming community, with the following excellent ratings:
A rather amazing figure released by Douglass C. Perry stated that 77% of people that bought an Xbox 360, also bought Call of Duty 2!
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