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| Civilizatization 4 |
| Monday, February 19, 2007 |
Visually, Civ 4 is quite impressive. While due attention has been paid to details such as waves, flowing water and swaying trees, these aren't as performance-hungry as one would fear. The interface is well laid out, and didn't pose too much of a task to understand. The sound is an impressive part of the game. The background score is full of African and Gregorian chants, and fall gently upon one's ears. The music changes according to what level you are zoomed into in your map—at full zoom, you hear civilisation-specific music for your cities (yes, sitars for India), and as you zoom out, the music changes to the Gregorian chants again.
What didn't go down too well with this reviewer was the fact that while inconsequential alerts keep popping up right in front of you, the ones that really matter—like when
your opponent kills your favourite archers—are put in the top-left corner of the screen, where you aren't really likely to be paying much attention.Labels: Fighting Games |
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| Conflict Storm- Reviews |
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Let’s face it—tactical first person shooters are a dime a dozen. In fact, they’re a dime a thousand, with each new game more stereotyped than the one before it. Ergo, there’s a very good reason that only a few of them are ever really successful. And
C:GSdoes notcome under that category. The idea is good enough (even if it’s a tad
unoriginal): you’re put in charge of a tactical squad of four called Red
Team, which consists of Sergeant Bradley, Corporal Jones, Corporal Connors, Corporal Foley, and later, Corporal Sherman as well. Naturally, you’re sent into a
number of hostile locations throughout the game— ranging from Russia to
Kashmir! The idea is straightforward— complete the mission by any means
necessary and get the hell outta there! Simple enough—or so you’d think. Unfortunately, the game is marred by a number of basic errors that ruin its playability. Take the AI for example. The user’s manual proudly claims
that AI has been significantly improved since the last instalment, which makes you wonder if anyone but the worst novice had trouble completing it. The fact is
that the AI is extremelydumb! Apparently, running straight into you from
all directions is the only way your opponents know how to kill. Sure, there is the odd exception, but that doesn’t matter because it upsets your “sit in a corner-
aim-shoot” tactic only for a little while.Labels: Fighting Games |
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| Gear of War - PC Version |
| Saturday, February 17, 2007 |
This dream is going to be true, as the epic game Gear of War is going to be on PC and one doesn’t have to buy the Xbox 360. In the starting itself developers were planning to develop the game for both xbox and PC, however the things were gone different. The date is not finalized however spokesperson for Microsoft clarified that the game is going to be on the PC version soon. Well I remember there are many crack software available in the market which are cheap and let u play the Xbox game on the PC, now please don’t ask me the names, Google is there and go and search it. Labels: Fighting Games, PC |
| posted by Ankur Lekhi @ 11:43 AM |
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