Saturday, April 14, 2012

Fallout New Vegas Honest Hearts Review

Today we lighten our load and head out with the Happy Trails Caravan Company to Zion!

Zion National Park

Honest Hearts starts out with picking up a radio from Jed of the Happy Trials Caravan Company requesting someone with a Pip-Boy to help with a expedition to make contact with the New Canaanites who have been out of contact for a while. And this expedition is the last ditch effort of the Happy Trails Caravan Company to stay alive while the Crimson Caravan dominates trade in the Mojave Wasteland.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Back Talk With Kurorahk: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

Welcome to the Grim-Dark future where there is only war!

A Ork Nob obsessed with everything that goes boom.
 In the far flung future created by the British tabletop game company Games Workshop there is only war. In this universe humanity is a massive cruel regime in which trillions live across the breath and width of the galaxy. But there are those who stand much taller above the rift raft of humanity. They are the Space Marines, 2-3 meter tall with cybernetic and genetic augmentations clad in armor that makes modern tank armor look antiquated. And today we step into the shoes of a captain among these men in the Ultramarines chapter, poster boys for Games Workshop themselves.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Crysis 2

Hello and welcome to the review of Crysis 2, where New York City is under attack by a familiar alien force and a horrifying disease. Today we ship out to New York City to help save the world from the Ceph.

 
Prophet

Today we are a marine named Alcatraz and we are on a submarine heading into New York City. Our missions is to aid a specialist by the name of Prophet and a civilian Dr. Gould. It seems odd to send in a armed squad of marines via submarine insertion for a strictly humanitarian crisis and the team mentions this before we get a short briefing. After we are briefed we start heading out to get ready to leave the sub and start our mission.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Crysis

This week I tackle a game renown for graphics. But, is it just graphics or is there more in Crysis? Well lets dive right on in!

We start off by getting a cut scene setting up the situation on this pacific island and hints at there is more going on than anyone knows. As such we then cut to a few days later and a transport plane flying towards the fictional Lingshan islands. Here the North Korean's have evacuated all the civilians from the island after massive seismic activity. Now the whole place is under lock down and the US Government is worried about what is going on and sends in a team to find out what is going on.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Fallout New Vegas Review

War never changes, but games do, so lets jump into Fallout: New Vegas!


Taking place in the year 2281, four years after Fallout 3, and in the Mojave Desert near Las Vegas, or as it is now known New Vegas. New Vegas starts off with a nice pre-rendered cut scene and then going into a intro video to explain the region and the back story. This is typical by now for Fallout games and is a good way to start things off. Though the pre-rendered cut scene could give false impressions of how the game actually looks. After the exposition we get to see that the seen near the end of the pre-rendered cut scene is where we are and things are not looking up for us. As such we get shot in the head and left for dead in a shallow grave.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Fallout New Vegas Dead Money Review

Welcome to the review of Fallout: New Vegas' first DLC, Dead Money!


In the age of dull and short DLC this is a refreshing and wonderful change of pace. Obsidian once again has made a wonderful story for a massive universe that is Fallout. The DLC beings when you you pick up a transmission from the Sierra Madre, a pre-war casino that never opened. Things look odd when you get to the source of the signal in the Mojave Desert and it is a abandoned Brotherhood of Steel bunker. When you step in you are greeted with graffiti on the walls about the Sierra Madre and a beheaded body.

Dawn of War 2 Chaos Rising Review

Welcome to the grim darkness that is the far future where there is only war! Welcome to Dawn of War 2's first expansion/standalone Chaos Rising.



Picking up after Dawn of War 2's campaign, which left the sector devastated but recovering from a tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan. A warp storm appears and births the planet Aurelia. At this point a signal, a Blood Raven signal, starts transmitting from the surface drawing the Force Commander from Dawn of War 2 to investigate.