Steam Summer Sale!

Hey guys, hope you're good. HOPE YOU'RE AWESOME!!! I know I am, and why? Because Steam have just had there Summer Sale, its still on actually so if you haven't checked it out you should get over there and grab the bargains while they're there, the offers don't last for long, its like 8 hours for most things, and then they have like a daily deal, but I'm sure most of you fellow gamers have checked it out. So in this review I'm going to kind of highlight a few of the games I bought, who knows you might even see something you like the look of. Enjoy.

Just read it finished on the 22nd, oops sorry if I got your hopes up :'( *Sorry Lawrence*

Steam Sale we love you.

I had never used Steam before this summer, I've always been a preferred console gamer and less interested in PC gaming, oh how times change, I fucking love PC gaming now. So when I saw how good this sale was my wallet practically screamed "SPEND MONEY" so I obliged. but I got so cracking bargains.

Euro Truck Simulator.
This game is so addictive, I originally bought it because it was cheap and I was just filling my basket, but its actually very good, simple graphics but quite good. basically delivering one lorry cargo of merchandise from one destination in Europe to another, stay in one country or go over seas. Like I said its a simple game but its so fun, definitely one to recommend,
A well deserved rating of 6/10

Fallout: New Vegas.
I am yet too play New Vegas as I am still playing through Fallout 3 (review to come soon) but it was only £2.49, how could I not? I've really been enjoying F3 though but I wont go into detail because I want to eventually review it separately.

Tomb Raider.
So I'm really enjoying playing this game, the graphics are really good and the story line is enticing. I never want to turn it off. And I really want to talk about it but I want to review this separately when I've finished it like I plan to with Fallout. Sorry guys.

Fallout: New Vegas and Remember Me.

I did buy a lot of games from the Steam Summer Sale, but I hope to have played them all in time for next years sale. If you know of any good games that you would like me to review or do some game play of on YouTube let me know in the comments, I promise I'll do it. Apologies for the short post guys. Have a good day. BYYYYYEEEEE!!!!!

Resident Evil 4. Playstation 2!

Hello readers, if you're reading this you are obviously a fan of Resident Evil, or you are curious about Resident Evil. And if you have played RE4 then you will know that it is a great game, like this game is really good. So I hope you enjoy my review on it, and if you do like it leave a comment if you want or take a look at some of my other reviews, where I write my take on other games.

Resident Evil 4, Ari's actual copy.

Well this game has been such a big part of my whole gaming life, to be honest it was one of the first games I ever really dabbled in properly on PlayStation 2, and I remember exactly how I got into it, picture the scene... The year was 2006 and I was in Year 8 at secondary school, it was a Thursday and I remember that it was a Thursday because I always went to my friend Ari's house on a Thursday after school and we'd catch the bus and then I got a ride home with my mum on her way back from work, it worked out perfectly because the hospital she worked at was just round the corner from Ari's house... Sorry I rambled. So yeah, we went to Ari's house and she told me that she had bought RE4 and had played a little, so Ari loaded up her PS2 and she played and I watched, and she was at the big fight with the evil Ramon Salazar. RE4 is a third person shooter, which I surprisingly loved as I generally prefer first person shooters like Call of Duty.

Ramon Salazar.

Well Ari soon defeated Salazar and I went home but something about the game really intrigued me, well us both I think, so we made plans to play the game from start the next day and over the weekend. The game starts as a previously known RE character, Leon S. Kennedy being driven to a little Spanish village by two rather sarcastic Spanish guards or police, I cant remember there exact job titles. The gameplay starts with Leon (played by you)


Leon & Ashley... Nice curtains Leon.

checking out this creepy, really dilapidated looking log cabin, within is a "hostile local" who you had to "neutralise" the two guards die and you have to walk to the village, in a nutshell. Once in the village you have to end a few more local zombies, well there not really zombies, but for arguments sake we'll call them zombies. And in, I think its the second house on the left as you enter the village, there's a nasty little surprise. enter it and you'll have to face a crazy with a chainsaw! Dr Salvador, there's a few Dr Salvador's in the game and he has a girlfriend, well two actually. CHAINSAW ORGY PARTY! And they're called the Bella Sisters, twins, kinky right?



I thought this was funny, just a little RE4 meme.

So the reason you are in Spain is to save the Presidents daughter who was snatched from the states by a cult called the Los Iluminados, which is leaded by Osmund Saddler, he plans on infecting the Presidents daughter, Ashley Graham, with a mind controlling parasite called Las Plagas, ship her back off to the States which would consequently infect her father, President Graham, and he would control the nation under Saddlers command. Pretty evil right? and after a bit of back and forthing and several "lets rescue stupid Ashley" missions you face Saddler who is surprisingly not that difficult to beat, and the final defeating hit is delivered by a present from the lovely Ada.

Ada & her leg twin Angelina.

Ada Wong is one of those fictitious characters whom you would love to stick a knife in. But at the same time you would be sad if she died, although me and Ari had many laughs at her expense we did always know we would just start from our last checkpoint (which is a typewriter) and she would be alive. Ada's character is just as important to RE4 as Leon, Ashley and Saddler. there's a lot of unexpected aids in RE4 that help Leon not die basically, things like a church bell ringing and it luring an enclosing crowd of minions away from you. Well that's thanks to Ada, she is supposed to be working with Saddler, but is actually working for the evil mastermind behind the umbrella corporation, but still helps Leon. Bitch is crazy! But what is really cool is that you can play Ada's story once you have completed Leon's story. Ada's story answers a lot of questions that you may not of even had, Ada's character is very mysterious, as she says "she prefers to hide in the shadows" Strong romantic feelings between Leon and Ada are strongly suggested throughout the series, including Ashley asking Leon to go back to her house and do some "overtime" when he totally pies her she assumes its because he has feelings for Ada.

OMFG CUTE ^.^

Resident Evil 4 is 99% an awesome game, the 1% flop is the fact that it isn't multiplayer, I don't know how they'd have incorporated that into the storyline because Leon doesn't have a direct partner, he spends very little time with Ada, probably about 5 minutes through the whole game in cut scenes (which are very good by the way) and Ashley can't really be called a partner given that she is about as useful as tits on a fish! But when all is said and done Ashley returns home safely and Leon can relax, until next time.

So I hope you enjoyed my review for RE4, I love this game, actually once me and Ari (who I mentioned a few times) saw a record for this game being completed in like 6 and a half hours, and this was in a legitimate gaming record book. We then did a complete play through in 2 and a half hours. but we hadn't read the rules so we couldn't submit our time for the next years book. Shame but we always played for fun so won in that aspect.

Me & Ari, she's a crazy red head, and despite looking like one, I'm not a druggie!

I'm scoring this game 9.9/10, would loved it to have been multiplayer like RE5 and RE6, but it is definitely not a deal breaker, this is a game to keep at hand as it never gets old.
http://www.res-evil.com/re4/ check out this site it is really interesting, has trivia and clips and stuff.
Here is the link to RE4 on the PlayStation store, a steal at £15.99 if I do say so myself; https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-gb/games/resident-evil-4/cid=EP0102-NPEB00342_00-CONTENT0000DLPKG
And the link to the disc on Amazon, an even better deal for £7.50; http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Resident-Evil-4-PS2/dp/B0007A5FY4/ref=sr_1_1/275-2809614-3666247?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1373931235&sr=1-1&keywords=residentevil+4

SCHMOOOOOWWW! Bye guys have a great day :-)

Oh and check out Ari's blog, it is like really good; http://myheartliesinfilmandcomics.blogspot.co.uk/

Minecraft. PC & Xbox 360!

Hey how hoe peeps, I hope you are all having an amazing week, mine has been okay except my brother broke my Xbox. That bastard. And I think I mentioned in my Defiance review that my laptop had deleted a post so I had to rewrite it, well I fixed it :D YAY!
Anyway on with the show, hope you enjoy my review for Minecraft.

Minecraft.

So I really like Minecraft, I don't know what it is about it but I could just spend hours on it and before I know it, the days gone! I mean, me and my brother have built some pretty cool stuff, including a train station which lead to all the surrounding villages, it sounds a little sad but it was cool to do, and some rather funky houses, some on Survival and some on Creative, and there is a difference.
on Creative mode you have an unlimited inventory of everything item and material available on the game, so searching for resources is not an issue, but you don't really get a sense of achievement, where you would on Survival mode, in this mode you start with nothing, no weapons for harvesting food or materials, no materials to build even a bed, so it makes it fun, not difficult but fun! But you can make a little bit of something in Creative and then change the gameplay to Survival, which I have done before and it really helped me out a lot.
Minecraft is a completely open map game and you can be given any kind of map, some good and others not so great, when you start you can pick a "seed" I always find that 69 always spawns you a decent world. Or you can pick to have a flat world with no mountains, water, snow, sand, trees, weeds or anything, just a complete flat square land. And along with there being this awesome, opportunistic world, you also get what's called, The Nether which is basically an alternate world which is well beneath the bedrock which is impossible to dig through. to enter The Nether, you need 10 blocks of obsidian and a flint and steel to light the old bitch up. Jump into the screen and you will be magically teleported to the creepy and mysterious Nether, which is infested with Zombie Pigmen, ghasts, Magma cubes and blazers, all beatable with a sword! But for ghasts I would recommend a bow and arrow, to leave simply re-enter The Nether portal.

Nether Portal

And as well as there being a 'Nether' land to discover there is also 'The End', firstly it is difficult to get too! To get here you have to find a labyrinth like cave, which is kind of like an underground castle, with a library. There is only one portal to this world in the whole map, so happy hunting. But finding it is not the only problem, to get access you need to have Ender eyes and magma cream, to get Ender eyes you need to find and kill Endermen (found in the normal world), and for magma cream you must find and kill Blazers (found in The Nether) these to items mixed together makes Enderpearls. Once in The End, and you've had a little dig around, you come face to face with the Ender dragon, who is an asshole to kill, so make sure you only enter The End if you have good armour and good weaponry (I'm talking diamonds!) But if you do kill this slippery sucker, you get, a ton, of  XP. so, WORTH IT!

Something I've always really liked about gaming, and this may seem irrelevant but its not, is having my collection of discs of cartridges, or at least being able to have the option to have the game on disc or cartridge rather than an online download, and until last month Minecraft was only a downloadable game (a very successful one none the less) but I obviously got the disc because, you know, Minecraft, awesomeness!



Vajjy Island, Seed 69.

As I mentioned, Creative is definitely the easier way to play, and I play in Creative if I just want to have some fun building a silly structure, like a pint of beer for example. But Survival is definitely the way to go, its so much more challenging, there's monsters and everything. Watch out for those monsters, they can be pretty mean! And theirs plenty of them, including Creepers (the blow up!) Pig warriors, endermen, spiders, wolfs, zombies and there is many more to look out for, but most of them can be slayed with the end of a sword! Some are found in the normal world and some in The Nether, and in The End there is the Ender Dragon, as I mentioned above, and he's not the friendliest dragon in the world, actually he's a douche!

 You can also play Minecraft online and in a multilayer mode, which I love doing with my two brothers, they either come to one of my worlds or we go to one of there worlds and just grief each other, it's great. oh and griefing is where you go to someone else's world and just cause utter chaos, pouring lava on there structures or blowing them up with TNT, but obviously you wouldn't save the data so its all harmless fun really.

So as you can see this is a really good game, and its pretty flawless to be honest. I'd give this game a rating of 7/10. No higher because it is a little tedious when you are building things like the pint house, as everything is built by one single block at a time.

Here is the link to Minecraft on the Xbox Marketplace;  http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Product/Minecraft/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802584111f7?nosplash=1&DownloadType=Game#LiveZone
Not a bad price but I think its cheaper on disc.

And here is the link to the PC version; https://minecraft.net/store


I'm sorry this reviews a little short or rushed? but I was really tired when I wrote it and I was getting ready to go to work, but I wanted to get it uploaded. Have a super awesome day you guys.                   :-) Bye!!


Scrap that, I've been back after work and a nap, and I've put more stuff in about the other kinds of worlds within Minecraft, so hopefully I've redeemed my slacker ways :-) and thank you to my brother who helped me word this properly, because I'm silly and couldn't get it to read right. byeeee :D:D