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“Stay Frosty” – A review of COD: Modern Warfare 2

by Oak Tree on Nov.11, 2009, under Gaming

29538_modern_warfare_2 Okay now that I have blood shot eyes after 2 straight days of gaming, it might be time to write my review of this game.  Infinity Ward and Activision have done what they do best.  Two years after the release of COD4 they have decided to make a follow up to one of the greatest games made for any console.  Not since Bungie released Halo in 2001 have so many gamers loved one franchise as much as they have this one.  COD4:MW was pure bliss and the Multi-player was amazing to most gamers out there.  There was only one major complaint of the original and that was that there was no co-op in any aspect of the game. Now after a brief history of the game lets go to the review.  PURE EYE CANDY!!  This game is a great continuation of the original.  This series of games is one of the few that my palms sweat while I am playing because it is so intense.  This the only game I have ever heard of that allowed you to skip a mission because it might be too disturbing.  Let me list just a few things you get to do:  Drive a snowmobile, ice climb, drive a boat, a couple of sniper missions, and siege a castle.  The campaign is brilliant and it is great fighting through Washington DC.  The A.I. soldiers fighting belong side you aren’t much help at all.  The A.I. shooting at you, however, are usually pretty difficult depending on the mission.  The sound as usual is crisp and well timed. The new addition to the game is the Co-op Spec Ops mode.  You and a friend can play through several challenges to earn stars and unlock more challenges.  These include sniping missions, Snowmobile races, bomb disarming, and several other styles of games.  These games can also be played Solo. The only real problem I have with this game is the lack of Co-op Campaign.  The Spec Ops option is cool, but it isn’t the same.

- High quality graphics and sound

- Very-high replay value

- Great control system

- Great story line with a twist

9.5/10

Time for some more gamin’ folks, later!!  Oh and Happy Veterans day!!

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“Mein Leben!” A review on Wolfenstein(2009)

by Oak Tree on Aug.31, 2009, under Gaming

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Ah…1992…It was a great year! Cartoons used to play on Saturday morning, Sharon Stone was making all of us want to go watch Basic Instinct, Salt N Pepa had us Talking about sex while Sinead O’Connor was on SNL ripping up pictures of the Pope, Seinfield was having a Contest, the Alabama Crimson Tide was on a National Championship run, and most of us gamers were plastered to our computer chairs with our Arizona Tea kicking back waiting for our MS-DOS system to fire up so we could shoot some Nazis in Wolfenstein 3d. For those of you that just read that last sentence and thought, “Wow, that was 17 years ago?” I am sorry for the reality check, but hopefully it will help prove my point. (continue reading…)

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“It is good to be bad, it is better to be EVIL.” – a review on Overlord 2

by Oak Tree on Aug.31, 2009, under Gaming

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You know life sometimes is full of hard choices.  Should you control the world or destroy it? Should you choose the slutty mistress, the nice mistress, the evil mistress, or all three?  Which minions should you send in?  For an Evil Overlord it never ends. In 2007, Triumph Studios and Codemasters came out with a highly addictive, little known game called Overlord.  The game had a small cult following and gained enough fans to spawn an expansion pack in 2008.

Two years after the original release the game developers decided a sequel was needed.  Overlord 2 uses some the same mechanics from the 1st game to make the game player feel right at home with the controls.  The third person action-adventure game is full of dark humor and allows you to decide just how evil you want to become. (continue reading…)

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