Flashback Friday

Flashback Friday

Fable: The Lost Chapters is an extended version of the original fable developed by Lionhead Studios and released on the 20th September 2005. Set in the nation of Albion, the player assumes the role of an orphaned boy that becomes a great hero. The player can make choices which changes how the people of Albion react to the hero and changes the appearance of the character depending on if the player chooses to do evil deeds or good deeds. The hero goes on a quest to find out what happened to the hero's family, the player can also go on optional quests, trade, steal and romance characters in the game.

This game is a very enjoyable action-rpg, easy to get use to and the fighting is fun. You can work on being close combat focused, being an archer, mage or a little of all of them making the game fun for however you want to play. You can also be evil or good which changes what happens in the game because people act differently towards you. The hero can also get titles like "Chicken Chaser" and Paladin which people will call you. This game is entertaining and you should definitely give it a go.

*The Elder*

Flashback Friday

Flashback Friday!

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Hey guys! Flashback Friday time, today I will be writing about Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. This here is a game and a half, an absolute classic! This game was the beginning of the Oddworld series. The original Abe's Oddysee came out in 1997 on the PS1 and PC, a series that sadly have not made many games lately. Their HD re-make of Abe's Oddysee - Abe's New and Tasty - came out late last year and truly does live up to the original game standards. It was kept mostly the same, but they added some new features, which make the game a little easier to play. One of these are a check point system. Although this may take away from the over all difficultly of the game itself, it makes the game more enjoyable to play and you're less likely to rage quit after dying over and over again on that one hard part you can't get past because you need to keep re-starting the entire level, which in my opinion makes the game a lot better.

In this game you play as Abe, a floor-waxer at RaptureFarms - a meat processing factory, which is losing money, because all their products are going extinct. This is where Abe's boss "Mullock the Gulkkon" comes up with the idea to turn Abe's fellow Mudokon slaves into tasty treats, in a last-ditch effort to save his dying company. Abe over hears this, and after receiving a vision  from "Big Face" (actual name, no joke), he goes on a mission to save the Mudokons and the other life forms on the world. After venturing through some rather hardcore levels, you eventually get to the boss level, where you finally get to fight Mullock.

<Merlin>

Flashback Friday

Flashback Friday!

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

Is a real-time strategy game developed by Ensemble Studios and released in 1999 for Windows and Macintosh. Age of Empires II was an RTS game that helped shape the genre into what it is today, the game is set in the middle ages and has 13 different civilizations to play as. The players aim is to gather resources, which is used to build towns and armies which the player uses to defeat the enemy. There are five historically based campaigns, which constrict the player to specialized story conditions.

 Age of Empires II is one of the first games I ever played it, the gameplay is enjoyable and sometimes challenging  as you battle your computer or human enemy on all the different maps. This game is great and enjoyable even though it is old, it's worth giving it a go if you haven't yet.

*The Elder*

Assassin's Creed Black Flag

Assassin's Creed Black Flag

Assassin's Creed Black Flag is a game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. The game is set during the golden age of piracy, you play as Edward Kenway a young man trying to make his fortune, he leaves his wife and family to join privateer's working for the British navy. While on duty the ship he is on comes under attack from the rogue assassin Duncan Walpole. Both ships are destroyed in the conflict and Edward and Duncan survive and are stranded on the island together, he kills Duncan and disguises himself as the rouge assassin. He sneaks into the Templar meeting but is eventually found and must escape. This conflict continues through out the game. Edward eventually becomes an Assassin and hunts down the Templar order.

My Review

This is a beautiful game with many unique and interesting places to travel to on your ship "The Jackdaw". The game has great character development, excellent game play and an amazing story line with many twists that keep you guessing. You can customize your character's look as well as weaponry and your ships look. the game play varies depending on how you want to play it, you could run in and chop everyone down to dog meat or you can sneak through like the sneaky little assassin you are.

*The Elder* and <Merlin>

Singularity

Singularity

Singularity is a game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. You battle your way through Katorga-12, jumping through time, trying to fix your mistakes.
The game starts when an electromagnetic pulse knocks out an American satellite and the U.S military decide to investigate. They send some soldiers, including Captain Nathaniel Renko, but another surge destroys their helicopter.
After the crash, Renko starts going between the present and 1955, which is when a catastrophic accident on Katorga-12 occurs. He arrives in time to save a scientist named Nikolai Demichev from falling into a fire, despite a man warning him not to.
When Renko arrives back in the present, he realizes that Demichev has taken over the world. The rest of the game are missions where you try to prevent that from happening.

My Review

The game play is very much like most of the Call of Duty series, but you can customize your character (Renko) so that he is stronger in some ways and weaker in others. You can also choose which gun you want to improve and upgrade the most, those parts are more like Bioshock and Borderlands. There are some creepy parts where you can see and hear ghosts from the past, and a lot of them are children, which just makes it creepier.
I personally enjoyed the game. It was good because although you were technically going back into the past, it had a futuristic feel. With the TMD, or Time Manipulation Device, it makes it seem more futuristic. It's a good first person shooter game and it has a multiplayer feature, similar to Call of Duty. The graphics were brilliant and made the game better. This game is definitely not family friendly being rated PEGI 18+. It has a lot of blood, guts and gore. Despite that, it's still a brilliant game and I think more people should play it. This is MY personal opinion, if you have anything to say please keep it clean. Or I will shoot you. Jk..... Mostly. Seriously though, what did you think?
*The Elder*