My First Video Game: Space Invaders Review

Space Invaders, this was the first video game I ever played and a good one at that. I played this back on my Uncle’s old Atari 2600  back in 1995, the game however was already popular and was released in Japan 1987 on arcades made by the Taito Corporation. These was released on many different platforms and there are still remakes of Space Invaders to this day. This game has had a huge cultural, technical and creative impact on games today and it showed that games are not novelty and that there is real money to be made in the games industry. Take the famous games designer Shigeru Miyamoto, he has been influenced by this game since he saw it as a revolutionary step for video games and he hasn't been interested in the...

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Dues Ex Human Revolution Review

To start, Dues Ex Human Revolution is set in 2027 Detroit and it is a prequel to the original Dues Ex game which was released in 2000. People are becoming augmented which essentially means that their enhancing themselves with new technology hence the title "Human Revolution". There are tensions between the Purists (who are against augs) and the large corporations (who are pro-Aug Sarif, Tai young etc). Both of them will have to face each other eventually and you're the only who can desire both their fates. You are Adam Jensen, an ex swat member who has been heavily augmented due to a tragic accident at the start of the game. He is an interesting character overall...

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Real Time Strategy Games

RTS RTS games are unlike any game instead of controlling one character you control a whole army, because the scale of the game play the camera is placed at the to top to see all of the action more clearly. The main formula for these types of games for example "StarCraft" which is one of the most popular RTS games makes you perform these certain tasks in layers.  Firstly gather minerals then build more buildings to make a bigger army. This is the basic consensus of RTS's, but they have many different elements which makes it exciting to watch. Players can use their  own skill and knowledge of the game to their advantage like harassment and build orders. The other player...

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First Person Shooters

First person shooter games is a very popular genre in the video game market such as the Call of Duty series selling over 3.04 million units in its first week and expected to sell even more in its next instalment. Action Games usually involve that the player will kill other people or aliens. Such as in the Halo series which is also hugely successful. In my opinion Arma 2 is one of my favourite FPSs because of it's realism and mechanics and it also has some awesome mods and commands.   There is usually a sequence of levels that the player needs to overcome such as level 1 level 2 and so on.  These take place in most modern day first person shooters which is personally dislike because I prefer...

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Role Playing Games

Hello, I'm back after a while of inactivity, this is a section from my College work that I'll put on my blog. I'll add more when I get back.  Different Genres in video games Video games have become very popular over the years that games have been out. During that time different genres have appeared in the video games market. These range from sport to combat; here I will tell you all of the genres that are in video games today. But there are different types of games for different people such as, hardcore games. These usually are difficult and long experiences usually for people who wish to play for a long amount of time. However casual gamers are the opposite of hardcore. Casual gamers play games for a short amount of time...

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Something Nice

This is something new, I've never seen someone do this before which is disappointing since this is so amazing. I'm kind of annoyed that some people didn't even play along with it they just stood there and the guards who had no damn sence of humour . But this guy is a bad ass and he is committed to what he is doing which makes it even more awesome. Also I'd like to thank my 200 followers for well "following" me since I didn't expect this much of a respon...

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Something cool

This is pretty cool, I don't think this will go in production but it will be useful for the long drives to College everyday. It would be freaking awesome to go to college while having breakfast or using a laptop, rather then having to worry about those idiots keep on rushing to work by overtaking you and driving to close to the back of you. Here's some info. "At the TED 2011 conference in Long Beach, Google gave rare demos of its auto-driving car. This is from inside the car. The car is making extreme turns unlike it would on regular roads because it is on a closed-course and it demonstrating its capabilitie...

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