Dishonored PS3 Reviews

Dishonored is the stealth action FPS game for PS3, X360 and PC, which developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. This game gained positive review by critics, which praising the quality of gameplay mechanics, game visuals and design, and story development to keep the game worth playing.

It receives some awards winning and nominations by calling it most original and best game of 2012. 

It is often compared to Thief series and Assassin's Creed series that inspired this game with definitive gameplay, amazing single player campaign, and superb sounds, which really amazed me to enjoy this game.

The story takes place in late 1800's and early 1900's. The story is about Corvo Attano, who used to be empress bodyguard, have been blamed by several solders for murdering empress and Emily's abduction, which is later becoming assassin, after he manage to escape from prison cell, with the help of Samuel have taken him to Hounds Pit Clubs to meet the loyalists named Admiral Havelock giving him a mission to investigating and assassinate on Dawd groups to avenge empress death and rescuing Emily, who already been kidnapped by Dawd's groups.

The story in the game somewhat decent, but not the best storytelling by far. The dialogue are seems to be sounds good on character's plot, but some plot points and narrative are not quite enough to expand more details. I say the characters in the game are quite average at the best. I like the concept of the main character that kinda look like Terminator dressing up as Assassins may looked badass and so with the Dawd's assassins are awesome too. Some others character in the game seems to be not memorable so far, but it is still ok'ay characters. The gameplay plays very well done with excellent controls, stealth combat and some decent weapons to keep the game much entertaining to play. The character's movements feels very smooth and easy to move around. The stealth combat is pretty good for sneaking in the level, without getting caught by enemies seeing you. You can also strangle them to death or assassinate them with knife, when you're near back at the enemy, but you can collect items and weapons by looting on enemies and you can also carry the enemy up and leave somewhere on different rooms without any enemies notices. You can distract them by throwing the objects in different areas that the enemies can notice the sounds, but didn't noticing you, which is quite handy for stealth gameplay. The sword combat is great for fighting with bad guys by using sword and you can perform finishing moves by pressing the button, when the action icon is appearing on screen. You can also block the enemy's attack by pressing the block button to avoid getting slashed by enemy's hits. You can select any weapons on the weapons menu, such as pistols, bowguns and grenades are quite useful for combat gameplay. Your characters have abillites to use special powers, such as blink that you can teleport at the different spot in the levels. Possession are good for mind controlling on enemies and animals. Dark Visions are useful for using the vision behind the wall to see enemy's whereabouts. Devouring Swarm sounds awesome, when using to swarms the rats on enemies getting eaten alive. Bend Time are actually great for slowing the enemies down and Windblasts can blast the enemies way are awesome as hell. I like the enhancements that can improve the character's abillites such as Vitality gives health increase, Agility gives double jump and running speed, Blood Thirsty to kill enemies with adrealine and Shadow Kill to fade the enemies away are sounds quite cool. You can upgrade the abillites by collecting runes can be found on different area, while equipping heart devices tells you where the runes whereabout. The weapons can be upgraded from the shop, which allowing to improve the weapons performances. I say the gameplay is somewhat very creative and clever to make the game more epic and fun to play.

The graphics is still amazing for character's design, decent visuals, great animation and some special effects are done so good for seventh generations consoles. 

The Music and Sounds has fantastic original score, excellent sound work, great sound atmosphere and decent voice cast on characters, which makes the perfect job for quality of the sounds. 

The special features only has 4 DLC pack, but there's nothing more unlockable stuff here.

Advantages

Amazing Gameplay

Good Graphics

Fantastic Music and Sounds

Excellent Single Player Campaign

Decent Story

              

Disadvantages

Some other characters are forgettable.

Some frustrating missions.

Final Verdict

Here is my final verdict

Gameplay 8.5/10 - Awesome stealth combat, decent weapons and smooth controls.

Graphics 8.3/10 - Great character's design, decent visuals, great animation and some good special effects.

Music and Sound 8.9/10 - Fantastic original score, excellent sound work, great sound atmosphere and decent voice cast on characters.

Special Features 5/10 - It only has 4 DLC pack, but there's nothing more unlockable stuff here.

Overall 8.5/10 - Dishonored is the fantastic FPS game by Arkane Studios. I really enjoyed the mission in single player and I find gameplay is cool and creative to make the game more enjoyable. I highly recommended to all gamers to buy this. It epic, it's fun and quite entertaining for hardcore gamers, who likes playing stealthy games like this.  

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5 Reasons why Retro Gaming are awesome

Ahhh, good old golden age gaming that brings me a greatest experience in gaming. We have 8 bit era, 16 bit era, 32 bit era and so on. There are some reason to love retros because of the quality of the games library, memorable video game mascots, and the best consoles out there that saves the gaming generations.

So I have learnt everything about the gaming in olden days that I've grew up becoming a true gamer that loves playing video games. I've played lot of 2D and 3D platforming games, FPS Games, RPG Games, Fighting Games, Sports Games and etc. So here is a 5 reasons why Retro Gaming are awesome.

1. Best video games franchises of all time 

There are so many games out there back in 80's and 90's. We have tons of great games that really got hardcore gamer's attention, like Super Mario, Metal Gear Solid, Doom, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat, Megaman, Donkey Kong, Tomb Raider and so many franchises that brought us a fantastic time on video games. We grew up remembering our childhood that we playing such an wonderful games on good old PC's and Consoles. 

2. Best consoles of all times

In 80's, NES and SEGA Master System are the best consoles on 8 bit era, due to higher color graphics, cart's limitations, hardware systems and straight forward controller with precised gameplay. Nintendo and SEGA are the only two competitors can able to dominate the gaming marketing, but they also later developed a handheld console, like Game Boy and Game Gear are similar with 8 bit home consoles, but it's good for public use with some decent games. In 90's, 16 bit era have started with SEGA Genesis, Super Nintendo and Turbografx 16 are the three home consoles to complete with. SEGA Genesis has best arcade ports games, great sound engines and great looking design on consoles. Super Nintendo is one of my favorite consoles ever made, due to precised controller, better graphics, excellent games library and hardware limitations can able to fit some games because depends what SNES is capable of using the special chip on game cartridge to make it look amazing on wonderful games.

Turbografx 16 are quite decent for games, controller and sound engine, but failed to beat with their competitors SNES and SEGA Genesis are dominating 16 bit market. The 32 bit era have started with SONY Playstation and SEGA Saturn are the only 32 bit consoles, while Nintendo 64 is a 64 bit consoles are aiming to complete with their competitors SONY and SEGA. I've used to have Saturn long time ago because it has some of the good games and decent controller, but my brother decided to swap it with Nintendo 64 are still fantastic consoles with great games, superb graphics and decent controller. I say SONY Playstation is the best for 3D technology, awesome exclusive games, higher quality CD audios, decent FMV for some games and the dualshock controller are the best controller ever made in fifth generations consoles. In sixth generation consoles, I have SEGA Dreamcast because it has the best games library of all times, cool gaming peripherals and online gameplay, but it became short lived, due to marketing problems with SEGA forcing themselves to discontinue the console in 2001. In 2002, I like Nintendo Gamecube because it has awesome exclusive games and good controller, but it's not just good as the Nintendo 64 and SNES, but still an good console. Microsoft Xbox are the first Microsoft console ever release in 2001. It has best looking graphics, great online services for mulitiplayer and great hardware limitations are the most powerful consoles on sixth generations. SONY Playstation 2 are also a good console that lasted very long, due to higher marketing are becoming best selling consoles so far. There's tons of great games out there and it does plays DVD just like original Xbox has one. I also like Game Boy Advance are quite like the SNES, but runs 32 bit engine are quite amazing for graphics and sound quality. So these are the history of video game consoles that we all learn to be a console collector. 

3. Reading Game Magazines

I love reading video game magazines. It gives us a knowledge about the latest games release, previews, reviews and it comes with goodies, like calendar, posters, stickers and cheat guidebook. I had the magazines for long time that gives me a lot of nostalgic memories about the gaming. It has the badass looking cover on the magazines because it has colorful cover and well detailed design on front cover with awesome slogan, pics and so many details about the latest gaming news. Damn, I missed the good old magazines like Game Master and CVG in 90's are my childhood favorite critics.

4. Best Game Developers of all times

Ah yeah, there are some brilliant developers out there in old days. I grew up with Nintendo as my favorite developers behind Mario and Zelda series. Rareware made an excellent games like Donkey Kong Country, Goldeneye 64, Killer Instinct and Conker Bad Fur Day are the nostalgia games on Nintendo era, but it became downhill with Microsoft era that I'm very disappointed these days. Konami did a good job on games like Castlevania, gradius and Metal Gear series. Capcom did for Street Fighter and Resident Evil series which got me attention to play. SEGA made Sonic, Jet Set Radio, Nights and one of my far favourite of all time is Shenmue series that I'm the fan of the series since Dreamcast era. Id Software made the mighty FPS games like Wolfenstein 3D as the grandfather of Doom and Quake series that defines the FPS genre.

These are the companies that I've like on classic era, who brought us a fantastic games that we all can enjoy and it is all thanks to game developers making all gamers happy as possible to keep us up playing video games.  

5. Local Mulitiplayer

I like coming to my friends and family houses to play video games with 2-4 players. I remember playing Goldeneye 64 with my brother lot of times on 2 player battle and I always got lost everytime, when I was a kid started to scream and cry, but still an good times. I come over to my cousin's house and playing Timesplitters 2, Super Smash Bros Melee and Wario Ware Inc on Gamecube. Oh I almost forgot about playing Alien Storm, Street of Rage and Micro Machines for SEGA Genesis, and Quake 3 Arena, Soul Calibur and Chu Chu Rocket on SEGA Dreamcast that we playing all the times with good experiences. 

It's better than playing on online, which sometimes the internet goes down and began to shut off the mulitiplayer battles is quite of headache to restart the match over again. This is why playing mulitiplayer on local way is the only best options to get your friends and family to join you and play the game for fun with no issues at all.    

    

  

Top 5 Midway Games

Midway games is an awesome video game companies in 80's to 2000's. They are big known for vintage arcade games and pinball machines that created their legacy. We have fighting games, shooting games, sports games and many of the game genres that Midway made really great games on arcade cabinet and console gaming back in the old days. Too bad Midway have been shut down since 2009, due to chapter 11 bankruptcy, but we all always remember this company brought us a brilliant games on gaming generations.

Here is my Top 5 Midway Games that I really liked on my list. 

5 - Sinistar

Sinistar is the vertical scroll shooter games, developed by Williams Electronics. It's very known for big nemesis himself Sinistar is a big spacecraft villains that is been built by enemies worker ships. It has a cool catchphrases in entire games, like he says "Beware I live", "Beware coward", "I hunger", "Run Run Run", "I am Sinistar" and his badass roaring chant, what makes Sinistar an awesome villain in video game. So you are playing as the spaceship has the mission to defeat Sinistar by using Sinibombs that can be found on asteroids rock. I've enjoyed playing this game, when I've played it on SNES version as part of the William's Arcade Greatest Hits, because I like gaining the high scores and moving on the next challenge what makes the game more interesting. If you're a fan of the scroll shooter games like this, then you should pick up for the console versions.


4 - Defender

This game is the golden age of 80's gaming. Defender is a top notch horizontal scroll shooter is also developed by Williams Electronics. It becoming very popular in 1980's that defines the shooter genre and it sold very well for the arcade version. What I like about the game is where you just shoot the crap of the alien's ship to save the humans in the planet. You can gain more high scores and moving on next wave to make the game more challenged and fun to play.
It has brilliant graphics with excellent 2D colorful effects and it has the best sounds atmosphere in gaming history. It is very addicting to play, which took us to play more than the hours on console version. If you wanted to play this, then grab the game for console version.


3 - Midway Sports Games

I love playing arcade sports games. Midway really knows how to make a fantastic sport games brought on home consoles. It has a tons of choices to play, like Arch Rivals, NBA Jam, NBA on NBC Showtime, NFL Blitz 2000 and 01, and NHL Hitz 2002 are the best of all in the sports games genres. Instead of making a game look realistic, we all need a fun packed sports games that plays like a real arcade games, which makes the game more entertaining to play. I've played the Midway sports games lot of time since I've first started played NBA on NBC Showtime for SEGA Dreamcast and NHL Hitz 2002 on Nintendo Gamecube are really makes me wanna play more and more. If you're into the sports games, then you should try them on home consoles.



2 - Smash TV

Oh yeah, Smash TV is the Running Man of top down shooter games. You're playing as two badass contestants has the mission to survive through deadliest game show arena and win the prizes, yeah that's what game is about. This game is so much fun on the arcade with twin joystick, where you can shoot on any direction makes the controls so precised and balanced. You just shoot tons of bad guys with cool power ups, and collecting money and prizes from bonus level. The game is later coming out on home consoles and many fans and critics believe that the SNES version is the best ported game on the system, due to SNES controls layout are far similar methods as the arcade twin joystick. So if you like mulitidirectional shooter, then go pick this game for SNES.



1 - Mortal Kombat

MORTAL KOMBAT!!! is the bloodiest fighting games on the series. The arcade version was released in 1992 and gained many more attention to fighting games fans alike. While the game have becoming popular on the arcade version, the game is later ported to the home consoles, like SNES and SEGA Genesis. Many gamers said that SEGA Genesis are the only one of the decent arcade to console conversions, due to featuring blood content and more fatalities than the SNES version. This game features a memorable characters, like Kano, Liu Kang, Raiden, Johnny Cage, Scorpion, Sub Zero and Sonya Blade are taking part in the bloodiest tournament. It is famous for having digitized characters and bloody graphics while performing fatalities moves are also becoming the most controversial video game of the decides. So if you like the goriest games like this game, then you should go pick up for SEGA Genesis version or PSN and XBLA version as the part of the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection.  

Top 5 Cheat Codes in Gaming History

Using cheat codes might be very smart for cheaters. There are lot of games that has the cheat codes, which allows you to win the game by cheating for the reasons. It gives you a cool choices of having infinity ammo, invincibility modes, unlockable content, level select and etc that the game contains a codes that allows you to cheat instead of doing the game properly without using cheats codes. So here is my "Top 5 Cheat Codes in Gaming History" that became most nostalgic cheat codes of all times.


5 - Revenge of Shinobi - Infinity Shurikens

Revenge of Shinobi is the classic 2D Hack 'N' Slash for SEGA Genesis. What I like about the game is having the infinity shurikens may be quite an good idea to beat the enemies and boss easier without making the game harder. This will guarantee the casual gamers to have an great experience to beat the game very fast without running out the shurikens. All you have to do is go to options menu and change the shurikens into zero and wait until its turn into the infinity logo. So get your shurikens ready ninjas.


4 -  Doom - Weapons, Keys, Ammo and God mode

Doom is one of my childhood favourite FPS game on PC. So I've typed the codes in during the gameplay and got everything I needed for this game is Weapons, Keys, Ammo and mighty GOD MODE!!!!!!!!!
Hell yeah, I can kick all these monster ass for fun with my mighty power, even my Big F-ing Gun 9000.
This is one of my favourite cheats code on this game. You just type IDKFA for Weapons, Keys and Ammo and type IDDQD for God Mode, which you won't get damaged hit by the enemies. So you should try it on this game and beat the game on Ultra Violence.


3 -  Mortal Kombat - Blood Codes

Mortal Kombat is the bloodiest fighting games in 90's. I'm very disappointed that SNES version have removed the blood to piss off the Midway fans, since they enjoyed it on the Arcade version with no problems at all.
The genesis version has the blood, which you need the codes to use the blood mode for actual gameplay.
It gives you the blood effects and more fatalities moves is what the game should be like on console versions, except SNES. On the grey screen, you have to press ABACABB to activate the blood mode. So thanks to Genesis version for the blood codes, which makes me want to enjoy my gaming experience. This is why Genesis does what Nintendon't.


2 - Sonic 2 - Level Select

  

Oh yeah, Sonic 2 is my favourite Sonic games on SEGA Genesis. I love how the Sonic games has the level select since the first Sonic games. On this game, this will gives you a choice of levels that you wanted to play on without having to start the game all over again. So you just go to options menu and use the correct numbers on sound test by using this codes here 19,65,09,17 and then go back to title screen and hold the A button and press start button to take you on level select, YAYYYY!!! I get to play any levels I want too.
This is why I love the cheat codes on Sonic games.


1 - Contra - 30 lives

Contra is an awesome Run 'N' Gun by Konami, but the game is damn freaking hard! unless I can beat the game by using Konami Codes, which gives me an 30 lives remaining. So thanks to Konami Codes helps the gamers to beat the game very easy and simple without having less lives to make it more challenging. On title screen, you have to press the correct button on the controller by pressing UP,UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A and then press start to increase lives. So this got to be best cheats codes ever made by Konami.

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Tomb Raider PS3 Digital Download Review

Before I review this game, I'm going to talk about the history of the Tomb Raider series.

History of Tomb Raider series

In 1996, Core Design brought the first 3D adventure games called Tomb Raider for PS1, Saturn and PC. It is the 3D platform adventure games with puzzle solving, unique levels, searching treasures, and jumping on ledges that defines the game genres. It considered to be best 3D platform adventures ever made on fifth generation console. The character Lara Croft is the most memorable female characters that caught gamers attention. It sold 7 millions copies worldwide becoming the bestseller. With the success of the original game, it is later making the sequel, such as Tomb Raider 2, 3, The Last Revelation, Chronicles and The Angel of Darkness, right just before the second era just started 2006, when Core Design decided to close the studio down and sell the franchise to Crystal Dynamics to take over the series. The second era has Tomb Raider: Legend, which is meant to be an improved sequel over the previous games. It receives positive reviews by calling it greatest games sequel in franchises. It is later making the remake called Tomb Raider: Anniversary as the part of the remade original game with better graphics, precised gameplay and very challenged puzzle solving. Tomb Raider: Underworld released on 2007 did have an positive reviews, but it's not just good as the Legends, but still an decent game for Seventh generation consoles. 5 years later, the third era was made and brought the reboot simply called Tomb Raider is completely different game with new storyplot, new gameplay environment and including online multiplayer. It receives much critical acclaim reviews by critics calling it best Tomb Raider games so far and best rebooted game on the series. So, lets do the review right now and see what I think about this game.    

Tomb Raider PS3 Digital Download Review

Tomb Raider is the action-adventures games for PS3, X360 and PC. It is also available on PS4 and XONE as definitive edition. It is developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. This game takes place in Yamatai, Japan. The story is about Lara Croft manage to escape from shipwrecked and ends up in island. Her mission is to save her friends and tries to escape from groups of savage mens. 

I say the story is quite different from the previous games is about being more puzzle solving and more adventurous plot, but this game is about being mixed between action and survival games where the characters have to defend themselves from nasty groups of mens trying to threat and kidnapping innocent people in the island to make it more being survival instincts and some darker tones, which makes the story more interesting to watch cutscenes. The characters in the games are great. Lara Croft is still memorable characters, while rest others like Sam, Roth and others are the great supporting characters in the game.

I say the story and characters has amazing dialogue and plot to keep the game outstandingly entertained. 

This game has single player, online multiplayer and unlockable content on the main menu. 

The gameplay is pretty simple. It's very similar to Uncharted, but it has more exploration and survival mechanics. The controls for movement are pretty straightforward for climbing on the obstacles and jumping on the objects are done pretty well for character's movements. The combat gameplay plays really well with stealth combat where you can sneak behind on the enemies and using bow and arrow to silently kill enemies without making others to react. The weapons are quite good with pistols, machine guns, shotgun and bow and arrow are pretty worked very well, but you could also use axe as the melee attack is quite handy for the combat gameplay. You can upgrade your weapons and skills through camping to improve your character's abilities and weapons performance. It is also you can use fast travel to move different areas in the game are sounds pretty good idea for the gameplay. I say I never liked the QTE on this game where you have to press the correct button that appears on the screen are quite too fast, if you have to quickly press the right button to avoid the enemy's attacks. If you pressed the wrong button, then you're dead. 

The good thing about this is you can explore the whole level to mess around for fun and finding the treasures and items to collect stuff. I say the gameplay plays very good for character's movements, combat and great levels environment for some puzzle solving and exploring. I say the multiplayer is still fun to play, but it has some several glitches, but the multiplayer is still decent for the free for all, team deathmatch and cry for help. 

The graphics are look pretty amazing with fantastic character's models, great animations, superb special effects and incredible environment for backgrounds and smooth textures are by far the best looking graphics on multiplatform consoles.

The music and sounds has the best music score on this game that fits the mood of the game atmospheres. The sound effects has very rich background noise, atmospheric effects and awesome quality of the sound are by far the most perfect sounds ever made in this game.

The special features has unlockable stuff like artwork, trailers and behind the game video. It has DLC pack for multiplayer.  

         

Advantages

Amazing gameplay

Fantastic graphics

Perfect music and sounds

Great single player campaign

Amazing story and characters

Decent online multiplayer


Disadvantages

Impossible QTE

Some several glitches for multiplayer


Final Verdict

Here is my overall review.


Gameplay 9/10 - Excellent controls for movements and combat gameplay.

Graphics 10/10 - Fantastic character's models, great animations, superb special effects and incredible environment for backgrounds and smooth textures.

Music and Sounds 10/10 - Fantastic music score, very rich background noise, atmospheric effects and awesome quality of the sound.

Special Features 9/10 - Unlockable stuff like artwork, trailers and behind the game video. It has DLC pack for multiplayer.


Overall 9.7/10 - Tomb Raider is by far the best game on the series. Crystal Dynamics took the step forward to make the game more realistic and most epic action-adventure games in history. To all the fan of Tomb Raider series, you should go pick this game up for PS3, X360 and PC. Those who owned the PS4 and XONE are new to this game, you should go pick definitive edition.

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The Raid Blu Ray Review

Like I've reviewed most of the video games, but today, I decided to do a movie reviews as well and it is my first time reviewing the films for Blu Ray or DVD. 

The Raid (A.K.A The Raid: Redemption in US) is the indonesian action film released in 2011, which directed by Welsh directors Gareth Evans, who is best known for directing his first action film Merantau released in 2009.

This movie receives more positive reviews calling it one of the best action movies in indonesia that gains the people's attention. It's the fast paced martial arts with tons of ultra violence and some serious gun shooting what makes this movie an hardcore awesomeness. 

The movie takes place in Jakarta. The story is about officer Rama (played by Iko Uwais) and his teams are arriving at the building and has the mission to assassinate the drug boss Tama Riyadi (played by Ray Sahetapy), who owns the block and orders his reinforcements to fight the S.W.A.T teams under his protection. I say the story seems to be outstanding with fantastic storyplot, darker atmosphere and more of being survival and action. The characters in the movies are just awesome as hell. Rama just kicks everyone asses what's makes Iko Uwais a great martial art actors. I also like the whole villains in the movie are just how insane these people are with screaming and chanting during the fight scenes. I also like Yayan Ruhian did a amazing job playing as Mad Dog is one of the most badass villain in the movie. 

The atmosphere in the whole movie is just mind blowing awesomeness. I like how the special effects did really good job on gun shooting and fridge scenes is just look realistic and keeps the movie entertained.

I love the blood splatting effects on fight scenes where you see the people getting showered by bullets and stabbed by the axe or knife are so amazing to watch. The fight scenes is just kick ass. It's has the fast paced pencak silat style and aggressive fighting performance keep the movie so intense and fun.

I also like the music in the movie. It's mixed between electronic and ambient are much focused on cutscenes moods. It has brilliant soundtrack made by Joseph Trapanese, especially Mike Shinoda (Composer of Linkin Park) did a wonderful job on the music track that fits very well on the movie. The sound effects are great for backgrounds noise, gun shooting effects and the quality of sounds are superb for surround sound systems or home cinema sounds.

The special features has uncut version, trailers, audio commentary, video blogs, fan films made, featurettes, behind the music and an evening video. 

Advantages

Amazing fight scenes

Superb ultra violence

Great special effects

Awesome music and sounds

Fantastic story and characters

Brilliant acting

Disadvantages

None at all

Final Verdict

Bottom line is...

Story and characters 10/10 - Fantastic storyplot and badass characters with brilliant acting.

Atmosphere 10/10 - Superb ultra violence with blood splatting effects, great special effects, brutal fight scenes and gun shooting madness.

Music and sounds 10/10 - Awesome music track and amazing sound effects.

Special Features 10/10 - It has uncut version, trailers, audio commentary, video blogs, fan films made, featurettes, behind the music and an evening video. 

Overall 10/10 - The Raid is one of the most masterpiece action movie of decide and by far the best indonesian movies ever made by Gareth Evans. I highly recommend to all action and martial arts movie fans to watch this and it's going to blow your mind with amazing action scenes and most intense story.

    

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Soldner X2: Final Prototype PS3 Digital Download Review

Soldner X2: Final Prototype is the horizontal scroll shooter for PSN exclusive only, which developed by SideQuest Studios and published by Eastasiasoft. It is the sequel of the original game Soldner X: Himmelssturmer. This sequel may have an offer to bring a new features and gameplay improvements over the original game. This game has great emphasis on overall style with slightly changes for gameplay quality.

This game has 5 levels and 2 unlockable level, but the rest of 3 levels may be available as DLC pack. It has both single player and 2 player co-op for both arcade mode and challenge mode. You can select 2 choices of ship, which has different power ups and weapons. The gameplay is pretty straightforward for the controls and the overall abilities of ships. It moves very well with balanced ship control in the right speed. You have the choice of the weapons, depends what ship you are have chosen. Thor is the starfighter which shoots with bounce laser and scatter gun are pretty good for regular ship. Maxxus II is the bullfighter which shoots with bullet gun and magma cannon are more precise and useful ship than the Thor. You can get different weapons such as wave guns and spread laser are quite a good weapons to choose from. You can also use shock wave as the bomb and the limits to disappear all the enemies ships. You can collect all the power ups, which makes your weapons even more bigger and stronger to kill all the enemies ship. You can collect rings to increase your chain points, which gives you an items, such as health, mulitipoints, power ups and secret keys. The levels are quite very challenging with more fast paced shooter, tons of enemy's ships, so many bullets and hazards, which can be very fun to avoid hits and destroying enemies. 

The graphics in the game is looks amazing on high definition graphics. It has brilliant level design, rich looking colours and details, great special effects for backgrounds and textures, and superb animation performance are the most wonderful graphics details in this game.

The music and sounds has pretty decent electronic music thats fits the game atmospheres. The sounds effects has superb background noise and great sound quality are sounds perfect for surround sound equipment. 

The special features has unlockable stuff, like regular levels, challenge levels, weapons, credits and plenty more stuff, when you collect secret keys in the whole levels. You can download DLC pack called Last Chapter to reveal the true ending with 3 levels. You can check your online highscores and awards on the main options.

Advantages

Excellent gameplay

Amazing graphics

Decent music and sounds

Great levels and boss fights

Unlockable features

Fun with 2 player co-op

Disadvantages

Challenge mode may be too frustrating to complete the tasks

Secret keys may be difficult to find in the whole levels   

Final Verdict

Bottom line is...

Gameplay 9/10 - Excellent controls scheme, brilliant weapons and challenging levels makes the gameplay even more better.

Graphics 9/10 - Brilliant level design, rich looking colours and details, great special effects for backgrounds and textures, and superb animation performance are the most wonderful graphics details in this game.    

Music and Sounds 8/10 - Decent music and great sounds.

Special Features 9/10 -  Unlockable stuff like levels, weapons, credits and more stuff to collect, downloadable DLC pack and extra features like awards and online highscore. 

Overall 9/10 - Soldner X2 is far more better than the original game. I highly recommended to play this game on PSN. This game has more potential to pleased all of the Shumps fans. It's has incredible levels, epic boss fights, superb gameplay overall and being more serious shooter games. If you like the scroll shooter games like Gradius and R-Type, then this game is for you to play it. 

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