The Last of Us

A lot of gamers who must have been anticipating the arrival of The Last of Us, the latest game from Naughty Dog that is eagerly awaited. With high hype and released three kinds of demos, if Naughty Dog managed to bring back a good game?

The Last of Us Air-setting in the year 2033, 20 years after the epidemic spread of Cordyceps fungi that infect humans and make them more aggressively attack humans. Joel who survived the plague now works as a smuggler in a quarantine zone. One day he got a job to smuggle a child to a place named Ellie.

At first glance, the premise and setting of the story The Last of Us looks like a typical zombie game that has been scattered. But The Last of Us is not focused tells Joel task, but what about Joel relationships with other characters, especially Ellie. During the trip you will see how the relationship Joel and Ellie who initially were indifferent, developing into a good direction.

What is interesting here is on the development of relations between Joel and Ellie. Every action and dialogue that they do so reflects the condition of their relationship. Surely his life two characters are supported by their voice, Troy Baker as Joel and Ashley Johnson as Ellie. They are very riveting performance in both animate the character with all the emotions.

The Last of Us gameplay focuses on stealth because the supply is very limited. Even so, The Last of Us offers freedom to the players. Do you want to take on the enemy silently, frontal, or even try to pass all enemies without killing them. But everything has consequences. Read the rest of this entry »

GRID 2

After such a long absence, Codemasters is now bringing back their car racing game called GRID 2, the sequel to Race Driver: GRID first release in 2008.

GRID 2 tells Patrick Callahan who started a special race event called the World Series Racing (WSR). We as one of the street racers who were recruited by him must boost the popularity of WSR. How to increase it? Of course with the race in a variety of exciting racing events, such as regular races (Race), Endurance, Time Attack, Drift, Eliminator, Overtake, Touge, Face-off and Checkpoint.

Several types of races are quite unique, for example Eliminator where each some time, which was in the rear will be disqualified, or Overtake where we had to race the trucks following the path slowly. Among all the race modes, it seems the most difficult is the Touge, where we race car with one other car, but it should not be left behind and the opponent can not hit the car.

But do not expect an interesting story of WSC in GRID 2. The story is just a made-up excuse for our race course.

GRID 2 has a new system called LiveRoute. There are several circuit races where we did not get to see the mini-map, because the route will change dynamically. If we had to turn right, when we arrived at the same intersection, the route now can be straight or turn left. It is quite challenging and makes them rely too much on the mini-map should always be alert.

Provided quite a lot of cars, including BMW, Chevrolet, Ford, Honda, Nissan and Mazda. GRID 2 also provides a beautiful setting for our various race tracks. There is a track from the official race as in Indianapolis or the Cote d’Azur, there are also races in the city of Hong Kong, Miami, Paris and so on.

Handling cars on GRID 2 it is between racing sim and arcade racer, but more towards the arcade. Car in the game is pretty easy to be controlled, which is important to have basic play car racing games such as slowing down when cornering and the correct use of brakes.

Drift mechanism here is pretty cool, but if not careful the car could spin out, Read the rest of this entry »

Resident Evil: Revelations HD

Are you including console owners are disappointed that Capcom last year issued an exclusive Resident Evil game for the 3DS, Resident Evil: Revelations? Now Capcom re-releasing an HD version of the port Resident Evil: Revelations to satisfy PC gamers and console as well as the annoyance of the owners who bought the handheld 3DS by playing it.

Resident Evil: Revelations takes place in 2005, after Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5 before. After destroying the Umbrella Corporation, Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield act as co-founder of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance we know as BSAA Resident Evil 5 with the aim of eliminating the threat of bio-organic weapons all kinds of world.

Jill and her new partner Parker ghost sent to Queen Zenobia cruise ship is stranded in the Mediterranean sea to look for the loss of Chris and his partner Jessica. On the ship, they were apparently trapped in a mystery full of question marks. Can they solve the mystery of Queen Zenobia cruise ship?

For those who’ve played Resident Evil, especially the series 4, 5 and 6, would have been familiar with the type of third-person shooter gameplay provided by this game. But Revelations feels more like Resident Evil 4 and 5, with the ability to move while aiming.

Do not expect action like Resident Evil 6, due to the character we were not able to sprint, there is no such thing as dodge roll (there is only a simple dodge), let alone cover based shooting system. Although we still can play this game in action shooter, but exploration and austerity bullet is the essence of Resident Evil: Revelations.

In this game we will often escape from dangerous enemies, perform backtracking to search for the remains of the bullet, and of course had to think about that door could not be opened.

Revelations introduces the Genesis name suggests, a tool for scanning both the enemy and at locations around us. By using Genesis, we can find a variety of hidden items such as bullets or grenades. Read the rest of this entry »

Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen

Last year Capcom gives us a unique action RPG game called Dragon’s Dogma. At the game, we as the Arisen are taken by the dragon’s heart should strive to reclaim our own heart. Now, after nearly a year of the release of Dragon’s Dogma, Capcom gave us an expansion of the RPG, entitled Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen.

So what is offered by Capcom that we are willing to try this expansion? Actually still the same, Gransys adventure with our own character creations accompanied by the AI ​​companion is a pawn, against giant enemies, climb the monster, using the fierce magic, to throw the rabbit into the abyss.

However, Capcom gave bribes if we are to import our characters from the game Dragon’s Dogma into a Arisen Dark Crystal Rift 100,000, six pieces of equipment, as well as an Eternal Ferrystone.

Capcom also update all system in Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen with additional Hard Mode, Mode Speedrun, Japanese speaking voice as well as the ease of interface. In addition, there is a new customization options in character creation as well as 20 new Hair additional 6 pieces voice.

Most of the features on Dark Arisen is a new island to explore, Bitterblack Isle. The island can be accessed via the dock Cassardis at night by way of talking to Olra, a mysterious woman in black. We are called to the island and was assigned to solve the mystery.

To be sure, Bitterblack Isle is not for a new character level is low, because there are a variety of very challenging new monsters in it, and among them the presence of a grim reaper Read the rest of this entry »

Injustice: Gods Among Us

Netherrealm Studios is famous for its game Mortal Kombat. What happens when they try to make a game with characters from the DC Universe? Will it be like Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is not received by the fans? This time they have learned and make use of the DC Universe game back with the title of Injustice: Gods Among Us. This game only has a DC Universe character alone, no longer exists Mortal Kombat characters screw in it.

Injustice has a story about a parallel world. The story begins with Superman who kill The Joker as Lois Lane and her unborn child died, following which devastated the city of Metropolis. As a result of the offense, Superman finally established a dictatorial regime that aims to eliminate all forms of evil in the world. Batman, who does not like to see Superman become dictator, leading an insurrection to overthrow the iron man.

In another parallel world, a superhero who is fighting for something is sucked into a world where Superman became the dictator. Batman can they help the other one is to drop the Superman?

Injustice: Gods Among Us is a fighting game similar to previous Netherrealm fighting game. Nuance and its control scheme is tasteless “Mortal Kombat”, but there are striking differences between the two.

Injustice does not happen in a fight in three rounds as usual, each character has two health bars that run one, then they will fall like a KO. After that they will stand back, the opponents health bar that still remain as before, so that his opponent had won perfect, yes, still perfect now.

Not like Mortal Kombat that has a dedicated button for block, Injustice using conventional block system with the d-pad to steer the rear only. Moreover, the attack is also somewhat different, there is only light / medium / hard attack, and a special button to activate the power of our character. Read the rest of this entry »