Showing posts with label PC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PC. Show all posts
Saturday, 18 July 2009

Beta Testing Opportunity


Ever wanted to be a games tester? Well S2 Games are having an closed beta test of their newest game, Heroes Of Newerth, and the only way to take part is to obtain a Beta Key, sadly I don't have any to give myself, 1 per IP address, but if you have a facebook account, you can become a fan of HoN and when they recieve 30,000 fans, they will send a link to all fans so they can acquire a Beta Key, but you have to be quick as the link they will send you will only be active for 36 hours.

Due to the terms of the beta, I cannot release any details of the game or upload any screen shots/video. The only way to learn about this game is the try the beta, or wait till testing is over.

And just to cover myself, a message from S2 Games about information you can pass on about HoN:
"All participants in the HoN beta test now have express permission from S2 Games to communicate and discuss Heroes of Newerth publicly. This includes forum discussions and talking to friends and family. Our embargo on media relating to HoN (videos, screenshots) is still in full effect and we'd kindly ask our testers not to disclose any game related media to those not actively in the Heroes of Newerh Beta."
Thursday, 2 July 2009

Just a life & game update

Hey reader, just thought I'd tell how my life and gaming life are doing, cause at the beginning I said I'd talk about my experiences, And I haven't really done much of that, so here goes...

Team Fortress 2:

I was given a new laptop by my boss cause he thought it was broken, it was kinda, but for £30 at PC world, I got it all nice and fixed, which I then found it to work even better than my previous laptop. So I almost immediately got myself TF2, took me 3 days from when I purchased it to when I could play it, the laptop is great, but my Internet is still crap.
So once I got started, I found one thing, this game is a little difficult, If you haven't got the unlocked weapons, cause they just make the good players even better. At that point I found myself in an achievement server, this is where there are around 16 inanimate opponents which will stand there while you slaughter then, which make getting achievements, and by that unlockable weapons, much easier, after half an hour of play, I went from 4 achievements to 61, still a ways to go, but its a good start. I now have a few of the unlockable weapons, but due to the server not being a Steam server, I cannot use my unlocked weapons, which means eventually, I will have to start fighting "real" people.
I'm still the only person I know with Steam, so friend achievments will have to wait.

Anyway, great game, ThePhyonix is my Steam ID, if you'd like to take me on (and probably win)

Fallout 3:

I've completed this game once, by doing the run through route, I'm now trying to do it twice more, once being good and doing all the missions that help people, and one where I'm very evil, where I kill them all and steal their shoes.

If you do play Fallout 3, may I recommend that you talk to Mr Burke in Megaton, and do as he requestes, even better is if you do it at night.

I'm still waiting on the DLC to be released which should be either later this month or early next month.

Audiosurf:

Love this game, another one from Steam, music game where the number of levels is only limited by the size of your library.
Which at the moment consists of 1 Dragonforce song, not Through The Fire And The Flame I may add, and the Dark Horse album. Like I said earlier, new laptop, got other stuff to get off my old laptop, before I do music, I do have some priorities.

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Meet The Spy

Decided to take a break from my revision, and this showed up on my youTube subscriptions. 

Valve have released a new "Meet The..." video.  But being the Spy, no-one is sure who the spy is. Try and guess who it is before it is revealed.




I really like Team Fortress 2, but sadly I only have the PS3 Orange Box version, which apparently will NEVER recieve the updates that the PC version get. I only got Orange Box because I didn't think my laptop could cope with it, but I recently got a copy of Half Life 2: Death Match and Garry's Mod off Steam, and they work quite well, so after the exams, (and when I'm in a place where the download speed is faster than 56Kb/s) I might get myself a copy.

Anyway, back to revision, I'll start again properly at the end of the week, and remember...

Spy Checking, It could save lives, and end theirs!

P.S. Speaking of Steam, add me if you like my ID is ThePhyonix
Friday, 24 April 2009

Fahrenheit, How Could You Miss It?

In a past post, Prepare For A Downpour, I spoke about my favourite game of all time, Fahrenhiet, and how it seemed to go amiss. I'd like to take some time to talk to you about this game.

Fahrenheit (or 'Indigo Prophecy' in the states) is set in present day New York City, in the middle of a cold snap. The opening scene shows a guy, Lucas Kane the games protaganist, sitting in a diner's bathroom stall, holding a knife, another person is in the bathroom, washing his hands. Lucas comes out of the stall and in a zombie like fashion, walks up to the victim and stabs him. Lucas then snaps out of his trance and realises what he has done. From there you have control of Lucas and the game starts. Using the games unique control system you clean up the crime scene and leave. 

You play Fahrenhiet by moving Lucas (or the games other 3 characters) with the left stick and interact with object with the right stick. During the games many action sequences, you will play using one of three methods;
  • Two circles appear on screen representing the analogue sticks, you move the sticks in the direction indicated by the circles.
  • A bar will appear at the bottom of the screen, and you have to max it, by rapidly pressing R1 and L1.
  • A bar will appear at the bottom and a slider will start in the middle, you have to try and keep it there by pressing R1 and L1 to shift it right or left.
Fahrenhiet has Sims style mentality metre which measures the character's state of mind, and it is affected by you perfoming different actions, such as getting a drink will increase your mental stability, wereas hearing or seeing something bad will lower it.

The game is practically one long cut scene where you have some say in what happens, though you are raely left just watching the screen.

I recommend Fahrenheit to everyone, and when I do find another person who played it, they love it too.



N.B. I want to avoid using fan videos in 20something gamer, but this one was too good to not use.

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