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Currently Playing

I finished playing Medal of Honor: Airborne yesterday and got in quite a few xbox live matches. The gameplay is pretty fun online with the parachuting into combat. Kind of a disadvantage to be on the German side though. You usually spawn in one general area whereas your enemy can parachute down almost anywhere to get the drop on you. At least this is how it was when I was playing.

Currently I'm playing John Woo's Stranglehold. So far it's pretty amazing. I like the particle physics and the destructible objects. It is the game sequel to the movie Hardboiled. I love the precision kills feature. Crotch shots never get old. It is a hell of a fun time.



Of course to me these are pretty good games in there own respects. I like what each of them contribute in the way of game experiences. Though to me it's pretty much time filler in the wait for.....

Timeshift Demo

Sierra has released a demo (581.78 MB) of TimeShift. This first person shooter that lets you "Master time to become the ultimate weapon."
Release Date: 10/30/2007

Demo Footage:


Features:

• Time control elements: Slow, stop, and reverse the flow of time, affecting the enemies and world around you while you move freely.
• Next-generation graphics: Using the Saber3D engine, the graphics include normal mapping for amazing high-detailed textures and characters as well as parallax lighting, which allows the environment to come alive with detail.
• Variety of weapons: Nine intriguing weapons, each of which will allow players to completely annihilate their competition.
• Rich multiplayer experience: Six unique heart-stopping, time-crunching modes include Stop the Machine, King of Time, 1-on-1, and the classic deathmatch/team deathmatch. Fourteen different maps capable of 16-person fields feature time-stopping chaos and massive destruction in an already devastated world.

Review: Two Worlds

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RPG Showdown
Winner: Oblivion




Read Why:
Okay I rented Two Worlds for the xbox 360 today. Playing through the first ten minutes or so I was kinda disappointed. For one, the visuals weren't that great at all. Choppy in places and the dialogue from the characters really isn't that good. Now the equipment screens looks familiar *cough* Diablo *cough* with that oh so familiar equipment screen and leveling up with just clicking the icons representing your skills or abilities. Now the water effects and swimming were pretty awsome to look at but it wasn't enough. The character's movements weren't very smooth and the camera can be a pest at times, epically when riding around. The combat is pretty simple, one click of the right trigger lands one strike, two clicks lands you a couple strikes. Finally, three clicks lands you a flurry of hits all with a funny sound and blood splatter icon over the attacker every time. Now its trying to compete with the masterpiece Bethesda made with the Elder Scrolls Oblivion but the fact is that its graphics are no where near Oblivion, the dialogue seriously lacks talent and the story had me wondering what the heck am I suppose to go now? When the map screen is so hard to navigate. You use the keypad to scroll around the map, but the right stick moves a bar that highlights the quests on the panel to the right which is hard enough to see which quest you have highlighted. However once you have found the quest and click it it moves the map to where you need to go. Do you get an arrow or anything? No. You get a colored dot on your map. In this case green. Okay thats fine but I have three green dots on my map now. Which one is the quest marker I'm after? Back to the map screen. Ah ha found it. Back to gameplay. Now all I can do is just to head in its general direction until it pops up in my immediate area. The story itself is also kinda hard to get into. You will come across a character who acts straight out of the Renaissance. "Nay good sir!" Fifty feet away you find a guy who looks like a ninja in armor who tells you to go to the "Goat cave". Right.....that just screams creepy. Who knows what kind of debauchery goes on in there. And I sure as hell don't want to find out. Enough Said.

Conclusion:
Combat system is lacking. Bad animation and blood splatter graphics.
Bad Voice-overs and dialogue throughout.
Looks very unpolished and a very good game if it was a very, very early beta of a n64 game.

However if you want an in depth game with amazing visuals and compelling storyline stick with Oblivion. Hundreds of Hours of gameplay and downloadable content. If you really want a new rpg that is on par or above Oblivion wait for Mass Effect. If hacking orcs and killing peasants is your thing, you are gonna have to wait a little longer.