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Right, this Friday, (Friday 1st December) Me and Craig are participating in a '48 Hour Game-a-thon', We will be having a race, to see who can complete Ocarina of Time the fastest. In this post will be a Video player, so you can watch us live stream the footage through our webcam, with tremendous thanks going out to www.stickam.com, and a great member over at zfgc.com known as cb43569.

Craig will be playing, The legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest, (The extended version of the Ocarina of time) and I will be playing the original shorter version.

Why are we doing this? Well, its simple because... well... o_o Obviously... well... okay for no reason at all except we want too =).

Excitement (Issue Two)

Hello again.

Right, As I usually do, I was browsing through the pages of GameSpot and I came across this in the PSP section;


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Now, as I stated before I am a huge War Fan... Obviously I'm gonna get excited... then I read this;

'Today, though, Digital Illusions CE announced it is bringing one of the most successful shooter franchises of all time to Sony's portable platform. Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, the first console version of its wildly popular Battlefield series, will be released on the PSP in the first quarter of 2006. It will ship alongside the Xbox 360 version of the game, which will first arrive on the Xbox and PlayStation 2 in fall of 2005. The PC version of the game, simply called Battlefield 2, will ship in June.'

and

' Battlefield 2 - PC - June 2005
BF2 Modern Combat - PS2, Xbox - Fall 2005
Untitled FPS - PC - Fall 2005
BF2 Modern Combat - Xbox 360, PSP - Q1 2006
Untitled - PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 - 2006'

(Source:http://uk.gamespot.com/psp/action/battlefieldmoderncombat/news.html?sid=6122903)


Now then the release date clearly states, the First quarter of 2006... Its November now, and the Xbox360 version is in stores, but still no updates for the PSP release, Digging further into this I found out that there is no PSP version anymore, I could of cried... but I was stopped, what by?
Well, by this;

'DICE has confirmed on its website our recent story that its working on Battlefield: Bad Company for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. In addition, the company also revealed that PSP and PC versions are in the works, with more details to be revealed at a later date.'
(Source: http://www.vggen.com/news/news.php?id=2039)

Shame that Modern Combat isn't coming to the PSP, but, Bad Company sounds better anyway ;), Destructible Environment to create strategic attacks on enemies, hopefully the Enemy AI will be great, lets just see what we get.

Anyway onto the gaming,

This weeks games will be;

Metroid Prime: Hunters (Nintendo DS)
Killzone: Liberation (Sony PSP)

Metroid Prime: Hunters
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I was one of the few to get the Metroid Prime: Hunters First Hunt demo along with my Nintendo DS back on launch day (March 11th 2005) and after playing and beating all the top scores on the Single-Player Mode, and being known as unbeatable on the Multi-Player Mode (I almost lost to Johnathan Phillips but we both drew) I began to get impatient on the release of the actual game. A few more months of waiting and a release date was announced, October, so I went to my local Game store and pre-ordered it, but much to my dismay, the release date was shifted (May) but this time I was too busy to take notice for I was preparing for a trip to Ottawa Canada.

On the Holiday in Canada I went to a Wal-Mart and was looking round and came across 'Metroid Prime Hunters £44's' I had $60's on me, So I picked it up and started playing it. The first thing I noticed was the shiny package, Look I'm easily distracted, finally I got over the shininess and slammed it into my NDS, upon turning it on popped up an introduction movie, introducing you to all the other Hunters, it is a very nice introduction, after that came the Title Menu, there were three options; Single Player, Multi-Player, Options.

I went straight into the Single Player mode, The first mission was fairly simple, but still fun, and at the end of each level is a boss as always, after that you are given a timer to get off that ship/planet/space station back to your ship where you will be given another ship/planet/space station to dock with and go through the level. Thankfully they didn't remove the scanner, that was my favorite tool in all the Metroid Prime games and to be able to use it on the NDS is just great fun.

After awhile you'll notice that you are fighting the same boss as before, just a different way, they do get harder but you can't help but feel cheated by the fact that you fought it before, but you soon forget about it once you get to a newer location.

The Multi-Player is great fun and this time you don't need friends to play it, which is great for me, now I don't need to bribe people, and there are multipul game modes, from, Capture the Node Basically Capture the Flag, to Survival, and you can play online using the Wi-Fi connection of the Nintendo DS, and a handy Wi-Fi hotspot or the USB Dongle, to play people in different countries, a great fun addition to the game certainly boosting its play length.

The game is a great addition to your DS collection and a must have for all DS Gamers, its very tricky in some places but non-the-less its fun and proves the DS isn't just a child's handheld.
8.5/10

Killzone: Liberation
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When I heard about this release for the PS2 way back in 2004, it took me a while to get excited but after seeing some videos and screen shots for it, I soon got excited. After getting it I loved it!, the game was amazing and great fun, my best score must be, 45 without dying and in under 15 minutes, now that was hard! and I've been trying to beat it since. When I heard about the release for Killzone on the PSP I started to think how call it would be on that game... When I heard it weren't a First-Person Shooter I wandered how it would be possible to play. Now I've played it, I love there decision. The game play is incredibly hard, Especially when you get the Rocket Launcher Helghasts.

I only got around to playing two levels but both were great fun. The first thing you notice in the game is the amount of padlocks on the weapons, meaning you have to unlock them, I am, unsure how you go about this but I did read somewhere that you have to collect Briefcases with Vektan Dollars in them and complete certain levels, but don't think that your restricted to just that weapon in the whole mission. Dotted around on the map are boxes which if you walk up to and press 'x' you can take the contents and exchange your weapon with one on the box. There are also a few new weapons including a Crossbow With explosive shots =) and a Revolver =D.

This time you can control vehicles, so far I only know of the tank I am unsure about any other vehicle, but that doesn't matter... its a tank.

The story sees you playing as Templar again and it continues on from the first Killzone Title, but this time with a new Enemy leader, Who looks KICK ASS!!! check out the screenshots, so far I lack friends the ability to play the multi-player feature which I really wanted to test out, but I'll save that for another review, maybe one based purely on Killzone: Liberation.

All in all this game is easily the best title for the PSP, and for a score it reaches
9.5/10 The missions can get fairly hard, but thats the only complaint I have on it.

Now then next week will be another two games, I promise I'll start on consoles as well as Handhelds but with this issue what I got planned I didn't have time to get out. Sorry.
Cya till then, Expect it next week.

Hemlock

Gaming God (Issue One)

Yup, thats what I wanna be, a Gaming God.

Why? Well its simple, Games rule!

See... Simple.

Anyway, Recently I've been playing a lot of Star Wars Battlefront 2, Mostly because I am a Star Wars fan, and a war fan and also because I recently got a PSP for free =).

Not only Battlefront 2 but I have also been playing a lot of Quake and a lot of Monster Hunter Freedom.

Star Wars: Battlefront 2
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One thing that has annoyed me about Battlefront 2 is the fact it has been reduced loads, its still a great game, but levels like Geonosis, or the ability to fly crafts on planets, such as the X-Wing have all been removed, the one thing that got me into Battlefront 2 was my friend Johnathan Phillips, he owns it for the Xbox and I used to go around his house and Kick his ass fight him on it, but we'd also do Co-Op missions and I'd be a pilot/sniper he'd be the bullet stopper Marine, ah good memories. Anyway to see these levels were removed made me
cry sad. But it is a great game non-the-less, it certainly made up with the Galactic Conquest or the Challenges which I don't remember being in the originals. As for the score, well, I'd give it a 8.5/10

Monster Hunter Freedom
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As for Monster Hunter Freedom, well, I'm a n00b to this game, I had no idea what the hell it was but I was advised by PSP owners to pick it up, I had a spare £30 so I picked up a copy, and never have I thought that it was a bad mistake, except for the mission where you have to bring back the Wyvern egg... that was just damn annoying, now then for those not familiar with it heres a quick run down;

You are in a world full of monsters waiting for you to Slaughter, gut, kill, chase, and other wise rape help or kill, after killing a monster you get the chance to loot its dead body, by pressing the 'o' button you will crouch down and get out what can only be described as a pen knife and begin 'looting' "Which actually looks like gutting". After that you will receive an item depending on the monster but if you collect enough bones you can make new weapons, which adds to the pure awesomeness of this game. The monsters range from little cat things which you can't kill, trust me I've tried damn hard to HUGE Dragons again which you can't kill because they kill you first... and then rape you. AND to add even more fun they've thrown in multi-player to get your friends characters and make him be the bait for the big Dragons while you run away
to help take down that giant Dragon thats been killing you so many times, and theres also a farm of which you can mine ore, fish, grow mushrooms not the magic sort or Harvest crop.

This game is a gem and a must have for PSP owners, that is if you like open-ended games where you hunt monsters for money or items, also for those Graphics-Junkies out there, I must admit the graphics are something to blow you away, now then the score for this Game will be 8.7/10

I actually can't remember what I did on my PSP before I got this game... oh yeah thats it, killed innocent pedestrians on GTA hehe.

I'm off now, My PSP has finished charging, anyway, I promise I will keep this place updated, this is a Gamer Blog now, and also, who knows maybe next update I'll be able to talk about Killzone: Liberation, or GTA Vice City Stories, or Gun: Showdown.

Cya, till then.