Assassins Creed Brotherhood Review

Assassins Creed: Brotherhood

Assassins Creed Brotherhood sees you taking control of Ezio right after the events of Assassin's Creed II. He's spared the life of Rodrigo Borgia, which turns out to be a bad move when the Pope's murderous son Cesare turns up unannounced in Monteriggioni and nabs the Apple of Eden back. Realising he was wrong to show the Borgia any kind of mercy, Ezio heads to Rome to gut the family of corrupt nobles. This time round  the story is much smaller in its dramatic scale than the previous game.

Assassins Creed Brotherhood is a lot shorter but is structured differently to Assassins Creed II.
This time it is set in a single city but there are an abundance of side missions that make up for the shorter story length.

AC Brotherhood

After two other games you still never seem to get tired of the joy of sprinting up the side of a building, grabbing a ledge and scrabbling up until you're hopping across rooftops. Even more so when there's a guard ready to be toppled off a building.

Away from missions, there's a greater emphasis on collectibles and upgrades. Rather than building up Monteriggioni, you're cleaning up the various districts of Rome and buying up stores and landmarks.

Brotherhood lets you recruit Assassins. It's an enjoyable distraction as you manage their missions and skills, watching them grow to efficient weapons of death. Using them will also help you go undetected.

There is a multiplayer mode which adds serious value to the package. Brotherhood's multiplayer is built by the same guys who conceived Spies vs. Mercs for Splinter Cell. This is more about stalking than rewarding split-second reactions.

While Assassins Creed Brotherhood is not as spectacular as Assasins Creed II and the plot is not as sprawling, there is as much to do as the previous games and has some of the best missions in the series and has a great multiplayer.

Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Review

Hot Pursuit

Need For Speed Hot Pursuit is really great fun to play.
Hot Pursuit has a frightening sensation of speed and there are massive accidents, hundreds of miles of sweeping roads and breath taking beautiful visuals. There's also an accessible but rewarding handling model which allows easy drifting but requires constant adjustment of  the cars.

Hot Pursuit does have the feel of a Burnout game and has a career mode which is intelligently paced. Offering a choice of events from both sides of the cop/racer divide but drip feeding new gear in the context of an escalating arms race between the police and the criminals. 

Multiplayer offers both a fair fight and some of the best fun you'll have in online racing. Four racers against four cops makes for a thrilling vehicle dogfight. The Autolog system keeps you updated of any changes in your friend leaderboard in every single-player event. 

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit

Hot Pursuit is not perfect with the free roam wasted, but it pays respect to the classic Need For Speed games, borrows the best bits from Burnout and is technically excellent. It has lightning fast cars, gorgeous graphics and classic car chases. 

Dance Central Review for Kinect

Dance Central

Dance Central for Kinect utilizes the Kinect technology to read the player's body as you follow a series of on-screen prompts that follow a dance routine. These prompts each represent one move, and that move can range from an advanced series of upper body motions to a simple shuffle step. There are more than 30 songs in the game and each track has three different difficulties to play on, which have to be  unlocked in order.


Dance Central does have some hard routines and can be difficult to execute, but there are a few helpful modes in Dance Central for new dancers.
The way kinect reads the your dance moves is quite impressive and you really have to get moving if you want to master a routine. The routines are realistic for the average person and can be extremely entertaining, especially if you practice and aim for mastering a hard level routine. Most of the moves are also totally applicable to the real world dance floor, so you might even find yourself picking up a new technique to employ at the club.


Dance Central is lots of fun, especially with a big group of people. It's can be a fantastic workout if you put the effort into your moves, but the experience is far from perfect. Menu navigation, which is handled by waving your hands, takes some getting used to.

Dance Central

Dance Central is great fun, it gets you moving, and it's absolutely perfect for parties. The dance routines and the accuracy of the Kinect implementation is what makes Dance Central worth a look.

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Kinect Sports Review

Review of the very active Kinect Sports

Kinect Sports is fun to play and has different events and mini-games. It's probably the launch title that makes the most of Kinect's abilities.

The graphics are cartoony but slick enough in their own way. Most importantly, the visuals and menus are designed to make sure you always know what you're doing, and in that regard Kinect Sports usually succeeds.

To start with every time your Avatar is visible on screen, you're in some degree of control of them. As you jog past the crowds on the way to the track and field event, you can wave at them or almost any other gesture you like. This makes doing celebrations really fun.

This game uses the full body and will keep you very active. Sports will have you running and jumping in place, bowling, boxing, playing table tennis, volleyball and playing football.

 

 

Football

Kinect Sports delivers an easily accessible game. While there are some stumbling points here and there, such as the strange local multiplayer omissions in Table tennis, Kinect Sports still manages to be fun and different. If you're looking for a game that shows off the hardware, this is the one.

Kinect Adventures Review

Kinect Adventures

There are five main themed games with variations on these, each with their own flavour.
Reflex Ridge is the most active, asking you to jump, squat and perform mini-ballet moves in order to avoid the bumpers, and catch the tokens. It's quite active work if you're not used to it.

River Rush, meanwhile, transforms from a simple rapids game into a tense platformer, as you shuffle and jump to stay on the bonus tracks. This is Kinect Adventures at its best: the co-op works perfectly to create an atmosphere of friendly recrimination and teamwork.

Rally Ball is a game of prediction and luck, rather than quick responses and skill, and it becomes fun.
20,000 Leaks is simple, but another great co-op game, as you plug the holes in your tank with your body. 

Finally, there's Space Pop - a game that asks you to move in all three dimensions to collide your Avatar with bubbles. Like the other games, it's fun but shallow.

As bundled software it was never designed to be a long-term game, just a fun one - and bearing that in mind, Kinect Adventures fills its role perfectly.

Kinect Review for Xbox 360

Review of the new Kinect sensor for Xbox 360.

While Sony's PlayStation Move uses the PlayStation Eye camera to detect and measure the location of high-tech and spatially-aware handheld controllers, Kinect has no physical controllers to speak of at all.

Your body is the controller. It's up to the Kinect games and apps to use the camera and microphone to work out what you're doing and what you're saying, and to interpret your commands in the appropriate fashion.

Getting to grips with the controller free experience with Kinect.
Kinect’s setup and calibration process gives you some time to get comfortable with the device. In a series of setup screens, you’re reminded that the camera needs to be two to six feet from the floor, centered above or below your TV. After the Kinect runs a few checks (background noise, speaker noise, microphone calibration), you’re pretty much ready to go unless the device isn’t reading you well, in which case you can enter the Kinect Tuner. Otherwise, you can move on to the dashboard.

Using Kinect to navigate the 360 dashboard, won’t be the same menu structure as someone using a controller. Waving your hand to activate the Kinect or saying “Xbox, Kinect” will take you to the Kinect Hub which is a more limited dashboard menu that offers slides for your Friends list, Achievements, Avatar Editor, ESPN, Zune Marketplace, and more. Jumping into each area is as simple as putting your hand on its slide or using your voice to navigate around.

It's pretty cool to bounce around your 360 using your hands or voice but just know that neither method is as fast or efficient as navigating with a controller, and that for now, you’ll still need a controller handy for specific functions.

Kinect does work better in large spaces as it is recommended to be six to eight feet away from the sensor and can support 2 active players at a time.

It does take a while to get to grips with Kinect. There are some lag issues with some games and the other major battle facing you is to get the hang of a new kind of hand-eye coordination.

Once you've got the hang of it though, Kinect is perfectly accurate enough. If you mess up, you generally feel like it was your fault rather than the game not working properly.

Kinect is not a perfect product but is an impressive piece of technology and is opening up the Xbox 360 to a wider audience. It has some good launch titles and has the potential to produce some revolutionary games.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3 Must Things To Do

Try these 3 must things in Call Of Duty: Black Ops.

Gun Game
A wager match addition, Gun Game sees you progressing up the ranks of weapons from pistols to shotguns to machine guns and so on. The first one to get the kill with the 20th ranked weapon, the ballistic knife, wins.

The catch? None really except players seem to race through the ranks and then get stuck on the two sniper rifles. Worse still, anyone who gets stabbed is dropped a rank, infuriating when you finally clamber out of the sniper rifles only to be dropped back in by a knife in your back...

Sticks And Stones
One of the new wager matches, Stick And Stones arms everyone with explosive crossbow, tomahawk and ballistic knife. It's a messy game mode as players try to score the 100 point frags with the explosive crossbow, with melee kills only registering 25 points.

But the stroke of genius in this mode is that any tomahawk kill will reset that player's points to zero. The result? Panic as the clock starts winding down and players try to keep hold of their amassed points and swearing when someone does accidentally catch the business end of a stray tomahawk.

The Extra Zombies Map
It's likely that you'll have had this bonus spoilt for you by accidentally stumbling onto it via YouTube or a headline elsewhere or just an excited fan shooting his mouth off.

The 'extra' zombie map is unlocked for completing the game so you'll eventually unlock it anyway but even so, we're confident this extra map will become the default map for zombie players thanks to the characters you play as...

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Review

Black Ops

In Call Of Duty: Black Ops you play as Mason. Black Ops leads you on a series of flashbacks that bring you to the point where you're strapped into a chair while explaining why.

Even though the narrative jumps into the shoes of another character, it only does so to help colour in Mason's backstory, while explaining the motives of other characters related to him. It doesn't feel disjointed or bitty, nor do your eyes have to reluctantly drift to the names at bottom of the screen so you can work out who you're controlling.

It feels natural as the narrative flows from that interrogation room through to the end credits without any obvious breaks or seams. While a good plot isn't essential to the success of a good FPS - hell, Valve is only just bothering to do one now for Left 4 Dead - Black Ops shows what a difference a strong storyline makes.

Black Ops is visually dense with detail, as you'd expect from a Call of Duty game, but it has an unpredictable variety that shows Treyarch has really kicked on since the days of its grey-Russia-brown-Japan World at War outing. 

The gameplay remains classic CoD territory. You enter new areas, slowly clear out threats and follow the marked leader, with variety punched in via the odd gimmick - clearing out darkened tunnels with a revolver, shooting out support beams, ensuring your hazmat suit stays intact and so on. Black Ops has maintained the series' standards for polished, accessible gameplay. Even when you're kicked into the seat of a helicopter or behind the handlebars of a motorbike, it never loses its focus on accessibility. It takes only a few seconds to familiarise yourself with the new controls before you're sailing up Vietnam rivers chewing up soldiers from your gunboat while Sympathy For The Devil rings out.

Nazi Zombies has returned, this time as a staple of the game rather than an unlockable, and it has a genuinely surprising cast of bonus characters available when you complete the campaign. Treyarch has also tucked another hidden mode in there, a top-down shooter called Dead Ops Arcade. It's too lightweight and flimsy to find a cult audience as Nazi Zombies did but it helps flesh out a weighty package.



Black Ops delivers the classic bread and butter Call of Duty gameplay which mixes slick accessibility with explosive gunplay. This is the 'proper' Call of Duty fans have been waiting for. 



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Call Of Duty: Black Ops Tips and Tactics

Here are a few Call of Duty: Black Ops tips and tactics.

CP
CoD Points, or CP, is the cash that'll buy you weapons, perks, attachments, customisation details and everything else in the Black Ops armoury. You earn CP through levelling and through completing the Contracts targets that you set yourself.
Pick the Contracts you know you can complete, and do those. Then do them over and over again once their cool-down timer expires. If you're going for a big bank account right away, stick within the normal progression. This is important, as the XP earns get larger over the long haul. If you go too far and mix them up too much, moving between 'this style' and 'that style' you won't necessarily be going for the big money. You'll be getting lots of CP wins, but in smaller amounts.

Contracts
You can have three Contracts running at any one time. They're in-game challenges you can set yourself while you play, and they'll drown you with rewards when you complete them.
Mercenary Contracts are for weapon fiends, Operation Contracts involve the game modes, and Specialist Contracts are usually higher risk and higher reward

Mercenary Contracts are usually about getting kills with particular guns. Every gun has three different contracts attached: Cruelty, Ferocity and Brutality. Take out a Brutality contract and kill 75 players within the next 40 minutes of gameplay time, and you'll be laughing...

XP Unlocks
In Call of Duty: Black Ops the XP you gain through your kills and victories, as ever, raises you up through levels - unlocking different features as you improve. What's new to Black Ops, however, is that once you've unlocked a game feature you can immediately buy anything from within it using CP. Guns are the only things left in the game that still get unlocked at different levels. You don't need to do challenges to unlock content - if you have enough money you can spend it where you want to. 

KillStreaks
The tendency is to take a Killstreak and use it right away - but you don't lose the Killstreak if you die, they stack on top of each other, so the smart placement of Killstreak rewards, and the smart timing of calling them in, creates a dynamic. Killstreak kills don't count towards other Killstreaks. You can't get a napalm strike and kill three people with it, then all of a sudden have the Blackbird SR71. There's more of a cat and mouse game here between players using Killstreaks and others using defensive Killstreaks to nullify them.

Gun GameEvery time you make a kill in Gun Game, your weapon cycles up a ladder of twenty weapons, and each time you're killed by a knife you drop a step down. A kill with weapon 20 will win the match, with weapons 19 and 20 being the crossbow and the ballistic knife. If you see someone with those weapons, attempt to melee kill them immediately.

One in the ChamberThis mode sees every player armed with one bullet, one pistol and three lives. Kill an enemy, and you'll salvage whatever collection of bullets they've built up. Our tip? It's tempting to sneak through levels, yet fast movement will let you catch up with other players - catching them off-guard and often allowing for bullet-sparing back-stabs

Sticks and Stones
In this mode, you're equipped with the Crossbow, the Ballistic Knife and the Tomahawk. The key is not getting too carried away by the hilarity of sticking people with crossbow bolts - learn to switch to the Tomahawk when you've got a dead cert kill and you'll bankrupt the other player, giving you a much better chance of hauling yourself into the top three.

Sharpshooter
The rotation of weapons is random, so it's all about being good with every weapon thrust into your hands. Our only tip is try not to overspecialise. If you're only familiar with one loadout, you'll be terrible at Sharpshooter. Use the facility to save multiple loadouts in regular multiplayer, and learn to use a greater percentage of weaponry when there isn't CP on the line.




 

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