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Forza Motorsport 4

November 4th, 2011 - No Comments

Forza Motorsport is back.

Forza Motorsport 4

The Forza Motorsport 4 driving simulation game starts with the host of BBC’s motoring show Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson, babbling on about how true car lovers are different from the rest of humanity.

After the introductory video clip, you are immediately thrown into a super car to zip around the scenic Bernese Alps.

It isn’t just the Alpine scenery that is being showcased. Each track, each car, each montage vista is superbly rendered in immaculate detail. You will marvel at the attention to detail in the car’s interior.

As you are racing around a track, you will appreciate the realistic application of lighting effects. As you turn a corner and into the sun, the sudden brightness will momentarily blind you. Even reflections from a rival’s car can throw you off.

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Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel

October 31st, 2011 - 1 Comment

Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel
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In driving games, nothing gives you as much precision as a steering wheel. That wheel, unfortunately, usually means dealing with wires and pedals and the hassle of setting it up.

Now, say goodbye to all that and give Xbox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel a spin.

It connects wirelessly to your Xbox 360 console, but it does need two AA batteries.

The built-in accelerometer lets you steer your virtual car by just holding up the wheel in front of you and turning it left or right. And it comes with vibration feedback.

It looks less like a wheel than the flight yoke used in flight simulation games, but it does not work in those games because it does not recognize forward and backward motions.

The build of the wheel feels good and solid. Its Start, Back and Guide buttons sit in the center, with a directional pad on the left handle bar and A/B/X/Y buttons on the right handle bar.

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Logitech G105 gaming keyboard

October 27th, 2011 - No Comments

The official gaming keyboard for the military shooter game Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the Logitech G105 gaming keyboard may feel quite at home in the army.

Logitech G105 gaming keyboard

It is decked out with design accents with a military flavor, such as LED back-lights in night-vision green. They come with two brightness settings and can also be switched off.

The Logitech G105 gaming keyboard six programmable keys let users program up to 18 unique functions per game. These functions may be either single-key presses or recorded macros that execute a series of commands.

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Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure

October 17th, 2011 - 1 Comment

Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure

Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure is a video game that breathes virtual life into game characters frozen as plastic action figures.

The magic happens when players put the Skylander figurines onto a special wireless dock, aptly called the Portal of Power.

The Skylanders are then virtually transported into the game world as warriors with unique powers and attributes.

This might sound like incredible wizardry at work, but the technology behind this unique feature can also be found in your ez-link card.

A chip embedded in the action figure stores game data such as a character’s level and abilities.

The dock reads this information and conjures up the corresponding character in the game world.

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PlayStation 3

October 15th, 2011 - No Comments

PlayStation 3

Gamers looking for a pretty video game console can check out these new colour options.

The slim version of the PlayStation3 console packs a 320GB hard disk drive for storing game data and multimedia files. Each set comes with a wireless controller in the same matching metallic Splash Blue or Scarlet Red as the console unit

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Child Of Eden

October 11th, 2011 - No Comments

Do not be fooled by the title. This Child Of Eden game is no child’s play. It took me 90 minutes just to complete the tutorial level and my arms were aching.

Child Of Eden

This game is specially designed for the Xbox Kinect motion sensor. So, I was waving my right hand to ‘lock-on’ the alien forms and then flicking my fingers forward like a magician to unleash a barrage of homing missiles at them.

Watch out for anything purple. For that I had to bring up my left hand and unleash my auto-firing tracer gun that decimates purple creatures and their purple bullets.

Gesturing with your hands for hours while standing is solid training for a 42-year-old dude like me, who needs to build up his biceps so he can rock a six-month-old baby to sleep without cramping up.

The game itself is a work of art as you traverse five very different levels represented by swirling psychedelic colours and creatures.

The enemies look like they stepped out of Tron. Some look like viruses on steroids, while others look like supersized cousins of phoenixes and whales.

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Bastion

October 7th, 2011 - 1 Comment

Bastion

The voice. Oh goodness, the voice. Games are memorable usually for one or two reasons. In Bastion, it is the voice of its narrator, Rucks.

Players fill the shoes of the Kid, a silent protagonist who wakes up to a universe that has been shattered and left with nothing but floating chunks of random rock.

Taken on its own, Bastion is a by-the-numbers action role playing game or RPG. Suitably armed, players slash and bash their way through stages that range from the remnants of meadows to howling tundras. Stages leap at you against a backdrop of fragmented stars.

But it is the voiceover, dubbed ‘dynamic narration’ that pulls it together. It works by having thousands of lines of voiceovers which react to your choice of action in the game.

The husky male voice calls the action. ‘And the Kid jumped around madly,’ he offers dryly as you pump the jump button.

By putting everything into voiceovers, Bastion weaves player choice and action like never before. It generates unintentionally dramatic moments. Rucks offers hints on what you need to do differently to defeat a foe, without ever saying so directly.

On top of this is fluff that extends the gameplay. Players can choose to pray to various Gods, which act as modifiers for levels.

For 1,200 Microsoft points, Bastion holds up as one of the best Xbox titles players should be picking up.

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