Next stop....Vegas!

So in the beginning of the semester I did a blog on a game called Fallout 3. With the amount i talk about the game in and outside of class, im pretty sure it is not that hard to realize that it was probably my favortie game played of all time. But on October 16th i was presented with the newest edition to the Fallout Series, "Fallout New Vegas." In the previous game we were set in an abominated wasterland in Washington D.C. Starting out as a baby, you grew up in a vault. The game actually starts off with your Mother giving birth to you, and your father is actually the one who delivered your character. The sad part about this is your mother died during birth, so you actually never met her, and were raised by your father. Here is where you edit the way your character would look when he would mature and get older.  To give you a little sense of how the game starts off I found this video that explains the back ground story to the game and the birth stage of the game. If you watch it i think this video might be a little helpful into understanding whats going on. enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HTC3UdS7s4&feature=related

Now Fallout New Vegas has a whole new an unique way of starting of the story. This time You are a delivery man who got shot during the deal making process by a mysterious man in a checkeres suit. But somebody had saved your life, and a doctor heals you up and helps get back up on two feet. From here you make your journey to find the man who tried to end your life by putting a bullet right through your head. Whats also interesting about New Vegas is, that yes it is an abominated wasteland but, the destruction isnt as sever as the wasteland in Washington D.C. In this game, there is the actual Vegas strip that was touch by the bomb and is still up and running. To give you a little glipse of what Fallout New Vegas is about, i would watch this video, i think you would truley enjoy it and its is not as long as the previous one i just showed you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws-aXeeaN00

So instead of me giving away the game and going detail by detail, i would rather jus show you a few images from Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, just so you can see the difference in the two.

This is a picture of the Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout 3. These were the advanced soldiers who maintained oder in the wasteland of D.C. They were someone you wanted to be if you went down the road of a good guy or hero.

This is an NCR Soldier. This is basically the brotherhood of steel for New Vegas but actually more advanced. As you go through the game you end up talking to a man who tells you that the NCR and BrotherHood of Steel got into a battle for a piece of land but the NCR was no match for them, and ran the Brotherhood out off California.
Hope you got a little sense of why i love the Fallout series. And hopefully this makes people want to look more into the games. =)

Zombies, Zombies, Zombies

Dead Rising 2.

Welcome to Fortune City, Nevada! The new entertainment capital of America! The outbreak claimed three of our nation's great cities, but they can never take our pride! Fortune City is the home of the hit TV show "Terror Is Reality", a series that pits 4 heroes against a plague of captured, leftover zombies. Though the highest grossing pay-per-view event ever, it is constantly attacked by a group bent on curing the zombies and bringing them back  to their normal selves. When Chuck Green steps into the arena, everything changes. After a "Terror Is Reality" episode, Chuck leaves his daughter to go sign some paperwork. On his way up the elevator, the power goes out and he's knocked unconscious. Upon waking up, he sees that the zombies have broken out, the terror now truly becoming reality. Chuck is later accused of releasing the horde, causing the breakout, and inciting terror for the sake of "ethical treatment of zombies."

This game is very far from the "ethical treatment of zombies". With a million+ ways to slaughter your opposition, a unique combination system, and more zombies than you can count, this gruesome game throws you into an open-world environment where you can pretty much do whatever you want. Sure, some doors are locked and some zombies are stronger; you even meet psychotic survivors while out attempting to rescue the sane ones. Whatever you choose to do, be it follow the storyline or endlessly explore, Dead Rising 2 offers an immersive play style and hours of gameplay.

The Bad Trip

Alan Wake tells the story of a famous author who is ironically struggling with writer's block. While on vacation with his wife in the remote town of Bright Falls, a series of... unnatural events occur, the foremost being his wife's disappearance. His search begins with a torn-up manuscript: signed and titled by Alan himself. The kicker? He can't ever remember writing it. Upon collecting more pages in his search, he realizes that he is the now the main character in this phantom novel's storyline. Every time you acquire and read a lost page, you get a hint or clue as to what is going to happen next. As he travels throughout this mountainous village, he meets new people and attempts to share his story with him. But how to explain his situation without being feared insane? Was he alone? Is this solely happening to him? Or is this a plague on all of Bright Falls? What about his wife? Ultimately: What's going on!?

The second in my psychological thriller category, Alan Wake presents a lot more interaction than Heavy Rain, my last blog post. The player is capable of aiming and firing both a flashlight and a pistol (as well as several other weapons) in order to beat back the darkness that besiege him. Traveling through a somewhat funneled, yet open environment, the player is urged to take the "other route" in order to look for collectibles and manuscript pages, which, in turn, only tantalize them to return to the main route and progress the story that they are simultaneously reading. An interesting take on the new thriller genre of gaming, Alan Wake is a challenging and (quite literally) dark story that forever leaves you asking "Why?" However, this game does a remarkable job of reminding us that the best stories are the ones that don't make sense.