Thursday, 18 December 2014

Definitely not Fifa 15

Published and developed by the most famous sports game producers in the world I give you Fifa 15.
Fifa fifteen is everything you think it would be, a soccer simulator and gambling platform. Like the last game you can be one of two types of FIFA players, the play who plays the game offline with friends or the player who plays ultimate teams. In other words you can gamble or not gamble.
Apart form that the only thing  improving the game from the last is smoother controls and 'better' graphics.

When I describe the graphics as 'better' I don't in any way mean that they are bad but more saying that it would probably take you at least ten seconds of thinking to tell FIFA 15 from FIFA 14. But if we look aside from that the game has probably some of the best graphics we've seen all year.(Maybe the EA budget helped?) A side from that you could say that the game is moderately bug free. Moderately bug free probably isn't good enough for a title that is this hyped in my opinion though. if you think about it that's really bad for a game with this budget to be having as many bugs and glitches as it does. But I think people look past that a tad too much.

Bad things yo. As a starter it's the EA cash grab, pay to win theme. Some could say that the game wouldn't be the same without pay to win implements which is true but I definitely think if EA wasn't EA and didn't get into that business the series could of been a lot better.... maybe? That brings me to my next point, which is the game leeching off of the popularity of soccer. By which I mean that when famous people who follow soccer see this game they automatically like it, and when those people have millions of subscribers on YouTube and make their viewers want to play this game even though it doesn't deserve all of this attention my eyes just water up.

All in all that makes FIFA 15 a moderately good game that has been just too hyped up, with too big of an audience and too big of a budget for its own good. AKA the unwanted little brother of a good game series called the "Dragging out the series for cash grab purposes game"(Original title by Jesse Mason) To its credit I must say that FIFA is still a good game, it's just not a great game and doesn't deserve the hype train that it has been placed on. (All of this is in my opinion and if you love FIFA great, but i'll keep loving the game's I love and you can keep loving the games you love)


T for The Cristiano Ronaldo school of acting.


8/10


Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Frustrated!

Pull out your popcorn kiddies because it's story time. To start off with i'm telling you that this is going to be an overview of my day. It begins with me waking up at 9am, I was tired, drowsy and looking for an energy source. "How about I grab a hot drink?" I though to myself, it was a fantastic idea, until I brought the drink back to my room where I proceeded to collapse onto my bed only to wake up to the sound of the drink spilling on my entire bed. I spent at least half an hour cleaning that up but that's life right?

Oh self fromm the previous paragraph you are so simple minded that isn't life life is realizing that now I can't go back to sleep or wake up properly. Oh no half dead me proceeded to turn on the computer to open up to updates that halt me from logging in for fifteen minutes. Those fifteen minutes were spent staring at a screen with a circle. Once the circle decided to stop spinning I could finally get on to the inter webs. Lets check Facebook I thought, once on Facebook I was confronted by a story for the Hostage situation in Sydney, of course I had a look to see what happened but to my dismay I was led to a website full of Malware that was just itching to get at my PC.

This is the part when the Malware latches on to my PC. I go to my MalwareBytes only to find that I need to update before scanning and once I did update the scan was nothing less than the pain of a lemon being squeezed into a cut. As I was losing all hope in that day I was alerted by the sound of Skype, it was joy full. It 'was' joy full until that person played me guitar and then hung up. Great just great.

There was one more thing to happen though in this day of frustration. A new washing machine was to be delivered as well as installed. The men showed up put in the new washing machine and left, sounds fine right? Wrong they didn't close the gate properly behind them selves causing my two dogs to escape. Now delayed even further  I got the pleasure of spending my afternoon looking for them. But we found them, they were fine and we put them back inside. Can I please just get a break was the phrase I was saying to myself to the point of insanity.

But some way some how this was all forgiven and completely irrelevant when I received news from Google that this Blog was up to AdSense standards and that my AdSense account has been fully activated. I never ever thought I would get payed for doing this, it's just crazy. So what I really want to say is a giant thank you to everyone! - :D

Plants vs Zombies: Garden "Warfare"

Developed by PopCap Games and Published by Electronic arts Garden Warfare is the remake of the very popular Plants vs Zombies game, but this time it's a  third person shooter. In the game you can either play offline co-op missions or play online multiplayer where you can either play as a plant or zombie in a vast amount of different game modes. The game features a bunch of character upgrade and customization which can be unlocked when completing certain challenges. It's kind of a goofy remodel of the Gear's of War series.

The game does well with the art style, its just what you would imagine for a three dimensional version of Plants vs Zombies. To the downside of the game design with the amount of flashy explosions there comes the not so uncommon graphical glitch. But it's not too noticeable, something only really recognized by the people who want to find said graphical glitches. Apart from that the game does quite well with the number of other bugs and glitches.

To the bad stuff. The biggest problem with the game is probably the lack YouTube support. By lack of YouTube support I mean that the game is targeted for people that are in their young teens, the people who are watching people like PewDiePie, they may love the game but because people like PewDiePie aren't playing it they quite quickly give up on it. Because of the downfall in players there's less games and longer waiting time which in a domino effect causes the game to fall out of popularity. For big and short problem number duex,  the game never received enough TLC from the developers after release which means less updates which means less drive to play which means less popularity. No one wants to play a game that no one else is playing.

Overall this makes Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare a bit of an odd ball. By which I mean its a perfectly fine game with a lot of good aspects all round but a lack of popularity due to  a lack of effort from the developers and a lack of promotion by other people on the internet because of  the lack of updates and such from the dev's. So what i'm trying to say is it's a up to standard quality game but all that's left is for you people to go play it.

Z for Zombie Invasion


8.5/10