Bad News if you Pre-Ordered ME3 at Game

I have just learned that EA have decided to pull all of their future releases from being sold in the Retailer Game, in the UK and Ireland until further notice. Apparently, EA don't trust that they would receive the correct funds from each sale, given Game's current financial situation. (Which I wasn't aware was bad.)

                                                               The Bottom Line ?

Ok, the Bottom Line is that if you have pre-ordered ME3 at Game, your pre-order has been cancelled and you will be refunded with store credit. This decision is all down to EA choosing not to send any copies of Mass Effect 3 to Game.

Unfortunatley, this means that I will have to look elsewhere if I want to get it on release day. This especially sucks due to the fact it was the Collectors Edition I had ordered.


But anyway, just giving you a heads up.

More information about this can be found at the following link: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/29/ea-pulling-mass-effect-3-from-game/

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Mass Effect 3 Co-op mode Confirmed !

Yesterday, it was confirmed by Bioware that Mass Effect 3 will have its own Co-operative mode. I'm really excited about this because I've always wanted Mass Effect to have something like this. It's just one of those games that has a universe that you love to get lost in, and what better way to do that then with a few buddies.


Anyway, In this mode you will be playing as a character that you create from scratch and not Commander Shepard or any other character from the Single-Player campaign. You will however be able to choose from most if not all the species that we have encountered throughout the series so far. Human, Turian, Asari, whatever you want !

Now, if you're one of those people who's thinking, "Oh noes ! Adding co-op to Mass Effect must mean that the singleplayer will be paully wally crappy !", I would like you to pause for one minute, take a deep breath and continue reading. Bioware have said that, yes, the co-op mode does contribute to the ending of ME3, BUT, you can still achieve the complete ending to the game if you choose not to make use of the co-op mode.

I'm even more excited for this game now than I was before, and I hope you are too.
Thanks for reading !

Note: Sorry for the recent lull in activity on the blog, it's just the other guys are busy in their final year of school and I recently started college. I'll do my best to try and make up for the lack of posts.

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Dragon Age 2 Demo Sucked!

I dont know if it was just me or the fact that my broadband was so bad that it took 2 hours for the fucking demo to fully download, but either way my conclusion still stand that my brief encounter with this game was awful. 

I am going to come out and say that I never played the first game, Dragon Age Origins, and to say that it never necessarily appealed to me from looking at the gameplay. I also never truly enjoyed Mass Effect so Mass Effect 2 was also entirely out of the question for me. Something about BioWare that pisses me off you ask? Nope I have nothing against these guys, I was routing for them at the VGA's to win Best Studio because of the fact they have been balancing two series with a massive MMO on their backs (Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic).

I dont like Mass Effect because,well, its way to Sci-Fi I dont know how to put it. Firing plasma from your gun or some other pink shit can get really boring at times, but not only that, the fact that its like a hybrid between Star Wars and Star Trek makes me vomit a little. To put it short I don't like Sci-Fi's! 

So Dragon Age? Well I actually love fantasy, its something I cant get enough of. J.R.R. Tolkien and David Eddings being my two favourite writers setted the foundation of fantasy storytelling in my opinion. From what I can tell in Dragon Age, dwarves are small and love axes, elves are big and love trees something very similar Tolkien wrote in his story. A little diversity with these races could have been nice, it was easy to guess by just looking at the game. 

So establishing that its the same as any other fantasy game Dragon Age 2 spices its combat up with four abilities you can access by pressing X,Y,B (for Xbox 360 controller) and A which is the button you will be pressing repeatedly to kill these darkspawns or whatever the fuck they're called. To be honest these darkspawn look fucking ridiculous the character models for these are terribly shit looking not making them threatening at all. 

Its the first game in a long while where I can genuinely complain about the graphics, they are very shit looking, getting close to the character models in dialogue truly show the imperfections and how flat it looks. The map itself in the demo isn't at all exotic or remotely interesting to play on, from what I can remember it was a lot of dirt and blood, but thats it. 

The camera angle from the third person perspective is way far out, like the combat is really gritty which gets me ticklish inside but I can barely see them guts flying. The gritty style its got going for the game got me interested but when I saw how far the perspective was I realised my experience with this game wasn't going to be the best. 

There was a lot of talk around this game and hype, I have heard that it is more of a PC title but I can honestly say its one title I will not look twice at.

Update:

The video below shows how I feel about this game xD 

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VGA's (Video Game Awards) Round-Up

Well the VGA's are finished and done with (thank god), and we have all the announcements and winners listed right here! 

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