Isys100 Assignment 3 Video

Hey Guys,
This is the video we made for our ISYS100 class

 

Crackdown 2 is a game similar to the Grand Theft Auto series. It is a free roaming game that is set in the future. You are sent on missions by a government agency to perform the tasks they ask. These are generally concerned with activating power sources for enormous EMP bombs. These EMP bombs are then set off kill the undead enemies that roam the world. 

The main character(you), increases his skills such as strength, agility, accuracy, explosion skill, and melee combat. Once you have increased your skills enough, you posess enough power to lift cars, jump 100's of meters at a time, and create massive explosions. Also, the more you skill up, the more equipment that the government agency makes available to you, including tanks, supercars, large guns, and even helicopters.

All for the end result of saving the city for the undead.

Red Alert3

Red Alert 3 is a 2008 real-time strategy video game developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts. The game is set in a parallel universe in which World War II never happened—in the original Red Alert, Albert Einstein travelled back in time and removed Hitler in the 1920s. After an Allied victory in Red Alert 2, the Soviet leaders travelled back in time and removed Albert Einstein in 1927, preventing the Allies from creating atomic weapons while the Soviet Union rose to power, battling the Allies in the 1950s. In this game, the Empire of the Rising Sun  rises to power as a threat as well (an unintentional result of the Soviets' time travelling). All three factions are playable, with the main gameplay involving constructing a base, gathering resources, and training armies composed of land, sea, and airborne units to defeat other players. Each faction has a fully co-operative campaign, playable with an artificial intelligence  or with another human player online. These campaigns follow a storyline, with specific mission objectives and unit restrictions applied. Unrestricted skirmish play against the computer and multiplayer via LAN or online is also available.

Age Of Empires

Released in 1997 AOE is one classic real-time strategy games. With game modes of campaing and random map players are able to follow a storyline or play a normal match against a computer. With historic events like "the wheel" as technology upgrades through the ages.

Having played it several times the graphics of this is very limited compared to games you see nowadays. With different civilisations and multiplayer this appealed to people who like to play with different styles.



In 1999 ensemble studios released AOE2, compared to first of the series it has much better graphics and control over units. Campaigns follow great historic events and people such as "1066", "El Cid" and "Atilla the Hun". Such gameplay allows the enjoyment of learning history and pwning the computer at the same time. This made it a grat success with the ablility to create your own map and multiplayer with different ways of winning.



This is my actual gameplay taking more than 3hrs to finish



                           

Spending many of my hours playing this game it is not surprising that The Age of Kings won Strategy Game of the Year and Computer Game of the Year at the 2000.

                                        

AOE3 the latest age is based on a modern era with mostly gunpowder units, playing with different civilisations like the other ages, it has much better graphics and the sight of units and building actually looking circular. Unlike the older AGES it has a circular map rather than a rectangular one making units walk in a straight line to an open area clicked and a more realistic look when units fall or get blown away by cannons.

                              

The part i found disappointing about the game was that most military units were trained in bulks of 5, villagers dont carry resources, shipments and some buildings offer unlimited supply of resources at a steady rate. This greatly decreased the amount of skill and management when playing making it seem a bit easy.

I think Super Mario 64 was the first game i ever played seriously. Played it until my friends nintendo overheated. It was good times.
In the game you play as mario, a character who explores the world of Princess Peaches Castle. Throughout the castle there are secret entrances to new worlds through paintings on the walls. When inside mario faces monsters on his journey to aquire Stars. Each small world has secret places, and hidden features that you can discover from exploring without a time limit.

 

Even though it was one of the first 3 dimensional games, it introduced new adventures with extremely advanced graphics for its time. Best Game Ever, give it a go

Moving up from my recent super nintendo game posts, i have decided to talk about another old but more recent console, the sony playstation, and one of its classic games, DOOM. The sony playstation revolutionised gaming, with 3d graphics far surpasing the previous gaming consoles.

Not only did the sony playstation have better graphics, they were very dedicated on making great games for the platform, one of these being the game doom. Doom was one of the first shooting games available, and created the whole shooting genre, which is now are the most popular platform games.

Doom is based on the story that hell has escaped on earth, slaying these monsters in the most gruesome way possible. You have an array of weapons at your disposal, from plasma guns to chainsaws and even your metal studded fist. The game was so successful not only due to the fact it was a shooting game with many weapons, but the levels were very well thought out.

The levels continually keep you on your toes, with well hidden monsters and a maze like quality constantly keeping your brain busy. The game is also full of many secrets which keep you trying to find many weeks after you have completed the game.

Overall i really recommend this game to any avid gamers, who dont mind a drop in graphics from the modern day games to a game based on just classic good old gameplay. Here is a trailer below which gives you a basic idea of the gameplay and i hope it encourages you to play.

Gears of War 3 is the new edition to the Gears of War series. This is another first person shooter that that takes place on a Fictional planet called Sera and is about the war against the Gears and the enemy called the Locust. It is the kind of game for people that dont mind a bit of gore, aswell as online multiplayers. Similar to halo, it can be played online against people from all around the world. Gears of War 3 is also the last in the series that is going to be released. They have brought in new weapons and AI to make the game more challenging and fun.

Continuing on from last posts theme of old games, I thought I would share some information on another one of my old favourite games, Donkey Kong Country on super nintendo. This game was one of the first adventure games with a sort of 3d atmosphere and also an external 3d world map.

In this game you control two monkeys, donkey kong and diddy kong (his smaller companion). Donkey Kong is large and brutish, and Diddy Kong is his small agile companionship during the journey. The game lets you control and swap between either one, making the game much more diverse.

Not only do you control the 2 main monkey characters, but along the journey there are many different animals you can ride and control. This includes things like flying birds, rhinos, dolphins and the fast running emu. This keeps the game exciting and you are constantly on the look out.

The game levels are separated between different worlds, moving from world to world with the complishon of the boss of each section. It is surprising a game of its day has suxh integrated bosses. They are verd hard to beat with many tatics needed to dodgey and manouveur yoursel to victory.

The levels themselves are very different from world to world, keep you excited to continue at the game. Going from slippery ice worlds, to stick bee caves and jungle scenes. I would highly recommend this amazing game to anyone, and it will keep you extremely busy with easy gameplay.

I was having a boring wednesday night and have been playing my favourite games to death. Thats when it occured to me, why not play some of my old favourite. I'm of course talking about the old super nintendo system from 1992, coupled with my favourite classic game Super Mario Kart.

This game kept me away from studying as a kid for countless hours, and im sure even the older of us would have appreciated this innovative game, which basically started the world of racing games and helped develope the whole console gaming world along with Super Nintendo.

In this game you can choose a character from the classic mario series, such as mario, luigi, princess and of course my favourite, toad. You race around rather basic tracks using these characters, seperated into 3 different cups, star, mushroom and flower. Get golds in all 3 cups and it allows a harder mode, 150cc.

It progressively gets harder and harder and is actually quite challenging once you get to the last cup (special) in 150cc. Not only do you race in this game, but you can also get prizes situated on the track. These prizes allow you to attack other racers, or gain special bonuses like invincibility or speed boosts).

Despite being alot older now this classic old game i had long forgotten manage to keep me busy all afternoon, and I realised I hadn't played a game in a long time that was based around gameplay and fun, and not special effects and graphics.

I recommend if you have an old console like sega and super nintendo to dust it off and give it a go, you will definately be pleasantly surprised. Here is a trailer for all those who haven't played the game (although if you don't have it not sure how hard it would be to find it to purchase now adays)!

Unlike most conventional games, in the Assassin's Creed series, you play as the bad guy. Sent on missions to kill people of interest, you have to overcome obstacles, drawing as little attention to yourself as possible. Scaling buildings, blending in with crowds, silently listening from dark places. All these become challenging within the game. Again the is a series of games, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood being the third one now. They have improved the gameplay, cinematics, and artificial intelligence. Aswell as just add to the different ways you can stay hidden.

 

 

Counter-strike is a first person shooter games, players can choose the roles they want to act in terrorist or counter-strike.  A player can choose four different roles in each team. The winner is the team which first finishes their mission or kill all the members of the other team.

 player from other places in the world can form a team and have fun toghter,here is a video to show how players work togther: