Crysis 2 Multiplayer Review

Crysis 2 is a fantastic game, and the multiplayer is surprisingly good for a no'n-multiplayer oriented game. The graphics are fantastic, of course, and there are quite a few interesting takes on the normal multiplayer modes. The two game modes I play the most are Crash Site, which is like Domination i.e. you have to capture a point but the point moves around, and Instant Action, which is similar to Team Deathmatch.  There is an interesting gun variety and the upgrades system is good, but what distinguishes Crysis 2 MP from all other MPs is the Nanosuit. It adds a whole new level to the game, for people who want to go Rambo-style or be sneaky-sneaky. There are 2 modules in this game, instead of 4 in Crysis. The 2 modules are Armor, to increase defense, and Cloak, which...

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New York

Well, it's been a while since I posted, but life's been hectic. I went to New York City in June/July and it reminded me of how much I like that city. I don't know if it's the atmosphere, the architecture or simply the environs itself, but New York is definitely my favourite city in the world. I dream to study at Columbia University in the City of New York, not just for the standard of education, but also to live in New York. While I was there I read The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger and I must say, it's a good book. The apathy of Holden Caulfield, the antagonistic protagonist, is one of the best captivations of emotion in a book I've seen. This book is a sad on a different kind of level than the usual kind of sadness, and I highly recommend reading it, especially...

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Fame: The sad truth

I am an active member of Youtube, and I have noticed that people will do pretty much anything for fame (people who do giveaways and have less then 10000 subs, I'm looking at you). There has been a lot of controversy in the last few months about people doing giveaways, basically buying headsets or something like that, and then making people subscribe and favourite their video to get the prize. That kind of whoring is just sick, and it has lead me to think: fame makes people do crazy things. Even worse than that, was the supposed "suicide livestream" where somebody was supposedly going to stream their own suicide. It is easy to see they were just bluffing, but it is still sick. I don't get why people are so limelight-craving. Grow up. Peace.&nb...

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Planes: Rage Time

As much as I love travel, I despise planes (and airports) with a passion. Seriously. I think the airline owners should be dragged out into the street, and killed by a horde of Gummi Bears. That's pain. Anyway, on to the reasons. You have to constrict your legs until you get thrombosis. There are screaming babies everywhere. The food is so bad, I'd rather starve then consume it. The air-conditioning is either stiflingly hot, or ice cold. The air is stale. It sucks Airports have got progressively worse and more paranoid over the last 30 years. I hope that, at one point, something will snap and airports will go back to being pleasant. Anyway, enough rage for now. Pea...

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CANADA

I am currently in Canada, which is pretty awesome. I have just visited Ottawa, the capital, after visiting Quebec City yesterday and Montreal for the first 3 days. I have a few rants about travel that are too short to post as a full post (I don't want to flood my blog with posts that are bitty) ,so here they are: First off, tour groups. Tour groups are the scourge of all independent travellers, because they make all the lines longer, bunch together in front of the site you're trying to take a picture of and generally make everyone else feel uncomfortable. The people who take tours seem to instantly revert to a primitive herd mentality and bunch together like Armageddon will happen if they don't stick with the group. They travel around in big buses that really destroy the atmosphere for...

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Movie Review: Super 8

JJ Abrams' newest movie,Super 8, is a fun blend of alien and youth adventure movies. It is set in the 70s sometime, and 6 kids are trying to make a horror movie about zombies.  They are filming a scene at a house next to a railway track and a crash occurs, which the director (probably a semi-analogy for Spielberg) thinks is fantastic for his "production value", but has disastrous consequences for his town. Watch the movie if you want to know the rest, I don't want to spoil it. I was, however, surprised at how unoriginal Super 8 was. It seems a bit like a tribute to E.T. with bits of Indiana Jones thrown...

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Review: Plague by Michael Grant

Hey everyone. Mull over this review of Plague by Michael Grant. Plague is the 4th in the FAYZ series. You'll need to have read the first 3 books or you can get a basic outline for the first three books from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_(series) (only read the synopses for Gone, Hunger and Lies). It's a good series. Plague continues following Sam and Co, however several important characters do die in Plague so when the next book (Fear) comes out, the character pool will be slightly diminished. The new aspect introduced into plague is of serious diseases, one is a cough that makes you cough out your guts, and the other is a parasitic infection...

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Karma

First off, I'm going to start posting a lot more regularly, even though I will be away for my entire school holiday. Secondly, I am now going to rage about "karma" in video games. I don't really understand what most game studios are thinking when they put the idea of "karma" in games (except for Naughty Dog, who made inFamous). If you don't know, karma is basically the type of personality you choose to have in games, be it good, bad or neutral. The thing I don't understand about karma is that no matter which karma you choose, the storyline stays extremely similar. If karma only makes the NPCs go :o (shock) and run away, what's the point? Game...

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Review: Homefront

Hi everyone, first off I'd like to apologize for not posting for the past 11 days, I haven't thought of anything to post. Please accept this meagre slice of game review. When I started Homefront, I was expecting a run-of-the-mill FPS (first person shooter), with the same combat system and a similar plot as a hundred other games that the producers are still marketing as 'original'. It turns out I was wrong. Thankfully. Homefront is set on Earth, sometime around 2028. The People's Republic of North Korea have occupied a bunch of territories under the leadership of Kim-Jong-Un. One of these territories is most of the USA, from San Francisco to Colorado or something like that. The North Koreans don't seem to like the USA, so they have used measures similar to those...

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An output for violence

As you may or may not know, I've been playing a lot of the game Bulletstorm recently. Bulletstorm is, how do you say... a little bit on the gory side. This is fine by me, but some people seem to have a big issue with violent video games. I don't understand this because apart from a slight desensitization to violence, it hasn't affected the world population in the least. There were more wars 100 years ago, before any kind of video game, even Pong, than there are today. While I'll admit using a charged drillbit shot from a modified gun to impale someone on steel poles cannot be very good for you, it hasn't turned all gamers into savage monsters who want to rip your flesh out. Yet. People are so paranoid that they are blind. Video gaming obviously hasn't created brain-slurping zombies...

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Retro

Hey everyone, I'm going to talk about retro tonight (as you may have guessed). For those of you who don't know, something comes into fashion, then becomes unpopular and when it becomes cool again, it's retro. Weird, huh? \ Retro is a strange concept,  I think it is often used solely as a sales pitch for old stuff, but I think it mainly comes into fashion because of a new generation who did not experience the craze of the earlier generation when the item of clothing/sunglasses style/(insert suitable word here) came out, therefore they are ready to accept it as it is not an overworn item as it has gone out of fashion. But I digress, the reason I wanted to talk about retro is Minecraft. Minecraft is a game with what could be described as retro graphics (I'm starting a Minecraft...

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Bulletstorm

If you've read my Intro Blog, then you will know that my favourite game at the moment is Bulletstorm. What I'd like to bring you know is my honest review/wildly biased opinion. I love Bulletstorm. I find it extremely hard to nitpick about it as there is hardly anything to nitpick about. This game is almost perfectly balanced. The violence is gratuitous, but in a comical way as opposed to disgusting gore as in Dead Space or a similar game. The graphics are crystal clear and the slightly thicker outline somewhere between Borderland's semi-celshading and normal graphics produces a great effect. The plot is original and interesting, it's the first good Science Fiction plot for a game that I've ever played or heard of. The combat controls are great and it feels like wearing a second skin...

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Intro Blog

Hey everyone, this is my first post on The Rorschach Blog. I hope this blog is succesful in spreading my opinion to everyone and (if i have the right idea) making them think in a different way, but most of all to provide captivating and interesting material to my readers. I enjoy gaming and pursue many other interests, but let's talk about gaming for now. I watch a lot of Youtube videos; some of my favourite youtubers are Seananners and UberHaxorNova. Check 'em out. I have all 3 major gaming platforms (PC, PS3 and 360) and I enjoy them all, I'm not a ridiculous fanboy. I have a Youtube channel (in my links) which i'm starting to post on, so please check it out and subscribe. My favourite game these days is Bulletstorm, which is great fun and has amazing graphics. I play mainly FPS games,...

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