Game Addiction Blog

Yes it’s coming…

In the meantime some sad news but the voice actors for both Raynor and Kerrigan will not be reprising their roles in StarCraft II. Which is a shame because they were great in the original. I hope the one they do end up picking up will do as good…Who knows maybe it will be Cortana.

Oh and one can not but laugh when you see something like this

http://www.destructoid.com/left-4-head-is-a-porno-based-on-left-4-dead-seriously-122641.phtml

Who wouldn’t want to see Zoey being tied up by a tentacle penis and sucking some zombie c*ck.

From what I’ve read this probably one of the worst porno ever made….that says a lot since 99% of all pornos are horriblfuckus.

- X

2008 is behind us and now it’s time for 2009.

Overall 2008 had a great selection of terrific games, though not without it’s disappointments.

Haze, Fracture and Too human,alone in the dark were all games many had high hopes for but in the end they turned out to be mediocre at best and riddled with bugs which is a shame because they really could have been some of the better games for 2008 if it weren’t for this.

In my personal opinion the best games that I played last year were

Metal Gear solid 4

One of the most cinematic game I have ever played. Only real problem is that it is if anything to cinematic. There are hours of cutscenes,clips,etc that you have to watch throughout the game. But if you have the patience to sit through it all, it really is an awesome experience, I love everything about this game and it’s the best one in 2008 in my opinion.

Super Smash bros Brawl

I never played the earlier titles and I regret having missed out on them back in the day. But due to me never owning a Nintendo 64 or a Gamecube they just slipped by me unnoticed. That is until I started to hear news about a Smash bros brawl in the works and at first I was like “uhh what’s that?”. I searched for videos from the game and I instantly liked what I saw. I’m a great fan of fighting games and this game was right up my alley. Just looking at it made me think of Power stone because that is easily one of my favorite fighting game ever. 
When I visited Digital Overload in Providence, Rhode Island in March it just so happened to be the weekend Brawl was being released. It was due to come out on Sunday but they were able to get advance copies for sale at the event and so I got to play Brawl before it even officially released. I didn’t really do a lot of gaming at the event, but when I got back to the hotel room I ended up playing Brawl far into the night. I totally sucked at it when I first started out but I still loved it to death and still do. I just know that if there is a Wii at gaming party with my friends Brawl will be the game of choice. When I came back home to Iceland I checked when it was going to be released in EU and to my dismay Nintendo being the bastards that they are was making EU waiting an extra 5 months for Brawl to be released. I just couldn’t wait that long so I said fuck it and imported a US copy and bought a Free loader to play it on my Wii.

Castle Crashers

Major Nelson recently revealed Castle Crashers as the most downloaded Xbox live Arcade game and for good reasons. With it’s crisp 2D animation in HD and classic beat ‘em up gameplay with some RPG elements it was guranteed to be a big hit.  Oh and not to forget both offline and online 4 player coop mayhem. I’m glad and a little surprised to see that the really bad bugs that plagued it(up until the update that came the other day addressing them) didn’t affect it’s success. I just wish they had done it a few months sooner, I’ve moved on to other things now and so have everyone else that I would have liked to play Online coop with me..

Left 4 Dead

Do I need to say much about this game? honestly? I’ll just put main things that make this game great.

1. Zombie apocalypse

2. Weapons to shoot zombies

3. 4 player coop Offline/online

4. Versus mode where 4 players as zombies try to kill the survivors 

4. Zoey is hot.

5. braaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiinsss

Grand Theft Auto IV

I did a whole review on this game on my site. To sum it up, I thought it was very good.

It wasn’t the best year but it did have it’s share of great games that I loved to play.

Now as for this year, one can only hope that rumours about God of War III, StarCraft II and Diablo III coming in 2009 to be true because that would just be awesome. Even if that doesn’t happen the year starts of nicely with Street fighter IV coming next month. Everything I’ve seen from this game makes me want it even more and knowing Capcom they aren’t going to disappoint.

I’m going to get Street fighter IV, but only time will tell about any other titles that might peek my interest in 2009.

So happy new year to all.

- X

I maybe have been slacking off when it comes to actually writing something for the site up late so I’m going to make some sort of an effort.

The main reason why I haven’t been writing/reviewing anything is because I haven’t been buying any games due to my focuses being on paying bills and buying a few presents for Christmas, I haven’t either been doing any extensive gaming lately so I don’t really have much to write about in the first place.

Left 4 Dead is great and all, but I think I’ve mostly moved on to other things now, at least until they add more content to the game.

I’ve mostly been messing around older games lately. I picked up a copy of Metal Gear Solid 3: Substance a few months ago, mainly because I never actually finished it so I’ve been meaning to go back and give it another shot. It’s a good thing I have a 60GB PS3 because my sister has my PS2. I managed to grab one just before it got sold out and I’m really happy about that. Especially considering the prices it’s going for these days. I saw on ebay that someone had a buy now price of $1700 for a sealed 60gb PS3.

That’s just insane.

I also messed around a little bit with Twisted metal 2. That game is awesome. It’s kind of a predecessor to Carmageddon, and I used to have lots of fun playing that game in versus mode.

Other then that I’ve been messing around with video editing. I can’t say I’m a pro when it comes to it. I’ve only done a few school projects and one really goofy Mortal kombat video me and my friends did back in 2004. I spent hours on that thing. Did credits and everything for it but unfortunately due to a hard drive crash it was lost to the sands of time.

We also did a few other things, like if I recall correctly a Ninja Monks versus Italian Mafia movie.
It was pretty stupid, but it was tons of fun to make. But again that was lost because the miniDV cassette got ruined due to some glitch in the camera if I remember correctly.

I’ve also been working trying out doing video reviews for games/movies, inspired from the work of Nostalgia Critic and the Angry Videogame Nerd.

The other day I recorded a little(long) review for a bad NES game based of Bill and Ted’s Most excellent Adventure Movie called *drum roll* Bill and Ted’s most excellent videogame adventure…
Yeah that really rolls of your tongue.

The movie is stupid enough as it is but this game takes it to a whole new level.

This is the second review I’ve attempted, the first one was for Deadly towers and…well it sucked bad. Not to say this one is any masterpiece. I have no problem writing English but when it comes to speaking it, my accent/tongue gets in the way sometimes.

I’d love to be able to link it but unfortunately I’ve been hitting a snag. When I’ve tried to render it the video output is black while I can still hear the audio.

I don’t know why this is. I guess I’ll try some other compression or just do it full frames and then compress it with another application and see if that does the trick.

I have some ideas for other stuff, the problem is that I don’t have a Video camera so it’s kind of hard doing videos without one. All I’ve got is a crappy webcam and my cellphone.

I suppose I could link my Deadly towers review, but oh god is it bad. Half the time I don’t even know what I’m saying.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-48743422263797982&hl=en

Well I hope it’s worth a laugh or two only because it sucks. :p

- X

We will not go silently into the night you zombie scums! We shall endure and use whatever weapons and resources at our disposal. At the end of all of this, there can only be one of two outcomes, either we survive or we die but through our courage we will be victorious and no army of rotten worm infested walking corpses are going to stand in the way of our survival!

Left 4 Dead has landed, so grab your shotgun and explode some zombie heads!

- X

I was doing whole lot of cursing on Sunday after my Xbox 360 started freezing up with vertical lines going down the screen, eventually ending with RROD.

I tried the towel trick and I did get it working for a little while longer that way. but in the long run the towel trick would only cause things to get worse. My warranty has long since expired on my 360 and even if it wasn’t, the company that I had warranty with has gone bankrupt.

Luckily enough, I saw over at the Icelandic Xbox 360 community a post from a guy who said he could fix 360s. So yesterday I dropped it off at his place, and only had to pay a nominal fee compared with what it would have cost me to buy a new 360.

It’s running like a dream now, he cleaned it up and he also seems to have fixed the problems I was having with the DVD drive as well.

The funny thing is, this is the second 360 that has failed on me and I remember that it first started failing after I tried out the demo for Crackdown.

Now, on Sunday I got a crazy urge to fire up Crackdown for the heck of it and….then it froze up…

Now I’m afraid to even put the game near my 360… :p

Anyway, Gears of War 2 is good, I haven’t gone far into the campaign yet because I feel that this game should be played co-op and not alone.

I’ve also tried out the demo for L4D, in short, it’s going to be awesome.

Oh I’m also playing through Force Unleashed that I got from a friend. It’s a great game, and definatly one of the better Star wars themed games that I’ve played.

Well…hmm I’ll leave you with this video below.

- X

So, here I am with like 8 games I want and no chance in hell I can buy them.

I’m forced to listen to other people rant on about how great these games are and all I can do is throw stuff at them…

I’m hoping I can get back on my feet by next months pay but I’ll have to live very cheaply in November if that is to happen.

Anyway, enough about my personal rant stuff.

While I don’t have a lot of new games right now, I have been messing around with other stuff such as the Call of Duty World at War beta.

Now, I haven’t tried it out a lot but it’s good, and probably going to get plenty playing it, but that’s only because the game is exactly like Call of Duty 4 except it’s set in WW2. WW2 games have oversaturated the FPS market and as such it puts a lot of people off. Not to mention it’s really the exact same game. I haven’t seen or tried everything but the only really new thing I saw was that it has a class for Attack Dogs. So you can run around killing everyone with your mouth, it’s interesting to see how that is hehe.

Other then that, the campaign allows co-op for the first time in the series, which is pretty sweet and also after you finish the campaign you unlock a special Nazi zombie mode. Where you and your friends can battle together to stay alive against unending hordes of zombies, and having the ability to exchange points you get for killing zombies for ammo and upgrades to your weapon to help you stay alive for longer.

While I’m going on about zombies, later this month Left 4 Dead is coming out which will feature 4 player co-op where you can your buddies are “left for dead” against a zombie infestation.

It’s made by Valve and considering their track record of never having released a bad game…like ever. I tend to think that this is going to be an excellent game and while I might have to let it wait awhile, I’m still going to get it eventually.

On another more exciting note, Mirror’s edge demo is out on PSN today and it will arrive on Xbox Live tomorrow.

Ever since I saw this game ages ago I have been excited to see what they make of it. It certainly seems to have a unique way about it and the graphics are to die for.

It’s all about free roaming and running…and some more running and unlike pretty much all other FPS you don’t carry a weapon with you, you may take them from enemies and use them but for the most part you are just running away and trying to stay alive.

Oh and last but not least the Gears of War 2 Launch trailer has arrived and as always the game looks gorgeous.

- X