Game: The Darkness 2
Jackie Estacado returns in the sequel to The Darkness. Jackie has been able to shut away the Darkness for two years, but a sudden attack of a rival gang makes him release the dark powers in order to survive. Jackie will set on a mission to uncover the mystery of the force behind the attackers. It’s also somehow connected to Jenny, his murdered girlfriend that he still loves…
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So my latest obsession lately is recording videos with the Xbox One DVR. I have made so many videos already and there is no shortage of me making more clips, anytime I see anything in-game even remotely cool, funny or just messed up I have to take a video of it. Video-game lovers will enjoy the hell out of it, no video-game lovers will have no interest in this stuff.
That being said in this video me and my friend Tom are playing Halo 1 off the Master Chief Collection which is Halo’s 1-4 all in one package. Now Halo 1 & 2 were out on the Original Xbox, that was a long time ago, they updated the graphics best they could and it looks pretty decent as you will see from the video above but Halo 5 which will be made specifically for the Xbox One which is what I’m using to play these games will look unreal. I never got to play halo 1 or 2 because I never had an Xbox. When the Xbox and the PlayStation 2 was the consoles of that time I was playing mainly computer games, I skipped those consoles altogether. Enough of the boring back story. In this video, it’s just me and Tom messing around. You are looking at things from my characters perspective and the other guy hanging around me is Tom. There are NPC’s as well (non-playing characters: the computer if you will). I’m sure this is one of those had to be there kind of things but you will notice at one point Tom asks me to kill him so he can restart with all the weapons reloaded, so I got ready, I aimed, I threw the grenade and someone else ran by at the same time and the grenade stuck to them. You can hear the guys screen “oh god, oh god” then immediately after he explodes you hear another guy yell “what’s wrong with you”.
For me and Tom, this is hilarious, you may not have the same effect but these are the moments in a multiplayer game that we live for. Check it out.
So for Christmas i got an Xbox One. I love it, i have the 360 of coarse, i am an xbox guy first and foremost, i don’t claim its better than the ps3 and if i could afford it, i would own both. If i must choose only one, its xbox, sorry!
Anyhoo this thing is awesome, the biggest feature im into right now is the gameDVR. This is something i have been saying the 360 should have had. Halo 3 is a game for the 360 which allowed you to take screenshots and videos of your games and upload them. It was the only game with this feature and i always said”It should be an xbox feature, not the feature of this one game”. Well finally it is here, no matter which game i am playing i can open up the gameDVR and start recording. There is another app for the xbox called “upload studio” which i can then load the video into and make some edits and then upload the video to my upload account as well as my Onedrive account then i can download it from there.
So one of the first games i got was Alien Isolation which i ave been waiting to play. Here is a synopsis:
Fifteen years after the events of Ridley Scott‘s Alien Ellen Ripley’s daughter Amanda is looking for answers. She is an engineer working for Weiland-Yutani Corporation. When she finds out that the logs from USCSS Nostromo have been located and transported to Sevastopol space station she decides to join a small crew sent by Weiland-Yutani to retrieve the data. Little does she know that the ship that has found the logs reached Sevastopol with a terrifying passenger on board, the one that murdered the majority of station’s population and left the survivors cower in fear.
Alien: Isolation is a survival horror game. It is set on Sevastopol space station where Amanda is searching for USCSS Nostromo logs. Sevastopol is split into many areas, and a certain degree of freedom is given to the player: areas may have several alternative routes to the goal, hidden rooms and ventilation shafts; also Amanda may (and later needs to) backtrack through the station. As the game goes on Amanda’s tools will be upgraded and she will be able to get access to previously out of reach areas.
Amanda is an engineer, so she is able to loot containers and bodies for resources and craft devices like noisemakers, smoke bombs, or Molotov cocktails, mainly used to distract the enemy. Later she acquires a flashlight, a motion detector and several types of weapons to defend herself against humanoid enemies (groups of hostile survivors or androids). However, Amanda is not a fighter, and each encounter should be carefully planned. Many actions take some time, for example to use a medpack Amanda needs to stand perfectly still.
When Amanda draws attention of the alien, stealth is the only way to survive. Alien cannot be harmed, and it kills Amanda in a single hit. In most cases it doesn’t follow a predetermined scripted route, but instead relies on its senses to track Amanda down.
In addition to main story mode there’s Survivor mode in which the player needs to escape from a specially designed map fulfilling secondary objectives along the way, while being aggressively hunted by the alien. This mode includes online leaderboards.
I have not beat the game i am still playing through it but its awesome, and thanks to the new gameDVR i can SHOW you a little bit of the game. The above video is actually me playing, its a couple clips together but it gives a bit of an idea what the game is like.
