Batman: Arkham City

Warner Brothers just announced the release date for Rocksteady's highly awaited Batman: Arkham City. So, the release day is 21th October for XBOX360, PS3 and PC. It's a sequel to a great game called Batman: Arkham Asylum. 

When Arkham Asylum was released, I didn't expect much of it but I was proved wrong. To my mind the game was easily 10/10. It had great gameplay, graphics, voiceacting and storyline. It was pretty much like a old Metroid game as you needed to get new items before you could move forward in the game. 

Anyways, I hope the game is great and you will all buy it, instead of downloading it illegally.


-Joe

Dead Space 2 - Review

This is basicly my review of Dead Space 2 which I already did in Finnish, but I will translate it to English and maybe write some more about it.

So, I've been playing Dead Space 2 for a while now. It sure can be still called a horror-game but in my opinion the first game was more scary. The seemed to have recycled some of the ideas they used to create horror in the first game. That ain't a problem though, as long as the game is scary. 
The scenery is way different from the first game, as you will be moving in a space city called 'Sprawl' instead of the planetcracker USG Ishimura.
Also they have renewed the protagonist, Isaac Clarke. In the first game, Isaac didn't talk at all. He was just a silent character like Gordon Freeman in Half Life 2. Now Isaac takes his helmet off more often and he actually talks which gives him a personality.
I have played the multiplayer only for a few matches but I can say it's a good one. I preferred playing as the Survivors and didn't have enough time to test the Necromorphs out yet. The multiplayer is a lot like Left 4 Dead, as you are trying to escape from Necromorphs, while you must do objectives in order to proceed.


In all, the game is great sequel to a great horror-game. I can easily recommend this game to anyone who has played the original Dead Space and to people who like horror-games.


I also recommend to check out the animated movies which shed some light on the backstory of Dead Space. The movies are called Dead Space: Aftermath and Dead Space: Downfall. 


-Joe

My Gaming Rig

The rig is the basis of PC gaming, which needs to be upgraded constantly. In this post, I'll be talking about my rig and it's future upgrades.

At the moment I have:

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 +5600 (slightly overclocked)
• Ati Radeon HD 4850 (slightly overclocked aswell)
• 4GB RAM

So as you can see, my rig aint the newest one but it should be able to handle any modern game. Except that bullshit Black Ops, which requires so much from your CPU that it's becoming ridiculous. I can't even believe how badly the game was ported from the consoles.

I was considering to update my CPU into AMD Athlon II X4 640, which should allow me to run Black Ops easily. But then again, that CPU get outdated soon as it's already pretty old.

Please give your thoughts about the upgrade. Is it worth it?

-Joe

English

From now on I'll be writing this blog in English to reach a wider audience.

-Joe

Koneen kellotus

Aloitin vasta koneen kellotuksen ja ihan kivaahan se on saada kaikki tehot irti raudastasi. Olen siis pelkkä amatööri vielä tässä, kellotin hieman näytönohjaintani ja prosessoriani, joissa molemmissa vakiojäähyt.


Näytönohjaimeni on Ati Radeon HD 4850, jota tuli kelloteltua AMD:n omalla ohjelmalla AMD OverDrivellä.
Näytönohjaimen GPUn kellot nousivat 625MHz -> 680MHz ja sen muistit nostin 1004MHz -> 1049MHz.
Tuntuvat vakailta ja ihan ok nostot vakiojäähyllä.

Prosessori taasen on AMD Athlon 64 X2 +5600 ja sen FSB:ta nostin 200MHz -> 210MHz.
Lopputulos prosessorissa siis oli 14* 210 = 2940MHz. Tähänkin tulokseen olin tyytyväinen.

Dead Space 2 - oma mielipide

Ostin tässä vastikään Dead Space 2:n ja sitä on tullut nyt hetki pelailtua. Peli on yhä pelottava, muttei taida yltää ykkösen tasolle. Maisemat ovat hyvin erilaiset, kuin ensimmäisessä pelissä ja maisemien vaihtuminen on ihan hyvä asia.
Ykkösessä Isaac Clarke oli tavallinen pelien hiljainen sankari, joka ei puhunut, mutta kakkososassa Isaac saa kasvot ja persoonallisuuden.
Moninpeliä kokeilin parin matsin verran ja varsinkin ihmisillä pelaaminen oli todella kivaa. Oli mukava juosta necromorpheja karkuun, escapepodia kohti.

Kaikinpuolin peli on hyvä jatko-osa ja voin suositella sitä kaikille ykkösosasta pitäneille.
Suosittelen myös katsomaan pelisarjasta tehdyt elokuvat: Aftermath ja Downfall.

Pelejä

Tähän pistän listan pelejä, joita tulee nyt pelailtua. Minut voi saada myös peliseuraksi, jos lukijoita kiinnostaa!

PCllä siis pelailen nyt:

League of Legends

Cod: Modern Warfare 2

Cod: Modern Warfare

Cod: Black Ops

Dead Space 2

PS3:lla taasen tulee pelailtua kaikennäkösiä pelejä, mutta juuri nyt eniten BC2.