Viking: Battle for Asgard - Blood is good!

Who has games like bloody, is Viking: Battle for Asgard to the right place. The severed limbs literally flying around and spraying blood all over the place as a major player Skarin rages with his sword. The game is also classified by the inspection committee in the highest age group.

Protagonist Skarin is equipped with a sword and an ax and chops it with both lustily when he goes to attack his opponents. That is, there is usually an arm flies first. Then another, and finally the head from the body or the body is separated as in the pelvic cross is cut in half, and then the blood spatter angrily around and viscera in both sides of the body are visible. The authors make no effort to conceal. The gory details of the massacre They are associated even with the greatest pleasure and sense of precision in image. An example? Skarin is up against the end of the game against a huge troll, at least twice as large as he and three times as wide. Skarin is strong, but impossible against the brute force of the troll. So he has to come up with a list.


* Vanna

List which consists of the cutting of the Achilles tendons of the roller and which must be one by one. Where Skarin anyway only can chop at the legs of the troll see already bloody before Skarin belongs to a tendon. However, once he has a tendon to tackle the job with a firm stroke of the sword will succeed where the splashes of course flying around. The troll can then only stand on one leg, making it work for slaughter Skarin a lot easier. Get the details clear picture. Also in the second string If that string is cut, the troll can only move on his knees, Skarin which gives the opportunity to climb on the back of the troll and punches. His sword with power through the back of the troll Here too, the details are not shunned. Indeed, the decisive battles of Skarin are delayed display.


* Money and spells

Behind the gory details is a striking action game hides. Viking is played from a third person perspective, which means that Skarin is still visible on his back. He can except from his ax and sword also use magical powers, though should Skarin craze to collect before he can use magic. That rage he collects by hacking at enemies. Each stroke produces a little rage on and after half a minute heels is the rage meter or full. Then you can choose from three magic schools, Ice, Fire and Lightning. Skarin can not direct his magical powers. That is only possible if he has accumulated one of the three available runes and let set. The blacksmith in his sword Collect runes is quite simple. They are just on sale at the same blacksmith. They're just not cheap. Happy lie throughout the game world money bags scattered. Money is the only resource in the game. Thus the proportion rpg in the game remains fairly limited. The equipment of Skarin remains the same throughout the game. There is only money to collect and only three spells to learn. Each spell is moreover in three grades. The weakest version, the player automatically. The stronger variants are available as Skarin the second and third island of the game is able to achieve.

A preview of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

Rainbow Six: Vegas Ubisoft blew the long-running tactical shooter series to life. After the peak PC with Raven Shield, the developer did not really know what to do with the consoles. Rainbow Six parts following the Xbox and PlayStation 2 versions were pretty simplistic compared to the PC parts and were not in the press and supporters also so popular. Some critics felt that the series had fallen into fairground shooting gallery.

The 'next gen' Rainbow Six: Vegas Ubisoft However critics constricted mouth and started the franchise in a blow back on the map. The tight control, the tactical possibilities, the excellent multiplayer and nextgen look made Vegas became one of the most popular shooters of 2007. And now is already part 2 on.

Danger of such rapid sequels is that more of a Vegas 1 ½ in advance as a player - a 2-feelings. Yet Vegas 2 is indeed a full-fledged sequel with a robust single player, co-op and a pleasant re an extensive multiplayer.

Philips amBX - We have seen the light

Philips is peddling for a while with his amBX system and the device state since the time the promotion at the Media Markt. The problem is that the light, color, sound, vibration and wind effects of the device are not from the paint in a crowded media market or on a trading floor.

Therefore I separated myself in a dark computer room to give it a feel. AmBX the system through its paces Philips amBX to build upon the Ambilight technology. The real-time technology analyzes the incoming television signal and produces a backlight that is tuned to what is displayed on the screen. A similar effect is created by the two LED light-pillars which are placed on either side of the computer screen. In addition there is still a larger LED lamp which is to be placed behind the screen, the so-called Wall Washer. The LED lights can produce according to Philips more than 16 million additive RGB color display, though we do not have that recounted.

With amBX, however, you get more to offer than just lighting effects. The two fans should reflect wind effects and rumble pad wrist support with a vibration function. In addition, the system is equipped with a 2.1 sound set with a single 80W subwoofer and two 40W speakers that are built into the two LED pillars.

* Different packages

For the complete bundle called the Premium kit must be purchased, which Philips has inherited. Retails at 399 euros Adds a subwoofer, two LED bulbs with built-in speakers, Wall Washer, two fans and rumble pad brought home. Philips has also produced three other sets made for gamers with a lower budget.

The Starter Kit is recommended for gamers who already are. Quite a sound set of home It contains a Wallwashers and two LED bulbs for a price of 199 euros. This can be supplemented with the Extension Kit for 129 euro, which has two fans and rumble pad are. In addition, Philips has the Pro Gamer Kit of 239 euros, which the Wall Washer, LED lights with two built-in speakers and subwoofer are finished.

* Installation

Gamers who want to buy the kit should be aware that the Wall Washer behind a wall should illuminate. If your computer desk is placed against a window or not at all against the wall, then sliding the device if you still want to enjoy. My test PC was called against the wall, but the screen was still a long way forward to make the LED light space. This is the power and video cable quite in the way and the two are not always led to the lamp around - but then the light on top of the wires. The Wall Washer is the only device that needs to be supplied with power, the rest of the equipment is connected to the LED lamp. The two pillars and LED fans are placed on either side of the screen and rumble pad you lay the keyboard. The subwoofer can be hidden somewhere under the table. After installing the software could - be played - finally.

Devil May Cry 4 - stringing together combos with a new look

The fourth part of Devil May Cry protagonist Dante gets fixed to the side and introduces Nero. In appearance, the two do not differ much from each other, but Nero has a different set of weapons and fighting styles. Is the well-known fast action preserved or is dumped together with Dante?

Dante has not entirely disappeared from the scene, a part of the game can be completed with the character. Yet you go through most of newcomer Nero, who in the spectacular opening scene put directly opposite Dante in a fight that serves as a tutorial for the controls. Dante manages to escape and you have to chase him. As Nero


* Patience

The Playstation 3 version of Devil May Cry 4 includes a mandatory installation on the hard drive of the console. An installation is still an exception to the console and see that many console gamers prefer to remain so. Directly on the go is one of the advantages of a console. Unfortunately, the gamer in DMC4 has no choice and he must watch 22 minutes to a slideshow of pictures, while 5GB data to be pumped to the hard disk of the PS3. The 22 minutes aimlessly staring at the TV still of some use? Not really, because the load times seem to care compared to the Xbox 360 version, which does not include installation. only about one to two seconds


* Demonic arm

Nero then it looks almost exactly like Dante, his weapon range varies considerably. There is the Devil Bringer arm, which Nero can pull enemies. Towards him The effect of this demonically possessed arm varies enemy. The one time you grab an enemy by the tail and swing you around, other times you throw him to the ground. In addition, the hero with a sword named Red Queen, with a real gasoline engine and throttle - no ordinary pocket knife so. Blue Rose is the name of Nero's double-barreled gun with unlimited ammunition.

With these different weapons you can indulge yourself at enemies to make as possible. Stylish combos After each mission, you will be judged on this, the time in which a level is done and the number of collected Orbs also taken into account in the so-called Stylish Ranking. In addition to the honor, the game also gives you an additional reason to pick. Stylish high Ranking The extra features here obtained can be used to provide additional combat techniques unlockable and improve you. Characters

Lost Odyssey: traditional or dated?

Roleplaying game genre can be chopped roughly into two parts: Western RPGs and Japanese RPGs. Think of the Western variant games like Fable and The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, while the Japanese RPGs, the Final Fantasy series is by far the best known. Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man behind Final Fantasy, Blue Dragon has already created for the Xbox 360 and its studio Mistwalker now comes with Lost Odyssey for the same console: a Japanese RPG in its purest form.

Even before the Xbox 360 hit the shelves, it was known that the studio Sakaguchi to two role plays worked. Blue Dragon was the worst hunger of RPG fans, who had yet to occur. 360 at that time without Japanese RPG Lost Odyssey, which has been out of the first reports trickled in late 2005, the main course was going to be a new piece of art from the kitchen Sakaguchi, after several successful Final Fantasy parts. The promise of a big game in any case reinforced by the contents of the box, up to four DVDs are needed to experience the complete adventure.

*Japanese RPG

Lost Odyssey: KaimLost Odyssey is a typical Japanese RPG. That includes: polished graphics, excellent soundtrack, dubbed English voices, a turn-based combat system and relatively Western-looking characters. Japanese seem more appropriate because Western people to find a hero. Therefore, you will rarely see a Japanese man in the lead in a game, not even in Lost Odyssey.

The stereotype outlined above is fully applicable to Lost Odyssey. The game revolves around Kaim, the hero who can not die. Kaim, like a handful of others, immortalized by inexplicably alive and thus for over a thousand years. However, he barely remembers anything about it. In this millennium, he has witnessed the discovery of the magic power, which was all along been hidden in the earth. The civilization in Lost Odyssey is largely based on the influence of that same magic power and strength also provides the beginning of the story. Kaim, just returned from the battle that was ended by a meteorite, crude is sent out to investigate ... the development of the Grand Staff

Canis Canem Edit again may simply be called Bully

In late 2006 gave Canis Canem Edit the necessary fuss. Opponents called the PS2 title a plague game 'and the name Bully was adjusted. Appear the Wii and Xbox 360 version of the game and there is no cock that crows at it.

When the Playstation 2 game Bully Bully still just named, it was not long before a huge riot arose. Before makers through had, they were accused to which players in the skin crawled a bully at school a game.

The game was, probably under pressure from Sony Europe, renamed Canis Canem Edit. Remarkably, since the game in America just like Bully appeared in stores. Canis Canem Edit is Latin for the English proverb "dog eat dog" (dog eat dog). Loosely translated would you rewrite as "eat or be eaten." It obviously hit on the theme of the game in which the gamer plays Jimmy Hopkins, a wisecracking fifteen year old teenager who dumped by his mother and stepfather is one of the strictest boarding schools of America: the Bullworth Academy. There he is confronted with all known ingredients that we know from movies, books and television series about schools. Jimmy should be a year-long show standing to hold and comes in contact with different groups, teachers and especially annoying rich kids who call the shots.

* Pest Game

It was not long before Bully was known as' plague game. The game did worldwide uproar because, it was thought, based on the controversial game: bullying. In Belgium Justice Minister Onkelinx wanted to ban the game. In the Netherlands, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, member of Parliament for the Labour Party, the game brought to the attention by stating that the age limit should be. Tightened for this kind of games Dijsselbloem called the Dutch publisher Take 2 in order not to give the game. In England, some stores did not sell the game. And in America plunged Jack Thompson, a lawyer with an almost morbid obsession with Rockstar Games, the game.

* And now?

Discussion over and over again then, but now no one seems to attract the so-called controversial nature of the game and the name. Himself something Indeed, Canis Canem Edit Bully hot weather just as if there never has been a blip to the air.

FIFA Street 3: Samba Soccer as a snack?

FIFA Street series from Electronic Arts has always been overly pleasant. Not just the ball game, even the design exudes casual fun out. Team Fortress 2 Meets street football? It looks suspiciously like in FIFA Street 3.


When Electronic Arts Street series introduced years ago, European gamers did not know really well what to make with it. First there were NBA Street and NFL Street. As already known, the Street series ever caught a famous sport that is placed in a cool, urban environment. American Football and basketball were removed from the stadiums and placed into squares and fields in the city. There was the sport exaggerated and imaged with the craziest moves. EA translated this concept to street football and that did not misinterpret, even commercially.

FIFA Street series always had to do it in terms of valuation of the press with fewer points than the regular FIFA series. The criticism of the earlier episodes of street was that the football action was very boldly portrayed and that was it purely to score. One after another goal went into the net. Part 2 introduced as a response a brutal hoe that you got almost every opponent on the ground. That was not ideal. Meanwhile, we have arrived at the third.