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Review: Penumbra Overture

2010-05-07T10:50:00.000-07:00

As my first review, I have chosen Penumbra Overture.

The first thing I will say is that this game is SCARY. Compared to Penumbra, Silent Hill is as scary as Peggle.

The atmosphere in this game is just amazing. It really gives you the feeling of loneliness and abandonment. It creates that “tense” kind of scary that I personally love in my horror games, the kind where you are always on your toes and anticipating something, as opposed to the “things just jump out and surprise you” scary. You’ll be hiding from enemies ensuring that they do not get close enough to you to see you. You will need to do such things as blocking doors with heavy objects in order to prevent anyone, or anything, from following you.

This brings me to another thing that I love about this game, the physics. Imagine a simplified source engine, with much more emphasis on weight and density. You can break wood that is blocking a doorway with your hammer in order to get past, and you will be lifting and throwing many things like rocks out of your way to uncover things, after all you are in an abandoned mine.

You will be scanning your surroundings for supplies like batteries for your flashlight, painkillers for health, flares, and other useful items. Many items are scarce and hidden in file cabinets, drawers, and under rock piles. You will also find notes scattered around that will give you hints as to the disturbing past of the mine that you are trapped in.

Overall, Penumbra Overture is an amazing game, the atmosphere is amazing, the controls are solid, the setting and plot are both disturbing, and the overall design is fantastic. For the great price of a penny(or more) while the Humble Indie Bundle lasts, it is extremely worth the price.

I strongly recommend Penumbra to any horror game fan. Buy it.

Now.

Next Review

2010-05-06T14:07:00.000-07:00

Yup, I have no idea what to do right now, It doesn't have to be a review, It could be a pre-view of a game like Red Dead: Redemption, so just leave some comments On what you would want me to do, then I will try and do them all.

New Review On The Way

2010-05-06T14:00:00.000-07:00

Expect a new review of a much less cheerful game than World of Goo.

I will be reviewing Penumbra Overture soon.

World of Goo

2010-05-06T13:17:00.000-07:00

Now then, My second review, and tonight it is on World of Goo, the basics of this game is to get the minimum amount of goo balls into the suction pump, how you do this?

you make the goo balls into a tower, or blocks, or make them float, there is a lot you can do in this game, yet its so simple, but it is a great game, the different styles and the comedic value of this add up to a very good game, I have not played much of this yet, and it is a bit tricky, but you will soon find a way to clear that level that you have been stuck on for 30 minutes.

Now If you act fast, you can get this and 4 other game for 1 penny at http://www.wolfire.com/humble But really, you should give them about £10 atleast, as This is a very good pack, we have reviews coming on two of the other games in this pack so stay tuned.

But for now, go get dirty with world of goo.

2010-05-05T14:46:00.001-07:00

This has been the Second Modern Warfare 2 free weekend on steam, but this one I WILL try out.
I'm downloading as we speak. We have a few Reviews coming up soon.
Sam and Max Season 3,
The Humble Indie Pack, and much more.
I'm still trying to finish SoulSilver, I'm up to Kanto, and I'm waiting to beat the Kanto gym leaders then review it.
The next review is Beat Hazard, by our new publisher, Reece.
Stay Tuned.

Beat hazard.

2010-05-05T14:36:00.000-07:00

Well, my first review for this blog, and what can I say, I've started with, in my eyes a winner, This game is a great indie shooter game, Imagine space invaders, but while listening to any song that you like.

You play as a space ship, simple enough, bigger beats, the better weapon you have, but also the harder the enemies are, about 4-10 times in a song, you get a ''boss'' they normally spew out bombs and laser sights, but If you pay attention, and dodge them, you will be taking them down in no time.

the first song that you complete 100%( mine was ''the divide'' by Linkin Park.) is a special one, and you immediately feel bad ass.

So my conclusion, Its £7, go mow some lawns, get some money and buy it, I'm positive that you will enjoy it.

Next review from me will be World Of Goo so stay tuned.

New review soon.

2010-05-05T14:32:00.001-07:00

Yup, new review soon, keep a look out.

Inacio's Gaming Blog

2010-03-29T06:40:00.000-07:00

Inacio's Gaming Blog, go check it out. It's awesome.

I'm reviewing a DS game soon?!

2010-03-26T13:02:00.000-07:00

Yes, my First Non-PC game review will be a DS one. Soon enough I will review..... Pokemon Soul Silver! I soon enough will play it, it comes tuesday. Sooooo.. yeah just wait.

Overlord = Overrated?

2010-03-14T07:32:00.001-07:00

No, Overlord isn't overrated, it's pretty good! If you don't know what overlord is, face palm. Basically you play as the overlord of Darkness. You are supposed to resurrect your Castle/Palace/whateverthecraptheycallit. First you start off by getting the Tower Heart, a source of energy for the Tower Gate, you have to kill the Half-somethings, I forgot their names. After that being done, you take the Tower Heart back to the Castle/Palace/Whatevertheycallit. You have to go back there, to do something else. I will not spoil this for you guys. The controls on this game are great WASD are your walking keys, Space is your attack, Mouse 1 and 2 control your Minions. Overall this game is 10/10, I have no problems with this game. It is worth a buy at $5.

A review coming soon?

2010-03-13T08:09:00.003-08:00

Yeah, I'm gonna have a Overlord review up soon. Just wait!

Ok Real Review Time!

2010-03-11T16:15:00.000-08:00

Today We will be reviewing Plants Vs. Zombies!

This great game has very little known about it, but very little do people know how good it is. Plants Vs. Zombies is a game where you play as a guy who's lawn is being invaded by Zombies.

Well this guy decides to fight back, he plants, well... Plants, these are fighting plants, Some attack, slow down, trap, and explode the zombies. This game is extremely addicting. I mean really addicting. You could be playing this game for hours. At first you play at Day-Time, so you get sun which allows you to make more plants, You can plant Sun Flowers, to get more sun.

Sun Flowers are gonna be more needed for when you are playing in the Night-time maps. Meaning no sun unless if you plant Sun Flowers. I give the game a 10/10 for the fun I had playing this game, and how addicting it is. Currently the game is being sold at $10.

Duke Nukem: Forever

2010-03-11T14:54:00.001-08:00

I personally have never played Duke Nukem, well this one is great. The beta was given to all the Ste-. Damn it!

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 review

2010-03-11T14:50:00.000-08:00

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 great game that works great on the L4D2 engin- OH YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.....

Sorry I've been gone for a while!

2010-03-11T14:38:00.000-08:00

I've been quite busy.. d- playing Hitman Blood Money's Demo....

A review is coming your way!

This weeks Steam Deals!

2010-03-07T12:14:00.000-08:00

You guys know Steam ALWAYS has a Sale on something, well this week Steam has a few nice things on sale.

1 Game on Sale is Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, this game looks pretty cool, but I cba to download the demo/ buy the game. The Game is sold at $7.49/ £5.49/6,49€ (while it's on sale).

The next game is Virtual Tennis 2009, I hate most of the sports games... and this is one of them. I never really liked games like this but it's being sold at $7.50/£5.00/11,25€ .

Toki Tori is a Indie/Plat former game where you control Toki Tori and you have to collect all the eggs. This is being sold for 7.50/ £1.62/ 2,23€.

The last game on sale for this week is Football Manger 2010 which is a game where you choose a Football team and you make them play certain games and tell them what to do and what not to do. It's basically like in real life. I might try out the demo for this one, as it seems pretty fun. This one is priced at a $20/£14.99/24,99€. So that was Steam Sale for this week. Tune in next week for a Steam deal showcase!

Gamers World

2010-03-07T12:10:00.000-08:00

Gamers World Check it out, it's my friends blog.

Of course he's much better then me at this!

Altitude Review

2010-03-07T09:59:00.000-08:00

Altitude is an indie game published by Nimbly Games, LLC. You basically are a pilot that wants to the the ball into the other teams base or destroy the other teams tank. This game is really addictive, You can get new planes and skins for those planes, you level up by winning the round and being in the ending for either destroying the enemies tank or doing the most damage, or Staying Alive the longest. This game can be very addicting, and at the same time hard. Also to get skins you have to get your friends to get the 3 hour demo, or buy it for others, you can also get another 50 points by just joining the Steam group. So in all, Altitude is totally worth the $10 if you love 2D Shooters or Indie games.

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2010-03-07T09:38:00.000-08:00

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BC2 Review

2010-03-07T09:32:00.000-08:00

Battlefield Bad Company 2 is one of those games that are really cool looking, that is until you try playing the Multi-player. It's having lots of problems, I don't know if they have stopped or have they continued to drop you from servers. Other then the Multi-player Battlefield Bad Company 2 is awesome. It's worth a buy.

Welcome to my Blog!

2010-03-07T09:12:00.000-08:00

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Stay tuned for a Geometry Wars review!