Videos of improbable (and spectacular) throwing-knife kills in Call of Duty games are more common these days like car/hair removal commercials starring Jennifer Lopez.
But unlike those annoying commercials (ENOUGH already!), they’re still pretty awesome to watch, and this one from Modern Warfare 3 is a must-watch. What makes this knife kill stand out from typical ones that involve ricocheting off the ground/wall/rooftop is that this knife kill involves ricocheting off of a helicopter multiple times before finally dropping on a player below.
After being in alpha/beta seemingly forever, the finalized version of indie sensation Minecraft was finally released today. Available now for PC/Mac, you can pick up the game for $26.95 over at Minecraft’sofficial website.
Meanwhile, the Xbox Live Arcade version of the game will be out in spring 2012. While we wait, feel free to check out the new XBLA trailer for it (below). Buckle up, because boy is it one thrilling and action-packed ride.
It looks like Ryu Hayabusa will be traveling around the world in Ninja Gaiden III, but it won’t be for lovely vacations. Besides London, our ninja hero will also be headed to Dubai where he’ll be busy bloodily fighting foes like the Alchemist Forces, as you can see in these NG III screens.
Here’s a colorful look at Syndicate’s four-player co-op in action showing off a mission titled “New England.” According to the video’s YouTube description, there will be nine different co-op missions in the game.
Before the Modern Warfare games even existed, Battlefield was the sheriff in town. With it’s multiplayer & co-op being the reason to play the game, first person shooter fans enjoyed a variety of maps that suited to even the most critical gamer. This time around, Battlefield 3 comes with the Frostbite 2 game engine and pretty much speaks for itself with it’s amazing graphics and even a single player campaign that’s actually quite good. With Battlefield it was always about the gamer and certainly not about limitations and you will see that if you get a chance to play it.
It’s really the only next-gen first person shooter out there that allows you to drive tanks, jeeps and fly jets & helicopters. The experience that this game has is one that will bring in that nostalgia that fans of the series were soo desperately waiting for.
If you are reading this review you probably want to know if it’s a game that you should buy, rent or simply stay away from. In our opinion you should buy this game, but only if you are a fan of the series. Battlefield as we know it has changed and it no longer feels like the game that we played a couple of years ago. You will see why once you read our critique section of the review.
The Single Player
With battlefield 1942, and 2 the single player was really bad and both of those previous games were all about multi-player. This changes of course with Battlefield 3 as it has an appealing story set in 2014. It starts things off with Staff sergeant, Blackburn that leads a squad of five men on a mission to locate, find and safely return a squad that’s investigating a possible improvised explosive device (IED). We do not want to spoil it for you, but in the single player campaign there’s a mission that will let you assist in a military jet operation, which you will see in the video below.
The Multiplayer
At the end of the day as gamers all that we want is the multi-player and the matching system is the feature that impressed us the most. With this system in Battelfield 3 you can choose which map to start playing on and once everything loads there is an option where players pick where to want to spawn. If you want to play in a squad that is possivke can do that and the system will spawn you in that specific squad that you picked. While playing the on the multiplayer you get to pick one of four roles: Assault, Support, Engineer and Recon. This makes it easy for the player to pick and go and there are some customization of weapons.
Vehicles
One of the major features that distinguishes Battlefield is that there are playable Army vehicles in the game. You can hop in a M1 Abrams or T-90 if you happen to be playing on the Russian team. There are APC’s such as the BPM-2, LAV 25 and 9K22 Tunguska. If flying Helicopters is your thing there is a bigger variety of them with AH-1 Super Cobra, Mi-28, Uh-1Y Super Huey, KA-60, AH-6J Little Bird, and the Z-11. For jets fans out there BF3 has some popular American, Chinese and Russian jets that should tickle your fancy. Some of these aircraft’s are the F/A 18 Super Hornet, A10 Thunderbolt, Sukhoi Su-35, Sukhoi Su-39 F35 and some more that will come in the Back to Karkland expansion pack.
Our Criticism
This is the part that we hate to do the most and the reason that we dislike doing the criticism is because we know that making a game requires a lot of work. While playing Battlefield 3 there were a few things that could of been tweaked and made better, but unfortunately weren’t. The first thing I didn’t like was that it was too much about realism and this made the game unpleasant due to the fact that while multi-player you can get killed very easily. The second negative thing that the game has is that it takes long for you to spawn and if you are a Call of Duty fan you will probably not like to wait. This wouldn’t be a problem if getting killed was harder, but it is very easy to die in this game. And last we disagree with EA and Dice for blocking modifications to the PC versions of the game. Battlefield was always about mods and one of the most popular was the Desert Combat mod by Trauma Studios, a mod that added a modern touch to Battlefield 1942.
Score
Battlefield 3 gets a 7 out of 10 as it had it’s fair amount of things that needed some tweaking. It’s a great game that fans of the franchise will have to get familiar with before they enjoy it. This doesn’t mean that the game is bad in any way, being it was a lot of fun to play, but it didn’t feel as enjoyable to play as MW3 or even Battlefield 2 and 1942.
With big open-world games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim giving you the freedom to do … whatever, there’s bound to be glitches and exploits. So it’s no surprise that Skyrim contains two that offers adventurers unlimited gold and magicka.
To amass gold, you need to defeat a particular skeleton at an altar located on a snowy mountain near Winterhold (click here for directions). Once the skeleton is dead, it will drop a book called “Doors of Oblivion,” which can apparently be picked up over and over again, and then sold for 50 gold a pop.
As for obtaining unlimited magicka, you just need to equip and un-equip a magic-based item (like the “Novice Hood” shown in the below video) which will refill small amounts of magicka every time you wear said item.
And that’s it! Helpful, simple and wonderfully cheat-tastic. Note, though, that I’m not sure if these glitches/exploits have been patched yet, so be wary of any update requirements if you want to be a rich wizard with everlasting magicka.
