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Alex Mercer, he broods, he's frowny, and he certainly won't be on anyone's Christmas Card list, in New York at least. He's wanted by the police, by scientists, and by mysterious wriggly things which want to chew his face off.
Despite this, Alex Mercer must be - without a shadow of a doubt, the happiest man on the face of the planet.

Let me begin by explaining why Prototype is one of the most well thought out pieces of game design in history, and how it will visibly influence the market for years to come.



That's right, in the same way that Metal Gear Solid put a stealth section in every game, and Gears of War put knee high dynamic cover in everything else - Prototype's patented 'Tentacle to the Face' move will be in pretty much every game made from now on, including the next Mario Party.
Do I exaggerate? Not quite, but Activision realised something when making this game. The best games are about wish fulfillment.
Games like Halo and Final Fantasy work because we really wish we were gruff cyborgs/angst ridden antiheroes, armed only with a selection of big manly guns/big choppy sword - and on a mission to save the universe/electricity bill

Activision therefore set about making a game that is almost completely about wish fulfillment, all the things that you've always subconsciously wanted to do - but never had the superpowers to achieve. Here are a few examples,
You can:

• Flying kick a helicopter out of the sky.
• Drop Kick a tank through the pavement.
• Use people as surfboards as you grind their faces to pulp on the road, then subsequently kick their friction burned body into their comrades.
• Pick anybody you don't like the look of off the street, retire to the rooftops and devour them in a gruesome manner.

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NINJA BLADE is a typical beat'em up game similiar to much more popular Ninja Gaiden or God of War. The story in my opinion is pretty cool. You're a member of the special squad called G.U.I.D.E formed to fight an Alpha-worms: a unclassified species of hook worm wich rapidly multiplied, triggering uncontrollable bleeding and open sores but instead of killing the host they mutated him so much that he turned into violent, superstrong killing monster.

You play as ninja called- Ken Ogawa and you're a member of already mentioned organisation. The plot is getting more twisted, especially after first mission and the story is really, really interesting but that's enough spoilers.

I have heard about this game alot. Some people enjoyed playing it and some people did not. I've picked up a copy from a Gamestation for 25 pounds and honestly- it paid off. Played nearly 9 hours straight, nearly peeing myself i have to add. Long time i didn't experience such awesomness in a video game. Let me explain the basis of Ninja Blade to you:

• FIGHTING: Fighting is not as advanced like we can see in Ninja Gaiden 2 but that's not a minus. You get 3 weapons wich can be upgraded to a 5th level (using red shards dropped from enemies, pretty standard) increasing weapons damage, range and unlocking new combos. Also weapons look changes as well wich is pretty cool. But all of that is nothing new for this sort of a game.
  

So here it is the first lets play of mass effect.
This video is just the first 15 minutes of game time from character creation to getting used to the controls.So bask in the glory of the character creation tools and admire the musical score but don't forget to Tune in next time for the rest of Eden prime and the beginning of this massive adventure.

Go Shepard go.I sure hope Jenkins grows a beard at one point.

now any ideas on where to put the stat points. Plan a little ahead as i don't intend to stop and ask every time i level up. 50-60 videos would be a bit to much.

Ok its time to start off our lets play section of the website.
The opening act this time is a much beloved title Mass effect. This entry is all pictures at the moment but once i get the embedding down the later Mass Effect articles will all be hosted videos.


So lets begin.
The characters past and play type i will leave to you and your comments. The class will be soldier and play will be from the PC version of Mass Effect using my wired 360 pad.







Ok first things first we need a gender and toto give the commander a first name.As well as what he/she did before joining the alliance military.







Now a psychological profile this affects the way some characters may treat you as well as some addition quest lines later in the game. Its not hugely important but feel free to pick one anyways.



Here we have a few Facial builds to show you how a face can be built with the sliders. This is not a finalized look so feel free to ask that i make the commander the ugliest SOB to ever walk on any planet.

I'm just gonna call this the greatest news ever. so much so that it needs its own blog entry. Its also going to have co-op play probably making this game of any year its released. This year or next i'm waiting for you DR2.


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/dead-rising-2-does-have-multiplayer

Disappointment were all familiar with the grunting sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach which is not quite the need to poop or indigestion. It lingers on and stick with you much like a child hell bent on ruining your day.


So here we have the 5 most recently Disappointing things.


5.The KIA

Perhaps the shock trailer of Mass Effect 2 showing up after confirming that we could transfer our original Mass Effect data and our commander Sheppard across kind of puts a damper on what it appears bioware has been trying to do. The idea that you will no longer play the much beloved created character from the first game brings back fond memories of Knights of the old republic 2.


This is bad because KOTOR2 was not as likable as its predecessor


Picture is fake and more likely a candidate for the Bam your gay article


4.Lego RockBand



Seriously


Is this what we the gamer who enjoys playing fake instruments because we are much to ham fisted, lazy and generally ashamed of our outward appearance? Is this what we have reduced the industry to? Yes and we should all be disappointed in ourselves.


3.Tales of Vesperia

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So it begins happily dancing away as the rest of the kingdom is plagued by monsters and Barbarians. So what kind of kingdom holds feasts and dances whilst its populous burns. This kingdom it seems and for good reason. It seems this kingdom has Knights so powerful they could kill every living thing in the kingdom single handed.


But that's not where the fun in this game lies. The fun lies in adding other players to your quest what was once one mans quest to murder anything that looked at him funny quickly becomes a joyful romp of slaughter.





It plays much like many other side scrolling arcade beat-em-ups of old. The players move from left to right killing anything that would get in our heroic murderous knights way. However as a console game there lies within a RPG element to the fray. As players level by gaining exp primarily from each hit one gets on their opponents.


The joy however is in the presentation.Its a silly Cel-shaded giggling fit. I gains a lot of its charm in the background with various characters most of who are not interactive. There's the scared animals who cant help but leave propelled by their own excrement to name but one.



The boss's are inventive to say the least. However some rely to much on having someone with ranged attacks. This really hurt my first play as out of the three of us not one had any skill in magic or archery. However it was still enjoyable jumping around and flailing wildly. Thankfully its very hard to all out die in this game should you be playing multiplayer. A small CPR minigame has been added by hitting the heart in the center of the meter its possible to be revived with near full health. This removes a lot of the challenge from the boss fights.

Welcome to another SimpleCyanide top 10 list! This week we give you the Gayest moments in Videogaming.

If you are yourself gay then please don't be offended by this article, but instead feast your eyes on the sumptuous moments of gay gaming history. Heck, feel free to loosen those leather trousers, pop out the butt plug and have a good old rummage to these gayer than gay moment...



10) Fable - Experimenting

Fable, a masterpiece of a game - giving you the choice to craft your hero into whatever you desire, be you good, evil or gay...



More often than not, while dancing or farting for an enthralled crowd you would think yourself a big - manly man as every woman in the vicinity fell in love with you. But what's this? A heart over the head of a swarthy gentleman? Well i'm flattered but... oh you too? Well... i always open to new experiences...
BAM - you've taken him to a tavern for some sweet bum love and you're gay.



9) Halo 1, 2 and 3- Teabagging

Halo, you all know what it's about. Super soldier master chief blowing up the best part of a species once a game in an orgy of well orchestrated FPS mayhem. Brilliant games, until you get online...



You're just minding your own buisness when Bang! Some crafty beggars popped out from behind a rock and shotgunned you to death. Ah well - nothing to do now but respawn right?
Wrong. Mr. Shotgun comes up to your poor, defenceless corpse, and while you are forced to watch through the deathcam - gently squats on your face. Again and again...
BAM - balls in your mouth and you're gay.

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Alien Hominid - I remember playing this when it first showed its tentative yellow little face on newgrounds, as little more than a flash game.
It was quick, it was funny, it was artistic and it was THUMB BLEEDINGLY HARD.

It's old school appeal led to it being picked up by a publisher for the ps2 though, and it materialized on the console to a small measure of success, just about scraping its small production costs back.

But now it's on xbox live... in HD...for a paltry 800 points.

And by gum it's looking good.



The plot? You're an alien shot down by the FBI trying to get his spaceship back. You have a laser gun and the ability to eat peoples faces off. End of Plot. Nice n simple.

The primary appeal to this game is it's old school appraoch. The difficulty is unforgiving, 1 bullet = death. You have lives and a small number of continues, once they're gone it's game over.
There are old school powerups littered around, from cutting death rays to my favorite- something that looks like an easter egg gatling gun. All have hilarious effects on their unfortunate victims.

The enemies come in droves, but i enough different ways to keep things from being too repetative, and some of the level design is frankly inspired (inspired by Metal Slug that is, see below). There's on level where you're fighting ontop of all the moving traffic of a motorway. The car's your standing on can be destroyed, leaving you a bloody smear on the ground - but you can jack cars and ram them into stuff. Brilliant, brutal and hilarios fun.
Just seeing Alien's yellow little face smiling out of the window of an ice cream truck as he rams an FBI van of the road is something beautiful.

In short - this is an old school side scrawling 2d shoot em up.

My breathing is heavy as i check every vent shaft i see. I then proceed to stomp every one of my fallen brethren in red gooey mush Cause i'll be damned if the fallen are going to be used against me.


But up here im not alone i came with others 2 non-chalantly ripped to shreds about 4 minutes after landing in the hell hole of a ship. I have my commanding officer who's locked himself in the bridge and sent me of on my lonesome to trod through the body stealing monsters to bring everything back online. I also have some random female shipmate who has done pretty much nothing bar locking herself in somewhere.




What was that!!! Something lunges at me from out of the dark. I raise my weapon the best i have on this mining ship which is in summary just a futuristic nail gun. It runs at me quicker than i remember but 2 shots and its down. So we come to the first of dead spaces flaws.


Variety is where it really suffers there are around 8 types of the normal necromorphs and quite a few look very similar Making it hard to differentiate when four or five come towards you. But i digress everything looks very nice Smooth textures and a great feeling for the maintenance sections of the ship.This is fine however but the look is constant. Its hard to believe that the crew quarters has not received any kind of decoration. No fancy lighting or different types of desks. Theres not even any carpet even bioshock had itself carpet's It certainly is a Grim future ahead of us EA.