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Review DRIVER San Francisco: New Concept of Old Franchise

Competition in the title game moving in the same genre is often hard. It takes hard work and commitment from the developers of franchising to ensure they stay alive for a very long time. Only those who can deliver quality and innovative gameplay while maintaining a significant characteristic of the one who will continue to get the attention of gamers. The same thing happens in racing games in the gaming industry. With the increasing quantity and quality of each title are born each year, the franchise that is not able to follow will be automatically kicked out. The most obvious example? The driver.

Drivers in the early days of its release is one title that is able to bring a racing game in a new direction. If the racing game that was born before only focuses on speed and won a certain race, Driver wrapped with a different concept. Not only focusing on speed, game released the heyday of this first Playstation, also able to bring the criminal world plot and theme of open-world that can produce a much different experience for a racing game. But slowly but surely, this game is like the loss of roots when the migration to next-generation consoles. 

Drivers on the Playstation 2 game that evolved into a somewhat “strange”. Atari attempt to rival the phenomenal with the Rockstar Grand Theft Auto actually lead to blunders. Game called Driv3r is not only showing the race as the main element of the game, but also third person shooter in it. You are now also required to shoot members of the criminal who became the main target of your operation. An innovation that actually makes Drivers are being abandoned by the fans in the series initially. Review the bad and sales are not too happy to make this struggling franchise back to return to the main roots – Driving. Ubisoft to be the horns to make this happen.

This is an attempt embodied in Ubisoft’s latest series: Driver – San Francisco just released for the PC, Playstation 3 and XBOX 360. Expectations gamers will be the revival of the franchise is certainly resonated loudly. Moreover, a year earlier, in the event E3 2010, Ubisoft promises gameplay elements of “classic” are wrapped in a new concept. Gamers who have been waiting for this game finally had a chance to tried it directly. What will you find inside? I’ll say it as a racing game with a concept that was so unique, the first time there in the gaming industry. Whether this will lead to the uniqueness of good or bad? Check out this review.
Plot

John Tanner – the main character of this series

Charles Jericho again threatens the world

It is a bit awkward to call Driver San Francisco as a direct sequel of the series Driv3r released on the Playstation 2 first. Indeed, both are still carrying the character of the same protagonists and antagonists, as well as a storyline together. But if the view of the gameplay, character traits, until all the elements are offered in it, Driver San Francisco appear as a separate title is totally unrelated.

You’ll play as John Tanner, a policeman who managed to imprison Charles Jericho, one of the heads of the most feared criminal in the world. Tanner is worried that the magnitude of this game will be able to escape when it was transferred from the prison decided to escort the process. Apparently what was feared by John Tanner is really happening. Jericho managed to seize control of the car and use prisoners to escape. With the help of heavy weapons which subordinates the guard through the air, Jericho efforts will likely succeed with ease. But Tanner who had sacrificed a lot to catch Jericho would not give up so easily. With a car that he drove, he tried to stop this runaway enterprise. However, traffic chaos and destructive actions resulting Jericho makes Tanner involved a severe accident. He ended a coma.

Tanner will not let go so easily Jericho

Unfortunate events made him a coma. At this point, he got a surprise super weird ..

But something strange started to happen. Tanner in a coma suddenly finds himself back in the car that he drove, as if nothing happened. He started seeing billboards contain strange message asking him to do something. Tanner did not have a picture of what actually happened, he just focused to quickly find Jericho who has now managed to escape. During this process, Tanner discovered that he now has a “super power” that does not make sense. He is now able to take off his soul, flew into the sky, and taken possession of any city residents. In other words, he is now able to control others.

Like the spirit that is detached from his body, Tanner is now able to control others

The face of the “possessed” by Tanner did not change

Through this new power, Tanner tried to find traces of Jericho. By possessing the bodies of people who have an interest in the criminal character of this heavy, Tanner tried to gather information and evidence. What was found by Tanner? The fact that Jericho is planning a major conspiracy that could eliminate hundreds of thousands of lives of citizens of the city at once. Your role as Tanner would have to undergo a great destiny and stop this madness. It’s that easy? Apparently not, Jericho has a “super power” the same! What really happened? How is this super power can permeate both these characters? What is planned for Jericho? Tanner could stop it? This is the mystery that you should solve yourself.

Sega Game Starts Toilet Tryouts in Japan

Japan has always had a way to integrate technology with a variety of daily activities. Not always to simplify, but sometimes just to make it fun. Although sometimes manifested itself in an absurd application, innovation generated by the creative brain of Japanese society must thumbs up, especially those who are engaged in the gaming industry. SEGA one of them. Companies that had long been crisscrossing the world of this game just did a free trial of their newest gaming devices – Toirettsu.

First, do not imagine Toirettsu is a next-gen consoles that will replace the Dreamcast is long dead. Second, do not expect you will find the “console” this one in the gaming centre nearby. Why? Because Toirettsu is a game that is integrated on the device toilet urinal, especially the men’s room. Right you are, you now can maximize your urine to get a certain score on Toirettsu, which largely depends on the pressure generated when you urinate. Absurd? It’s fun!

SEGA provides a variety of variants of the type of game on Toirettsu, among others Menneken Pis, Graffiti Eraser, The North Wind And Her, and Milk From Nose, each of which presents a unique animated and funny in it. All core game remains the same, the stronger you remove the water to pee, then the various effects will appear in the game and score you get will be higher. Still not enough? Toirettsu also provides an opportunity for you to compete. The highest value obtained will be kept recorded in the same urinal. So, if you are not satisfied with the scores obtained, or someone manages to beat your highest score, you can go back into the same urinal and tried it again.

The characters in the Toirettsu will also provide a variety of comments when you’re doing “routine ritual” on this one. Some even continue to encourage you to achieve the highest score, which means greater pressure. Although it sounds fun, I would suggest not to get too competitive when faced with a game like this. Not funny if you push yourself and find out the blood instead of urine.

Old Game: 1942

Gunfire, aircraft, and the sound of a loud roar of bullets is now becoming one the most important genre in the gaming industry. If we are talking about a game that focuses on this case in the present, then the name of Ace Combat and HAWX certainly be in the forefront. The fight with high speed and accuracy a shot that determines the living and the dead character makes airplane games are always interesting to follow. Moreover, if able to bring the atmosphere and the epic war in its setting. But in the past, when the gaming industry is still filled with a variety of innovations topnotch, the plane appears much simpler.

Are you including NES gamers who could have in the past? So this one game would not have sounded strange in your ears. In the old days where games are made with simple pixels and bright colours, this one game managed to siphon considerable attention in the past. The war occurs more frequently in the sea, you play as a heroic pilot who advanced and struggling alone. It sounds stupid to the current concept, but in the past, things like this are able to build an atmosphere that is quite epic for a game of two-dimensional. They are great in the 1980s and the 1990s would know this one game. Say welcome to 1942!

Do you remember about this one game? Gamers who often play cartridge “All in One” in the NES game certainly will not miss this one. Moreover, they are often hung on arcade gaming centres in those days. 1942 has always been the right game to just spend time, well, if you do not include any maniac who is obsessed with ancient arcade centre. Gamers whose main purpose is not to simply get pleasure by playing 1942, but with all efforts and prayers try to be the owner of the high scores on its arcade machine.

When the choice of a vertical shooter game in the past is still very limited, 1942 presents the gameplay and the theme is most obvious. Most of the games in the same genre as it is more focused to eradicate the aliens and more planes without origin, 1942 comes with a plot of world wars that are rare at that time. So many things that make this game left a deep impression, not just gameplay alone, but also various supporting elements in it. You certainly still remember the sound of the telegram became “background music” her or some event that is often annoying. Regardless, 1942 should be recognized is the basic foundation that has inspired many later games.

Are you including gamers who never played before 1942? If yes, please do not hesitate to join in this article, take a little memory that may have been forgotten and recall fun times together with the young green plane on this one.
Plot

There is something quite strange happened in this 1942 series. As we know, this game was first released for arcade machines, and then ported to the NES and achieve a far greater popularity there. Cold hands behind them? Companies that produced many giant franchise like Street Fighter and later Resident Evil. Very true, Capcom was the one who initiated the birth of this 1942 epic game. As we know, Capcom is a company based in Japan. 1942 was also created by Yoshiki Okamoto, who incidentally is a Japanese national. But the main plot of the 1942 asks you to destroy Japanese aircraft with no mercy.

1942 started in the beginning of World War II, when Japan and the United States began arguing in the Pacific Ocean. You played the pilot of an aircraft called the Super-Ace American assigned to penetrate the defence of Japan and headed to Tokyo. A journey which is not difficult if you do it in peace. In a state of war? It also means asking you to destroy any aircraft and forces that hinder the Sea of ??Japan along the way. Your battle begins.

As a vertical shooter game that is simple, 1942 certainly does not present a complex control system. You only have two key functions: fire and manoeuvres to avoid the bullets. The core game is to shoot all the enemies that appear on the screen and simultaneously ensure the survival of your life by avoiding any existing bullets. Shots of the Super-Ace is also able to grow stronger as the number of power ups that you collect. You just need to make sure every red plane that appears on the screen to get the upgrade ruined this one. Simple is not it?

Unlike the vertical shooter games at this time, 1942 was still classified as vertical shooter game that humane. You certainly will not find “fence shot” which made the enemy like that you often find in Touhou, for example. You also will not find epic boss battle that is currently the main elements that can not be separated from a vertical shooter game. All deficiencies in 1942 finally overhauled and repaired in the next series, 1943.

What I love from 1942?
If you are talking about 1942, then you will definitely discuss the movement of this one is super effective, an innovation that somehow never followed vertical shooter games later. In the vertical shooter game today, Bomb and Special Attacks may be the most effective weapon to save themselves from enemy bullets inevitable. But in 1942, this way can only be done by pressing the manoeuvre. Your plane will turn 360 degrees in a circular motion with the sound of the epic plane that is difficult to remove from the head. Not just dodge bullets you can also avoid the aircraft that come quickly using this method. But beware, one position after doing the same with the dead.

Kamikaze aircraft against the Weird
Imagine if you are a fighter pilot at the moment and you are asked to go to war against the country’s air force opponent. You would anticipate a major war in which you and the enemy planes should exchange shots, where fate is determined to live and die in it. But what happened in 1942? Most of the planes are shooting at you, but not infrequently you will find a squadron of planes that appear as though she were trying kamikaze. They just fly coming toward us without spending any shot, slowly but surely. This movement seems to be an unofficial sign language, “Please shoot and destroy us!”. The planes are strange ..

Power Up! The plane, More Destructive
Upgrade capability shot Super-Ace may be one feature that makes 1942 look so fun. By shooting at every red plane that is, you have the opportunity to get a shot a bigger and broader. With power-ups, almost all the enemies can be destroyed very easily, it only takes a few seconds only. Especially if you get two additional relief plane which can be obtained in the same way. In 1942, instead of quick shots it takes to dominate the way the fight, but the extent of fire. Therefore, you must ensure that all power-up is successful you find. It’s a matter of life and death, man!

Theme Song of repetitive
In contrast to the theme song in the first period with a strong NES sounds funny and full of joy, 1942 comes with a “theme song” who do not even deserve the name as a song, but oddly enough you will always remember the sound of this one. “PIPP PIPP .. … .. piiipp pippp pippp .. ..” should be a standard sound you hear every time you start a mission. Her voice sounds similar to a telegram be a sign that you should begin to prepare for war. Although many years have not played this game, but the sound of a telegram apparently still stuck in my head. There is a special impression when listening to him. A fairly brutal effects of a very simple sound.

The Top 10 TV Shows and Movies That Have Been Made Into Video Games

Now days it seems like every big movie that lights up the silver screen or popular TV show comes with a contest at the fast food joints, thousands of TV commercials and inevitably, its very own video game. Video game makers have been capitalizing on Hollywood and TV success for years. As far back as 1982 Atari released the first licensed game based on the movie Tron. Later that year Atari released E.T. and Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, then Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in 1983. Video games based off movies have very high sell rates and popularity, which is why companies keep releasing them. However, not all movie and TV based video games are created equal.
We selected the following top 10 list of video games adapted from movies and TV shows based on their popularity to the gaming community and sales.

1. Simpsons
The Simpsons video game is based on the long-running TV show The Simpsons. The first Simpsons video game was released as an arcade game in 1991 as a fighting action game. The newest release of the Simpsons game was released in 2007 as an animated platform action game. Players can choose to control any of the four oldest family members and use unique powers to save old 8-bit versions of them.
(Available on Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, PS2, Nintendo DS, PSP)

2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
The best-selling video game out of any of the Harry Potter games, this game is based on the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movie, which of course is adapted from the book. It is one of the first games released in two parts so that they can coincide with the movie releases. The characters of the game—Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger—have to work together to obliterate the Horcruxes and conquer Lord Voldemort.
(Available on PC, Nintendo DS, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii)

3. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Released in 2002 after the movie, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was praised for having some of the best transitions from film to video game. Players can control Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Isilbur, once he is unlocked. The characters must complete a series of missions directly based on the movies and ending with the Battle of the Hornburg.
(Available on PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and GBA)

4. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
A classic game from the Atari days, Raiders of the Lost Ark was the first game requiring a player to use two joysticks the same time to play. One to control the character and pick up items, the second to switch through and chose items. This is how the idea was anticipated for controllers with more buttons. The player must take Indiana Jones through rooms collecting items and dodging thieves until the can dig up the Ark of the Covenant.
(Available on Atari Cartridge)

5. Batman
Another very popular platform game is batman; Inspired by the 1989 film, the game was released late the same year. This was the first Batman game that Batman could wall jump while jumping to different platforms to kill evil villains until he gets to the last boss, Firefly. Once he defeats him, you win the game.
(Available on NES, Gameboy)

6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
A popular TV series in the late ’80s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was released in 1989 on various platforms. Players can control any of the four turtles taking them through six missions while attacking enemies and dodging vehicles. At the end of the six missions, the Turtles must defeat Shredder before he reverses their mutations.
(Available on Commodore 64, ZX Sectrum, Amiga, NES, and Atari)

7. Futurama
Based on the science fiction, cartoon TV series Futurama, the game was released in 2003. A mix of action and platform game play, players can control Fry, Bender, Leela or Zoidberg. The game is supposed to be on an endless cycle you can never win starting with Professor Farnsworth selling Planet Express. The players must try to go back in time by repairing machines and fighting villains to prevent the sale of Planet Express.
(Available on PS2, Xbox, and GameCube – Europe only)

8. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Released in 2007 after the Pirates of the Caribbean movies Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End, this game gained very positive reviews from all players. As Captain Jack Sparrow, you must go on missions and battles to earn your way to the end of the game when you defend the Black Pearl and kill Lord Cutler Beckett.
(Available on Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PSP, PS2, PS3, PC)

9. Battlestar Galactica
A space strategy game modeled after one of the most successful space adventure series ever. In the game, both the Cylons and the Colonials are completely stranded at the baron edge of one of the arms of the galaxy. This leads to the Cylons carrying on business as usual and trying to destroy the Colonials, while the Colonials attempt to rebuild, re-arm, and get on their way to Earth.
(Available on PC and Mac – Online, Browser Based)

10. Cars
For our youthful players, Cars is a racing game featuring Lightning McQueen released in 2006. You can play other characters or McQueen while competing win races to help McQueen win the Piston Cup.
(Available on PC, PS2, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, GBA, Nintendo DS)

Matthew Kiddman is a long time gaming and sci-fi enthusiast who takes every chance he can get to write about the gaming industry and in particular space games. Mathew prefers Real Time Games such as BSG Online.

A Variety Of Games That Can Be Found These Days

Girls, in fact, are also served with a variety of games which are purposely made for them. Online games made for girls in point of fact can be met and accessed easily, even some of the game providers do not ask for certain payment to play their online game, various game themes such as love, cooking, makeover, fashion, dating and many others are few favourite Girls Games that have attracted many girls in the world. When some of us ever have ever considered the presence of online games just waste the time, and become the useless activity then these all totally wrong,. For girls, they are very lucky if own similar favourite game online like their boyfriend, because many benefits can be collected from this great technology activity, it can keep the relationship between them both. There are tons of online game themes which are released through online system, and some of them are Tower Defense Games. These are categorized as strategy games which need full concentration while doing it as well as perfect calculation to make the right step, most strategy games are required us to stop the opponents who try to defeat our position, we might think these as frightening games because we have to cross the land and shoot the enemies who pass us.