He looks better than ever! (God of War III)

Curse you Mario :@...Nah im kidding, congratz! Its not a shocker, I predicted that he would win the whole competition!! (which he will...) Kratos has reached the top 8, but to any of you who are pretty sad that he didn't continue,,, DONT!

If we look at the history of all the game heroes:

Mario- Created:1981! (appeared first in Donkey Kong) currently to this date has appeared in 15 games in total (including galaxy 2, and new super mario bros wii)

Link- Created:1986! (appeared first in Legend of Zelda)currently to this date has appeared in 15 games in total (including spirit tracks)

Duke Nukem- Created1991! (appeared first in Duke Nukem)currently to this date has appeared in 14 games in total

Ryu – Created 1987! (appeared first in Street Fighter) currently to this date has appeared in 8 games in total (excluding the super street series)

Gordon Freeman – Created 1998! (appeared first in Half-Life) currently to this date has appeard in 6 games (including the expansion packs, and the episodes&hellip

Samus Aran – Created 1986! (appeared first in Metroid Prime) currently to this date has appeared in 10 games in total (including Other M)

Mega Man – Created 1987! (appeared first in Mega Man) currently to this date has appeared in too many games, too confusing!!! Lol… no seriously I think he has appeared in over 20 games :S)

And finally…

Kratos – Created 2005!!!! (appeared first in God of War) currently to this date has appeared in 5 games!! (including God of War III and excluding collection&hellip

Kratos is not only the latest character out of the list; he's the only one who has actually been created in the 21st CENTURY!!! Beating characters like Cloud (which I personally think the best RPG game hero) and Sam Fisher (SPLINTER CELL, no need to say more) This just proves how of a great character Kratos is, he so popular that he is able to be in the top 10 game characters of all time (at least, that's what the GS users say) so according to GS, Kratos is "The Greatest Latest Game Hero of All time"

But then again, I really don't agree with this top 8, to me my top 5 are:

1-Solid Snake

2- Master Chief (watch the below video, and you will love master chief )

3- Mario

4- Kratos

5- Link

Hope you agree with me whats ur top 5?

Muhahahahaha… (oh sorry) Finally got my 2nd Platinum Trophy for Batman! I hated those challenges, they took forever to beat! Wow this year im on a move first inFAMOUS and now Batman: Arkham Asylum! I'd love to collect the Killzone 2 Platinum, but damn, it's freaking hard!! You have to be really good in multiplayer… (Which I'm not)

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! IM JUST REALLY HAPPY,

Alright I'll be going back to Warhawk this week, just to keep me busy before college

P.S: I'm kinda angry that I still didn't get my emblem (tournament one) although I didn't complete it, they said they'll be giving us it after they get the list!! Oh I forgot, VOTE 4 KRATOS! (Didn't think he would be winning on cloud, but oh well&hellip

Alright, I'm in the process of finishing my review of Batman… I finished 90% of the game with 7 trophies left (excluding the Platinum and 100% trophy) so I think it's pretty safe to say my final impressions of the game!

Alright here we go:

You read my blog's title, and my question to all of you is Batman Arkham Asylum Overhyped???

Alright let me begin by saying that I thought the game was great, definitely ONE of the best games of this year, and most importantly it makes you feel like "The Dark Knight"!

It definitely had its moments… *SPOILERS*………………. The Scarecrow parts were great, and I've never seen anything like it in any video game, the stealth sequences were really enjoying that are actually comparable to the stealth in Metal Gear Solid…

The Content in the game was really huge, with 240 riddles, 16 challenge rooms, 10-12 hour Single Player Campaign… (The Point?) A Definite Game of the year nominee…

Overyped?

My Opinion: YES! YES! YES!

Wait before you begin by insulting me, and begin typing on the comments section, READ why I think it is!

First of all, IT WILL NOT WIN GAME OF THE YEAR AWARD! It will be a nominee, but its NOT gonna win, let me tell you why… when a game wins game of the year, its being put in the same league as the "BEST GAMES OF ALL-TIME" and this game in my opinion does not belong in that league…

The Fun factor in my opinion decreases as you play the game… and it eventually at some points of the game becomes frustrating! Yes… it gets old!!!

Boss fights: meh… yes, why in gods name was the final boss unchallenging?!? And I was playing at hard mode! Plus, a lot are kind of similar, which makes the game a bit flat for me…

A lot of people are really making it sound as if this is the best game of all time… I mean its great, don't get me wrong I'm not bashing the game, BUT its not all that! If you compare it to other games out there…

I personally enjoyed inFamous much more… Why? (I'll need to type another blog, if you actually care )

What do you think, is this game overhyped or not??

Borderlands Box Art

Many sequels get more advertising due to the quality of their predecessor; other games get better advertising due to the renowned developers. Gearbox Software is mostly known for making Brothers in Arms, but that was only for so long, for now it is known for Borderlands their new innovative game, labeled with the Genre of RPS-Role Playing Shooter. Borderlands is not a widely known name, most people asked about the game Borderlands will not even know it was in existence. Borderlands is slowly being put into the awareness of the community, in which it will soon prevail.

Borderlands in 2007 was designed to be a rugged and dirty feeling game much like the other FPS games out today, The developers were fine with this feel, until they started making cover art for Borderlands, the cover art they designed was more bright, cartoony and had a better vibe than the graphics in the real game, the art directors soon showed the president Randy Pitchford their new design ideas which turned around the entire direction of Borderlands.

e direction of game completely changed as shown above, the game went from serious to a comical adventure.

Now to the actuall game

CHARACTERS:

Roland: Soldier, Well rounded. His skill tree consists of Medic(heals other players by shooting them with healing bullets), Support(can give others ammo), Assault(focuses on damage). his special ability is to throw out a shielded turret that shoots by itself to the nearest target

Lilith: Siren, Mage/Rogue type ofcharacter Her skill tree consists of Controller(improves ability to slow type), Elemental(offensive casting abililty) and Assasain(increasing her melee and stealth abilities). her special ability is to be able to enter a phasewalk, in which she turns invisible, and as she exits the phasewalk she lets out an AOE blast.

Mordecai: The Sniper, his skill tree consists of Gunslinger(most likely going to work with pistols), Sniper(Self explanatory) and Rogue(not sure, could increase the skill of his bloodwing). The bloodwing is his special skill, Bloodwing is a hawk/bat that is able to blow people up, cut them in half, or just recieve loot

Brick: The tank: his skill tree consists of Tank(another self explanatory), blaster(most likely going to increase explosive damage) and the last is Brawler(most likely will increase his melee of his special ability). His special ability is a beserk in which he puts his weapon away and takes out his fists, which is his new weapon for the duration of the berserk.

Here is an example of a skill tree

Starting Power ----
Tree 1 - Tree 2 - Tree 3
A - B -- A - B -- A - B
C - D -- C - D -- C - D
E - F -- E - F -- E - F
- G ------ G ------ G -

5 Points in a combination of A/B for each individual tree lets you get to C/D
5 Points in a combination of C/D for each individual tree lets you get to E/F
5 Points in a combination of E/F for each individual tree lets you get to G of that tree
G = Super Power
You can put 5 points in to G
To max out a tree you would have to use 5x7 = 35 with 45 total skills you could completely max out 1 tree and have 10 points. To reach G takes 5x3 / 15. You could take 3 skills or combinations there-of from each tree by the time you're 50 and never once use any of the "Super Powers"

Points start when you hit level 5 (so cap is 50 you get 46 skill points although you HAVE to spend 1 on the starting power so you get 45)

The skill tree consists of passive and active abilities

LOOT:

If you search the game Borderlands, you will almost always hear about all the loot. There are so much guns in this game, that not even Gearbox knows how many, their guess is over 15 million guns. They are rated on a color coding system(like WoW). Example the colors might be white/green/blue/purple. The way you acquire them in the game is picking them off the ground from enemies, the loot system is free for all so to get the gun you want you have to pick it up first. This loot system can be controversial. Advice is to play with friends you trust so you can give the gun to the person who will gain the most benefits. The inventory system to hold all this loot does not measure by weight like Fallout 3, but rather by slots, you can increase the slots in your inventory bag by buying them or completing missions

VEHICLES:

The game also allows vehicular combat with a number of different vehicles. Vehicles are allowed thousands of different customization options. Only 2 can fit in a vehicle, and you can switch seats in the vehicle at any time, even in mid battle.

CO-OP/MULTIPLAYER:

Borderlands is a 4 player Co-op that is drop in drop out, the enemies scale on the number of people in the group, it alsohas 2 player offline splitscreen option. the only type of multiplayer in the game is Dueling and 2v2 Arena matches. To start a duel, two characters must interact by using their melee attack and hit one another, if both characters accept the duel, then a dome falls around the characters and the duel begins. the losing character inthe duel gets reduced to 1 health instead of dieng. the normal result of death while fighting the NPC will send you back to the nearest checkpoint, causing you to walk or drive back to where you originally were. Arenas are located in certain areas, in which you can set up a 2v2 match or a free for all match.

Borderlands is released on October 20th 2009. Gamestop Pre-order gives you extra skins for guns when you start.

Any questions? Ballinup will answer you, just post in the comments section!

N.P: Bought Batman Arkham Asylum… one word à INCREDIBLE! Review will be posted after 2 weeks!!

KRATOS KRATOS KRATOS!!!

God of war is my favorite game of all time and i can't wait to get the GOW collection! the best thing is that its gonna get released on the same day of modern warfare 2... so i will be getting both on NOV 10th

The Kratos Campaign Begins Now, ALTHOUGH I DO AGREE THAT HES NOT A HERO! (hes more of an anti-heo) but Gamespot put him as a nominee and its my job as a fan to vote for him wherther or not he fits in the category or not!

Tell me who you plan to support till the end... For me its Kratos, and Snake 2nd..

N.P: Buying Batman:Arkham Asylum this weekcant w8!