What's Cracking? Issue 12
Well i have yet another review up, this one for assasins creed. Now i am not sure if anyone actually reads this blog but it just gives me a bit of satisfaction to post this stuff. As promised in issue 11 here are my impressions for my two new games - Final Fantasy XII and Kingdom Hearts i'll start with Kingdom Hearts.
As most people have i grew up with the Disney versions of classic fairytales and watched many of their original movies i.e tarzan and the lion king etc. Having not played many Final Fantasy games beside III and XII i was not amazed to see all the classic charecters excluding Cid. I am currently in the boss fight against Cerbureus. However this is my second trip to Olympus Colliseum (you don't have to fight him right away) and have done the first warp ring. The platforming is terrible and the camera is not that much better. The gummi ship sections are not that bad in my opinion. Yes they are nowhere near as good as the bulk of the game but they remind me of Starfox which has some nostalgia value. I enjoy it but the shadow this next game casts is just too big for this to hold a candle to it.
FINAL FANTASY XII
WOW! The story - epic, charecters - involved and you can see where this is going. This is the most value for money i have got in a while. Oblivion is one of the other two which gave me this much value (kingdom hearts being the other) i could go on all day about it but i won't so i am going to go play some now - i have just got out of the barhiem passage and i am building up my level before leaving rabanstre via the aerodrome.
Temp
What's Craking? 11 - RPG overflow, new review, games completed
This is a short message to let you know i am still active but haven't been around on gamespot for a while. So i have ordered Final Fantasy XII (my First FF game Shocking i know but at least i am getting it) and Kingdom hearts which should be intresting to f**k about on for a while. I have put a new review up for Uncharted
rakes Fortune which i recently beat and expect reviews for the other games i beat - Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock, Assasins Creed, Call Of Duty 4 and The Elder Scrolls IV:OBLIVION in coming weeks. I know you have probably already beaten these but hey maybe it will be intresting to see my view on them. FFXII and Kigdom Hearts should come sometime next week so ill give you my first impressions of them then. So untill later
Save the Cheerleader, Save the word
Templar94
What's Cracking? Issue 10 - Another Year another Game
Well as promised whats cracking issue 10. My birthday was yesterday and like most days it sucked. Hardly anyone wished me happy birthday but then thats where my clan comes in. They are like a second family and are my most valued friends so if you are reading this i thank you.
Templar94
God of War 3 theroies (Contains mild spoilers for God of War 2)
Well i have just seen the truly amazing ending of God of War 2. In many ways it's like the Halo 2 ending, you get pumped and your charecter says lets finish this then it ends. I have a few theories about what may happen in God of War 3 or maybe even chains of olympus. First if you caught it during the Eurayle battle she screams "You killed my sister" this of course refers to Medusa. There are 3 of the sisters so i think there will be the final one in God of War 3. Also even though its highly unlikely your brother and sister may return. If you don't know what i mean in an extra video in the orginal God of War gained by beating the game on God Mode (Very Hard) your mother reveals you were the son of Zeus. Athena also tells you this as your remove the blade of olympus from her chest. So i mean Ares and Athena may return. It may also work in a system similar to the Need for Speed system eg. you work your way through the racers untill you take down the king. For god of war you take down each god one at a time building up to Zeus. Hades and Posideon will probably be the two bosses before Zeus as of course they are his brothers. This next one i really hope dosen't happen. It changes to a RTS. It will probably never happen but may appear as a gimmick which would ruin the game. Titans vs Gods? Even if they don't there might bea spin off like with the lord of the rings franchise. And as a sort of funny gimmick i think you will kill that guy again. You know the one whol was in the mouth of the hydra? The one who you threw into the river styx? Who the barbarian summoned as a soul and looked scared? He will return and may be a boss or something looking for vengence. Final theroy before some GOW2 moments, Kratos kills Gods then turns on the Titans to become the supreme ruler of everything. Now for the highs and lows of God of War 2 -
Lows - Blade of Olympus is a rubbish weapon compared to maxed out blades but you have to use it during the final fight, the phoenix puzzle killed me so many times as i missed timed the jump and the gate closed before i reached the urn, you die at the hands of Zeus, Final sister of fate almost made me sick.
Highs - Plenty of twists in the story, You kill another god, both gods you have killed turn out to be your family, you crush zeus under a pillar, you end up controling time, amazing graphics, plenty of gore, killing minotaurs never gets old, the kraken's awsome death, the final sister's awsome death, persueus' awsome death, the sheer deepness of the game, that bit where you have hundreds of enimies to kill before the spikes crush you, Kratos is a badass.
As you can se the highs out weigh the lows and really shows what the PS2 is made of. And the final moment of this blog my god checklist -
Umaril the Unfeathered (TES4:OBLIVION) - Dead
Ares - Dead
Athena - Dead
Zeus - Work in Progress
Hades - Work in Progress
Posedion - Work in Progress
Hermes - Work in Progress
(Other Gods to be added)
Templar94
What's Cracking? Issue 9
Well now as i have informed my clan i am going back to school next week so i will be less active. If you own a PS3 copy of RSV we are recruiting for my clan so let me know. Getting back into God of War 2 i will keep you posted. My next guarented blog will be on September 9th and will be a full Whats Cracking rather than this shortie
Templar94


