I havent written anything in the blog for awhile, mainly beacuse I havent had anything interesting to write about. During this easter holiday I've been up to... Nothing.
Recently I got access to my sisters computer, alittle bit better then mine so I've played some Age of Empires 3. The AoE series are one of my favorite games ever. I have also played alot of Killzone 2. My friend and I made a clan togheter and we are having a blast playing together. I've also picked up GTA 4 again to get some trophies. Just a few hours ago I purchased a game called Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic. It's a great fun game and I'll probably review it later on.
A new -OZ- single has come out called DETOX. I havent listen into it yet, but will possibly review that one aswell. Other then that, theres not been as much releases that I've been intrested off. Kagrra, have pushed out a new album thought I haven't got my hands on that one. Maybe I will, I dont know...
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
I'm With The Band! + Happy April Fools Day
I've played guitar for awhile and the main reason that I started playing was beacuse of the influence from all the J-rock music I was listening to.
Recently I've come in contact with some J-rock enthusiast, just like me, and together we have decided to start a band. We are probably going to play alot of J-rock stuff and i'm totally psyched for this. At the moment we are short a bassist and a drummer, but hopefully someone will catch on.
Right now my guitar is quite boched and needs to be repaired. Buying a new guitar is kinda out of the question right now, it's waaay to expensive. My birthday is coming up in a month so maybe I can put a fresh ESP on the wishlist. You can always wish, can you?
Oh, and happy April fools. Youtube's 1st april joke was flipping all the videos upside down, great fun. Another April fools day that I liked was World of Warcraft's P1mp my mount, where you could buy stuff for your mount to make it look cool. My top favorite april fools day joke (Well, so far) must been Wikipedia:
"Did you know that Wikipedia has information about everything"
Recently I've come in contact with some J-rock enthusiast, just like me, and together we have decided to start a band. We are probably going to play alot of J-rock stuff and i'm totally psyched for this. At the moment we are short a bassist and a drummer, but hopefully someone will catch on.
Right now my guitar is quite boched and needs to be repaired. Buying a new guitar is kinda out of the question right now, it's waaay to expensive. My birthday is coming up in a month so maybe I can put a fresh ESP on the wishlist. You can always wish, can you?
Oh, and happy April fools. Youtube's 1st april joke was flipping all the videos upside down, great fun. Another April fools day that I liked was World of Warcraft's P1mp my mount, where you could buy stuff for your mount to make it look cool. My top favorite april fools day joke (Well, so far) must been Wikipedia:
"Did you know that Wikipedia has information about everything"
Monday, March 30, 2009
Killzone 2 [Video Game] Review
Title: Killzone 2
Format: Playstation 3
Developer: Guerrilla Games
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Genre: First Person Shooter
Killzone 2 is an Playstation 3 exclusive First Person Shooter (FPS) game from Guerrilla Games. Since this is there is a "2" in the title I can also mention that this is a sequel to the first Killzone and the Playstation Portable Killzone: Liberation.
My very first impression of Killzone 2, back when the demo was released on Playstation Network was that it's just another shooter starring random space marines shooting bad guys, it's not bad but it's not fresh either. The controls feelt sluggish and akward, almost like I was sitting in mud bath playing with my hands cuffed to the bathtubs floor. All I can say is that 3-4 minutes of the first level that was in the demo is the not the reason why I bought this game.
So after reading more about the game, seeing and reading reviews and comments, Killzone 2 scored very high across the board. My favorite game magazine called it a "must have to any Playstation 3 owner". So with this in mind I thought that if it is such a good game, I must try it out some more. I can say i'm very, very glad I did.
Killzone 2 story follows up the events in the previous Killzone games. It takes place in the future where there is us, Mankind, and the Helghast waging war on each other, due some political reasons (I'm not sure, I havent played the preceding games). The war has now brought the fight to the Helghast home planet Helghan. Here you take the role of Tomas "Sev" Sevchenko, and together with your ISA space marine special forces buddies you battle though different settings, killing different kinds of orange eyed oppenents to capture the most evil and most orange eyed Helghast, their leader Scolar Visari. You know, the typical space marine plot. Even thought the story might not blow your mind, the rocket launcher and alot other elements that might be able to do just that.
The basic gameplay; Shoot, Kill, Repeat, works like a charm (well after I had the darn controls revised) and it's so satisfing to push several rounds from your booming assault rifle into the orange glowing Helghast eyes. This game shows possibly the best graphics that currently exist to the Playstatin 3, it shows us the hyper interior of the ISA ships, the barren deserts of the Helghan planet and the dirty backyards of China... Or the Helghast City...
Anyway the single player is overall pretty awesome, but now we come to the reason why we have the game in the console. Multiplayer brings us all the good stuff we liked in the single player campaign, leaves out the bad stuff and brings us even more good stuff. I've played alot of fps multiplayer games and it's something I really like, but I have always feelt it's not really my "style", that competitive part of gaming is alittle bit to hard for me to swallow. I play games beacuse it's fun. Killzone 2 multiplayer... Is fun! Well, it can be a bit hardcore later on (Pistols only, I'm trying to get the M4 revolver, AIM FOR THE HEAD, OMG only 9 pistolkills I NEED 10!) in general I enjoyed the multiplayer alot. It contains the basic shooting, but adding classes with special abilities, like Medics with revive and health packs or Engineers that can place turrets and repair stuff. Also there is additional game modes that keeps the change on things after a bodycount (Classical Team Deathmatch). The multiplayer is the thing that keeps you playing Killzone 2, something I will probably do for a long time. There is even a Offline multiplayer where you can play against bots, very generous.
The next level of FPS games have come and Killzone 2 is a really rising the bar. I also believe that this is really a game that no Playstation 3 should pass out on. Even if you dislike FPS shooters, you should still give this game a chance and buy it when it goes platinum. After a day of running and guning, when I close my eyes to sleep all I can see is the orange glowing eyes of the Helghast. There is no doubt that Killzone will bathe in game of the year nominations (It has my vote!) and hopefully win some too.
Format: Playstation 3
Developer: Guerrilla Games
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Genre: First Person Shooter
Killzone 2 is an Playstation 3 exclusive First Person Shooter (FPS) game from Guerrilla Games. Since this is there is a "2" in the title I can also mention that this is a sequel to the first Killzone and the Playstation Portable Killzone: Liberation.
My very first impression of Killzone 2, back when the demo was released on Playstation Network was that it's just another shooter starring random space marines shooting bad guys, it's not bad but it's not fresh either. The controls feelt sluggish and akward, almost like I was sitting in mud bath playing with my hands cuffed to the bathtubs floor. All I can say is that 3-4 minutes of the first level that was in the demo is the not the reason why I bought this game.
So after reading more about the game, seeing and reading reviews and comments, Killzone 2 scored very high across the board. My favorite game magazine called it a "must have to any Playstation 3 owner". So with this in mind I thought that if it is such a good game, I must try it out some more. I can say i'm very, very glad I did.
Killzone 2 story follows up the events in the previous Killzone games. It takes place in the future where there is us, Mankind, and the Helghast waging war on each other, due some political reasons (I'm not sure, I havent played the preceding games). The war has now brought the fight to the Helghast home planet Helghan. Here you take the role of Tomas "Sev" Sevchenko, and together with your ISA space marine special forces buddies you battle though different settings, killing different kinds of orange eyed oppenents to capture the most evil and most orange eyed Helghast, their leader Scolar Visari. You know, the typical space marine plot. Even thought the story might not blow your mind, the rocket launcher and alot other elements that might be able to do just that.
The basic gameplay; Shoot, Kill, Repeat, works like a charm (well after I had the darn controls revised) and it's so satisfing to push several rounds from your booming assault rifle into the orange glowing Helghast eyes. This game shows possibly the best graphics that currently exist to the Playstatin 3, it shows us the hyper interior of the ISA ships, the barren deserts of the Helghan planet and the dirty backyards of China... Or the Helghast City...
Anyway the single player is overall pretty awesome, but now we come to the reason why we have the game in the console. Multiplayer brings us all the good stuff we liked in the single player campaign, leaves out the bad stuff and brings us even more good stuff. I've played alot of fps multiplayer games and it's something I really like, but I have always feelt it's not really my "style", that competitive part of gaming is alittle bit to hard for me to swallow. I play games beacuse it's fun. Killzone 2 multiplayer... Is fun! Well, it can be a bit hardcore later on (Pistols only, I'm trying to get the M4 revolver, AIM FOR THE HEAD, OMG only 9 pistolkills I NEED 10!) in general I enjoyed the multiplayer alot. It contains the basic shooting, but adding classes with special abilities, like Medics with revive and health packs or Engineers that can place turrets and repair stuff. Also there is additional game modes that keeps the change on things after a bodycount (Classical Team Deathmatch). The multiplayer is the thing that keeps you playing Killzone 2, something I will probably do for a long time. There is even a Offline multiplayer where you can play against bots, very generous.
The next level of FPS games have come and Killzone 2 is a really rising the bar. I also believe that this is really a game that no Playstation 3 should pass out on. Even if you dislike FPS shooters, you should still give this game a chance and buy it when it goes platinum. After a day of running and guning, when I close my eyes to sleep all I can see is the orange glowing eyes of the Helghast. There is no doubt that Killzone will bathe in game of the year nominations (It has my vote!) and hopefully win some too.
10/10
There is only one zone for everyone who wants to kill... Orange-Eyed Space marines!
There is only one zone for everyone who wants to kill... Orange-Eyed Space marines!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Song of Now: The GazettE - Headache Man
As a countinuation of my DSTRS N CMA review, I've been listening to Headache Man all day. Needless to say it's one über heavy experimental song with the GazettE touch that makes it one of my favorite GazettE songs ever.
It's kind of in the similar style as Girugamesh's BREAK DOWN and Dir en Grey's DOZING GREEN experimental level and kind of share the same "heaviness". The GazettE style is what makes this song. Reita rough voice makes for an excellent response vocal.
This single is one of the best jrock singles I've heard, and I can't wait for GazettE's album.
It's kind of in the similar style as Girugamesh's BREAK DOWN and Dir en Grey's DOZING GREEN experimental level and kind of share the same "heaviness". The GazettE style is what makes this song. Reita rough voice makes for an excellent response vocal.
This single is one of the best jrock singles I've heard, and I can't wait for GazettE's album.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
The GazettE - DISTRESS AND COMA [Single] Review
I was happy to find out that The GazettE's newest single was out. The single features 3 very strong songs and not only am I psyched for this single, but this summer GazettE will drop a new album called DIM.
Tracklist:
1. "Distress and Coma"
2. "HEADACHE MAN"
3. "WITHOUT A TRACE"
DISTRES AND COMA's PV have been out for a week or two, and was a very pleasant surprise. The PV has a great yet erie feel around it and the song is heavy yet graceful. DISTRESS AND COMA is like a perfect clash between the old GazettE's heavy metal simplicity and the high quality of the post-STACKED RUBBISH compositions. HEADACHE MAN packs a heavy neo/nu-metal jrock sound with a experimental touch. Even thought it's kind of a strange song, it just makes me want more! WITHOUT A TRACE keeps the experimental sound that this single has brought. Double acoustic guitars togheter with Ruki's mellow and mighty vocals makes for an wonderful experience. Also add a magnificent solo to make this power ballad complete.
DISTRESS AND COMA brings the "neo style" music that flavoured both previous singles GUREN and LEECH. The GazettE's music has reached a new high that dident exist years ago. All I can say is that their new album that comes out this summer has a very high chance of pushing STACKED RUBBISH into a second place as my favorite album.
Tracklist:
1. "Distress and Coma"
2. "HEADACHE MAN"
3. "WITHOUT A TRACE"
DISTRES AND COMA's PV have been out for a week or two, and was a very pleasant surprise. The PV has a great yet erie feel around it and the song is heavy yet graceful. DISTRESS AND COMA is like a perfect clash between the old GazettE's heavy metal simplicity and the high quality of the post-STACKED RUBBISH compositions. HEADACHE MAN packs a heavy neo/nu-metal jrock sound with a experimental touch. Even thought it's kind of a strange song, it just makes me want more! WITHOUT A TRACE keeps the experimental sound that this single has brought. Double acoustic guitars togheter with Ruki's mellow and mighty vocals makes for an wonderful experience. Also add a magnificent solo to make this power ballad complete.
DISTRESS AND COMA brings the "neo style" music that flavoured both previous singles GUREN and LEECH. The GazettE's music has reached a new high that dident exist years ago. All I can say is that their new album that comes out this summer has a very high chance of pushing STACKED RUBBISH into a second place as my favorite album.
10/10
No Coma or Headache should prevent you for leaving a Trace on Gazette's newest single
No Coma or Headache should prevent you for leaving a Trace on Gazette's newest single
An Cafe - Concert Review
A few days ago An Cafe was having a concert here in Stockholm and I was there, queing in the cold for one of the best concerts I've ever been too.
The crowd was diverse, but mainly consisted of young girls in their visual kei kit. I showed up in a slightly more tuned down visual style :P We waited and listened to the random jpop songs that was played; YUI, Nami Tamaki, Ai Otsuka etc
An Cafe is awesome live, they really "bring it to life" when they play. Yuuki is awesome live with his dancing and even sharing vocals with Miku in one song.
Overall it was an awesome live, they played all their new songs from their newest mini-album/EP. Remember that an An Cafe consert is not over until they play Smile Ichiban Ii Onna!
The crowd was diverse, but mainly consisted of young girls in their visual kei kit. I showed up in a slightly more tuned down visual style :P We waited and listened to the random jpop songs that was played; YUI, Nami Tamaki, Ai Otsuka etc
An Cafe is awesome live, they really "bring it to life" when they play. Yuuki is awesome live with his dancing and even sharing vocals with Miku in one song.
Overall it was an awesome live, they played all their new songs from their newest mini-album/EP. Remember that an An Cafe consert is not over until they play Smile Ichiban Ii Onna!
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Buying a Game
I have 3 different ways to decide what game I'll buy (To my Playstation 3).
First of there is the obvious "fan" waiting for a game to come out since the very first news. Like buying the game on the very first day. With this method I bought Mirrors Edge, GTA4 and will absolutly buy Final Fantasy 13.
Then there is the impulsive style. This happens when I have alot of extra money and are somewhere in the middle of waiting for the next game to buy. Then I just go for the current best game out or something strange/special game. With this method i bought Battlefield: Bad Company and Saints Row 2, but also all the Playstation Network games such as Savage Moon and Flower.
The third method is similar to the second but requires alot of extra research. Right now i'm in that dilemma. I have some spare money and I feel alittle bit bored so I either buy a game or wait. Thought now i'm leaning towards buying a game and i'm not sure which. Going by the second method it's currently Killzone 2 that is in a good position but i'm not sure. Buy it or wait for something else. I'm not good at these decisions... :(
First of there is the obvious "fan" waiting for a game to come out since the very first news. Like buying the game on the very first day. With this method I bought Mirrors Edge, GTA4 and will absolutly buy Final Fantasy 13.
Then there is the impulsive style. This happens when I have alot of extra money and are somewhere in the middle of waiting for the next game to buy. Then I just go for the current best game out or something strange/special game. With this method i bought Battlefield: Bad Company and Saints Row 2, but also all the Playstation Network games such as Savage Moon and Flower.
The third method is similar to the second but requires alot of extra research. Right now i'm in that dilemma. I have some spare money and I feel alittle bit bored so I either buy a game or wait. Thought now i'm leaning towards buying a game and i'm not sure which. Going by the second method it's currently Killzone 2 that is in a good position but i'm not sure. Buy it or wait for something else. I'm not good at these decisions... :(
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