Trials Frontier (app) Review

Trials frontier is Redlynx's version of their trials bike series for phones,

As you expect it has trials bike tracks that get increasingly difficult and being a phone game it has a 'energy bar' in the form of a fuel tank, which can be upgraded so more tracks can be played in one session, 

It has missions to play throughout the game unlocking more tracks bikes and features in the game. 

Completing tracks and beating enemy's in races lets you use a wheel of fortune style wheel as a bonus earning you bike parts which can be used alongside mission and track earned money to upgrade the wide variety of bikes you can get. 

A small amount of the tracks on the game at twined with tracks on trials fusion the new console game, which I will review when I get the game, unlocking things in both of the games I believe. 

I live this game and I enjoy playing it in lessons at college, if I can get away with it I will 

Deadlight Review

As many of you will know by now Microsoft launched a scheme to attract people to Xbox live gold last year called games for gold, in which they give away 2 free games every month and this month it's Hitman Absolution and of course Deadlight. 

So let's begin,

Deadlight is a side scrolling action/horror platforming game made in 2012 by Tequila Works, 

I must admit it is a pretty decent game and I have enjoyed playing it so far (I haven't finished it yet but I like it so far so I thought I would make a review already, I will make another when I finish it).

You play as Randall Wayne in a zombie Apocalypse set 1980s Seattle, he is in Seattle because it is the last known safe point in America, along the way he got separated  from his wife and daughter  and found accompaniment with a few other survivors and this is where the game begins. 

One thing I love about the game is that it isn't a traditional zombie game where you either hide from the different types of zombies, each with different weaknesses  or shoot them giving off highly animated blood and gore, it is a very minimalistic game,  with some rather challenging puzzles I might add, and Tequila Works deserve a pat on the back for this game. 

As I said before it is a scrolling platformer so in other words it's like the original Prince of Persia games. There is shooting  with in the game but it doesn't lead to high def blood, guts and gore.

I have noticed that all the achievement names are song titles which made me chuckle, for example when you break down your first door you get the achievement 'Knocking on heavens door'.

The cinematics in the game are outstanding, it isn't just a character talking it's a voice over by Randall to a comic style animation but it isn't straight animation it is jumpy and artistic just like a comic book.

Overall after playing what I'm going to call  half if the game, judging by the achievements a I have collected, I will give the game a 4/5 and I'm expecting big things from the second half.

Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag Review

Seems though I have been posting a lot about AC Unity I thought I would do a Black Flag review. (Yes, I have played and completed the game)

So, Lets begin

In BF you play as Edward Kenway, Connor's (AC3) grandfather, A privateer turned pirate.
when the ship he is sailing on sinks he washes up on shore with an assassin called ........... and Edward kills him, searches finds a letter and a mysterious item so Edward take the assassins outfit, the letter, the item acquires a ship and sails to the destination on the letter and thus the story unfolds.

Black flag expands on the sailing and hunting aspect from from AC3 and gives the player a chance to upgrade Edwards ship, the Jackdaw, as well as his own Armour, tools and holsters/ammo pouches.
A new way to hunt has been added to this game and that is harpooning, you can harpoon a range of sea animals from Hammer head sharks to Great white whales. Great white whales can be found either by chance or by your friends sharing its location so the more friends you have playing the story then the more white whales you can hunt.

To upgrade your ship and harpoons you must hunt down and pillage and plunder any ships you can find and liberate resources such as metal, wood and cloth.
To upgrade your armor and weapon holdsters to need to hunt animals and skin them like in AC3 exept you dont have snares to catch the animals or bait to attract them you must hide in bushes or in trees and pounce on your prey, these animals range from rabbits to crocodiles.

Maps can be found giving hints to hidden treasures such as plans for elite ship parts that can give you a massive advantage over enemy ships and forts, and another way to find plans and hidden treasure is deep sea diving into ship wrecks.

When I did research about this game I was shocked when I searched some names of the pirates and they were all real and their deaths were all correct even Blackbeard died by the hand of the right person.

Overall this game is an outstanding make and play.

Captain America: Winter Soldier Review/Synopsis

So I saw Captain America The winter Soldier last night and it did not dissapoint, Chris evans (who my girlfriend LOVES) yet again 'Suited up' and took on the role of the captian in the full forced action packed sequal to the 2011 Box office smash Captain America: The First Avenger.

SPOILERS

In this movie the Captain is being hunterd down by the Winter soilder, his old comrade Bucky Barnes, who was tested on by Arnim Zola (Red skulls head scientist in WW2) before he was saved and he survived the fall from the train in the first avenger and he lost his arm after the fall thus his metal arm.
Massive plot twist in the middle of the movie which shows that Hydra has been working inside S.H.I.E.L.D since it began after the captain plummited into the ice during WW2, Arnim Zola After being captured at the end of the first avenger , he was recruited to work for S.H.I.E.L.D. He uses this to plant seeds of HYDRA within S.H.I.E.L.D., taking it over, and when he aged his body couldnt be saved so his mind was uloaded into computers located in a secret S.H.I.E.L.D./HYDRA facility in New Jersey, he then created the 'Zola-alogrithm' used by S.H.I.E.L.D.'s "Project Insight", which is used to identify and target potential threats to HYDRA's interests, until the Cap, Falcon and Black widow stop project insight, with Maria Hill and Nick Furys help.

The end of credit sequence shows an off the record hydra base that talk about the captain and they say we stick have the twin sand shows a man running around a cell at high speed and a woman in a cell using telekinectic powers and I though nothing of it but i then realised that is is Quicksilver and Scarlet witch (Magnetos twin children). this is a nod towards Avengers 2 Age of Ultron which is in the process of filming now.

Assassins Creed Unity Information

Doing my research into the setting of Unity and i have found out a few things that dissapointed me and possible others.
For starters the french revolution was during 1789-1799 and the Effiel tower was started to be built in 1887 so we wont be climbing up the tower for a view point.

I dont yet know o if the assassin in question is a decendent of the Kenway's but i will be questioning and researching it all.