Crysis Warhead

So I been playing a game  I LPed on TheGamesArchive and well I still remember the good and bad points of it,

yes in case you didn't guess it.. its Crysis Warhead the...other side of events during Crysis (the first game)

Let me start off its one of the most greatest games I played graphic wise and it has one hell of a story to it, however it did has some bad points :/

the story takes places after Nomad and Psycho split up to do other tasks (you play as Psycho) before the mission starts there are small audio clips hinting to Psychos training and a incident  that took place there

you start by surviving a crash landing into heavy fire you need to escape and carry out a mission from command, after escaping  you come across this strange creature.... it will fires a EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) which knocks Psycho out for a little bit...after a while he wake up to find that creature gone, taken by a KPA chopper but  for now you are told to follow orders and destroy a KPA base with the help of Psychos old friend and training partner O'Neil who was cause of the incident during training.(that is in one of the audio tapes) after destroying the KPA base O'Neil is shot down and its Psychos job to collect his "Black box" which contains information on the object that knocked Psycho out.

I'm not going to tell any more of the story as I want you to find out for yourself

Gameplay is a first person style and  you do get help from other marines marines and  nanosuit teams stationed on the island but that isnt the start of it all,  the main feature is the nanosuit you use it lets you fit your gaming style around it  for example you could be one for going up close and personal then the Armor power would be great for you! there are quite a few suit choices to so experimenting doesn't go a miss

there are quite a few good weapons from the first Crysis included such as the Gauss gun and the SCAR not to mention the KPA weapons as well however some weapons from Crysis ain't in Warhead but it works the other way around too..  Warhead has a few new weapons  which isn't in Crysis one of these weapons is a one handed submachine gun which can be dual wielded it also makes a good fall back weapon and a room clearer  the rest you can find in game but the best one doesn't come till the end which is like the first Crysis heh

 even with great games there are problems in this case the AI... now it was not as bad a the first Crysis but its still bad, KPA sometimes run about like headless chickens Hell I walked into one while cloaked and he didn't even flinch! I just picked up him and threw him into the sea.... then someone noticed but still The KPA have quite bad AI but I do like is the Alien ones you meet later in the game  they are quite clever and get behind you a lot of the time to fire they icey....spikes

you do see some other vehicles aside from the amazing VTOL and tanks and trucks you get this armored car with has a mini gun (or in some cases a armor piecing gun) to mow down other KPA but they are deadly when they have them...small arms fire doesn't really do much so missiles and explosives all the way though sneaking past them doesn't hurt

over all one of the good games I got here :P do play it!  its worth it all

cheers folks take care!

Work Work More Mage Knight Apocalsyse and more work!(Blog Ep 1)

Hey everyone TGA here

Well here is this weeks Blog! 

So I've had a productive day pretty much, spent most of it saving the latest Let's Play footage into full lengh videos, getting to the next part in a game I've played for most of this week and so forth

I cant exactly say when this finished Let's Play will be up as there is quite a line building up now. However it should be up in the near future

as for Recording this week I don't think I can since I'm off to a friends party heh Hell even LPers need a break 

As for the game I spent most of this week playing, it's known as "Mage Knight Apocalypse" released in 2006 by Bandai Namco Games if you haven't heard of it read below!

I got it from the second hand shop for like...a pound and it's actually quite good! needs some work but its good!  it's a click and hold, hack n slash RPG, and based on the "Mage Knight" world which I think is a board game or a pen and paper RPG? not fully sure will properly look it up after writing today's blog but anyway.

its got your well known races Dwarves, Humans, Trolls, Orcs and so forth plus the interesting dragon-like creatures known as the Draconum, (please correct me if I misspelled it) each with there own back story which to be honest, isn't exactly that interesting nor is the main story line "the world is going to end because of a big ass dragon only five heroes can defeat" yadda yadda, but the game has some good points as well as some more bad ones heh.

The Chapters themselves are not that long a couple of hours maybe? 2 or 3 on each chapter which isn't too demanding really I'm cool with that (can't go that much into detail without spoiling the whole plot!)

I will admit I do like how the game looks graphic wise, and the cutscenes as well for 2006 its VERY good I think  the voice actors they picked for each character are good as well only a few bits of the game ain't voiced which is a bit of a bonus really I quite like the Dragonkind one and Nerco/Vampire one and the dwarf is just a witty barrel of laughs :P

Combat system is very straight forward click on a skill you wish to use and either right click or left click, it's not that hard. however combat can glitch at times, there are some points at the game when your fighting something and then "No Line Of Sight" line will appear, even when the thing your fighting is directly IN FRONT of you....quite silly honestly but its rare so...yeah it shouldn't annoy you too much.


The party you collect in game is quite a intresting mixture, a Necromancer/Vampire, Paladin, Amazon, Mage, and a Dwarf with either Grenades or Guns (also armed with a good sense of humor! :P) you really have little choice over all.  you play as one of those classes and the rest are party members very little customizing there however there is the most strangest system I've ever come across which offers a VERY limited amount of flexibility to the party.  Each class has 3 skill trees for example the Mage has the ability to command either Fire, Earth, Water. but if you have the Mage as a party member you get to choose which tree they use, but you can't change it after that so pick carefully, its quite annoying if you pick the wrong one as I well and truly know  so save before you pick incase you don't like the choice you made (so your not stuck with it.)  it's the strangest system I've ever come across yet strangely...works.

you can't control the party directly which is a little annoying but it does have a basic command menu "follow", "Attack" and "Stop" often you will be using the Follow command because your party members can glitch and stay still or just not follow you for whatever reason which isn't helpful in a boss fight. You also can't edit there inventories but there weapon and armor upgrades when you upgrade yours



I will admit I do like how your Character and party members look however, okay with the Vampire/Necromancer and Amazon you can't expect a lot of clothing :P (bonus wink wink ;) :P) they all look rather good, the armor you buy effects how well they look yes but I did quite like how all of them look
                                                         here is a example (picture below)

the shop and inventory systems are quite...strange the shops are well... simply shops! you click on what you want to buy and click buy if you want to sell just drag the item you wish to sell from your backpack into the shop window doesn't matter where really and then click sell it basic stuff. But the inventory annoys out of everything so far, if you get two of the same items....they don't  stack and you fill your backpack rather quickly which forces you to go and make regular stops (more then you should) at the town shop... RAGE I honesty hate doing that also.your not given enough space for the amount of loot you get from each chapter ugh..

The game itself  works on pretty much anything, hell I managed to get it to run on my old laptop. But it isn't the most stablest  of all games  quite a few times its crashed because they are too many things for the game to load there isnt many places where this will happen but it can be quite annoying so save before going into new areas but the crashes just might be my PC if anyone else has got it do let me know if this error happens to you and know a fix? 

Like I said earlier it isn't a bad game its just needs tweaking and fixing there properly is a good chance of me Let's Playing this but it depends honestly
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I do suggest you try it however I got it second hand for a pound  in the town I live in so you should be able to find it at any second hand game shop (my towns one is called "CEX" Computer Exchange something.. :P)

Thats all today folks I just wrote what I thought about that game properly won't happen often but who knows heh.

"Peace Off"

TheGamesArchive (Tim)