Carbon: A New Series of Need for Speed

Do you know the latest installment in the "Need For Speed" series? Well, I haven't yet satisfied my gaming impulses for this new installment but I assure you, this thing you will surely love.

I am talking about "Need for Speed: Carbon", the first from the series to be released for all next generation consoles. The new game is featuring new cars from the world’s famous car makers. You will see how they manage to design the cars identical to the car models they choose. Even the wheels and rims are perfectly made to show a replica of the real life cars.

The Carbon game also features the voice of the Canadian actress and model Emmanuelle Vaugier who gave the life and the voice to the games' new character Nikki, who is the main source of help and ally in the career storyline. Nikki is using a Ford GT and she plays the role of a drafter.

Other characters include the game's chief antagonist Darius who is a stacked deck and is using an Audi Le Mans Quattro and Cross and he is a former Police Sergeant of the Rockport Police Department who lost his job after failing to stop you from escaping Rockport in NFS: MW. Another is Angie, the boss of the gang called 21^st street. She will be using her 1969 Dodge Charger R/T and 2006 Dodge Challenger Concept. Kenji is the leader of Bushido gang who is using Mazda RX-7Mitsubishi as well as a Lancer Evolution IX. And lastly, Wolf who will be using an Aston Martin DB9 and is also a Lamborghini Murcielago owner. Wolf is the boss of the gang called TFK.

Carbon reached the number one spot upon its debut. The game is also available for UK All Format Gaming Chart on its first week of release, beating Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 6.Sony Playstation, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. The particular game is called "Need For Speed: Own City".

Cars and Criminals

Rockstar Games has gotten some flak lately for releasing Bully, another violent game set in a school where your task as a player is to bully school kids while thwarting bigger bullies. But even more controversial (not to mention bloody) is Rockstar's other game, Grand Theft Auto. In a capsule, Grand Theft Auto is The Fast and The Furious crossed with The Godfather. Or better, The Godfather on wheels. You start by doing some legwork for criminal rings and as you climb the ranks, the tasks assigned to you becomes more difficult.

What's Grand Theft Auto without the cars? To explore and move around the vast world of Liberty City, you get to choose from a wide selection of vehicles ranging from vans to ambulances. My favorites, of course, are the sports cars: very useful in outrunning the police and demented rival gangs on wheels.

All these sports cars are speed demons and can take you out of a sticky situation in a cinch. The problem, however, is the controls. It can be a pain when turning corners and dodging turtle cars on the streets. Avoid death by car accident by fine tuning the car controls and other in-game options. Click here for GTA: San Andreas cheats hehehe.

Downgrade: Warcraft 3

I just replaced my computer with an HP Pavillion laptop - it's bye bye to 3d intensive games like Halo for me. Oh well, maybe it's for the best: less distraction from work you know, considering I'm no longer some zit-faced teenager. But darn it! I'm having withdrawal symptons.

Anyway the HP laptop was a good bargain, its got lots of features I didn't expect from a laptop. It can play DVDs without booting up which is kind of cool. The only downside is the laptop can only survive for 2 hours on battery which is really a pain when you're in transit with no power outlets to plug the laptop into.

Anyway, the Pavilion is a media laptop so I tried installing old Warcraft 3 to pacify my itchy fingers. Whadayknow?! It worked just fine! This is why I like playing Blizzard games so much - they publish games that are quite easy on computer resources. I also installed the Frozen Throne and played the Founding of Durotar bonus game on hard for the nth time. I haven't had any decent sleep for the last two days.