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.

Wholesome Gaming Anyone?

Christian games are making it into the mainstream, despite this era's leaning towards games full of gore and with explicit content. With the latest controversy on games with immoral content such as sex scenes, Christian developers have risen to the challenge of creating video games with wholesome or Christian content. Christian games in general promote Christian values, so that parents need not worry of questionable content.

Two of these Christian games are:

"Dance Praise" from Digital Praise, Inc. combines dancing games with Christian music. Offering four different modes of game play, it features more than 50 Christian songs from rock, rap, hip-hop, techno and other genres. Not much different in concept from the famous Dance Revolution, Dance Praise promises to set players' feet on fire.

"The Rebel Planet Series" is about an era thousands of years before the Great Flood of Noah, in a world called "The Red Planet". An imaginative fantasy world where the Bible is the foundation of truth.

Haven't sampled this games coz, well, they're not my usual thing, but hey, as long as it's an electronic game, it's worth a try, ain't it? ;)

A Little Something More for the Racing Freak

While The Fast and the Furious online racing game truly engages, surely the cravings of racing fanatics like us never quells. Thus, my friends, let me introduce to you to another race game that's sure to rock your world: the TOCA Race Driver 2: Ultimate Driving Simulator (TRD2).

If variety is what you're looking for, this latest release is sure to deliver that. What with its' 31 championships covering 15 different racing styles such as Street Racing, Global GT Lights, Open Wheel Grand Prix, Super Truck Racing, Stockcar Oval Racing and Performance Cars. Packed with lots of race vehicle, styles and circuits, there's simply something in this game for everyone. So whether you want rallying, ice-racing or classic cars, the TRD2 will deliver.

With this heaven of a game, you'll truly feel like you're on the railroad yourself and would be challenged with a good balance of racing sim and arcade-style game play. Here's the lowdown on how it works: all players start as a novice driver, with the goal of getting to the top of the racing world. They are guided by a veteran pit crew chief who gives all these advices for each to succeed, but also tells them directly when they screw up. ^^

While the goals of each race are not really that difficult to achieve, it can be frustrating as you can switch from one type of car to a completely new one without even a single practice lap. Oh, just try it, my friend. You'll see once you play.

All in all, I rate this game kick-ass. ^^

The fast and the furious--getting some online gaming action

Still can't get enough of that action-packed sit-on-the-edges-of-your-seats racing movie? Why not try some first-hand action and get some racing done on your own?

The Fast and the Furious online racing game will give you that drag racing rush you want to get.
The Fast and the Furious racing game has simple but clean graphics, and real-enough roaring sound effects. Not too flashy on either departments, but the tidy work on both makes up for it.

The game starts with a choice of four race cars: a green 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse, a black 1969 Dodge Charger, an orange 1995 Toyota Supra Turbo, and a night blue Honda S2000. The player has the option to choose the speed and quality of connection and the difficulty of the game.

The controls of the game are not too complicated, so you will have no trouble remembering them: SPACE BAR for changing gear up, CTRL for changing gear down, UP arrow for accelerating, DOWN arrow for brakes, and LEFT and RIGHT arrows for swerving left and right.

Now that we've covered the basics, you're all set to get some action right in front of your pc. Race along the streets in the Fast and the Furious game.

Wazzzaaaaaaaaap?

Okay, okay, that greeting's been gone since those Bud commercials faded away a few years back. Hecka funny commercials though, weren't they?

Anyway, here's a blog where I get to blab about one of the greatest inventions known to man - video games. Yup, the hours that we spend mashing away at keyboards and D-pads, the all-nighters we pull to beat some bad ass bosses and unlock secret stages, the 24 hour Gran Turismo races that just shock our systems to no end - it's all good. Here's my tribute to it. Hey, Dungeon and Dragons was fun, but video games just brought it to a whole 'nother level. Know what I mean?

Game on!