Racer or Cop – You Choose

While the rest of the Need for Speed series leaves a lot to be desired (in my eyes), there is just something great about driving as a cop and chasing people or the flip side, trying to outrun a cop. I saw this in a store on a PS3 and I knew then that this was a game I would like to play.

PC Version

The Video I made there was the PC Version – I have not tweaked it fully yet to show all the best visuals but it seemed to run fine on what I had set. Using the Keyboard – you press A To Speed up, Space to brake, Shift for the Nitro and the arrow keys to steer. I am sure it would be better if I had a controller and better again if I had a wheel to steer the car.

Single Player

You start off as a level 1 person / cop and as you race and complete challenges (such as been 1st, 2nd or 3rd) – you get points and as they rack up, you unlock new cars, new tracks and your level goes up – to a max of level 20. Some of the races are standard finish top 3 while others are complete a course in a certain amount of time while the cop one’s is stop a speeding car and so forth.

Conclusion

I Enjoyed the game a lot so far, it can get a bit repetitive I am sure (as it does with all racing games) and your fingers hurt after holding down the keys for so long. Will buy it for the PS3 once the prices drop (due to it been new at the moment).

Assassin’s Creed II was one of the best games of last year (or this year, if you’re a PC gamer). It fixed nearly all the faults of the first game, and now Ubisoft is hoping to take it a step further with Assassin’s Creed 2.5.

OK, so it’s not really called Assassin’s Creed 2.5; it’s actually Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood but it’s based off the same world that was in the second game and we imagine that the engine technology behind it is the same as well.

Ubisoft has released this trailer showing all CGI cinematic, but we do get to see the return of our old friend Ezio, and this time he’s brought along some friends.

Pariah

Pariah is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Digital Extremes, co-developers of the Unreal franchise. It was released on May 3, 2005 for Windows and Xbox. It uses a modified version of the Unreal engine and the Havok physics engine

About the Game

Due to it been released in 2005, most computers these days can run this game with ease, you can probably find the game very cheap indeed if still around for a very low cost. Running on the Unreal engine and adding in the Havok Engine which allows parts of the game to be destroyed (such as walls and such) – it is not a bad game.

Gameplay

Pariah features standard first-person shooter gameplay, largely influenced by the Unreal franchise, particularly Unreal 2 (whose game engine Pariah is based on). The single-player and multi-player game feature drivable vehicles that may be used in combat.

The game’s most remarkable feature is the use of collectible Weapon Energy Cores with which to upgrade the player’s weapons, giving them additional features and greater power. Each weapon in the game can be upgraded a total of 3 times.

Main Story

Jack Mason is a medic for the Alliance, tasked with transporting a cryogenically frozen woman named Karina from the maximum security prison “the Anvil” to Alliance headquarters. However, while flying over “the Zone”, Mason’s ship is shot down by a surface-to-air missile, crash-landing down to Earth. Karina escapes in the ensuing chaos, and Mason ends up accidentally becoming infected with the mysterious transgenic virus Karina is carrying. Scavengers soon arrive and attempt to capture Karina and kill Mason. The Scavengers succeed in killing Stubbs, the pilot of the ship, but Mason manages to outfight them. Mason is suspicious that the incident is more than a mere Scavenger attack, as it seems unusual for them to possess a surface-to-air missile.

Although Karina is highly distrustful of Mason, her former captor, the two of them team up to evade the Scavengers. In the process, Mason learns that Karina possesses bizarre powers granted to her by the virus; when experiencing strong emotions, she involuntarily produces an explosive effect that creates mass destruction around her, but leaves herself unharmed.

Mason and Karina eventually succeed in radioing the Alliance for help, only to learn that Colonel Stockton, the Warden of “the Anvil”, has ordered the Alliance to nuke the area and kill everything that moves, supposedly to contain the infection and prevent the spread of the virus. Karina is soon captured by Alliance Security, and Mason finds himself fighting against the very organization he works for.

Mason infiltrates “the Anvil” to retake Karina from Stockton, and finds that the Scavengers have also launched a massive assault against the Anvil for the same purpose.

It is eventually revealed that Colonel Stockton masterminded the attack on Mason’s transport, and that he has paid off the Scavengers to capture Karina for him. However, he double-crossed the Scavengers, captured Karina himself, and now refuses to pay them.

Stockton is obsessed with battling the Shroud, and wants to use the virus Karina carries as a weapon against them. It was necessary for Stockton to kidnap Karina, because his superiors in the Alliance disagreed with his research and wanted to cancel the program and take Karina away from him.