[PC] Angry Birds: Space review

Whether you like gaming on your phone or gaming on your computer, the new expansion of Angry Birds: Space is a must have for any Angry Birds fan. Angry Birds is one of the biggest casual-arcade games to come out as an application for a phone, like the iPhone or Android. Angry Birds is a physic-based game where you have to shoot the “birds” out of a slingshot in order to kill the pigs that inhabit the land.

Angry Birds: Space takes you into the new levels which are based around space. This brings a whole new challenging aspect of the genre. The new space expansion brings you six new birds to use: The Original, The Three-Shot, the Boomerang, the Bomb, The Freezer, and the Big Crush (these are my original names for them). What makes this all difficult is the gravitational pull which can alter how your bird moves.

The gravitation pull

The circular bubble around the planet is the gravitational pull, which can make the birds go around the planet. This can make some things very interesting or very difficult.

The many birds as listed above can do many things and can help on many tasks. The Original bird is the same old red bird that we know from the original series. The Three-Shot bird, when clicked on while after launch, can split into 3 smaller birds. The Boomerang can be homed at place you click after launch. The Bomb can blow stuff up when you click on him. The Freezer can freeze an area and make it very easy to break through objects. The Big Crush can move through a lot of objects easily.

The Birds. From Right to Left; Three-Shot, Bomb, Original, Boomerang, Big Crush, The Freezer.

There are four areas (one is also labeled: Coming Soon), each with about 30 levels and one boss fight at the end. The fourth area is actually a minigame area, with two minigames. One is Asteroids, where you send The Bomb to blow up the ship with Asteroids blocking your path.

The other is kind of like Mario, I want to say. You have two birds, The Original and The Three-Shot. You have to find the pig in one of the blocks and then send The Three-Shot to kill the pig as it moves across the board.

Asteroids!

The Mario-like game!

With about 90 levels, this game is a great way to waste time and to have fun. Angry Birds: Space is a great game put out by Ravio. There is also a Satellite in the sky in between Area 1 and Area 2 which asks you if you want to learn more about Space and NASA which is really neat.

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The Scores:

Sound/Audio: 3/10. I can barely hear the audio and sounds. It’s nothing great anyways.

Gameplay/Story: 6/10. The Gameplay is casual, but fun. It comes with a story as well, when you beat the bosses at the end of an Area a comic will appear.

Graphics/Scenery: 5/10. Nothing fancy for graphics. Some of the levels are great and are hard though.

Overall: 7/10. I don’t really fancy games like these, but it was fun to play.

What's been going on.

Sorry i haven't done the Mass Effect 3 review, it's been two weeks since I posted about it. Just a bunch of personal stuff; feeling a bit unmotivated. I'll try my best to keep motivated though.

On Gameface101.playogame.com I was entered in a 4-man Starcraft 2 tournament for the prize of $10 Riot Points for use for League of Legends. The tournament was last weekend but I never got to play because my opponent never showed up so we're going to reschedule our match for this weekend hopefully. The other two people went though and I've been honored with the chance to do commentary on the replays. So look out for those.

As I said, just personal stuff in my life has kept me from wanting to write anything lately. I'm slowly wanting this blog to be big and mean something to me in my future, whether a future internship or major partnership. I graduate in two months from High School and moving in with my grandparents in New York and I'll have a lot of free time then until I can find a job and stuff so hopefully I'll have more time.

Thanks guys.

[PC: Flash] Gemcraft: Lost Chapter Labyrinth

     Gemcraft Lost Chapter: Labyrinth is a Tower Defense Flash game created by Gameinabottle.com and published by Armor Games. You are a wizard who took up studies in a town only to find that monsters are attacking the town and you must follow a labyrinth and use Gems to defeat them. You start on a 13x13 map, each with different levels.
  
  

Gemcraft Map select

      When you start the first map, it acts like a tutorial. You are given a certain number of certain gems, each with different abilities. You have to make gems and insert them into the towers. The gems attack the monster waves. You must stop the waves from attacking your Orb. After a certain number of attacks on the pearl then you lose and have to start the level all over.

Gemcraft HUD

     Here is the HUD. I'll explain everything here to you.
1. Mana. The amount of mana you have is what you use to build towers, use abilities, create gems and 'banish' monsters.
2. Created Gems. These are the gems you have created. You can make certain level of gems depending on how much mana you have. You need 2 of the same or 2 different level of gem to combine them into a higher level gem.
3. Gems you can create: These are the gems that are allowed on the level.
4. Abilities. These cost mana. You can create walls to add to strategy, create shrines, gem bombs (cost no mana), build more towers, combine gems, create traps, create amplifiers, which power other towers, or expand your mana regeneration.
5. Tower: This is where you can put the gems.
6. Entrance: This is where the monsters come from.
7. Wave Count: Tells how many more waves are left.
8. Speed counter: Lets you pause, resume or speed up the current map.
9. Battle Amulets/Stats: Shows your stats on the current map. Battle Amulets are like achievements that you can get overall.
10. The Orb: This is what you are trying to stop the monsters from getting.
After the tutorial, you get XP to level up as. When you choose a map, you can choose the wave options and skill points to use when you level up.

Battle Settings

Skills when you level up.

    There are 8 Gems you can use or make and are as followed:
Chain Hit: Allows a chance for hits to chain on to another monster.
Create Poisonous Gas: Allows the gem to poison a monster over a period of time.
Create Shocking Gem: Has a chance to shock an enemy. They have a stacking shocking immunity per time hit.
Create Multiple Damage Gem: Has a chance to hit multiple targets.
Slowing Gem: Each hit slows the target for a short period of time.
Mana Gathering Gem: Each hit extracts mana from a monster.
Bloodhound Gem: Every kill this gem gets increases its power.
Armor Tearing Gem: Each hit reduces the armor of the monster.

     You can build traps and insert a gem too. Traps have reduced damage but increased effects.

The Score:
This game is good and addicting, as are all Flash games.

Sound/Audio: 5/10. It's generic for a grim-dark setting.
Graphics/Scenery: 8/10. The maps are good. The menus and everything else are great.
Gameplay/Story: 9/10. It's addicting and lets you do more stuff as you level up, like go back to older maps and increase the number of waves, their health, and even the enemies that appear on the map. It's full of replayability.
Overall: 8/10.
Find a way to download the .swf and get Adobe Flash Projector so you can play it whenever you want. It's a great way to pass time.

Assassins Creed III New Screenshots.

The only things I have to say are: The screenshots look great and that Ubisoft really needed to change that (SPOILER: EXPLICIT) fucking robe. It's the 18th century now. Plus he stands out when he isn't in snow. "Oh who's that white dude hanging from that tree looking down at us? Just a squirrel? Oh, okay."