Hi Everybody :) Thanks for commenting on my 2010 Game Awards so far hope you guys, gals enjoyed it, now this is the final part before i start it, i want to announce that my midterm exams are coming soon i will not that active for 2 or 3 weeks, and my new Internet connection will come next week so after my midterm exams, i can be so active here and i will make an Union soon :D

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May i have your Attention please:

Next Blog is my 100th Blog! so I want to make a really good animation for it and thank all of you there, it maybe takes me some time to figure out what to make, here some ideas:

i use adobe after effect and download some game trails like Dragon Age 2 or a real video from TV shows like Spartacus.. and then i add my 3D models which i will make with 3Ds-Max and i will give them some animations pursuant with those videos, for example i make homer simpsons 3D model then give it some animations and add it to Gears of War 3 Trails beside Marcus Finex, Dom or on LOST or anything.. :lol: those who have finished Call of Duty Black Ops can understand what I'm saying, remember that video in the end of game which they've added Mason to that real video and he was shaking Kennedy hands...Mine will be like it :lol:

So please tell me what video should i choose to make a hilarious video :D here are some Examples:

1-LOST tell me which Part!

2-Spartacus tell me which Part!

3-Dead Space 2 Game trails.....

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Syler's 2010 Game Awards Final Part

Dubious Honor

Most Disappointing Game

The Nominees are:

1-Alpha Protocol

2-Fallout: New Vegas

3-Command and conquer 4

4-Lost Planet 2

5-Splinter Cell Conviction

6-Medal of Honor

Runner Up:

Alpha Protocol

I still didn't play it, they should have released it on 2006 lol

The Looser is:

Lost Planet 2

For the First time when i saw its trail i said Woa i was so excited, it looked so awesome i was expecting really great shooter but when i bought it, it was so disappointing really cheap story, voice acting, boring missions no dialog no main character only the graphic was good! so this is my Most Disappointing Game of 2010.

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Flat-Out Worst Game

lol i only have one Flat-Out Worst Game

And the Looser is:

Prison Break

After Watching all of the Prison Break episodes on summer I've decided to get its video game but when i saw they've changed its story i really annoyed, it has cheap voice acting, dialogs, gameplay completely different story...

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Worst Game Everyone Played

The Nominees are:

1-Medal of Honor

2-Lost Planet 2

3-Alpha Protocol

Runner Up:

Alpha Protocol

with lots of bugs...why not?

And The Looser is:

Lost Planet 2

This game had created a fake excitement with those advertising... shame on you Capcom

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Best Game No One Played

The Nominees are:

1-Vanquish

2-Metro2033

3-Kane & Lynch 2

4-Tron Evolution

Runner Up:

Vanquish

Sega most of the time sucks at making western games but this time they did an awesome job go get it people!

And The Winner is:

Metro2033

lol Game Spot even didn't add it to the nominees! Metro2033 is a perfect game which overlooked by consumers so don't for get to check it out.

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Least Improved Sequel

The Nominees are:

1-Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

2-Lost Planet 2

3-Fable III this is my first Fable game

4-Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight i forgot to add it on my Strategy Nominees :P

Runner Up:

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

I had played 30% of the first one and Force Unleashed II is pretty like the original no big improvement imo

And The Looser is:

Lost Planet 2

Yup I had played the first one and to be honest with you guys, gals i like the first one more, at least the first Lost Planet had better Story, main Character...they only improved the Graphic on Lost Planet 2

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Syler's 2010 Game of The Year

The Nominees are:

1-Halo: Reach

Runner Up of: 0 categories

Winner of: 2 category

-Best Xbox360 Game

-Best Ending

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2-Vanquish

Runner Up of: 0 categories

Winner of: 1 category

-Best Shooter

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3-Alan Wake

Runner Up of: 3 categories

-Best Story

-Best Atmosphere

-Best Voice Acting

Winner of: 2 categories

-Best Original Music

-Best Original Game Mechanic

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4-Mass Effect 2

Runner Up of: 2 categories

-Best Graphic, Technical

-Best Original Music

Winner of: 3 categories

-Best RPG Game

-Best Writing/Dialogue

-Best Voice Acting

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5-Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

Runner Up of: 0 categories

Winner of: 1 categories

-Best PC game

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6-Red Dead Redemption

Runner Up of: 3 categories

-Best Graphics, Artistic

-Most Memorable Moment

-Best Ending

Winner of: 3 categories

-Best New Character

-Best Action/Adventure Game

-Best Sound Design

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Runner Up:

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Mass Effect 2

Yes I love Sci_Fiction Games I've spent 75 hours on it, and i like mostly because of its awesome story and Dialougs.... :) BTW I've made that Animation 2 years ago :P see how i love this game!

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Now the Final moment....

Wait for it....Wait for it....

Ladies and Gentlemen...

The Winner is:

Lost Planet 2!!!:lol: kidding

Really tough choice

The Winner is:

Red Dead Redemption

Another Masterpiece by Rockstar, this game has everything you want this is my Game of The Year, I've spent 30 hours on it and I'm playing its awesome DLC too it has great Story, Dialogs, Voice Acting, Gameplay, Graphic 100% a perfect game :)

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Early 2011 Most Anticipated

I will buy these games for 2011

Gears of War 3

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Dead Sapce 2

Dragon Age II

The Witcher 2

Test Drive Unlimited 2

Darkspore

Crysis 2

F.3.A.R.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future

Bulletstorm

Homefront

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

And Here are My 2010 Game Awards links:

Part one

Part two

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Thanks for Reading People and Merry Early Christmas :)

-Makan

Hi everybody :) wow i saw on news Europe is snowing a lot lucky them :P here is sunny! sorry for delay i was busy those couple of days...BTW I'm getting a new Internet i just need to wait they test it and settle Internet stuff in my place :D if things go well i will make union, extremely active here....

BTW I've bough Civilization 5, that Demo was really beautiful indeed and the game is so addictive but still i like RUSE.., i also bought Tron Evaluation, i like it, pretty good gameplay like Assassin's Creed, and good graphic and interesting story...I'll review it when i finish it...

Okay this blog is little longer than before cause i don't like to make so many sequels and I've added 1 more part to it because it's so huge!...lets begin it :)

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Special Achievement

Best Story

The Nominees are:

1-Metro2033

2-Halo Reach

3-Red Dead Redemption

4-Amnesia:The Dark Descent

5-Alan Wake

6-Bioshock 2

7-Mafia 2

8-Call of Duty Black Ops

9-Splinter Cell Conviction

10-Star Craft II:Wings of Liberty

11-Castlevania:Lord of shadow

12-Mass Effect 2

This one is the tough one indeed :P

Runner Up:

Alan Wake

Its story was very new, very interesting, pretty like a movie, but it wasn't very perfect some of the characters were weak...

The Winner is:

Mafia 2

Surprise i didn't choose Mass Effect?! :P well Mafia 2 has very great story, remind me the God Father Movies, it has very great memorable moments indeed and i think it deserve to be the Best Story, if i had PS3 i would choose Heavy Rain 100%!

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Best Graphics, Technical

The Nominees are:

1-Castlevania:Lord of shadow

2-Mass Effect 2

3-Lost Planet 2

4-Metro2033

Runner Up:

Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 has very great graphic indeed, one of the best 360 graphic game.

The Winner is:

Castlevania:Lord of shadow

This game has amazing, incredible graphic, the textures are great, the lighting system is amazing,...it deserve to be the best Graphic game of 2010

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Best Graphics, Artistic

The Nominees are:

1-Mass Effect 2

2-Red Dead Redemption

3-Alan Wake

4-Castlevania:Lord of shadow

Runner Up:

Red Dead Redemption

RDR has very beautiful scenes, great lighting system...

The Winner is:

Castlevania:Lord of shadow

If you play this game you will understand, how Artistic scenes this game has...

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Best New Character

The Nominees are:

1-Red Dead Redemption

2-Alan Wake

3-Mass Effect 2

4-Call of Duty Black Ops

Runner Up:

Call of Duty Black Ops

Victor Reznove

Reznove is pretty a good character i like him, reminds me Captain Price lol

The Winner is:

Red Dead Redemption

John Marston

Howdy Mr.Marston! Rockstar is the master of making new characters indeed, i love him!

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Best Expansion Pack

The Nominees are:

1-Dragon Age:Awakening

2-Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising

The Winner is:

Dragon Age:Awakening

I love Dragon Age and this pack was really great I've spent 40 hours on it.

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Best Downloadable Console Game

I only have one lol and i think this one is the best

The Winner is:

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

It has very great game play, graphic...

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Best Downloadable Content

Same here lol

The Winner is:

Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare Pack

It's pretty a great zombie game indeed

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Best Atmosphere

The Nominees are:

1-Metro2033

2-Alan Wake

3-Bioshock 2

4-Red Dead Redemption

Runner Up:

Alan Wake

It has very great Atmosphere but it's not the best imo

The Winner is:

Metro2033

Everything in this game evoke a great atmosphere, the way the game looks, the way it sounds, the emotions it evokes as you experience the world all of them are perfect so i think Metro 2033 deserve it, check out my review about it if you interested.

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Best Original Music

The Nominees are:

1-Alan Wake

2-Mass Effect 2

3-Red Dead Redemption

Runner Up:

Mass Effect 2

It has great Original music indeed

The Winner is:

Alan Wake

Alan Wake has very great Original Music imo.

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Best Sound Design

The Nominees are:

1-Alan Wake

2-Halo Reach

3-Call of Duty Black Ops

4-Red Dead Redemption

5-Vanquish

6-Battlefield: Bad Company 2

7-Bioshock 2

Runner Up:

Call of Duty Black Ops

It has very great sound design but not the best

The Winner is:

Red Dead Redemption

RDR is has the best sound design imo, i love it.

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Best Voice Acting

The Nominees are:

1-Red Dead Redemption

2-Call of Duty Black Ops

3-Mafia 2

4-Mass Effect 2

5-Alan Wake

6-Metro2033

7-Star Craft II:Wings of Liberty

8-Splinter Cell Conviction

9-Castlevania:Lord of shadow

Runner Up:

Alan Wake

It has very great voice acting, Mafia 2 was awesome too BTW

The Winner is:

Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 has very great voice acting, i love all of its voice actors :)

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Funniest Game

The Nominees are:

1-DeathSpank

2-Dead Rising 2

3-Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Runner Up:

Dead Rising 2

lol

The Winner is:

DeathSpank

It really deserve it i love it lol

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Best Original Game Mechanic

The Nominees are:

1-RUSE

2-Red Dead Redemption

3-Alan Wake

4-Splinter Cell Conviction

5-Vanquish

6-Amnesia:The Dark Descent

Runner Up:

RUSE

Well it has a great game play

The Winner is:

Alan Wake

Using light against your enemy? that's pretty a good idea :P

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Most Memorable Moment

The Nominees are:

1-Mass Effect 2 Opening Scene

2-Halo Reach Lone Wolf

3-Red Dead Redemption Ending

4-Call of Duty Black Ops (Vakuta Stories, Dimetry and Reznove, Mason, Woods moments...)

Runner Up:

Red Dead Redemption Ending

It was very surprising, i didn't expect that at all!

The Winner is:

Call of Duty Black Ops

Ops has some incredible moments which i never forget them like that part whom Woods saved Mason life, Vakuta escape...

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Best Writing/Dialogue

The Nominees are:

1-Alan Wake

2-Mass Effect 2

3-Red Dead Redemption

4-Call of Duty Black Ops

Runner Up:

Alan Wake

It has very great dialogues indeed but not the best

The Winner is:

Mass Effect 2

Bioware is the master of dialogues, this game has amazing voice acting and dialogues imo if i had PS3 i would choose Heavy Rain :)

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Best Ending

The Nominees are:

1-Mass Effect 2

2-Red Dead Redemption

3-Halo Reach

4-Mafia 2

5-Bioshock 2

6-Castlevania:Lord of shadow

tough one indeed

Runner Up:

Red Dead Redemption

Sad, and Memorable Ending i love it but not the best Ending imo. i like all of this nominees endings TBH.

The Winner is:

Halo Reach

Sad, Honorable, Memorable, i never forget it it was amazing :)

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So that's the end of Part 2 thanks for reading and commenting guys,gals stay tune for next part :P :) for the new year i have some new changes, after this series i will make and Christmas Animation Drunk Santa :lol:

-Makan

Hi everybody :)

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Wow i did a research for making my GOTY in Best of 2010 page and it's pretty complicated, there is so many options...:P anyway let's begin it :D

Now Welcome to Syler's 2010 Game Awards:

Note: the nominees are from my purchases during this year, they are include only Xbox360 and PC games.

Platform Awards

Best PC Game

The Nominees are:

1-Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

2-Metro 2033

3-Amnesia

The Winner is:

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

It is a pure and awesome strategy game, with amazing cut scenes, beautiful voice acting, awesome online.....it deserve to be the best PC game.

Best Xbox360 Game

The Nominees are:

1-Vanquish

2-Red Dead Redemption

3-Halo Reach

4-Mass Effect 2

The Winner is:

Halo Reach

Halo Reach is the last game of Bungi, Reach has everything you want amazing Game Play, Story, Graphich, Audio, Multiplayer.. i love it if you like more information about it check out my review about it :)

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Genre Awards

Best Action/Adventure Game

The Nominees are:

1-Red Dead Redepmtion

2-Alan Wake

3-Dead Rising 2

4-Dante's Inferno

5-Castlevania Lord of Shadow

6-Mafia 2

7-Garshasp

The Winner is:

Red Dead Redepmtion

RDR is another masterpiece by Rock Star, this game is simply amazing, it has everything you want to see in an Action/Adventure Game, RDR deserve to be the best Action/Adventure Game of 2010 imo

Best RPG Game

The Nominees are:

1-Fallout New vegas

2-DeathSpank

3-Mass Effect 2

4-Fable III

The Winner is:

Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 i another masterpiece by Bioware, I've spent 75 hours on this game, this game has amazing graphic, game play, voice acting, Story...Mass Effect 2 is my best 2010 RPG game :)

Best Shooter

The Nominees are:

1-Halo Reach

2-Call of Duty Black Ops

3-Battle Field Bad Company 2

4-Vanquish

5-Bioshock 2

The Winner is:

Vanquish

Vanquish has very creative game play which i've never seen before, very fast and exciting, it has all of standards, blind shooting... Vanquish is my best 2010 shooter.

Best Strategy Game

The Nominees are:

1-RUSE

2-Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

The Winner is:

RUSE

When it comes to Strategy games we should consider the game play not the story and cut scenes...RUSE has very new and creative gameplay which i've never seen before in any strategy games, the things and options in this game is very unique...RUSE is my Best 2010 Strategy game :)

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so this is the End of Part 1 hope you guys, gals like it :D in the next Part i will nominate my Dubious Honors, Special Achievement, Game of the Year, Early 2011 Most Anticipated Games :)

What's Uuuuupppp guys :oops: 8)

I'm back with awesome good news, so many stuff happened, it was like years these couple of days for me! i started increasing my 3ds max skills this 2 weeks, i started reading, watching my courses at 6 PM to 5 AM!! about 14 days! now it's time for a little break :P

I'm very sorry for missing your awesome blogs, i tried to read and comment as many as i could though, this blog is just a quick blog to inform, I'm back and i will continue blogging, reading your blogs....

My Awesome Good news:

Well the good news is I've got a Game Engine UNITY3D 3.0 version with its Tutorial from VTC.com very great source for learning about this stuff, UNITY is the 5th best game engine in the game industry, it can support ipod, Xbox360, PC, you can create very great games with it like GTA Vice City...so I have everything i've needed, just need to start working with it :D

I need to thank to Sam_Fisher_luck for introducing me to this awesome Game Engine, and Ramtin_LA for downloading them for me :)

So Black Hole Video game will be release for this summer and so many other games for ipod, Xbox360, PC with some awesome animations by Syler4815162342 8) :lol:

We also thinking to make a Union here about it!

The Games I'm playing:

1-RDR Undead Nightmare : i headed to Mexico :P

2-Castllevania Lord of Shadow : Amazing game

Next Blog: My 2010 Game Awards

Thanks for reading :)

-Makan

Hi my fellow game spotters i really missed you guys/gals :oops: sorry for missing some of your blogs, i have some Internet problems, and I'm so busy with collage,.....

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As most of you know, i started learning Autodesk 3Ds Max at home, then i became more familiar with this program and now I'm kinda at advance level, i went to an Animating school and show my works to my teacher and he liked it then he offered me to come in his 3D Designs Studio for joining to his team, so i went to his office today for an interview.

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How My Interview went?

Today i went to his office, but there was another guy, we started talking then i showed him my best works that Monster Model...:lol:, and he liked my models, i showed him my Black Hole Animation, Halloween...:lol: he liked them too, i've made a Script for that interview which you can create a forest just by one click, to show him i know about programing, and he amazed by my works mostly because i learned these things alone at home...

then he said: "we like to join you to our team but first you need to be more expert so we will settle some c l a s s e s for you!"

ME: "i told him, I'm still learning my 3D package i can be more expert if you guys just give me more little time, so that i finish those Learning DVDs...then i asked how much those c l a s s will cost anyway?"

HE: "they will cost you $3500! then after you finish those courses we will pay you $600 a month just for beginning then we will increase that..."

ME: "What!!! but i don't have $3500!!! i already have my learning sources, i just need more time, to finish them i told him give me more time to think about it"

Then he gave my phone number, and i told him i will contact with you, i came up with these idea:

I will finish all of my Learning DVDs form Gnomon and CG-Academy, Digital Tutors, Lynda, then i go and prove it to him who i don't need your teaching c l a s s i just want to work!

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About That Studio:

To Be Honest with you guys that Studio ain't my type, they are making religious, political animations and religious, political video games!!!!

i asked him what do you think about Garshasp? (The Best Persian Video Game)

then he said it's rubbish....it's against Islamic religious which a naked character run and kill people!!!! :!::question::o:shock::shock::lol: i didn't know what to say to him!! i said nothing just smiling :lol:,

then he said we make Happy Games!!! i said you mean games like Mario? Wii games? and he said yea yea those kind of games!

BTW all of those Arabic Animations for MBC3 Chanel and all of those Cartoon Animation in Iran commercial TV Chanel have made by this Studio.

It's against my nature, my beliefs and my thoughts to make religious, political animations and also I love to make animations, scary, Gory, Serious, real like Star Craft II, Dragon Age... not those Craps, so I'm thinking to work with Garshasp team at least!!! and just make some model for this studio for making money....

I need more time to finish my Learning DVDs then i can find better jobs....:)

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Game Update:

I've finished Black Ops on Veteran Difficulty woohoo! it was so so hard mostly because of its bad NPCs, the story was AWESOME but TOO FAR FROM COD series, i recommend this game for FPS fans it's really enjoyable game, i will write my full review about it :)

Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare:

It's So So So awesome, i love it Wilde West L4D :lol: everyone must try it, the story is good as Original, i love it, i will review it soon.

Assassin's Creed Brother Hood:

I've got it but it won't work need to exchange it.

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I'm playing:

RDR Undead Nightmare

Death Spank, Amazing game It's Dragon Age Comedy :lol:

RUSE awesome Strategy game indeed

Fable3 I like it, it's very funny game.

New Vegas don't have time to play it very much

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The TV Shows I'm watching:

Breaking Bad It's amazing watched the last seasons yesternight

Chuck not good as seasone 1 TBH but still cool

Spartacus Amazing

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Okay thanks for reading guys, i have some plans for new year, I'm going to make a GOTY blog, reviews and DAO Codex more stuff...:P

Take care Game spotters, your friends

-Makan

What's up guys,gals? :) how is the the Christmas shopping stuff? only 30 days for new year! BTW Happy Thanksgiving i was going to make an animation about a delicious big turkey but i had more important works to do :P but I'm going to make an hilarious animation about Christmas for sure :)

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Welcome to my new Title blog series :) well I'm doing a research for my Black Hole Story, for making it better and more realistic and valuable, I'm reading the science articles in NASA website! actually they are really cool and interesting reads, and i told my self why not sharing them with my Gamespotters :) so before i start it, let me show you guys one Screen shot about black Hole Episode 2

Say Hello to our most dangerous enemy in BH episode 2, this Monster took me 5 days, actually the left model is the original model from CG-Academy and the right model is mine :P :lol: my model is under structure I'm adding details on it with Mudbox, and it will be look much better than this model :P just wanted to give you guys a heads up :) Episode 2 to will be ready for Christmas, stay tune for more screen shots :)

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*Ahem*...where was i?!...

Project XMASS

I saw a program on NHK Channel it was about a research call XMASS which they are doing it 1000 miters under ground in Japan, the research is about to find out what is this Dark Matter, they've made a device which can observe so little particles, it's the most sensitive device, they chose Xenon Atom, Xenon Atom is on virgin Atom group what do i mean by that, is they like their balance and don't like to merge with other atoms and don't like to react to other substances, the idea of this research is like billiard, they believe dark Matter is every where so if the Dark Matter Particles bop to Xenon atom, it should emit light it means there is another UNKNOWN substance which would be Dark Matter, so 70% of the universe is Dark Energy 25% of it is Dark Matter and everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter - adds up to less than 5% of the Universe! Dark Matter can solve so many answers, so this Research is more accurate than CERN and they will start it on Octobor, i can't wait to see what will happen!

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What is Dark Energy and Dark Matter?

In the early 1990's, one thing was fairly certain about the expansion of the Universe. It might have enough energy density to stop its expansion and recollapse, it might have so little energy density that it would never stop expanding, but gravity was certain to slow the expansion as time went on. Granted, the slowing had not been observed, but, theoretically, the Universe had to slow. The Universe is full of matter and the attractive force of gravity pulls all matter together. Then came 1998 and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of very distant supernovae that showed that, a long time ago, the Universe was actually expanding more slowly than it is today. So the expansion of the Universe has not been slowing due to gravity, as everyone thought, it has been accelerating. No one expected this, no one knew how to explain it. But something was causing it.

Eventually theorists came up with three sorts of explanations. Maybe it was a result of a long-discarded version of Einstein's theory of gravity, one that contained what was called a "cosmological constant." Maybe there was some strange kind of energy-fluid that filled space. Maybe there is something wrong with Einstein's theory of gravity and a new theory could include some kind of field that creates this cosmic acceleration. Theorists still don't know what the correct explanation is, but they have given the solution a name. It is called dark energy.

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What is Dark Energy?

More is unknown than is known. We know how much dark energy there is because we know how it affects the Universe's expansion. Other than that, it is a complete mystery. But it is an important mystery. It turns out that roughly 70% of the Universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 25%. The rest - everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter - adds up to less than 5% of the Universe. Come to think of it, maybe it shouldn't be called "normal" matter at all, since it is such a small fraction of the Universe.

One explanation for dark energy is that it is a property of space. Albert Einstein was the first person to realize that empty space is not nothing. Space has amazing properties, many of which are just beginning to be understood. The first property that Einstein discovered is that it is possible for more space to come into existence. Then one version of Einstein's gravity theory, the version that contains a cosmological constant, makes a second prediction: "empty space" can possess its own energy. Because this energy is a property of space itself, it would not be diluted as space expands. As more space comes into existence, more of this energy-of-space would appear. As a result, this form of energy would cause the Universe to expand faster and faster. Unfortunately, no one understands why the cosmological constant should even be there, much less why it would have exactly the right value to cause the observed acceleration of the Universe. Another explanation for how space acquires energy comes from the quantum theory of matter. In this theory, "empty space" is actually full of temporary ("virtual") particles that continually form and then disappear. But when physicists tried to calculate how much energy this would give empty space, the answer came out wrong - wrong by a lot. The number came out 10120 times too big. That's a 1 with 120 zeros after it. It's hard to get an answer that bad. So the mystery continues.

Another explanation for dark energy is that it is a new kind of dynamical energy fluid or field, something that fills all of space but something whose effect on the expansion of the Universe is the opposite of that of matter and normal energy. Some theorists have named this "quintessence," after the fifth element of the Greek philosophers. But, if quintessence is the answer, we still don't know what it is like, what it interacts with, or why it exists. So the mystery continues.

A last possibility is that Einstein's theory of gravity is not correct. That would not only affect the expansion of the Universe, but it would also affect the way that normal matter in galaxies and clusters of galaxies behaved. This fact would provide a way to decide if the solution to the dark energy problem is a new gravity theory or not: we could observe how galaxies come together in clusters. But if it does turn out that a new theory of gravity is needed, what kind of theory would it be? How could it correctly describe the motion of the bodies in the Solar System, as Einstein's theory is known to do, and still give us the different prediction for the Universe that we need? There are candidate theories, but none are compelling. So the mystery continues.

The thing that is needed to decide between dark energy possibilities - a property of space, a new dynamic fluid, or a new theory of gravity - is more data, better data. The Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) is a NASA mission which is currently under study. Its goal will be to provide observations of the Universe that will allow theorists to discriminate between theories and, perhaps, finally lead to the solution of the mystery.

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What is Dark Matter?

By fitting a theoretical model of the composition of the Universe to the combined set of cosmological observations, scientists have come up with the composition that we described above, ~70% dark energy, ~25% dark matter, ~5% normal matter. What is dark matter?

We are much more certain what dark matter is not than we are what it is. First, it is dark, meaning that it is not in the form of stars and planets that we see. Observations show that there is far too little visible matter in the Universe to make up the 25% required by the observations. Second, it is not in the form of dark clouds of normal matter, matter made up of particles called baryons. We know this because we would be able to detect baryonic clouds by their absorption of radiation passing through them. Third, dark matter is not antimatter, because we do not see the unique gamma rays that are produced when antimatter annihilates with matter. Finally, we can rule out large galaxy-sized black holes on the basis of how many gravitational lenses we see. High concentrations of matter bend light passing near them from objects further away, but we do not see enough lensing events to suggest that such objects to make up the required 25% dark matter contribution.

However, at this point, there are still a few dark matter possibilities that are viable. Baryonic matter could still make up the dark matter if it were all tied up in brown dwarfs or in small, dense chunks of heavy elements. These possibilities are known as massive compact halo objects, or "MACHOs". But the most common view is that dark matter is not baryonic at all, but that it is made up of other, more exotic particles like axions or WIMPS (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles).

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The links:

1-roughly 70%

2-cosmological constant

3-Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM)

4-MACHOs

5-WIMPS (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles)

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The Pictures

Universe Dark Energy-1 Expanding Universe. This diagram shows changes in the rate of expansion since the Universe's birth 14 billion years ago. The more shallow the curve, the faster the rate of expansion. The curve changes noticeably about 7.5 billion years ago, when objects in the Universe began flying apart at a faster rate. Astronomers theorize that the faster expansion rate is due to a mysterious, dark energy that is pulling galaxies apart. Credit: NASA/STSci/Ann Feild

Perseus Cluster Dwarf Galaxies - These four dwarf galaxies are part of a census of small galaxies in the tumultuous heart of the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster. The galaxies appear smooth and symmetrical, suggesting that they have not been tidally disrupted by the pull of gravity in the dense cluster environment. Larger galaxies around them, however, are being ripped apart by the gravitational tug of other galaxies.

A Clash of Clusters Provides New Clue to Dark Matter A powerful collision of galaxy clusters has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The observations of the cluster known as MACS J0025.4-1222 indicate that a titanic collision has separated the dark from ordinary matter and provide an independent confirmation of a similar effect detected previously in a target dubbed the Bullet Cluster. These new results show that the Bullet Cluster is not an anomalous case.

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As for Gaming news I've changed the Black Ops difficulty to hardcore and then I've changed my mind and decided to put on Veteran but there was no option for that so I'm playing it again on Veteran Difficulty!!! :P

Thanks for reading :)

-Makan

Hi my best Virtual friends :P how is everyone? i like one day we meet each other face to face :P

Anyway I'm busy like always trying to learn and pass so many courses in little time, i don't have much time to play video games these days, life is good and normal, my mum had a surgery 2 weeks ago and it went well fortunately and eventually...

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Castlevania Lord of Shadow first look:

I've bought Lord of Shadow 2 days ago, and it's pretty a decent game I've played 2 hours of it and i like it but it doesn't have that Hype like Darksider, Dante or GoW, but the graphic is amazing, the Combat system is great, the main story is just perfect but it looks like a sequel rather than a Original game, i mean I'm new at Castlevania and i don't know anything about its story but the game presentation looks like you must have known about the situation and characters before and that's the weak part of the game, and another weak part is everything happens so fast without introduction, in mission 4 at the beginning you are facing with a big monster! and another weak part which caught my eyes is that the game looks so clean and colorful, there is no blood and gore which it had contrast with the story cause the story is about wolfs and vampires..nonetheless the game is attractive and awesome and i like it and :)

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Got Adobe CS5 Learning DVDs by Lynda University:

YaY I've got it finally and it's so huge! 210 hours DVDs! I'm learning how to work with Adobe After Effect, Adobe Photoshop and its Light Room and Elements, Adobe Soundbooth for Black Hole episode 2 :D

and i also got Digital Tutors Learning DVDs too it's not that great like CG-Academy but at least they are teaching how to use Mudbox :D

I must finish all of them before this summer, it's so enjoyable when you can create your own model, bring your imagination to the real world with these programs and so exciting indeed.

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A Weird Girl:

2 Days ago i was going to my animating school which a girl came to me and asked me do you work here? i told her hmm...no? she said I'm not poor but i need $5 can you give me $5? then she said give me your phone number so that i call you and give you your money...bla bla it was obvious she was lying and i told her sorry bye :lol: she was ugly to be honest that's why i didn't gave her my phone number :P

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Got an Offer:

A friend of my friend is going to make a video game, and they were looking for a 3D modeler for their game and my friend introduced me to him and that guy called me yesterday and he told me I'm going to make a game and make my own game engine!!! i told how you can make a game engine alone!!!! and i told him go and use Game Studio or Unity Engines they are great and easy to use..but he didn't agree with me and i told him okay i just wanted to show you the better way! and i asked him what's the story about anyway? and he said it's something like Fallout 3 and New Vegas :lol: and i liked it, i told him okay i will help you guys to make your video games and they will come next week to settle things for this game, i doubt they can make it but i will make some 3D models for them it can be a good practice and experience for me :).

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The Future of A.I.in games:

Now welcome to the important part of my blog, if you haven't read this article, you better to read this! Game companies have been reached to a good point for Graphic, games like Uncharted 2, Killzone 2, Halo Reach...but what makes a game really new and enjoyable? i say all of them, Story, Game play, Graphic, Audio, but Gameplay is the most important part in my opinion.

I've played lots of First Person shooters, Games like Doom, Swat, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Halo, Bioshock, Riddick, Left 4 Dead, Battle Field, FEAR...and so on but most of them have pretty same NPC's and A.I. system, you just need to aim and shoot and this appears more on Call of Duty series the good example is Call of Duty Black Ops, I'm playing it and i have to say this game is just for making more money, this game has very annoying NPC's and very bad Physics, i really don't get it why it sells million copies!

Some game companies are trying to improve the game industry, they are trying to improve the video game's qualities while there are other game companies who are trying to make more money and really don't care about the future of game industry and of course there are other game companies who are making games just for entertainment...

We expect from the famous Game Companies to help and improve the game industry and game's qualities not releasing some trash for just making more money.

Halo:

"The Halo franchise is recognized as a leader in the field of game AI."

I don't know about other Halo games but I've finished Halo Reach on Legendary difficulty and i have to admit it has really good A.I. all of the NPC's were cleaver and fast it was so challenging to kill those NPC's indeed but when you let a NPC to Drive, it means you are dead :lol:

F.E.A.R:

"F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin made use of Monolith's goal-based action planner AI, which helped produce context-sensitive behaviors in the game."

Fear is one of the first games who introduce new A.I. system they define the environment to the NPC's to use it against the player!

Killzone 2:

"Killzone 2's lead AI programmer Remco Straatman believes the industry is still struggling to make NPCs as human as possible."

I don't have Play station 3, but by reading this article i understood how awesome NPC's this game has!

Farcry 2:

"Games like Far Cry 2 push the boundaries of game AI."

Far Cry 2 has a good physics it was enjoyable when you set fire to kill your enemies...

Now my suggestion and my Ideas for the Future of A.I. in Games:

If game companies want to have better A.I. they must use physics in their games, what do i mean by Physics:

Yes their games should have physics like Battle Field Bad Company 2 and other games like Red Faction, unfortunately in BC2 or Red Faction the NPC's don't use the environment against you, imagine a NPC which tries to break walls to reach you or tries to collapse the building to your head! lol

Another idea:

Guerrilla's A.I. Leader believes make NPCs as human as possible, i say why we don't use other creatures for our NPC's for example why we shouldn't make A.I. who act and think like a Dog for a Dog NPC? rather than human! or an A.I. Spider for a Spider NPC?....

anyway these are just my Ideas hope they at least use physics for the future of A.I. in games :P

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Thanks for reading

-Makan

Hi everybody :)

Sorry for the lack of activity I'm so busy these days with Collage and that Animating school....but I'll try to be more active :)

Okay I've finished Garshasp, 2 weeks ago didn't have time to write my impression...first of all i heard some roomers about this game which made me go easy on it, there is an organization here which they control video games by government...and i heard they didn't allow the Garshasp publishers release their games and they've censorship and changed its story, even its name, yes the name was soshianat....anyway with all these problems and limitations they could do better, lets talk about it:

Story

"Years after the confinement of Azhi Dahaka by Fereydun, the evil Deevs who were the commanders in the army of darkness led by Azhi Dahaka rose again in different parts of the ancient lands of Khunirath and rebelled against the humans who were celebrating the victory of the army of light. Each Deev formed a colony of its own and continued on bringing suffering to the human race. Hitasp, the Golden Crown, who possessed numerous deadly magical skills, was among these Deevs and was seeking to build up its empire in the rocky lands of Faranbagh. Siavoshgard, the legendary village that had been the home of many Pahlavans was raided by Hitasp and his followers and in the battle, Garshasp's brother, Oroxia, was killed while defending his ancestral home. Garshasp starts out pursuing revenge for his brother's blood by a journey towards the Hitasp's stronghold only to find out that something much more important has been taken in the raid of Siavoshgard and Garshasp's bravery is to play a big role in the destiny of the world..."

The game has 3 sequels which it's the first one, the story is like PoP and God of War, but they've used Shahnameh's stories for this game too which is deep and strong but the presentation and the Dialogs are few, and that makes it weak, they should have been added more Dialogs on it, i was expecting some codex like Dragon Age, these things don't need technical works, these things need a creative and knowledgeable Director, writer, a true gamer! the game has some cool cut scenes too but again they have weak directing for example there was a cut scenes which showed that monster (the blow pic) killed Garshasp's brother, but he didn't say anything!! he just looked more angry! and he even didn't touch his brother's body! overall the story is good but it could be much better.

Graphic

The graphic is pretty good among of the Persian games, i don't want to talk about technical things like textures, the game engine, because it's something more than their power and my knowledge too, but the art is something which they could work more on it, for example the Design, they didn't pay attention to the Persian architectural at all, none of the buildings i mean the castles are like Persian castles maybe that organization didn't allow them, but at least they could create better model for the main character, or the maps are pretty simple no creativity on them! if the game had better art and design it could be much better.

Gameplay

The most important part of the game is the game play, they've imitated the game play from God of War, Prince of Persia, Darksider...which is cool, the game has good QTE but each enemy only have one finishing animation! which makes it repetitive, the difficulty is easy, and the game is short 5 hours on hard difficulty, i was expecting better upgrading system, i mean if there was a store or something to buy new guns and armor it would be much better, in the end of the game you only find a new sword! the game has a good variety of enemies and each of them have their own finishing animations, the A.I. system is simple, some times the button don't work, and bad thing is when you press the attack button you first need to wait he finish his move, during his move other button don't work..overall the game play is good.

Audio

The music wasn't exciting for me and it didn't remind me anything and the sound effects were simple, and the main character didn't talk during the game at all only at the end of the game he talked which was cool but if he talked during the game like Gears of War it would be so much better imo.

Overall i think it would be better if they've made a RPG game instead of a fast action game but it was a good start

My Score

Among of the Persian Games i give it 7.5

Among of the Standard games i give it 4.0

Here the pics of its game play :)

It can be a good game for ipod or PSP but for PC, 360, PS3 it has a long journey.

Update

For the update that animation school teacher offered me a job! he told me come to my office and join to my team and work with us, he said first we need to test you to see you are capable of making 3d models.. or not and I'm studding a lot for next week :P i also talked a lot with that Girl i told her did you see Spartacus? she says no but she was interesting and i told her i can bring it for you...then another girl said i have it too, I'll give her that!!!!!!!! :lol: Spartacus is full of sexual scenes!!! I'm glad that i didn't give that to her :lol: and they kinda jealous with me cause that teacher said that come and work for me in front of their faces while they asked can we come too and he said no way :lol: :P BTW i saw this in Garshasp website:

Joining Fanafzar and the Garshasp Team

If you are an expert in any of the following fields, and would like to work on exciting game titles, feel free to contact us at jobs@fanafzar.com. Character 3D modeling - Environment 3D modeling - Texture art - Character animation - Toolchain programming - Network programming - Graphics programming - AI programming - Physics programming - Game design - Concept art

I like to contact with them in near future maybe they accept me :D i can do most of them :P i need to improve my skills, :D i also completed my Black Hole Story season 1 and I'm preparing things for it :D, and I'm playing Ops which i don't like it very much I'll write my impression after i finish it :) Okay that's for tonight :)

Thanks for reading

-Makan

Hi everybody :) how is everyone, It's getting cold here, this week we had lots of raining!

I'm sorry if I've missed some of your blogs, I'm so busy and my internet speed is so low that's why i sometimes miss your blogs :?

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I'm playing so many games right now, let me talk about Black Ops a little

I went to my local store today and i saw they have copies of CoD Black Ops! and i immediately bought it :P i also i bought a Persian Game called Garshasp any way, Ops is pretty like MW2 the starting was great, they were torturing a guy Mason, and asking him about his missions...then the first mission was in Cuba to kill the Cuba leader...then the second mission was in Russia!... to be honest it wasn't that impressive like MW for me, but still it's much better than Medal of Honor, and something which makes me surprise is that, they pretty insulted the Cuba's leader whom i think he wasn't that bad person, or insulting Russia, and showing, USA only is the best and good countries! i mean not all of the gamers in the world are from USA!!! how do the Russian or Cuba gamers will react to see they always are bad guys and how do they feel when they try to play this game....while in other some games they try to show other faces like Medal of Honor but USA try to ban them only because you can play as Taliban in multiplayer! any way overall it's better than MoH, i need to finish it then i will wirite my full impression so don't hate CoD fanboys now :P :)

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Let's talk about Garshas, it's my first Persian game which caught my eyes, and after playing 2 hours of it, i kinda like it, the graphic is good between other Persian games, the Gameplay is alright, and the story is like Shahnameh! (a famous Persian book like Herculie's) they've reached to a good point for the graphic indeed but the art was bad the main character is ugly, the music and voice acting is weak!! i didn't hear one word from the main character on that 2 hours playing time! the story, presentation is weak, i don't understand we have so many great heroes in Shahnameh like Rostam why on the earth they've created this ugly character! with no biography and history! and the game is slow, they imitate 90% of this game from God of War, i think those people who are making video games here ain't hardcore gamers at all they are so poor to making stories, i believe they should make a RPG game like Dragon Age...because RPG games don't need great graphics and fast gameplays, they need a great story and voice acting and great abilities...and it's easier than games like God of War! imagine a game like Rostam quest (this is my idea)...overall it was a good start.

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I also finished Force Unleashed 2 too, at first it was good, but it gets receptive and boring, 90% of enemies are from its movies nothing new in this game maybe 2,3 enemies are new, the graphic is pretty great and the game play is good, the physics is pretty good, but it's too easy and it's not challenging at all even Vader was so easy to kill! but the Story was awesome specially the cut scenes and the voice acting :) it doesn't have something new to be honest if you are fan of Star Wars you should try it, if not don't get it i will write my full impression about on next blog :)

I'm playing New Vegas and Fable 3 too both are great games indeed will write their impression, and i reached to a good skills in 3ds max my progress is very good, my next Black Hole episode will be much better :)

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I saw a girl in my Animation C l a s s , she was so hot I've decided to go and talk to her and i did it then we talked i told her some of my 3ds max special secret skills :P and she amazed and tanked me....and today i went to the c l a s s and tried to to sit besides her and she says hey how are you? and i said thanks....then i asked were my secrets skills helpful? she said yea thanks, then she said I'm not feeling good today i don't want to make you sick and she woke up and sat to another chair which my suit was there and i woke up to took my suit and my foot osculated to a chair and it made a big noise and everybody looked at me they were thinking i was bothering her and that made me so embarrass and upset, i think she didn't want to be my girlfriend, i think she has a boyfriend beside she looks older than me I'm in my first 20 and she looks like 25, 23, but I'll try again :P any way that was a bad moment indeed.

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Dragon Age Codex 2

Andraste: Bride of the Maker

There was once a tiny fishing village

on the waking sea that was set upon

by the Tevinter Imperium, Which

enslaved the villagers to be sold in the

markets of minrathous, leaving

behind only the old and infirm.

one of the captives was the child

Andraste.

she was raised in slavery in a foregin

land. she escaped, then made the long and treacherous journey back to her

homeland alone. she rose from

nothing to be the wife of an Alamarri

warlord.

Each day she sang to the gods, asking

them to help her people who remained

slaves in Tevinter. The false gods of the

mountains and the winds did not

answer her, but the true god did.

The maker spoke, He showed her all

the works of His hands: the Fade, the world, and all

the creatures there in. He showed her how men had forfotten

Him, lavishing devotion upon mute

idols and demons, and How He had left

them to their fate. But her voice had

reached Him, and so captivated Him

that He offered her a place at His side,

that she might rule all of creation.

But Andraste would not forsake her

people.

she begged the maker to return, to save

His children from the crurlty of the

Imperim. Reluctantly, the maker

agreed to give man another chance.

Andraste went back to her husband,

maferath, and told him all that the

maker had revealed to her. together,

They rallied the Alamarri and marched

forth against the mage-lords of the

Imperium, and the maker was with

them.

The maker's sword was creation itself:

fire and flood, famine and earthquake.

Everywhere they went, Andraste sang

to the people of the maker, and they

heard her. the ranks of Andraste's

followers grew until they were a vast

tide washing over the Imperium. And

when maferath saw that the people

loved Andraste and not him, a worm

grew withing his heart, gnawing upon

At last, the armies of Andraste and

maferath stood before the very gates of

mirathous, but Andraste was not

with them.

For maferath had schemed in secret to

hand Andraste over to the Tevinter.

For this, the archon would give

maferath all the lands to the south of the

waking sea.

And so, before all the armies of the

Alamarri and of Tevinter, Andraste

was tied to a sake and burned while

her earthly husband turned his heart

had been devoured. but as he watched

the pyre, the archon softened. He took

pity on Andraste, and drew his sword,

and granted her the mercy of a quick

death.

The maker wept for His Beloved,

cursed maferath, cursed mankind for

their betrayal, and turned once again

from creation, taking only Andraste

with him. And our lady sits still at

his side, where she still urges Him to

take pity on His children.

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Thanks for reading :)

-Makan

Hi everybody :)

I've finished two games Vanquish and Medal of Honor and here are my final thoughts about them :)

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1-Vanquish:

Okay Vanquish is pretty fun and new, i enjoyed playing it and i definitely looking forward to Vanquish 2.

the story wasn't so important for me, they've uses this cold war idea and bring it to Sci-Fiction age, war between USA and Russia... and you play as Sam to stop them to use the mass destruction weapons......., the Robots, the bossfights... all of them are creative, a big city in space, giant Spacecrafts, those big robots are pretty new and that makes it a new game for me.

The Gameplay is the best part of the game, there is a good variety of guns and enemies, each gun works for special type of enemies for example for those big robots there is a gun which you can aim to their weak areas like their hands, heads and you can cut their bodies :P and so on..., the physic works pretty good, the gameplay is pretty fast especially when you use your turbo boost. but you can't use slow motion when you are getting cover, you first need to press jump button then aim button to bring the slow motion which it causes some camera problems specially in little areas, or the blind shooting system, doesn't have very big difference with aiming system, the enemy A.I is simple, and the charging system sometimes is annoying and it was short, it took me 9 hour and 51 minuets on Hard Difficulty, and the credit was so funny you should shoot pictures of those game developers :lol: and the last member which is the director, is more challenging to shoot :lol:!!

The Graphic is pretty good, there is very huge environments and scenes on the game, very great distance view, very good textures and lighting system.

The Audio was good, the dialogs during the cut scenes were pretty good, but the game doesn't have lip syncing, you can see the face of characters in your left upper corner of your screen when they start talking, the game has a good sense of humor.

Overall i recommend Vanquish for those whom are looking for a new shooter :)

My Final Score is 9.0

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2-Medal of Honor:

I don't know what was their goal to making this game, it could be a great game if only if they've worked more on the Story and Characters.

I didn't understand about the story to be honest it was boring same old same.... which we see in news, you can't contact, feel your and other characters in the game, first, all of them look same to me, second they have low textures you can't compare them to the Modern Warfare 2 characters, i really didn't understand what we are doing in the game, why first we are at deserts then in the mountains lol....

The Gameplay was the best part of the game, there wasn't new guns in the game all of them are like MW2...,but the game has good physics, the enemies have destructible bodies which make it cool, the hard difficulty was easy for me not that challenging like MW 2 noting so special in this part lets move on to the next part :)

The Graphic is good, the environment has pretty grate detail, the snow at nights looks cool to me....but the Characters have low details to be honest specially the main characters!! and they look pretty like each other!

The Audio isn't very great, i barely could hear their voices so that i turned on the subtitle! and it was like only one guy is voice acting!

There was some cool mission like those snipe missions or that Helicopter mission too which was short.

Overall i didn't like it don't buy it now it doesn't worth to pay $60 for it

My Score is 7.5

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Okay Thanks for reading my final impression, for the next blog i will write my first impression about Fable 3 and Fallout New Vegas and i will write my next Dragon Age Codex and Voice Actors :)

I'm thinking to get Force Unleash 2 and Lord of Shadow :D

And Happy Halloween and check out my recent Home work :P

-Makan