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Red Alert 3 Beta review

2008-09-15T02:35:00.000-07:00

Well this has been long in the making, anyway, these reviews should SLOWLY become better, fancier and really, overall better but for the moment you're gonna have to put up with just text and a odd grade

Discliamer(or whatever its called):( The scores that are given to these games are mearly how much I enjoyed them by all the different area put together, not on AWESOME they may be, this is because the people who might read these will know that if they like what i like there safe to get it, not "it's a really awesome game, everyone should try it" but you later find out that YOU personally don't like it[Long huh])

Anyway...

Score:3/5

The Red Alert Beta, is just that a beta so its hard to talk critically about it, with all the problems beta's have, but then this is no ordinary beta, this beta is something spacial, so special that what I said before doesn't apply to this beta at all. The RA3 beta was something that I personally looked forward but was very disappointing, The thing that was the most disappointing was EA. EA made some huge stuff-ups, even from the very beginning, to start of they cocked up the beta key distribution as the people who got in early were went to get the keys first but did this happen, no it didn't, instead a hand full of people who entered there key the day it came in actually got the key while most others registered around julyish,(with the game coming out early may), this was quite huge but after that they kept making mistakes, which came in the deceptive form of patches, these patches where meant to make balance changes, but in doing so EA cocked it up somehow, when ever a new patch came out, it always seemed to create a new problem, some of the biggest problems include the Assault destroyer, an anti armor ship being made to only shoot underwater targets (with a deck gun oddly enough) when it should have been able to to hit both, and another that caused a path finding problem, where you would tell a unit to move forward 5 meters only to have it turn around run around the entire map just to get to the position, but there are many more that I can't quite remember right now.

Anyway that enough EA bagging... for now. The game has great music, which changes dynamically with the situation which isn't new but its nice, great unit balances, great factions and good fun. although there are many bugs in the beta it's still good fun to play with other people non-competitively online, just having fun and since it's a beta its all the problems can be fixed but there isn't that long for the problems to be fixed since RA3 comes out in a month. I'd have to say, it's only good fun at best and a broken toy that can't be fixed or returned at worst, more the later lately.

Although to go back to attacking EA, they decided to release the beta keys with kanes wrath, an exspansion pack to C&C3:TW, the game to say the most was a failure, it destroyed balance between the teams and such, it seems that they put the beta keya into the game so people would actually buy kane wrath, sure it had a sorta nice story but it was broken. this shameless ploy by EA is just stupid andpointless, as i have read many people a bitch'n about, most are right.

Anyway, I seem to have strayed a little, as the beta is at the moment it would seem to e just a cash cow for EA, they took a title that people love and admire and are taking it apart...slowly. in conclusion, a broken beta, that could be salvaged but my hopes aren't to high, we'll just have to wait for the full version.

In the near future i will be putting up a list of what games i'm in the process of playing and reviewing. stayed tuned for some Star wars...

Soon...

2008-07-20T03:49:00.000-07:00

Ok, now, ignore everything that has happened on this blog, which includes the big gaps where i didn't post and my terrible English. Now I have a plan which requires me to accumulate enough support from people I know and from them get support from people I don't know to give me the determination i need to do what i want, this means plainly that i want to start reviewing game's on a semi frequent basis (by which i mean that i have something to review) as i want to become a game editorialist in the future for a few years. If I get enough support i will do this and if i get even more I will eventually, after getting enough income at a constant rate and I might open up my own website on which i will continue my work with others havening access to put stuff up. I also want to have a web comic but I don't think I can manage it, but we'll see one day.

The only idea that I think would make people come to me then instead of another website is that my reviews would be based on how I like the game not how it compares to other and such (how other site generally do it) It's for people who have the same liking of games as I do.

Now I must be off to do other stuff, and eventually informing others off my plan and asking them to inform their other friends off my exploits and hope for enough people actually reading my reviews and what ever reviews,preview's, beta's and other little bits off coverage that i can get, even though you could get it from other places. should start within 1-2 weeks as theirs a beta coming out that I'm in so yea.
Seacrest out!

HATE

2008-04-28T06:03:00.000-07:00

I'M GOING TO MURDER VCD!!!

What time takes

2008-04-24T08:03:00.000-07:00

Well, I have squat idea what will happen to this blog and to those few, who ever have read these scribblings of a madman, but that doesn't matter as I have things that equate to more than such a thing as this, but until things come into fruition this will do.

Now business Can't really remember what happened in the past however many weeks have fats since feb something, although i do remember sleeping a lot which is never tiresome, but i have been fast walking/jogging every day (almost) for like the past 5-6 weeks, thats tiresome, and so is school work. but such trivial matters are boring, not much else to say right now, got some good ideas in my head of a good close coming future plan, just need time, but only time stands in my way now.

red hearts

2008-02-14T00:26:00.001-08:00

Well today it's valentines day, not much of an exciting event, well at least for me it is. anyway some people I talked to today don't seem to think much of valentines day or fined it over-rated, though I don't really see how... but thats not the point, I don't really have a point i'm just saying happy valentines day for those who has themselves a valentine and to those who don't well try typing something like this while listening to let it be played on the piano with nothing else and tell me how you feel, then I have something to say to you but until then chances have it that I probably hate you so really... happy valentines day

down hill cliff

2008-02-13T04:40:00.000-08:00

I've been messing around with a title name and have finally decided to try out leaves point Down, the best names have hidden meanings ;)

Well I had my first SAC today on legal 3/4, nothing interesting except that i got up at 7:15 so i could get to the SAC on time at 7:45, and I know I live like 3 minutes walking distance but that doesn't matter, also i got the queens rep and crown mixed up when there the same thing so, i can't wait for the awkwardness of reading my answer to that question... good subjects, history is awesome since I have Mr.Miles as a teacher and hes arguably the best teacher at school. Trying to keep up with work hard but that hard, my math teacher Mr.Rule is a giant tool, he flung my math book across the room cause HE said "I was the last one talking" when in fact I was one of the people to stop talking first. My VCD teacher Mr.Wardell is a bit toolish as well, as lachlan noted less mature then most yr 11's but thats not saying much as a lot yr 11's are also pretty big tools.

I also said how ever long ago that i would start doing game related stuff but I haven't done it yet, well I hope to start this Friday so wait and see.Also as I sit here listening to "Let it be" by the Beatles I am forced to think about gamespot. Now as most probably don't know gamespot is a site that is pure games and they give you great info on them. now around late November a game editor named Jeff Gertsmann was "fired" by cnet this has lead to another two people leaving because of this, now this is destroying gamespot and I'm left to wonder what cnet must be thinking now as the site gets worse and if they are considering that firing Jeff was such a good idea , I'll keep listen to the hotspot (podcast)to see how its go's, I recommend the site and that you listen to some previous hotspot's as they are very interesting as well as extremly funny. Now I'm gonna listen to "let it be" some more as I go to sleep and ponder what will become of my 'beloved' gamespot.

Time

2008-02-05T02:50:00.000-08:00

I seem to have lots of time on my hands lately while I also have no time. I seem to find myself with a couple hours till whatever and I have nothing to do so i decide to fill this time in with doing meaningless things. while other times when i have no time and I have some homework i decide to fill in this vacant time with more meaningless things (like right know while I write this) instead of doing work, which now that I'm doing VCE I really should be doing much more but I don't, I'm just not a very motivated person, except when it comes to things I like.

SEGWAY!

speaking of things i like the school production has "started", started in the sense that it hasn't, but a least the auditions are over, which i have attended and I can proudly say I'm quite over confident, because if your gonna get confident you may as well go out with one hell of bang. but i should find out... tomorrow. in which I get to act and sing.

SEGWAY!

speaking of singing, singing is a form of music.

SEGWAY!

speaking of music, I'm doing music and i wanna change to history. now if you ever consider doing music, don't, just don't, its long, boring, agitating and hardish (except for the stupid matt...) but i feel like I'd be letting Mr.Ford (head of music) down which i feel bad about, so I don't really wanna do it but I must.

Segway!

Speaking of things i must do, i feel that i must ask Yang a question at the end of any of my post so I think i will so, yay for me.

So Yang where has the time gone?

Games!!!

2008-01-10T04:19:00.000-08:00

By popular demand (me) I have decided to try and do some gaming reviews (on my own blog) in an attempt to get good at it for my future hopes and possible help with work (lachlan knows) and because I seem to have a lot of spare time on my hands, so really I get bored easily and for long periods of time, so I would like to do one a week on a Friday, but hopefully more, just depends on how I feel and how bored I am, also if I have gotten a game to actually review.... they are not ment to be funny or anything , I want them to be serious so yea.

And as note this is pre-comeback to yang (mainly) and anyone else who challenges me, shut up, and if ya don't like it, then why are you here?

Now spread the word... (well actually, I don't care if you do but, it'd be nice ^^)

seacrest out.

UPDATE: If I don't receive criticism from people, I a might make a video occasionally with the help of lachlan who has obviously agreed to my just made idea... ^^ that he dosn't know about ...yet!!!

nothing better to do...

2008-01-07T21:04:00.000-08:00

Rules: Do this tag and answer all the questions into your own blog. Delete one question from the questions listed and add one of your own questions. Make sure it's 20 questions. Tag 8 persons.

1. What was your dream when you were a small kid?
- To be the fastest person in the world.

2. What is your happiest thing in your whole life?
- Friends.

3. What do you wish to have now?
- The best computer money can buy

4. How should the world be seen?
- A roller coaster

5. What have you realised recently?
- That I'm not a determined person.

6. What is the bad habit that you cannot accept the most?
- Laziness

7. When you have something which you are unhappy about, what will you do?
- Nothing

8. Are you afraid of losing?
- Not really, but it isn't fun

9. Do you think that you feel helpless, or uselesss, sometimes?
- Possibly.

10. When you meet someone that you like, will you confess or hide your feelings?
- Hide them, usually wait for them.

11. List out 3 kind of people you hate the most.
- 1. Stupid people
2. People who think there better than everyone else
3. Genetically superior people

12. If you're given a chance to change the world, what will u do?
- Unite the world under one ruling government, that might not actually be good but I want it

13. Are you satisfied with your life now? Do you think any changes should be made?
- No,yes changes should be made but I'm not the person for that job.

14. If you had one last wish would you set the genie free?
- Yes

15. Where is the place that you visited and you felt the most beautiful?
- I haven't been anywhere that has been that beautiful

16. Use a song to describe how you've felt recently.
- Misery (just a name) and paint it black

17. If you had one wish that'll come true, what is it?
- That I could be fit

18. Do you have anything to worry or to be scared about recently?
- Recently, no.

19. What am I looking for in my life?
- To be remembered.

20. If you could take back one decision you made in your life, what would it be?
- To eat as much as I have.

I don't really have anyone to tag so yea...

overview

2008-01-07T02:37:00.000-08:00

Well I've been finger quotes "busy" for the fast few however many days, (I'd wager more than 10) and i feel bored even with all the crap i now have, anyway i will give you a quick overview (see the title name ^^)... well yes of the past few however longs.

Stuff happened... well stuff did.

for those who would be annoy with me for that i will go in a little more detail, but be warned...

anyway, i got mainly games for Christmas, which I'm fine with, done nothen really since, new years was a blow out went to lachs house and went to some pier thingy and stayed there for like 5 hours , it was exceedingly boring. after that my mum birthday, then well now, but apart from that ,oh yea my bro got a PS3!?!?!?!?!?! hehe. well as a Christmas present on the 30th of DEC, now for all of you out there who know me and say wow you have all finger quotes " next-gen consoles" you can shove it cause
a) i hate you
B) i don't call them next-gen, but mainly cause i hate you...

well that somes up my awesome life, and as a side note i hav'nt been busy really this holiday just buming around sleeping and such so i havn't botherd to do a post or anything else like this so yea, but its holidays so you can go make friends with a chump...

2008'll suck

weekend,camp and pizza

2007-12-01T00:19:00.000-08:00

Well before i get to cadet camp, i want to talk about the weekend before. well on Saturday I got Mass Effect, a great game with aliens 'n mass effect...oh yea and I also sung at a church dinner were i wore my new bitch'n suit, I was awesome.

Well on Monday I went on cadet camp. Now for a short over view
Monday: arrived at camp walked a bit set up tent thingy, went on a little walk and ate nobbys nuts... (salted nuts), cicadas then sleep.

Tuesday: LONG hike, tripped and ran my knee into a rock...it hurt a shit load, got a ride back to camp, played a shitty game of spot light, more cicadas then sleep umm... big game of spotlight with a...wait for it... ... ... ... GLOW STICK!!! yea...um i sat in the bush in a stupid ass location for like 2-3 hours or something lost track of time,

Wednesday: Umm...lessons then stuff,Fight between Paul(some kid) and Oscar(some pyro/necrophiliac/umm... sadist/umm... bullshit maker/ahh...mind set of every second or thord word hearing the word penis, wood can fix ANY problem/some other shit, which is also bad), night hike, cicadas(they happen every day so i'll stop mentioning them along with sleep)

Thursday:...Umm more lessons, long wait, continued long wait, shelters are made,ment to have another game of spot light but didn't(maybe cuss it rained), it rained.

Friday: clean up, shelters destroyed, some meaningless stuff, hike to buses, ride home, walk home, no cicadas, slept at home

Also through out the week + a week before have been making an RTS game that will probs never be made, but its fun and a time consumer so stuff you. Beat Mass Effect today (Saturday)

well thats it...

oh yea I had pizza on Friday for dinner ^^

Stoked

2007-11-18T00:10:00.001-08:00

Well I'm stoked, I've just gotten back from choir but before that i was at egames. it was pretty dam awesome. I went with Lachlan, when we got there we just sorta mozied on around and had a look. We then waited to play some Crysis which is an awesome game that i wanted to get. we started playing and about half'n hour later we stopped and looked at other stuff. We didn't really do much just watched some comp's 'n the like. I got a free red bull, taste's like shit. then i went to where there was a crysis comp about to start and to get in you had to scream really loudly, i tried once but then i felt sick so i went to the toilet and removed what ailed me.

then I was of, more random wondering, I then returned to were the comp was as it finished. i then proceeded to take a seat and play a little crysis with 4 other chumps (1 was goth...). i sucked bad, died allot and got little kills, then when the next round came i was Pwning completely and utterly, I got o 10:1 (kills:deaths) I then got to about 25:7, then when the round ended i was at 33:9... nice (the guy next to me cursed at me...). Then i started the next round with 2 kids who kept complaining when I killed them, but then for some reason(probably couldn't handle my pwnage) the server crashed, so yet again i was of looking at shit then Lachlan found me showed me this cool thing on how to get into the gaming industry. Then i went back to watch some more Crysis.

Now to why I'm stoked, after a while of watching some multiplayer, they started up the final Crysis comp, this timed I failed twice with my scream, desperate to get in a just belted out and looked the guy in the eye and he said to me, "this guy's pretty dam loud" so i got to enter. Now it was me VS 4 others (yet again 1 was an emo...)i played my way through with lachlan encouraging me. I had some awesome moments like when these 2 guys started to fight with there fists and the announcer was all exited, the along comes me with a rocket-launcher and, BOOM, I blow them both up, and everyone just screamed with shock and amazement, the commentator went Wilde (hehehe). this continued till I got down to 1 last kill and... bang I won... YAY. I had just won a free copy of Crysis... I pwn.

So i went home was late for choir and had a shower now I'm here typing and deleting games and the like which i no longer need/want or play.... (I now have bragging right until i get the game and up to a week after i receive the game)

CRYSIS BITCHS.

Dark and Stingy

2007-11-12T21:35:00.000-08:00

Well at the request of Yang i'm updateing my blog... HAPPY YANG?

well i'm currently in the library at like 4:37 PM doing math study (homework) BAH!! i hate Quadratic equations. Yangs siting next to me and is helping me with the equations, and pointing out my faulty math equations...But i'm happy because i had a crispy cream donut before i came in ^^

Now it's just a wait till 5:00 since i'm going home then. Nothing really to talk about other than my awesome new eqaution that i made today of an idea from lachan

Now i have to give you the background on a convosation me and lachlan had. It had something to do with math and Matt Westwood. Now i said "but that's not the point", then lachlan said "but matts gay. and that lead me to how to find out what the point equals

now lets let the point be P, and Matts gay= M
Now here I go. P=P, but P= P+M But thats not the point. P=M, but thats not the point, P=M-M, P=P, but all previously stated equaions are still true
So P=P+M=true
well that took longer than exspected ^^
Later Chumps!

Nothing and wrestling

2007-11-09T06:04:00.000-08:00

Well it's quite late right now so I'll try to make this short.
(Warning Rant)
I don't have much to say but i should probably say something well much later on today i'm going to see the wrestling, what joy. I get to go see something that i didn't really want to see in the first place. But so it seems i had a ticket bought for me without my consent. Now you may call me ungracious but your a twat.

Now i really very much hate it when people make decisions on my behalf, it really annoys me because i don't get to give my opinion and when I'm informed of the decision that was made WITHOUT my consent and i say well i don't really want to go, i get called an insensitive, ungracious prick, but then what does that make the person who made the decision on my behalf? Someone who makes deals behind other backs who feels that they should take matters into there own hands because they no whats right? Well the only person who knows whats right for me is, by great surprise, ME! now i don't care if I'm insensitive and all that other stuff my opinion should be recognized and accepted.

That brings me on to something i wasn't even going to write about but i thought since i'm on the subject i may as well. Now, my family likes to go on vacation, A LOT. I don't see how they can afford it when they tell me that they don't have a lot of money to spend, yet they went to America this year and the last, they also went ...somewhere else i think last year and now they want to go to Noosa in January. now what i love about that is they asked me if i wanted to go and i said "no"but then they said "well you're going." I mean WHAT THE HELL, they ask me and have already made the decision for me. And they keep saying "its a family holiday". so what i haven't been on all the family holidays, i mean they could ask me before they decided for me, I mean It's only common courtesy, and then my sister calls me a rude words because i don't want to go... that really just makes me very angry.

Now to try and stop my angry rant I'll tlk about something else. Well i now have lost 3 weeks of my life...1 week of study(it's enough),then exams, then a week of super fun cadet camp, practically siting in crazy hot bush that could catch fire just by creating minimal friction between wood. accompanied by lazly hours upon hours of mindless nothingness, with a little hint of hikes and dam stupid year 9 stupids. I have an awesome week ahead of me. But at least i can write stories

It would seem that I didn't manage to make It short. -_-

Long weekend

2007-11-06T04:35:00.000-08:00

Well it's coming to the end of a nice long weekend. I WAS planning on doing some study but it seems that I have forgotten... which is bad since i suck at math and biology it seems that I've spent most of my time sleeping or doing squat while sitting at my PC...

Now I am normally not one to sit at my PC doing nothing but, I was quite intensely bored this weekend, despite doing the odd thing , I even got a new game to play on the Friday, but it was actually quite short and not as awesome as I originally thought, which is disappointing because I got that game and gave up the chance to get Universe at War: Earth Assault, which is an awesome looking game, and if you don't now what it is, stop being such a twat and go look it up.

Also apart from my gaming "depression" and lack of study aftermath I also have an essay due this Friday on civil rights and I really dislike the civil rights movement. NOW I'm one of those people who always leave a project/essay till the night before it's due and then do it, and spout drivel about how they'll stop being like that and change, now if your like me your a STUPID and you can't change so stop being a foo', and sit back and wait...(I have accepted this so I'm no longer a stupid)

Each and everyone of who reads any of this is a chump