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             Stop! You Violated the LAW!  By not playing Skyrim yet!  This game is huge making it pretty hard to review, but I will do the best I can.  After putting 125 hours in only now do I feel it is fair to review this game.  Unlike all the people who play the game for 10 hours and get paid to do it.  I have to play the game on my own time.  I also think it is impossible to get a real feel for Skyrim in just 10 hours.  So here is my 125 Hour review of Skyrim.  If you have played Oblivion you will know what to expect.  It has many things in common with Oblivion just polished up a bit.  With more dynamic interaction.  Also the Graphics and the new engine helped.

Alright!  Call of Duty 8 Modern Warfare 3 Limited Edition!  Think the name is long enough?  I wish that was the only problem with this game, but no it's just the beginning.  This game is bad.  I mean really bad.  The single player is boring and is really just mw2 1.5.  Really this whole game is MW2 1.5.  This game is just a $60 DLC.  Really worthless.  I am not going to spend much time on this review because I can't stand to waste anymore time on this game.  I am just going to go over a few things quickly.  Number one the single player is boring.  So stupid and unrealistic you can't be bothered to care.  I found my self not even following what was going on.  I really could care less.  I just sat down and played for 2 hours.  Closed the game and uninstalled if from my PC.  What a waste.  On the multiplayer side of things I could care less.  No dedicated servers means I don't even bother playing it.  About the only good thing I can say about this game with a straight face is it was not as bad as Black ops.

Well there you have it.  My review of the stunning Call of Duty 8 Modern Warfare 3 Limited Edition.  No photos no videos.

Battlefield 3 the game that aspires to be MW3 while still denying it saying that MW3 in fact is bad.  Even though they don't say it out loud everyone knows that's what they are saying.  So what does a game that tries to be like MW3 play like?  Well I guess you will just have to read my review.

I am going to start off with the story, the core and most important component of a game "not really".  For the singleplayer the game starts off fast and plays hard almost the entire game.  There are only about two stealth missions in the game and they only last about ten minutes before they NPCs say F' it and pull out fully automatic assault rifles.  Then you will be feed a good dose of over the top and cliché action movie scenes.  Which is ok if that's what you're looking for.  The whole game however is not action I am just stating the fact that a lot of the game will contain explosions over the top dialog and more twists then a Twizzler.  Once I finished the game and the whole story was out on the table for me to look at.  I felt as if something was missing, but it was just the fact that the OMG NUKE!!! LOOKOUT! WE MUST SAVE TEH WURLD! MY GOD! EXPLOSIONSOINS!  stories are so common they have no impact.  Something a bit more low key would be more interesting if you ask me.  Maybe we have to break into a prison and get one guy?  Just like back in COD 1?  Very simple very realistic goals.  All in all the story line wasn't half bad, but it also was not half good.  And that is half n half... the shittiest kind of coffee known to man.  So that's it.  BF3 is a cup of coffee.

Alright now that I have touched on the idea of a story.  It is time to talk about gameplay.  Here is something that can float between multiplayer and singleplayer with ease.  Yes this game has great guns that are fun to shoot.  There are enemies that are fun to take out and  It is also just fun to run around and do different things.  The gameplay is good!  Too bad 60% of the game is quick time events.  Which have never been a good idea and never will.  whoever thought of quick time events should die.  Also remembering to hitting spacebar is much more important than watching is what on the screen.  Considering you only have 1/8 of a second the press the button before you are dead.  You can't watch what is going on in the game you have to put all the effort in not messing up the keys.  Which really pulls me out of the game.  Making the quick time events some of the worst I have seen in a game.  Which is really saying a lot.  Then on top of that the AI are so stupid!  I can walk around them for 20 seconds before they realize that I am there.  Then they do a 180 and knife me while I can do nothing.  If there is anything this game teaches you it is to stay away from enemy AI they will knife you and you will have to play that twenty minutes of game over again.  All in all the game has good gameplay, but is plagued by some bad choices by the developers.

Alright time to talk about the final two things.  First the graphics.  They look amazing.  Alright now let's move onto the PC features.  The game has good pc features allowing you to change all the settings at your will.  They even have an unlocked FOV for Singleplayer and Multiplayer.  If you can't get enough tweaking on in the menus then you can open your documents and open a plain text config file.  So the settings are really open to you to change as you will.  The console is unlocked allowing you to input some commands although I am under the impressions most of them don't take effect until you reload the game.

With that I am at the end of my review of BF3.  Take my words into consideration and weigh the good with the bad.  I like the game and I think it was worth the $60.  I think the multiplayer is worth a lot more then the singleplayer so if you're only going in for the single player you might just want to wait until it's on sale.

I took some screenshots and videos for you guys.  Enjoy!

Metro 2033 is a CORE PC Shooter which looks insane on PC.  Lots of the reviewers reviewed it on console and have it a low score because they don't understand what a good game with good graphics is.  >.>  I'll tell you right now this game is very good.  The story the graphics are top class and not to be messed with.  This game will stress even the most high end systems with full support of DX11 and incredible particles and light effects.  I don't know why this was never seen as the new Crysis bench mark.  The difference between this and Crysis is this is optimized for new tech and looks incredible.  The high end settings Taxed my GTX570 down to 20 - 30 FPS while on low settings gave me 70 - 90 FPS while still looking 8x times as good as the average console port we get every day.  So load it up and see if your system can handle it.

Alright so now that I have talked about the graphics of the game which steal the show, but are not all the game has to offer.  I will cover some of the PC gamer features.  This game does not have the best features for a PC gamer.  Even though it does have very good graphics just for PC. It does lack the ability to tweak these settings ingame.  You can only chose from Low, Med, and High.  It does show the settings that are being changed in great detail, but does not allow you to tweak the settings yourself.  It is kind of weird.  You also can not change your FOV ingame, but this can be done by editing cfg files.  Even editing the config files is kind of a headache because you have to edit the same config file in three different places to get the settings to stick.  Three different places which are basically hidden on your PC.  I will have a tutorial on how to do this in the subsection of this game on my website.  There is one more thing I would like to talk about.  The AI are stupid.  Really stupid.  You can forget about Stealth because the AI can see you at 20 feet in pitch black.  It is best to just go in shooting DOOM style.  Using all your guns to mow down all your enemies.

I recorded some videos for you and took some screenshots.  Go take a look.

                      RAGE!!!! No just kidding it’s a good game.  Rage is a good 'ole' shooter with some nice 'new gen' features.  It still has the well-made shooting sequences that we all know and love from ID.  Infact I was always looking forward to getting back to killing some mutants.  I feel as if there is a bit to much talking and driving compared to the shooting sequences.  Later in the game the shooting sequences do increases a lot making it the main part of the game.  So if you don't like the beginning don't give up.  There is more shooting later on in the game.  The environments get a lot more interesting as the game progresses to.  It is still a core FPS Shooter, but it tries to be more.  I don't think it needed to and would have been more fun without the RPG parts of the game. 

                        Alright now that I have given my two cents about the gameplay I am going to makes some comments on the game and how it caters to the PC Gamer.  I don't know if it does...  First off the settings in game were pretty short and not much tweaking was available.  Then on top of that to open the console you had to add an extra launching parameter.  Why can't a Dev console be enabled by default?  Do they really think the PC gamer is not going to want to change their FOV or employ some Graphics tweaks?  Besides the light tweaking there was no Mods button ingame which is a first for ID Games.  So with all that the lack of PC features made me a little disappointed, but it's something I come to expect in this day and age.  At least you can get the console up without using a third-party tool.

Here are some screenshots for you. 

Deus Ex Human Revolution is a good play.  It is a great FPS with RPG features.  Unlike the first Deus Ex which was a RPG with FPS features.  This game is more about the action and less about the story and the world, but that does not mean the story is gone.  It means it just takes a back seat.  Even though this is a FPS ‘shooter’ you can’t really just run around shooting.  The game seems to work better as a stealth game.  You can try to talk your way though some areas but I found myself just getting shot once seen most of the time.  Then when I was wondering though the city people would threaten to kill me if I went into their headquarters or whatever they have but they would not even kill me or do anything.  There are a lot of good reviews around the internet so I’ll leave the rest of the game details to them.  I just want to say that it runs great on PC, and I don't think it is a port.  It has all the features you expect in a PC game.  The ability to tweak your Graphics and your FOV ingame is something that many games now lack.  While I played I took screenshots.  Enjoy

So I got a chance to play some "From Dust" after not having a chance to open a single game all week.  I would have to say it was a good choice for the time I had.  It was a really layed back game that was just fun to play with the simple game mechanics.  I spent more time making the worlds into paradies creating walls of lava and sand to protect my villiagers then completing the levels as fast as possable.  After beating the game I still felt like a lot of more things could have been done.  I wish they had spent more time in adding more levels.  A simple map editor would do wonders for this game.  I am sure a bunch of modders would make great mods for this.  Its just like playing in a real sandbox. :)  Here are some pictures I took while playing, enjoy

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