Article entries here

Yep, something like that (:
Trust me, If I want to play a mmo I never played before, I watch a review of it. I dont read anything, I watch and listen. I mean, Its like doing 2 things at once, reading a review and trying a game yourself. (:
The video would show you different features of the game etc, which will get you interested (:

I would love video reviews but preferably from an adult who has a nice deep broken voice rather than a squeaky 13 year old voice.

I would make a vid but :/ meh, Might join the ragecast team tho

Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) for those of you know don't know, is a FPS (First Person Shooter) from Valve Corp. built on the Source Gaming engine.
First announced at the Electronics Expo (E3) 2009, L4D2 didn't leave off from where L4D(1) ended as many fans hoped and had planned for.
Instead you were now given 4 new characters (Coach, Ellis, Nick, Rochelle) who try make their way through 6 different levels of Zombie Hordes trying to make their way to the CEDA Evacuation sites.

Unlike its predecessor, L4D2 was based much more on a storyline you could hear from the charecters as the game progressed.

A lot of things were carried from the first game, such things as the Bosses you all know and want to blow their heads off (Witch, Boomer, Smoker, Hunter, Tank), The Director AI (This knows when to give you guns, spawn bosses at the worst of times etc.)
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I hope you won't ever put that if you are in the team on your article.

Oh hell no, I'd spend a lot more effort if I ever got on the team.
Just wrote it late at night, night guys.. lol :p

Okay, and I also have some critism. You didn't said anything about the L4D 2 Gameplay than "it's a FPS"

I'm only about 20% done, lol :p I'm filling the user with information, then telling them how it feels, like a ****o

My article is now up and open to critique.

100% Agreed apon don, why we dont have any new interesting games that are breaking boundries is a pointless waste of bandwidth. Borring MMO's need to go on a diet, bring on something new!

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I would love video reviews but preferably from an adult who has a nice deep broken voice rather than a squeaky 13 year old voice.

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I have a nice deep broken voice. I've been called the songbird of my generation.

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Originally Posted by MentaL

I would love video reviews but preferably from an adult who has a nice deep broken voice rather than a squeaky 13 year old voice.

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Lol. Well at 19 your bones become old and you legs begin to weaken, oldage is catching up with you. The voice broke many years ago and now seems to fade away.

Sigh, oldage is a bugger!

Gonna give it a little try. Please note this was my first time playing Runescape and this is basically my honest opinion/review on the game. Dan said we can base it on comedy (kinda) so why the hell not. The image at the top won't work either damn, just click it. Don't take offense to this if you play the game, it's just a joke...

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hTrFsnWqtA]YouTube - Official RuneScape Trailer By Jagex[/ame]

Runescape is a popular online MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) by Jagex Software, a professional *ahem* company focused on game production. Unlike other MMORPG's, Runescape manages to successfully make users addicted and waste hours of their time every single day until they finally realise everything they'd ever done in-game was completely pointless. Most of the users who play the game are pre-pubescent, stink of body odor and haven't witnessed the sun rise since they were born...

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Andrew Gower, the creator of Runescape, also an idiot

Don't get me wrong. You can go fishing, fight the bad guys, even make your own armour. There's so much land to explore you can be satisfied for hours on end just traveling and showing off to your friends how much gold you've collected. Then you come across land that's more or less free for all, anybody can kill you. You loose everything... Tough luck loser.

How can I forget! It's amazing all of the females that play the game, isn't it? I managed to get a few of their e-mail's and we decided to share pictures of each another, I was really happy. All of a sudden I was shocked as a picture of a man was sent to my inbox. I replied saying there must be some mistake but I never had a reply. Maybe one day I'll find a female character that's actually a female.

I really wish this was real life though. When you eat something in-game you actually loose weight. You also have no fingers or face (speak about realism). I was suspicious that I was being hacked, so I sent a support ticket to customer support - turns out it's cheaper if they just use an automated system instead of actually dealing with your request.

Thank's for reading! Be sure to read my next review at RaGEZONE.com. Cheers, MDK.

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I have a nice deep broken voice. I've been called the songbird of my generation.

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You have to call me KnightHawk.

Mirror’s Edge

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Spoiler:

In the society of tomorrow, you will not be searching to safety; you will be looking for privacy from the authorities. Your messages will be tracked, scrutinized and known before they even reach your hand. Hopefully you have the runners. Faith is one. In the extrapolated society of Mirror’s Edge, runners are an underground group of carriers, transporting delicate information. The content is never clear and it does not matter in either case, since the story revolves around Faith’s sister, a framed cop for the murder of a mayoral candidate promising change to the city and its runners living on the edge. In this, pretty straightforward story, you find yourself running around the place, trying to find the incriminating evidence to prove the innocence of your sister among other things. Despite the dull story with no turning points, it still keeps you interested until the end. Even if it concludes with a feel of no great accomplishment, nonetheless, the story and gameplay holds you back on the edge of your seat, with stylish animated cut scenes that looks appealing and offers a new visual style.

As you run across the city, climbing on pipes, leaping through impossible looking chasms of emptiness, you pick up speed and can combine all your moves together in a rapid succession. Obviously enough, all is done in a first person view, which brings the gameplay to a whole new level of adrenaline rush. Running on wall, balancing on beams, jumping from building to building all done in a first person view is completely out of the usual third person view and keeps you fastened to you place and makes you feel like being in the game. Yet it is impossible to see Faith in a third person view, which would be interesting to spectate the combination of moves done by the character. Nevertheless, Dice, a division of EA games, pulled off this old concept to a new level of thrills.

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Mirror’s Edge excels when you have found the best route for your passage in a level. Yet this prize comes with the trial and error aspect of the game, where you must try and try to find the fastest route and it might take you a good three or four times before you do. You will need to refine your skills as a simple mistake can take you to the pit of death 15 stories below or at very least interrupt your stride. If you need a hand, you can always ask the game for the “runner’s vision”, which will point you to the most suitable route, but sometimes the vision is imprecise and offers you a short-term objective and sometimes points you towards your final goal, which is rather confusing.

In other immersive aspect of Mirror’s Edge is the visual art design. The game’s vivid and bright colors offer a great contrast with the clean and superb environment of the roof tops and the city. It gives you the impression of the game demonstrating its bleakness of a “1984” society and the unique view of the runners. Some beams, doorways and ramps are highlighted with a vibrant red color to ease your path and offer an alternative route you might be taking. Yet those marker points may sometimes be perceived only when you are close enough and other times Mirror’s Edge expects you to find you own way. Mirror’s Edge is all about momentum also, as you pick up speed you are expected to keep it that way to ease your crazy jumps and wall walking manoeuvres. If you fail to do so, you might find harder to start from a stable position rather than in movement to jump over that an obstacle for instance.

Mirror’s Edge offers you also a shooting aspect of the game. Along the way you will find cops and swat teams chasing you and obscuring your goal points. You can always try to pass by them when possible, but foe-heaving scenes will not allow you to do so. Like with the snipers clambered scenario closer to the end game, where you are required to plan in advance and have a good since of timing. You can always have a close combat encounter with the enemy, which is rather deceiving, as it offers only some hit and kick combos and disarming the foe. Faith is very vulnerable to weapons, so you are expected to actually deal with the enemies along the way, rather than just passing by them.

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The game graphics and gameplay are stunning. You do not spend you whole day running on rooftops, rather sometimes you have access the inside of buildings and elevators, (which do have a great and stylish design), where you are confronted with a bunch of heavy armed guards most of the time. There is no break taking and sightseeing in Mirror’s Edge, even if the city is very well rendered and modeled at the same time. You do have the option of activating the PhysX engine, which will take your gameplay to another level, offering you realistic shattering glass, crumbling walls under gunfire, reaping banners and paper-like materials among other well created real life materials. Of course for that, you will need a supporting video card.

The visuals deserve a thumb up with their innovating crisp style; the sound quality also has it take. Audio effects like Faith breath while running or footsteps heard in the background after a hard fall of a long run, offer a great deal of realism and a precise touch to the sense of high tension of the game. The voice acting is also non-deceiving, as it provides with genuine emotions by the actors at a given situation. The soundtrack of Mirror’s Edge is embracing with its high paced rhythm during tense moments and a fantastic vocal track at the end of the game.

Mirror’s Edge is everything: impressive, innovating, daring, confusing and short, yet it is not a game for everyone, as many will like it and some will hate it. There is no gray zone for the matter. Even for its high velocity paced environment and a dull story, Mirror’s Edge took a big leap, but did not have a perfect landing.

Mirror’s Edge is ESBR rated as “T” for teens and PEGI: 16+.

By Captain Scrat.
*Game review inspired By Kevin VanOrd.

Hope you liked it. Let me say that it says INPIRED by this guy, so dont come running and screaming that a copied from him. I took his idea and made my own, which is paraphrasing. If you would like to read my own, solely written by me, review. I would be glad to do so.

P.S.: I know its not an MMO and is no where close to it, but I really liked this game.

By the way, for some reason the [img] extention doesnt work for me even when i edit the post... sorry.

- Captain Scrat

Bumb for my review. Sorry but I want to be a contributor to the site.

- Captain Scrat

I think youll get a pm from mental if you get accepted in the team.
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Oh, ok. Thx for info. :)

- Captain Scrat

The website hasn't been updated in a week now... That's why I give it a shot. I hope being 'old' on the forum isn't a requirement too....
Also, you can use those 'sample' articles on the website without my permission...

Reviews:
Perfect World review : (Maybe I sound a bit 'saleperson' here...)

Spoiler:

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAWKLDR9x60]YouTube - Perfect World International - Official Teaser Trailer[/ame]
Official Website : Perfect World International - Free Fantasy MMORPG | Play Free Online Video Games

Perfect World is a 100% free MMORPG created in 2005 in which the universe can easily be compared to a dream. It was first released in China, but available world-wide since 2008.

Your journey in Perfect World will probably be the classic wut?-woot-addicted scheme. Sure thing the game deserve it, the main reasons being that it's completely free to play (With micro-payments options), it has some great gameplay elements, awesome PVP system and huge universe to explore. Perfect World offers a bunch of possibilities feature-wise. Your character can perform a whole lot of actions including flying everywhere in the massive universe and swimming into the deep oceans.

The plot of the main campaign is based around the Chinese mythology. In fact, the whole game is looking like his origins, with manga-looking characters, building architecture and oriental monsters.
You can impersonate four different races in PW and each of these races can take two unique classes (One for fighting, one for magic). Humans, Winged Elves, Untamed and Tideborn are all concentrated in different parts of the world, getting in contact with each others when getting new levels.

Graphics are nicely done, and are not copying industry leaders (*WoW*). This fresh air and good inspiration give the player motivation to continue his game session.

Perfect World have a big competencies system with a lot of different powers for each class. There are also general powers like flying and riding mounts. The (initial) character editor is magic and help you create your own (slightly more epic) representation of yourself.

If you don't like playing in solo, that MMO have very nice features. You can join a guild (Or create your own...), attack other guilds in big wars and try to conquer territories of the world to get some special bonus and money to develop even further your organization. If you are anti-social and prefer staying away from that PVP stuff, you can still get fun with all those dungeons, crafting, housing and marriage stuff.

The bad points are that the character evolution is a repetitive task. You have levels and experience, not any skill-based system. So the game is A LOT about grinding hours and hours. Even quests aren't original and are related to 'Kill x monsters' (AKA Monster Bashing). Finally, the map is too much divided into level sections, meaning that different areas are for particular level range, thus reducing credibility of the whole thing.

Conclusion : 16/20. A nice 'n' free MMORPG.

Guild Wars review :

Spoiler:

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMsQhI089Qk]YouTube - guild wars intro[/ame]
Official Website : GuildWars.com: Welcome to the Official Guild Wars Website

Guild Wars is a CORPG created in 2005 that introduce unique payment scheme and highly competitive gameplay.

When some defectors from Blizzard who participated in the development of the highly acclaimed Diablo go out and create their own development studio, the result is for sure awaited. After many years of hard work this result is on the MMO market and is known as Guild Wars, a HQ RPG exclusively online (Without any monthly fee).

Guild Wars, as the name suggest, is basically about PVPing withing a guild to get the highest rank in the 'highscore'. But there's the trick... Everything is very balanced, there are known tactics (mimics, rush...) and counter-tactics, skill sets and general group coordination. That means that virtually everything for a combat should be planed before jumping into action. That leads to 'pro-gaming' in some ways.

But that's not all. The game also offers casual gameplay style with a "solo" game including detailed campaign. I mean, there are stuff to do, but still limited compared to some games. Guild Wars is a CORPG, so it's not a real seamless world. There are two types of zones, outpost/cities and instanced zones (The outer-world...). The first type is like an usual MMO, where you can chat with all players, find quests, merchandising. The 'instanced' zones can only be played by a limited group of players (8 max). These zones have monsters, quests, skills and all adventure stuff peoples would like to do.

In fact, the whole campaign could be played alone. Those instanced zones can be entered with mercenaries (Free beer!), quests can be completed by a single person and it's easy to get to the max level (LVL 20, ~15 hours). And that's strange for a game which you need internet connection to play...

If you are a graphic lover, Guild Wars will probably give you what you want. Characters are well polished and the world have a nice flow. But some monsters, spells and decors may miss some details and look deformed.

Conclusion : 18/20. Best price/quality MMO.

News: (More 'friendly' to interest the readers...)

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Cataclysm to hit World of Warcraft in fall 2010

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As you probably know, Word of Warcraft (WoW) is the biggest and most played MMORPG out there. It IS the reference in term of 'Massive' Rpg. The univers is colossal, the possibilities are infinite and there are more then 10 millions players. The price is quite big too, with a monthly fee of around $15, buying the game for $20, two expansion packs of ~$30 each (You can still play the game for free (Free beer) on our forums.)

To keep the players playing and enjoying the game, the developers are constantly updating the game with new features and areas to explore. The new extension, announced at the 2009 Blizzcon, is named 'Cataclysm'. There's a reason why it's called like this : The world is changed. After the 'Cataclysm' (Deathswing the destroyer having some fun out there), Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms are reshaped into a deserted rock & fire world. Cataclysm is also raising the level cap to 85, adding two new playable races, adding new everything and support for DirectX 11 features.

With this new extension, WoW's creators Blizzard Entertainment want to keep their (addicted) players in the game and bring new players to the wonderful World of Warcraft.

Complete list of features : (Extarcted from Warcraft Wiki)

• Level Cap raised to 85.
• Redesigned and updated zones within Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms.
• New towns and quests.
• Redesigned low and mid-level quests to accompany updated zones.
• Around 3000 new quests.
• Players will be able to use flying mounts inside Azeroth zones (flying mounts were previously restricted to Northrend and Outland.)
• Nine new dungeons and six new raids (with more planned to be released with later patches).
• Two previously released dungeons — Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep — will have an added Heroic Mode for level 85 players.
• New battlegrounds and a new world-PvP zone Tol-Barad (similar to the Wintergrasp world-PvP zone introduced in Wrath of the Lich King).
• A new secondary skill: Archeology.
• A rated battleground system, along with associated new rewards.
• Newly accessible areas such as Uldum, the Sunken City of Vash'jir, the Twilight Highlands and Mount Hyjal (previously only featured as a time travel destination within the Caverns of Time).
• Two new playable races, Goblins and Worgen.
• Players can choose expanded race and class combinations for their characters.
• Revamp of the stat system, removing such stats as mana per 5 seconds (MP5), armor penetration and defense rating and integrating them in other ways such as talents. Introduction of new stats such as Mastery.
• New starting areas for Trolls and Gnomes levels 1-5.
• Player talent trees have been reworked and players will have a total of 41 talent points at level 85.

Spoiler:

Combat Arms get to the 4 millions players bar.

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Combat Arms is a F2P action-packed FPS released by Doobic (Edited by Nexon) in 2008 that features high character customization and fast-paced matches.

Sure thing it may looks disgusting when you see that you need to pay real $$$ to get TEMPORARY virtual items for your character, but even if you don't spend a dime on the game, you can get fun out of it. Critics are quite severe about Combat Arms, stating how buggy the game is and how immature is the community, but hey, it's a free game (Free beer).

It has similar gameplay to First Person Shooters like Counter-Strike, where it's easy to get frags (Kills) and where new players may be quite confused. Teams have complex strategies and maps are middle-sized.

The reason why Combat Arms achieved the 4 millions players is probably because peoples are 'trying' it. Since it's free and the game is highly advertised, peoples are downloading it a playing a couple of games, or paying a playing a lot of games. Since you can customize your character with in-game money ('GP') that you get by playing, players tend to get addicted.

Nixon gets money from those peoples who spend in micro-payments to 'look cool' in the game. That's why they are trying to get more and more players, to have better chance to get money.

For when a Combat Arms private server?

It took me 2 days to write those four small articles. I hope critics will not be that severe.

Here's an xD : xD.

I also have some ideas about types of articles and organizations. Community spotlights, 'post-it'... and maintain same layout for types of articles.

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Wtb an Article Posting Manager Position :D

- Captain Scrat

I'm still working on this but I got a busy day today getting drink so I'll maybe hire more tomorrow.

Is this still available for applying? I'd like to take a crack at it.

Well... I don't know if somebody got any reply. Let's just wait, probably that *they* will visit the thread if they need writers someday...