It's Halloween and The Control Room LOVE Zombies

Hey guys. Tonight is all about you...well...and HALLOWEEN OF COURSE!!!!

So in our excitement we have put together a collection of games and we would like you to vote for your favourite and on Hallowen itself we will do a full post on whichever recieves the most votes!

 

Dead Space was such a success after it's 2008 release that shortly after it spread(like a disease heh heh) creating a prequel AND a sequel.

All three games relate to one main storyline set in the 26th century. The main protagonist is called Isaak Clarke, an engineer, who must survive the take-over of the necromorphs (aka zombies) on a US Mining ship. Isaak also wants to find his girlfriend Nicole.....

 

 

Flesh Feast...even the name makes me hungry...NASAT have created a new food ingredient which has infected an entire island. The player must survive 14 levels of carnage with three teams of three. The main goal is to defeat NASAT and contain the situation.

 

Zombies Ate my Neighbours...I Know what you are thinking...My neighbours irk me too. Just kidding I wouldn't wish that on anybody...Then again, it's Halloween.

This game is not designed for graphics, in fact, I would only play it for the name(who wouldn't). It's a 2D game based around either Zeke or Julie who must traverse the suburban world e.g. shopping malls, haunted castles, Pyramids, and save their neighbours from zombiefication or lycanthropification(?) or even vampirism. Remember, Neighbours a worth points, Points lead to winning.

 

Ghoul Patrol(doesn't sound Zombie related does it, sounds ghostly) is a sequel to 'Zombies Ate my Neighbours' this time Zeke or Julie must travel through 5 worlds to save their town from flesh-eating plants, ninja spirits and garbage ghosts.

 

Burn Zombie Burn is more imaginative with it's zombies, there are various types that Bruce must defeat. Reaching score thresholds unlocks new levels. Burning Zombies get you more points but they are also more dangerous.

 

 Isle of the Dead. Imagine in it, you are trapped on an Island, the sole survivor of a terrible plane crash. The Island is packed with the rotting dead controlled by a mad scientist.I think it sounds pretty good but Sandy Peterson rated it 0 stars(It was released in my birth year so it can't be all bad). We'll have to wait and see.

 

 Lollipop Chainsaw(OK I couldn't wait to start this one). A chainsaw wielding CHEERLEADER! This is a bit weird so prepare yourselves. Lead by Juliet Starling, a former cheerleader, a group, including Juliet, her body less boyfriend and her family, hack at hordes of zombies at her old high school. Don't worry, the zombies at least have style. Don't miss the 'Rock'n'Roll' zombies in this game. Make sure to upgrade your chainsaw.

 

Dead Island. I'm sure you guys have all heard of it. It was released earlier this year, and doesn't it look epic? It's an open world game so feel free to explore the place, come across a few zombies, don't let your stamina fall too low. Don't forget your flashlight and don't go unarmed.

 

 

I Made a Game With Zombies in it! Strangely enough this game is also spelled alphanumerically, for some reason. *shrugs*. The players can add up to 4 and must shoot waves of zombies. This game was not designed to be succesful, in fact the creature was "half-expecting it to fail for being too stupid of a game." Doesn't that just say it all?

 

 

 MediEvil. Well not quite Medieval more sort of PlayStation era. They have, however, re-released it for PS3 and PSP and for those of you with Play Station Plus you, it's free. Sir Daniel Fortesque is resurected by the same Wizard that killed him 100 years previous to the game in a battle that his soldiers won without him. the Evil Wizard creates a Zombie army and so Dan gets his army back and then they all fight. Dan is more courageous this time around.

 

Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ! Fairytails brought to life...uhh...death! The player gets to be either trigger happy Red Riding Hood or ninja star wielding Momotaro. RRH likes to visit her grandma, picking flowers and is very fond of her firearms. Momotaro was porn from a Giant Peach and has had plenty of adventure before. And then Zombies attack storyland.

 

Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare. No. 5 of RDR. John Marston searches fro a cure to an infectious zombie disease in the old west. The player is charged with the return of missing persons and random zombie encounters. Marston just wantsto cure his wife and son...aww...eugh!

Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingy's.(okay this is another one of those games that the name is more attractive than the game). Developed for NintendoDS, this is a platforming game based around 3 teenage zombies. The player needs all three as they each have unique abilities which help them progress.

Undead Knights. Romulus, Remus(yes, arrogant isnt it?), Remus' wife and the Beast are at the end of their lives. The House of Blood has been destroyed as ordered by King Kirk(I wouldn't be able to take this seriously) married to Fatima. People die, it's very dramatic and then Romulus, Remus and the Beast are punished by being hte Undead Knights.

Urban Dead. MMORPG. To be...dead...or not to be...dead...that is the question? The player is able to choose if they are a survivor in the aftermath of the zombie outbreak or one of the animated dead. Zombies can be revived with the correct technology and survivors can be killed and reanimated. All characters are players no game controlled characters exist.

 

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse. NOT meant to be taken seriously. Eddie Stubbs is shot by his Father In-Law(talk about monster In-Law). Stubbs raises an army of the dead from a town on its opening day. He gives a speech in front of the American Flag using only the word brains. The minions cheer 'BRAINS'. Stubbs is reunited with his love whose brain he indulges in. They live happily ever after, sailing off into the sunset.

 

So Valhalla ditched me tonight despite the fact that I have 2 full days of work at the shop and Valhalla has a day off and then a day at MGM Expo *cies*!

I hope you enjoy this one tonight make sure to vote!!

Battlefield 3

One of the most anticipated first person shooters of this year, EA games will be releasing Battlefield 3 in the EU tomorrow. It’s the eleventh instalment in the Battlefield series, and if you want the PC version you’ll have to sign up with EA’s Origin (a lot like Steam, sign up and download the games straight to your PC). It looks like it’s going to be good, and people are wondering if it will overtake Modern Warfare 3 in both sales and popularity this year. We’ll have to wait and see what happens with that one – it’s sure to be an interesting result.

Let’s take a look at the plot

2014, SSgt Blackburn leads a five-man squad on a mission to locate and return a US squad that’s investigating a potential chemical weapons site which was last controlled by the hostile PLR. Later, Blackburn and his squad are sent to Tehran to apprehend a valuable target known as As-Bashir. Whilst investigating an underground vault in a local bank, Blackburn and his team discover that PLR had access to portable nuclear devices that had been made by the Russians (it’s always the Russians with these games, isn’t it? Always seems to be an American protagonist too). They then realize that two of these devices are missing. Suddenly overrun by enemies, they request backup and an M1 Abrahams convoy led by Corporal Miller is sent to aid Blackburn’s team. However, Miller ends up being captured whilst waiting for a Quick Reaction Force to arrive. Miller is then executed by Solomon and Al-Bashir and the execution is recorded.

As this is occurring, Blackburn and his squad track down and find a wounded Al-Bashir who reveals Solomon’s plans to detonate the missing weapons in Paris and New York. They also discover who the arms dealer is (a Russian named Kaffarov). It’s a race to find Solomon and stop him before he is able to detonate the missiles. Not only that, but a second team is tracking the arms dealer. It is vital that the terrorists are stopped, and time is running out...

Gameplay

“Battlefield 3 features the maximalist combined arms battles that made the series popular across single-player, co-operative and multiplayer modes. It reintroduces several elements absent from the Bad Company games, including fighter jets, the prone position and 64-player battles on PC.” -Wikipedia

EA stated in Game Informer magazine that Commander Mode will likely be taken out of the game, which is disappointing to hear as many players really enjoyed this feature (including us).
A lot of the game will take place in urban areas, mainly cities, streets and downtown, although there will be some open landscapes for vehicle combat and the like (can you imagine trying to get a bulky vehicle through narrow city streets?).
If you want to play with friends, you can now use the ‘Battlelog’ which has a built-in text messaging service as well as the ability to communicate through speech. You can join a game that your friend is already playing and vice versa, but you do have to be on the same console (as would be expected).

Multiplayer mode


In Battlefield 3 you can take on one of four roles: Assault, Support, Engineer and Recon. Each class have their own unique abilities and features, as can be seen listed below.
-       Assault: equip defibrillators and medical kits. Like the healers of the game.
-       Engineer: is able to use a flashlight to blind other players (handy weapon, in my opinion).
-       Recon: can place a radio beacon anywhere on the map so that all squad members are able to respawn there.




The following game modes have been announced for multiplayer mode.
-       - Conquest
-       - Rush
-       - Deathmatch
-       - Squad Rush
-       - Team Deathmatch (Like Battlefield 1942)

Weapons Guide

We went on to the EA website to look for the weapons that can be found in Battlefield 3 so that you don’t have to. Here’s a list of all of them.

Sniper Rifles

M39 EMR

M40A5

M98B

MK11 M0D0

SKS

SV98

SVD

Shotguns

DA0-12

M1014

870MCS

SAIGA 12K

USAS-12

M26 MASS

Personal Defence Weapons

AS VAL

PDW-R

MP7

P90

PP-2000

UMP-45

Machine Guns

M27 1AR

M60E4

M240B

M249

PKP PECHENEG

RPK-74M

TYPE 88 LMG

Carbines

G36C

SCAR-H

M4A1

SG553

Pistols

G17C

G18

M9

93R

M1911

MP412 REX

.44 MAGNUM

Rocket/Grenade Launchers

FGM-148 JAVELIN

M320

SA-18 IGLA

RPG-7V2

FIM-92 STINGER

SMAW

Assault rifles

AEK-971

AK-74M

AN-94

M416

G3A3

Sadly, I can't get information on gear and equipment as EA has not yet put it up on their website, which is a shame as it would have been good to give you guys that kind of information. However, I can give you a little bit of information on the kind of vehicles available to you in play. 

Vehicles

- Jets

- Tanks

- Helicopters

- Naval Transport

- Fast Transport

- Armoured Transport

Here's a video from EA that shows you a little more on the vehicles available to you.