NFS Rivals review

NFS Rivals review
     Rivals doesn't really have a storyline, but then this is a driving game so we can't say we care too much. The game gives you two play options: take the wheel as a racer to tear up the free play world that you exist in, or play as cops trying to keep the peace.

There are no boring cutscenes that try to help you justify anything, and certainly no backstory about how you are only racing to save your family being held by some Ray Liotta looking character. It's all about the fun.

    That doesn't mean to say that there isn't a campaign to complete, but you'll not only be hard pushed to care, but also to remember you've got to complete certain tasks to progress in the first place.

Set in the make-believe world of Red View County, Rivals' vast map is completely open and waiting to be explored. There is a range of different areas but with a huge focus on the countryside rather than city racing.

Dynamic lighting, rain, nightfall, sunsets, lens flare, dust, snow, and falling leaves all help breathe life into the gameplay, giving you a greater sense of realism than ever before.

Damage your car and at times the handling reacts accordingly, including driving on burst tyres. Crashes, you'll have plenty of them, are epic, although it's disappointing from a realism point of view that your car doesn't end up a complete wreck when you get back on track.

Interacting with the surrounding environment can be a bit hit or miss though.

Drive along a dirt track and the PS4 DualShock 4 controller slightly rumbles so you know you aren't on the smooth tarmac, but smash through a farmer's barn and you'll feel nothing.

As you can probably tell there are a lot of chances to get distracted in Need For Speed: Rivals. Like in Burnout, the premise is to drive to different locations around the world to complete specific missions, races, takedowns or escapes depending on which faction - racer or cop - that you've opted to play.

       What Rivals brings that’s new to the part is a system it calls AllDrive. Hot Pursuit introduced the idea of Autolog, where the game actively pits you against your Xbox Live or PSN friends, comparing achievements, finishing times and progress so that you were playing with each other, even when you weren’t doing so at the same time. AllDrive takes a different tack, signing up to six racers into its open world, and breaking down all the barriers between solo and online play.
The joy of Rivals’ structure is that it encourages you to just drive around and explore, finding hidden tracks and daredevil, chasm-spanning jumps, or just enjoying the feel of high-speeds on the open road. Meanwhile, the advantage of point-to-point, open-road racing over the courses you’d find in a more serious racing sim is that you can’t learn the tracks. Instead, you learn how to respond to sudden changes of direction, pitch or camber, and how to push each car to the edge of its performance. The result is an arcade racer where everything flows, whether you’re simply racing your way from checkpoint to checkpoint.

   It’s furiously addictive, too. Each career is divided into chapters, and each chapter has you moving through the cop or racer ranks by completing several to do lists of objectives, that might be as simple as just getting silver in a time trial event, or as tricky as hitting five racers with pursuit tech upgrades. Completing lists and ranking up unlocks new cars, liveries, events and upgrades, and it’s not long before you’re trapped in a cycle of competing to get a new car and new upgrades, then seeing what you can do with your new car, then working again to go up the next level.

 

      Is it faultless? Nope, and a lot depends on how much you’re frustrated by the occasional technical problems. At one point I lost connection to our shared game, dropping us mid-event back into a single player game world, and forcing  to find and start the event again. It can also be annoying to be a whisker away from winning when some clown comes out of nowhere and – whether by accident or design – smacks you clean off the road. A handful of objectives are peculiarly difficult to manage, and sometimes you wish the cops would just leave you alone while you finish your time trial or race.

     Yet, overall Need for Speed: Rivals is everything you might want from an arcade racer. It’s ridiculously fast, ridiculously thrilling and a wonder to play.  

GTA San Andreas Game Mechanics

It is vital for any game to be successfully received by the user, it must have game mechanics methodical and careful thought.
In GTA San Andreas identify several game mechanics: walk, mission vehicles, gangs, guns, radio stations, friends, schools, training, attack, the attack statistics, acquisition of items.

Mission Mechanics

The main mechanics of the game in my opinion are the missions These are present in all games in the GTA series and they are defining.

• The main missions

Each mission begins with a mechanic who informs us about the kind mission and information necessary to meet the performance .During a mission there are present more game mechanics such as the player's interaction with different people, vehicles, weapons, money.Sometimes,the player collects "action points" in these interactions.

It is very important for the player to perform the task in order to move to the next (here intervening the action mechanic).

 • Side Missions

These side missions are designed to make the game more varied, more attractive.You can drive a Taxi, extinguish fires, catch criminals (the police), save people (as a doctor on the ambulance, steal from houses, pimp prostitutes, drive trucks and trains (in order to deliver a commodity at the time) and the flight school (airplanes and helicopters), driving schools (for cars and motorcycles) . In these missions will appear more game mechanics such as the player's interaction with different people, vehicles, weapons, money.

• Missions vehicles

This type of mechanics are in all GTA series. When the player approaches an object, possibly a vehicle ,he will be given to the opportunity to participate in the mission.

 

Vehicle Mechanics

The vehicle mechanics are among the most important in this game. There are many types of vehicles in GTA: SA, ranging from land, sea and aer.In San Andreas,the player can take about any vehicle that is not busy, can steal the occupied ones,he can even modify them.

Here,there are present mechanics for entering and exiting a vehicle. For a vehicle in motion, the player must locate it, and then often times shooting in the car or stop it from moving.In both cases, the driver usually freak out and abandon the car.A problem may appear when trying to stay in front of the car, if the car has high speed, the driver can not stop and our character and ends at hospital.If the police are around ,  mechanics for "wanted level"activate.Also,  a problem may appear if the car driver is from the rival gang, here intervening band mechanics.

If the player wants to modify the car, it must first find  a garage or "Pay 'N' Spray". Once inside, the player has many options available, repairs,changing paint, some upgrades or change the layout after.In this mechanics, the player loses money.

Attack Mechanics

These mechanics implicate that the player must attack an object or person (especially a rival gang). These mechanics are present in most missions.The player either shoots people, or participate in a brawl.

Available to the player are a lot of weapons for brawl: shovels, baseball bats, swords, chainsaws etc.The damages are related to muscle damage of the player.These attacks often leave the player vulnerable to future attacks.Each of these has a value and a set of damage
For shooting people there are also a variety of weapons: 9mm, shot-gun etc.Each firearm has a number of bullets after they remain empty.
      The losses were the mechanics of weapons and also statistical mechanics, and we can show how efficiently handles the player bullets available.
Your character can also use grenades, molotov cocktail, pepper spray.

Pressing L1 while holding weapons, players can easily view the status of qualification of the weapon owned. When CJ takes every weapon at first,it has the status of "poor", but with  use, he updates his skills to "gangster" or "Hitman".        

GTA San Andreas Review

GTA San Andreas game was created by the company Rockstar North and definitely lives up to the Grand Theft Auto name.If you like gangster stories from the'' 90, surely this game will appeal to you.Movies like  "Menace II Society" and "Boyz N the Hood" are clear influences here.

The action takes place in the '90s in San Andreas State within which there are three cities: Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas and the surrounding areas.The main character, African-American CJ Carl Johnson returns home from Liberty City to Los Santos to attend the funeral of his mother.

When he arrives,he gets intercepted by a gang of corrupt cops (rival gang). He manages to get home and get to terms with his old gang, Grove Street Families and works with his friends Big Smoke and Ryder.But while gaining more territory, CJ learns that his friends betrayed him.They managed to catch his brother , Sweet, and afterwards he was arrested.The only way to his brother release is to help  Tenpenny(corrupt cop) with its dirty affairs.

 San Andreas is structured similarly to the previous two games. The big game is made ​​up of RPG elements and driving, which offers the player a vast space to act.

On foot, the player can walk, run, swim, climb or jump, also he can fight other characters.You have to go on missions for different individuals . You'll go drive certain individuals,  kill people (especially the rival gang) etc. But you can also play  side missions such as catching criminals (the police), saving people (the doctor), stoping a fire (as a firefighter).

The game has 200 cars, 11 airplanes 9 helicopters, bikes, you can change cars,rob houses, buy clothes, food, play arcade games, you even can make debts.By killing members of a rival gangs,you can start a war.

A new rule is that you must take care of your physique, occasionally having to eat.You can't die in the water, you can swim.

 

The newest addition to the game is that you can play with a friend, but not entirely.There are certain conditions which we will not reveal now, but in consequence with a friend can wreak havoc in your car or on foot some of the game .

The decor is very well captured, unique .It's very realistic giving the impression of ghetto.

 
Architecture of the game is incredible, and these new effects are great.In warm areas, you can see the shiny effect caused by the sun.When it starts to rain, the game gets a very realistic look, the rain was very well designed.When you reach top speed in a car, the screen becomes a little blurred, giving the impression of extreme speed.

The characters are very well done, realistic hands except that sometimes look weird.

When it comes to  graphics, it is impressive, but it is a problem.If your system, Play Station, PC is older some elements do not look so good until you get very close to them for the texture to load.

 But if your PC is new,you will not have such problems. In terms of graphics, the engine used to realize  GTA: SA is exceeded. But if you should consider the color palette used, then it kind of turns the wheel, because it's a pleasure to walk around dawn or at sunset and admire the colors you come and countries, when the weather is soft and warm.

Cinematics are excellent but the number of polygons and ineffectiveness cut your little enthusiasm, but these are issues related to the engine's limits and no to the owner's intentions.

The sound is very well done, in the game there are many dialogues between characters..They imitate very well the sound of a car engine, mototciclete etc.You can listen to radio as well as in other games in the series, especially rap, other genres are less clear .

Usually when a game tries to make a million things,they do not stand up well.  But GTA San Andreas manages combining a lot of elements ans to be a strong game that will not disappoint, with a few noticeable problems.GTA San Andreas has a very strong history and a narrative story, well-written dialogue, voice expressed extraordinary, impressive graphics, sound game, and the game is very fun and varied.

  

Grand theft Auto V Review

       The most anticipated video game of 2013, GTA V was created by the company Rockstar North and definitely lives up to the name Grand Theft Auto.When you wouldn’t believe it can surpass the success of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, this game has exceeded players expectations, we can even say that is the best in the entire series.

It was released on September 17, 2013 for the Xbox and PlayStation 3.

Grand Theft Auto V is an action-adventure video game played from a third-person perspective in an open world environment. You have to opportunity to experience single-player mode, as well as  online multiplayer mode .Grand Theft Auto Online was conceived as a separate experience, which would be played in a continually evolving world.

     GTA 5 has a lot of new features in comparation with the other games of the series. It evolves nearly every mechanic that was in the previous Grand Theft Auto games

The single-player mode of Grand Theft Auto V is played through three player-controlled protagonists: Michael, Trevor, and Franklin, criminals whose stories interconnect as they complete missions.  GTA 5 does a remarkable job of providing each with their own motivations, their own missions, and their own personas you'll come to love as you swap between them. 

Swapping characters feature happens in a Google Earth styled manner and was displayed during a Game Informer demo, which it showed to have ran smoothly and without lag.

   

    The action takes place in Los Santos.

Michael is a retired professional bank robber, who after making a sweetheart deal with FBI, returned to the life of crime. Trevor is the loose cannon in this story, who is also a long time best friend of Michael's and a hot-head psychopath as well. Last but certainly not least, we have Franklin, a young and grim repo agent who has a large amount of experience behind the wheel, but no real experience to crime until he meets Michael while he was trying to get a hustle.

Weapon selection has now also been changed. Instead of the old way of selecting through all the weapons, there is now a weapon wheel,

Each time the player fires the gun, the radar will show a red circle as weapon's noise. If any threat is within the red circle, they will be alerted by the player, and if a cop is within the noise range, the player may gain a wanted level.

The player can use melee attacks, firearms, weapons, and explosives to fight enemies.

A perpetual objective for the player is to complete missions to progress through the story. These missions can be completed at the player's leisure.You can practice hobbies while you complete a mission like hunting,parachuting,yoga,different sports.

Your character  can run, jump, swim, or use vehicles to navigate the game's world.

The missions are frequently incredible, which makes it a bit easier to overlook the occasional contradictions in character behavior, if not the mixed political messages. The high points of the game are the heists, big jobs planned by Michael and the gang. These jobs usually give you a few different options for how you want to approach a situation, and your choice completely changes how the heist plays out.

   

If your dream is to drive an expensive car,this game fulfills your wishes:you can drive sports,vintage cars,SUVs,motorcycles,vans.You even can drive trains,planes.

You can invest your money in the stock market,and then take your gains and put it in Los Santos real estate market.

Exactly like in the last games,cops can bust you.If you do something illegal like bad driving or shooting,if the cops are in your range you will gain a wanted level.

     GTA 5, one of the best-looking games currently available on consoles. But this improved fidelity comes at a cost. The game's massive, sprawling, detailed San Andreas is obviously pushing the hardware to its limits, so don't be surprised to see framerate drops or objects popping into existence as you speed down a highway. Other changes have only positive impacts to the game--gunplay is extremely strong thanks to improvements to the aiming, and while the driving controls are looser than they are in some other open-world games, they make for some thrilling chases.

     For those stuck in traffic,tune in to the Los Santos radio station for a wide range of music styles to choose from.

    The game generated significant controversy because in some missions you have to torture people.Some might even  declare that the game is misogynistic and has no respect towards women.

    With a strong story, well-written dialogue, extraordinary expressed voices, impressive graphics, sound, and a gameplay extremely fun and varied, Grand Theft Auto V is an amazing game, exciting  and must not be missed.
Here's the official video with the gameplay:

I will be back soon with new posts detailing all the mechanics of this game!