June 13, 2011

Alice: The Madness Returns.

Tonight at midnight is the launch party for the release of Alice: The Madness Returns, the follow-up to the original game, American McGee's Alice, for the pc.
I played the original pc game and loved it, so when I saw that they had finally made a follow-up game for it, and it's for the consoles, the xbox 360 and the PS 3, I knew that I had to have it.
I snapped this picture with my cellphone at the video game store in the mall when we went to the movies a few weeks ago.
The teens remember me playing it all of the time on my pc, and back then, it was really kind of creepy so they didn't watch me play some parts of it because it was too gory and the sounds were kind of scary sounding.
But that's what I liked about it, I like that Wonderland is all creepy and scary, it's dark and twisted, and everyone is out to get Alice.

If you played the original game and liked it, you can buy the new one, Alice: The Madness Returns, at Buy.com on sale, and get free shipping too.

Here's the official launch trailer, and a demo of some of the game-play, it looks absolutely amazing and I can't wait to get it tonight and start playing!

The new game also comes with the old pc game, but it's now playable on the console, and so I'm excited about being able to play the old game too, it was always so much fun.
The graphics back then weren't great, but now for the xbox, they look amazing.

I'm so excited for this game!
I pre-purchased it, and we are going to the launch party tonight, myself and the teens, and a friend of mine is driving us there and then we're all gonna come back home and play the game until our hands cramp up. Hahaha!
I have no idea what's going to happen at the launch party, but I'm excited, and I'm going to take my camera and snap some pics of the party and stuff, it should be a fun time.
Later days!

October 30, 2010

Sims 3 for Xbox360 at Buy.com

This is definitely on our family Christmas list for this year!
The new Sims 3 for the Xbox360!

Hopefully Buy.com will still have it on sale for the awesome price of just $57.99 with free shipping, which most other e-tailers are not offering on this item.

For the longest time, the Sims has been a strictly pc game, and even though there have been a few versions for consoles, honestly, they sucked.
This version, the Sims 3, looks A-ma-zing!
It looks just like the pc version, and from what I am reading in the reviews, it plays just like the pc version.

The only "negative" things that I've read are that the ability to "slide" the sliders in the "Create-a-Sim" section are not there.
That means that you cannot slide to make noses, ears, and mouths, bigger or smaller, you have to choose from what is already there as far as the sizes of noses, ears, and mouths go, and that there's no direct control over your sims, meaning that you don't play in first person, that it's exactly like the pc version, you see the Sims and tell them what to do.
Apparently, some people wanted the Sims 3 for the console to be more like most console games, like first person shooters or something.
Personally, I like seeing my Sims and telling them what to do, and then watch them do it.
Like this image below, I love being able to tell my Sim to play a game of chess with Death in a game of win or die if the Grim Reaper comes a calling for your soul.
It would be very fun to watch your Sim play against Death, and if you win, tell and see your Sim to do a happy dance, and then watch as Death gets mad that he doesn't get to swallow your soul! hahaha!!

There is something new in the console version that is NOT in any of the pc versions, it's called "Karma Powers".
From the game features information:
Unlock All-New Karma Powers - Wield the ultimate control over your Sims giving them wealth, beauty, and love, or take it all away with the click of a button.
This feature sounds like so much fun!
Some of the other key game features:
Build and Customize - Build the ultimate home for your Sims, improve your town with building upgrades, and more.
I absolutely LOVE building houses! I can spend hours and hours of my game-play time, just building and decorating my house. I once spent about 6 hours of game-play time over the course of five straight days, doing nothing but building and decorating their home.
I bought a huge empty lot, (gave myself tons of Simoleons using the cheat code of course) and then spent all of that time building the most beautiful home that I could possibly imagine. It was truly incredible.
Then the game crashed.
*sigh*
Control your Sims' Destinies - Choose whether or not to fulfill your Sims' destinies by making their wishes come true, or letting their dreams die. Will your Sims be emperors of evil, world leaders, or expert thieves? It's up to you.
I love that in the Sims 3 we were given far more choices for what our Sims' would be, what their careers would be, and then make them do things to achieve those career goals.
Build and Share Online* - Connect to share your creations and download content from other players around the world, without ever leaving your game.
Some of the coolest clothes and furniture that I've downloaded for my Sims' were all things that I've gotten from other users who created stuff. I simply do not know how to create clothes or furniture, houses I can do, but I have no idea how to make the clothes and furniture, you have to be like good at some program, and I don't have the patience to learn a new program even though I would LOVE to design my own clothes and stuff.

Both Sebastian and I love playing the Sims' and Mark does too, but he doesn't like the controls of the pc, he prefers the video game console controls, so if we do get this for Christmas, then I know that Mark will play it too.
Yeah, we are so definitely going to get this, I just need to do way more work and as fast as I can to ear my Christmas spending money!

Hooba Noobie!*

June 3, 2010

Ambition and adventure!

Now that I finally took the super awesome Radeon HD 5770 graphics card and the 4GB of memory out of the teens old computer and put them into mine, I can finally play my Sims 3 again.
It looks totally amazing too, no lag at all, crisp clear lines, excellent detail, and I can finally turn on reflections so when they are looking in a mirror or even just near a mirror, you can see the reflections.
I am so very happy that I finally made the swap, I have not been able to play in ages, and playing is not only fun, but a huge stress reliever for me because if I am stressed out or angry, I can kill off a Sim in very bad ways and it makes me feel tons better.
But now that I have made the swap and my computer can totally handle the Sims 3 and even some stuff to download made by other people, (the old graphics card prevented items and hair from being visible in the game) I can now get some of the expansion packs that are out.

I will only buy them if they are on sale, and if I have the extra money, which I don't have at all right now, but that's ok, I can wait.
But eventually I would like to get both Ambitions and World Adventures.

In Ambitions, you decide whether your Sim will be the brave town hero or cause loads of mischief among their neighbors. Make your Sim save the day as a brave firefighter, change the town as a leading architect, or live on the edge as a tattoo artist. Will your Sim find success as a billionaire high-tech inventor or eke out a living as a bumbling mad scientist?

In World Adventures, there are travel opportunities available to your sims, which allow for everything from pleasant family vacations, all the way to an adventure-filled, possibly even dangerous Indiana Jones like adventures. Along the way your sims can accumulate unique skills and abilities, learn about new cultures, enjoy a unique soundtrack of real songs recorded in Simlish.

Simlish is really kind of cool, they take real songs, even some of the newer songs that are popular right now, and they translate them to Simlish, and sometimes, the real artist sings their song but now in Simlish.
This is Matt and Kim singling their song "Daylight" in Simlish.