Tomb Raider: underworld is the eighth addition of the Tomb raider series developed by Crystal Dynamics. This is the 3^rd game series developed by crystal dynamics and at the same time first game series to be added in the play station 3 networks. As like the other series the major character Lara Croft appears here with his supremacy and force. Tomb Raider: Underworld was released in the United States on November 21^st, 2008. Later on it was gradually released for Play station 2, Play station 3, Wii, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and mobile phones.

The game is developed taking the concept of southern Mexico. In the game Lara Croft sets off to uncover the lost Mayan underworld. The Mayan Legend believes that their 300 day calendar year included five extra missing days. In these days the portal opens according to the legends. It is the task of Lara to open the portal once again.

The Tome raider: underworld has got the new environment because of inclusion of a new graphics engine. The other features also make it aesthetic. If Lara’s means your knees become muddy from crouching the rain will automatically wash them away.  A new melee combat system has also given this a new dimension. It enables you to pick up objects even if they are not integral to progress in the game.

Unlike the previous edition underworld gives you more different aspects as you can explore something new to get the secrets item to be collected for the mission accomplishing. This requires you to pay your full attention and continuous effort to reach the peak. The shooting action has also been refurbished. You can shoot two enemies with your pistols. The developer Crystal dynamics has made the game non linear by removing all the hints and associates from the new version so as to apply the affirmative knowledge and strategy of yourself in work.

Underworld has received the most positive reviews for PS3, XBOX 360 and PC versions. Mobile version and others does not allow you to go through the high definition graphics and all features. The tomb Raider has been appraised for its prickly environment, Lara’s motion captured movement, the classic story, exploration and especially because of the high definition graphics.  By surfing through the game you get the feeling of adventure and contentment of discovering something new. This allows you to apply your strategies and aptitude to get done your job. Thinking about the mode? Then Lara Croft the supernatural creation is there to solve your puzzles.

The primary story follows as Leon S Kennedy was sent on a rescue mission of Ashley Graham, who is a president’s daughter. She was kidnapped by a mysterious cult. The game directs you to travel through the rural timid villages in Europe. You control Leon S. Kennedy the major role of this game. Upon your orders you drive toward an isolated village of Spain where hardly any one travels. You are get accompanied by two armed policemen. As the game shows you three are being watched while driving through the noiseless forest. Going through the woods your car gets stopped near an abandoned cottage you get there and asks about Ashley. The persons step forward and throw axe to you and thus the drama begins which ultimately ends in saving the president’s daughter from those vicious village men’s.

The game play majorly focuses on action where you have to shoot a large pool of people crowding in a single area. The camera is focused just behind you (Leon) and it zooms in for an over the shoulder view when you aims on a weapon. To make you comfortable with the aiming a laser light has been added in this version which allows you to aim in various directions. Like previously if you shot them on feet they stumble and if in the arms they are likely to drop their weapons. The game also gets a dedicated knife button which will allow you to get engaged in more close combats without switching the screen for selecting your weapons. The control has been made more context sensitive which will give you a cinematic view.

Resident evil 4 is an epic adventure too. The environment you will work has been build with so care that will draw you out from your real world into the gaming world. The super quality graphics gives you the authentic effect of your every action. Very few games like resident evil have the capability of planting you in chair for hours and hours.

Resident Evil 4 got the title of most influential games of 2000 decades because of its dual playing role as both third party shooting and survival horror. Because of its breathtaking actions with terrifying horror scenes this game placed on the ranking chart in that decade for months and months.

Need for speed shift 2 is a racing game developed by Slightly Mad Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It was released worldwide in the month of April 2011. Shift 2 is the sequential version of all Need for Speed versions. It smacked the market last year with greater and improved features as Electronic Arts ever had before. This version came right after the official release of Need for Speed Hot pursuit. Even its released date was announced by Electronic Arts right on the day when the corporation launched Hot Pursuit.

As like the preceding version this one also allows you regular mood and career mood. In career mood you earn money and also experience points to win the FIA GT1 world championship. To win over these challenges you need to go through drifting, Endurance, Time attack, Eliminator and circuit racing. To pass all these course of racing you need to get taught by the professional drivers such as Vaughn Gittin Jr. (drifting), Tommy Milner (American Le Mans Racing), Chris Rado (Time attack) etc. These pros then become your rivals and you need to compete with them in the race to win the championship.

Earning experience points have become slightly different than the previous versions. You no longer earn points for precision and aggression moves. Experience system has now only 20 levels instead of 50 levels. The stars system has also been eliminated by the publishers in this version while players unlock events and cars by earning experience points and leveling up.

The portfolio of cars has been strengthened with modern amenities and delightful cars. These cars are being separated into classes instead of Tiers for performance. The car can be upgraded by the user with range of choices to be added. Once the car is sufficiently upgraded it gets ready for the race. The newly developed 40 challenging tracks makes your game playing experience more thrilling and satisfying. You have to be a technical racer; if you become well acquainted with the first few races you are well ahead to win the challenge cups. Though it feels trouble at the first strive but the tight control and the stunning cars makes your race comes to your grip.  Rival drivers always try to win on their lanes by crushing or troubling your way. But you need to fight for your victory. Unlike the previous versions, the last lap is no longer more important than the first few.

David Rutter the producer of FIFA 12 wants to affirm his invention by slipping it a revolutionary addition in the gaming world. It came on the market by a announcement of EA sports team in June, 2011.

FIFA 12 consists of 42 national teams in its international division with five new teams added in this new version. But in this version China, Paraguay, Ukraine, Wales, Nigeria did not get any room as a team. There are fifty six stadiums in FIFA 12 with some world’s largest and prominent stadiums in effect.

The commentary of FIFA 12 also brought some changes. Martil taylor has been placed as the head commentator with former England player Alan Smith as co-commentator. Smith is considered as top-tier broadcaster and commentator on English football. Resembling the previous version Spanish commentary has also been hold still in this new version. But the exclusive is that FIFA 12 will be the first of the entire version to be dubbed in Arabic.

XBOX 360 users and Play station 3 users will also be able to enjoy their games in their preferred platforms. In the first week of its launch it sold 3.2 million copies worldwide. The numeric number is 23% greater than FIFA 11’s performance. This draws FIFA 12 success in the very first week. Reviewing the customers contentment EA sports want to declare FIFA 12 as the fastest selling sports game ever.

If you want to enjoy soccer with some real experience of playing comfortably FIFA 12 is your utmost choice. This splendid gaming platform will make your time busy and bring those nervous or anxious faces while you watch soccer on your TV.

Age of Mythology is a strategically designed game based upon the myths and heroic epics been written on the ancient times. The game focuses on ancient civilizations of Scandinavia, Greece and Egypt. Players of Age of Mythology control the Atlantean Hero Arkantos who can invoke the god powers to win over the foes.

Age of mythology has been developed by Ensembles studios. The basic concept of the game is on three ancient civilizations, Greek, Egyptians and Norse who have different Gods. The preceding concept of the game has been retrieved from the former Age of Empire; such as gathering resources, building structures and assembling army to defeat your enemy. The basic resources are food, wood and gold. Age of mythology has added something new called favor. This favor works for unleashing extremely powerful mythological units which diverts this game from Age of Empire.

The story of Age of Mythology has been written on consideration of the ancient history and novels which also includes the Troy war written by the great writer Hamlet. The hero Arkantos is the chief man of Atlanta. After the fall of tridents: the first chapter of the game the journey of Arkantos begins in the search of the Tridents and the evil Cyclopes who is supposed to unleash the Titan who can destroy the world. In his travel he meets the Greek war with troy, then to the Egyptian war and finally in the Norse war.

The different Levels of Age of Mythology depicts different game playing units with diverse strategy to win over your enemies. Greek Heroes and Military units are developed as the strongest as any other units, Egyptians units are cheaper but has less power. Besides the usual military base all Major Gods provides you with its blessings called Heroes. Heroes have the power to lead your military base and fight strongly standing in the front line. Besides fighting you can also invoke powers blessed by gods to change the tide of the games. The linked stories of every stage and the associated glossaries in every stage make the playing really delightful. The visualization of the game is capable enough on diverting your mind in ancient histories where you can fight with your base to control the whole area.

The game also provides multiplayer opportunities where you can fight in a single land to conquer the area. This option requires an internet connection of 56.6 kbps or higher. 

GTA 5

Another chapter in GTA universe will bring more trouble taps and excitement in your window. After having successfully launched their Grant Theft Auto IV, The Rockstar  North, the developer of GTA game series are geared up to launch their next version of  the action- adventure video game, which is the Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5).

Last November 2011, Rockstar released the first appearance trailer GTA V for giving its fans a first glimpse of the upcoming game. This trailer exposed the interesting and exciting features and information about the game. Grand Theft Auto V will be next major  episode in GTA series and the largest and most ambitious game  which is to be set in fictional city of Los Santos in the state of San Andreas and its surrounding hills, countryside, beaches, and mostly based on the modern-day scene in Los Angeles and Southern California.

After the release of the trailer of GTA V, the Rockstar developer declared that Grand Theft Auto V was fully developed. There have been rumors that this GTA V would support a multiple playable features. Thanks to the support of Social Club for their integration features. In  an interview with IGN focused on Max Payne 3, Dan Houser has exposed that GTA V’s will support “Crews” that are  initiate with Max Payne 3 and this will be used in upcoming Grand Theft Auto V. The Crews are basically a clan like groups, wherein you are rewarded for playing with other gamers of the crew and you can help each other in order to complete the mission. You will also be part in match making with other gamers in your crew. There are some rumors that the updated Grand Theft Auto V is a game that is too realistic. As the teaser trailer of GTA V was been well publicized past few months ago, some gamers noticed that some scene and character seems to look realistic. That is with the help of Motionscan Technology.

Adding Motionscan Technology feature to GTA V will be a huge responsibility for Rockstar’s developers. Simply because there will be more features in the game should look realistic, aside from the scene and characters. If they utilize this Motionscan technology not only the characters have the record audio but also the facial expression should be tracked as well. Despite the fact, if Rockstar will add this motionscan technology feature it will contribute a big advantage for GTA V. We believe that the more it realistic the Rockstar can make GTA V better. And probably it will be the block buster game of 2012.

Despite the fact we still don’t   have an idea closely what this will look like or how any of it will be promulgated. Well it’s exciting to look forward to play Grand Theft Auto V and to see Rockstar continues developing GTA V to make it more exciting and more fun.

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Need for speed in the 18^th version of NFS portfolio developed by EA black Box and published by Electronic Arts. Though the PC and Play Station versions were updated by them the wii and 3DS version was developed by Firebrand Games. It was released in North America on November 15, 2011. Producer Jason Delong and Steve Antony deployed their full resources to make this game came in the market after 3 continual years of development. They want to take revenge from their last games poor rating received worldwide.

The concept of the game is similar to other racing games but varies on the theme of role playing within the race. It is an illicit street race running across the United States with competition occurs with the presence of law enforcements.

The game play story is also dramatic. The major player of the game Jack is a person who owes too much money to the mobs. The money is too much for him to repay and escape his life from them. He knows he can never pay off his debts. So he decides to participate on an illicit street race running from San Francisco to New York hoping with earning money from the race. Your job is to direct Jack to win each and every race and become the champion.

The run amid the other NFS editions came up with some inimitable features. The game is the first NFS game that allows foot sequences. However you do not hold the right to move your player accordingly to your choice. Your player can only have foot sequences when the sequence allows you to do so. You just control your player.  Driving in this game gives you the cinematic view as mobs and cops will follow you while at the same time you have to win over your rivals. The classic sound system with the improved stress free animation inclusion with high visualization lets you surf the real driving experience for an adventure. The camera angle has also been developed to add more views while you drive. The auto log feature lets you chat with your friends while driving. It also notifies your position compared to your friends.

There is no doubt that you can experience the theme of Hollywood movies while you are exploring Need for Speed: The Run. The substantial features and outstanding performance of this game schedule have earned it the 11^th place just after the 1^st week of release.

What should we expect from the Xbox 720?

This upcoming Xbox 720 is fully packed with interesting features. It has a higher resolution graphics, faster processing speeds and has a unique platform designed to scale down in size dramatically for providing great game play. It has a web feature that has a fast internet connection and enables you to connect to the internet which is believed to have an anti-piracy measure, wireless USB and a 4GB memory and there are more boast cool of exciting features that you will surely enjoy.

There was an idea that the Xbox 720 is equipped with 16 core power house. According to the Xbox World, reported that Durango developer’s kit sent out last month by Microsoft and even though they don’t resemble the finished product in design and appearance. Durango being the new Xbox 720’s potential code name reported to now that it was contain a 16-core IBM Power PC CPU with a graphics processor on part with AMD’s Radeon HD 7000-series graphics cards.

 Over VG247 unspecified sources are being quoted that Xbox 720 will be similar to two PCs taped together because of its graphic cards are said to be comparable with AMD’s 7000 series GPUs. The new featured Xbox will have four or six cores and one of it will be reserved for the second version of  Kinect  and one for the OS.

In addition to that, there are floating rumors that Xbox270 is expected to switch from regular DVDs to Blu-ray disc support  in order for you to save and to have a greater storage capacity.

 One of the main influential features that rumoured in the connection to Xbox is said to be that, Xbox 720 will be no longer support second hand games. This purpose is to have an implementation of exclusive security features to prevent playback with those second hand games titles, but this issue is not yet confirmed by Microsoft Corporation.

 And if this matter is true it only mean that this is a “game over” of the used game industry. It would also connotes that there will be no freedom for the gamers, they have only the option to purchase new brand new games or not at all.  Maybe Microsoft Company would sensibly promulgate security features by removing disc drive support or adding security code their disc systems which is the same as other  existing online passes.

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X Fire was founded and developed in 2002 by 3 young stars named as Mike Cassidy, Max Woon and David Lawee. Formerly it was known as Ultimate Arena but later it revealed as X fire.

X fire has been designed and developed according to the criteria required by the users. Its game detection feature allows users to detect any active games and receive that information and add current player as a friend. It automatically counts how many hours user has played, how many game he tried and saves other information (Such as scores) from game server.

X Fire also enable you to instantly contact with your friend through instant messaging service or voice chat service right on the gaming platform. It eliminates the additional hassle of minimizing your window for drop a line to other users.

X Fire has also unique content which allows you to have screenshots of your playing and share them with your friends. You can take as much screenshots as you can which will be automatically saved in a particular window when you quit. It will give you opportunity to post them in your profile whenever you want. You can also make video of your gaming progress up to 10 minutes with X fire.

The newest version of X fire allows you to browse internet right on the gaming window. It gives opportunity to track other user’s stats, gaming progress, peak position and other relevant information’s.

The unique and contemporary features has made X fire to grab a cumulated user of 21 million so for and the number is up surging each and every day. This popular and aesthetic gaming platform makes you ride independently in your imaginable world with thousands of gaming diversity. SO why should you wait for, go and grab your one and enjoy real gaming experience.

The game features the World War 2 based campaign with a four play options being segmented. You can play in American campaign, British Campaign, Canadian Campaign and the polish campaign. You can change your campaigns and missions accordingly but changing campaigns frequently leaves you undirected from your motto but still the developer leaves you with the chance. Here the American force attacks from the north, British, Canadian and Polish forces attacking from the South. The main idea of the game has been developed on the plot of Liberation of France from the German Soldiers. You have to play all through the 14 chapters to attain the final victory. The 14 chapters are:

Chapter 1: Saint Lo – American Mission

Chapter 2: The Island – American Mission

Chapter 3: Night Drop – British Mission

Chapter 4: Mayenne Bridge – American Mission

Chapter 5: Falaise Road – Canadian Mission

Chapter 6: Fuel Plant – British Mission

Chapter 7: The Black Baron – Polish Mission

Chapter 8: The Forest – American Mission

Chapter 9: Laison River – Canadian Mission

Chapter 10: The Crossroads – American Mission

Chapter 11: Hostage – British Mission

Chapter 12: The Corridor of Death – Canadian Mission

Chapter 13: The Mace – Polish Mission

Chapter 14: Chambois – American Mission

The more advanced and intellectual game playing option of call of duty 3 can make you busy with the missions one after another unless you finish them all. The tragedy and the thrilling have been developed with the high definition graphics so auspiciously which can drove your mind out of the intention. Treyarch has developed new ideas unlike the previous publisher to add value compared to the previous version. You can hurl back your granades if picked them up and returned in time; vehicle section plays a much bigger role. The inclusion of fixed weapons like firing a motorcar in a blocked road will give you the experience of doing something meaningful.

The previous version was just a port of a PC game but the COD3 builds up with the high visualization. Filling your screen with more explosions, smoke and destructions it will give you the exclusive feelings than any other game playing options. The architectural design is also good enough to attract your attention only in the monitor and the forest environment has also developed considering the real scenario.

The game has developed quite cautiously to pass certification from German Authority as the war is against the Germans. You can never see any swastikas or Schutzstaffel symbol in the game. The team select menu also does not contain any name called Nazi’s which could defame the Germans.