Metro Last Light: Aizio's Verdict

Metro Last Light

Publisher: Deep Silver

Developer: 4A Games

Genre: Action FPS
Release: May 17, 2013

Have you ever imagine our earth post-nuclear war and how do people live and survive after the catastrophic event? In Metro Last Light, fighting for ourselves is a path to survival. The environment had been contaminated and the only for you to breathe through air filter and living inside underground metro. Metro: Last Light takes place one year after the events of Metro 2033, proceeding from the canonical ending from the novel, ending where Artyom chose to call down the missile strike on the Dark Ones. The Rangers have since occupied the D6 military facility, with Artyom having become an official Ranger. Khan, the nomad mystic, arrives at D6 to inform Artyom and the Rangers that a single Dark One survived the missile strike. Khan believes the Dark One is the key to humanity's future, and wants to make peace with it, whereas the Ranger's leader, Colonel Miller, wants to kill the creature, ending the threat of the Dark Ones forever. Miller sends Artyom to the surface with a mission to kill the Dark One; he is accompanied by Anna, Miller's sarcastic daughter and the Rangers' best sniper. 

What I LIKE:

i) Graphics

Metro Last light gives you awesome graphics and a real experience of post nuclear war. The environment are highly presented in a manner that you feel the effect almost immediately after reaching on the surface. The underground metro is very well presented and looks lively with people doing business such as restaurant and so on.

ii) Gameplay

The gameplay are easy to maneuver and master. Good and non-complicated inventory system makes the game more playable. Surviving is the key here and you have to manage your ammo and weapon very well and wrong step would get you killed especially when confronting monsters and demon. You need careful timing for your action especially on the surface as you'll depend on air filter that is limited (in higher difficulties). 

What I DISLIKE:

i) AI

The Human AIs were not very intelligent enough and you can easily overcome or naturaliz them. However, the monsters and demons AIs were good and react very effectively. Confronting them makes your hands sweat as you punching your controller every time in order to kill them.

Overall taught for this game is: 

   9/10    

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Dishonored Aizio's Verdict

DISHONORED

Publisher: Bethesda Softworks

Developer: Arcane Studios

Genre: Action/Stealth

Ever get the feeling you're expendable? Dishonored gives you the experience just that. Set in the fictional industrial city of Dunwall, you played as Corvo Attano, the Empress's legendary bodyguard who is just coming back from a mission to find a cure for the plague that is causing chaos and disturbance in the city. Returning 2 days early from the mission makes him taking the blame for the crime he did not commit. Unfortunately he was at the wrong place, at the wrong time where the conspirators led by High Overseer Campbell trying to overthrow the empress by assasinating her-instead-framing Corvo for her murder. Seeking revenge on those who conspired against him, Corvo was forced to become an assassin and aided by the Loyalists—a resistance group fighting to reclaim Dunwall, and the Outsider—a powerful being who imbues Corvo with magical abilities. 

What I LIKE:

 i) Gameplay

Dishonored gives you freedom in gameplay by providing many options in order to achieve your objectives. Dynamic gameplay what gives Dishonored a very enjoyable experience. You can explore the city of Dunwall and discover so many possiblities and ways to your objectives especially in killing your target. There are variety of ways to kill and you can experiment everything by using different types of weapons and abilities. 

Every of your action have consequences and this affect the ending of your game. You can have Low Chaos ending (without killing anyone), High Chaos ending (killing spree hehehehe), and special High Chaos ending which I would not spoil to you here. 

ii)Abilities

Corvo had special abilities that he can used at his disposal. The abilities such as Blink and Dark Vision always help you when trying to get passed the guards in the city. There is also Possession ablity where you can possess rodents or people, Swarming ability where you can summon infested rats and many more. You have to collect runes that are scatterred around the city for ablity upgrades.

What I DISLIKE:

i) Graphics

The graphics were not as fancy as the games. Cartoonish graphics and environment that looks like water colour brushing were not presented very well. First hour play may affect your mood because you don't feel amazed about the graphics whether characters, environment and even the city itself. I personally want to stop playing this game during my first hour play. It kills your mood to play.

ii) Story

Story is interesting but seems unpolished. You can predict easily where the story goes and the campaign is feel short for a AAA game. You have totally 9 missions to complete and is kind of dissappointing to see the story were not expanded very well as they focused more on gameplay. I know some may disagree with me but I think a good presented story is also important to capture your audience. 

iii) Character

The characters are poorly developed in this game. You don't feel attach to your character at all. For each character you don't feel as you should be. As for Corvo, the feeling for him is not deep enough for you to pity him as you should be.

Overall my final verdict for this game is 

8/10

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A good game from Arcane Studios and highly creative and innovative. However they still need to improve in certain areas if they wish to become one of contenders in the gaming industry. For those of you who haven't play or wish to play this game, I highly recommended it and a must own game for you.

Aizio's 101: The games I play and finished so far

Hey guyz. It's been a long time since i updated my blog. It's been a busy weeks and I have so much to do lately so this will be my first entry for the month of July. I'm currently working on the reviews for the games that I played so far. So I've list down all the games that I've played from early 2012 until June 2013 and it's quite a suprise to me that I had been playing and also finishing so many games for the past 2012 and this few couple of months for the year 2013. It's quite an achievement actually for me with my tight schedule I'm still able to finish most of the games. Here are the list of the games that I've already finished playing:

• Resident Evil 6
• Max Payne 3
• Dragon Age II
• Dishonored
• Sleeping Dogs
• Tomb Raider
• Assassin’s Creed III
• DmC Devil May Cry
• Call Of Duty Black Ops 2
• Hitman Absolution
• Dead Space 3
• Mass Effect 3

I know some of you are far more better than I am. Anyway I'll try to do my best to review them and I'm not a game jounalist people. So it may not be very fancy or good written. After all, I'm just giving my opinion as a fan of games. However with all the games that I have, there are several unfinished games that I still play:

• The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim
• Far Cry 3
• Metro Last Light
• Need For Speed Most Wanted
•  The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
•  Resident Evil Revelations

Yeah, 3 RPGs people so I think I'm gonna take my time playing and finishing all the games. Anyway I'm glad  that I'm able to finally post entry in this month. See u guyz around!