My week as a Tyrant!

Over this last week I was able to delve into the gaming franchise of Civilization with its latest entry in the series Civilization 5. The core idea of the series is to take a civilization and a famous ruler and lead to through the ages. You may win through diplomacy, winning the space race, culture and of course war. You have allies and enemies. You have nothing but your brains, your mouse and a lot of guts to lead you to victory.

The latest version of Civilization launched September 21, 2010. I (of course being a fan of the series) picked up the game one the first day. I ran home, installed it on to my computer and I didn’t sleep for the first night, for I was hooked. Talk about bad timing....I had class the next day

So I decided for my first run that I would lead Montezuma and the Aztecs through the ages. My story started with such hope and then I fell into damnation... We begin at my first turn when I had nothing but settlers, some warriors and a dream in my heart.

Ahhh my humble beginnings...

I was trotting along through history, making cities here and laying the foundations of my technologically advance empire. It was then that I received a message from one of my allies saying that they need a city to be “taken care” of. So I raced with my army to the city and began my siege....That was when the Russians attacked. Apparently they too were sent to destroy the city. So the city, the Russians and myself were locked in a trifecta land war of chaos and destruction. It came to the point where it was just the city (its broken walls), and the Russians and I each had one catapult. It was a race to finish of the city, which I of course won.

That is when I began my dark road... The Russians tried to stop my taking of the city, their deed shall not go unpunished. I raised an army for the sole purpose of taking over the Russians. Long was our war but it ended with a broken peace treaty (I did that on purpose) and their entire civilization wiped out. O I kept their cities and people under my rule. I needed to make gold off them some how. The French and Japanese found out about my"activities" and began to offer treaties and trade agreement terms. Though the French showed me attitude...So I destroyed them and liberated a city they took over. The Japanese were always hovering around my borders. So I crushed them. I then turned to the dark side. I knew I wanted to win through war and no way else. I discovered the Romans and we went to war over a land filled with many resources. So I killed them all...Then I found the Arabian empire. They were the last bastion of hope against my tide of evil. If I wanted to win, they would need to be gone. I ended them swiftly and without mercy. Thus there I was triumphant and victorious, but at what cost? My sanity and morals shattered, all over a game. I was a fragment of my formal self. I was Montezuma!

Yeah that was me for a bit...

That will of course change this week. I shall go for a more peaceful path to victory and hopefully not be seen as a tyrant. I mean with Civilization...Anything is possible and the world truly is my oyster.

Justin

Best two games on a Budget

Call of Duty

    The first person and third-person shooter video game. A series began on the PC, and later expanded to most people's favorite video game system.


Indeed, modern warfare 2 has the best multiplayer of 2010 games. first it runs at 50fps "50 frames per second"(real life speed). Indeed one of the reasons why this game have got famous is because no other first person shooter has done that yet!! and it never glitches. For example, by using cheats etc.. It has awesome guns perks and everything. how can you say this multiplayer is boring or not fun. is probably..!!

 To not take much from your time we'll be uploading coupons for the new call of duty black ops on Ps3 coming 11.09.10 for who ever's interested, so all you just have to do is buy it and come join us playing it online!!

Assassin's Creed

    Another third person action-adventure video game as well. The game was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft team from Montreal. It was released worldwide in November 2007 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and April 2008 for Windows. The game centers on the use of a machine named the "Animus", which allows the viewing of the protagonist's genetic memories of his ancestors.

Through this plot device, details emerge of a struggle between two factions, the Knights Templar and the Assassins, over an artifact known as a "Piece of Eden" and the game primarily takes place during the Third Crusade in the Holy Land in 1191. The game received generally a huge positive reviews, and won several awards in 2006

The Third Crusade "1189–1192". It's also known as the Kings' Crusade. It was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin "Salāh ad-Dīn".

The game has most of the weapons at that time that you can use them too while playing the game. Very interesting game!!

Here's a screen cap for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood just cause we can.

Sam

Used Games Sales are at Risk!

The picture to the left is your typical view of one of the many walls of a video game store (such as EB Games). All of those games you see are used video games. Living on a student budget this very section is your best friend. You have countless choices for such a good price. Yet all may be at risk thanks to a case ruling the US Courts of Appeal.

The whole case began when AutoCAD (computer software company) wanted an ebay user to stop selling their software over the site. They basically stated that the “software user is a licensee rather than the owner” (http://games.ign.com/articles/112/1120315p1.html).  This truly is a shock to most people. We purchased the software, we registered the product, yet that doesn’t give us the right as an owner. According to the ruling we are not the owners and now software companies, etc have the right to deny the customer’s ability to resell their products. So what happens to us students that rely on used products just to get through a semester of school.There also has been speculation that this case could also affect the ability to sell used  books, cds and dvds.

Luckily this is only in the US but since most software companies are international it will most likely come up to the north. So course programs aside how does this affect gamers? It affects us because most retail video game stores are owned by US companies. So that means they could pull the used game program in all stores. That means our gaming selection just got a little bit smaller. On top of that our choices just got a little more difficult, food for our fridge or a new game for our system.

Feel free to educate yourself more by visiting http://games.ign.com/articles/112/1120315p1.html. This is generally a great site for gaming news and they have links to lead you into a further investigation.

Justin

A Brief Intro

Hey Everyone,

I am Justin of Student Gamers. I am just one brain behind the blog, my partner in crime is Sam (who will introduce himself in a later post). I thought to start off this blog with a brief intro about what we are here for. So to begin this blog is for Sam and I come together and to share something about one of our passions with the rest of the world. We are covering things from game launches that we are excited for, to reviews of used games that help any gamer get a bang for their buck. So our writing may be a little random and borderline chaotic, but keep in mind we are college students, we got to balance our work and got get some rounds of Call of Duty in there. Expect an "official" first post  within the next few days.

Justin