You Are Empty, a game by the Russians, depicting the Russians is one that appears good at first glance, but it takes only moments for the illusion to wear off. The game commences with a bizarre yet artistically depicted intro formed as a collage of stop motion videos and silhouettes depicting a soldier’s life in the post world war era of the Soviets. He’s off to work when he gets struck by a vehicle, only to wake up in what looks like a medical facility. He is attacked by patients in straightjackets and head clamps and nurses who have an acute resemblance to a Pamela Anderson zombie without makeup. Escaping from the hospital with a revolver which is found lying around along with a large spanner, he leaves the building only to be attached by a fireman with bloodshot eyes and an axe. Reaching an outer office building in this deserted medical campus he enters and office where he finds a note taking about a drug that was administered to the patients and this is where he is attacked by an old scientist wearing a gas mask. And this is how the game progresses, abstract videos that make no sense what so ever, throngs of brainless opponent clones launching themselves at the protagonist with no real purpose as he aimlessly trudges through level after level finding bits of paper supposedly revealing a story and meeting a couple of people sane enough to share intel with him. It doesn’t take long for someone to figure out the story which couldn’t have been more cliché. A Communist Russian empire in the early 50’s where a hospital’s denizens are subjected to a drug that makes them into superhuman soldiers, but of course something goes wrong (or had to) and before you know it, the hospital, then the whole town gets infested with the virus and Mr. Soldier here, the unintentional test subject has to get to the bottom of it before the virus activates in his blood stream, fighting off every Tom Dick and Harry that was playing their civic role in Soviet society before the catastrophe. Despite being bland in every way, the game doesn’t fall short of its target variety ranging from middle aged skinny farmers wives and the toothless elderly with double barrel shotguns, Russian ballerinas and air borne assault units with dual propeller blades whirring in the air and above all giant featherless raptor-chicken hybrids being bred as an experiment by Soviet scientists. Nevertheless, the swarms of enemy clones are only visually different and at the most either hack at you or have a firearm with no intelligence whatsoever. Even the weapons though nothing outrageous are amusing to play with. The Communists have left behind the usual pistols, shotguns and submachine guns to play with, apart form the awe inspiring hydraulic nail-gun and Molotov cocktails (petrol in empty beer bottles with burning rags at the end). The games visuals are 2 years old and probably because the developers didn’t meet the expected deadline, hence the game should run smoothly with crispy visuals on older rigs. The aesthetics of the game suit the premise i.e. a USSR industrial colony filled with mutated people, dull and boring to the core. From the hospital to the industrial zones, there isn’t much to gorge at because the soviets back in their golden days didn’t really have spectacular towns for their blue collar workforce. There is exceptional detail in the environments with plenty of socialist propaganda, operatic scores of Russian opera played here and there and posters in their native language symbolically exhibiting Stalin and the hammer and sickle. The graphics are quite static in nature with no dynamic lighting and shadows, animated environments or visual ambience that would depict the feel of a zombie infested neighborhood. It does however have a basic physics engine with rolling barrels and destructible furniture, but nothing like Half Life-2 or Penumbra where physics was put to practical use rather than a visual gimmick. The sound too is limited to grunts and cackles with the occasional voice over for some of the NPC’s. Music score isn’t too bad yet not worth mentioning either. A final verdict: You Are Empty is truly worth no more than the cost of a pirated PC DVD. A pastime when there is no good game to play all over and nothing better to do. It is uninteresting and brain dead in every aspect considering the standards set by some first person shooters with no real premise or purpose of existence unless if one considers the half baked story it claims to have.
Archive for September, 2007
Review:You Are Empty(PC)
Review:Scratches (PC)
Blackwood Manor, a rich and pristine estate from the Victorian era was recently acquired by Michael Arthate, a lone novelist looking for an environment of solitude in rural England to complete his novel. Little does he know of the past that haunts the place but as he walks into the dormant mansion, his paths cross those who lived there through the relics they left behind and he is unwillingly involved in a mystery that goes into the paranormal. The house itself is luxurious in every way. At first glance one realizes the class of educated nobility that lived here. Complete with patterned wallpapers adorned with classic oil paintings framed in mahogany wood and teakwood floors patched with elaborate carpets, antique European furniture tastefully selected for the many rooms of the three tiered house, hand painted vases and polished brass candelabras. But the eerie silence in this place speaks only of tragedy and death. As Michael trifles through books, memos and disintegrating hand written notes, he realizes the house belonged to an explorer whose subject of interest was an African tribe. Living alone the loneliness and past memories haunted him to the brink of madness. Scratches in the night, whispers in the dark and Michel would soon know what his predecessor was relating in his diaries. The gameplay is panoramic i.e. still- painted 360 degree views that lets one stand at a particular point and simply look all around with the mouse, clicking on interactable objects for a closer view or picking them up. Moving around is based on predetermined points each with its own panoramic view. Games such as this usually have the combine-items-and-use-them logic or the traditional contraptions that one has to figure out and Scratches share of traditionalism is not much to talk about. Nothing close to what Myst had to offer. The story continues with Michael exploring the multitude of rooms, reading through volumes of text to reveal the dark secrets that haunt the mansion. His quest to unveil the mystery exposes him to nightmares, shown as visual sequences and posing as the only heart gripping moments of the game. Other than that gameplay itself hasn’t much charm to it, unless one likes to admiringly gaze at aristocratic living conditions artistically exhibited in a 2nd generation graphics engine. Looking at the visuals one feels the old fashioned, grim and depressing atmosphere that the developers have tried to create, but the artwork is not the only thing that is old. The panoramic environments are still as death. In times of today, even panoramic or non-3-D backgrounds are animated with moving shadows and lightings, and yet in the world of Scratches, the water is a static image and the clouds in the sky don’t move. If only an up-to-date engine was used to develop the game, the tense atmosphere would actually materialize rather than forming only in the minds of the gamers. What would have been even better had the game been designed completely in 3-D giving gamers the freedom to move around and this would have added bone-chilling dimensions to the games premise especially during conclusive moments. Sound is an important feat for such games and seems to be reasonably well executed. The only issue was that most of the games dialogues were not audible and had to be read off the screen, adding to the dull experience. Music as always was the painful cliché consortium of the piano and violin, with the rise and fall of the strings and strokes in time with the game’s mood.The Directors Cut edition features an aftermath level showcasing a journalist who revisits Blackwood manor before it is demolished and reincarnates the horrors within. The game also has a small bug where the main door doesn’t open but fortunately has a patch available on the net. Scratches is like an absorbing and intriguing horror novel that is being narrated by a grumpy old lady, and hence is recommended to all those traditionalist adventurers who are inspired not by technological aspects of the game but that of the story, and do not mind holding on to a slow yet fascinating novel that picks up later on. For every other stereotype, don’t bother with this one.
Cheats:Yu-GI-Oh (DS)
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| Multiplication of Ants | 22493811 |
| Multiply | 40703222 |
| Mushroom Man | 14181608 |
| Mustering of the Dark Scorpions | 68191243 |
| Mysterious Puppeteer | 54098121 |
| Mystic Horseman | 68516705 |
| Mystic Plasma Zone | 18161786 |
| Mystic Probe | 49251811 |
| Mystical Elf | 15025844 |
| Mystical Moon | 36607978 |
| Mystical Space Typhoon | 05318639 |
| Mystical Wind Typhoon | 63516460 |
| Negate Attack | 14315573 |
| Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin | 17955766 |
| Nightmare’s Steelcage | 58775978 |
| Offerings to the Doomed | 19230407 |
| Ojama Black | 79335209 |
| Ojama Green | 12482652 |
| Ojama King | 90140980 |
| Ojama Yellow | 42941100 |
| Ookazi | 19523799 |
| Ordeal of a Traveler | 39537362 |
| Order to Charge | 78986941 |
| Order to Smash | 39019325 |
| Painful choice | 74191942 |
| Panther Warrior | 42035044 |
| Paralyzing Potion | 50152549 |
| Parrot Dragon | 62762898 |
| Pendulum Machine | 24433920 |
| Penguin Knight | 36039163 |
| Penguin Soldier | 93920745 |
| Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth | 48579379 |
| Petit Moth | 58192742 |
| Pineapple Blast | 90669991 |
| Polymerization | 24094653 |
| Premature Burial | 70828912 |
| Prevent Rat | 00549481 |
| Princess of Tsurugi | 51371017 |
| Prohibition | 43711255 |
| Pumpking the King of Ghosts | 29155212 |
| Pyramid Energy | 76754619 |
| Pyramid Turtle | 77044671 |
| Rabid Horseman | 94905343 |
| Raigeki | 12580477 |
| Raimei | 56260110 |
| Rain of Mercy | 66719324 |
| Raise Body Heat | 51267887 |
| Raregold Armor | 07625614 |
| Reaper of the Cards | 33066139 |
| Red Gadget | 86445415 |
| Red Medicine | 38199696 |
| Red-Eyes B. Chick | 36262024 |
| Red-Eyes Black Dragon | 74677422 |
| Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon | 64335804 |
| Reinforcement of the Army | 32807846 |
| Reinforcements | 17814387 |
| Remove Trap | 51482758 |
| Respect Play | 08951260 |
| Restructer Revolution | 99518961 |
| Return from the Different Dimension | 27174286 |
| Reverse Trap | 77622396 |
| Right Arm of the Forbidden One | 70903634 |
| Right Leg of the Forbidden One | 08124921 |
| Ring of Destruction | 83555666 |
| Ring of Magnetism | 20436034 |
| Riryoku Field | 70344351 |
| Robbin’ Goblin | 88279736 |
| Rock Ogre Grotto #1 | 68846917 |
| Rogue Doll | 91939608 |
| Rope of Life | 93382620 |
| Rope of Life | 93382620 |
| Royal Decree | 51452091 |
| Rude Kaiser | 26378150 |
| Rush Recklessly | 70046172 |
| Ryu-Kishin | 15303296 |
| Ryu-Kishin Powered | 24611934 |
| Saggi the Dark Clown | 66602787 |
| Salamandra | 32268901 |
| Sanga of the Thunder | 25955164 |
| Sangan | 26202165 |
| Sasuke Samurai #2 | 11760174 |
| Satellite Cannon | 50400231 |
| Servant of Catabolism | 02792265 |
| Seven Tools of the Bandit | 03819470 |
| Shadow Ghoul | 30778711 |
| Shadow of Eyes | 58621589 |
| Share the Pain | 56830749 |
| Shield & Sword | 52097679 |
| Shift | 59560625 |
| Silent Magician LV 4 | 73665146 |
| Silent Magician LV 8 | 72443568 |
| Silver Bow and Arrow | 01557499 |
| Silver Fang | 90357090 |
| Sinister serpent | 08131171 |
| Skilled Dark Magician | 73752131 |
| Skull Dice | 00126218 |
| Skull Invitation | 98139712 |
| Skull Lair | 06733059 |
| Skyscraper | 63035430 |
| Slate Warrior | 78636495 |
| Snake Fang | 00596051 |
| Sogen | 86318356 |
| Solemn Judgment | 41420027 |
| Solemn Wishes | 35346968 |
| Soul of the Pure | 47852924 |
| Soul Release | 05758500 |
| Soul Resurrection | 92924317 |
| Spark Blaster | 97362768 |
| Sparks | 76103675 |
| Spear Dragon | 31553716 |
| Special Hurricane | 42598242 |
| Spell Shield Type-8 | 38275183 |
| Spellbinding Circle | 18807108 |
| Spiral Spear Strike | 49328340 |
| Spirit Message “I” | 31893528 |
| Spirit Message “L” | 30170981 |
| Spirit Message “N” | 67287532 |
| Spirit Message A | 94772232 |
| Spirit’s Invitation | 92394653 |
| Spiritualism | 15866454 |
| Spring of Rebirth | 94425169 |
| Stamping Destruction | 81385346 |
| Statue of the Wicked | 65810489 |
| Steel Scorpion | 13599884 |
| Steel Shell | 02370081 |
| Stim-Pack | 83225447 |
| Stop Defense | 63102017 |
| Suijin | 98434877 |
| Summoned Skull | 70781052 |
| Super Conductor Tyranno | 85520851 |
| Super Rejuvenation | 27770341 |
| Swamp Battleguard | 40453765 |
| Sword Arm of Dragon | 13069066 |
| Sword of Dark Destruction | 37120512 |
| Sword of the Deep-Seated | 98495314 |
| Sword of the Soul-Eater | 05372656 |
| Swords of Revealing Light | 72302403 |
| Swordstalker | 50005633 |
| System Down | 18895832 |
| Tailor of the Fickle | 43641473 |
| The Cheerful Coffin | 41142615 |
| The Dark Door | 30606547 |
| The Dragon’s Bead | 92408984 |
| The Emperor’s Holiday | 68400115 |
| The Forceful Sentry | 42829885 |
| The Grave of the Enkindling | 84136000 |
| The Inexperienced Spy | 81820689 |
| The Law of the Normal | 66926224 |
| The Little Swordsman of Aile | 25109950 |
| The Masked Beast | 49064413 |
| The Reliable Guardian | 16430187 |
| The Shallow Grave | 43434803 |
| The Snake Hair | 29491031 |
| The Wicked Worm Beast | 06285791 |
| Thousand Dragon | 41462083 |
| Thousand Energy | 05703682 |
| Thousand-Eyes Restrict | 63519819 |
| Thunder of Ruler | 91781589 |
| Tiger Axe | 40907090 |
| Time Machine | 80987696 |
| Time Wizard | 71625222 |
| Toll | 82003859 |
| Toon Alligator | 59383041 |
| Toon Gemini Elf | 42386471 |
| Toon table of contents | 89997728 |
| Torike | 80813021 |
| Torrential Tribute | 53582587 |
| Tragedy | 35686187 |
| Trap Dustshoot | 64697231 |
| Trap Hole | 04206964 |
| Trap Master | 46461247 |
| Tremendous Fire | 46918794 |
| Tribute Doll | 02903036 |
| Tribute to the Doomed | 79759861 |
| Tutan Mask | 03149764 |
| Two-Headed King Rex | 94119974 |
| Two-Pronged Attack | 83887306 |
| Tyhone | 72842870 |
| Type Zero Magic Crusher | 21237481 |
| Tyrant Dragon | 94568601 |
| Ultimate Offering | 80604091 |
| Ultimate Tyranno | 15894048 |
| Umi | 22702055 |
| Umiiruka | 82999629 |
| Upstart Goblin | 70368879 |
| Uraby | 01784619 |
| Uria, lord of searing flames | 06007213 |
| Vampire genesis | 22056710 |
| Vampire lord | 53839837 |
| Vengeful Bog Spirit | 95220856 |
| Versago the Destroyer | 50259460 |
| Vile Germ | 39774685 |
| Violet Crystal | 15052462 |
| Vorse Raider | 14898066 |
| Waboku | 12607053 |
| Wall Shadow | 63162310 |
| Warrior Elimination | 90873992 |
| Wasteland | 23424603 |
| Water Dragon | 85066822 |
| Wave Motion Cannon | 18992735 |
| White Magical Hat | 15150365 |
| Widespread Ruin | 77754944 |
| Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Forest #1 | 87796900 |
| Winged Kuriboh | 57116033 |
| Winged Kuriboh LV 10 | 98585345 |
| Wolf | 49417509 |
| World Suppression | 12253117 |
| X-Head Cannon | 62651957 |
| XY-Dragon cannon | 02111707 |
| XYZ-Dragon Cannon | 91998119 |
| XZ-Tank Cannon | 99724761 |
| Yami | 59197169 |
| Y-Dragon Head | 65622692 |
| Yellow Gadget | 13834120 |
| Yellow Luster Shield | 04542651 |
| YZ-Tank Dragon | 25119460 |
| Zanki | 30090452 |
| Zera the Mant | 69123138 |
| Z-Metal Tank | 64500000 |
| Zoa | 24311372 |
| Zombie Warrior | 31339260 |
Cheats:SimCity (DS)
Landmarks codesAt the main menu, select the “Museum” option. Then, select the “Landmark Collection” option, and enter one of the following case-sensitive codes to unlock the corresponding landmark:
| Landmark | Code |
| Anglican Cathedral (U.K.) | kipling |
| Arc de Triomphe (France) | gaugin |
| Atomic Dome (Japan) | kawabata |
| Big Ben (U.K.) | orwell |
| Bowser Castle (Nintendo) | hanafuda |
| Brandenburg Gate (Germany) | gropius |
| Coit Tower (U.S.) | kerouac |
| Conciergerie (France) | rodin |
| Daibutsu (Japan) | mishima |
| Edo Castle (Japan) | shonagon |
| Eiffel Tower (France) | camus |
| Gateway Arch (U.S.) | twain |
| Grand Central Station (U.S.) | f.scott |
| Great Pyramids (Egypt) | mahfouz |
| Hagia Sofia (Turkey) | ataturk |
| Helsinki Cathedral (Finland) | kivi |
| Himeji Castle (Japan) | hokusai |
| Holstentor (Germany) | durer |
| Independence Hall (U.S.) | mlkingjr |
| Jefferson Memorial (U.S.) | thompson |
| Kokkai (Japan) | soseki |
| L.A. Landmark (U.S.) | hemingway |
| Lincoln Memorial (U.S.) | melville |
| Liver Building (U.K.) | dickens |
| Melbourne Cricket Ground (Australia) | damemelba |
| Metropolitan Cathedral (U.K.) | austen |
| Moai (Chile) | allende |
| Mt. Fuji (Japan) | hiroshige |
| National Museum (Taiwan) | yuantlee |
| Neuschwanstein Castle (Germany) | beethoven |
| Notre Dame (France) | hugo |
| Palace of Fine Arts (U.S.) | bunche |
| Palacio Real (Spain) | cervantes |
| Paris Opera (France) | daumier |
| Parthenon (Greece) | callas |
| Pharos of Alexandria (Egypt) | zewail |
| Rama IX Royal Park (Thailand) | phu |
| Reichstag (Germany) | goethe |
| Sagrada Familia (Spain) | dali |
| Shuri Castle (Japan) | basho |
| Smithsonian Castle (U.S.) | pauling |
| Sphinx (Egypt) | haykal |
| St Paul’s Cathedral (U.K.) | defoe |
| St. Basil’s Cathedral (Russia) | tolstoy |
| St. Stephen’s Cathedral (Austria) | mozart |
| Statue of Liberty (U.S.) | pollack |
| Stockholm Palace (Sweden) | bergman |
| Sydney Opera House (Australia) | bradman |
| Taj Mahal (India) | tagore |
| Tower of London (U.K.) | maugham |
| Trafalgar Square (U.K.) | joyce |
| United Nations (UN) | amnesty |
| United States Capitol (U.S.) | poe |
| Washington Monument (U.S.) | capote |
| Westminster Abbey (U.K.) | greene |
| White House (U.S.) | steinbeck |
The fifth in the immensely popular genre defining Simcity series, Simcity Societies is going to be a whole new experience, unlike predecessors. Earlier on the game was about managing cities, developing infrastructure, setting up commercial, government and residential buildings and facilitating denizens of the city to ensure happy, healthy and safe living standards. Simcity titles build up on complexity as they evolved. This version however goes back to the simple and enjoyable city building experience with less emphasis on building rules and more on citizen personalities as they react to the dynamically to the environment created. They can all be interacted with at ground level as they share their sentiments or behave rationally in their environment. A guy going to a pub could get beaten up or stroll out with no conscience of the world around him. Simcity Societies has the concept of societal values such as prosperity, knowledge, authority, spirituality, creativity and productivity and the plethora of buildings each has an impact on the core vision the city operates on. The Orwellian city based on core authority would be adorned with governmental buildings, dictator statues and surveillance cameras to spot even the slightest act of littering. The more casual artistic city with prosperity and creative values would be adorned with renaissance architecture and luxury oriented denizens. With such innovative concepts, immense variety of buildings and well developed AI; Simcity Societies is expected to top charts in the footsteps of its predecessors.
The game is based on a soviet novel in which a guy from Earth sets out on a space mission where he lands on the alien planet Saraksh and overthrows the ruling government. Taking place in the aftermath of the war, the game takes off as an opportunist neighbor to the fallen government launches an attack which has to be opposed by the human commander. The game is a turn based strategy game in which a variety of possible tasks from buying, upgrading, building and attacking are done in a turn. Resources are acquired through cash given at the beginning of the missions. Strategy then lies in choosing which infantry, armored or artillery to purchase. Each unit has its own strength and weakness against its counterparts and has defensive and offensive strategies that could take more turns or areas on the map to position in. infantry for example could improve their defense rating by digging a trench but this would take an extra turn. They could take refuge in a forest area too provided they can access such terrain. The units also have a morale rating which affects their combat abilities. The visuals of this game seem simple and should run well on average machines provided the engine is optimized well. Overall there doesn’t seem to be much to expect from this title.
Like all simulation games, the players are required to run or create some building or organization. After the last Sid Meir’s RailRoad Tycoon, Hospital Tycoon has now joined the cue. Codemaster with its Hospital Tycoon has decided to step in previously dominated by Maxis and Sid Meir and it has to do its homework if it wants to survive in the market. The game focuses on the running a good hospital, equipped with wacky doctors and nurses to treat their wacky patients. As seen in most simulation games the interaction of the staff and the patients, other individuals depend on how well the hospital is. The better the hospital, the more patients shall arrive and that in turn shall boost the economy and vice versa. It will involve quite some micro-management like the expenditures on the hospital and requirements of ambulances for patients. The game also has a humorous side to it, like the ailments, which the patients are suffering, may vary from Monkey Nuts to Stress Zimbosis may have equally amusing treatments. Such a game may prove to be more interesting to the public.
Mealstrom(PC) Summary
Maelstrom, a production of the union of two companies Codemasters and KD Vision, earlier responsible for the game Perimeter in 2004, features two factions of humanity who are at war with each other are attacked by aliens. Maelstrom adheres to a basic real-time strategy formula, quite opposite to its predecessor. The story starts a few thousand years later on planet Earth when a freak cataclysm destroys most of its human population. The remaining population is divided into two factions the Ascensions who want to rebuild the Earth their own way, on the other hand there are the Remnant, who want the Earth to the way it was in freedom. It turns out the cataclysm was created by Hai-Genti aliens who want to add this planet to their homes. The player can play as any one of the factions and the campaigns are related to each other. The Ascension stars futuristic looking vehicles, shiny building all supporting the fact that they are sufficiently advanced. The Remnants look a bunch of military guys using salvaged vehicles and desolated structures. The Hai-Genti faction is something new altogether. Their structures seem to ooze out of the spores and they only have organic units unlike the traditional spaceships. The game is relatively traditional with starting of each campaign with a handful of soldiers and vehicles to establish a base and kick hell out of the opponent. The game also stars heroes, which are somewhat stronger than normal units as they have abilities. The player can zoom to third person and have a close up view of the battlefield. It is sure that major goal of the game creators was achieved in creating a traditional sci-fi game in the strategy genre.
