Check out www.epicwar.com/maps for cool maps made by the community for Warcraft lll: Frozen Throne. I have also updated my old map called "Bloodland" (it's still called that) there. Check it out and have a lot of fun with these games.

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Sorry that i haven't been updating the blog for a long time now, but I've been a little too busy and slow for me the last little bit.

I'll get something new very soon

For all of those out there that listen to the technobabble podcast with Jeff, Cee and including me, our podcasts have not been able to be uploaded since the last podcast we've done. Just wait until we've fixed the problem. Jeff and I have actually done 2 podcasts together and they won't upload and Cee's done 2 podcasts with Jeff and still we haven't been able to upload. It's actually pretty funny but, we'll get you your technobabble podcast ASAP.

My map for Warcraft lll: The Frozen Throne is up at http://www.maps.worldofwar.net. It's called "Bloodland" and actually has a rating of 1 out 0f 5 WHICH IS CRAP!!! But hey I got it up and it isn't actually that bad if your not picky about stuff. If you have any coments that can help me just tell me at thenumber_1_gamer@hotmail.com.

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Drakengard 2

Dragons. Monsters. A goddess. A hero. Eighteen years after the calamity, a new hero finds himself in a confusing situation where he must fight to keep humanity from being destroyed. Will Nowe find out the truth? Or will he just follow along like a good soldier?

Story/Objective

This sequel's story follows the main character Nowe and his dragon friend Legna(not pact partner like Caim and Angelus in the first Drakengard). Nowe was raised by dragons, naturally. He became part of the Knights of the Seal to keep peace in the world and blindly follows all their orders. Soon, he meets a woman names Manah who "opens his eyes" to the truth of the "peace" that the Knights fight for.
The story is pretty simple, but confusing to follow. In the end, I wasn't so sure whether I did a good thing or a bad thing. Alot of what is said to be truth in this game, seems to be more speculation and points of view than absolute truth, which threw me off a bit. The story wasn't particularly predictable, but some of the moments in it weren't realistic, almost felt sculpted or thrown in as if the designers couldn't find a place to put a certain scene.
Also, Nowe's devotion to the Knights, his friends Eris, Manah, and Legna seem to switch at a moment's notice. I didn't feel attached to Nowe or his feelings at all, which is a big thing for me in an RPG.
This story, like in the first Drakengard, has a feeling of neverendingness (I don't know if that's a word, but I'm using it ;) ). I can see another Drakengard in the future, but no real ending to the story.

Graphics

The graphics are pretty cool. Similar to samurai warriors with the characters being more detailed. The Full Motion Video (FMV) was pretty good. They were put in pretty appropriate places in the game to emphasize certain moments. The semi-video scenes where the characters just talked were kind of annoying after a while. They were important, I understand, but it would've been much appreciated if the characters on screen weren't as stiff as poles and walked around a bit like on the first Drakengard.
I liked it that the camera angles could be manually changed. Yeah!
The unique design of all the characters was my favorite part. Each character was different, but still had that same feel of the original Drakengard's world, which is important, since it is the same world. The dragon, Legna, was really awesome. I don't think he was any more impressive than Angelus, but he had his own flare.

Sound

The sounds were well done. The music was alot better than the first Drakengard, but had, like I've said before, the same feel. The voiceovers were good too, in the brittish accents of course. Although, Nowe's voice was almost overplayed. He wasn't as believable sometimes as he needed to be, and seemed to repeat alot of what he had already stated the second before. Perhaps I'm too hard on the voice actors, but if you want people to believe it, then make it believable instead of overdone and fake.

Gameplay

It's alright. The gameplay is pretty much the same as in the previous Drakengard. The battles in the air are a little more exciting than the battles on the ground, well, more challenging that is. The battles on the ground remind me of Samurai Warriors where you just have a tonne of people running at you waiting for you to kill them.
One of the best features of this game is the "buddy system", as I like to call it. You can use up to four different characters in your party, but only use one at a time. The best part of this is that you go into the battle menu and pick a weapon for a certain character, let's say Eris. You pick a spear and she "teleports" to the spot where Nowe was and has the certain weapon you picked. In the last Drakengard, you could use a partner in battle, but that person would decrease in hit
points (HP), so you really only had a minute or two with that person before he/she lost all of his/her HP. In Drakengard 2, you can use any character at any time without being penalized. Also, each of the characters has a different type of weapon with different combos, magic, and strengths, which helps you to want to use all the characters. This is the best improvement in the Drakengard series, from my point of view.

Story/Objective------7.1/10
Graphics-------------8/10
Sound----------------8.4/10 for improvement!
Gameplay------------8.3/10
Overall---------------8/10 For all the great improvements.

OKAMI- Preview

This is no ordinary type of game like any you've ever seen. It's a completely brand new concept of style, story and gameplay. It's not just for the girly and kidish fans either, it's also a great game of adventure and some awesome action involved. This video game is known as Okami.

Story/Objective

The story for this game is about the usual good vs. evil type. We have the main character which is a wolf and it's name is Amaterasu and it's little fairy (looks like one) friend named Essun. A long time ago the Amaterasu had destroyed the great evil that once was on the planet, but now it has returned 100 years later. Your job is to destroy that evil once and for all with the might of your painting skills and ferious attacks you have been granted to use. Believe me when I say this, painting in this game is NOT BORING of any type.

Graphics

The graphics for this game is an original design. The type of art they use is a totally different type then anything that everyones ever seen. It's like the old Japanese painting style. Even if the graphics are like that, it's almost too amazing for words.

Sound

Sound on this game is basicly a Japanese music type of sound everywhere you go. It's actually very cool to listin to. It's also very great and very realistic for what the game is all about.

Gameplay

The gameplay is very good too. It's not just going around for just some sort of adventure, but it's also got lot's of action for the game and it's a bit of an RPG (Role Playing Game). A cool feature that Okami has is the fact the when you hit the ground, you make flowers/grass form around you once you hit the ground and for jumoing in the air and bashing you make sorts of red pedaled leaves go around you. It's very cool. You can change the camera angle. One of the coolest things though is that you can use your painting skills to make things (to build rivers to move across an area, make contellations, cut your way to get through parts of an area, etc) and you can use your paint skill to attack enemies. It's an awesome game and original. Any adventure/RPG gamer would want to buy this game, beleive me.

Score
Story/Objective..........8.5/10
Graphics........................9.1/10
Sound.............................8.3/10
Gameplay.......................9.2/10
Total...................8.8/10

REMEMBER THIS IS A PREVIEW
Game may change for the better if you are not convinced by the time it comes out in video game stores near you

Sorry about the lack of pictures for Okami, but there is not enough pictures available to use. Okami looks better once playing, not as good in pictures of the game.

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1) In iTunes got to the Advanced bar at the top and then click on subscribe to podcast and copy and paste http://www.switchpod.com/users/tbabble/feed.xml onto the box that pops up and press ok.

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As most of us should know I like to play a lot of Warcraft lll (If you listened to the podcast with Jeff and I then you would know) but recently I've been doing maps of my own for the game which you can do as long as you have the map editor program. Since I'm interested in programming I've been doing a lot of making maps for Warcraft lll and then realized I've still got a blog to cover. So sorry about that. But anyways, I'm going to be posting one of my maps called "Bloodland" on Warcraft.org and it would be awesome if all of you could take a look at it and play it and give me feedback and what I should do to improve. To do that though (even though registering is a bit annoying) you have to register at Warcraft.org and if you don't have Warcraft lll: Reign of Chaos or the expansion Frozen Throne then i suggest that you get that game because it is an amazing game too. I may review it sometime in the future but it is a bit of an old game, but the graphics are still great.

So check it out and if you want to learn about Warcraft lll a little more e-mail me at thenumber_1_gamer@hotmail.com (it's _1_ not 1 ) and I'll e-mail you back with all the info you need.

If you don't know I have an e-mail address so you can give me suggestions, other feedback, and even give me topics to write on, like a game that your interrested in but you can't tell if it's good or not by the other reviewers. So the e-mail is thenumber_1_gamer@hotmail.com (it's _1_ not 1 ) I'll remind you in other blogs too so you don't have to look around everywhere for the e-mail address.

Sorry guys for not posting in a while, but I will be posting very soon.

STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT ll

It's not just shooting blasters and going commando against your opponents, but even becoming the great jedi to defend the universe, or be the enemy with the powerful sith. Yes, you guessed it, I'm talking about STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT ll. Let's take a look at it.

Story/Objective

Battlefront ll has so many different objectives and story modes, it's actually quite crazy what this game all has available on it. And first off is the game type Conquest. What you basically have to do is take over the enemy posts and take over any neutral posts (if there are any neutral posts). You'll get the rest of how to play it when you play it.

The next is Capture the Flag, which is exactly as it shows and if you are a gamer you would know.

Next off is Capture the Flag again...Except it's for Space Battles. Although it's only a capture the flag type, it's a bit harder to get to the flag, depending on what map you've taken. You'll get the hang of it pretty quick once you start playing.

Now for Assault, which is only for space battle. This is the game type for any gamer that just wants to DESTROY EVERYTHING, which I love too. What you have to do is destroy the enemies ship or ships, by destoying all of there systems inside the ship and you can take your ship and destroy bridge, engines and so on. What can get any better then that, I wouldn't know.

Another one of the types is Hunt, which you are a beast or the rebels and you play it out like conquest.

Now for the Story modes on the game. First is Rise of the Empire. On this type you learn a whole lot more about the clones. And if you already know about all of that, then you get to experience everything that they go through. This is the part of games I love to play because it's a lot of fun. And Rise of the Empire goes for a long ways. You could definitely spend a lot of hours on this part of the game.

The second type of story mode is Galactic Conquest. This is somewhat a story mode, but you just play it out, no learing or nothing. The cool thing about this though, is that you can buy new types of troops and some cool items for the long trip. The other cool thing is that you kind of move around the galaxy to different worlds to defend them or attack to stop the Empire.

Graphics

The graphics on Battlefront ll are just amazing. I mean, they might not be the best compared to some games or systems, but the graphics are all around amazing anyway. Though the game systems change that, it's still really good. The detail is great.

Sound

The Sound FX on this game are pretty much what you'd think them to be, there just like on the movies except for a few different things that wasn't on the movies. Like some of the weapons were kind of it's own creation for the game, but all around it was fairly good.

Gameplay

Gameplay on Battlefront ll is basically what the game is all about. I don't know exactly how you could put down the gameplay. The controls will be easy to use in minutes, even for an average player. The menu isn't too hard to use, except for "HOW DO YOU GET INTO THE OPTIONS FOR IN GAME?!!" I had to fool around with the menu for a while to figure out some cool features... As long as you can get into the menu of course. You can have a 1st person view and a 3rd, which is pretty cool and it helps when your a sniper to have 1st person, but in a space ship you can only see the crossairs.

Story/Objective------8.3/10

Graphics-------------8.7/10

Sound----------------7.8/10

Gameplay-------------7.6/10

TOTAL----------------8.1/10