Showing posts with label Video Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video Games. Show all posts

Wednesday

Nazis v. Zombies: Who's the Bigger Badguy?

We've been killing them since the moment the first person shooter was invented. Killing Nazis and Zombies is a way to let out your sadistic frustration. They're both the baddest of the bad, but who's the biggest baddie of them all? Let's take a look a the facts.

Kill Ease
Underneath all that Reich brainwashing the Nazis are still men. They can be killed by any wound. Although the do experiment with eugenics and create some near invincible super soldiers (remember Hans from Wolfenstein 3D?), given enough bullets they will die. Zombies are a bit harder to kill. Only a head shot will do it. You can pump an endless amount of lead into a Zombie, but if there's no head shot they'll keep on coming. This can be bad if there's a large group of them and you're aim stinks.

Intelligence
Zombies are dumb - really dumb. They are unorganized, reveal their position, make a lot of noise and only have one thing on their mind: brains. They don't care about their own well being, nor do they know any better. They just keep on coming until they get you or you kill them. It makes for a relentlessly dangerous enemy. The Nazis are complete opposites. They are very organized. They tend to sneak up on you and can organize attacks. They are also harder to kill because they realize their own mortality so they hide behind things. While Nazis attack like a military body, they do have one bad thing going for them. They're loud. They yell and give up their position as soon as they see you.

Weapons
Nazis are the master of weapons. They will shoot back with everything you have and more. They always have the best and newest weapons. Nine times out of ten at one point in the game you're trying to steal their new super weapon. Until you get that BFG you have to fight through their endless machine gun and Panserfaust fire - not fun. Zombies only possess one weapon, their mouth. Although they can't kill you at long range, that weapon will make more Zombies. What began as one Zombie can easily become hundreds. The Nazis don't have the capacity to regenerate more Nazis. A single Zombie bite is fatal. Even though you could potentially live on for a bit, the bite will eventually be fatal, so any physical contact with a Zombie is potentially fatal.

Apperance
Zombies just look bad. They're clothes are all in taters and so aer their skin. Everything is completely decayed. The Nazis on the other hand have an elegant look of villany. Simple yet effective.

Mobility
Nazis have many means to get around. They run, walk, drive or ambush you in a tank. If there's trouble they'll be there fast and sometimes weilding nearly unstoppable weapons. Zomies on the other hand always walk the same slow menacing speed. Slow and steady wins the... brains?

The Winner
Nazis move faster, are intellegent and have the best weapons. Zomies look badder, are virtually unstoppable (except for destroying the brain) and have the ablitiy to create an army of Zombies. Nazis will kill you with a big bang and Zombies will kill you with one bite. Who's the better villian?

Sorry Zombie fans, but I say Nazis. These World War II villans are better than their undead counterparts because of their intellegence. While Zombies are physically repulsive and their attacks virulent, the Nazis equally match if not best the protagonist. They're basically you with better weapons. So why does the player always win? Simple - in the super effecient Nazi world the confusion of a single attacking outsider messes everything up. And that gives you the advantage.

Saturday

Top 25 new videogame classics

Entertainment Weekly has revealed a new list, 50 New Videogame Classics, which includes games from 1983 to the present.

Take a look at the Top 25 below and see if your favorites made the list.



1. Tetris - PC (1985)
2. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - N64 (1998)
3. Doom - PC (1993)
4. Super Mario World - SNES (1991)
5. Guitar Hero - PS2 (2005)
6. Street Fighter II - SNES (1991)
7. Super Mario Kart - SNES (1992)
8. Goldeneye 007 - N64 (1997)
9. Grand Theft Auto IV - PS3 and Xbox 360 (2008)
10. Metal Gear Solid - PlayStation (1998)
11. Halo: Combat Evolved - Xbox 360 (2001)
12. Super Mario Galaxy - Wii (2007)
13. Final Fantasy VII - PlayStation (1997)
14. Resident Evil 4 - GameCube (2005)
15. Chrono Trigger - SNES (1995)
16. Gran Turismo - PlayStation (1998)
17. Sim City - Macintosh and Amiga (1989)
18. Half-Life - PC (1998)
19. Sid Meier's Civilization II - PC (1996)
20. Gears of War - Xbox 360 (2006)
21. Starcraft - PC (1997)
22. Super Metroid - SNES (1994)
23. Deus Ex - PC (2000)
24. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 - PlayStation (2000)
25. Shadow of the Colossus - PS2 (2005)
Nos. 26-50 available here.

Thursday

Electronic Arts Dead Space Sweepstakes

The Deep Focus team has just kicked off a campaign for the newest survival horror game from EA. Check it out for a chance to win an awesome prize pack.

The Electronic Arts (EA) Dead Space team has watched a ton of Horror and Science Fiction films while developing and creating the scariest, most realistic survival/horror game to ever hit the streets, and now they want to pass their collection on to you! By registering below for the Dead Space Newsletter, you will be entered to win a hundred DVDs, hand picked by members of the Dead Space Development Team. Users have until midnight on July 27th, 2008 to sign-up, and a winner will be notified shortly thereafter. With films that range from 12 Monkeys to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien to Predator to Alien vs. Predator, this giveaway is the most comprehensive way to own the very best collection of Horror and Sci-fi films to date.

Check out the Dead Space website for behind the scenes looks at making the game, as well as the newly created "Developer Diary" chronicling the painstaking efforts that went into designing the game.

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