ShadowReality

Ok, so maybe Tremulous didn’t get your attention but this one might as well. And i know what you’re thinking. Oooooo, I have css and cod4, why the hell do i need this! Well, to tell you the truth, i really have no idea but here it goes.

Urban Terror is yet another mod gone standalone game built with the Quake 3 arena engine. The basic idea of the game is much similar to any other FPS. Game modes are literally just TD and CTF. What’s really cool is that at the beginning of the round(of course you can select your guns)you get to get a lot of cool equipment for yourself such as a silencer for your weapons, tactical goggles to see in the dark as well as spot enemies, a laser sight, or simply just some extra ammunition. The gameplay is really fun too. There are a lot of neat tricks you can do in the game. You can slide across the floor, walljump, and you can climb up a ledge thats higher than where you are standing.

Some negative points about the game is the actual fps gameplay. It is extremely easy to get kills in this game. There is extremely low recoil so every shot is going to be spot-on and shooting while moving is accurate also. Now this might sound cool because, “Ooh now i can pwn some noobzors” but “pwning some noobzors” isn’t really all that fun when you do it every darn game.

Other than that, Urban Terror is a pretty fun game, and if you’ve been bored with your other FPS’s recently, this is definetly the #1 pick.

Download Link: http://www.urbanterror.net/

As of right now my Gamerscore is 9988, and I’m pretty psyched about passing the 10,000 barrier. But there’s just one stain on my record, no not king king.. it goes my the name of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.

Most games generally give achievements ending in a zero or five, however UKM3 gives it in 11s , or 12s, and since I havn’t beaten the game yet I am 12 points off my target, well no more I say! Next month i’m going to work on getting that stain off my record, i’m going to train like Rocky and kick ass like the Karate Kid, and then I will win.. CUE THE MUSIC!!

So I have not yet decided on what achievement will push me over the barrier, but I won’t make it something cheap like undertow, I’m stil plowing through Call Of Duty 4 on veteran, and just past one of the hardest parts (”One Shot, One Kill” at the ferris wheel) so it might be that.

Already 2008 seems to be blistering past, and I’m really enjoying playing all the games from last year still, however I feel Easter and the months after are going to bring some great games so I am trying my hardest to get some of the older ones out of the way. The main one being Mass Effect, I still haven’t played more than 8 hours into it and with CoD4 distracting me it has been tough (on my 4th Prestige now).

Too make things worse I have been getting rather excited about the new variety map pack coming out for it this spring featuring 4 new multilayer maps Creek Hill, Killhouse, Chinatown and Broadcast. So i have decided to cancel my rental service next month and get my older games completed, another incentive is that I’m really close to getting past the 10,000 gamerscore which is going to be a nice feeling.

Anyway, I am off to have a quick game of Call of Duty 4..

Recently I picked up N+ on XBLA and have been playing it a whole lot, so much in fact I wrote a review of the the game over at NooBTooB which you can read here.

Whilst I am yet to complete the 250 single player levels, the co-op aspect is really great, and especially given the fact that they have included in a level editor so you can share your level creations online and play them with your friends.

Hopefully this is the start of user shared content over XBox Live, and I hope to see more games feature things like level editors as it brings so much more fun to the table.

N+ is a successor to N, a flash based game. Whilst it is not as feature packed as N+ , it is however free and you can go download this game right now.

I have decided to add a repository for DS homebrew on my site, sometimes it’s hard to sort the good stuff from the bad and although many sites out there try and do this, well none of them do it very well, at least none that I have found. So here I start with one of my favorites…

Colors! is a simplistic digital painting application for Nintendo DS based on modern painting-techniques developed for drawing tablets in programs like Photoshop. By taking advantage of the pressure sensitivity of the DS touch-screen it becomes a perfect portable digital sketch-book.

Colors is a great little homebrew app, and probably one of my favorite. You can even connect via wi-fi and send the pictures over the internet. And that’s not all it has a huge community based around it and even an Online Gallery so please visit thier site and if you havn’t already picked this up get it now.

Website: http://www.collectingsmiles.com/colors/
Current version: v1.06h
Download Here

So me and a few of my buddies in Vent want to make a machinima set in a bunch of games. The first game we’re going to make one in is TFC(Team Fortress Classic). We’re still recruiting for some actors as we only have 3 and then me as the cameraman/director. There are other job openings left also. Also, we still don’t have a name either of the machinima or what we are going to call ourselves, so with Smokey’s permission we should be called Shadowreality. Sounds cool.

Job Openings:

Actors - As many as the people that want to join in.

Editors - Me right now but we might need a better editor

Cameraman - Me right now but we might need a better Camera Man

Writer - Me but I really suck at making jokes when the situation doesn’t call for it so its still open

Director - We need some better looking scenes

Requirements:

Mic Required

Vent Required

Must have TFC. If don’t contact me at my e-mail at - Steven_JunPark@hotmail.com

Must be able to attend most of the dates for shooting and practicing

Incentive:

I’m really thinking about putting the machinimas on machinima.com and revver and if people watch the videos I will be able to distribute the money we get for each video each month. Also, we need a british voice to balance everything out. HAHA

PS: I know that British people are 5 hours ahead of Americans and might not be able to attend the dates we do it. We understand but any time that you are available, you should come.

Our promo video will come up soon…….as soon as we can get everybody and then do some voiceovers

Vent Info -

Hostname: ny2.ugt-servers.com

Portnumber: 11514

Password: wii

Come to the exiled Noobtoobers zone as I’m banned from noobtoob. Lol.

Note: This is not “our” vent so don’t go strolling off into the other channels.

Empires is a team based fps mod for Half Life 2. It’s actually easier to think of this game as a Battlefield type game. The reason being, there are different classes and unlockable weapons(for just one round). This game adopts the ticket system made famous by Battlefield and adds vehicles to the fray. Vehicles are pretty dull though with all of them being tanks and jeeps. There are currently no planes implemented yet but the Empires Mod Team is in the works for planes. Empires Mod uses Source SDK to its best potential. The team’s maps are big as Source SDK will allow and it is rumored that the Empires Mod Team is in the works to make the maps even larger by shrinking the model size. If they pull this off, they could possibly become one of the best mods ever.

Now, Empires Mod is far from perfect. Even though most of the gameplay is good, and the map sizes are huge, the game still lacks the graphical quality that most HL2 mods have. Their textures and models look like they would’ve been in a Call of Duty game.

One other thing that wasn’t mentioned. The game has a seperate gameplay mode: the commander mode. Basically at the beginning of the round, a commander is elected and he plays the game in an RTS perspective. He can tell the other players where to move, where to build, where to defend, so on so forth.

Empires Mod is in its second beta. Download the game here: http://www.empiresmod.com/

Well I guess I will start my first post as a review to some mods for HL2. Today, I’m going to be talking about Black Mesa Source. First of all, anyone who hasn’t played HL1 and doesn’t know the greatness that is “Gordan Freeman”(Local Mute Scientist) then you might not get as much excitement from this as other people will.

 Black Mesa Source is a complete remake of HL1 except as a mod built entirely on the Source Engine. The whole game is going to built from the ground up and that includes revamped level design, character models, and enemy models. It is still not known if Black Mesa Source(Now referred to as BMS) will have new voiceovers. Although this game is a complete remake of HL1, it is not being developed by Valve thus showing the great power of the modding community once again.

 No release date has been set but be sure to check in every once in a while at:

http://www.shadowreality.co.uk for more info.

Update:

Black Mesa Source Theme Song: http://www.blackmesasource.com/media/music/BMS-01-theme.mp3

 

It’s Finally on it’s way home!

After a total of 15 days, it’s will be back in my loving arms, and It will finally get treated to that copy of Call of Duty 4 I promised it many moons ago.

So Summary of Xbox Repair Service, Is it the nightmare that people have said it was? For me No. (We shall see tomorrow)

But something happened to me during these 15 days (and is still is to a degree) and it’s like some weird Xbox Live Withdrawal, Like someone has taken away my intreveinous drugs and left me to go cold turkey, and no amount of free MMo’s or Peggle will make the pain go away, but finally the wait is over and the healing can begin.