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Ok so it’s been a good amount of time since Dead Island came out and I’ve beaten it. I didn’t do every single little thing there is to be done in the game, but I’ve done a good amount. I realized there is A LOT involved in this game, and if you play your cards right you can make your character incredibly strong.

There’s a lot of bugs in this game, but it’s not too bad. I’ve played both XBox and PS3’s versions, and I’ve noticed that the XBox version has a bit more when it comes to bugs and glitches. Also, the PS3 version has a bit better graphics.

I can honestly say that the more time you spend on developing your character, the more fun you’ll have. I’ve used all four characters, but the best one in my opinion is Logan. He’s got the knack for throwing sharp objects, and in rage mode can clear a lot of the walking dead.

My final conclusion for this game is that if your a zombie fan, get this game. If your an RPG fan, get this game. If your low on patience and can’t get into game’s in depth, then DON’T get this game. It can either be a short action packed experience, or it can be an epically long dragged out experience. I chose to go the fast route. I didn’t spend too much time on little things like exploring, but I did spend some time getting my character’s weapons tuned up.

There’s SOOOO much to do in this game that it can take some time to get to the end. So my final analysis is that….it’s a good game. I love this shit!!!

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Finally us PS3 and PC users can set out for Moon, and the remade classic maps on September 22. This DLC includes all 4 zombie maps from Call of Duty: World at War (Nacht Der Untoten, Verruckt, Shi No Numa, and Der Riese.) And the final zombie map for Black Ops called Moon. Those who bought the Hardened or Prestige edition will be getting Rezurrection free of charge.

So yesterday Dead Island came out and I’ve done NOTHING but play it since then. At first I had mixed feelings about it because I was so used to Treyarch’s fast paced action in their zombie maps, but after further game time I can say this….THIS GAME IS AWESOME!!!

So basically it goes a little something like this… Your on an island called Banoi which is off the coast of New Guinea on a vacation. After a night of heavy drinking, you wake up to find that the island is in chaos. Everyone is infected with some blood disease that turns them into zombies. You can choose from 4 characters who are all immune to the disease, and you go around to the survivors to do missions for them because they don’t want to get infected… otherwise I suppose they’d do the missions themselves. The missions vary anywhere from picking up supplies for survivors, to offing someone’s infected wife and kid so they don’t have to suffer… all this while fighting hoards of zombies.

The zombies are a mix between George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead zombies in that they’re very slow, to 28 Days Later zombies which are insanely fast. There are some special zombies which are almost always harder to kill. As your xp goes up, so does theirs. So if your on level 23, the zombies are on level 23-24.

There are endless weapons in this game. You can kill with a broomstick or a kitchen knife… but later in the game you get guns which are very helpful. Ammo for the guns is scarce so it must be used wisely. You can modify weapons as you progress in the game, and even electrify certain weapons.

This game has EVERYTHING. Not only that, it’s FAR from cheap. No not money cheap (because it did cost me $64 big ones) but it’s fair. Actually, sometimes it’s too fair. That’s never a bad thing though. When you die, you start right where you left off and the zombies stay with the health you left them off at before you ate the big one.

One thing to keep in mind is that this is not a fast paced first person shooter. It’s a well balanced first person RPG. It’s fast at times, but for the most part you’ll be trying to complete little side missions while either trying to avoid the undead, or going face to face with them.

The fighting is a bit choppy at times and can sometimes be difficult to master because of the delay. For example, when your trying to stab a zombie it’s not an automatic response so you have to time everything perfectly. Fighting one zombie is easy, but fighting five is hard. Some zombies sprint and some are very slow. Some are big and some are small. There’s these big guys called Thugs that have a lot of experience points that take a lot of work to take down.

There’s SOOOOOO much going on in this game that a simple review wouldn’t give it justice. One thing is for sure… this game is BIG!!! I’m talkin HUGE!!! It’s certainly worth buying and I highly recommend it for those who are fans of the genre.

Well yesterday Rezurrection on XBOX 360, and I put in about 10 hours of game play. Since I don’t have an XBOX 360, my friend Pun was kind enough to come over at 5:45 am after he downloaded it…yes I’m a dork like that. We played until 9:30am and he came back over after work at around 6:30pm and we played until around 1am. I gotta say, this map is EPIC!!!

Ok so you start off at Area 51 right in front of the Pack A Punch machine. There are no rounds while at Area 51 and you just fight off a horde of zombies. You hear an alarm go off and all of a sudden, the zombies start running and dogs begin to spawn. There is a teleporter up the stairs that is protected by a big fence/gate. The fence is lifted when the alarm goes off and alll players must be on it for it to teleport you to the moon if your playing co-op. One more thing to mention is that right in front of the teleporter is the Juggernog or Speed Cola machine. If it’s Speed Cola the first time, then it’s going to be Juggernog the next time you go to Area 51 and so forth. Since the power is on while your at Area 51, if you can survive long enough to get the amount of points you need, you can buy the perk that is in front of the teleporter and make a quick get away

The teleporter that takes you back to Area 51 is pretty far from where you spawn on the moon. Unlike Area 51, the moon has no power and you have to find the power switch to be able to use the teleporter. The power switch is in the room with the black pyramid (if you’ve seen the trailers and know the black pyramid I’m talking about.) The same rules apply for the teleporter on the moon in that all players must be on it for it to activate. There’s a timer that tells you when you can use the teleporter, and once the timer finishes you just have to get on the teleporter and you go. In solo obviously you don’t have to worry about your teammates getting on the teleporter with you as there is only one player.

Once you teleport, you’ll be on the moon. The FIRST thing you need to do is right in front of you when you teleport. There is a locker type thing in the middle of the room with a space suit. You must take the space suit and press up on the d-pad to put the mask on before you suffocate. After you do that you can fight some more zombies. NOTE: The rounds begin when your on the moon.

The first thing you may notice is the lack of gravity. It’s sort of like walking under water. If you do a dolphin dive you’ll float for a little bit..it’s pretty neat. Sometimes it’s helpful and sometimes it’s dangerous because you may miss your targets while jumping.

Something I want to mention is the space suit zombie. He appears almost every round and has a gamer tag above his head. This gamer tag is going to be the name of someone on your friends list or someone you’ve played online with. The space suit zombie’s gamer tag is in red so you can tell him apart from your teammates which have white gamer tags. You can kill him, but it takes a lot of ammo. Once you pump enough rounds into this puss bucket he’ll explode. Since there’s a lack of gravity, his explosion makes you and the zombies get some air…it can be somewhat helpful.

Ok…this map is HUGE. It’s about the size of Call of the Dead + Shangri-La. Maybe even bigger. There’s a lot of doors to open and there’s a few different paths you can take. There’s a lot of rooms that have a lot of space to run around. This makes for easy zombie trains.

There are areas with gravity and areas without it. It’s tough to run a zombie train when there’s little gravity, but it can be done. Get your points up then move on. My favorite place to camp is the dome. This area is HUGE. It also has PhD Flopper which you may find very useful on this map. When you run into the dome, there are these green springy things that shoot you into the air onto other platforms with more of the springy things. You can control yourself in the air a little bit which you’ll need to do in order to land on the pads. If you fall to the ground you’ll die unless you have Flopper. You can survive the fall by landing on a pillow type thing that you eventually gravitate towards on your journey through the air.

During the game, you’ll have certain objectives. There are 4 giant saws called Excavators that cut into the dome and into the ground that can either block your path or take the gravity out of the rooms. This can be a problem, so you have to find a hacking device and take it back to the spawn room and hack a main frame to deactivate the giant saws. The problem is that the hacking device replaces your helmet (which is kinda lame if you ask me) which means you have to run through certain areas without air. You have to move quick.

We discovered that when you grab the hacking device you can run to the teleporter that takes you to Area 51. You’ll have to be fast though because in order to get to the teleporter, you must run through an area with no air. Of course, your teammates (or teammate) have to be on the teleporter in order for it to activate. You’ll teleport to Area 51 and fight off the horde until the alarm goes off then hop back onto the teleporter which will spawn you in the room you have to be in to deactivate the Excavators. Once you deactivate the Excavators you must trade your hacking device for the space suit once again or you’ll suffocate and die…losing your perks if in co-op and ending your game in solo.

NOW, let’s get to the fun stuff. Weapons and perks. All the Black Ops weapons make a return (like the Commando, Ray Gun, Law, Dragonov, M-16, Galil, etc.) with a few new things to add. Also returning to the game is the Gersch Device which was only seen on Ascension and quickly became a fan favorite. The Gersch Device replaces the Monkey Bombs as a sort of “time out” weapon which (if you don’t already know) gives you a few seconds to get your thoughts together by sucking the zombies into a sort of black hole. The wall guns are all there, scattered throughout the epic size of the map. The Mystery Box carries all the same weapons as usual but with the new Wave Gun and the QED device. It turns out that the PPSH does NOT appear on this map as previous rumors have stated. In fact, there are NO World at War weapons on Moon, only Black Ops weapons.

The Wave Gun is a microwave sort of gun that cooks the zombies from the inside out, causing them to explode into nothing. The QED device is basically like the Matroyska Dolls from Ascension and Call of the Dead, OR it spawns a gun (like the Ray Gun) in the air that shoots in a 360 rotation for a second. It’s kind of unclear at this time what the QED actually does but that is what I saw it do when I used it.

There is a new perk called Gun Mule which allows the player to carry 3 guns at once instead of only 2. If you get downed you lose the gun you had out when you got downed. So if you know your getting downed, try to switch to your least favorite as fast as you can.

Also returning to Moon is the Nova Crawlers from Kino Der Toten and Five. They aren’t called Nova Crawlers anymore. They’re called Phasing Zombies. The reason for this is that they teleport short distances while on the move. They still explode into a cloud of gas which still hurts the zombies that run into the cloud.

There’s a lot of things still unanswered as of yet since the map is still new. But people have already cracked the main Easter Egg’s and if you look on youtube you can watch as people complete it. Sam can actually be seen on this map and if you complete the main Easter Egg, you can actually play as her as she takes over Richtofen’s body. It’s a very long, in depth Easter Egg. I’m not sure if it can be done in solo, but if you complete it you get all 8 perks permanently for all players. It’s been rumored that in order to achieve Moon’s main Easter Egg, you must have already completed the main Easter Egg’s in Call of the Dead and Shangri-La because you need the Golden Rod from Call of the Dead and the Focusing Stone from Shangri-La. Ascension appears to be the only DLC that doesn’t have a required Easter Egg that must be done for Moon’s Easter Egg.

Unlike the other maps, Moon has 2 Easter Egg songs. One is called “Coming Home” sung by Elena Siegman and written by Kevin Sherwood. The other song is from Avenged Sevenfold called “Nightmare.”

We’re still in the beginning stages of this map so stay tuned for more info as it all unfolds. Feel free to leave comments on discoveries and findings that weren’t mentioned here.

Well folks, it’s finally here…the trailer to the new zombie map “Moon.” Along with a little live action footage that Treyarch whipped up for fun (I guess lol.) Enjoy!!!

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The Pentagon is under attack by hordes of flesh eating zombies. You better be good or else you won’t last long on this map…

Five is the first zombie map to change it up a bit. The characters in this map aren’t the usual marine-type we’ve been getting used to. Instead we get to play as President Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Richard Nixon, and Fidel Castro…interesting group of guys I suppose. Anyway, this map is in the top 3 hardest maps available next to Verruckt, and Shangri-La. It has tight quarters making it tough to maneuver through and around the zombies. The good thing is that there are lots of ways to power up and upgrade your guns.

There’s 3 floors in this map. The first floor that you spawn in, downstairs (the computer room,) and the basement filled with labs and all kinds of nasty things. This map doesn’t have much when it comes to Easter Eggs, but it’s quite a thrill ride.

Monkey Bombs return along with a new gun called the Winters Howl. Upgraded it’s called the Winters Fury. This gun freezes the zombies upon shooting, slowing them down or completely stopping them. Whatever it does, it definitely weakens them making them much easier to kill. Traps are also found on this map in the spawn area. You have to find 2 pieces of the traps on the map then return them to the metal detector devices in the spawn room. I’ve never really used the traps on Five but I’ve returned the pieces several times.

The four main perk machines return also and are VERY worth buying. Especially Juggernog.

This is the first and only map to have an elevator. It’s also the first and only map to have the scientist. This guy replaces the dogs as a mid-round boss and can sometimes ruin a game for you if your not careful. He steals your load out so whatever gun your currently holding will be his if you don’t kill him first. After he takes your gun, you have to hunt him down for the remaining time of the round and if you don’t find him and kill him, your gun is his. If you get lucky, you can get an insta-kill or a Death Machine from a zombie in the previous round that will last until the scientist shows up. Then he only takes one shot. If you kill him before he takes your gun you get a “Bon-fire sale.” This allows you to upgrade your guns for only 1000 points. I once had two pack a punched guns by round 6 and I can easily say that Five is the ONLY map that this is possible on.

The Pack a Punch machine is activated by pressing the four defcon switches in the computer room. The main teleporter takes you there when all four switches are activated, taking you to a safe room where the PaP machine lies. Of course, in order to do all this you must turn on the power in the basement first. The scientist doesn’t show up until you turn on the power also.

Joey (co-founder of this site) played Five with me for the first time and we made it to round 22 which is basically unheard of for a first timer on this map. Props to Joey in his skill. The best way to survive this map is to run a circle in the computer room and allow the zombies to horde themselves up, turning around and shooting when you can.

Easter Eggs:

There are 3 red telephones scattered around the map which activate the song “Won’t Back Down” by Eminem and Pink. A switch from the heavy metal songs that are usually in zombie maps.

There’s a pig in one of the rooms in the basement. There really isn’t much significance to it but you can put it out of its misery if you feel the need.

So the trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack 4 entitled “Rezurrection” was posted today on the official Call of Duty website and a lot of questions were raised. Looking through some forums, I’ve seen a lot of theories people have been on what they hope to see. I’ve come up with a few theories of my own, but nobody will know for sure until August 23rd when the final map pack is released.

The first thing I noticed about the trailer was that Richtofen is absent from it. First we see Nikolai with the Wave Gun which is the new Wunder Weapon on this map. Then we see Takeo (without his hat) standing in front of a space suit. Finally we see Dempsey with the Death Machine mowing down some puss bags. Where’s Richtofen? It’s possible that he’s in another scene where we see 3 characters in space suits shooting zombies, but you cannot see who’s behind the suit.  So is Richtofen somewhere else while Dempsey, Nikolai, and Takeo are fighting the horde’s of zombies all over the moon and Area 51? Or is there some other excuse. Maybe the developers just didn’t add him in the trailer…who knows?

Another theory is about the new perk. I’m pretty sure it allows the player to carry three guns instead of two. Either that or it allows you to dual wield your weapons…but I’m going with the three guns theory on that one.

There’s been talk of a “Phasing Zombie” which phases in and out of sight. It’s been said that you’ll be able to see a vague outline of it. Kind of like the Predator when he was invisible. This would make it very challenging while in battle.

The Nova 6 Crawlers are back and as mean as ever. They never really bothered me in Kino or Five so I’m not too worried about them. But things will be different on Moon since there is no air and less gravity. I’m not even sure the Nova Crawlers could explode on this map given the lack of air. But there may be parts of the map with air and some without.

The fact that there is no air could be a determining factor when trying to locate a zombie by sound. Since there is no air, there’s no sound right? Perhaps the zombies won’t be able to be heard like in all previous maps.

The Wave Gun is seen in the trailer and it’s a monster. It cooks the zombies from inside out like a microwave…in the trailer it even makes the “ding” sound you hear after you’ve fully cooked your macaroni and cheese in the microwave lol. Will that be in the game? And we’ve seen what happened to ONE zombie when shot with the Wave Gun, but what happens when you shoot a horde of zombies? Maybe they’ll all explode. Also, it looks like you can separate the Wave Gun into two guns. One gun is the normal Wave Gun and there’s a dual wield version by pressing the left stick on the d-pad that separates the gun into two Wunderwaffe DG-2 style handguns. We’ll see.

This map looks ENORMOUS!!! I think we’ll be able to travel from Area 51 to the Moon and back. There is a teleporter in the trailer….and it does look like it’s on an Earth located part of the map.

Jimmy Zielinski said the classic maps included with Rezurrection will have a “new twist.” What could this possibly mean? Since Der Riese is my favorite map out of all the zombie maps, I’m curious to see what new twists will be added. Also, Der Riese is spelled differently in the new map pack. What for? Well, in German Der Riese means “The Giant.” If spelled like Der Reise it means “The Journey.” Will we be going on a new journey with our heroes? In my opinion, we already have. And I’m DEAD excited for this final map pack. I think Treyarch has a few tricks up their sleeves with this one.

Feel free to discuss any findings, theories, or ideas you may have.

Here’s our first look at the new and final map pack for Black Ops, Rezurrection. As well as some first screen shots of the new map Moon. Enjoy.

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Dead Island is a zombie fans dream game. Being that I’m a huge fan of CoD Zombies, a game like this just puts the icing on the cake. It has been said that melee attacks will be your most used defense against the horde of zombies in this game. Also, we’ll be able to use vehicles to drive through some parts of the game and run down the puss bags.

I’m SUPER stoked for this game and when it’s released I’ll be posting videos and writing about it. So BE HERE when it all goes down or be left behind with the horde…

Playstation 3 is updating again. Information about the update is available at the official Playstation blog site. Here’s what the site says about the update. Also a link to the article… 

“Hi everyone! As we are continuously working toward providing the best gaming and entertainment experience on PlayStation 3, I wanted to give you all a heads up on the following new features and changes coming with the next system software update (v.3.70).

To make things easier for PlayStation Plus subscribers, we’ve added the option to automate two existing features. The [Automatic Download] feature will now be called [Automatic Update] as a result of these new options.

• A new auto upload function for online save data back-up will be added to make it easier to back-up your game save data. Under (Game), select the game for which you want to automatically upload saved data, and then press the Triangle button.
• Also, Trophies will now sync automatically at the timing of Auto Download.

A new recommendation function will be added that enables you to share your recommendations for PlayStation Store items, such as games and videos, with PlayStation Network friends. You will be able to send messages with a store link from the product pages within the PlayStation Store.

Due to the increase in video applications being offered on PS3, we are adding a new category on the XMB called TV/Video Services. This category will include video applications such as Netflix, Hulu PLUS, and VUDU.

• You’ll be able to find and download all of the video applications available on PS3 directly from this new XMB category.
• A folder labeled “My Channels” within this category will allow you to easily access your downloaded applications.
• Any videos downloaded from the PlayStation store will continue to be placed in the existing Video category on the XMB

Two updates for all of you enjoying Blu-ray 3D movies on PS3:

• 3D support will now be available when accessing Java-based special features on Blu-Ray
• DTS-HD MA, DTS-HD HR decoding/bit stream output (or lossless audio) will be supported while playing Blu-ray 3D movies.
• 3D digital photos in MPO format can now be viewed in 3D on the XMB and in the Photo Gallery app.

The 3.70 update will be available soon; additional details will be available after the firmware goes live here. Separately, there will also be a minor PSP system software update (v. 6.60) launching soon.

As always, let us know of any feedback in the comments below.”

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