Hi ya to all the loyal BR1 ARMY VETS
out there and a Happy New Year.
As I promised before the Holiday, I am going to start doing game reviews and much much more on the blog, for you all to have a good read and catch up on the latest gaming news and reviews.
The general Snig08 has promised to start doing tech news and reviews too. He has informed me of a secret weapon he has been developing for the clan, but I wont go into details as its still top secret. I will let the General tell you all about it himself when he has the time.
My first review is the long awaited Vietnam map pack for BFBC2, where we have a large contingent of BR1 troops fighting the viet Cong. The maps are fantastic and in keeping with true BAD COMPANY GAMES the detail is top notch. The hill sides aflame in some maps and looks so real it really adds to the cinematic experience of the game. Along with the 1960's tunes playing in the back ground and with news reports with that familiar 1950's / 60's sound to them. It just makes you feel as if you have been either, sent to the Nam, or just come home and are still wrestling with the guilty feelings you have for leaving your men behind in the jungle to go it alone. Too much mate, its just too much. I love it. A must have for any true battlefield vets.
The same can be said for MOH another top notch game from the same producers of Battlefield. Although the explosive environments are not quite as explosive and destructible as in Battlefield, it too brings a change, the battlefield changes the war feel about the game, that makes you feel as if you have more control over what happens in a match online. As opposed to the, "only can attack from certain positions" feel you get from Black Ops and MW2.
Although I love these two games (Black Ops and MW2) and indeed all the COD titles are great games, especially the single player modes. But, lets face it, what do we buy these games for? Certainly not the long and protracted story lines, as they seem to be a thing of the past now with great story's but very short and sometimes unconvincing ones too. But the online player experience and the feel that you really can go to war for a bit against your bitter enemies and do them lasting damage. That's what its all about now, so yes the walls do need to explode if I want them too and we should be able to blow up that building and use it for cover, not be told to go down there and die if your not quick enough or haven't got the latest hack / cheat or mod on ?
In fact there is so much cheating going on in games nowadays with; lag switches, rapid fire controllers and all the rest that you need to be up to date with the latest news or you will simply become cannon fodder for the cheats who can't play without cheating.
To some extent you can understand it. If they have this or that cheat you'd be stupid not to use the same on them, but it don't make it okay? I for one never use cheats, it ruins the game for me and I hope that none of my boys in the clan do either. They don't need to cheat to win, we do it with; team work, determination and commitment.
Our clan motto is: "Death before dishonour" and we have just recently made our own them tune ("we bomb your homes") available in all good record stores ha lol.
Anyway I don't want to bang on all day and bore you all either, plus I'm doing Mafia 2 at the mo, which, is its got to be said is a great game and a nice break from the battlefield for an old vet like THE SARGE. With all my regular clan duties, all I see is enemy dying all around me, all of the time, so its nice to take a break and go plan some big robberies or take out a mafia boss or two before breakfast.
I will try to bring you game reviews from ; Ironman2/Assassins Creed 3 and the new Grand Turismo 5 over the next couple of weeks.
Plus I plan to do some articles on the United States lost nuclear weapons from the 50's and 60's. Which they forgot to tell us all about, including the thermal nuclear bomb just off the coast of the US. Complete with plutonium fuse just waiting to go off or to be found by terrorists with the money and resources to find a 5ton nuke in 15 ft of muddy water. "Jesus Christ are they mad?!" "No just incompetent," ha ha.
So stay tuned to BR1 SPECIAL FORCES NEWS AND REVIEWS and keep up to date with all the latest first person game news, with THE SARGE and the latest tech news with my 2nd in command General Snig08
(REMEMBER HE WHO STANDS STILL GETS HIS HEAD BLOWN OFF QUICK TIME )
LONG LIVE BR1 THE CLAN OF ALL CLANS
