Jazz Jackrabbit (MS-Dos) Video Review

Welcome to Video reviews in this first episode theRapist will take a look at the classic platform shooter for ms-dos, Jazz Jackrabbit.  

Quick Game info: Released 1994 by Epic games for  MS-Dos as a competitor to sega's "Sonic".

Outlaws review

Intro:

As a kid i used to play this game..
I never knew what it was called i just enjoyed playing it.
But later on, i started to remember the game i once played.
I searched high and low, desperatly trying to find it. But i could never find it!
Then suddenly it hit me Outlaws! That's what it's called, he first thing i did after that was to order it online and yup 2 days later it was my mailbox. :)

Review:
Outlaws is a game that was created in 1997 by Lucasarts, it's using the Jedi engine which was first used in the game Star Wars: Dark Forces. So what is this game about? Well you're a retired Marshall whose Wife gets killed and your daughter is kidnapped by outlaws. So you go on sort of a rampage trying to kill everybody that the outlaws hired to kill you. But i never really cared about the story it's good and all but..well it's way more awesome just to shoot everybody!
Seriously these are some of the best weapons ever! The shotgun is way more awesome than in any other game. But nothing is more badass than the knife..You can either stab the enemies or throw it against them. But since this is a cowboy game the levels are are pretty sweet as well. The first town is my favourite. Like Duke Nukem3D this game also has a lot of secret. But the differnce is the levels themselves are much more harder to figure out in outlaws.
But one of the worst things about playing this game nowadays is the multiplayer. Nobody ever does it!! But apart from that this is an okay game. Especially if you
like old skool games like me.

Dat cow iz saying: MOoooh!

Score:

I gave this game an 8 because it just isn't worth more, it's an awesome classic but it can sometimes be a bit glitchy and the levels can be too hard. But mostly because the gameplay and story doesn't really interest me that much. Not a bad game but not the game that i wish it should be.

Dungeon Keeper 2 Review

The Dungeon Heart is being attacked.

Dungeon Keeper 2 is an RTS game... You play as an evil Dungeon Keeper (duh). Dungeon Keeper 2 was made by Bullfrog Productions and it was published by Electronic Arts (EA) in 1999.
You can play a campaign or you can make a custom match and play against the computer. You can also play lan or online.

What the Dungeon looks like when you start a new match.

When you start a game you only have your Dungeon Heart (Main Base). You have to protect your Dungeon Heart because if it is destroyed... You lose. You also start out with some money/gold and a few Imp's (Workers). Now you can command your Imp's to dig tunnels and create rooms for you. You have to create special rooms like a Lair where your creatures can sleep and regain lost health and a Library where special creatures can study spells for you. You can also protect your Dungeon by building traps in the Workshop (You need to build this room first). Then once you have some rooms you can dig into a Portal. Creatures will come through this portal to live in your Dungeon and fight for you or study spells for you. Now you have to make sure your creatures are happy (They will become unhappy if they doesn't get paid when it is payday, If they have no bed in the Lair or if they live with other creatures that they dont like). If one of your creatures becomes unhappy he/she will leave your Dungeon. As you dig and expand your Dungeon further and further you will eventually run into the enemy. Let the fight begin! Your creatures will automaticly attack enemy creatures. You can then use your spells to attack the enemy. If you build a Training room you can train your creatures to be stronger and faster. Be careful though.. Everytime a creature goes to the Training room to train it will cost you money/gold. To avoid this you can build a Casino to make money from your creatures. Once you've defeated an enemy creature it will be knocked unconscious now you can finish it off or if you have a Prison you can capture it. Now you have prisoners... But what to do with them? You can build a Torture Chamber and convert the enemy creatures to join your side or you can let them rot in the prison and create undead skeletons to fight for you.

Dungeon Keeper 2 has alot of nice features and it's fun to play. The only problem with it is that it cant run that well on XP, Vista and Windows 7. There is a way to make it playable though.

How to make Dungeon Keeper 2 playable on Windows Vista and Windows 7

So you want to play Dungeon Keeper 2 on your Vista or Windows 7 machine... Well here's how you do it.

1): Make sure ALL your drivers are up to date. (Graphic Drivers, DirectX, etc.)
2): Update the game to version 1.70 or higher.
3): Make a shortcut to the game on your desktop. (DKII.exe)
4): Now right-click on the shortcut and choose properties.
5): In the path text field put -softwarefilter -32bitdisplay at the end of the path.
6): Goto the Compatibility tab and set the game to run in Windows 98 / Me mode.
Check Disable visual themes and desktop composition. Click OK.
7): Now once you've launched the game goto the options menu and then into the graphics menu. Untick Hardware Acceleraction. Now go back and start a match. The game should run.

You can also try running the game in administrator mode. If none of this worked for you, you can try to install Wine. I've heard that it will make the game run great... Haven't tested it myself though.

Anyway back to the review

So the game is really fun and addicting. The gameplay works great! The only problem is that it's hard to get fully working on newer systems. I give this game 7.5/10 but it's still worth getting.

Saw - The Video Game Review

Have you ever wanted to be trapped in one of jigsaw's games?.. Or atleast play them yourself?.. Ofcause you have and now is your chance.
Saw the video game is an adventure.. nah more like a horror adventure. It got some action and combat but we will get into that later. You play as Detective David Tapp, the cop from the first film. The game takes place between the first and second saw movie.
When you first start the game you wake up in The Reversed Bear Trap. The trap Amanda was trapped in, in the first movie. You will see the famous TV in front of you and Billy(The white doll Jigsaw is using in his tests) will come up on the screen and tell you why your there and what you have to do to escape. Now you dont have to go search for a key to get this thing off, instead you just need to move your mouse(Or controller if your playing on the Xbox or PS3) around to keep you calm and then the trap will remove itself actually. Now that your out of your trap it's time to get out of Jigsaw's asylum. You have to solve puzzles in order to get through the game, those puzzles include: A normal Jigsaw Puzzle, A Pipe Puzzle(Those can be hard), Powerbox Puzzle(Not that bad they just take time) and other kinds of puzzles. Most of these puzzles are randomly generated everytime you play the game. Once in a while you might run into other people who are trapped and playing a game just like you. Their job is to kill you and retrive a key hidden in your stomach in order to escape their own game. Ofcause you have to fight those people. The combat system in the game is horrible with a capital H. You will get annoyed at it, The enemies can somehow punch faster than you and you would think that a baseball bat would be better in combat than your fists... But you would be wrong. When carring a weapon your attack is so slow that you almost doesn't have a chance. Remember if you buy and play this game.. Use your fists... Always.

But apart from the horrible combat system it's a really cool and fun game. You really feel like your trapped in Jigsaw's game. When you enter a room and pick up the audio tape... Then you see the timer on the wall starts ticking.. That.. is an awesome feeling.. Fast thinking is required sometimes.

Overall it's one of the better games out there. If you like the saw movies.. You will love this game. I give it 8/10.

Game Over...

Duke Nukem 3D review

Hi and welcome to Bloodstained interwebs first review if you like it please give feedback on what i shoudl add/remove or change thanks.

Did you ever play a game as a kid? Maybe Super Mario? Maybe Doom? Everyone has a game that they played a kid, and when they play it again, they get an instant rush of nostalgia. That's the same sort of feeling i get one i play my favourite game:
Duke Nukem 3D.
This game was released in 1996, when i was two years old. So i didn't have the oppurtunity to play it back then, but later on when i was about 8 my dad got this game and i was hooked!

The gamepay is simple, get from point A to point B and shoot a bunch of bad guys. Right from the start you can choose between 3 different chapters they all have about 9 levels and and the last stage you fight a big ass boss!
The levels are very different from eachother and if you've beaten a level once, you never fortget it! There's also secrets hidden everywhere so you have to keep your eyes open in order to find some extra guns!

Seekrit stash, lol!

As you progress you get more and more weapons, but nothing, no weapon in any game can beat the allmighty RPG! Oh yeah this baby will blow the enemies in to a gory pixelated mess!

Now you see me, now your DEAD!

Here's a top ten list of all the weapons in this game:
10: Foot
9:Freezer
8:Booby traps
7:Pistol
6:Machine gun
5:PipeBomb
4:Shrinker
3:Shotgun
2:The devestators
1: RPG

The character "Duke Nukem" is the kind of guy who just want to kick some ass and get some boob. You constantly hear him say catch phrases, which seem pretty cheese and over-the-top but I like it that way. most gaming characters don't even have a voice these days!
But anyways let's get back to the case, Duke is a middle aged guy who's an action packed total badass, kind of like an american Arnold Schwarzenegger of gaming. He gets different missions in every Chapter, but it all comes down to shoot some bad guys, kick some ass and get some babes!

BOOM HEADSHOT!

Now of course if any old game get popular over the years it must get a remake and "sigh" of course this didn't make an exception in Duke Nukem 3D. So "Duke Nukem high resolutin pack" aka "eDuke3D" (don't ask.) And all i can say is: IT BLOWS
The original is awesome, classic and looks like an old sweet FPS. But the remake is just @$$! It seems like everything got r@ped by horrible polygons. Even if you are a fan of all high quality crap this will not fill your needs.


Duke nukem 3D:
10/10 Instant classic, awesome gore, cheesy over-the-top voice what more do you need?
eDuke3D:
4.5/10 okay remake but if you're gonna make a remake of Duke Nukem 3D make it GOOD!
The only reason to get it is:

Badly animated 3D polygons of breasts? oh yeah.

'til the next time:
Me iz outta hier!