Aztaro Reviews Contagion

Title: Contagion
Platform: PC
Genre: Survival, Strategy, First-Person Shooter, Horror
Online Interaction: Co-op, Multiplayer and download

Story: While a group of people were in town, a weird disease spreads and they hold themselves up in a police station. With no other options and the infected closing in on them they must team up and make their way to safety. Or die trying.

Ha ha... I don't think I read the story right... ANYWAY. This game is generally like the Left 4 Dead series but isn't. This game gives you the option of being alone, with a group or a "trust no one" type deathmatch where instead of working together to save each other. You must not only survive the zombies, but your fellow humans as well. I haven't gotten much of the game played yet but all I know is zombies can be a pain, literally. In most other games, zombies are pretty consistent. But in Contagion, some zombies can have a random trait about them. From as simple as the ability to rush their prey to being able to take more hits than their bretherin. With some of the co-op missions needing specific items to get to the end and a variation of weapons for people to use, this game can easily be better than Left 4 Dead in my option.

Rating: 90/100

Reason: This game is GREAT but my couple of pet peeves I've been having are some animations can cause lag, a swarm of zombies causing lag or some "Super Infected" where you can use almost a whole clip to the face and they'll keep running at you. Though I'm being light on it cause this game is made in source, fairly new and it hasn't had a chance to get that many updates. I still recommend it to anyone who has friends or is a fan of zombie shooters, not much on the horror side but still it's a zombie shooter, what's not to like?

Sorry about this

First off, this update should have been ages ago

But yeah, this has been put on a back burner cause I haven't actually been playing games as much as I regularly do, so if I"m not playing them, can't review them. I'll get back into the swing of things hopefully soon just haven't been in the mood for games. I'll try to get something out if I play a game that I haven't already reviewed

So sorry about the nothing full posts/ lack of

Aztaro Reviews PAYDAY 2

Title: PAYDAY 2

Platform: PC, Xbox 360, Playstation 3
Genre: First-Person Shooter, Strategy?
Online Interaction: Co-op

Story: Continuing from the first game, you finally come out of retirement of your heisting days from PAYDAY: The Heist. Now in Washington DC with new gear, new contracts and new money. Better start making some hits to reassure this retirement will be longer and more luxurious.

This game, THIS GAME is fun, "You'll never have more fun being the bad guy", stamp it, see it on a shirt, I am all in for this game. With improvements from the first game with character customization, weapon mods and more, this game brings it up more than a few notches, it was pretty high up already too. Get a group of good friends and then try and do missions to not get caught, you will be entertained for HOURS. I would sing the praise of this game from mountain tops and high buildings but I'll save you all the boredom of my opinion [even if this is a review and a personal rating]. Improvements from the first game are mask customization so you're not longer just Hoxton or Wolf, it's a bit more personal. With a more heavily weighed shift to stealth it makes the game even more interesting stealing someone blind and them not even knowing till you're gone! But just cause it did that doesn't mean you cant just run in guns-a-blazing [there's actually an achievement for finishing a mission in 35 seconds or faster]. With improved skill tree you can be multiple classes and your gun mods can be from sights and barrel extensions like silencers or even ones to make them louder to silly things like flashlights and diamond covered grips for your handgun. Smarter AI, possibility of getting caught after a heist is over and missions with multiple routes make the game change each time. I'm telling you, YOU NEED THIS GAME

Rating: 90/100

Reason: Best game ever, solid, fun, changing. But the low rating is, this game takes quite a bit to run [on PC], I can run quite a bit of games from medium-highest graphics easily. This game though, I have to drop it so far down just to play and I still get lower than 15 frames a second and when you're on overkill difficulty on a pro job, you need those frames for aiming. But even with that penalty I can't stop playing, seriously "You'll never have more fun being the bad guy". Get the game, get some friends, this is a guarantee "you'll be talking about this later" game or even playing it more, don't let the rating fool you, it's a "general" rating, if my computer would be better at running it I'd probably have given it a silly rating like 101/100. But I have to remember that not everyone has a computer that can run like a supercomputer. Overall, just try the game, it's fun and one last time "You'll never have more fun being the bad guy".

Aztaro Reviews Jetpack Joyride

Title: Jetpack Joyride
Platform: PC, Apple products, Android
Genre: Maze, Collect a thon, Time Absorber
Online Interaction: Leaderboarrds

Story: You are Barry, you wanna have fun, there's an experimental "jetpack" in a lab. You, being Barry, know it'll be fun to steal and then see how far you can go to get away with it. It's on the other side of the wall... hurry up, don't let me be bored

So COMPLETELY made that story up but basically, yeah, there isn't much of a story to it. Sorry for lack of updates but when I remember I have this account I tend to forget the last game I played. ANYWAY this has been a recent addiction of mine and because it's an app or flash game, it's pretty addicting. Basically dodge the missiles, security lasers and stuff. So the game has replay factor they let go get coins and you can buy stuff like outfits, jetpacks, add ons for your other collectable rides and power ups. very fun.

Rating: 71/100

Reason: Great art, simple directive and overall easy to play and get absorbed in. BUT my problem is I can't afford a nice android or apple device and Flash recently, hasn't been nice to the consumers. AKA I get a bunch of lag, being forced to play it with nothing else but the game running, my computer can handle most modern games with another monitor and internet open so, might just be flash or something, other than that, easy to pick up and drop game.

Update

Niglect is a funny thing... unless it's to a living thing then it's bad.

Anyway, I've missed many updates and shall have a spam a thon soon because... well some days I had valid excuses others I was just being lazy.

Anyway no more scheduled updates, I'll just give them when I get them, see you all later

Update [the real way]

This update is to say I had a review in mind but I had forgotten most of it so I'll be replaying and possibly researching another game

If you have suggestions just comment or contact me anyway

Aztaro Reviews The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Title: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC
Genre: First person, Third person, Action, Adventure, Sandbox
Online Interaction: Downloadable Content

Story: [I seriously didn't pay attention so I'll wing it] After a bad case of "wrong place wrong time" you are sentenced to death because of the rebellion leader, Alfred Stormcloak. Luckily for you, you're saved by a dragon and you start your adventure, killing one and finding out you are dragonborn. You now go on a quest to kill the dragons and people by screaming your head off.

[for a better look at the story go here Wikipedia.org's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Plot]

Well... yeah... to much story for me... nothing against the developers but to much text, side quests, books and such it's hard to know what's relevant or not. ANYWAY after you talk to the graybeards your adventure begins, because GOSH DARN THAT MOUNTAIN. Once you do that, such a huge map, so many caves, jobs and tom-foolery to be had, even if I tend to visit lots of caves and loot more than do missions, I still like this game, I would play and if I get into it, hours will pass before I even realize that it just sucked up about 5 hours of my life. Different races, classes, jobs and stuff is nice for a roleplayer to get creative.

Rating: 77/100

Reason: Way to introduce your players "Hey go climb a mountain that will take about 2 real life hours to get to the top". Ha ha, yeah no I'm off to adventure, also the landscape is just way to mountainous, there's mountains deliberately set up so you must climb it, go around or fast travel and fast travel makes you miss A LOT of the game. If the mountins weren't such a HUGE issue, this game would be a lot more fun, like Oblivion, just PLEASE stop spawning dragons every time I exit a fast travel, PLEASE, those bones and scales aren't light you know!