Long time comeing the return of.....

It seems rather foolish after such an vast amount of time away from writing this blog that anyone would either notice my return or still check the blog to read it, but here we go lets have another crack at it.

Ive decided to evolve the blog from simply video game topics into a what ever the hell i want to write about kind of blog why not right after all i am in control.

That being said this this my focus will be games in particular Tomb Raider no not the ps1 classic but of course the 2013 re imagining reboot origin story from Crystal Dynamics, also i played a load of Football Manager 2013 and Metal Gear Rising.

So here we go first off the bat Tomb Raider, times not be kind to Lara gaming's first lady has been rather overlooked in recent years in favor of new pretenders to her throne or should that be oval office? Anyway 2013 has seen her return and doing the popular trick of doing a reboot to reinvent the series and character, after all who doesn't want to learn how some posh English school leaver becomes a professional thief. So the game story wise is meant to be adventure coming of age story with some tragic experiences thrown in the mix to keep your emotional levels rising, the idea is that at the begging of the game Lara is as green as a newly laid pitch at old trafford and leaves the game the action heroine you all know and maybe love. I found the story rather predictable and the moments where the game aims for genuine emotional impact fall wide of the mark, take for example when Lara is forced to take a life to save her own right at the start of the game, shes shown to be physically and mentally distraught after shooting this bad guy crying over his corpse and generally being a mess only for the cut scene to end with her taking up his pistol and sending hundreds of this mans comrades into early graves too without so much as a second thought. Gameplay wise you might feel that you've played this game before and you have only last time it was called Uncharted and started a guy called Nathan Drake with buckets more charm and charisma than dear old Lara. However thats not to say the game plays badly at all ask nearly any ps3 owner and they will no doubt sing Uncharted's praises from the highest building, Tomb Raider has cribbed the best in class in Uncharted and it shows the games tight and in my experience bug free. Combat is good and at first i found it exhilarating dispatching pirate bandits with a bow and arrow, sadly the game falls into the same trap as many others in the genre of not having any variety with opposition combatants there are basically guys who run at you in an attempt to stab you, guys who try to shoot you  or big guys with shields who slowly walk towards you lambasting your attempts to shoot them, later stages only add guys who take more damage then throws twenty or so at you at a time with no explanation as to where they come from.Overall i feel i enjoyed the game and over its ten or so hours there several good set pieces, so Lara's back in force with an origin story that i'm not convinced is actually hers if future Lara only knew where she came from she wouldn't be raiding tombs she would be in therapy.

So as i said earlier i had also played Metal Gear Rising and Football Manager. Metal Gear is like a amazing anime that you control, robot samurais fighting with men giant robots and United State senators crazy stuff and generally fantastic, you feel like a serious contender for bad ass of the year chopping everything that stands in your way into hundreds of smaller versions of themselves. The action is fast fluid and stylish the only black mark over this title is its length which is a common complaint of Platinum game titles running across the virtual finish line after 4 hours is just not nearly enough bang for your buck which is a shame because while it lasts its the best thrill ride of the year so far.

There are two types of people in the world those who find the idea of Football Manager boring and pointless, and then the type of people who cannot have just one more game and find themselves staring at their PC at 3.46 am on a Tuesday morning poring over some Spanish 15 year old's stats because he could be the next Maradonna. Its pretty much impossible to convince anyone why they would love this game but for a certain group of people its addiction personified and soon over takes eating sleeping and going to the toilet as necessary daily routines.

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