So during the break, Pokemon Platinum version was released for the Nintendo DS ($34.99). Now as a kid I loved playing these games and still do. This version, however, they have outdone themselves. They add several new features from Diamond and Pearl versions, of which Platinum is the third in the set. There is a new plot line, several twists, including one where you end up in another dimension due to the actions of the Boss of Team Galatic (the bad guys of the game).
Like other versions you start out on a new adventure, but this one you meet up with your friend and he tries to go into the tall grass (a dangerous place for kids without pokemon). He is stopped by the region's Professor and then the two of you are given Pokemon of your own. You get to choose between a fire type, water type or grass type. Then your own adventure begins. You eventually receive a Pokedex to help the Professor catalog the Pokemon you see while on your quest. You can participate in Pokemon Contests, fight Gym Leaders for Gym Badges, beat the Elite Four and become the Pokemon Champion, but around every corner awaits more adventures and surprises. It's just something you have to see in person.
For more info or to see the commercial click below.
Pokemon Platinum Commercial
Pokemon Platinum Info
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Top 10 Things About Medieval 2
10. Factions vie for power, playing as one of the many countries available, the player always tries to become the most powerful faction in the game.
9. Good Construction helps, constructing better recruitment buildings allow for better armies, and better technologies come from other buildings. You cannot get anywhere without money, so build those economic buildings like markets and roads!
8. Ensuring the Royal Line Continues, without the Royal family, your faction crumbles to revolt and dies. To ensure this doesn't happen, help heirs to marry and procreate.
7. Use your Agents wisely, Spies and Assassins can do wonders for the problems your facing. Too much unrest by the people in a specific settlement can cause revolt, so keep spies in your towns to keep enemies spies out and put them in enemies towns to cause revolt. Assassins can kill off that problem general that has been terrorizing your citizens, or rid a province of an unwanted guest.
6. Religion is your key, having your religion being followed by more citizens keeps them happy, where as another religion causes unrest. Use priests, cardinals and imams to your advantage to raise the amount of followers of your religion in a specific area.
5. Crusades and Jihads can show the power of your faction, when the Pope calls a Crusade, all Catholics should try to participate. This not only shows your faith, but allows for expansion into Muslim territory. On the other hand, Muslims have Jihads and can fight back with almost the same process to take out Catholic factions in their lands.
4. Diplomacy is a useful tool, without it there can be no alliances or trade agreements. Trade agreements make both factions more prosperous, and alliances are beneficial, especially if both of the parties share enemies.
3. The Size of the Army is always a deterrence, having a strong army can be the difference from winning a war or losing. It can also dictate whether or not an enemy will be more likely to attack a specific area or not, because with a stronger army comes more casualties to both sides.
2. Wealth is the glue of the faction, if you don't have money, you cannot buy construction materials or fund armies or navies. Your faction's wealth is what keeps you able to fend off attackers and helps to become more technologically advanced than another faction.
1. It all comes down to Influence, whether it is the influence of your Ruler or the influence of the Pope, or even of smaller persons, influence will deem how much people respect you. The higher the influence of your King, the easier it will be to have others do what you ask. The same goes for others, like the Pope's influence will determine how much Catholics abide to his rules.
9. Good Construction helps, constructing better recruitment buildings allow for better armies, and better technologies come from other buildings. You cannot get anywhere without money, so build those economic buildings like markets and roads!
8. Ensuring the Royal Line Continues, without the Royal family, your faction crumbles to revolt and dies. To ensure this doesn't happen, help heirs to marry and procreate.
7. Use your Agents wisely, Spies and Assassins can do wonders for the problems your facing. Too much unrest by the people in a specific settlement can cause revolt, so keep spies in your towns to keep enemies spies out and put them in enemies towns to cause revolt. Assassins can kill off that problem general that has been terrorizing your citizens, or rid a province of an unwanted guest.
6. Religion is your key, having your religion being followed by more citizens keeps them happy, where as another religion causes unrest. Use priests, cardinals and imams to your advantage to raise the amount of followers of your religion in a specific area.
5. Crusades and Jihads can show the power of your faction, when the Pope calls a Crusade, all Catholics should try to participate. This not only shows your faith, but allows for expansion into Muslim territory. On the other hand, Muslims have Jihads and can fight back with almost the same process to take out Catholic factions in their lands.
4. Diplomacy is a useful tool, without it there can be no alliances or trade agreements. Trade agreements make both factions more prosperous, and alliances are beneficial, especially if both of the parties share enemies.
3. The Size of the Army is always a deterrence, having a strong army can be the difference from winning a war or losing. It can also dictate whether or not an enemy will be more likely to attack a specific area or not, because with a stronger army comes more casualties to both sides.
2. Wealth is the glue of the faction, if you don't have money, you cannot buy construction materials or fund armies or navies. Your faction's wealth is what keeps you able to fend off attackers and helps to become more technologically advanced than another faction.
1. It all comes down to Influence, whether it is the influence of your Ruler or the influence of the Pope, or even of smaller persons, influence will deem how much people respect you. The higher the influence of your King, the easier it will be to have others do what you ask. The same goes for others, like the Pope's influence will determine how much Catholics abide to his rules.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Medieval Total War 2
First off, Medieval Total War 2 (PC,$12-29.99 depending on the combo) , now I enjoyed the other Total War games, and figured this one would be an instant favorite. However, the game-play and the improvements from the previous game smashed my expectations to pieces and said it was better than that. Starting off in the game there are only five playable factions: the English, French, Germans, Spanish or the Venetians. Once a game is finished in one of these factions, it opens the remaining 12 factions up for play. This is when the fun begins, as you can play not only Catholic factions but also Muslim and Orthodox factions. Each faction starts with a few provinces and the goal to be the largest and most powerful faction in the game. Each game, the difficulty and advice level can be set to what you would like. Certain factions seem harder than others, but it is mostly how they are played and what the faction starts out with that will decide the difficulties. The fact that every game is different allows for maximum replayability, which means you will never get bored from the flow of the game. Medieval 2 also gives some historical background as it tells you when things were invented, brought to Europe, or came to public thought.
I have found that I like to play the Scottish and go to a new history, where Scotland takes over the English before the crowns were united and then make Scotland into the over powered naval faction that it could only dream of being. Of course, there is always something that could stop it, whether the Pope starts putting pressure on the Scots to cease hostility between Scotland and England, or when the Spanish Armada has to fight the competing navies out of the waters. Even with that, I have played the Scottish at least five times and no game was alike. There were games where I ended up having all of England and the Iberian peninsula as the controlling faction of the seas, the one where I ended up in the middle of continental Europe and the ones where the Papacy had continuously been from the Scottish cardinal base which allowed for mass expansion throughout all of Europe and Northern Africa.
Overall, if you like the Medieval period or just want to see what it would have been like if a different faction had more control in that era and what its effect on history would have been, then I suggest getting your hands on a copy of Medieval Total War 2.
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