Splintercell Blacklist: A Professional review

Welcome to Fourth Echelon. Sam Fisher is back. Sam Fisher is at his best. And he's ready to hurt something, preferably a bad guy.

Splintercell Blacklist looks absolutely beautiful. It has some of the cinematic elements of Conviction while maintaining a new feel.

Visuals: 

Great, sadly locked around 30 fps. Anna Grimsdottir's hair is a bit weird in the cutscenes but aside from that the characters look great. The maps, the enemies, and everything else has a clean look to it. The 5-7 however looks different from most others and includes a suppressor in the barrel so¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Basic Hub: 

Paladin gives the option to walk around a smaller cargo plane.  Paladin is the Hub world for you while playing the game. You can talk to any of your three comrades, your prisoner, and Sarah, your daughter. 
Talking to Grim gives you the opportunity to upgrade the Plane for a bonus multiplier in score for receiving money at the end of missions as well as adding many more different bonuses in the field.

The SMI also gives you access to campaign and multiplayer modes.

Charlie: Who gives you missions that are solo/co-op which task you with defending an area and holding out for a certain amount of waves. He also allows you to customize gear which you can do from the SMI or by walking to the armory.
Briggs: Gives you co-op only missions.
Grim: who gives you solo/co-op missions which rely on never getting detected.
Kobin: solo/co-op which give you the Hunter missions from deniable ops in conviction.


Story:
Pretty dang good.


Soundtrack: ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS



Multiplayer: Fairly stable with the occasional hacker. no quit button however

The classes are great with a new feel to any form of multiplayer. Not many people play now but it's still fun to play a good round of spies versus mercs.
Along with the preset classes for both teams, there's also an extra three custom loadout slots. 

Basic run-through: Spies stay hidden and hack  the terminals, mercs have firepower to take them down.
The Intel scout is a support spy, get an eye on the enemy and make sure your teammates know where he is. 
Saboteur: Disable those pesky traps mercs left for you and any things they might send at you.
Predator: super stealthy, only countered by one kind of merc goggle ability

Disruptor: make sure nothing that those spies can use works.
Hunter: send up a uav to find those spies
Peacemaker: Fast Tank

Corridor Digital actually made a video somewhat demonstrating the multiplayer action. view the video here

PEEVES: Helmeted enemies require multiple headshots to take off their helmet or a mark and execute. 
Enemies can whack you. if you try to take down an enemy and they notice you they will knock you back and you can't take them down. AND IT STINKS

Overall: I recommend it


don't forget about the community discord https://discord.gg/ZDxVvqy
and the youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOQupBOBu6otXWzunZO4XWQ expect more videos soon!

A quick update + upcoming reviews

I have a new gaming PC.
so i'll be able to play more games that i originally couldn't
Overwatch, some big Tom Clancy games (rainbow six siege hype), and more.

Also
upcoming reviews.
Splintercell Conviction
Splintercell Blacklist
Ghost Recon Future soldier

don't forget about the community discord https://discord.gg/ZDxVvqy
and the youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOQupBOBu6otXWzunZO4XWQ expect more videos soon!

Sights, sounds, and seasons greetings from CSGO!

That's a little confusing I know so let me explain

CSGO has been getting new updates that are good, bad, and downright festive.

SIGHTS:

THE SAS MODEL HAS BEEN REDESIGNED! what? The Counter terrorist known as the SAS, featured on Mirage and Inferno, has been updated! Supposed to update legibility of the character! So take a windy walk to check him out.




KNIFE GLOVES this is the majority of the bad. They look amazing but they are as rare as knives. 
With 6 new styles of cosmetics that are always equipped, these could be great IF THEY WERE MORE COMMON. 
The Styles are featured left to right: Moto, Driver, Hand Wraps, Bloodhound, Sport, and Specialist.
Most look very nice.

NUKE WAS UPDATED: i'll just give you the patch notes
Nuke
– Removed railing on crane in A site rafters
– Removed ability to climb up on/plant the bomb on top of silos in both bombsites
– Moved T entrance to squeaky to make movement smoother
– Removed window in Toxic, replaced with double doors
– Removed yellow bollards near Garage and Secret
– Removed cover on top of Mini
– Added some full cover in cubby next to ramp in bombsite B
– Replaced exposed bombsite silo with simple version in bombsite A
– Fixed small collision bump on ramp in ramproom where players could get stuck
– Added white, flat surface on fence at T side of yard
– Fixed various bugs listed on CSGOBugtracker.com (thanks to all contributors!)
– General optimizations




SOUNDS:
WE HAVE SURROUND SOUND FOR HEADPHONES!
– Added new audio option that enables Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) processing on in-game sounds. The goal is to vastly improve 360 degree vertical and horizontal sound positioning.
– By default, Speaker Configuration in Audio Settings has been set to “Headphones with HRTF.” Selecting an alternative speaker configuration will disable HRTF.
– NOTE: For an optimal experience with HRTF, we recommend turning off any external 5.1 or 7.1 surround audio driver options.

The bomb also has a new beep sound

SEASONS GREETINGS!:
IT'S FESTIVE
freezecams have a "Season's greetings!" border

You can buy and give gifts

Several maps have christmas lights.

AND CHICKENS HAVE SWEATERS!

DO NOT FORGET I HAVE A DISCORD AND YOUTUBE CHANNEL

YOUTUBE: channel

Discord: https://discord.gg/ZDxVvqy 

I have a discord!

Just click this link https://discord.gg/ZDxVvqy and you'll get there

Is Sombra balanced?

So the newest hero for Overwatch is here!

Even though I haven't played as Sombra; I've seen how she plays.


So brings the question, is she overpowered?
First we need a breakdown on her abilities.

200hp (no armor)

base weapon: 60 round gun that does more damage than it should


Abilities:

Thermoptic camo: makes her slippery

transgenderlocator:makes combos more annoying than others

hack: makes her more of a "support" than an offense

passive: just pushes her over to the OP side


So yea she is unbalanced.

But Why?

First off: So many abilities with () <--- that much room to counter.

second: counters almost everyone

third: hack health packs

Fourth: passive makes her able to pick of enemies that are almost dead, and she can hack the healthpacks. She basically becomes the OP spy


The update did seem a bit weird and it felt like it was killing Overwatch.

The things they decide to focus on...
Fixed a typo on the bakery blackboard in Eichenwalde (REALLY?!)
Fixed a bug that allowed certain heroes to stand on unintended pillars on Ilios (once again lowering the freedom of the players)
Fixed a bug on Lijiang Tower that allowed heroes to reach unintended locations
Fixed a bug allowing Reaper to Shadow Step to unintended locations on Nepal
Fixed a bug that allowed players to contest the payload from a protected area above the gas station on Route 66
Fixed a bug that allowed Pharah to reach unintended locations on Volskaya Industries
Fixed a bug on Watchpoint: Gibraltar that allowed players to reach an unintended location near the final objective (Tf2 at least allows some freedom to move around.)

(Are players even allowed to fix this or are these glitches so minor nobody notices them)

Fixed a bug that prevented Ana’s healing stats from showing up in the Career Profile page
Fixed a bug that prevented Ana’s custom crosshairs from displaying while zoomed
Fixed a bug causing irregular placement of the pumpkin on Genji’s “Pumpkin Carving” highlight intro with certain skins
Fixed a bug preventing Mercy’s staff from showing up in the “Guardian Angel” highlight intro with her Cobalt skin equipped
Fixed a bug preventing Reaper’s “R.I.P.” victory pose from animating correctly when the game client isn’t in focus
Fixed a bug that allowed Tracer to use Blink while rewinding with Recall (fixed a "bug" that made the Righteous bison to hit targets multiple times)
Fixed a bug preventing some of Tracer’s voice lines from activating with her Punk skin equipped (piece of kek)
Fixed a bug preventing Zarya from gripping her gun’s handle in the “Deadlift” highlight Intro (oh no, not a graphic error!)
Fixed a bug causing Zarya’s Graviton Surge to eject Reinhardt at high velocity (that must have been hilarious)
They added a one hero limit to normal quickplay. If this happened in Tf2 the Fans would REVOLT

Oh Yeah and they are making sure that Ultimates just fade into obscurity with nerf after nerf. IT'S LIKE WHAT GABEN DID to the CZ-75 AUTO and to TF2 

Overwatch is killing itself!

Batman: Arkham City Review (story and mechanics)

So I just played Batman: Arkham City on the xbox 360 in less than twelve hours (on and off i had the whole night) so here is my thoughts.

Graphics for an xbox 360: Beautiful and the character model for Batman gets more worn out throughout the game.

Combat mechanics: Overall combo based, flying gadgets, and almost button-mashing (good but not perfect for what it should be)
Freedom to take them down in any way you wish but they get up very easily (take downs are somewhat long and most of the time someone else will interrupt)
Main problem with lack of easy take downs is that the smoke pellet is not bound to any combo so you can't do the awesome knockout punch without selecting it and I usually have the bat-claw equipped to disarm the gun-wielding enemies .

Enemies
Basic melee: balanced
Shields: balanced but there should be some sorta counter
Tasers: annoying, very annoying
knives: unnecessary
guns: fun to deal with but annoying when close together

 Other Gameplay features: gadgets and glides!
Bosses are interesting and fun to take out and the outfits on them are just amazing
upgrades for survivability granted by exp for being fancy with the fights

Story:Perfect, a new twist on batman, a great idea, tutorials that aren't really tutorials as well.

do i reccomend it? YEAH

A quick note

Just a quick note that i have a Youtube gaming channel that I've had for two years now.
It uploads Battlefront II, Republic commandos, more star wars games, Tf2, other stuff and hopefully more games soon. Here is the link: channel