Dead Rising 2

Get ready for some zombie killing action! Ill be reviewing Dead Rising 2 as soon as I get a bit further in it.

Silent Hill 3

You see that sad face?  That means its time to review Silent Hill 3.  Well I couldn't really do a let's play of Silent Hill 3 because we ended up playing it at a friends house.  I ended up actually buying it for the PC and I was expecting a lot of bugs, but surprisingly there were none to be found.  It ran perfectly on my PC and was still the game I remember it being from the PS2.

Of those that have not played Silent Hill 3 or any of the Silent Hills.  Three is not a very good one to start with just because its story relates back to Silent Hill 1.  In a nut Silent Hill is about a town named Silent Hill and how a cult inside of it keeps trying to resurrect their god.  It ends up screwing everything up and some how the main charachter gets stuck in the middle of it or has a huge role to play in resurrecting this so called god.

In Silent Hill 3 you play as Heather Mason.  You awake at the mall and meet an investigator named Douglas Cartland  who says that he has information about your birth.  It probably didn't help that Douglas looks like a creeper, so Heather goes into the restroom and climbs out the window to escape him.  The mall then turns into a demonic version of its self with monsters and lots of locked doors.  After escaping the mall and going through a few more areas you find your self heading to Silent Hill FOR REVENGE.

Silent Hill 3's story is much better if you have played the first Silent Hill and in my opinion Silent Hill 3 has the best story out of all of them.  You really get to know the main character Heather who has a deep past that has many connections with Silent Hill.

The gameplay is very similar to Silent Hill 2.  You go through the game killing bizarre monsters and solving puzzles in order to progress through the story.  Combat is some times difficult because of the way Heather uses her weapons, but after a while you get used to it.  The game is very challenging and even in normal I found my self dieing quite a few times.  The puzzles are both difficult and relating to the story.  I also liked the camera much better than I did in Silent Hill 2.  Its pretty easy to control and wont screw you over in combat.

The soundtrack for Silent Hill just keeps getting better and Silent Hill 3 is no exception.  Silent Hill 3 includes a few voiced songs and lot of creepy sound effects to keep you on your feet.

Silent Hill 3 is also short like the other games, but includes a lot of endings and this time a lot of unlockable costumes.

I absolutely loved Silent Hill 3 both of the times I played it and I am sure you will also.  Thanks again for reading.

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Should I start making let's play videos?

I was thinking about it and I might actually do a lets play video for Silent Hill 3.  It would be a great way to help people see if they would like to play a game or not.  What is your opinion?

Silent Hill 2

Alright, so your wife who died of an illness a few years back sends you a letter to come meet her in Silent Hill in your "Special Place".  What would you do?  I would burn the letter.  This is the beginning of Silent Hill 2.  You James Sunderland come to Silent Hill in search of your dead wife who sent you a letter.  Once you get to Silent Hill you realize just how much it has screwed up since you were last here on vacation unless your idea of vacation includes mutilated monsters that want to ravage you.

Story- 8/10
Probably one of the best Silent Hill story lines.  The story of how Henry's wife died slowly unfolds as you progress further into the game.  You also learn more about Henry and his character develops wonderfully as you take on Silent Hill to find your wife. This story has less to deal with the actual background of Silent Hill then it does with Henry's story, however you do learn quite a bit about Silent Hills past such as Walter Sullivan and the sickness of Silent Hill.

Game play- 7/10
A giant improvement from the first Silent Hill .  You actually have the option to turn off tank controls in this game, so movement is much easier than the first game.  Combat flows smoothly except for some camera issues and the inability not to switch targets gets frustrating.  You are able to hold as many items as you want in this game and the game includes quite a few weapons.  There are less melee weapons inside of this game compared to 4 and it focuses mostly on ranged weapons.  The puzzles in the game are challenging and interesting at the same time.  At some point you will be wondering what the hell do I do with a wax doll, a lighter, and a horse shoe.  The only problem I had was with the camera controls.  A lot of the time you cant even see what is attacking you and the camera a lot of the time flys back and forth.  It does give you the option of doing a 180 with the camera, but it takes a while and a lot of the time it doesn't work.

Sound - 10/10 
The creepy sounds of most Silent Hill 1 makes a return inside of Silent Hill 2.  The sound track is absolutely wonderful and keeps you on the edge of you seat most of the time.  It gives you a sense of despair with a slight sign of hope for the future.

Ability to replay- 10/10
Silent Hill 2 has quite a few endings and a lot of unlockables.  The game itself is quite short averaging around 6 hours, so in my opinion it urges gamers to replay it multiple times.

Overall- 9/10

In a lot of people eyes Silent Hill 2 is probably one of the best Silent Hill's in the series.  I urge anyone that has any sense of interest in Survival Horror games to give this one a try.  It doesn't matter if you don't know about Silent Hill and pretty much anyone can pick up this game.  I loved this game every time I played it and I hope you will also.

I will be starting Silent Hill 3 soon which is arguably my top pick in the Silent Hill series.  Thanks again for reading.

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Silent Hill 4: The Room

Silent Hill 4: The RoomSome friends and I started a play through of the Silent Hill series and for some reason we started on Silent Hill 4 The Room. . . . Silent Hill 4 the room wasn't supposed to be specifically a Silent Hill game, but Konami thought that changing it to focus more on Silent Hill would actually make it sell better. SH4 focuses on Henry Townshend a silent man that is living in the South Ashfield Heights Apartments. Ashfield is across the lake from Silent hill, so you know all kinds of crazy things are bound to pop up. Henry one day wakes up and finds that his apartment door is locked along with all of the windows. He try's to get people outside of the apartment to hear him, but it seems he is trapped in another dimension. You the player then find a hole in your apartment that leads to different worlds that relate to Silent Hill that are filled with monsters and puzzles. At the begining of the game Henry is just trying to get out of his apartment but the story slowly evolves into something much deeper and sinister. The story is highly based on the murder Walter Sullivan mentioned in the other Silent Hills. He is also the one that locked you in your apartment.
SH4 unlike most of the other Silent Hills focuses more on melee weapons. It gives you the option to have a charge strike and the shear amount of melee weapons is spectacular. If you enjoy bashing monsters with a giant pick axe of despair then pick up this game immediately. The game is quite difficult especially as the player progresses further into the dark worlds. The player will find them self dieing quite a bit until they get the hand of killing monsters. The game has a ginormous amount of secrets and endings, so feel free to replay it as much as possible. We ended up getting all of the endings in the non greatest hits version of the game. The only thing I didn't like about SH4 the room is that it was quite hard to get in tune with the main character Henry. He doesn't really talk much and we don't get much of his back story, however the story that unfolds in the world makes up for the lack of his. Overall I liked this game and would definitely recommend it to anyone that has played the Silent Hill series and enjoys the story.

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Valkyria Chronicles

I started playing Valkyria Chronicles for the playstation 3 a few days ago and I am immediately impressed with the graphics in this game. They are done in a way that looks kind of like a hand drawn piece of art. I know the first thing people think when they see this game, "great another weeaboo game". The artwork and how the characters act is indeed like an anime. This does not take away the fact that the game has a very well thought out story, but if you really do despise anime you will at least enjoy the gameplay. Valkyria Chronicles starts with a young man walking down a dirt path towards his home town Bruhl in Gallia. This young mans name is Welkin Gunther and he is the main hero of this game. Valkyria chronicles takes place in a fantasy land that looks a lot like Europe split into two giant territory's the Autocratic East Europan Imperial Alliance in the east and quite a few allied democracies known as the Atlantic Federation in the west. These two forces are fighting over a resource known as Ragnite. Ragnite is used to fuel pretty much everything electronic. The Principality of Gallia a neutral country in this war is suddenly attacked by the Empire because a large amount of Ragnite is located in Gallia. Welkin the hero is swept up in the war when his hometown Bruhl is attacked and he helps the townspeople to escape. He is then drafted into the local militia to help fight the empire.

Valkyria Chronicles is at heart a tactics game. You start out each mission by placing squad units in specific locations. Every turn you can move a specific amount of units to defeat the enemy army. Each unit has specific functions such as the shock trooper armed with a machine gun for offence or the Lancer armed with a giant rocket launcher for killing tanks. You must use your units to defeat the enemy and capture their base. The gameplay is very complex in the fact that you have to use cover to your advantage and each unit has weaknesses to specific types of gunfire. You cant just run a scout in front of a shock trooper and expect to not be killed within seconds. The gameplay is very well thought out and is one of the best parts of this game.

The sound track is mostly orchestral music with a few vocal songs thrown in. The music fits in perfectly with every situation it is used in. Overall it adds to the game experience and helps get the player into the game.

If you enjoy tactics games or games that have an anime feeling to them pick up Valkyria Chronicles today for the ps3.

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Introduction

Welcome to Gamer Operations! In this blog I will be reviewing current video games as I play them and every so often I will review a classic. I am looking forward to playing a ton of games to update this blog and I hope you the reader will enjoy my reviews.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

The first game I will review I actually just finished a day ago. I first played the demo a few days before the actual game was released. I fell instantly in love with the dark atmosphere and the chilling sound effects the game had. Just to give a basic overview of the game. The main characters name is Daniel and he has just taken an Amnesia tonic which has made him forget everything . At the start of the game you wake up inside of a dark castle. Daniel must then traverse through the castle in search of Alexander all while trying to keep his sanity. Amnesia isn't your basic survival horror game mostly because of the fact that you don't have any weapons. You have a health indicator,a sanity indicator, and an inventory. How sanity works is that it will lower whenever you are in complete darkness or you see disturbing things. The lower it becomes the harder it is to move or see efficiently. The game is mostly comprised of tons of challenging physics puzzles such as fixing machinery or creating acid to clear the way from a living wall. There are also a lot of monsters in the game that can kill you in a few hits. In order to get past them you have to sneak past them or run for you life. The story of Amnesia is quite dark and also very perplexing. Along the adventure through the castle you find multiple journal entries and articles that help explain the story. It is up to you the player to piece everything together. The soundtrack adds to the games atmosphere which is terrifying to say the least. The only drawback to the game is that it is too short for its price. The game is only around 6 to 7 hours and the price is 20 USD on steam. However, if you want to be scared out of your mind pick up Amnesia: The Dark Descent for the PC today.


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