With the first release of Just Cause being a hit, its sequel seemed to be compulsory and it proved to lift itself up to its fans’ expectations. Just Cause 2 brings in new excitement element that offers a new dimension to the reality of the game.
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The thing that acts as an improvement is the element called the grappling hook – arm mounted that helps you perform a diversity of tasks. Through this element you are able to link two objects together, pull your body along, and get you lifted up hanging by a helicopter, all these skills being performed at the same time with situations that reflect abilities of a puzzle solving.

Being airborne through the help of your grappling hook not only gives you have more control, but you have an extreme legerity to handle your positioning choosing at your own pace the heights of your airborne. You can get attached to anything you aim at, in this way you have easier access to situations that can get you out of trouble. Tapping of a button you are able to chain the grapple swings together, and pointing at a tree will allow you to start your journey. All this time your weapon can keep on firing at different spots. Due to this technique you can also avoid to move at ease in order to avoid being shot and this aspect adds a new perspective to the displaying of the game in that of offering a view of verticality that is new for a gamer’s experience.

The grapple hook is the element that helps you to jump off of an helicopter and swing below. This position doesn’t prevent you from aiming your enemies and throwing grenades at them. Then is the turn of cars and trucks, when the wonder hook can grapple over an enemy car, as it is approaching, tying it to the rear of the car in this way giving the opportunity to be under cover. From there the character can smoothly duck around the side of the car and catch the enemy inside while pulling out the driver in one swift motion.

The best ability of the grappling hook however seems the one to tie two objects together and after that release them. For instance, you can nail up an enemy to an exploding barrel, for in the end to let them both go exploding that is! Or while performing the care chase described above you can actually grapple a car and then nail that car to a static point of the settings around as it is a bridge pylon or a wall. It will result in a catapulting action of the car through the air having the effect of a most audacious stunt ever seen in the world game.

Due to its “updated” physics engine, the game offers a lot of new experiences and together with them a lot of fun and excitement.

In search of a new Half-Life 2 and its Source Engine, we may bump into “Smash Ball’s hours of fun to play game. It is a game that combines soccer with field hockey, only that it uses guns and gripping hooks. As a player you are given the possibility of chhosing one of the four characters available: speedy but weak forwarder, a slower halfback, a full back loaded with mines, or a fat man wrecking ball, called goalie. The round begins as a contest between the Team Blue Balls and Team Red Socket that are in a mad crowded rash to get the ball. The goal is the job of ball carrier, meaning that he is the only one to shoot the ball into the opponent’s gate.
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The fun comes when you begin throwing weapons and gripping hooks, their type depending on what player you are using and so is the health. Your weight also marks your falls, the bigger you are the harder will be for you to fall. For getting the ball in a much easier way is the tools you can use called modifiers. You will have the skills to cut your knock-out time in half, double your health recovery feature, increase and decrease chances of advancing in the line or fumbling the ball while being hit from another player respectively.

Pressing the shift key (through default controls) you are able, due to gripping hook and turbo features, to explode forward and also jump higher, run faster at he enemy’s goal whenever you control the ball. The grappling hook provides you means to travel further. By clicking the right button of your mouse you can draw a connection line from the aimed surface to the point where you are at. Then a leap forward follows across the map with the only condition that your line isn’t shot at.

Everything is happening at a frenetic pace of action. As a teamwork play sometimes is hard to get a successful effort in scoring the ball, since the fast rhythm gives the feeling of a wayside passing of the ball. Playing as a fullback allows you, more than other characters, to draw a strategy due to the spidermines that are meant to be key defensive installments.

The visuals are quite good thanks to the built off of the Source Engine. There are explosion effects and rockets blasts, characters design is well defined so long as you realize the difference between your team players and the opponent’s. As a conclusion, we may say that Smash Ball delivers a fun game to play that takes you out of the ordinary gaming habits. It is too bad however that you can miss the beauty of defining strategy since the rhythm of the game is too fast paced. But you don’t need to worry too much since there are still a lot of other things to do as you are assigned to different character types and power-ups. Altogether Smash Ball has got an IGN Rating of 7.9, which in the terms of the gaming world is translated as a GOOD rate.

Final Fantasy as it was said from the beginning of its release, wasn’t planned to last since it did have the shape of an idea instead of a series. Hironobu Sakaguchi the head of a back then small company hardly believes that the RPG has reached to the stage that turned the company into an international powerhouse. Almost twenty years ago Nintendo Famicon has appeared with a new console that set up the birth of this field on the market. Adventure games and RPG started to infiltrate into the Japanese systems and quite soon they would cast the arcade shooters into the shadow.
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At that time Sakaguchi , with his distinctive, sophisticated art style, came up with a fantasy epic game which followed the soil that other RPGs have stepped before. But yet the genre wasn’t too spread, but competition started to heat up. When Final Fantasy was released, it was the time of SEGA’s Phantasy Star and Dragon Quest III, both of them classic games and rivals as well. Final Fantasy, through its emerging on the market, was the cementing element between Square comp and Nintendo, which in the end would push them further to the international success.

It took Nintendo three long years to finally reach the American kids, having all the time in front the leading teams formed by Phantasy Star and Dragon Quest. Their success was the end of the idea that the American console players didn’t agree with RPGs, since the RPG feature offered them a deep, intricate game.

The path that Final Fantasy took all these past years was shaped in the long series releases of the game reaching the incredible number of sequels of 12. This last one needed a 5 years time to develop all this because Sakaguchi was acting on the role of the executive producer, while Yasumi Matsuno was given the part of producing and directing. Because of his hit Vagrant Story on PS1, he started to draw his own ideas in making the Final Fantasy XII. With Sakaguchi leaving, he ended up in taking the executive duties as well. He co-opted Akihido Yoshida, a well known illustrator to print his sense of color and design throughout the game.

With Matsuno’s taking total control a seamless combat was integrated into the field displaying a real-time action and strategy this feature bringing the biggest change to the gameplay that the series had ever experienced. Due to his overworking program Matsuno retired into a supervising duty, meanwhile other members were promoted to replace him. These reasons have determined the Final Fantasy XII to be released in delay, but the producers’ efforts earned the respect of critics, being awarded with a 9 out of 10. This happened in 2006, and in this year’s EA Square announced Final Fantasy XIV, a new MMO RPG that follows the story from where FFXI has left it.