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Last Night

Last night TGAM had their first ever official online encounter with each other. Gears and Halo 3 were the games. At one point we teamed up and showed the rest of the online community exactly how you play. TGAM STYLE. The pictures tell the story. We're the Red Team, Team Blue is Team 'Sidekick' (Duffin and Chuff_72) and Team Green were the guys who tried hard but weren't very good (Mr Cyclopse and TLK ToRnaDo Jd)

Yes within literal seconds we were shooting at each other.
Then we were using vehicles.We were committed to eliminating each other.
We managed to stop shooting each other but only when the opportunity to drive around like idiots presented itself. This screenshot here is the result. That's me that is.
The other teams were dazzled with out L337 skills and fury.
We easily won. The score was something like 54 kills to us. 3 for the other teams combined. We don't need to prove that we are the best any more thanks to everyone who tried. We'll see you at the world championships next year!

Postcards from the multiverses #2

Yes number 2! That's right kids. Another feature right here on your monitor. You can thank us later.

Anyway 'TFU' a so called Clan on Halo sent us these images. We don't get sent much these days so it's going up.

Chuff_72 sent us this. Nice Jump.

This is TFU Mr Cyclopse [sic.]. ummm jumping

Yes, more jumping. It's all a bit Quake mid-90s if you ask us
Thanks guys. Miss you too x x

Halo 3 the 360 review

Pfft… Even 360’s are gutted with Halo 3:
“Halo 3. It wasn’t as cool as I thought it would be…”

Amen my little anthropomorphised brother. Amen.

Curtsey of http://www.360voice.com/

Just so's we're all clear

Timesplitters 2, the single greatest game of all time, and arguably man's greatest acheivement, was the first FPS to do the virus mode well. I know that the sequel to Timesplitters 2, OF WHICH WE HAVE 100% IN ALL THINGS BUT DO NOT SPEAK, messed it up so bad that Bungie had to steal the idea to keep it alive. As long as we all know and we pay props where props is due we can all be friends yes?

I don't even want to think about the consequences if I see another "not paying tribute to TS2" post.

Chuff_72 Speaks Again Again!

Chuff_72 is our maniac on the street and he regularly send us stuff to post when we are too busy doing pointless challenges and mixing up T-Virus to destroy the world if Capcom doesn't deliver vidjogames on demand. His stirling efforts have earned him at least a cameo in the TGAM film and he is an unlockable character in TGAM the game.

Anyway, here at TGAM we are dedicated to doing what everyone else already did before us, and doing it twice! Here are some more thoughts on that game what came out recently Halo 3. Take it away Chuffty:

"Dude, just a quick email to tell you how much fucking fun halo 3 is online. I didn't play any of the various deathmatch types or any of that bollocks, and while I checked out some co-op story which was okay, though pretty hard to follow with myself, the Dr and two fellow TFUs, shouting about the Gheys in the trees, most of the time I had no idea where to go apart from follow the little countdown marker thing, AND friendly fire was on, with infinite re-spawns? The Forge dude, the FORGE!!! This is the sort of thing that I expected Free Radical to be doing, can't tell you how much fun it is!

Essentially a level building/editing tool, where every player is the builder and it's all real time. By pressing "Up" on the d-pad you turn into this little round ball and can fly round the level, picking shit up (like tanks!) and you are supposed to place them in strategic places then save the design and play deathmatchs and stuff - Fuck that.

We spent 3 hours stacking shit up on one of the big towers (Sandtrap) and trying to drop tanks on each other. You have the ability to grab anything in range so there was much stealing vehicles mid air and playing reverse Jenga (dropping Warthogs onto a tower of tanks and the loser is the one that makes the tower topple). You can also use the whole thing as a sort of impromptu deathmatch with no rules and superpowers cos the game keeps track of all the kills you score and betrayals and then posts these scores every 30mins so you can claim victory.

However, the bestestest thing EVER though (and I can't confirm if this is true to all modes) is that if you get close to someone on the opposite team you can hear them out the tv! Until you actually get to try this you won't really appreciate it, but hearing someone sniggering out the tv before they twat you in the back of the head is fucking priceless as is the ability to call that person a cunt and have them hear you! And yes in other games you can hear everyone etc but to actually have your team come through the earpiece and the other guys out the tv just makes it awesome, AND it fades in out depending on distance.

So there you go, as far as Richies "Things wrong" post, I agree with them all (probably, though I haven't really played the story), however IF you can get online then DO and when you do, find a bunch of twats and just piss around in the Forge.C_27 out.

P.S. Not really a massive Halo fan by the way, I hate the auto aim, I hate the jumpy jumpy bollocks and the Chief runs SO SLOW, plus if you're getting shot in the back you WILL die unless you set the sensitivity right up but then it becomes hard to aim so it becomes less fun, also it's not Timesplitters which means its not as good as Timesplitters, which means everyone is lying when they give it 10/10 because TS never got 10/10 except from the Official magazine, and that doesn't count. Ever."

So there we have it. Our second Halo 3 review. Wow. Next on TGAM: Due to fan requests Richie and I prove once and for all that we actually are 12 year old girls and not two 20 something men. Also, we start a new war with these cretins who are a blight on our and Capcom's reputation because they dare to call themselves TGAM (Train Game Addicts of Malaysia), which should clearly be TGAoM but, whatever.

Bye loves!

List of things wrong with Halo 3

Right well, on Friday The second most popular video games blog: www.thatguys.co.uk managed to get a hold of a copy of Halo 3. As such we will do a review of it though whether you read it is entirely up to you, we will not try and force our views upon you.


Gameplay
FPS Action shooter, and it knows it. Strafe. Aim. Shoot. Repeat until done.

There is not variance in the weapons:
Pistol = 2 shots to kill enemy. 1 to remove armour, 1 to shoot in the head.
Shotgun = 2 shots to kill enemy. 1 to remove armour, 1 to shoot in the head.

Equipment is not necessary, throwing the odd shield, rarely helps you out, though these may be more useful in the harder modes

Crouch (L3 by default) has to be held down, and since L3 is one of your movement sticks, it makes crouching and moving very hard, there is also no sniper position.


Story
Makes absolutely no-sense if you have not played Halo 1 and/or 2, it is disjointed all the way through, the plot also seems to be catering for 12-13 year olds. Do not expect anything prolific, thought provoking or substantial. It is what it is, and that is an action FPS. If I were to compare it to a movie, I would say it was like Chronicles of Riddick. If you have played Halo 1 and/or 2 there are plot elements which will be the same and the universe does continue in the same way, however with Halo you still have the feeling of Cutscene (plot) – Action (gameplay) – Cutscene (plot) – Action (gameplay) and so on, which can really break up the plot.


Sound
The voice acting is not of a high standard, and there are frequent dips in the volume of voices during cut scenes. However, the music is epic and sets the tone of the Sci-Fi world very well. Though I did find that the music did on occasion sound very similar to the music from American Beauty, I expected the camcorder-twat to walk in any minute chasing a plastic bag.


Difficulty
Very odd scaling here, I will attempt to rearrange the halo difficulty settings so that they make sense:

Easy = Very easy
Normal = Easy
Heroic = Normal
Legendary = Hard

And I am not trying to sound like a prick here, normal mode is easy, aside from a couple of areas that may need to be done a couple of times the game is not a challenge. Also on the final “boss” character, I did not die once. I strongly advise that you start on Heroic, or even Legendary difficulty if you are a Halo veteran.


Graphics
Almost consistently good, at times, though I found Hoods face to be quite Polygon-y. There are occasional smoothing/brightness filters placed over close ups to make them look better, and is quite evident.


Lastability
Do not get this game if you are not planning to go online, the main game lasts 5-6 hours.


Glitches
There are a few bugs which need working out, the achievement unlocking always happens at the end of level, but only after the cutscene is finished, if anything happens during the cutscene you will not get the achievement. This is why I have the achievements for chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 but not chapter 5.

There are plenty of bits of scenery to get caught in.


I have a theory though, I reckon MS will be releasing a patch on Halo3-day (Wednesday 26/09/2007) fixing the above issues, so that this way they feel they are still punishing the people who managed to get it early

There you have it people, these are the thatguys.co.uk impressions on the things wrong with Halo 3. At least on the first playthrough. Stay tuned for more updates a i prepare to get the remaining achievements on Legendary, collecting all the hidden skulls and locate the terminals.

Richie sigining out.

Laters...