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When you have games and games galore, you just look out for newer media to get the game out to avid gamers. There are millions of gamers around the globe, and for these people,  playing games is no less than an all consuming passion as well as an obsession. These people are willing to go that extra mile and spend that extra money to be able to ensure that they get the best out of online games that they possibly can. This is why Sony’s game launch of the Poxnora has been closely watched and keenly awaited by so many people and gamers the world over.

The Poxnora bears testimony to the immense popularity and unmitigated success of the social networking site Facebook. The rise of Facebook in the online space has been stunning to mention the least, and its meteoric rise has a lot to do with Sony being keen to launch Poxnora via Facebook. This is a special game created by Sony only for Facebook, that is likely to ride high on the platform that Facebook so readily provides. Facebook users are young and restless, the very same people who are likely to go crazy on games like Poxnora and this is something that Sony so badly wants to cash in on.

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There are some themes of games are extremely interesting and absorbing. These games have such a promise of excitement as well as attraction that you would expect a lot of the game. One of these games is Endless Ocean, which has the promise of being so absorbing and extremely riveting to engage the most ardent of game players. While the promise is there, the reality does not really live up to the promise. The main setting of the game of Endless Ocean is such that it makes you a diver, who is able to go down into the very depths of the ocean and look for treasure which is what makes it quite interesting.

There are some things about Endless Ocean that take away from the overall experience and its thrills, which include bad writing and sloppy production, just to name a few of its ills. It is almost the gaming experience equivalent of what are known as the bends in diving parlance, where you fail to decompress when coming back to the ocean surface, causing lots of pain and discomfort galore. But even then, as a diver, it is quite an experience to look at getting into the deep blue ocean and come up so close with all the many adventures that lie beneath.

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There are many people who are in love with the games of old, when games were simple and yet so powerful. But you must realize that the old has to give way for the new. That is what development is all about. If you just get caught up in history, there is very little that would come by, in terms of any improvement. This is why in terms of RPG development, the game Final Fantasy has show a lot of progress. This was necessary to stem the tide of waning fan collection, such that new features in the game would be able to bring about new fans. The adulation of fans and the interest in the game is what Final Fantasy III aspires for.

There are some new aspects of the game that have been brought about to revive interest in the game. For one, the game focuses on strategy, which can keep gamers at the edge of their seat and riveted to the game. In addition, there are beautiful visuals and wonderful music that goes a long way in ensuring that the new Final Fantasy game stands out. The whole experience is also quite streamlined and is able to bring about freshness to the game.

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Total War is a game that has had many fans over the years, and with good reason. The game had taken its players on a spin, with the war on so many colonies. There was an old-world charm to the whole affair, with the possibility of forming quite a few coalitions, based on whatever combinations that suit your fancy. The avowed aim was to unify the New World, and you also learn a little about history along the way. You get an opportunity to fight the war like Napoleon, and get more success than him at Waterloo. So in a way, you can not only relive history, but also tweak it around based on your fancy.

With Total War, it is possible to have a look at the life of Napoleon the Great. Here you have a look at how the little man emerged from his home in the island, as also then onto the French stage and indeed onto the continent. You will also get a chance to get to the desert, where you see that the army did not do well in the Egyptian desert. There is also a chance that you can get back to Europe for a change in destiny. In any case, it is possible to take sides with Russia, Prussia, Austria or Great Britain which had chosen to oppose the Napoleonic army. The choice is entirely yours.

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Shiren the Wanderer takes you back in time. This is a time when there was depth in the gameplay of games  and where you saw the look and feel of games being like computer hieroglyphics. There was some sort of old-world charm to the games, that had you mesmerized and spell bound too. This is quite a punishing game of tactics, where you have to apply all the strategies that you can, in order to come up trumps. The style of the game is such that it does not take into account the developments in the RPG field that have taken place over the last thirty years or so.  So those who are die-hard fans of RPG need to beware.

Shiren the Wanderer looks at the game where there is a huge dungeon, at the bottom of which there is a treasure.  The treasure needs to be fetched from the bottom, but there are a lot of challenges and obstacles to be faced. If your character dies during the game, all the previous good work is totally undone and you are left to start off all over again. While this can be tedious for some, there are fans of the game who do not mind this at all, and are more than willing to start again from scratch.

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There are some games that gain iconic status. There are quite a few of these games that have captured the imagination of a whole generation of gamers, which do not get erased from public and private memory very easily. One of these games is Bad Company. Now you can have a preview of Bad Company 2, which has liberally taken from Modern Warfare as well as the Battlefield. The combination of these two games seems strange at first look, but it has its appealing parts too. The game is a spoof on the Battlefield in some ways,  while making quite a few improvements in the game too.

Bad Company 2 begins where Bad Company left off. Bad Company as a game was well known for being its creator’s first shot at being a single player game that was story line driven and based. The end of the game saw its main players Redford, Sweetwater, Marlowe and Haggard as driving away into the distance with their truck laden with gold bars. In Bad Company 2, the start of the game makes it evident that the gang has lost all its gold. The main plot revolves of how the mercenaries have to pit their wits together to ensure that they are independently and adequately wealthy. Makes for quite an interesting plot!

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There are some things about Lost “sundown” that can be quite intriguing and need answers for. For the time being, the telecast of the latest episode of Lost has taken off my mind from the showdown between Activision and Infinity Ward.  So now that Lost, “Sundown” is on its way, we can expect members of the merry Island Crew to make their way back to our homes. For one, many people can’t figure out as to why you need to trek through the jungle, and to do something that just beats comprehension. The plot of Lost is so labyrinthine that you would get lost midway. But it sure is a fact that the serial has a high level of self awareness, the likes of which have not been seen in any other serial, that we could recollect.

As of now, viewers are rather confused about Lost, as its plot seems to be going in circles. There are some classic themes from earlier seasons that seemed to have got lost forever. It almost gives you a feeling that this is a mushy and gooey ‘goodbye’ tour of the island. The protagonist is expected to reach the lowest level, before the climax is reached.

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There are some times when a game can hold immense power and wield a lot of control over their users. This is true with PlayStation too. Sony’s PlayStation has faced an unprecedented glitch which has affected the whole PlayStation server. This is why it is impossible to play any games on PlayStation and it is not material whether you are trying to play online or offline too. This has led to many complaints from disconcerted fans from around the globe. This is not surprising, given the fact that people sue PlayStation and enjoy its games to the point of near addiction.

The PlayStation glitch has made peoples’ gaming pleasure schedule totally haywire. That is why they are just feeling quite lost and disoriented. Even Sony, the creator of PlayStation has been tweeting, trying to reassure fans and gamers that there is a team of experts who are working overtime to get the game back on track. But there is a sense that the patience of crazed fans is running thin. They are just checking for regular updates from Sony on what’s the latest on getting PlayStation back on track. But it is also true that such a large glitch would take some time to get corrected, so gamers would have to be patient.

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Over the years, there have been many who have been avid fans of Gears of War as well as the Transformers. These games have been so interesting, that people still remember the game fondly. So it’s no surprise that there would be many who would like a mash up of both of these moveis. If this has been your wish, you will be happy to know that Activision and High Moon Studios are coming up with Transformers: War for Cybertron, which was show at DICE in Las Vegas. From the looks of it, it seems as if this is going to be quite something worth watching out for.  The game is not contrary to the storyline of either of these games, but the look of the Transformers would be altered and bring about a whole new look that promises to be quite exciting.

When you tweak the characters and other aspects of the game, you are sure to rouse a lot of expectations and hopes that it would do justice to the novelty quotient. The game now attempts to tell some aspects of the Transformers tale that has not been told as yet.  Watch out for the new

game and you will not be disappointed.

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There are a lot of folks who find Dynasty Warriors quite a forgettable experience. There are aspects of the game that do not inspire much awe or admiration. The game series has just a few basic concepts that seemed to have exhausted themselves. The game was based on the issue of uniting or destroying feudal China. And it was based only on a single controller button,  that seemed to be all powerful in winning or losing the game. And now you have Strikeforce that takes inspiration from the Dynasty Warriors game. There are some who feel that the game does not add much to the older version.  The mashing controller button seems to be all powerful even now.

But there are some aspects of Strikeforce that are rather distinctive. It has some alterations that tweak the game to an extent that it seems quite different from the original Dynasty Warriors. The problem is not distinctiveness.  It’s more about the fact that the game is patently boring and could do with a serious dose of excitement. Now you have small rooms that you have to cross, and while these areas do have a lot of stuff, you do miss the earlier wide expanses of battles in the plains.

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