Since November 2009 I’ve been playing Modern Warfare 2 with a bunch of online friends and while the game is not without its problems, I have absolutely fallen in love with its party and matchmaking system. It’s great to be able to just hook up with a bunch of friends and not have to concern [...]
The picture below is of a OSP DD-502 electronic drum kit which is demonstrated in a video review by Your Sound Shop and is descriibed as “an outstanding kit providing excellent quality at an entry level price”.
However, before I’d go off and buy a particular drum kit I’d be sure to do my research (a [...]
A little bit more than a week ago I was at a friend’s place and for his birthday he had been given the video game Guitar Hero including a guitar controller.
Up until that day I had been a bit reluctant to actually pick up the guitar and play the game out of fear for “looking [...]
This is closing credits theme (also referred to as the main theme) from the movie Enemy of the State, originally composed by Trevor Rabin and Harry Gregson-Williams, played by Gustavo Vieira using a Roland XP-80 keyboard with an extra Orchestral Soundboard and recorded/mixed using its build-in sequencer.
A few days ago I bought the first Assassin’s Creed. Overall it’s a fantastic sandbox style game, but most of all it’s absolutely beautiful. However, it fell well short of what it could have been, playing it one could really see that it had a lot more potential.
The major reasons for falling short were:
The investigations [...]
I was browsing the website of the Computer Graphics Society and came across a behinds the scenes article on the animation movie 9. The movie appeals to me quite a bit as it combines two of my favorite subjects, computer-generated imagery (specifically movies) and the end of mankind as we know it. I’ll put it [...]
I recently bought GRID, the latest sequel in the Race Driver series by Codemasters. It’s a stunning and also quite fun arcade-ish racing game.
The good:
Stunning graphics
Awesome damage modeling system
Flashbacks (the ability to go back in time)
The little indicator that indicates your chances of making the next turn (yellow, orange, red) — though one could argue [...]