Wednesday 6 June 2012

IMaschine

No i can spell, thats just the name of this app for the Iphone, IPad, Ipod Touch. This is actually quite a good app, if you are into your music design, but even if your not technically minded when it comes to music making, its easy to use and gives you an excellent result, the way it works is you have 3 sections, a drum pad, a keyboard and a microphone, lets start with the drum pad. The drum pad can have different samples loaded to it, aswell as uploading your own, via microphone. Next we have the keyboard, where you can again upload your sesired sample and mess aroud with the pitch and what not. Finally we have the microphone, pretty standard, press record and magic happens.

The Good
It's a brilliant programme that you can potentially create some professional sounding music from the palm of your hand. Just look at the video that i have conveniently placed at the bottom of this post like a freaking technical genius

The Bad
Theres not much i can say thats bad about this one, but if i was to run through it with a fine nit comb. Then i like to play my apps while im travelling on a train and what not, but im afraid i shall not be breaking out into song randomly while on the 08:57 to manchester Piccadilly. plus becuase your wearing headphones even when your in your home getting into the zone, if you break out into song recording a masterpiece, your partner is only going to hear your bad singing, not the epic track you've created so be warned!

Rating
This is a top class app, but I feel the audience for this is rather little because you've got to have some musical bones in your body, and that doesn't mean dancing in your underwear to justin beiber with your dog rather confused in your direction

8/10

Daftboss



Portal 2

Portal 2, its not bad, its not particularly good, its... meh. yes the character wheatley, voiced by steven merchant, and the puzzles are actually puzzling and require someone with a higher IQ than a chicken to complete them, the game lacks that exciting edge that good video games have. its a bit to bitty in my eyes, its a case of section 1, story line, section 2, puzzles, section 3 storyline, section 4 puzzles, etc... they never really merge and it gets a bit boring after a while. Valve really needed to decide whether to make a storyline based game or a puzzle based game, not alternate between the two until the player gets so bored they shove the disc through the TV.

The Good
As i said earlier the puzzles can actually be fun and challenging, its a good game to play if your sick of all them shooters and horror games, and just want a brain tester. Also the co-op mode is an excellent add-on to this game, you ca really co-ordinate between each other how to complete the puzzle.

The Bad
The storyline is fucking dreadful, if they would of done what they did with portal and just added the co-op game, it could of got my game of the year, but sadly the storyline ruins it, and doesn't even flow nicely with the puzzles, they just shove the story in like a toddler playing with lego

The Rating
This is a good puzzle game if you base it off the co-op and not off the main game so i'm doing 2 ratings today.
Main game - 5/10
Co-op 9/10

Daftboss

Goldeneye. Nintendo 64.

1st person shooter.

You play Brosnan's Bond as he blasts his way through the missions of the film.

The Good.

This is the shooter that spawned so many games and for that reason it's a must have. But it's still a very playable, fun game. With a variety of weapons and varying missions.

The missions stay close to the story and the lack of a second joystick is compensated for with a decent but not overpowering auto aim.

There are also stealth elements to the missions which can be fun, or you can stuff that, set them off and see what body count you can rack up.

The Bad.

Very little on the bad front. Limited graphics are one but what more can you expect from N64? The multiplayer is a bit stilted but this isn't what this game's about.

Rating.

It's a must have. Play it and you'll see the lineage to all modern shooters. It's fun easy and there's are more elements than you'd expect.

Larnerman

Forza 4

Driving simulator.

The Good.

The graphics are absolutely amazing. The tracks are as close to real tracks as they can get. There are plenty of cars to unlock and tune. The realism is very good and the cars are very responsive.

It is an exceptional simulator.

The Bad.

This is a simulator not a racing game if you want to race your mates then get burnout or something a bit less precise.

This is seriously hard to play. If you like to tune and fiddle it's great but if you're like me and you have no idea what's going on it's very complex.

To get the best out you're going to have to buy a wheel and pedals. That's clearly how all the high scores have been set.

Rating.

It's a very good simulator but if you want a simple racing game it's not the one for you. Very complex and precise you have to know your stuff to play this.

Larnerman