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
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
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
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
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
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
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Silicon Valley. Nintendo 64
3rd Person. Puzzle Game.
I'm going to give you a quick overview on this one because frankly, it's mental. You are a robot involved in a spaceship crash and your body gets destroyed. The microchip with your brain in it survives and is able to possess the robotic animal inhabitants of the space station you crashed into. Whilst your human partner stays in the ship you must solve puzzles to find replacement parts for the downed ship.
The Good.
It's bonkers so you'll have a good laugh playing it. It's very original, each animal has different abilities so it's really good fun just to find out what each does and just mess about.
The puzzles are very weird and definitely not repetitive or ones that you will have encountered before. Which is always good.
The Bad.
It makes no sense. None at all. Took me a while to realise what was going on to be honest.
Sometimes the puzzles are too hard. I had to look up the solutions to a few which weren't anything close to what I'd been doing.
Rating.
If it's cheap, buy it, but it's definitely a connoisseurs game. It's for the generation that loved nintendo, games that made no sense and you couldn't complete.
Larnerman
I'm going to give you a quick overview on this one because frankly, it's mental. You are a robot involved in a spaceship crash and your body gets destroyed. The microchip with your brain in it survives and is able to possess the robotic animal inhabitants of the space station you crashed into. Whilst your human partner stays in the ship you must solve puzzles to find replacement parts for the downed ship.
The Good.
It's bonkers so you'll have a good laugh playing it. It's very original, each animal has different abilities so it's really good fun just to find out what each does and just mess about.
The puzzles are very weird and definitely not repetitive or ones that you will have encountered before. Which is always good.
The Bad.
It makes no sense. None at all. Took me a while to realise what was going on to be honest.
Sometimes the puzzles are too hard. I had to look up the solutions to a few which weren't anything close to what I'd been doing.
Rating.
If it's cheap, buy it, but it's definitely a connoisseurs game. It's for the generation that loved nintendo, games that made no sense and you couldn't complete.
Larnerman
Resident Evil 4
Third Person - Horror
With Resident Evil 4, i cant say much too bad about it, its a good game, good storyline, and not too hard to play, they have brought in the same character again, leon, from resident evil 2, which is a thing that i like because i did like him, but the thing i do not like is the fact that your not actually fighting zombies, your fighting spanish people with a virus which makes tentacles explode out of there head, which in my opinion is just fucked up.
The Good
The Storyline is good, the characters are likeable, and the merchant is a fucking legend! all in all the game is extremely good, the bosses are easy towards the beginning but gradually progresses in difficulty, resulting in a disgustingly difficult boss
The Bad
There's not much to not like about this game, its a really fun game to play, the only issue is that Capcom have steered away from what makes a good resident evil game.
Rating
This is a good game, but it feels a little like Capcom are losing their touch on what resident evil is all about, so its got to be a 7/10
Daftboss
With Resident Evil 4, i cant say much too bad about it, its a good game, good storyline, and not too hard to play, they have brought in the same character again, leon, from resident evil 2, which is a thing that i like because i did like him, but the thing i do not like is the fact that your not actually fighting zombies, your fighting spanish people with a virus which makes tentacles explode out of there head, which in my opinion is just fucked up.
The Good
The Storyline is good, the characters are likeable, and the merchant is a fucking legend! all in all the game is extremely good, the bosses are easy towards the beginning but gradually progresses in difficulty, resulting in a disgustingly difficult boss
The Bad
There's not much to not like about this game, its a really fun game to play, the only issue is that Capcom have steered away from what makes a good resident evil game.
Rating
This is a good game, but it feels a little like Capcom are losing their touch on what resident evil is all about, so its got to be a 7/10
Daftboss
Assassins Creed Series
Third person. Adventure.
The Good.
The game play is very smooth and the sandbox environment gets bigger and better with every game. I'd recommend playing through each game so you understand the plot, as it's quite confusing. But very cool(no spoilers). Each game gets more in depth allowing the game to be engaging in different ways each time so you can complete one after the other without getting burnout.
The character begins to become more customisable and there are plenty of weapons available in the later games. Though in brotherhood and revelations you often have to find objects to trade for the better weapons.
The Bad.
I have to say there isn't much bad apart from the wayward 3rd person camera. Sometimes during combat in tight spaces the camera has a mind of it's own going behind trees and other objects blocking combat from view leading to a severe loss of health (and temper) until you manage to regain control.
The first game features segments where you are let out of the animus which can often be a bit dull but necessary for the story. These cut scenes disappear in the sequels do don't worry.
Rating.
I loved it. Addictive and massive the games get better every time but it's definitely worth playing them all for the full effect. There are so many elements I couldn't fit them in this review.
Larnerman
The Good.
The game play is very smooth and the sandbox environment gets bigger and better with every game. I'd recommend playing through each game so you understand the plot, as it's quite confusing. But very cool(no spoilers). Each game gets more in depth allowing the game to be engaging in different ways each time so you can complete one after the other without getting burnout.
The character begins to become more customisable and there are plenty of weapons available in the later games. Though in brotherhood and revelations you often have to find objects to trade for the better weapons.
The Bad.
I have to say there isn't much bad apart from the wayward 3rd person camera. Sometimes during combat in tight spaces the camera has a mind of it's own going behind trees and other objects blocking combat from view leading to a severe loss of health (and temper) until you manage to regain control.
The first game features segments where you are let out of the animus which can often be a bit dull but necessary for the story. These cut scenes disappear in the sequels do don't worry.
Rating.
I loved it. Addictive and massive the games get better every time but it's definitely worth playing them all for the full effect. There are so many elements I couldn't fit them in this review.
Larnerman
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