Command and Conquer: The Ultimate Collection- What I Think

What is up people of the internet, it's Josh and I'm back with another game review, or rather, a collection of games! The game is Command and Conquer: The Ultimate Collection, which came out in late 2012. Command and Conquer is one of the oldest games in history, and the granddaddy of strategy game franchises. Alright, enough with the history. Cue the review!

Games Included

Command and Conquer: The Ultimate Collection includes 17 games (an expansion counting as a game). The following is a list of games included in the package: 

• Command and Conquer (Tiberian Dawn)
• Command and Conquer: The Covert Operations
• Command and Conquer: Red Alert
• Command and conquer: Red Alert Counterstrike
• Red Alert The Aftermath
• Red Alert 2 
• Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge
• Red Alert 3 
• Red Alert 3 Uprising 
• C&C 2: Tiberian Sun
• Tiberian Sun: Firestorm
• Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
• Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
• Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
• Command and Conquer: Renegade
• Command and Conquer: Generals
• Command and Conquer: Generals Zero Hour

Once you install the additional content that shows up in your origin library along with the other games, you can open it up and find that the collection includes the best songs in the games (mentioned below), some really awesome-looking wallpapers, and the trailers and a beta key for the new free to play Command and Conquer (Generals 2).

The guys over at EA have been nice enough to combine the best songs from the franchise into one 20 song album. It includes the main menu theme from Tiberium Wars, Hell March from Red Alert, the Generals theme, and much more. 

As you can imagine, this collection is an incredible value in terms of content. However, there are a few drawbacks: 

Problems With C&C Ultimate Collection: 

• There has not been any graphical upgrade for the older games. For players like me, this is a huge downside. However, if you play the old ones for nostalgic value, this is a good thing.
• The games that are older than Generals haven't really been optimized for the latest computers, such as my windows 8 laptop. I have experienced frequent crashes while playing Tiberian Sun and Tiberian Dawn.
• Older games also use the gamespy servers, and they have proceeded to withdraw support. Don't expect to play any multiplayer on anything older than C&C 3. 
• The music might not show up right away. You'll probably have to re-install it multiple times to get it to show up. 
• After playing C&C 3 Kane's Wrath for a little while, when you try to open it, it will say "you must have C&C 3 Tiberium Wars installed to play Kane's Wrath", even though it IS installed. I still haven't found a way to fix this problem.
• If you buy the physical copy and were hoping to get all of the game discs, then sorry. The case just comes with a bunch of codes to download them online. I got the digital edition and can't play discs on my laptop anyway, so not a big deal for me, but this might just be a deal breaker for hardcore collectors.

So, should you buy it?

Yes, despite all the problems with it, this is still an amazing collection of what could be the most praised video game franchises of all time. If you haven't got it already go check it out:

All 2K Games 85% off on Steam!

Hey guys, I have some awesome news for you! If you wanted to play through the three bioshock games, some of my favorite of all time, then you're in luck! There is a steam sale going on this week that cuts the price of all 2k games by as much as 85%! If you wanted to play any 2k games (and I bet you do), then go check it out! The list slashes the prices of games such as the Bioshock triple pack, Borderlands 2, XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within, and Civilization 5.

What are you waiting for? Go, go, go!

SwiftKey Now Free on the Google Play Store

Hey everyone, I recently found out that SwiftKey has been made free on the play store! When I got it, it was $3.99 and worth it, so this is a no brainer!

In case you didn't know, Swiftkey is a replacement for the standard keyboard on your device. It learns from apps like Gmail and Google+ to personalize your predictions and make them much more accurate. The app is also a great choice for customization freaks, because the app comes with some themes free, and others that you can purchase. Since I have been using swiftkey for 5 months almost exclusively, I got $10 worth of personalization packs from them for free!

However, despite all these cool features, the main reason to check this app out is flow, a setting where you can slide your finger to (approximately) write what you want to write, and autocorrect will determine what you were going to say. It is cool at first, but said feature becomes boring and tedious after a while.

The app also comes with a stat tracker, which keeps track of how many words you flow, how many words autocorrect fixes, and other stuff like that.

So what are you waiting for?!? Go check it out already!

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Halo 3: ODST- What I think

Hey guys! Today I will be reviewing the (underappreciated) Halo 3: ODST! This game is an awesome first person shooter where instead of playing as a spartan, you are now an elite special forces unit, called an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, or ODST for short. Let's take a look:

Gameplay

Campaign: Halo 3: ODST has pretty much the same take on the action as other halo games, but the way the campaign plays out is somewhat different. All of the guns you have come to know are here, including the fuel rod gun, assault rifle, sniper rifle, and rocket launcher. You start out as a rookie that is being shot down into a covenant carrier attacking the African mega city, New Mombasa. However, things suddenly go wrong when you and your squad are sent off course and land in different parts of the city. About half the game is you playing as the rookie and looking for clues as to what happened to your squadmates. Once you find a clue, like a broken helmet or a bent sniper rifle, you then play a action packed mission and get to see how the item you found got there. There are also audio logs that shed some light on how the covenant invasion got started, and supply caches that you can find across the map. The action missions vary from driving a scorpion through the city and blowing the crap out of anything you see, to leading a warthog charge through a covenant-occupied park. As I've said before, it is pretty much the same gameplay as you've always had with the series.


Firefight: Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach both feature a gamemode called firefight. In this mode, you start out with a certain amount of lives, and you have to survive as long as possible. Each round you have to survive is split up into the initial wave, and four waves of reinforcements that are deployed on the battlefield via phantom dropships. When you complete a round, you gain one life and all of the medkits and weapons automatically respawn. You can choose to enable the secondary skulls if you want before the game starts, but the primary skulls are automatically enabled as time goes on. Firefight is a great way to kill some time if you're bored.

Multiplayer: If you bought the campaign edition of Halo 3: ODST on the xbox live marketplace, the game does not come with any multiplayer. However, if you buy a physical copy from gamestop or order one online, it will come with a seperate multiplayer disc, which includes the Heroic and Mythic DLC map packs, plus the built in maps for regular halo 3 multiplayer. If you have halo 3 already, there isn't much new here besides the free map packs.

Price

If you buy from the xbox live marketplace, just the campaign and firefight will cost $14.99. If you buy from gamestop like I did, the campaign, firefight, and multiplayer plus DLC will only cost $6.99. On amazon the price is about $15. Check it out below:

Thanks for reading guys, and stay tuned for more awesome stuff in the near future! Also, be sure to check out my youtube channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgU4vYNxTx69MStyb23esnQ

Prepare to drop, you're going in.

How to Change Your Pip-Boy Color in Fallout: New Vegas

Hey guys! Have you ever wished that you could change your pip-boy color in fallout: new vegas? Well, you can! Just go into settings->display->pip-boy color and you can choose from blue, green, and a few others. That's all there is to it!