Yes, yes i am a big Heroes fan, and after finishing heroes 3 and 4(about 3-4 years ago) i decided its time to move on so yesterday i installed Disciples II - rise of the elves (i know its a bit old, but trust me there are lots of old games that are way better than the new ones)

I haven’t played it much but i like it because its more realistic than heroes:

- only the characters that battle gain experience and by this way they upgrade to a higher level

- you cannot stack 398625962 characters in your party, each character represents 1 character, not more, not less(except the fiends and gryphins and the similar characters which use 2 slots in your army)

- before you act you have to think your status over, although the game is autosaved at the end of every turn you need to figure out and think it over that will that move help you or not.

- melee units can only reach opponents in front of them or close to them, they won’t be able to hit anyone

On the Elves saga i managed to get to Chapter 2 - The hunt. Everything is cool the only problem is that i have to defeat the humans and not let them get their message to the empire.

The human’s army isn’t a weak army and the whole irony of it is that there’s no way to defeat them unless if you have 3 heroes with a party made of lvl 3 characters.

Well you can get 3 fully upgraded parties but that would take you about 20 hours of playtime(really) and then you could finish chapter 2.

The “Messengers” Consists in 3 armies, and every time you engage a battle they will attack first -> you 100% loose one of your characters.

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I managed to defeat one of the parties, but the other party killed my lvl 3 hero -> what i got left was 4 parties of lvl 1 characters which can’t even scratch the other parties and they will win.

I’m playing on Userlevel(difficulty) : Average. I don’t like playing games on the easiest difficulty level because i don’t like being a LOW-Level player.

As far as i realized the key in this game lies in they way you manage your army and buildings and decide what to conquer and who to fight and who not to fight.

The most important thing is patience, if you aren’t a patient man i don’t suggest you start playing the game. If you are remember that Patience is a virtue!

I think i’ll skip the elves saga and move on to the Human saga , 20 hours to waste on a chapter is way too much for me, lol.

Conclusion: If you liked heroes you will surely like Disciples II also.

If you are a steam user and you like action games that you will most probably love this news! The important games developed by rockstar are now available on steam!

This means: no cd’s, no installation, no headackes, and you can keep all of them together in a great place: your steam account.

Also if you buy any game till 11th of january you will get 10% off your purchase!

There are quite many types of addictions like addiction to chockolate, drugs,alcohol,smoking,etc. but in the 21st century one of the fastest growing addictions is the addiction to gaming/internet.

Although i’m in front of the PC 8-9 hours a day i can’t call myself an addict, because i don’t sit around and play or chat, i work and watch movies and meanwhile chat on Messenger. The internet is like a job for me because i get payment on the internet(paypal) and i send the  finished work on email.

Those are considered internet addicts who spent more and more time in front of the PC playing online games like Runescape,World of warcraft, or just chatting all day. Chatting on messenger all day became a trend among today’s teens, heck i heard a girl bragging about how she chat 17 hours with a friend of her.

I saw a report on youtube lately that was about a 17 year old boy who plays world of warcraft 16-18 hours a day just to keep his position in the guild and gain more and more items and experience.

The bad part about this type of addiction is that if your an addict you can’t help yourself, you need family/friends support. Internet/gaming addicts live like in an other world, for instance the world of a game, they think what happens there is normality and forget about the real world and when they are disturbed they get mad and start yelling and such.

Usage of the internet and the PC is great, but remember to use it moderately, and never forget yourself in front of PC playing a game for 10+ hours because especially if the game is long or an online game you can easily become and addict.

Teagames is not just an average arcade website you see at every third click, it is unique and contains great games developed by the team from teagames. The games are unique and filled with complexity and a big variety of details that makes arcade gaming really fun and full with excitement.

The most important things that i like about the games developed by them are the details. You can see in the games that they put a BIG accent on the details - Notice in TG Motocross 3: Australia the Biker, when you mess up and he falls the way his feet and body moves and stretches , its VERY close to reality.

You can play the games for free, the games are entertaining and have lots of levels to finish. You can even compete with your friends because you have the possibility to submit your highscore and keep track of your score and see the players that are in top of the leaderboard.

Each game has help and tooltips so you will have the possibility to learn with ease how to play the selected game.

The folks at Teagames will offer in the future Membership benefits like:

1. Weekly sweepstakes for members only
2. Early access to new games
3. Possibility to choose from 100 player icons

I’m very curious when will they launch the membership and how will it evolve.

IF you are tired of ordinary arcades that have the same game, and you have to browse on each arcade site the same games head over to Teagames it’s really worth it!

Alien shooter is a PC Game made by Sigma Team. Its price is $17.95.

Pros:
Good graphics, charcater is easy to control, the textures are prtty refined, big variety of weapons and supplies.

Cons:
Max resolution is 1024×768(32 bits)…what will a guy do who has a 21″ monitor? or those who have widescreen LCD’s? The alien’s don’t strife and don’t avoid bullets, they just come straight at you.

Review:The installer of the game(demo) has 5,9MB, the game installed has 13,8mb(14,6mb size on disk). In the category of lightweight games it gets 5stars in size-graphics ratio.

The load time of the game is very fast and that is a big +.

Lets start up the game…where’s the intro? a short movie that would make the player curious is missing, it just puts you to main menu.

There are two play modes:
Campaign:go on a mission to eradicate all aliens
Survive:kill all the aliens in the big room, and test out your strenght and endurance.

High score tracking is a pretty cool feature for those who like to get their friends to play on your pc and see who is the best.

When you strife using the keyboard only your legs turn, the character looks like his legs are broken.

If you egt an alien to follow you, and there is a bigger piece of wall next to the door the alien won’t be able to find the door, he will stop facing the wall and waiting for you to come out so he can find you.

The variety of weapons is impressive and the weapon shop was a really good idea, this way the player will learn to gather all possible resources.

Get a fully loaded weapon and never recharge…this is very unrealistic, the lack of the weapon recharge feature is a BIG - to the game.

Conclusion:Its a pretty cool game mostly for the arcade game lovers, the price is pretty high for a game of this type. It isn’t very addictive but it will surely keep you in front of the pc for some time.

 + Damn…these days i ask myself why did i buy nVIDIA graphics card and not ATi?

+ Alright guys, this just popped up, those of you who own any type of ATi video card and use STEAM this is your lucky day! Valve in partnership with ATi are giving away 2 original games for free! The games are Half Life 2 - Low Coast and Half Life 2 - Deathmatch. All you need to do is navigate to ATi Steam Offer page and claim the free games, when you press “Get it now” button steam will launch and will verify if you are using an ATi Video card, if everything is ok the games will appear in your games list and you can download and install them. Not a Steam user? Signing up to steam is easy, simply Get Steam NOW . After you downloaded steam sign up for a free account and claim your prizes. On steam you can purchase many games and add them to your games list immediately, and you just need to download them and you can start playing, no shipping fees, no waiting for the game to ship.

Its strange how many people prefer spending their spare time playing flash games on arcade websites than playing a regular pc game. I am not talking only about youngsters here(below age of 18) but about every age category. Flash games are beginning to get more and more addictive and attractive, they offer a better relaxation time and comfort for everyone. On an arcade website you can select what kind of game to play(action/sports etc) so you are not forced to play a specific game that is installed on your pc although you don’t have the mood to play it. IFlash games have evolved extremely much in the past years, their graphics and structure and mostly their gameplay has advanced A LOT! Honestly to tell you most of the times i prefer to play an arcade flash game than to play counter strike or dotA(im extremely bored of them). Just as usual PC games arcade games can really get addicting also, damn there was an arcade game…i forgot its name but it was a space type of game where you had to destroy alien ships in space and get better and better upgrades for your ship….i remember i played it about 3 hours till i finished the whole game, damn i started it over about 9 times but still i didn’t want to give up, i felt the need to finish it, and you can’t imagine how satisfied i was after i finished it, i was just like a small kid who eventually gets candy(lol).

So take this as an advice: when someone tells you that you are acting childish for playing flash games just tell him straight: other 1 billion people do the same!