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Sunday, 3 July 2016

GAMING REVIEW: Blitz Brigade

Hey guys this is Shehan A.K.A "Tyrant Beast" and I'm bringing you guys an exciting gaming review of Blitz Brigade!!!

For everyone who doesn't know already, Blitz Brigade is a first person shooter for IOS, Android and Windows. It was released on the 9th of May 2013 for all 3 platforms. Created by Gameloft, it's free to download but does contain in app purchases. For all those gamers who don't like "pay to win games", I'd recommend you try it and reconsider. The game uses 1.1 GB of space, kinda obvious, it's graphics are great... Note that this game requires an Internet connection and cannot be used on data, only on Wi-Fi (correct me if I'm wrong).

It contains 2 modes. A single player and a multiplayer mode

The game has 6 characters:
1. soldier (moderate speed, damage and health)
2. gunner( a heavy: slow speed, high damage and high health capacity)
3. medic (a support: fast I mean bloody fast, low health, moderate damage, ability to self heal in some weapons)
4. stealth( fast, low health, moderate damage,ability to turn invisible for a period of time)
5. sniper( moderate speed,low,health, high damage especially head shots,ability to shoot from very far but vulnerable at short distances. don't try to 360 no scope, this guy's dangerous to handle)
6. demolisher( moderate speed,health, very high damage, ability to super jump <jump very high> therefore bloody annoying) very OP.

The first 2, soldier and gunner are unlocked for free at the start. The rest of the characters are unlocked as you level up at different milestones.

Weapons are to be purchased or obtained in daily rewards. There are three modes of weapons: primary, secondary and tertiary. The latest update gives you the ability to fuse and power up weapons. (For example:give a weapon a lightening effect;poison effect; incendiary effect etc.)

The game contains in game vehicles too:
1. Premium crusher:~ Kinda looks like an "AT-DP walker" from Star Wars and has the ability to jump as high as the demolisher in his super jump ability. Very high health and damage makes him very very tough to destroy and kinda OP

2. The 4x4:~ Contains a machine gun. carries two players, one drives while the other shoots from the machine gun

3. Premium thunder roller:~ A tank, tough to destroy, high health. Cumbersome. move on nothing special bout it :)

4. Blitz chopper:~ A helicopter, fun to ride but be careful as the sniper would watching always ;)

5. Battle hornet:~ A helicopter, also fun to ride, such fun!

6. Crimson menace:~ what's better than one tank? Two! So blitz brigade developers made this.

In multiplayer mode, the user is given a choice, either choose the allies or the axis (it's kinda like in CS:GO; choose either terrorists or counter terrorists) and players play against each other.

As you fight you have a number of supplies which you can buy from the shop such as:

Medi-kits
Grenades
Flash grenades
Jet packs
Invincibility tonics
Incendiary grenades
Sticky grenades
EMP grenades and way more

There are many taunts you can do after a kill, these are there to show off. There are cool taunts but you have to purchase them with gems, although gems are pretty easy to get...

Events are present most of the time, these are good ways to get stuff, and not any stuff good stuff, stuff you can get for free by doing the event rather than wasting your in-game money on it.

You are able to communicate by audio in the game, that is, if you let the game to enable your microphone. Bur don't we all hate those screaming kids?

There are guilds (like gangs) and you can always play with friends and guild mates.

The game will allow you to upgrade your characters skills with skill points obtained by daily rewards, levelling up or winning matches consecutively for 5 rounds.

There are many game modes in multiplayer where you play with friends and people across the globe:
1. Free-for-all (kill or be killed, let the mayhem begin!)
2. Team Flag capture (you get points by capturing enemy flags and bringing them to your base)
3. Team death match (you get points by killing opponents from the enemy team)
4. Team domination (you get points by controlling flags, every flag held generates a point every 5 seconds)

Here are the maps:
1. Madagascar ruins
2. Madagascar
3. Cathedral
4. Malta fort
5. Malta docks
6. UFO site

In conclusion, I know Blitz Brigade isn't a hardcore game, but considering its platforms, it's pretty awesome! I highly recommend Blitz Brigade, it's worth a download!

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Blog Update July 2016

It's been long time.

Times have been busy, I've been busy, and as the audience for the blog broke down over the last few posts (last year, October), I didn't have much motivation to carry on. Doing the publicising of a post takes a long time, and having to send it across multiple platforms is just too much for too little.
My friends who are the writers have been busy, so they haven't brought up anything new either. I have two posts of Poetry Concentrated in Draft Form, completed and ready to post. but I just don't have the time to PR them.

So, right here, right now, I'm calling the end to all the previous series that were on this blog. A fresh start if you may. Until I have time to do the PR of the posts, they won't be coming up here.

However, I am back here for a reason.
A friend of mine recently contacted me asking if he could write gaming reviews for the blog. I said sure why not, give it a try. Which he did. Which is why I am here.

So I'm holding the gate to an abandoned house for him to enter and start living in again. Hopefully he'll continue to write more than just one article, and hopefully he'll do a better job at staying focused on the job than I did.

If you're reading this, I'd like to offer you thanks for still sticking by us, for that one view, and for bothering to click this link at all. Thank you.

Enjoy.

Thisath

Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Poems Concentrated Ed 11

Once upon a summer night,
Within the chambers of rest,
Awoke the weary Quasimodo,
Bearing burden on his chest,

T'was the call of recreation,
That woke poor Quasimodo,
An answer twixt upon his lips,
Fathomed by his best.

"What fine fare thou hast offered!"
Exclaimed the caller of fare,
"To give a fair dame your humour,
Tis' most noble,Quasimodo!".

Verily humoured by the effort,
Quasimodo dared to dream,
Twas a noble deed,not gone to waste,
He saw through the seams.

The fair dame from afar
Seemed Inhuman behind her veil,
And to his caller's despair
Quasimodo hath realized
This bizarre guise,
That She was never there.

For this week, I've got you another amazing, rather classic poem from Rayhaan!
I know the real story behind it, and its rather funny. Not for you. :-)
He's shifted into a more classic tone lately (considering his newer poem which for the next edition), and it works to some credit. It's more of story than poem.
Also, the poems have been getting more and more professional of late, and this is just testament to that. He's stretching his poetic biceps if anything.
It's amazing how many different things poets can gain inspiration from, and how quickly they can do too. Rayhaan said he perfected this poem in less than 30 minutes. I was left feeling star struck. If I want to write up a poem, it takes me more than 30 minutes to think of some inspiration itself. Poets are amazing creatures, they really are. Or maybe I'm such a bad poet. :-D
Reading through, I sense similarities from 15th to 19th century poets, from Shakespeare, Lord Byron to Robert Browning, all great poets from ages.
You're probably wanting to know about the poem, so I don't want to hinder you. Read on for the summary written by Lord Rayhaan himself!

In the poem Quasimodo is called upon by a friend to amuse a young woman in a distant Land with his literary prowess. He does so, much to his associates satisfaction. Quietly, the troubled Quasimodo hopes this lady will love him for his talent, and not for his looks. However, he soon uncovers a conspiracy where he finds, to his sadness that the woman never existed.

I wonder if I should reveal this, but this mostly reflects Rayhaan's own struggles. He likes to think of himself as French humpback....
I feel this edition has been so fragmented. But you're here for the poem, and atleast you got that, and that's pleasing.
I don't think I've offered enough of my opinion, and I'm leaving it like that.
But what about your opinion?
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Saturday, 17 October 2015

Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact Review

Sony Z3 TC review

So, I’m running into my second second week with the Z3TC. In this review I'm going to try and detail what I love and what I hate (now that is a task. This tab is nearly perfect, if not purely perfect). I’m going run through everything under specific sub headings. Enjoy!

Screen

The screen on the Z3, though not the sharpest around, looks fantastic. Mind you, when I say not the sharpest around in no way do I say it’s not sharp. It’s very sharp, the display being a 1200x1920 LCD IPS panel, making the display resolution over 1080p, which is more than necessary for crispy viewing!

The display has beautiful, punchy colours and reaches levels of eye searing brightness (when I say that, I mean it! It’s very very very bright; accidently turn it on at night and say bye to your eyes! 😉), 680 nits to be exact. This sort of takes its toll in max dimness, but for something that isn’t an AMOLED panel, it’s good. Blacks are black, and the whites are very white. I personally use the X-Reality display setting, which make colours more saturated than normal, but if you don’t like that, Sony offers comprehensive white balancing settings and 2 more modes of display saturation, which are features not many OEMs include.

Sunlight legibility is, of course no problem at all, as you’d expect.

Reading is easy and enjoyable, the screen being perfect in size (to me) for anything from browsing the web, reading all my daily tech news feed and reading an eBook at night.

Watching video is a delight, paired with the rather great speakers. There are of course, two black bars above and below the video if it is at 16:9 aspect, but it is nothing compared to the two bars when watching video on an iPad for instance. This is because the display is set to the 16:10 aspect ratio, away from the traditional 16:9. It’s hardly noticeable though, being only about 0.5cm in from the bezels.

The screen size, 8” diagonally, is more or less the sweet spot for tablets. Go below, it’s a bit too small, go above, and it’s uncomfortable to hold. Stay within 8-8.4” and except for some small compromises to a select audience, the tablet is easy to hold, easy to store but big enough to offer a good reason not use your phone on the same task (web browsing). 8” is my personal favourite for screen sizes and for a great many people out there too.

But one thing makes this tablet stand out from the others. And that’s lightness. That is what makes the whole package so amazing!

It's very good and easy to read in sunlight:

Ergonomics

The Z3TC fits my hands very well. It’s a tablet that you can hold perfectly well in one hand. Sure, it requires you to stretch out more than you would for your phone, but its width is about the length of how far your thumb and forefinger extend, so you’ll be used to it quickly. I’ve never really experienced the feeling that I would fall off my hands except in the position of changing my grasp on it, where you might finding yourself losing grip, but that in itself is something you’d experience everyday on your phone.

The best thing about the Z3TC is how incredibly light it is. It’s just 270g. You might think that’s heavier than your phone, but in contrast to the huge screen and everything it packs in it, it feels like air. For comparison, Apple 5.5” iPhone 6s Plus weighs 192g! It’s seriously light, you have to feel it for yourself.

The materials that the Z3TC are constructed are alright. Sure, it feels more premium that a majority of the other expensive tabs out there, but I’d have really liked the Z3TC to have followed the footsteps of the smartphones; be made of glass and metal. But to ask a tab to be made of glass seems stupid, so I think Sony made the only choice left open when they chose the matte plastic back, metal not being part of their design language. To me, there are no shortcomings to Z3TC design. It is what it should be, and there are no signs of cheap design and cheap materials (*cough cough* Tab S).

From the front, the Z3TC looks stunningly sharp and professional, with its beautiful display panel of glass and seamless design. The display isn’t easy to scratch, and feels very sturdy, and it doesn’t have the cheap ‘knocky’ plasticky feeling you have when you tap the display of the iPad Air (once noticed, impossible to not notice).

Overall, I’m a fan of Sony’s Omni-balance design and it really works for me.7

Performance

The Z3TC is equipped with the SnapDragon 801 and 3GB of RAM. So as you’d expect the Z3TC, is incredibly snappy. I’ve never noticed it slow down, and it breezes through all the tasks I require it to do, because 3GB of RAM is almost overkill for such a tablet, and even most flagship tablets of today don’t have it. It scrolls through screens flawlessly, handles browsing like a king, multitasks like a king and… well, it does everything like a king in my opinion. It’s perfect.

To show you what my tab is like, I’ve uploaded a video of browsing the home-screens, playing Minecraft and watching video.

I’m going to put Sound under Performance too, and to sum it up, the Z3TC has two great front facing speakers. They get quite loud and still retain clarity too. Enough to serve as the sole source of sound for a small room. Watching video or playing a game is a great experience because of this, the sound being directed right up your face. Other than the Nvidia Shield tablet and Nexus 9, I think this is the only tablet that has dual front facing speakers. Like so many other have said before me have said, it’s a wonder that other OEMs don’t include this on their devices.

Battery

The battery on this just amazing. I nearly always achieve over 8h of screen on time, and that is so incredibly useful and amazing, meaning you can run 2 days without a worry, and 3 days with moderate usage. Because of this, I’ve found all the phones are having increased time on because we’re spending time browsing on this instead, and it’s a win-win situation. My G2, I estimate wouldn’t need technically need to be charged for upto 3 days, but of course I always plug it into charge every night with usually about 60% remaining, so if your considering this as your only device, you’ll find yourself only charging both your phone (it might, of course, depend) and tablet once every 2-3 days.

As tested by PhoneArena, the Z3TC was hailed king of tablet endurance (as of last year) but you’ll find that there still not many tablets that can best this.

I think I should mention the built in QuickCharge feature, which can charge your tablet in under 1:30 hours, which although I use, haven’t really tested. It’s there if you wanted to know.

So overall, I’m very, very happy with the battery life on this monster, and if you buy it, I’m sure you’ll see too.

I’ve always been a fan of Sony’s stock UI, and as always this is the same. I actually haven’t put any launchers on it, even though I’m usually vocal about how people actually still use stock UIs on their devices. Sony’s UI is beautifully simple and useful and it’s the only stock interface I have only ever liked. I’m sticking with it. I just love the looks, from the notification tray to the settings menus to the icons. You’d never hear me say that about Touchwiz.

Sony has several extensive options for you to tinker with, and although not as extensive as some that LG offers, you’ll find you don’t actually need to mess with them to get your device running beautifully.

One thing I’d have loved to see though is apps that take use of the big screen, like dual window. I always find myself using the Small Window feature, but I’d really have appreciated more, because I love squeezing productivity out of a device.

One tip: Buy a stylus, install OneNote or Evernote, and use it as a notepad, something I find very useful for doing complex maths on.

(Check out the video under performance for a glimpse into the homscreen)

Camera

One downfall of the Z3 is its camera. I really expected more out of Sony camera wise on this. The rest of the Z3 series had great cameras and I’d have loved it if Sony had jumped the fence and made a tablet with a great camera (something virtually non-existent).

Still, the camera isn’t all as bad for a tab. It performs well in good lighting, suffering badly in bad lighting. I’ll include some photos I took on it for you to look at below.

The front facing camera (don’t you dare say selfie cam) is relatively good, but something I never use. Picture included.

Still, I don’t think society has a very good outlook on Tablet photographers.

Thanks to Google pretty cool photo sharing service, here are some picture taken from the Tablet itself:

And in case you wanted, a photo from the front facing camera:

WaterProofing/ Ingress Protection
This is a part I forgot to add, and if it wasn't for my friends at the Z3 Tablet Owners community, I don't think I'd have remembered.
The Z3TC, like all the products in the Z3 range is dust and water protected for a maximum of 1.5m in a maximum time of 30 minutes. This means that you're free to take this tablet into your pool or bath tub and watch Netflix while relaxing, or in a more usual case, use it without a problem on the beach or kitchen and just wash it off when you've finished.
But you must make sure the power and SD card slots are closed, or the water might seep in that way.
I myself haven't used this feature as of yet, but it was one reasons I bought over the completion. It's always good to know your protected!
(Try doing that with an iPad. ;-D)

Conclusion

I’ve always been a fan of Sony’s devices and outlook, and this device is a worthy heir to that title. I’m very impressed with it, and it has never let me down. It’s a truly great tablet and to my purposes, has far, far more potential than an iPad. The only tablet that could provide a worthy opponent to this is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S, but I’m not a fan of Samsung’s design or values. This is the one and only.

One word on their successors, and why I didn’t even mention them throughout. The Z4 is best tablet you can buy today, after the Surface series, but it’s far too expensive, and as for the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, well, it’s just a really bad iPad.

One thing I’d have wanted more than any more improvement on the Z3TC is more base storage. Mine has only 16GB and comes with only 11GB remaining, which is soo little in today’s standards. Sure, it has MicroSD, but it’s not like you transfer most apps to the card. In a week mine has only 2GB remaining. A tab really should come with more (there is a 32GB version available, but I couldn’t find any).

So, if you’re looking for one, here’s some links:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-Xperia-Z3-Tablet-Compact-SGP611-16GB-Wi-Fi-Vresion-Black-Tax-FREE-/321887741043?hash=item4af2012473:g:tD8AAOSwvc9WFm0U

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-SGP611-Xperia-Z3-Tablet-Compact-Black-Wifi-16GB-8MP-Tablet-1-YR-Warranty/291473127520?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33426%26meid%3De2bbaa2f4efc4610878b5001d75f2358%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D321887741043

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-Xperia-Z3-Compact-Tablet-8-Waterproof-IP65-68-HD-White-UK-Spec16GB-/271992594909?hash=item3f5405a1dd:g:IsMAAOSwQTVV~~1~

Oh, and if you're looking for more, look forward to our upcoming review of the Samsung Galaxy S6 & S6 Edge!
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Deadrising 2: http://interestconcentrated.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/review-deadrising-2.html

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