I haven't gotten any figures lately even though there were several sales in the past few weeks because I got bitten by the RC (radio-controlled) bug again. And since school is finally over, it is time for me to go back to this long-time hobby of mine...at FULL FORCE! LOL! It is just great to sit in the workshop and build and work on my RC's, especially without worries of school. I have collected many projects over these years that were started, but never finish due to the lack of time. I am glad I will finally be able to pick these back up and finish them. Although there is quite a pile up and it will last me for quite a long time. Okay, I'll stop blabbering on and go straight to the hauls.
First, today is a special day....the release of Transformers: War for Cybertron! And being a transformers fan, I HAD to get it! Especially since it is not a movie-tied game, so there's a chance that it will be good, right? I got the PC version off of Steam at noon today at $39.99usd. It was 9 gb and took around 2 hours to download from Steam. I am not a big gamer, so don't expect a full out review, but it will just be my thoughts. I first tried out the campaigns (first chapter of each Autobots and Decepticons). It is your typical shoot the bad guys and reach the checkpoints type of game with some stupid AI's. The cinematics were nice though and since I never watched G1, I am not sure if they got it right, but it is interesting. But it's really not that bad, just probably because it's TRANSFORMERS. However, the game really shines in multiplayer mode. For the multi-player mode, there are several modes available (like other games: death-match, secure and protect nodes, and modes similar to capture the flag). However, I've only tried deathmatch because there were no one playing in the other modes lol! In death-match, you get to choose between 4 classes: scouts, scientists, leaders, and soldiers. The classes determines your armor, weapons, abilities, vehicle modes. As you play and gain scores (from killing other bots), you gain experience which are totaled and added at the end of each round. The exp. are used to level up your class (depending on which class you used in the game). Leveling unlocks items such as weapons, abilities, and other robot suits.
The controls are really good, one gripe I had is that it seems like the buttons are not reconfigurable, although the default settings were nicely placed and I got used to them in a jiffy (even though I haven't played these types of shooting games for ~6 or so years). There are plenty of people to compete with even only after a few hours from the release time. Another unusual feature of this game is when you join a game, you are randomly placed into one. There is no list where you see all the games available and you choose to join one. Although I am sure you can join the same games as your friends. I am not sure on the max. limit of players per map though, the most I played today was I think 6v6 which was plenty of fun already. There is also a co-op mode, but I haven't tried that out yet so no comment on that for now.
This is an awesome game for Transformers fans, but the online mode makes it a great game even for those who are not a big fan. It sort of reminds me of a japanese gundam fighting game on the PS2, but even more cool!
The other haul of the day is my new RC rock buggy, the R1 by Gmade/Junfac. Ordered this from Korea last Thursday and got it this morning (from Korea to Canada)! I've heard of fast shipping from these guys, but I didn't expect it to arrive THIS fast!
This rock crawler/racer/buggy is just so cool looking! I knew I had to have one once I saw it, especially after this vid.
All in all, today was an awesome day! Now back for some more War for Cybertron gaming!
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