Call of Duty Black Ops 3

Call of Duty Black Ops 3 (bestgamesatpc.blogspot.com)

After the launch of Call of duty Advanced Warfare Activision back with very successful Call of Duty Black Ops 3. This is another massive hit among the fans. Upon it’s  release, the game received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success. Game takes place in 2065, 40 years after the events of Black Ops 2, in a world facing upheaval from climate change and new technologies. Here are minimum System requirements for Call of Duty Black Ops 3. It was developed by Treyarch and published by Activision.

Minimum System requirements for Call Of Duty Black ops 3.

CPU	Intel Core i3 530@ 2.93 GHz/ AMD Phenom @ x4 810 @ 2.60 GHz
DirectX	11
RAM	6GB
OS	Win 7 bit 64, Win 8 bit 64, Win 8.1 bit 64
Video Card	GeForce GTX 470 @ 1 GB/ Radeon HD 6970 @ 1GB
Space	60 GB
Sound	DirectX Compatible

As I mentioned above Call of Duty Black Ops 3 is a massive hit among the game fans. It is a military science fiction first person shooter video game like Black ops 2. It is the twelfth entry in the Call of Duty series and the sequel to the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II. It was released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on November 6, 2015. Upon release, the game received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success. Black Ops III sold 'significantly' better than Advanced Warfare and Ghosts making more than $550 million in sales during its first three days of release. Black Ops III later became the top selling game of 2015.Here is the trailer.

Plot (Single Player Campaign)

Game begins with the Player and their partner, Jacob Hendricks, infiltrate a base in Ethiopia to rescue hostages from the tyrannical NRC on October 27, 2065. While the rescue is successful, the Player is critically wounded by a combat robot, necessitating the installation of advanced cybernetic enhancements to save their life. The Player is also given a Direct Neural Interface which allows them to not only control their cybernetics, but also directly communicate with machines. With the DNI, the Player is given a virtual training inside their mind, with the help of Taylor and his squad mates: Sebastian Diaz, Sarah Hall, and Peter Maretti. Hendricks decides to undergo cybernetic enhancements as well.

Five years later, the Player and Hendricks are put under the command of CIA Agent Rachel Kane and tasked with investigating a CIA black site in Singapore that has gone quiet. While investigating, they are attacked by the 54 Immortals, Singapore's largest and most powerful criminal organization. After recovering the black site's stolen data, they realized they are responsible for the attack on the CIA black site. They go to investigate the last location Taylor's team visited which had been destroyed in a mysterious explosion that killed 300,000 people. The Player and Hendricks discover a secret CIA lab hidden under the building, and Diaz, who is wired in to the facility's computer systems.

The Player is forced to kill Diaz to prevent him from leaking secrets to the public. Hendricks connects to Diaz's DNI and got to know that  Taylor is trying to find the survivors of the Singapore explosion.Taylor then publicly releases the locations of every CIA safehouse in the world, forcing the Player and Hendricks to rescue Kane from 54 Immortals' retaliation in the Singapore safe zone. he Immortals' leader, attempts to kill Kane and the Player to avenge her brother, who was killed in an earlier encounter, but is killed by the Player instead. Hendricks begins to suspect that Kane is hiding something from them.

The team then heads to Egypt to find Doctor Yousef Salim, one of the two survivors of the explosion. Salim reveals that he had worked on a secret project involving illegal DNI experiments on humans, and that his job was to comfort the emotionally unstable test subjects, using a calming exercise involving imagining a frozen forest. Taylor and his team then capture Dr. Salim, interrogate him, and then execute him. With the help of the Egyptian army, the Player, Hendricks, and Kane chase after Taylor, killing his remaining team members Hall and Maretti. The Player connects with Hall's DNI and discovers that Taylor and his team were infected by an entity called Corvus, a gestalt intelligence which was inadvertently created during the secret CIA experiments that resulted in the Singapore explosion. Corvus' influence eventually turned Taylor and his team mad, making them obsessed with finding the frozen forest, which Corvus believes is a real place, no matter the cost.

The Player realizes that both they and Hendricks are infected with Corvus as well, and it is only a matter of time before they fall under its control. The Player and Hendricks pursue and confront Taylor in Cairo, where Taylor briefly regains his senses and tears his own DNI out of his head before being killed by Hendricks. However, Hendricks succumbs to the infection and heads for Coalescence Corporation's headquarters in Zurich with the intention of spreading Corvus to every computer in the world. The Player and Kane head to Zurich to stop Hendricks, but Hendricks hijacks the entire city's computer systems and turns its military drones on the local human defense forces.

The Player and Kane manage to breach the Coalescence HQ, where it is revealed that the accident in Singapore was caused by experiments with the deadly Nova 6 gas, which the Zurich facility also has a stockpile of. Corvus uses the DNI to trick the Player into believing the gas is about to be released throughout Zurich, and Kane is killed when Corvus instead vents the gas into the sealed room she is in. The Player continues and kills Hendricks. In order to stop Corvus' infection, the Player tries to kill themselves, but ends up inside a simulated world created within their own DNI. There, the Player is reunited with Taylor, who agrees to help the Player fight Corvus. Taylor explains that the only way for the Player to defeat Corvus for good is to initiate a system purge in their DNI. After fighting their way through Corvus' illusory forces, the Player manages to regain control of their body and purges their DNI. As the Player stumbles out of the building, security forces arrive and ask the Player to identify themselves. The Player then responds that their name is "Taylor".

The briefing of each mission, written in the form of Taylor's journal, reveals that the Player was actually dead shortly after their surgery, indicating that every event that happens afterwards is a figment of the Player's dying dream, based on Taylor's previous real experience as he and Hendricks went on a hunt for a rogue agent, Dylan Stone, as well as his team, all of whom were replaced with Taylor, Diaz, Hall and Maretti in the Player's dream. The summary was that the dream was created the same way the frozen forest was created, for the sake of allowing the player to die peacefully.

Cod Black ops 2 Ending.

Plot credited; Wikipedia

Gameplay

The single player campaign takes place in 2065 , 40 years after the events of Black Ops II. Military technology has progressed to the point where robotics play a major role in combat, and both fully robotic humanoid drones and cyborg supersoldiers have been developed to fight in the battlefield. The campaign stars Christopher Meloni as Commander John Taylor, Katee Sackhoff as Sarah Hall, Sean Douglas as Jacob Hendricks, Rachel Kimsey as Rachel Kane, and Tony Amendola as Dr. Yousef Salim. Ben Browder and Abby Brammell respectively voice the male and female versions of the Player character.

Cod Nightmare Mode

 Included in the game is the "Nightmares" campaign mode, which is a retelling of the main campaign with the plot changed to incorporate zombies and other supernatural beings.In this campaign, the lethal Virus 61-15 is released in various cities around the world, turning whoever it infects into zombies. In response, the governments of the world seal off the worst infected areas into Quarantine Zones and form the Deadkillers, cybernetic soldiers trained to exterminate zombies.

There are two confirmed Zombies storylines in Call of Duty: Black Ops III at the time of its reveal. The first story, "Shadows of Evil", focuses on a new group of characters, in the fictional Morg City. There are four characters and they are guided by a mysterious, unreliable figure called the Shadowman. "Shadows of Evil" acts as a prologue that leads into the core storyline, starting with "The Giant", which focuses on the alternate versions of the original characters, and they are try to attempt to rewrite the original timeline's history. Zombies features a new XP progression system, which allows players to unlock items in a similar fashion to multiplayer and campaign.

Zombi Mode

The campaign in Black Ops III is designed to support 4-player cooperative gameplay, allowing for bigger, more open level design and less corridor shooting. Also player can customize their character's gender and appearance. The game features a "realistic" difficulty mode, in which players will get defeated if they are hit by one bullet. The multiplayer introduces a new momentum-based movement system, which utilizes thruster packs to allow players to perform slow boosts into the air, as well as perform wall running and sliding, all the while giving players complete gun control. Players can pick from 9 different soldiers, each with either a special weapon or ability unique to them.

Development

he game was the second to benefit under publisher Activision's three-year development cycle. The cycle allows each of the development teams of the Call of Duty series  to develop games in a three-year timespan. Jack Wall, who previously composed the score for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, returned along with Brian Tuey providing some tracks. On April 26, 2015, the first reveal trailer for the game was released and revealed the return of the Zombies mode and beta access for people that pre-order the game.

Sales And Critical Response

Call of Duty Black Ops IIIreceived positive reviews and becomes commercial success. It was 'significantly' better than Advanced Warfare and Ghosts making more than $550 million in sales during its first three days of release. In the United Kingdom, Black Ops III beat Halo 5: Guardians to become the top selling game. In November, Black Ops III was the top best selling game according to NPD's figures. Black Ops III later became the top selling game of 2015. It received 81/100 from Metacritic, 8.5/10 fom game informers,7/10 from Gamespot and 9.5/10 from E.G.M.. IGN awarded it a score of 9.2 out of 10, saying "With fun 4-player co-op, new powers, and a fleshed out Zombies mode, Black Ops 3 is the biggest Call of Duty game yet.

Source:- Wikipedia “Call of Duty: Black Ops III”

Some Interesting Facts About Highest Rated Game Ever, Half Life 2

Some Interesting Facts About Highest Rated Game Ever, Half Life 2(bestgamesatpc.blogspot.com)

In year 1998 one of the best , and highly acclaimed game Half life was released.. After 7 years of anticipation, Half life 2 released in 16th November 2004 to a masssive mindblowing reception from fans as well as critics. Half life 2 consider as the greatest game of all time, even after 11 years feom the day it was release. The game was developed by Valve Corporation , it was released on November 16, 2004, following a five-year $40 million development, during which a substantial part of the project was leaked and distributed on the Internet. It introduced the Source game engine and, because of Steam, was the first single-player video game to require online product activation .

Like its predecessor, Half-Life 2 received critical acclaim. It was praised for its advanced physics, animation , sound, AI, graphics , and narrative . The game won 39 " Game of the Year " awards and the title of "Game Of The Decade" at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards . As of February 9, 2011,Half-Life 2 had sold over 12 million copies.Half-Life 2 is considered one of the greatest video games of all time .But surelyit is the greatest game of all time. I am sure you find out some interesting facts about Half life 2. Here are some other interesting facts about Half Life 2.

• The the story proceeds via exposition from other characters and in-world events, and ensures that the player controls Gordon for the entirety of the game. 
• When the music track Radio is played in reverse it's possible to faintly hear a woman saying either "Gordon, can you hear me? Gordon, can you hear me?" or "G-man, can you hear me? G-man, can you hear me?". Also Part of the soundtrack, Hazardous Environments , is also used in the Valve intro.
• During development, it was intended for a friendly alien creature to follow Gordon Freeman around, feasting on dead enemy bodies. It was taken out when the developers realized that the AI would be too difficult to program.
• The G-man can be seen in the distance at various points in the story, appearing to be watching over the player. The locations in which he appears are almost all unreachable, and he walks out of view as the player approaches.
• When you first meet Barney, he says, "Now, about that beer I owe you". This is a reference to the original Half-Life. Before the disaster, each of the characters had a set of "I'm busy" lines to brush you off if you tried to talk to them. One of Barney's was "Hey, catch me later and I'll buy you a beer."
• 12 weapons were removed from the game over the course of it's development. These include the MP5 and OICW, which can be seen in beta footage.And game took place in the same City whre Half Life take place. 
• It was speculated that the reason for the game being delayed from September 2003 to November 2004 was because the source code and a large portion of the completed game was stolen. This is not true. The delay was actually because the game would not be finished in September 2003, and the leak was just a bad coincidence.
• The Combine beat Earth's military power and conquered the planet in just seven hours. This conflict was dubbed the "Seven Hour War".
• If you reverse the wails from the head crab victims, you'll hear them screaming "help me," indicating that they are still aware of their surroundings and the extreme pain that they're in.
• The faces of the characters in Half Life 2 are actually based on real life people. Eli's face is based on a beggar Valve found on the street.
• Dr. Kleiner's pet head-crab is most often referred to as "Lamarr". However when they are looking for the run-away pet, Dr. Kleiner says "There's only one Hedy". This references Hedy Lamarr, the actress who was also a communications innovator. She held at least one technical patent and is credited to be the first inventor of so called "spread spectrum", an important technique used in communication and other areas. As such she becomes a natural icon for a communications scientist such as Dr. Kleiner.
• There's an unused sound file in the game's data called "Monk_Death07". The name suggests that the developers planned to kill off Father Gregory during the ravenholm level, but the idea was later scrapped.
• A black hat hacker Gembe was arrested for leaking The game as well as other computer crimes in November 2006, such as the creation of Agobot , a highly successful trojan which harvested users' data.
• The game became fifth title to receive Edge’s magazine’s 10 out of 10 score.
• Maximum Pc awarded half life an exaggerate, unprecedented 11 of their ratings scale wich normaly peak at 10 stating that “ the best game ever made”.
• Guinness world records awarded half life 2 to the world record for “highest rated game of all time” 2008 gamers edition.
• Also it won so many awards and especially it won “ the game of the decade “ award from IGN Aand Spike game award.

Source:- wikipedia.org, vgfacts.com, IMDb.com

"Battlefield 5 World Premiere" is in 6th of May 2016

"Battlefield 5 World Premiere" is in 6th of May 2016 (bestgamesatpc.blogspot.com)

Battlefield sereis is another great FPS franchise. They alwas release some innovative Battlefield game and now it is the time to release Battlefield 5. And it is confirmed that Battlefield 5 world premiere is schedule for 6th May in 2016. Past days so many possible surprising leaks of Call Of Duty slipped through the cracks, a thing that usually happend with Call Of Duty Franchise. But unfortunately EA Games have less chance for leaking than Activision games. So till we don’t know much about Battlefield 5. We only have the existence of the world premiere event is just about all the information we have regarding the next entry in the Battlefield series. It's really very little and nothing you couldn't safely assume based solely on the previous games in the series.

What can EA do to Battlefield 5 after the release of one of the best game Battlefield 4 wich carry the storyline in 2142? Some fans think the phrase “the future of Battlefield” might be a hint as to the setting of the sequel. Some think it will be about 1 or 2 nd world war. Accourding to the rumors that the next Battlefield will return to World War I or World War II and it can be military style” shooter. If it about World War it will be great. Because most of pc gamer fed up with future wars and with future  story lines which commonly using. And EA is trying to figure out which one will work better?  One thing is sure thatunless there’s a major leak between now and next Friday, we’re going to have to wait and see.

As for the premiere event itself, fans can expect to hear from creative director Lars Gustavsson and lead producer Aleksander Grondal about the new entry and the franchise as a whole. If you want to watch the worldwide premiere, you can do as at 1 p.m. Pacific / 4 p.m. Eastern right on Battlefield’s homepage. Also about a month ago, a few leaked images made the rounds on the internet that described Battlefield 5 as being titled, “Eastern Front” along with a June 12 reveal date during EA Play and a December 6, 2016 release date. But hay, again rumors are just rumors and we have to wate till 6th May.

While EA and DICE didn’t follow the leaked document’s initial reveal date which was scheduled during EA Play, it’s nice that we’ll be getting some sort of confirmation or denial from the developer and publisher. With Call Of Duty moving into the sci-fi realm, it’ll be refreshing and reassuring to see an innovative  game which fans are asking for. Again, You can tune in to Battlefield ’s official website next Friday on May 6 at 1 p.m. Pacific / 4 p.m. Eastern to take part and experience the major reveal for yourself.

2016 Newst Call Of Duty Will Be Innovative

2016 Newest Call Of Duty Will Be Innovative (newmovietop.blogspot.com)

Activision never forget about their big and blockbuster level FPS series, Call of Duty. Every one around the world know how great is Call of Duty series. And Activision confirmed that a full sequel to Destiny would be on its way from developer Bungie in 2017. But they will never ever forget their best series Call of Duty. According to rumors we will hear about newst Call of Duty very soon (it is said that 3rd may 2016). As a pc user, or a gamer all of you will probably google about the newest Call of Duty yet to release in 2016. IGN points out that Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 was revealed around this same time last year, and it is the time to reveal newest Call Of Duty entry.

Activision usually makes it a habit to reveal each new Call of Duty title just slightly ahead of E3 in order to build up hype. As for this newest title. it's being rumored that the game will be called Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and will take place in space. That's what's been floating around out there. Or it can be Call Of Duty Space warfare. But rumors are rumors and the name of the next Call Of Duty is not confirmed yet. However It's Infinity Ward's time to shine and a surely they will make something new and innovative. It's one of gaming's biggest series, and there's been a new entry every single year since 2005. Activision even split development across three studios Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer Games several years ago, with an alternating release from each every three years. Also noted that infinite wards is  responsible for Call Of Duty Modern Warfare trilogy, one of the greatest trilogy  in the series, and Call Of Duty Ghost. watch these videos. 

Previously, Activision had inked their deals with Microsoft and would display the new games on the Xbox 360. When Sony's PS4 took charge of the market share and has become the most popular console this generation. In result, Activision now gives exclusive dibs to Sony and the PS4 when it comes to Call of Duty content.Ghosts was the last game released before Activision spread development of Call of Duty games across three different studios , and claimed that each would have about three years to put together something befitting the series (especially after the tepid reception to Ghosts). The first 'three year' game, then, was Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare from Sledgehammer Studios in 2014, followed the next year by Treyarch's Black Ops 3. Activision says Black Ops 3 is the best-selling video game on current consoles, period, so that went well. The last game in the Call of Duty series to contain space was Call of Duty: Ghosts from back in 2013. According to IGN, this upcoming entry in the long-running Call of Duty is said to be a full sci-fi adventure.

With over $15 billion earned from the series (including DLC) and 250 million copies sold so far, this cycle isn't likely to break and it will rocks once again after releasing Call of Duty newest entry. Still there hasn't even been any rumors or leaks on what Infinity Ward's entry, so we will have to wate some time. However, the small hint we have is , the developer tweeted back in January a comment about "reaching new heights," accompanied by an image of an astronaut in space. So it will surely connect with a scene in space and it can be fully beyond earths gravity which is barely possible. Black Ops 3 easily had one of the most intriguing stories in a video game to date and new entry will sometimes will outsmart it. Still rumors are rumors. And Activision is much like to build some hype before there next Call of Duty entry.

Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2 (bestgamesatpc.blogspot.com)

If you are a normal pc gamer you should probably know about the Half  life 2. Most of Critics and fans consider Half Life 2 as the greatest pc game ever made.The game won 39 "Game of the Year" awards  and the title of "Game Of The Decade" at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards. . Critics who applauded the game cited the advanced graphics and physics. If you still did’nt play Half life 2 play it, you will never regret for playing this. These are the minimum and recommended system  requirements for play half lif 2.

 Half-Life 2 Minimum Requirements

CPU	Pentium 4
CPU Speed	1.7 GHz
RAM	512 MB
Os	Windows 98/ME/2000/XP (95 & NT not supported)
Video Card	DirectX 8.1 level Graphics Card
Free Disk Space	4.5 GB
DirectX version	7.0

Half-Life 2 Recommended Requirements

CPU	Pentium 4 or Athlon XP
CPU Speed	3.0 GHz
RAM	1 GB
Os	Windows 2000/Xp
Video Card	DirectX 9 level Graphics Card
Free Disk Space	4.5 GB
DirectX version	9.0

Well done mate.!!!  I am sure You can run it. Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter video game Developed by Valve Corporation for Windows, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, OS X, Linux, Shield Portable platforms. It was released on November 16, 2004, following a protracted five-year  $40 million development and considered as one of the best game ever made. The game was developed alongside Valve's Steam software. It introduced the Source game engine and, because of Steam, was the first single-player video game to require online product activation. 

Like its predecessor, Half-Life 2 received critical acclaim. It was praised for its advanced physics, animation, sound, AI, graphics, and narrative. The game won 39 "Game of the Year" awards  and the title of "Game Of The Decade" at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards. As of February 9, 2011, Half-Life 2 had sold over 12 million copies and game became the fifth title to receive Edge magazine's ten-out-of-ten score. Guinness World Records awarded Half-Life 2 the world record for "Highest Rated Shooter by PC Gamer Magazine" in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008.Half Life 2 developed and published by Valve Corporation, Distributed by Sierra, composed by Kelly Bailey.Here is Half life 2 game trailer.

Plot

Gordon Freeman is brought out of stasis by the G-Man, who inserts him into a train arriving at City 17. After arriving at the station and eluding Combine forces, Gordon joins Lambda resistance members including Barney Calhoun, a former Black Mesa security guard now working undercover as a Combine CP officer, and Alyx Vance, the daughter of one of Gordon's former colleagues, Dr. Eli Vance. After a failed attempt to teleport to Eli's resistance base known as Black Mesa East from Dr. Kleiner's makeshift laboratory in City 17, Gordon, re-equipped with the HEV suit and a crowbar, is forced to progress on foot through the city's old canal system. After obtaining an airboat, he battles his way to Black Mesa East, several miles from the city.

Gordon is reintroduced to Eli and meets another resistance scientist, Dr. Judith Mossman. Alyx introduces Gordon to her pet robot D0g and gives him a "gravity gun", an instrument which allows Gordon to easily pick up and move large objects. Black Mesa East comes under Combine attack, and Eli and Mossman are taken to a Combine prison, Nova Prospekt. Separated from Alyx, Gordon takes a detour through the zombie-infested town of Ravenholm with help from its last survivor, Father Grigori. After making his way through the town and a mine, Gordon arrives at a Resistance outpost. He uses a customized dune buggy to travel a crumbling coastal road to Nova Prospekt, encountering Combine patrols and assisting the Resistance in fending off raids.Gordon lays siege to Nova Prospekt by using alien "pheropods" to command the hordes of antlions that infest the coast. He reunites with Alyx in the prison and they locate Eli, but discover that Mossman is a Combine informant. Before they can stop her, she teleports herself and Eli back to City 17's Citadel. The Combine teleporter explodes as Gordon and Alyx use it to escape Nova Prospekt.

Reaching Kleiner's lab, Gordon and Alyx learn that they were caught in a "slow teleport", during which a week has passed. In their absence, the Resistance has mobilized against the Combine, turning City 17 into a battleground.[30] During the fighting, Alyx is captured by the Combine and taken to the Citadel, as Gordon fights through the city with the aid of D0g and Barney to reach it. Inside the Citadel, he is caught in a Combine "confiscation chamber" that destroys all of his weapons except for the gravity gun, the energy enhancing its capabilities and turning it into a superior weapon.Eventually, Gordon is captured riding in a Combine transport pod and is taken to Dr. Breen's office, where he and Dr. Mossman are waiting with Eli and Alyx in captivity.

 Dr. Breen begins to explain his plans for further conquest of the humans by the Combine, contrary to what he had told Dr. Mossman.[32] Angered, Mossman frees Gordon, Alyx, and Eli before Breen can teleport them off-world. Dr. Breen tries to escape through a portal, but Gordon pursues him and destroys the portal reactor with the super-charged Gravity Gun. Breen appears to be annihilated in the resulting explosion. Just before Gordon and Alyx can meet a similar fate, time is frozen. The G-Man reappears, praising Gordon for his actions in City 17 and the Citadel. Making vague mention of "offers for [Gordon's] services", the G-Man places him back into stasis.Here is the ending of Half life 2.

Gameplay

Half-Life 2 is a single player first person shooter broken into several chapters, permanently casting the player as the protagonist Gordon Freeman. The player also starts without items, slowly building up an arsenal over the course of the game. A diverse set of enemies is present, which usually require being approached with different tactics. Gordon can kill most enemies with his weapons, or make use of indirect means, exploiting environmental hazards such as explosive pressurized canisters, gas fires or improvised traps. At one point in the game, Gordon can be joined by up to four armed Resistance soldiers however, they can still die easily due to lack of damage protection.

Many of the game's new features utilize its detailed physics simulation. Two sections of the game involve driving vehicles. Instead of button-based puzzles from Half-Life, environmental puzzles are also introduced with makeshift mechanical systems, revolving around the player's new ability to pick up, move, and place objects. Solutions involve objects' physical properties, such as shape, weight, and buoyancy. Part-way through the game, Gordon acquires the Gravity Gun, which allows him to draw distant objects towards himself or forcefully push them away, as well as to manipulate larger and heavier objects than he is able to alone. These abilities are required to solve puzzles later in the game, and can also be used to great effect in combat, as any non-static object within proximity to the player has the potential to be used as a makeshift defense by throwing a gasoline can or a buzzsaw blade etc.

Half-Life 2 presents a dystopian alternate history of Earth, where the resources of the planet, including the human race itself, are being harvested by an oppressive multidimensional empire, known as the Combine. The game is set around the fictitious City 17, roughly 20 years after the events of its predecessor Half-Life. During Half-Life, the scientists, including Gordon Freeman, at the Black Mesa Research Facility, an experiment on an alien crystal sample went wrong and Alien creatures flooded into the facility. Gordon fought his way through them and  he Lambda scientists helped Gordon teleport to Xen, where Gordon destroyed a large alien entity keeping the rift open. Gordon was then suddenly extracted by the mysterious G-Man, and Impressed with his ability to survive against all odds, the G-Man offered him a job before placing him into stasis, which Gordon had no option but to accept. After a seven hour war humanity surrendered and city 17 became the home of the gigantic Combine Citadel. Meanwhile, an underground "Lambda Resistance" of humans and Vortigaunts, now working together, was formed. This saw Freeman as a saviour who would lead them to freedom.

Development

For Half-Life 2, Valve Corporation developed a new game engine called Source, which handles the game's visual, audio, and artificial intelligence elements. Integral to Half-Life 2 on the Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms and( it also updated to bit 64) is the Steam content delivery system developed by Valve Corporation. All Half-Life 2 players on PC are required to have Steam installed and a valid account in order to play. The book Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, revealed many of the game's original settings and action that were cut down or removed from the game. Half-Life 2 was originally intended to be a darker game with grittier artwork, where the Combine were more obviously draining the oceans for minerals and replacing the atmosphere with noxious, murky gases. In June 2004, Valve Software announced in a press release that the FBI had arrested several people suspected of involvement in the source code leak. Valve claimed the game had been leaked by a German black-hat hacker named Axel "Ago" Gembe.

Sales And Critical Response

Over 6.5 million copies of Half-Life 2 were sold at retail by December 3, 2008. As of February 9, 2011, Half-Life 2 had sold over 12 million copies. Half-Life 2 was highly acclaimed by both the public and critics alike, and has since been called one of the greatest games of all time. It received an aggregated score of 96% on both GameRankings and Metacritic. GameSpy, VideoGamer.com given perfect reviewing scores and IGN, GamesRadar, and Eurogamer gave near-perfect scores, while the game became the fifth title to receive Edge magazine's ten-out-of-ten score. Critics who applauded the game cited the advanced graphics and physics. Maximum PC awarded Half-Life 2 an exaggerated, unprecedented 11 on their rating scale which normally peaks at 10, calling it "the best game ever made". It received 10/10 from Edge and Eurogamer ,VideoGamer.com ,9.5/10 from Game informers, 8.5/10 from Game trailers, 9.7/10 IGN, 11/10 Maximum PC (you read it right) ,9.2/10 from gamespot.

Awards

Half-Life 2 earned 39 Game of the Year awards, including Overall Game of the Year at IGN, GameSpot's Award for Best Shooter, GameSpot's Reader's Choice — PC Game of the Year Award, Game of the Year from The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, and "Best Game" with the Game Developers Choice Awards, where it was also given various awards for technology, characters, and writing. Edge magazine awarded Half Life 2 with its top honor of the year with the award for Best Game, as well as awards for Innovation and Visual Design. The game also had a strong showing at the 2004 British Academy Video Games Awards, picking up six awards, more than any other game that night, with awards including "Best Game" and "Best Online and Multiplayer. Guinness World Records awarded Half-Life 2 the world record for "Highest Rated Shooter by PC Gamer Magazine" in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008. In 2009, Game Informer put Half-Life 2 5th on their list of "The Top 200 Games of All Time. Half-Life 2 was selected by readers of The Guardian as the best game of the decade, with praise given especially to the environment design throughout the game. Half-Life 2 won Crispy Gamer's Game of the Decade tournament style poll. It also won Reviews on the Run's IGN's Best Game of the Decade and Spike Video Game Awards 2012 Game of the Decade.

Reference

1.Wikipedia “Half-Life 2”

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare (bestgamesatpc.blogspot.com)

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare is a another bestselling games in U.S. and it is still the highest selling game at US retail for 2014. Call of Duty Advanced Warfare received positive reviews from critics upon release. The game won the award for "Best Graphics - Technology", in IGN's Best of 2014 awards. These are the  system requirement for play Call of Duty Advanced Warfare.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Minimum Requirements

CPU	Intel Core i3-530 @ 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 810 @ 2.60 GHz
CPU Speed
OS	6 GB
Ram	Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit / Windows 8.1 64-Bit
Video Card	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 (1 GB) or AMD Radeon HD 5870 (1 GB)
Free Disk Space	55 GB

 

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Recommended Requirements

CPU	Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz
CPU Speed
OS	8 GB
Ram	Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit / Windows 8.1 64-Bit
Video Card	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (4 GB)
Free Disk Space	55 GB

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare is a military science fiction first-person shooter video game published by Activision and developed by Sledgehammer Games (For Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One), High Moon Studios (for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360),and Raven Software developed the game's multiplayer and the Exo-Zombies mode. The game was released on November 4, 2014 the game was not released on the Wii U, making it the first title in the series since Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 to not be released on either the Wii or Wii U. The game became the first entry in the Call of Dutyseries since Call of Duty 2 to feature a game engine that has had its majority re-written and built from scratch. For the game's single-player campaign mode, Sledgehammer employed veteran actors Troy Baker and Kevin Spacey in lead roles. The game is set between 2054 and 2061 follows Jack Mitchell of the United States Marine Corps and his interactions with Atlas, a private military corporation that sells its services to the highest bidder.

Advanced Warfare was released to a positive critical reception than it predecessor COD Ghost. Many critics praised the visuals, which were called "excellent" by some, the single-player campaign, which some critics saw as the best in the Call of Duty series, the fast, dynamic, and exciting gameplay, and the content-rich multiplayer. The game won several awards and was considered a commercial success.It was directed by Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, written by John MacInnes, Eric Hirshberg and Mark Boal.It composed by Harry Williams which including multi player mode and single player mode.This is the official Cod Advanced Warfare Trailer.

Plot (Single player)

In 2054, Private Jack Mitchell of the United States Marine Corps, along with Private Will Irons and group leader Sergeant Cormack participates in a battle against North Koreans in Seoul. During the battle Will is killed in action and Mitchell's left arm is severed, forcing him to be discharged from military service. After attending to Will's funeral Mitchell is offered a position with the Atlas Corporation, the world's most powerful private military contractor, by CEO Jonathan Irons Will's father. Mitchell is also given an advanced prosthetic arm to replace his lost one. A terrorist group known as the KVA led by man named Joseph "Hades" Chkheidze begins staging numerous terrorist attacks, with the world turning to Atlas to stop them.

Mitchell and other Atlas soldiers rescue the Nigerian prime minister and later capture a KVA technologist in Lagos, Nigeria during a technology summit. However, by 2055 Mitchell and his team fail to prevent the KVA from forcing a nuclear reactor meltdown on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He KVA launch simultaneous attacks against nuclear power plants worldwide, irradiating numerous cities, killing thousands of people and putting national governments and militaries in turmoil. Atlas emerges as the dominant military force in the world by aiding civilians affected by the attacks and holding back the KVA's rampage.

In 2060, Mitchell(now a Sentinel) and team  discovers that Dr. Danois is collaborating with Irons on "Manticore", a bio-weapon in Bankok. They set up a tracker on a plane and due to the Sentinel it crashes in Antarctica. Gideon appears and helps the Sentinels defeat the Atlas soldiers. The team successfully retrieve a sample and they iscover that Manticore is a bio-weapon designed to attack the DNA of individuals and kills them except for any members of the Atlas, meaning Irons can use the weapon without risking harm to his own troops or people having their DNA record in Atlas database. The Sentinels, now joined by Gideon, infiltrate and destroy an Atlas bio-weapons laboratory in Bulgaria, eliminating many of the Manticore samples.

With his plot revealed, Irons releases his ultimatum to remove all politicians, at the United Nations General Assembly and declares war on the world. The Sentinels discover that Irons is planning a preemptive strike on the United States and try to stop an Atlas attack on the country in San Francisco, California. Atlas destroys the Golden Gate Bridge, trapping the U.S. 3rd fleet in the Bay Area, and attempt to destroy the fleet in a single strike. The Sentinels use a railgun aboard an aircraft carrier to destroy the attacking Atlas ships. With the ultimatum and the attack on U.S. soil, the United States, along with the rest of the world, declares war against Atlas and Irons retreats to his headquarters in New Baghdad.Seven months later, the Sentinels and the United States Army attack New Baghdad to bring Irons to justice. However, Atlas releases Manticore, killing Knox and most of the attacking troops.

 Mitchell, Ilona, and Gideon, whose DNA are recognized by Manticore as they are former Atlas soldiers, are spared, as well as Cormack, who was outside the blast radius. They are captured and brought to an Atlas prison camp, which also runs Manticore experiments on its inmates

. The Sentinels escape, but Irons kills Cormack and severely damages Mitchell's prosthetic arm. As they escape the facility, they discover that Irons already has enough Manticore to attack every military base in the world and will be launching an ICBM loaded with the bio-weapon shortly. Mitchell and Gideon launch a lone assault on the Atlas HQ while using heavily armored battlesuits and manage to destroy the ICBM. hey find Irons as the other Sentinels prepare to bombard the building Irons disables their exoskeletons, forcing Mitchell to release the exoskeleton to chase Irons. Mitchell tackles Irons at the edge of the building, but Irons hangs on to Mitchell's prosthetic arm. Mitchell severs his prosthetic, sending Irons falling to his death. As Gideon arrives to carry him out of the building, Mitchell notes that Irons' death was only the beginning and the war against Atlas is far from over.Here is the Ending Of Cod Advanced Warfare.

Gameplay

Advanced Warfare, like the other Call of Duty titles, is presented in a first-person shooter perspective.Advanced Warfare does not use a traditional heads-up display instead, all information is relayed to the player via holographic projections from the weapon equipped. Exo movements (new feature) are performed from the Exoskeleton, which can boost, dash, and sky jump. The game is the first in the Call of Duty series that allows the player to choose differing types of conventional weaponry, and the game features different Exo abilities, such as Exo Cloak, which allows players to turn transparent for stealth for a period of time. The single-player campaign features one sole playable character, Jack Mitchell. After each mission, the player is given a certain amount of upgrade points that can be used to upgrade the Exo suit or weapons. otally, 22 points are needed to upgrade all of the Exo upgrade system.

Apart from the Exo movement, Advanced Warfare‍ '​s multiplayer retains certain similarities to previous Call of Duty titles. he Pick 10 system in Black Ops II returns as Pick 13, allowing players to pick weapons, attachments, perks and score-streaks within a total of 13 allocation points. Advanced Warfareintroduces weapon variants and this allows the game to contain over 350 weapons, both variants and base versions.

Exo Survival was first introduced as Advanced Warfare‍ '​s cooperative game mode, New version of Survival Mode from MW3. Exo Survival allows up to four players to engage in a wave-based match against A.I-controlled enemies. After a certain number of rounds, players are given objectives to perform, such as defending a location, or collecting intel from fallen enemies. Exo Survival is played on the game's multiplayer maps, with a total of 13 maps divived into four tiers. Each tier can be unlocked by playing the previous tier and survive a specific number of rounds.

The game features zombies that utilize exo suits, giving them more maneuverability. The game mode stars five brand new characters. Up to four players have to survive against endless waves of undead enemies, with an optional story quest, or easter egg, that can be done at any time during a match. Players can also acquire exo suits in the game mode, allowing them to utilize new movements. A new hardcore mode called "Double Feature" was also introduced, which can only be unlocked by finishing the story quest of the final map "Descent". In Double Feature, nearly all HUD elements are removed ombies have more health and only give points to players upon death, players only get one life per round, and the game is played with a black-and-white filter to mimic horror movies.

Development

A new game in the Call of Dutyseries was announced to be released in November 2014. Director Michael Condrey said that the majority of the engine has been built from scratch. According to Don Veca, who worked on Advanced Warfare, the audio in the game is very advanced which gives the game a genuine and great feel. Another objective that Sledgehammer accomplished with Advanced Warfare were the animations. The facial animating system and set is the same as James Cameron's upcoming Avatar 2, a first for Call of Duty.  According to Activision Advanced Warfare developer Sledgehammer Games was able to create a 'near photorealistic' world unlike any Call of Duty before.

Sales And Critical Response

The game considered a commercial success, Despite the decline, Advanced Warfare was still the top selling game at US retail for 2014. The game won the award for "Best Graphics - Technology", in IGN's Best of 2014 awards. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare received positive reviews from critics upon release. Josh Harmon from Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game a 9/10. Brian Albert from IGN gave the game a 9.1/10. He praised the iteration of the game set in the mid 21st century, calling it the biggest and most successful departure from what's expected in the Call of Duty series since the Modern Warfare trilogy brought the series into the 21st century. .It received 81/100 from Metacritic, 9.1/10 from IGN, 9/10 fom game informers,8/10 from Gamespot and 8.7/10 from Game trailers.

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