Martes, Setyembre 3, 2013

Beautiful GRAND THEFT AUTO 4


With the last Grand Theft Auto IV episode, Rock star takes you back to Liberty City and shows a different area of life happening within the so called, “Worst Place in America.”Instead of the normal GTA with street crime and focused on criminal life, The Ballad of Gay Tony shows the high glamour, high style life of the Liberty City club scene, which is filled with celebrities, multicolored dance floors, and underground rooms filled with beautiful people. It is a welcomed departure from the grit of previous GTA games.

You play as Luis Lopez, a former street thug and now personal assistant of Anthony Prince, also known as Gay Tony. Tony is the owner of several high profile clubs and with a lot of fame comes many more problems. Tony takes out a loan from the mafia who wants their money back, rival clubs are looking to move in, and there is internet gossip rags that need dealt with. Lucky for Tony he has Luis to help with these troubles.

By now you know what to expect. You will drive around the living city and complete missions. Most of the missions consist of you going somewhere and killing someone, or destroying something or stealing something. You will use the cover system for firefights, and thugs for driving. Everything controls perfectly, making for a streamlined feeling. As for new things to the game play, the game now has a heavy focus on helicopters.

An early mission has you stealing an attack helicopter from a yacht, and then using it to sink the yacht and cover your tracks. The missions will start off being frustrating as you struggle to learn the helicopter controls, but once you get them, they will become the most fun missions. And seeing as you work for a club, you can do things involved with night clubs. You canplay drinking games at the bar, do work as a bouncer, and even impress some ladies on the dance floor. These are all mini-games and are welcome distractions.




But you canals now go base-jumping, hit some balls at the driving range, street race, and even enter underground fighting tournaments. There is plenty to do and see in Liberty City. With the interesting storyline and great new mini-games and activities, The Ballad of Gay Tony is a great conclusion to the GTA IV era. Taking you away from dirty street crime tithe more glamorous life of crime. It may be the best reason to return to “The worst place in America,” one last time.



Miyerkules, Agosto 14, 2013

Games Today Leads to Interactive Learning

Exposing your kid to play educational video games can have more advantages than you ever pictured. As we all know, kids spend their early years establishing social, psychological and intellectual abilities and this process does not end when they age, it just continue to develop until one’s death. In order to raise a kid with excellent abilities you might find video games with educational value to be introduced helpful as agreed by so many specialists in the field. According to them, these video games can serve as catalyst to learning with its colorful and interesting gameplay. 

In the context of early youth development, video games has been traditionally known as something that hinders it, but latest research findings,  it has been proven that this claim can be somehow misguided especially with the fact that not all games are geared for violence but there are those that hasten learning. Even schools have this kind of games given to their students to help lessons to be retained and absorbed a lot better. For as long this positive claims exist, parents will have no reason to stop their child from getting video games.



Extremely typically, today's parents neither have the time, nor the collection of video games and tasks to engage their young early in life to establish these skills. Fortunately, this can be re-captured through works of game developers committing themselves for child’s development via the concepts and gameplay present in the games they make.

These critical locations of development can be effectively instructed and imparted within a relaxed yet intentional educational video game exposure. The child or kid's curiosity is ignited when confronted with different types of games requiring them to exercise their minds.

The act of playing video games, and learning the educational aspects of it are ideal examples of building self-discipline. Learning to make decisions in these games not only develop confidence and foster cooperation but help the child associate with various other adults and kids in the circle.

For hundreds if not hundreds of years, video games (psnd code generator) are believed to be hindrance to learning thus it is practiced by parents from all different races, religious beliefs, cultures and social backgrounds to not to exposed their children to these kind of things except from the facet of school and home learning. I think it is now the right time to change these beliefs and replace with concrete ideas towards learning.