Barrow Hill

I will now be rating the game Barrow Hill. This game is a British horror game that was created by the same person who created the Dark Fall series. It is a first person perspective game just like all of the other games that Jonathan Boakes has made. This game has very creepy music which I feel heightens the suspense perfectly. This game is about an evil spirit or demon that is awoken when an archeological dig disturbs his resting place on Barrow Hill. It is then the job of the main character (whose name is never mentioned) to find the several items that the spirit wants as a sacrifice. He must then seal this spirit back into the tomb where it belongs before it claims the lives of him and everyone else in the country. Also when he is collecting the sacrifices he is at the same time being hunted be the spirits guardian (giant standing stone with the power to turn anyone it touches to a pile of burning flesh). I have heard that there will be a sequel to this game sometime in the future. I don’t know when exactly. But I hope that I won’t be waiting for too long to play it.

Nancy Drew Series

The next game on m list to be graded is the Nancy Drew series. I feel that this series receives one of my highest grades available. In this series there are over nineteen different games. Each game has its own interesting mystery that has to be solved. This game series is a first person perspective series with graphics that have been improving with every game released from the series. All of the mysteries can be classified under several different categories. There are murder mysteries, vandalism, kidnapping, robberies, and many other different kinds of mysteries to solve. For just about every game I liked the music that was played for it. My favorite part of these games would defiantly have to be the puzzles that have to be solved in order for the story to progress. Another interesting thing about the series is that in just about every single game in the series there are multiple hidden Easter eggs that can be found by the player. Sometimes they are physical eggs and sometimes they are hidden scenes that are hidden. So far I own and have completed all of these games except for the last two. I am looking forward to playing them in the near future.

My first Photoshop assignment is now finished. After finishing my first Photoshop assignment and participating in a peer preview, I feel very good about my work. I feel this way because I enjoyed the project, I like how my work looked in the end, and I received a lot of positive comments about my work from my peers. The part that I liked best about it was making the collage. I liked this part because I was able to express myself in a creative and colorful way. I cannot think of anything that I would have wanted to do differently. For me the most challenging part of this project was deciding on what the pictures were going to be about. I feel that the easiest part for me was actually creating the images. The tool that I had used the most was the filter effects. For the collage I used a different filter effect for each individual picture. I can’t think of any Photoshop lessons that were of any real help to me for this project.

NiBiRu

The next game to receive a grade from me is NI-BI-RU. This game is one of the few games that I graded with a slightly lower than usual rating. This game is a third person perspective game which has a great storyline that takes place in some very interesting places. This game is also helped with the suspenseful music that is played in the background. The plot of this game is about government secret conspiracies, murder, and the paranormal. These three things make a very enjoyable story to follow. The only problems that I see in this game have a lot to do with the graphics and audio. When you click the surroundings you would expect the character to walk directly to that location immediately, but instead he walks at a very slow pace to that place on the screen that is only a few feet away from him, but it seems to take him at least half an hour to walk just a few feet away. This is a very annoying part of the game. Another problem that I see is in the voice acting. For the most part the voice acting is fine, but every once and a while it sounds like the voice actors are reading their lines for the first time in their lives and have had no practice in taking as their characters should. This can at times slightly ruin the game for some people. So, for the most part this is a very enjoyable game, the only problems that I can see are all in the graphics and audio of the game.

Safecracker

A game that I think should receive a good grade for puzzle games would be Safecracker. This game has an interesting and slightly believable storyline for it. It is about a man who has gotten a reputation for being able to pick any lock. He is hired by a family to find their wealthy eccentric uncle’s will after he vanishes without a trace. His true passion in his life was collecting and building safes of many different variations. Everyone in the family believes that he had hidden his will in one of his many safes somewhere in his mansion. It is then the job of the safecracker to find the will by figuring out how to open over thirty different safes. This game has a 360 degree rotating screen for a first person perspective that has very good computer graphics. I feel that this game has a very good soundtrack that I think mixes well with the surrounding area and the plot. I feel that the best thing about this game would have to be the puzzles. Each safe that has to be opened can be difficult to open at times, but for the most part the safes can be opened just by using logic or common sense.