tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164381222024-03-19T01:53:10.273+00:00Whopper's Bunker☆☆ YOUR REFUGE FROM REALITY! ☆☆ THE WEBLOG OF MAJOR GENERAL "WHOPPER" CREEDON ☆☆ Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.comBlogger1500125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-25713428784565608982024-03-09T16:41:00.001+00:002024-03-09T16:41:13.241+00:00First Play Review: Yakuza 0 [2015] [PC2018]At the turn of the century and the failure of it's Dreamcast console, SEGA pivoted to become a third party game developer. Game producer Toshihiro Nagoshi pitched a Yakuza game for SEGA to develop for the Sony PlayStation 2. His idea was simple: an action-adventure RPG-lite brawler with mini-games in that the player would live the everyday life of a member of the Yakuza and be an open worldMajor General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-47560341023617570202024-02-21T18:46:00.004+00:002024-02-21T18:54:49.220+00:00First Play Review: Mirror's Edge [2008]I saw Josh Strife Hayes play Mirror's Edge recently and thought I might get it and give it a go. Developed by DICE of Battlefield and Battlefront franchise fame in 2008 for Electronic Arts, Mirror's Edge is a first -person free running adventure game where movement and timing are key to success.The game casts you as Faith Conners a young free runner who lives in an outwardly comfortable and Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-42002132775215161542024-02-04T17:06:00.002+00:002024-02-04T17:06:38.882+00:00First Play Review - Starfield [2023]While I have dabbled in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and did spend an hour in the original Elder Scrolls: Arena I've largely somehow managed to not play a Bethesda Game Studios game to any significant degree. I'm acutely aware that both the Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises are recommended, I have in fact every single, and I mean every single game in those franchises (including the non-BGSMajor General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-46135903308547272452024-01-20T15:39:00.001+00:002024-01-20T15:39:53.175+00:00First Play Review - RoboCop: Rogue City [2023] I've made no secret of the fact that Paul Verhoven's RoboCop is my all time favourite movie. A violent sci-fi drama from 1987 fuelled with hilarious satire in a dark yet deeply prophetic vision of future Detroit. It's the story of Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) who is brutally killed in the line of duty and a nefarious corporation who turns him into a cyborg to prevent crime, and protect their Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-85638610630113744442024-01-07T18:25:00.001+00:002024-01-07T18:25:13.575+00:0020th Anniversary Review - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic [2003]Following their considerable success with the Dungeons & Dragons license in the form of the Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights games, Bioware approached LucasArts in 2000 with a view to creating a Star Wars RPG in the same vein. LucasArts offered Bioware a license for game set around Episode II, The Clone Wars era or a time 4000 years in Star Wars' lore past popularised by the Tales of the Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-49273409555402080512023-12-08T17:12:00.003+00:002023-12-08T17:22:32.282+00:00First Play Review - Battlefield 1 [2016]While WWI may have had only a quarter of the casualties of WWII its brutal and often more personal conflict somehow never really captured the imagination of game designers like its successor did. Now to be fair, there are about a hundred WWI games published, including combat flight-sims, real time strategy games and even some first person shooters but WWII games far exceed a thousand titles by Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-41590958953454162832023-12-07T17:11:00.001+00:002023-12-08T17:23:05.152+00:00General and Flag Officer Nominations Finally ConfirmedIn March Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) stood off against the Pentagon over its reproductive
health policies, which provide funds to service members to travel out of
state to seek services (including abortions) by voting to withold confirmations of general and flag officers for the entire year.He finally lifted the block this week with the press statement “I’m not going to hold the promotions Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-64554903648830911082023-09-12T21:24:00.004+01:002023-12-08T17:23:33.595+00:00Life on K2-18b? SPEARHEAD Concerned!"We'll be ready!" Major General "Whopper" Creedon News reports have surfaced detailing a discovery by Cambridge University scientists of a life-produced molocule on K2-18b 120 light years away.Using the James Webb telescope, the scientists made the shocking discovery with research leader Prof
Nikku Madhusudha. He indicated that on Earth at least "DMS is only produced by life. The bulk of it in Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-77137986563745601242023-08-13T18:43:00.005+01:002023-12-08T17:22:15.639+00:00First Play Review - James Bond 007: Blood Stone [2010]While there are more James Bond games than there are movies it's not
uncommon for PC gamers to have never played a Bond game. This is mainly
due in part to two factors: The majority of James Bond PC games not considered great
adaptations of the franchise (as most movie-based tie-ins are not) and the fact that once a publisher loses
its publishing rights, the game is withdrawn from Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-54602733552930499732023-07-04T17:38:00.001+01:002023-07-04T17:38:39.570+01:00First Play Review - Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition [2020]In 2020 Sony announced it was going to begin to publish its first party games on the PC platform in order to increase profitability. I have recently enjoyed three of Sony's first party ports Spider-Man Remastered, The Last of Us Part I and God of War and after the recent untimely passing of Lance Reddick who lent his voice and likeness to Sylens, one of Horizon Zero
Dawn's NPCs it was time to Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-11397845443681474292023-06-28T18:21:00.001+01:002023-06-28T18:21:16.742+01:00First Play Review - Black Mesa: Definitive Edition [2020]Half-Life's hype reached epic proportions when it was shown off at E3 in 1997 promising extraordinary level design and outstanding enemy AI. Even the Die-Hard meets Evil Dead of the story and gameplay set it apart and upon release it clocked up over 50 Game of the Year awards. While it endured in comparison to it's contemporaries at the time, it has now alas aged considerably graphics wise over Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-19042093135602676382023-06-20T21:35:00.001+01:002023-06-20T21:35:14.033+01:00Classic Review - Batman: Arkham Asylum [2009] As much as I loved Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered earlier in the year, it reminded me that I hadn't played much super-hero video games at all. There had never been much overlap between them and game genres like RPGs or FPS so that did have a lot to do with it. Now as I embrace the actions-adventure genre more and more with the likes of Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider, Star Wars Jedi: Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-37998920743474483212023-06-13T22:30:00.001+01:002023-06-13T22:30:10.889+01:00Replay Review - Max Payne [2001]One of the greatest video games and protagonists came to life with Remedy Entertainment's smash hit Max Payne in the summer of 2001. It took the bullet time from The Matrix, fused it with John Woo's action styling and wrapped it in a Micky Spillane inspired noirish graphic novel with an investigation and conspiracy story that even delved into Norse mythology. It may sound like a bizarre mash-up Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-67490976326323065462023-06-06T15:42:00.001+01:002023-06-06T15:42:44.645+01:00First Play Review: Tomb Raider [2013] I do recall trying to master the very finicky control system using the the keyboard's directional number-pad to manipulate a heavily polygonal Lara Croft in a demo of the original Tomb Raider in 1996. Despite how cool the game looked (for it's time) and it felt very Indiana Jones, unfortunately the controls weren't something I had the patience for at the time. I dismissed the game as Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-68472142732145133442023-05-28T16:41:00.007+01:002023-05-28T16:49:43.750+01:00Review: The Master Chief Collection - Part 2 - Halo 2: Anniversary [2020]My successful play-through of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary last year meant that I would soon return to the Halo universe to continue the space-opera in Halo 2: Anniversary. While gun-play, vehicles and story were good I found a significant part of the original boring and lazy as it basically had you backtracking huge sections of maps. I was assured that there'd be far less of that here and Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-21818938418079709052023-05-22T17:58:00.000+01:002023-05-22T17:58:02.975+01:00First Play Review - The Last of Us Part I [2023]Much like as I wrote for God of War, similarly The Last of Us also wasn't the first title that peaked my interest when
Sony PlayStation announced it's push into the PC game market in 2020. It was something that I saw a lot of media about especially it's high standard of plot, but it was the push of a very well received live action HBO series that prompted me not only to obtain it, but to do Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-47470795827338311042023-05-14T19:26:00.003+01:002023-05-18T23:38:59.415+01:00My first digital game pre-ordering experienceI don't pre-order games. Actually I don't pre-order them now would be more correct. The last game I pre-ordered was Mass Effect 3's Collector's Edition from GameStop in 2012. This was only done because I wanted the physical edition which of course had a finite number of copies. It was the last physical game disk I ever purchased, as digital distribution was ubiquitous by then as well as easier Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-38374798778411791192023-05-09T23:14:00.001+01:002023-05-09T23:14:49.859+01:00First Play Review - The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings [2011]In 2011, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk gifted US president Barack Obama a copy of The Witcher 2. It’s that big of a deal there. I don't know if Obama played The Witcher 2 but if he did, he'd have undoubtedly been impressed with the quality game that CD Projekt Red delivered to further the adventures of Geralt of Rivia based on the novels of Andrzej Sapkowski.I really want to play The Witcher Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-74389127678655256622023-05-02T22:30:00.002+01:002023-05-02T22:31:31.982+01:00Review: SUPERHOT [2016]I normally don't do indie games. I have nothing against them, they play a very important part of the gaming ecosystem but sadly the efforts of individuals or small teams on a shoe-string budget are unlikely to grab my attention away from my Overproduced Famous Franchise Offering VI because basically I'm a snob and I have a goal of trying to find the end to my AAA infested backlog before 2035.I Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-85366874467162908692023-04-25T22:29:00.004+01:002023-04-25T22:32:01.640+01:00Replay Review: Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault [2004]It has been more than three years since I went back and played Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault, as great as it was, this one Medal Of Honor: Pacific Assault is my favourite of the franchise because it moved the action from the European theatre - where most of the U.S. campaigns of WWII shooters take place - to the Pacific and also put you in the boots of a U.S. Marine. This had been done theMajor General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-79273386850927221072023-04-17T23:55:00.001+01:002023-04-17T23:55:42.546+01:00Retro Gaming Attempt - The Elder Scrolls: Arena [1994]I have yet to play Skyrim! In fact I've never played a game from The Elder Scrolls franchise. It's become something of an embarrassment at this stage but it's something I intend to get to as soon as I can. As I am fairly clueless about The Elder Scrolls franchise as a whole I said I would investigate it from the beginning and install the original game in the franchise in order to organically Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-2107803059203133282023-04-05T18:39:00.001+01:002023-04-19T13:48:58.778+01:00First Play Review: Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered [2022]My entire experience with super-hero video games was playing a buddies Batman (1989) game for a day, a demo of SEGA's godawful Iron Man game 20 years later around 2008, Gazillion's Marvel Heroes ARPG for a few months before it had its plug unceremoniously pulled by Disney and most recently in 2017 the serviceable MMORPG DC Universe Online which allowed me be my own dark-clad martial-arts powered Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-85162895592989746492023-03-27T15:34:00.004+01:002023-04-07T18:15:13.170+01:00Replay Review - Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix [2002]Id Software licenced the id Tech 3 engine to developers following their own release of Quake III in 1999. Between 2000 and 2003 about 10 games used the proprietary licence with Raven Software producing several quality releases including Star Trek: Elite Force, Star Wars - Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (and it sequel Star Wars Jedi Knight: Academy), but the best one not involving two of the largestMajor General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-44678078543910934582023-03-16T15:07:00.000+00:002023-03-16T15:07:10.397+00:00First Play Review: God Of War [2022]Note: This game was originally released for the PlayStation 4 in 2018. It is not to be confused with the 2005 PlayStation game God of War. God of War wasn't the first title that peaked my interest when Sony PlayStation announced it's push into the PC game market in 2020 but it was something that I saw a lot of media about and felt it was worth investigating. Now as you may know, I really Major General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16438122.post-86055932540122641422023-03-06T19:35:00.000+00:002023-03-06T19:35:47.795+00:00Obituary: Troubled actor Tom Sizemore 1961-2023From the time of this blog's inception as The Colonel's Eagle in 2005 until 2007, actor Tom Sizemore was a regular subject to be reported on, so much so that he even had his own link-label. It wasn't so much for his acting prowess but rather his colourful and nefarious antics that ended a stellar Hollywood career after some 40 major film roles between 1989 and 2003.Sizemore's first credited movieMajor General Creedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10538654644498589982noreply@blogger.com0