Halo v.s. Farcry: Which Is Better When It Comes To Map Editor?

More people are likely to know about the Halo Trilogy than they are about the Farcry series. This is due to Halo having everything from special controllers and headsets to collectable Mountain Dew cans. Don't get me wrong. The storyline throughout the Halo videogames is perhaps one of the best we've seen in a game since Myst came out in the 90s. Farcry on the other hand, for those of you who are unfamiliar with this game, is about Jack Carver who gets wrapped up in the middle of a CIA operation and ends up fighting a one-man war against an army of mercanaries. After about two or three levels into Farcry Instincts, Carver gets captured by a scientist who injects him with a super-soldier syrum. But Carver escapes and fights his way across the island. There is another game called Farcry Instincts: Evolution. I'm not going to get into the plotline of that because I don't want to give anything away.

So storyline is an important thing. But what about when you've beaten the game on all levels of difficulty and found all the secret objects. That's why there is multiplayer. Farcry takes it to a whole new level. Create multiplayer maps from scratch. And ladies and gentlemen, when I say from scratch, I mean from scratch. Terrain, structures, mounted weapons, spawn points, zip lines, ladders, flags, weapons, vehicles, health, upgrades, plants, time of day, and even fog.

Halo 3 was given a map editor of its own. However, all you could change was weapon, vehichle, obstacle, and upgrade placement. The only thing you could do that you couldn't do on Farcry was change the angle at which the weapon was placed. On Farcry you can only rotate the object on one plane. And then there was movie making which was a huge point scorer. But the only problem was, It wasn't a map editor. You did'nt have aenough space to get really creative except on Sandtrap, Avalanche, and Foundry. In Farcry you have more vehicles and you have access to all of them whenever you make a map. Farcry doesn't set the amount of restrictions that Halo 3 does. In order to have the best map editor, you need the least possible restrictions.

"A New Kind Of Radio"

Everyday people seem to be transfering the purposes of certain objects in everyday life and adding them to the Internet. Well thay have also done it to the radio. Of course we alredy know that Windows Media Player as well as iTunes have places where you can listen to radio stations, but here is something even better. Pandora.com calls itself the Music Genome Project, and rightly so. Type in an artists name such as Led Zeppelin and not only will it play their music, but also music similar to it in genre. Pretty cool right. Oh yeah, and you can tell it if you don't like the song or if you do like it. Pandora.com also saves your radio stations that you have created.

Click on the link to visit Pandora.com
http://pandora.com/

Music.

This is "Through the Fire and Flames" by the prog metal band, Dragonforce. Pretty complex bridgework from the sound of it, but I really don't know anything about guitars to be honest.

-Raptor Out

Legendary Map Pack

Well, I'll say one thing in general about the Heroic and Legendary Map packs for Halo 3. They make map editing a whole lot more fun. The images above are from the Legendary map pack. However if any body wants me to I will post some pictures from the Heroic Map Pack. Any way the Legendary Map Pack takes you on a journey through the history of Halo. Now normally I don't go for the remakes of maps such as that remake of blood gultch and battle creek you find in Halo 2. The reason why is that they look exactly the same except that it looks like the programers just put it through Microsoft Paint. Avalanche is a remake of the map Sidewinder, one of the best maps on the first Halo. However, it is looks like Ty Pennington came in and went crazy on it. The map is recognizable by certain distinguishable features, such as the bridge and the entrances to the bases. Amazingly it retains all of Sidewinder's glory. Supports all vehicles.

Blackout is a remake of the map, Lockout, from Halo 2. This time, instead of being located on a Forerunner structure, it is located on an oil rig in Antarctica. Not as glorious as Avalache. This is because while it really isn't very recognizable, it is pretty much the same thing. Yet if you edit the map and put some sheild doors here, a mongoose there, maybe a ghost and a double box here, then five stars. There are some features such as the basketball hoop that make the environment wonderful. Also the grav lifits have been replaced with high-powered fans. Supported Vehicles are: Mongooses and Ghosts.

Ghost Town is the last map on the Legendary Map Pack. This one is completely new and not a remake like the others. The map is located in what seems to have been a small town affected by the Covenant invasion. It makes for good editing with its unique baricades, barriers, doors, bridges, watch towers, and ramps. It would be fun to make an infection map on. Supported Vehicles are: Mongooses and Ghosts.

The Map pack also comes with a new feature to use only on these three maps. You can change the camera style to things like vintage and black and white as well as about four other types. If you are short on money I don't suggest getting them now. I did and when i found out that they would eventually be free, I regretted it. Here's my rating: *****

This is "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" by the band Aerosmith. The song is one of my personal favorites because it was used in the Micheal Bay film: Armegeddon. And we all know what a scifi nerd I am. Any way it is a great song. Still working on making it so that my viewers can down load these songs from my blog.

Raptor out

This is Smells Like Teen Spirit By Nirvana

Well you probably already knew that.

Raptor Out

The Trooper by Iron Maiden. I don't listen to any of their music really except for the ones I find on Guitar Hero 2&3. However the two that are on guitar hero are pretty good.

Download this Mp3 File from www.Bionicle.com

Not my Work but is still awesome

More to come from me

I will try to figure out to make it able to down load from here but until then...all I can give you are URLs.

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Hey this is to the people who actually check out the blog. It would be kind of helpful to me if you would leave your comments. It would also be nice if you would perhaps vote in the polls.

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Every teenage guy dreams of two things. 1. Starting a rock band. 2. Finding the perfect girl. With the help of God, I have accomplished the first. However, it is with the help of a sneaky Irish bastard and a certain Ron Woodrum that i have created a rock band. Together we are The Aces. We go in a direction of rock and metal. No logo yet but we do know it will be some form of the ace of spades.

The Sims 3

Greetings to all players of the Sims 2. In case you haven't already heard, 2009 will bring about the coming of the third Sims game. Is this good or bad. Let's look at the good news first.

The Sims games are popular amongst people of both sexes and all ages. This new chapter in Sims history shall bring about a revolution that many of us have been waiting for. In the Sims 2 our sims were confined to their houses unless the player was willing to load into another lot. Can anybody say that that doesn't get annoying after a while? In the Sims 3, the player will be able to guide their sims through the neighborhood just by walking out the door. Yes people, the game is about to get more realistic. The details are still a bit unmapped, but it is also certain that the creating of user created sims is also about to get an upgrade.

Now for the bad news. There is also a negative about there being a new game. Now we have to not only buy the new game and possibly be forced to upgrade to Vista, but we will have to buy a whole new set of expansion packs. And this will probably happen every three to four years or so.

Overall I believe that the pros overcome the cons in this case. So I will probably end up going to get this one, and if it sucks then it's back to The Sims 2.

VIVA PINATA

Now understand that I am the kind of person who normally goes for either a shooter game (such as Halo or Farcry) or an RPG (such as Knights of the Old Republic or Assassin's Creed). But I found this game to be somewhat...well...fun. It is relaxing in a way. Also it kind of reminds me of The Sims in a way. I would suggest getting it but if you are like me, I would suggest getting it used. Just make sure the disk is in good shape. For those of you who are XBOX 360 players, the acheivements are easy to get and are 20 points each. Pretty sweet deal. I could also compare it to Zoo Tycoon.

The object of the game is to keep a garden, but no just any garden. As you go through the game, your garden becomes home to various pinata animals. However, despite how it looks on the surface, this is no Barney Land. If you are not careful in managing your garden, some pinatas might be eaten by others. Sometimes, you have to sacrifice pinatas to get new ones or for other pinatas' needs. So take a look at this game. If you don't like it, then take it back. Maybe it isn't for you.

Linguam Latinam Doceo

Hello Patrons,


Interested in learning the language of the greatest civilization in human history. Which civilization is that? Rome of course. I will be setting up a new blog soon where I shall post lessons weekly. This is an offer you won't want to decline.

Out Of My Head

Sometimes it can be hard to find the courage to stand up for what you believe in. It is especially hard when one is in highschool. School is different from the rest of the world because of the age of the students. At this point in their lives, people begin to lose control of themselves. We become reckless. But it is not this way with everyone. Some people are nice.

About half the time someone is a jerk, they aren't that way to every one. For instance there is this girl that I know who makes my life miserable. To me, she is a jerk. However, to others, she is pretty nice. I guess it can be compared to the way gangs work. yet in this case, it's the prissies agaist the nerds. It can get pretty hostile.

Transformers: 2007

Being the huge transformers fan that I am, I went to see the new movie almost as soon as it came out. I had only a handful of problems with it. The first was that Jazz died. In the G1 series, Jazz was my favorite character, so I was really put off that Megatron rips him in half. Plus, he survived in the original film, even if he spent the entire time as a prisoner of Unicron. I also thought there could have been a little more action. the first seven to ten minutes and the last thirty minutes were the way the whole movie should have been. There wasn't enough Autobot vs Decepticon battles. I mean you don't need to build up the human characters as much as they did. The first three episodes of The Transformers which totaled a time of about one hour (half the length of the movie) Did a better job developing all the characters. They should have just used those few episodes to be the model from the movie. You coould have easily replaced energon with the Cube. And you could have had some large battle at the end. Heck, the decepticons could have just used Qatar as the place to build that ship that they try and escape on at the end of episode 3. And now that i think about it, you could add the whole energon thing in with the Cube.

The movie in itself was a epic adventure. It deserves five stars. But unlike the original movie made back in 1986, this movie is not as good the second time you see it. I did love it. I even bought the two-disc special edition, but it could have been better, there could have been more fighting. This movie, even with its flaws, will be up there with some of my favorite movies. they kept true to the characters of all the Autobots, Megatron, and Starscream. I will say that Soundwave's counterpart in the movie, Frenzy, stays true to the character of Soundwave. I was thankful that he did not have tapes eject from his chest.

The Touch

This is for all you Transformers Fans out there. It seemed only appropriate when I found this online to post it on my blog.

"TILL ALL ARE ONE!"

Phones

Just got a new phone the other day. It's pretty awesome except for the fact that it didn't come with one of those micro SD memory cardsor the cable to hok the phone up to the computer. I'm going to have to get my hands on some cash in order to buy those things. I guess I shouldn't complain seeing as how I have unlimited texting now. No more counting to see if I have exceeded 50 texts, both sent and recieved. Once I'm on my own I might switch to whatever service covers the iPhone. I think that you get free internet service on it. Comment if I'm wrong.

To be honest, I've never been one for fancy music phones. A phone is a phone. It's not a TV. Having music on your phone is not mandititory. Well I guess if it is your primary portable music player then it is. A camera on your phone is not a must have feature either. I can see how having all that on your phone can beat carrying all those devices around separately. I'd love to have a super computer on my phone, but really, is it truly necessary?

BOSTON

Trying to fnd some good music to listen to? I would suggest the sweet sounds of Boston. No i am not talking about the Jazz. With four albums released and 40 original songs totheir name, Boston is THE band. In fact these guys figured out how to really rock out on the organ. The best part is that they were able top create EXTREMELY good music without drug, sex or alcholic references or even language. Songs like "Amanda" from their third album, Third Stage, address problems like dating a friend. I have to say that I was given the courage to do so because of their music. I listen to all their songs each day that I'm alive. In fact I even write to their music. I guess that means I'll have to dedicate one of my books to them. So go to iTunes or whatever download site you belong to and pick up the music of the gods today.

P.S. Boston is better than the Beatles because they were not high when they wrote their music.

Transformers

Just as I promised, here is the format to find any episode of the G1 Transformers series. use the format in this link to find any G1 episode.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_g71biUyevA

Also, for a comlete guide to the episodes of the G1 Series, check out. http://www.tfarchive.com/cartoons/

Goff Course Comes To You

Just in. The RAPTOR 2007 is now posting his Comic Strip: Goff Course on the web. If you wish to see it, simply click on the link. http://www.toondoo.com/Search.toon?searchfield=theRaptor2007New strips are added all the time.

JIMMY PARDO

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Hello. I am the RAPTOR 2007. This is my blog. I am a Halo 3 player and have been online since December 25, 2007. So I suppose you could say that I'm not very experienced. I also play Guitar Hero III on live from time to time. I'm only at Medium Difficulty though. I also enjoy games such as Assasin's Creed and KOTOR. I really am pretty much anti Nintendo and I hate Playstation.

I am also a huge Tolkein and Micheal Crighton fan. I actually collect books by both authors. For Crighton I have read Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Congo, Sphere, and I am reading Timeline. I am also a HUGE fan of Jurassic Park. It is the BEST movie ever made. I have all three of them on DVD. Steven Speilberg is my favorite Director. My favorite actors are Harrison Ford, Jeff Goldblume, and Bruce Willis. Big fan of Preditor, Matrix, Terminator, and Die Hard. Live Free Die Hard, from what I was able to stomach, tainted the name of Die Hard.

I am also a big Transformers fan. i do have to admit that i do not really own but a few. Overall I favor the G1 series from the 80's. all of these can be found at youtube. I will eventually publish the link for the person who posts the episodes so that you can find all the G1 episodes with no hassel.

My Blog will have posts about all these things and more. So come on into the Raptor Nest.