Hardest Boss Ever?

How’s this for an end of level boss?

It’s taken from the Japanese game Mushihime-sama, which apparently means Insect Princess. And, as you can see, it’s a vertical scrolling shoot-em-up (kinda like Ikaruga), but with millions and millions of bullets being simultaneously fired at you. From the video it kinda looks like the actual area of the ship that can get hit is quite small, but still, the area of the screen that’s actually safe is insane. Oh, and according to Wikipedia, this games sequel is actually more difficult. Fantastic.

Condemned 2: Bloodshot GT Review

The GameTrailers video review for Condemned 2: Bloodshot is up on their website. It’s a good review and it covers all the points really well. They do say, however, that the combat is pretty much the same as the first and can become a bit clunky, especially when fighting more than one enemy. The sheer creepiness and horror aspects make up for it though.

I’m not 100% sure if I’ll pick it up when it comes out on the 28th of March over here (apparently). But if I do, it’ll probably be for the PS3 so I can actually play online (no Xbox Live, I’m afraid).

Link to the review after the break.

My Gaming

This is just a relatively quick blog on what’s going on in my gaming world at the moment.

I’ve pretty much in the process of playing three games: Guitar Hero III, Devil May Cry 4 and Lost Odyssey.

Click for more after the break.

Devil May Cry 4

The story of Sparda and his devil hunting son Dante have been told since Capcom released the original Devil May Cry on the PlayStation 2 and the series has since become one of their most popular IPs. Devil May Cry 4, the latest iteration into the series was released a few weeks ago for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles and is also set to be released on the PC in the near future. So does it live up to its pedigree? Or is it simply yet another sequal released with flashy, next-gen graphics?

My Zelda Tattoo

Over the past few months (well, almost a year) I’ve been getting a Zelda tattoo by a nice (if somewhat eccentric) fellow by the name of Mantas at Angelic Hell Tattoo World in “sunny” Brighton. I started it in March last year when I look in my designs and got Mantas to put me something together. A month or so later, the tattoo was started! Now, a number of months later, it’s finally complete and, although I think it needs some touching up in certain areas, I’m damn pleased with the final result. I would hope so too, it’s cost me (whisper it) around £1000! Here’s a picture of the final result. Bare in mind it’s not actually healed in this photo, hence some of the unbalancing with the colours and yeah, I know you can’t see the whole thing. I’ll get round to taking a decent photo of it in its entirity eventually. But for now, enjoy my arm art:

More pictures of in process shots after the break:

Soul Calibur IV Box Art

The box art for the American versions of Soul Calibur IV have appeared online and I must admit, they look pretty damn cool. I prefer the Vader one on the PlayStation 3, mainly because I’m a sucker for all these menacing and evil and I’ll probably end up purchasing the PS3 version so I can play as Vader.

Anyway, check them out…

Upcoming Games

2007 was definitely an amazing year for games. Mass Effect, Assassin’s Creed (arguably), Bioshock, Halo 3, Super Mario Galaxy, The Organge Box, Uncharted, Ratchet & Clank: Tools Of Destruction, Call Of Duty 4 are just a few titles released that year that stood out. And that sheer quantity is no mean feat. But what can we look forward to this upcoming year? Well, us Brits are slightly behind the American market with Super Smash Bros. Brawl being released tomorrow and No More Heroes and Rock Band out way before their European release dates. I hate this country…

But anyway, here are the games that I’m most looking forward to (and some that simply have a lot of potential) this upcoming year (and beyond)…

I will say quickly to take the anticipation ratings with a pinch of salt.  They are relative to the games I’m looking forward to, not all games that are coming out.

A Zelda Movie

I have blogged over at a awesome gaming site called GameTrailers a number of times and this is one of the blogs I wrote, the subject of which should be pretty obvious:

Yep, it’s been muttered about on gaming forums and suchlike for years and many think it would simply disgrace the series in its transition to the big screen, but I plan on undertaking the writing of an entire Zelda movie script. Whether it happens not is an entirely different proposition! So where exactly do I begin? With some of the movie logistics methinks and most importantly of all would be: should Link speak? Despite causing an inevitable backlash within the Zelda community I think inevitably that Link would have to speak. Having him not would limit the emotional attachment greatly between the audience and the character. So yeah, Link will speak.

Welcome

So this is my traditional welcome post, welcoming you all to the wonderful world of Headshot, a video games blog run by me, Hazzard. Or Hazzard1988 as I am sometimes forced to be called. I’ve been gaming since I was God-only knows how young and it’s the one hobby that I’ve continually taken part in since my inception within it. So you could say that I’m fairly well versed in the language of the video game geek. Go me. My experiences in gaming began back in the day when my Grandparents bought me a Sega Master System with Alex Kidd in Miracle World built in and Sonic 2 to go alonside it. Nope, not the insanely awesome Sonic 2 on the Mega Drive, but the pretty awful version on my aforementioned new console. But to me, currently in the process of losing my gaming cherry, it was a quality experience. And thus my geekdom began.