Team IDemise Guide Review - Taking a Look at the IDemise Leveling Guide For WoW

By William Kamar

An introduction

Team iDemise is a gaming team with quite the reputation in FPS gaming. But this doesn't necessarily mean a thing when it comes to fast leveling in MMORPGs. So I purchased the guide with some skepticism.

I was quite pleasantly surprised to find my initial doubts groundless. iDemise's claim that their iDemise leveling guide on the market isn't just a boast-at the very least, they are a serious contender for the title. Find out why in this iDemise guide review.

The method

Anyone with even a bit of common sense knows that leveling in Warcraft is best done by questing. Even mediocre questing will result in far better experience gain than grinding mobs for hours. Superior players may even be able to plot out a questing course, and increase their leveling speed even more. Superior players who have done the quests many times can no doubt level even faster, with even better leveling routes.

The Team iDemise Leveling Guide makes you the equivalent of a superior player with multiple 70s. At no time did I find myself thinking "Wouldn't doing XXX before XXX be faster?" as I often have using other guides, such as Brian Kopp's Alliance Leveling Guide or Joanna's Horde Leveling Guide.

Now, you may be skeptical. "Ok, so I know what order to do them in. But I still don't know where everything is." Like other popular guides, the iDemise guide makes liberal use of map coordinates. And like a few others, they provide an addon to help out.

The Addon

The addon provided with the iDemise guide is really nice. I personally found it much more effective than any competitor's addon. Unlike other guide's mods, which usually just toss a load of coordinates on your map and say "good luck", this one includes everything you need to level, from directly in the game.

The entire guide is available to you. Not only the leveling guide, and a coordinate system, but built-in systems to make sure you are optimizing your character for leveling, with tips on Talent Builds and such. Really helpful to players new to the game or maybe just new to the class.

To conclude I hope this iDemise guide review has given you some help in determining whether it is worth your time and money. If you want to see how it compares to other popular leveling guides, check out my comparison review over at Squidoo.

Maddenites Rejoice - Why Madden '09 May Be the Best of All Time!

By Kenneth L. White

A few years ago, the developers at Electronic Arts (EA for short) attained exclusive rights to the NFL license to produce the already widely popular Madden video game series. This meant that no other video game developer out there, could put out a video game with NFL players, names and likenesses in their video games! By attaining this exclusive license, EA effectively knocked out the competition in the football video game market. In essence, Madden is the only football game with the names and likenesses of real NFL players. To many in the video game industry, this was a very smart and lucrative deal for EA. For the Maddenites out there, myself included, we were skeptical. The John Madden franchise only had one real competitor, and they were the developers at Visual Concepts.

Visual Concepts are the brainchild of the 2k series of sports games that include,baseball, hockey, college football and of course, the NFL. In the 2005-06 season of NFL football, the developers at Visual Concepts did something unheard of in video games. They sold their popular NFL2k5 football series for 20 bucks! The gaming community had mixed reviews, and the game was really good. For 20 bucks you can beat it! I was surprised when I found out! I don't know if they were trying to make a statement about pricing in video games, but coincidentally the following year, the NFL gave the people at EA the exclusive rights to the NFL license in video games. (I personally think that Visual Concepts pissed off the NFL with the price of their game.)

The first year of the exclusive license, in my opinion, wasn't so great. Madden '05 was released with the same hype as the other Madden's. To the true Maddenites out there, it was just okay, nothing special. With the ever growing influence of the Xbox console system, Madden '06 slowly started to become known as the game to play on XBOX. This was a shift from the earlier years of Madden. True Maddenites know that Madden was played best on the PS2! The XBOX 360 changed all that with Madden '07 and '08. The yearly Madden tournament was no longer played on PS2, the XBOX 360 was the new home of MADDEN. Maddenites were okay with this shift, it took some time to get used to the Xbox 360 joystick, but as long as we could play the game, we could care less. However , we were still waiting for that Madden that was gonna us say WOW! Madden '09 is that game!!!

First of all, Madden '09 is the best graphically it has ever been. Madden has always been good graphically, but '09 has some of the best. Gone are the stiff, statuesque player models from Madden '07 and '08. My main complaint on Madden'07 and '08 were the stiff player models. The player models didn't move like NFL players. They moved like statues. It seemed like the developers concentrated more on the wrinkles in the player uniforms and the player arms. They fixed these problems in '09 and made the player models look and move more realistic.

In the beginning of Madden '09 there is a new feature called the Madden IQ test. What the test does is measure you on how well do in the four main areas of the game: rushing, passing, rush defense and pass defense. from this point in the game, your Madden IQ is used in conjunction with another new feature, the Madden My Skill feature. The My Skill feature adjusts the computer difficulty of the game as you play! So eventually you will get to play against the computer on the coveted All-Madden level! One of my favorite features of the game is the EA Sports Backtrack. This feature shows you the mistakes that you have made during the game. If you throw and interception, it shows you who was open. If you are blitzed and sacked, it shows you where you should have been looking, instead of down the throat of the blitzing linebacker! This is a tool that both the rookie and veteran Maddenite can benefit from.

All in all, I am very impressed! This is the game that Maddenites everywhere have been waiting for! You will not be disappointed! Some games are worth the wait. Madden '09 is that game!

Ken White writes on various video game related subjects. If you want to read more visit my blog, Maddenites Unite! http://klw5200-maddenitesunite.blogspot.com

Xbox 360 - Wall E Review

By Camilla Bertelsen

Wall.E is one of the latest Xbox 360 video game that roll of the production following Hollywood style..."that is as soon as possible" We have seen countless titles that follow this format and like most, they suffer from too short a development cycle. Unlike "Tomb Raider", most movie inspired video game don't fare too well in the gaming industries. Wall.E is no exception.

Basically the video game follow the same storyline as the movie. Earth is polluted and needs to be cleaned up. The tasks is assigned to robots called Waste Allocation Load Lifer Earth-Class..."Wall.E". after seven hundred years had passed, the only two things that remain on earth is one Wall.E unit and a cockroach. One day an EVE or Extra - Terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator descend on earth and turn Wall.E world upside down. At this part, the player game play will decide the outcome of the game. The Xbox 360 version of the video game is simple enough. Players go around hunting and collecting objects solve simple puzzles etc. The game also allow you to switch between two character that is Wall.E and EVE. Game control are kids friendly. I would say easy to understand and catch on. The basic controls movement apply to both Wall.E and EVE. As mention earlier, from the time frame of the movies release to that of the game release, there are bound to be "bugs" in the game due to the short development cycle.

Players will find that the video game lack smoothness in virtually every aspect. You will find "invisible walls" when your character for no reason bump into "something." Sometimes you will have complete control of the camera and sometime apparently not. If you seen the movie first then play the video game...You be sorely disappointed. The graphics are not even close to that you find in the movies.. I mean, it's sad to find as a gaming guy...you see that the game developer don't take advantage of the expansive of the Next Gen Gaming console like the Xbox 360.

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Nintendo Wii "Fishing Master" Review

By Camilla Bertelsen

Ever since I was a little girl I have loved to go sit out by a pond and fish. It never really matter to me if I caught anything or not, it was just fun trying. I've tried different video games to replicate the real act of fishing and found them rather boring and quite unrealistic. However, the Nintendo Wii has a version of "Fishing Master" that really caught my attention. As video games go, this is as close one can get to fishing without having to deal with worms, hooks, and tangled line.

There are really two types of formats when playing fishing video games;

1) an arcade type of game that can be fun, but lacks reality and

2) realistic fishing modes that can make you feel as though you are actually catching fish.

The Nintendo Wii has combined the two to make this video game experience something fun for whatever type of mode you wish to play in. The characters themselves are cartoon in creation; however the act of using a fishing rod makes the video game more realistic for the player.

There is only one mode of play in this video game however there is a setting for multiplayer's in the Battle mode. In the single player campaign mode the player advances through the stages by catching different types of fish. The video game offers tournaments and challenges throughout the game play and players earn points which they use to buy items such as bait and other specialty items.

Players stand facing the water and as the player moves from end of the beach to the other, they will be able to catch different fish from those points. The fundamental aspects of the video game are very easy to learn right from the start.

The Nintendo Wii's version of "Fishing Masters" is what I believe the most entertaining and realistic approach to video game fishing; it is fun, challenging and creative. It is as close as you might get to the real thing without having to fight bugs, baiting hooks, and smelling like you've rolled in dead fish. The only problem there is that I can see is that you'll have to buy fresh fish from the market if you want to have your catch as dinner.

Article by Camilla Bertelsen and the owner of http://popularvideogame.com