Codies Friday Frenzy!

Yesterday Codemasters had a huge release day for new screenshots and videos for various games coming up in the next few months. Considering we have so far for all the releases had very little in the form of media up until yesterday it seemed like it was a good day to be releasing everything and with the games coming out between now and the end of summer this year things are looking set to be a good summer. I say shut out the sunlight and turn on that PC or console. So let's take a look at some of the games coming out from Codemasters this summer.

For the official Codemasters web pages for the games please click on the game name to go there.

Overlord 2:

Codemasters have released a trailer and a bunch of screenshots for the sequel to Overlord which came out in 2007. This time round it sees you taking control of a new Overlord commanding an army of even more powerful minions. You are taking on the might of the Glorious Empire. A Roman styled faction.

The trailer is available to view here on the CVG website along with the new screenshots. The trailer looks pretty good and it looks like once again you will be causing a lot of mayhem. Overlord 2 is set to be released in June this year.

Jumpgate Evolution:

New trailer out for this space MMO along with more screenshots of the game. This is set to be different to Eve Online in the way that it is a lot more simplistic. You control your ship in real time much like a driving game. It is in effect designed to have the FPS characteristics of a shooting game but set in an MMO universe. This looks set to be ery exciting indeed but as to whether it will be able to compete with Eve Online only time will tell although there should be no real problem there as Eve Online is a highly complex game when compared to other MMO's on the market.

Jumpgate Evolution is set to be released in June this year. You can view the trailer and screenshots here.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising:

Sequel to Operation Flashpoint this is set to go up against Arma 2 this year which in itself be interesting to see how the two games compare and as to which one will come out on top. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a military conflict simulator which Codemasters have enabled to be as sandbox a game as possible. You can choose from many different roles to play in the Modern US Army which is the faction you will be playing for in the game where you are assaulting an island held by the Chinese.

They have made this game incredibly detailed. The trailer shows you the lighting effects, the character models and the day/night cycle and it looks really impressive. This is one game not to miss if you are into Military Combat Simulaters.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is going to be an intense shooter but as to how well it will perform when it compares to Arma 2 we will only have to wait and see.

New trailer has been released along with screenshots and these can be viewed here and is due for release in March this year.

FUEL:

This 5000 square mile open racing game is set to create a unique driving experience like no other. No other game has tried to create such a large environment and on top of all of that they even have real time weather effects which can and will affect the way you race!

I did more on the game in a previous post which can be read here.

They have released a new trailer not long after having released one a few weeks back along with more screenshots. The details again look brilliant and with a draw distance of 40km this should be breathtaking. View the trailer and screenshots here with the game due to be released in May this year.

In all looks like Codemasters have a pretty good line up of games due to be released over the summer which might I add is a brilliant time to release as so few new games are coming out at this time of year. Codemasters have thus far delivered well with games such as Racedriver Grid and hopefully these releases will rocket Codemasters into a league of its own and with the quality a gamer wants.

AJ

Phase One Complete

As it says in the title of this blog post phase one is now complete of my You Tube Channel merger.

After some hard thinking I have decided that having three seperate You Tube channels made life too complicated and meant clicking on far too many links in order to see the different range of videos I have on offer at the minute. Now you will be able to view all my videos that were on the GuruAJB123644 You Tube channel on the AJB123644 Channel. With them all eventually being merged into one place it should make life a lot easier for all you out there to enjoy my videos in one central place.

I shall be moving the musicAJB123644 channel's videos over the next week so keep an eye out and if you are wondering where they have gone then just check out my main You Tube channel here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ajb123644

That is all for now. Soon it will be Christmas but enough of that until later!

AJ

Update for Wordpress 09/06/2008

I have added a new page under the Latest Videos Tab and you can now view the latest video on MusicAJB123644 on Youtube on Wordpress so go and check it out!

So far that is all I have managed to do however a huge, huge, huge update is coming very soon.

AJ

Team Fortress 2 - Goldrush Preview - Courtesy of GameTrailers.

I was surfing through You Tube looking for help on how to make Team Fortress 2 maps when all of a sudden I saw this video stating that it is a preview for Goldrush. So intrigued I have a look and wow. It looks amazing and it does not look anything like the community made it so this could be the first real preview that we have of Goldrush!

It was actually added on March 17th 2008 on this guy's You Tube Account so it could be a little older than that however it could be good news for us Team Fortress 2 fans as maybe it will mean the next major update will be coming out soon(ish).

From what we can see in the video it looks pretty much finished however they could just be perfecting the whole Medic classes new debut for unlock weapons.

So enjoy the video (See below):



If you cannot see the video above then please click here and this link will navigate you away form this site to the video page where you can then proceed to view it.

From what you can see on the video it looks like the map will be split into different sections and run in one of two possible ways.
It could run through like Hydro or I have a feeling it will run like Dustbowl.
Although there is also the possibility that the map could just run on one whole turn which is likely as the video does not pause to change into another map. But if it does run like that it is going to be one hell of a big map. Could be a very long map indeed.

Dustbowl seems to be more of a realistic run because it looks like the map is aimed at the attackers trying to get past the defence like in Dustbowl where you have the map split up into sections and you progressively get closer to the final target much like this.

It also looks, but there is no definite suggestion, that there will be multiple routes for the cart to go on. Now how these will work it is unknown and not made very clear on the video.

Another key feature are the control points where it looks like you will have to get the cart to in order to get to the next stage. This could possibly mean that the opposing team will be able to push back the cart as well but again there is nothing to suggest this.

Well I shall update more on Goldrush if any more news comes out before the release and it looks like it could be one hell of a release.

AJ

With thanks to Gametrailers and also kocha65900 for providing the video.

J-Server Custom Map Test - 11/04/2008 (GuruAJB123644).

Last night (11/04/2008) a whole load of us piled onto the Java Server on Team Fortress 2 so that we could all have a quick bash on some custom maps that had been created by members of the server.

So having decided to record footage of the evening I have somehow aquired 20 gigs worth of video that I shall be sifting through tomorrow and then uploading onto You Tube tomorrow (hopefully).

Plus I have now also joined www.photobucket.com so you will be seeing a lot more images on the Blog from now on!

AJ

Blog Campaign 27/03/2008

Well I have decided to do start every so often doing campaigns for my blog so that it will make people more aware of this. So I have created a video for all of my accounts.

The video can be viewed at all of the following locations:

• AJB123644
• GuruAJB123644
• MusicAJB123644

The video shall shortly be posted onto www.metacafe.com once my PC Screen gets fixed and I get it back so that I can actually use my own PC where the files are stored.

Here is the campaign Video:

AJ

More Videos... (AJB123644)

Hey there guys!

Well here is the video finally released. I mentioned a few days ago that I was having a few problems with uploading 'More Videos...' to You Tube but finally managed to do so to Metacafe!!

So here is the link to my channel on there!

I will however soon be attempting to upload the video to You Tube over the next week or so after having done these two other videos for a viewer, a very grateful one at that too!

Now below is the video you have all been waiting for!!



More Videos... - The best bloopers are a click away

AJ

Day Of Defeat Source Weapons Videos (GuruAJB123644)

Ok coming in the next week as requested by a fan on my channel GuruAJB123644 will be two videos, or one depends whether I get time to capturing all of the video for the second, coming out showing all of the available weapons in Day Of Defeat Source (DOD Source).

Hopefully this will give people a bit better knowledge of what the game is like.
Anyway will keep you all posted.

AJ

Problems... (AJB123644)

Well I am having a few problems with trying to upload my new video for AJB123644 on YouTube so in the next few days I will be attempting to upload to MetaCafe instead. If that goes well then I shall continue to try and upload onto YouTube. Just hopefully it will work next time!!

Also will be doing a few more short videos so you know where you can email me at on YouTube and to advertise my blog, should generate some interest!

AJ

Coming Soon... (GuruAJB123644)

Well having just had a request put in by a viewer for guruajb123644 to make a Day Of Defeat Source video showing all of the weapons I thought that it would be a good idea to let you all know about my ideas for the video.

I am going to be doing it so I do US Army as one video and Nazis as another. It will then be split up with the guns being shown and then some footage of them in action!

Well stay tuned for those videos!

AJ

Welcome!

Welcome to my 'Blogspot'.

Well that is really just the above really.

Ok I lied, basically check out here often as from now onwards along with my videos you will be seeing more of me here as well as on my video channels so stay tuned and well be ready for some serious blogging!

One more thing here is a video from one of my channels you can watch!




Visit my You Tube channel here where you can find this video and many more!

AJ