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Just as a little sorry for the downtime i have the trailer for Professor Layton 3 which will arrive on DS after we get the first and second game.

The game is set to be released this November in Japan and just to keep you guessing about watch the trailer and tell me what kind of game Professor Layton is.

Now a piece of news that i have came across that will make a few people happy including myself is that the fantastic Hogs of War is to get a sequel early next year on the PS2, PC, Wii and DS.

Nothing is known as what to expect in the game but even if it’s just a quater of what the original was like then i will not be putting my Wii down for a long while.

As soon as i find out more news on this i will post it up straight away

As you can see there has’nt been an update on here since the end of August and the reason for this is that i have been really busy and have had very little time for myself but i am hoping to get things back on track and me and a few friends are also thinking about relaunching the forum as well just so you have a place to post stuff and you never know if it’s any good it might end off on here.

As a little sorry here is a new trailer for a Wii game that i’m looking forward to (if i can afford to buy it when it comes out).

So enjoy the trailer and a new big update will be coming soon.

Check out the trailer for the new house of the dead trailer and tell me what you think as i love the 70’s style and look of the game and the trailer does remind me of old grindhouse movies.

It is very rare to see a video game site that does things in a different way as there are so many on the web that they start to look and feel the same however there are a few that decide to be different and one of those sites happen to be one of my favorite site to visit and that’s the excellent Lolocaust.co.uk.

The reason why this site is different because it doesn’t follow the same paint by numbers crap that most sites do and it gives us a true gamers eye on what is happening in the world of video games and other aspects of life in a informative but funny way.

They have been going on for 6 months and since the first day they started the site has been going from strength to strength and has provided me with some of the best written articles i have ever seen on the Internet.

So why the hell I’m i giving this site a lot of praise well its down to three main reasons, the first being that the chaps over at the Lolocaust are some of the easiest people to speak with them having a great sense of humor, secondly every now and again the site seems to plug Vagusnet so i have to do something in return and give them a little plug, finally though and this is the main reason they have shown me how to write articles in a different way thus spurring me on to keep vagusnet going and doing it in a different way that the old VN was.

So if you haven’t been to visit the Lolocaust (and why the hell not) then get over to this great site and see what I’m talking about.

Oh and while you are there register for the forum and enjoy the new arcade that the guys have put up.

I like to think that i know a lot about videogames but there has always been one section that goes over the top of my head and thats the world of mods.
You see i’m not a PC gamer as it has never interested me so i just stick to consoles for playing my videogames and until the PS3 came out the world of mods never even crossed my mind but as soon as Sony’s black console came out and Unreal Tournament 3 was released then the whole world of mods came to console gamers as well and this is where the scary task of learning about mods came into light for me.

I have a friend who also has UT3 and over the last few months he has been talking about how he is able to play levels from other games and even do modes that are not part of the game and this made me want to get UT3 again as the first time i had the game i did’nt know that these kind of things exsited in console games.

So i’m going to dip my feet into the pool of mods to see what all of the fuss is about and to see if my friend is right that this could be a new step for console first person shooters (FPS).

I will post my findings to tell you how i got on and what i thought about the mods i have used.

If you remember a little while back i did a review for Ferrari Challenge on the PS3 and i thought it would be a great game for racing fans, well i have even more good news for you then as i have a competition to give away a copy of the game for the PS3 and to enter cannot be easier.

Just follow the easy steps below and you will never know you might win a copy of the game.

1 - Just send me an Email with the heading Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli competition

2 - Answer the following question What is the make of the Ferrari car you only control in the main mode of the game? (Clue : It starts with an F and it has 3 numbers in it)

3 - Send your details as well with the answer to the question (name and full address)

4 - Do all of the following and sent it to Vagusnet@GMX.com.

The competition closes at 12:00 midday on the 1st September and i will pick a winner straight after and send you an email telling you that you have won.

One more thing this competition is open to people in the UK only and you only have to enter once.

So good luck

Well it seems that people will go to extreme lengths just to get things take for example a man in the UK saying he went missing for two years only for him to be lying and now he is in prison but I’ve never heard anybody staging his own kidnapping for a Wii well guess what one really sad person has done this.

The Chinese man staged his own kidnapping by asking two friends to help him out just because his parents were not going to buy him a Wii however things went wrong for him when he decided to take the ransom money out of his own account just to then be stopped by the police.

So what is the moral of this story well if you want something so badly don’t stage your own kidnapping instead just save up for it and that way you will not be doing something this stupid.

Well since it was Comic Con last week a new trailer was shown for the upcoming Resident Evil CGI movie that shows off more of the plot and what we can expect when it hits our shores later this year.

Below is the trailer to cast your eyes on thanks to Gametrailers.com so enjoy and tell me what you think

The whole reason we play videogames is to get away from the real world, to be able to try things like you have never done before and to experience things that can only be possible in a simulated world so why do companies think that we want real world style games for our consoles?
Well the answer to this question is that what if you couldn’t take part in these real world style events or what if you were obsessed with that event and you wanted to take it over to a videogame setting as well.

The genre that seems to thrive is this kind of quandary is the racing genre and companies are always trying to out do each other with realistic handling, real looking cars and all the tracks to can race one.
The new game added to this list is Ferrari Challenge and like all other realistic car games the developers Eutechynx state that this is the most realistic car game ever and while this is true in some form most of it has been done before and done much better by other developers.

In the main part of the game you are given the opportunity to get behind the wheel of the Ferrari F430 and have to race over 16 tracks from Europe, America and Italy (why Italy isn’t a part of Europe in this game remains to be seen) to try and boost you winnings so that you can take on better opponents and also release more cars for you to take into arcade mode and the online portion of the game.
Straight from the bat you will notice something and that’s the fact that in the main mode of the game you can only control 1 car and while this is a fantastic car it still is only 1 so the variety that other racing games have has been lost in this game.
Now don’t get me wrong you can customise this car with different decals and also given a mountain of options to tune up this car but it is still only one car so you are just going to have to stick with it.

After coming to terms with the car this is where the game starts to become more for the hardcore and not the casual amongst us as the game will punish you for bad driving because you need to be precise with what you do and concentrate from the start of the racing right to the checkered flag at the end and this is where i got frustrated as I’m not the right person to be handling this kind of game as i don’t like realistic racing games and i don’t have the patience to keep spinning off every two seconds for me to try and get back on to the track to compete in the rest of the race.
Thankfully though you do have the option of the racing line that’s mapped out on to the track that will come in real handy if you are like me but i still felt like this was to much for me.

What did help me though was how indifferent the A.I can be with them one minute pulling away from you giving you no chance of catching them up only for them to screw up a corner for you to easily passing them by thus leaving the A.I cars with egg on there face, however they will catch up on you again and make you cry because one minute you were cheering on the fact that you have finally gotten past someone only to have that snapped away from you and you dumped back behind the pack again.

Unfortunately on of the other big bad points of the game is down to the look of the tracks and the only word to describe them is bland, you wouldn’t expect a Playstation 3 game to have very static and flat backgrounds and also in some cases pop up appearing in the distance when you are driving down the straights.
However the car models are fantastic with rich detail down to the nut’s and bolts on the tires and with the sun gleaming off the bonnet of the car showing how well the paint job is.

When you try out the other modes in the game the game itself picks up a little because you get the chance to try out up to 50 cars and not the one that you have to stick with in the main mode and like the main car each car has been modeled on the original in a lot of detail making each car look more realistic than usual.

Don’t be down beat if you think that there is no online mode because that would be stupid on there part if they didn’t include it and there is one and this is where i had most fun as i wasn’t just the only one who found it hard to control these cars and i was starting to enjoy myself until you race against somebody who knows how to play games like these then you get beaten into a bloody pulp and have to get the smoke form your chest as you will always be behind them.

On a happy note the developers have promised downloadable content that will be free every month but also premium content that will only cost £5 giving you the chance to have one new track and another 5 cards added to your list while the free stuff will range from game mode updates to driver roster downloads and many other cool things.

Overall the game in the right hands is a descent attempt at a realistic Ferrari games as lovers of Ferrari will get a lot out of it but if you can’t play these kind of games (like myself) then you are going to be frustrated with the realistic feel of it.

7/10

The game is also due out on the DS on the 4th July with a PS2 and Wii version coming out this summer.

Just as a added little treat here is a game trailer for the game as well