The life of a Dual-Wielding Warriorr in Ferelden , Part 1-ish

So I have tired again and again to play and beat Dragon Age Origins, usually I get pissed off at dieing so much or just fighting through the Fade during the magic circle save quest, or something cooler comes along and I put it down. But I have no set my self to at least beating the Main Story, if I don't do any of the playable DLC I can at least say I did that. I had tired many classes and builds but they didn't work, so this time I made a dual blader warrior




This is my dual blading warrior, Elissa. Yes I know the picture so a sword and shield but trust me she is dual wielding. She is a Human Warrior Noble. Now currently at lvl 13 and specializations is a Berserker. This time instead of being a goodie goodie, I have decided to go the way I usually do with more open RPG, and play Chaotic Netural and Chaotic Good is closer to me this time. I'll save the world but I'll do it my way as I will explain. Current Team is Alistar(using 1H sword and shield), Morrigan(Ice, Lighting, Heal) and Leliana(As an Archer)

I have played through all of the "short" playable DLC and have many higher grade weapons and armors  So I just needed to levl up to be able to use them

So after I became a Gray Warden, I set out on my way leaving Lothering and heading this time for the  battle at Ostagar because I knew I could find all of King Calins weapons and armor there, along with Duncans sword and dagger, plus pick up some exp and gold along the way, Duncan equipment make a perfect set for a Dual Blader starting out before the class is mastered and one can dual wield two full sized swords, and Calins armor is good either full on or pieced on different characters.

So I left Ostagar and headed west to the Brecilian Forest to meet with the Dalish Elves. They needed help fighting off some WereWolves, trapseing around thw forst was just simply annoying, of course I died some time mostly fooling with things I should of been fooling with. In the end I sided with the Elves, and now I have them on my side for the final battle.


Off to the Circle Of Magi I go now, this quest I have done a lot and dread doing mostly because I hate the Fade, and always die there. So this time I have had enough and decided to side with the Templar this time around. As I went up the Circle Tower I was joined by Wynn, the problem is that I didn't know you could kill the mages, side with the Templar and have Wynn still in your party, so I had to kill her, which sucked since I found out many hours later and I didn't want to replay anything, so I just will make Morrigan a Healer and move on.


After the Mages circle i went around doing various side quests gaining money, exp. During the Camp I went after Leliana, which I always do, it's that accent it just get's me every time, plus lesbian cgi fun, all the way, yes I know I am pervy and lame..but seriously who has done Lesbian and Gay romance in Bioware games..?

Now while I was looking at the Dual Blader guide I follow, Dual-Wielding Warrior Guide. I looked ahead at what kind of specializations I wanted, well I already choose A Beserker, and I noiced what had to be done to get the other 2, mostly getting a Reaver. Which would involve pissing off a lot of my team, but I saw I could buy them under the "Awakening " DLC, so I played through that after Importing my character, bought the manuals, and I am all set ready to go, no I have access to reaver and Champion when I didn't before.


Once I was done with side questing, I went to Redcliff to help out the city with their problem, then off to Castle of Redcliff to try and save the Arl. When I again was told it was his Kid causing all the trouble in the city. Well I could of used Blood Magic to send Morrigan in, which combat with solo mage sucks so hard in this game compared to Dragon Age 2, use the Circle of Magi for help, which I couldn't do since I crushed them..or kill the child. Well of course I killed the child, just seemed the easier way and remember Chaotica Netural/Good..save the world by crazy way.


Anyway I am off to get the Urn of Sacred Ashes to save the Arl of RedCliff..

Gaming To Do List

Here is my own Personal Gaming To Do List
1. Finally beat Dragon Age Origins the main story
2. Platinum Dragon Age 2
3. Platinum Mass Effect 2
4. Actually play the 3rd Birthday
5. Pre-Order Mass Effect 3 premium  edition


Not that much, but it is a ton! Need to get working.

Escapeing Arkham City, where to now..?

So I have escaped from Arkham City for now, but where do I escape to..? To the Blighted land of Ferelden, because I actually should beat Dragon Age Orgiins, so I can have  atrue experience in Dragon Age 2, and so when Dragon Age 3 comes around some time soon.

So this is like my 7th time trying this game, every time I stop it is because of the combat system isn't as good as Dragon Age 2, which a lot of people believe to be true, anyway I had restarted a little while ago then inFamous2 and a bunch of other games came along but now since I am just killing time till Mass Effect 3 comes out, I am going back and trying to finish games I have not played before.


This time I am running the game as a Dual Wielding Warrior, which seems to be the easiest class to play for my kind of play style, which is just rush in and over power the enemy with power and speed. I am also trophy hunting as well for trophies I hadn't reached before, mostly the other side of who to join you choices, which I had only done the mage circle before, so this time I had the Templar join me, sadly I had to kill Wynn, but I can play with Morrigan to get some of the healing skills. Anyway back to playing

I'll be writing more on my journey in Ferelden later on. Stay tuned.

Arkham City, the next game...MASSIVE SPOILERS

So I found this video with a collection of Easter Egg things that point towards their being a 3 Batman Arkham-ish game. Be warned when you watch this, this is some spoiler heavy stuff.

Next we have this Easter egg on one of the ships and cleary we can see 'Crane" which is the real name of the Scare Crow, and a pass word that reads, "City of terror"

So more on the Scare Crow:

This all seems like to me that there is going to be a 3rd Game, and that the Scare Crow is going to come back with a vengeance. Man I am so excited!!

Arkham City, Alternate Ending..possible spoilers

So I learned today that there is an Alternate ending to Arkham City, and the choice happens while you are doing the 3rd CatWoman Mission, after you break into the fault, your given a choice to go Right or Left after seeing Batman on a TV.

If you go Left, thats where Cat Woman saves Batman and the game continues as Normal.

If you go right, Cat Woman leaves Arkham, goes back to Gotham and everything goes to hell. During the credits, you can hear Oracle screaming into a fuzzy walkie talker saying how everyone is dead, how the joker has won. And it ends with her calling for help. Watch the whole thing down below

I know it's a fucked up ending but I like what was done here, considering if you play the story Cat Woman saves Batman's ass and all.

Arkahm City, 2nd day..swining to the end

SO yes I beat the "Main Story" of Arkham City in 2 days, and the ending was so dramatic and awesome I couldn't put it into words.  I have only done about 50% of the whole game, not counting all the challenge map.

Despite a glorious ending, the final battle was kinda anti climatic, the final battle of the first game was so much harder

The final Cat Woman mission happens post game, and while you are going along that mission, Batman swings in and now there are 3 points along the map that allows you to switch characters, and you have free roaming to complete any missions are sides quests or anything Riddler related that you haven't gotten yet. Which is pretty cool.

There is a New game plus mode, where all of your upgrades carry over, enemies are harder and the "counter" marker vanishes, so yes it would be a totally harder game, since the counter mark saved my butt more than one time, I might give it a shot, I'm not sure yet.

My biggest complaint with this game is the same with the previous game, and a complaint of a lot of games coming out..Is the lengh of time it takes to beat it, because not everyone wants to spend hours and hours on challenge maps.  I mean, yes did I play this more or less non stop, yes but still I couldn't of beaten this in 2 days..there was so much more that could of been done with this game to easily add 10+ hours to this game without seeming like it is to long or drawn out.


So hopefully there is a 3rd game, but lets hope RockSteady games makes the 3rd one longer. But still this was worth the 45$ that I spent n it.

Dungeon Defenders RPG + Tower defense

Dungeon Defenders is a strange fusion of RPG elements with all the craziness that is tower defense games, now I only played the demo so I expect some of this to be different in the full version. Strangest thing is when I turned it on, PSN move instructions came up, after trying the demo..move controls would be horrible in this game.

In the Demo there are 2 classes: a mage and a warrior, in the full you also get a monk and a archer. Each class has a basic attack and it's on class specific attack. As you fight, you can level up and add poiints to your health, speed,attack power and so on, also you can get equipment that ups your stats and pets as well, which I know of DLC for PSN+ members that have special pets for you.

Combat in this game is straight forward if not complicated. You have to guard this huge crystal, so you get up defenses to help you do it, you hit a button select a defense, select the angle and build it..it does take a second or two to get used to the controls, now you need mana to do it which you'll get from dead enemies or in chests. After you set your defenses you then start the wave sand you run around attacking everything to support your own defenses.

My biggest problem with this game it despite having a "local" mode..if you are playing this by your self expect to get frustrated..die. Because you will frantically running around attacking everything since you can't place enough defenses to help you out. Now online mode might be different for full players, but there was only one room and it was filled by people um..not playing the game. SO I just left the room and turned the game off.

I can see where this game was going..and if you have some friends over or find a online room not filled with morons, this game could be tons of crazy insane fun..but buy your self..try the demo and you'll realize you should save your money.

Arkham City after one day playing impression

So yesterday I got my copy of Arkham City from Bestbuy, why did I go there..? I had a 15$ credit and it allowed me to play as Robin early before everyone else. First thing I will say is, yes I have heard you can't play as CatWoman if you by the game used, but you can it will just be 9.99$ on your XBL or PSN, so stop whining.  Secondly I will try to be as spoiler free as possible. Funny thing is there is no real instructions(not surprised) but there is code for a Beta Key to some Batman MMO and where you can by Arkham City Swag.

So Arkham City is of course the sequel to Arkham Aylsum, this time the game is more open world sandbox-ish, which as Batman, I had a lot more fun with, rope grapple around is so much more fun while staring at the very very well painted backgrounds. Plus it makes it easier to find a spot and hang baddies upside down.

Cat Woman is here as well having her own story line, but it fits into the main story line because Batman will have times where he get really really knoicked out and thats when you play as CatWoman, will their stories converge, I would like to hop so, tag team boss battleing sounds very awesome, anyway back to the Bat. She also comes with 2 other outfits: Catwoman from the Animated Series and "Halloween CatWoman" which like some purple elf thing gone wrong/ Also as a side note seriously, massive fan service with here with her...

Now my copy came with early access to Robin, you can get robin as a kid or as an adult., now this is the 2nd Robin aka Tim Drake, I will spoil that you can play as Nightwing some time later, since he has his own trophies.  But you can only play as Robin in the challenge maps, which is fun and all but I was disappointed I would of liked to actually play as kick ass looking Adult Robin for his own real missions

The creators have made it so you don't have to be in "Detective Mode" the whole game, and enjoy the scenery, but trust me you will be in the mode a-lot, I don't remember if this was in the first game, and if it was excuse me, it's been a while, but now the mode has other features- You can ayanlize crime scenes for clues to help with side quests(more on those in a second), and there is a feature now where you can GPS tag the location of Ridder trophies, which is so very usefull because well getting into all of his antics in a second as well.

Combat is the same as before, I didn't see a lot of things changed, which is perfect since the previous combat system was almost flawless, countering does seem a little bit easier, but that might just be me. I like the addition of smoke pellets to help when you are getting shot to hell.

Now there are side quests, and a lot of them which will take you all over the City swinging around: saving people, blowing up stuff, and answering phones-yes I know that last one is strange but just trust me on it. It is easy to get distracted from the main story while doing all of these, but it's very simple to get on track because unless you specifically go looking for them, they will just appear as your going from one main point to another main point, and your map allows you to set the quest starting area as a way point if you ever get lost.

Now we go to the Riddler, and he is back. I guess someone thought we had it to easy in Aylsum, since this time there are over 400 Riddler Trophy's, challenges and Riddles to answer. Some of the trophy's are very easy, just out in the open, or behind a breakable way. Other require you to do puzzle that will drive you MAD, so I don't see my self finishing all of them. There are also riddles that you can figure out as you transverse along, once again some easy some hard. Some of the challenges are like fly this distance, or do this in combat, there is also cameras all around the city, you get trophys for blowing those up as well. Also Catwoman has her own set of trophies. The most annoying thing is the Riddler has thugs working in the other gangs and they will show you locations of clues and trohpies, but you have to not knock them out when fighting a group of people, this has lead to me getting my ass kicked more than once. This wouldn't be a problem expect a lot of all the cool collectibles are based on collecting the Riddlers stuff, but I am not a huge collection whore so it is okay.

They also added an EXP and upgrade system, you just get EXP by finishing mission, finding collectibles and comboing really good in fights, you use the EXP to power up your gadgets, moves and your suit also powering up your Feline friend. Trust me you won't need to grind for EXP, but I do recommend using your level up points on the armor upgrades.

Collectibles are 3D character model trophies, story's about how people got to where they are, also concept art, actually it's just those but there are a-lot of them..

I will be writing more as I continue since I am only about 50-60% through the main story line, but don't be left behind and grab this now.

Press2Reset, podcast of informative crazyness

(thanks to their Facebook page for the kick ass image)

So while on Twitter I was following one of my friends @PeachyAenne and she was asking questions for this gaming blog she talking about, so I hopped on iTunes and downloaded their 12th Transmission as I was going to get Arkham City yesterday.

Their podcast was very informative to me, considering I don't troll all the big gaming sites to get gaming news. Plus they are just funny and comical at the same time, so there is a perfect balance of seriousness and crazyness.  They even take viewer questions, I like when podcasts talk to their viewers I think that shows the care about the viewers, even a give a way or 2 has happened.

I mean I could go on about the trasmission I listened to but you should just stop reading this and go listen to it. I found it on itunes but the current one is up on their site, not sure if the 13th is up on their yet.

Website: http://press2reset.com/
FB: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Press2Reset/152879231450528?ref=hnav
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/press2reset and http://twitter.com/#!/P2RTransmission

Sideways:NewYork, making spary painting fun!! Not..really..

So I tried out Sideways Newyork the demo. This game is a fusion of MegaMan Side Scrolling jumping with all the Graffiti from Jet Set Radio mall with music by Skull Candy and some other  Rapping DJ, and if you didn't know it was done by Skull Candy you will be reminded since they logo them selves everywhere.

I couldn't grasp the story expect this Alternate Dimension is run by kidnapper Graffiti demon things, and you have to save some girl, which I would guess is your girlfriend.SO you gain spray painted powers as you move along, using the paint to make platforms and using them to defeat little bad guys coming along. Now as your going along you might get lost, but don't worry there are little tags that you collect and if you roam around and see none, then you have gone the wrong way, so don't worry as the stage flips about getting confused.

The music is very hip hop ish, as I would expect given the basis of the game, but the music gets very repeative with very little change in tempo or style, so if you like listening to the same song for 15mins as you spray paint, enjoy.

In the end, I have nothing really posistive to say about this game, could some people like it, of course..but not me, I am just happy it wa s ademo..because if I had guess and paided real money, I would of been super pissed..

Dragon Age 2 DLC, Mark of the Assassian

SO now we look at the new Dragon Age 2 DLC, Mark of the Assassian. And yes the new character Tallis is voiced by Fecila Day. Also a warning, this is going to be one of those rant kinds..because there was more bad in the DLC than good. I will try to be as spoiler free as possible.

This is Tallis, Elven dual wield dagger assassian. She has  abasic rouge skill set with her leaning more towards cloack and dagger stuff, she has a points into the Subterfuge skill line, along with her own personal skill set aka Infiltrator that helps her sneak and destroy. But no points anywhere else, so I upped her Dual Wielding skills and her speed. She also can throw her daggers, making her a short range yet long range.

Now to the bad parts, first off her Attributes, for DEX and CUN are in the mid to upper 30's when you get her, and unless you have a Breath of the Maker or do a lot of questing that is where she is going to stay, so her damage out put is pretty low. And because of said low DEX, any super cool daggers you might have laying around are all going to be useless, so your stuck with her base shitty equips. The same goes for her armor, unlike our previous DLC add on character Sebastian, you can't upgrade Tallis's armor..so expect her to die and die..and die... ALso her personality is a very egotisical and snarky one, "Yes you may be the Champion of Kirkwall..but I am still better than you"..and seriously that ton will get on your nerves. Does Felicia Day do a good job voice acting, only kinda..the voice seems kinda flat..no real emotion or inflectional change in her voice.


Now onto the actual mission, which again was more annoying than interesting/fun. Now it may of been that I was only at lvl 23 when i attempted this, it could of been that i brought my favorite party, expect Isabella since Tallis needed a spot..but besides them I had Varric and Merrill. But I died a ton while doing this, mostly while doing a quest where i faught some People who Prayed to the Sky..and fighting one of the story scripted bosses..but oddly enough didn't die much during the final boss.

The DLC takes place after the huge battle with the The Arishok but before the final Battle, since it is brought up in conversation. also you see characters from Dragon Age Origins..and turns out one of them knows Tallis from sometime, I won't say who, but I hope they expand on this some.

Now if your are a trophy/achievement hunter, like I am..4 out of the 5 are farily simple. You get 2 by default. One of them you just need to wander around and find all needed materials needed to hunt your "prey"..now onto the 3rd one also known as Blackjack Subtle. Now with this you need to sneak around in the shadows and distract guards walking around without being seen once. But the game tells you that you can use skills to hid as well, so unless you put points into Subterfuge skill tree..get ready to probably get caught a lot. This gave me horrors of Metal Gear Solid every time i got caught. Save often..because if you get caught then load a save, it doesn't count that you got caught. Now the 4th trophy is just guarded by tile puzzles..I hate tile puzzles..I mean really who doesn't hate tile puzzles..?

I would like to thank the guys at video games blogger for their videos to get me through the sneaking around and the tile puzzles, seriously would of been driven mad with out them.

 If finale, if you play this Post Game, as with most of all the other DLC that has been released you will be disappointed in the equipment area. The enemies might give you some of a challenge depending on your party and level you are at. You might be driven mad about the puzzles and sneaking around. And in all seriousness, i have yet to see one person who was actually happy with Tallis as a character, but get it if you want more EXP, and if you like hear Varric's stories, I damn well do.

Get 3 more friends and enjoy this free game

Just announced..that i saw on Facebook..and confirmed by official download. You can get The Legend of Zelda 4 Swords Adventure 25th anniversary edition for free between 9/28/2011-2/20/2012..on the DSI and 3DS..so seriously go get this game right now.

Double Dose of Demo Dipping Delights

So today we take a look at two different demo's that have come out recently. First off is From Dust  which is on Steam and PSN (Maybe Xbox, I don't know) and the PSN exclusive Eufloria.

 

From Dust is a God Game in the sense thatr you help tiny little villagers thrive and survive, but it's not your typical god game like The Sims, or playing Civilization..in this all you do is move the lands around to help the villagers make more bridges and help them complete trails so their villages aren't destroyed, the problem is with all god games, the little villagers are spazzy and can't do anything on their own. So I got through the first 2 mission okay, but the 3rd had a time limit or a Tidal wave will come, well I failed and my village got wiped out twice by the tidal wave.  God like puzzle games with a time limit, yah very much not my thing, so i didn't try a 3rd time to watch my village get destroyed. SO I turned the demo off and tried the 2nd demo of today.

Eufloria, you plan little seeds on asteroids to expand your tiny plant like empire. Move the seeds along to build trees, to make more seeds. to make more trees to get more planets.  As you play along you run into rival little seed empires guys and have to fight for control of their planets, to further expand your empire. Yes this right tiny little seed war fare, now each planet has stats of Strength/Speed/Energy, which probably come more into play later, but in the beginning I personally didn't worry about hat, I just stock piled my little seed guys then bum rushed the enemy planet next to me.  The whole time this is going one their is some ambient music going on in the back ground, so the whole war like experience is kinda tranquil and zen like. The controls take a lot of getting used to, but there are button guides on the screen to help with that, the rest is just moving from planet to planet and zooming in controls to see what is going on..Get passed that and the game will be a ton of fun. I recommend this totally.

Now you do can Game at the End of Time

Yes, Chrono Trigger is now available now on the PSN to play on the PS3andPSP for only 9.99$. If you have never played Chrono Trigger, you should play it, I mean I can't even go into the depth of this game, I am just excited that I can download and play it now. And you Should be to.

Men are failing at life because of video games, a look at a CNN article

First off thanks to Destructoid for the picture.

I first read about this Article here on Destructiod: CNN story to Men: 'Get off the video games' and 'man up' from the Twitter of The Blonde Nerd...the articale that started all of this came from CNN here: Why men are in trouble..?

Basically the jist of this article is hat mean are falling behind in women at college degree rates, and earnings. Also a decline in, "founding values" of work, marriage, and religion. And this is all due to men sitting around and playing video games..This article goes onto to talk about ladys says, "we are all the single guys at"..and so forth, so before I boil over in a rage filled stupidity, le me go into this..

First of "we are all the single guys at", what people fail to understand is gamers seek out gamers, just like jocks seek out jocks, and doctors seek out doctors..You see out those who you have a common intrest in..duh...A gamer guy is not going to seek out a woman who doesn't play games at all and vice verse..since the non-gamer will never understand of why anyone can sit and play the same game for 10 hours in a row..but if you are a single gamer, go to a Anime/Gaming/SciFi convention..and you will find some other single gamers to hit it off with, or you can ask me..-didn't admit he was single..-..-well maybe..-

Moving on, and I am going to use a friend of mine as a case study without tell him till after I write this, but we will understand and chuckle I talked about him. Onto the "founding values" part of this counter rant,  My friend and Ex-Coworker Cory welch (link might work..dunno)..anyway he is a fellow gamer who I used to work with, our friendship was built upon that he is a gamer and our unique sense of humor, right now he is following his dream of being an Musical Performer, he is also very religious a total God Head, and he just purposed to his soon to be wife..all of this as he tells me that he plays Secret of Mana on his iPhone..So seriously what is going wrong here..he has all his values  and is still and avid gamer..this maybe be just one person, but still it shows flaws in this guys logic..


So trust me it isn't video games that are leading to the down fall of men, it's just men being idiots..and to quote something I heard in highschool, 'Women wll always be better than men..because they have tits".  Also let me close by saying gamers no matter what the gender are way more awesome and attractive than those who aren't..

Like a Zombie coming back, it's time for more Left 4 Dead 2

So I went off and played some of the other Mode in Left 4 Dead 2, so I am going to go more into those.

Survival, simply beat the clock kinda of thing. The longer you last the better your medal is. very simple kimda of mode to play, but it gets harder and harder as you continue.  I have seen a custom map that is like Helm's Deep from Lord of the Rings 2, which is kinda awesome.

Next is Scavenge, this is an 8 player match, 4 survivors and 4 people playing as special infected. The point of the Survivors is to collect and empty gas cans into a generator to save the day. While the other 4 mission as the special infected is to kill the Survivors.

Lastly is the feared VS mode..this is all out team death match, just like with Survival it is 4 survivors VS 4 special infected, this I didn't play to long mostly because people are over paranoid dicks, this is probably the most hardcore mode you can play. Which seriously isn't fun for me and just out of my skill range. If you play you need to be kinda twitchy considering baddies are around every corner.

After playing these other 3, if I want to do anything besides Campaign mode, it would just be survival, these other two are just out of my range for what I can do.  Anyway other people might like them, so give them a shot before you discount them.

Left 4 Dead 2, late to the party..

So yes I know I am a little late to the Party on this one, considering most everyone has talked about this game, but I figured I would give you my take on it. If I mess the story part I qoute I apologize, I haven't looked to much into it or read the book..

Before I go any further, the main reason I play this is because I have watched all of the Let's Play's that the Team Four Star Guys do, they got me addicted to this game. Check out their Let's Plays here: TFS Let's plays

First off I have not played Left 4 Dead, the reason is that I got L4D2 on sale on Steam, would I liek to play the first one, yes I would like to.

Anyway, like most games, you a random group of people throwing together to survive a total fucking zombie end of the world disaster, which I think was started by a group called CEDA, sounds like Resident Evil stuff to me. Anyway you are:

Coach: Literally a Coach, seems to be the more experience of the group
Nick: Seems like he is a sacarastic guy from Vegas-ish
Rochelle: I heard she was a laywer
Ellis: Red Neck with a crazy sense of humor

Anyway when you play the game you can choose between : Campaign, Single Player, Survival, VS mode, and Realism. I personally have only done Single Player and Campaign, mostly because I hear VS is a crazy beast, and I am okay..but not that good..

Now everyone has their own play style to this game, what kind of weapons and the like they prefer to hold.  Me I enjoy using shot guns, surprisingly I get better accuracy with them, I also enjoy the melee weapons as my 2nd weapon, since they don't have ammo, besides the chain saw the 2 best I have seen are the Katana and the Cricket bat-if I am wrong correct me. I also prefer Molotiov's- over pipe bombs and the boomer jars the later to attract zombies in giving you chance to kill them in groups, I enjoy fire my self. I also prefer having pills to adrenaline shots, because pills are quicker to take and last longer, unless I know I am in an area that I need to run..

In single Player, it is just you..you choose your character..you choose your Map, which there is a story to be told if you play the maps in order, I have no idea what the order is, expect I think the Map Dead Center is "first".  The PC AI's are kinda smart, they are good at protecting you, each other and not shooting you.  But they like to use all their health stuff on you and not save it for them selves, which is fine and all expect when they die..Single player does make it hard to get some of the achievements, since you will have to do all the achievement work, and rely on them not to let you get killed. But over all, if you don't play well with others, this mode will hold you over just fine.

In Campaign Mode, you can join games waiting on players or just jump into a game in progress.  I dislike games in progress since I usually get players whose weapons don't match my play style, so I am screwed with some weapons I am not good with till I reach a re-spawn area. The two big problems of working with other is first; people who just like to charge ahead to get more kills than everyone else, this is just bad since this is a team game and usually they get killed or everyone else gets over run and they are to far away to help, plus only like 3 of the achievements are for kills..Secondly are ass holes with microphones..anyone who have every played a game knows that there are assholes with microphones and just love letting you know of their greatness..are all microphones users assholes, no..I am clearly met some cool ones, but most of them seem to be.

Also for the modes you can go off and download custom maps, I have not done this yet since usually they are not on official servers and the ones they ar eon like to lag all to hell.

Well I enjoy playing this game despite all the things I dislike about it, seriously I would go pick it up on either Steam or the XBOX if you haven't.