Sunday, 15 December 2013



GTA V




File:Grand Theft Auto V logo - transparent background.pngGTA (Grand Theft Auto) is made by Rockstar. Rockstar founded in 1998 make a number a games like Midnight club, Bully, Red Dead, LA Noir, but GTA is there what they are most famous for. The 
first GTA was released in 1997 which was called Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar have released 15 GTA's :




  • Grand Theft Auto 
  • Grand Theft Auto : London 1969
  • Grand Theft Auto : London 1961
  • Grand Theft Auto 2
  • Grand Theft Auto III
  • Grand Theft Auto : Vice City
  • Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas
  • Grand Theft Auto Advance
  • Grand Theft Auto : Liberty City Stories
  • Grand Theft Auto : Vice City Stories 
  • Grand Theft Auto IV
  • Grand Theft Auto The Lost and Damned
  • Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars
  • Grand Theft Auto : The Ballad of Gay Tony
  • Grand Theft Auto V

  • GTA V is the latest GTA in the market released 17th September 2013 but delayed the game was released late in the year so that people get exited enough about the game but close enough to Christmas so that people still exited about the game. GTA V is played from a third-person perspective in an open world environment, allowing the player to interact with the game world at their leisure. The game is set mainly within the fictional state of San Andreas (based on Southern California) and affords the player the ability to freely roam the world's countryside and the fictional city of Los Santos (based on Los Angeles). The single-player story is told through three player-controlled protagonists whom the player switches between, and it follows their efforts to plan and execute six large heists to accrue wealth for themselves. An online multiplayer mode is included with the game, allowing up to 16 players to engage in both co-operative and competitive gameplay in a re-creation of the single-player setting. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V)

    Singleplayer : 9/10

    Game Sound : 9.5/10

    The sounds in the game are really realistic. When driving a car or any other vehicle you can hear the car revs getting higher and when the weather is raining gamers can hear the car splashing into the water. When characters talk the image is in calibration with the sound and the sound of every weather is realistic as if  it was real. the gun fire sounds are different depending which gun is fired and targets are hits the target makes a sound to as if the someone was hit in real life. When objects are hit they make the correct realistic sounds they should make, for example when metal is hit it sound like as if metal was hit in real life and when glass is hit it also sounds as of it was real. when gun shots are fired in hills and doesn't hit anything it doesn't make that echo sound that happens in real life.
    Controls : 10/10

    The controls are really easy to use and pick really fast. In the in-game menu gamers can customize their controls so that they can feel more comfortable when play the game. 

    Missions : 8/10

    Missions in GTA V are really fun to do and there are many of them to do. gamers can take up to 2-3 week of gameplay to complete the story line. Mission difficulty can not be changed but some missions are harder than others. The missions make you go to places to improve the characters skills so that in missions characters have better piloting and shooting abilities. Missions make gamers explore to whole map.

    Enviroment : 8/10

    Other people in the game are going to places rather than walking or driving around randomly. GTA V have had some pop in textures problems which was later on fixes with a patch Rockstar had released. The texture of the game is really good all the detail is very fine for example when a car is scratched the mark on the car will be in same place where is was hit also when a car is hit a hard object the damage of the car would depend on how fast you hit.

    Game UI : 9/10
    Your stats may be checked in the main menu - How to finish GTA V on 100%? - Grand Theft Auto V - Game Guide and Walkthrough

    The in-game menu is very simple to use. Gamers can use the bottom triggers to move through the menu (left or right). gamers can also see which character they are using and how much money the character has. the menu is every clear and easy to read.






    Multiplayer : /10

    Game Modes : 7/10

    The Game modes available in GTA V are :

    • The Content Creator : The content Creator will launch with tool to tailor and publish your own deathmatches and Races.
    • Capture the Flag : GTA Online's Tak on the classix CTF mode.
    • Heists : This is a full-on cooperative heist missions that will require are full planning teamwork and sharp execution - along with the HPB (Heist Planning Board) for your apartment.

    gtav voice actorsGTA Online can be easily accessed from the pause menu or by changing character at any point during gamplay, joining a game is also very easy as well. GTA Online has Client Hosted Servers this means that when your console is connected to the internet and is playing online you have data comes from a very powerful computer which runs the server.

    Graphics & Sound

    The graphics from GTA V are truly amazing every corner in the game is very detail that it's really close to real life image. the garphics of the game. The sound in the game are just a realistic as the graphics, gun shots, cars, aircrafts, water effect all sound very realistic.



    Tuesday, 22 October 2013

    Computers In WW2

    In WW2 the germans were communicating with coded messages so that the enemies could not understand their next move. The germans were creating these codes with the enigma machine. 


    How it Works
    The enigma machine has a keyboard that the person would press and then another keyboard on top would light up. The germans would then have a coded message that could be sent and understood by other germans. They could change what letters would show up by changing the cogs inside the machine this was the messages would always come out different. 

    Alan Turing
    Alan Turing was a man who was trying to break the coded messages that the germans were sending. Turing wasn't the only one who was working to break the codes there were hundreds. the men would spend hours maybe days or months trying to break one code. Alan Turing wanted the break the codes faster so he built the first computer it was called the Bombe.
    File:Bombe-rebuild.jpg
    The Bombe was used to break to codes faster. Instead of taking months to break codes it was taking days and then hours. 
    So how was it doing that?

    The Code would be entered into the Bombe and then would of been processed into the code that could be read and understood. Once the code had been processed it would be stored in the memory storage. This meant that when the Bombe encountered the code again the Bombe would be able to break the code faster as it already knows what the code means (it does this by looking at similar patterns in the codes). 
    If the Bombe they were able to stop some attack that the germans were planning.



    Monday, 14 October 2013

    Games and Platforms

    Graphics
    Graphics can and cannot be the way forward in the gaming industry. Games like Fifa and Gran Tourismo are games that are always changing because they are games that you would like to make you feel that they are real because they include real-life people that play their football or drive their car around the track. people like to experience what it would like to be driving around a certain track like the Nurburgring Nordschleife and in Fifa people would like to control players as if they were real and the movement is realistic. sometimes it's not the way forward because games like Minecraft have always had the same graphics in the last couple of years and the reason why it's still a popular game is because the game is totally custom game from textures and adding things like tornado and waves on the sea all of these things are Mods (modifications) and the fact that is really simple.

    List of Consoles 2000 - Present

    Nuon (2000)
    PSone (2000)
    PS2 (2000)
    Xbox (2001)
    Nintendo gamecube (2001)
    Panasonic Q/Q game boy player (2001)
    PSX (2003)
    Nintendo Gameboy Player (2003)
    Atari Flashback (2004)
    XaviXPort gaming console (2004)
    Atari flashback 2 (2005)                                                                                              Fifa 14
    Xbox 360 (2005)                                                                      
    Game Wave (2005)
    PS3 (2006)
    Wii (2006)
    Mattell HyperScan (2006)
    EVO Smart Console (2008)
    Retro Duo (2008)
    Zeebo (2009)
    Sega Firecore (2009)
    Sega Zone (2010)
    OnLive (2010
    Atari Flashback 3 (2011)                                                                                    Minecraft
    Atari Flashback 4 (2012)
    Wii U (2012)
    Ouya (2013)
    Gamestick (2013)
    MOJO (2013)
    GamePop (2013)
    PS4 (2013)
    Steam Machine (2013)
    Xbox One (2013)


                                                                                                                    Gran Tourismo 6