Payday 2 Hoxton Breakout Update

For those of you who don't know Payday 2 is a co-op shooter that has you playing as one of 4 masked criminals on a variety of heists. The Hoxton breakout is part of crimefest an event put on by the games studio that included tons of free content in the form of new masks, weapons, enemies and of course breaking out Hoxton


Hoxton was one of the four original members of the payday heist group until between the events of payday 1 and 2 he was ratted out arrested and since then has been waiting in jail, until now. The heist starts with you intercepting a convoy leading Hoxton to a retrial escorting him into an armored truck and guiding the truck down the streets of D.C. The second part has your crew help Hoxton break into the F.B.I. and search their servers for whoever had him arrested. Upon completion of the heist you're allowed to now finally play as the foul mouthed British man that is Hoxton (the Hoxton already in the group who is Dallas' brother has been renamed to Houston) you also unlock a toothbrush shank melee weapon.

The crimefest included a host of other new features including a revamped skill system, the previously mentioned new masks and weapons, the ability to change the time of day on some heists, and a few other things (The game is also currently on sale for 75% off and the original for 90% off I recommend grabbing both.)

I apologize about the picture I don't know why it looks weird and the constant option changes but i'm not used to recording games and wasn't aware on how much of impact it had on system performance.

Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2 is an action oriented zombie shooter game that's styled like a series of movies. You take control of one of 4 survivors, Ellis: the stereotypical gun toting red neck, Coach: a chubby guy who's got a heart of gold, Nick: the sleazy gambler and finally Rochelle a low level reporter who was reporting on the evacuation when she got stuck with all of them. The game features 6 mini campaigns taking you through environments that vary from carnivals filled with zombie clowns to the swampy bayous.

Unlike most zombie games l4d2 isn't a horror survival its an action packed bloodbath where you and some friends mow down hordes of zombies as they barrel towards you at a full sprint. To complete this task the game provides you with a multitude of pistols, rifles, shotguns, a wide variety of melee weapons, and even in some cases a grenade launcher. But when there's powerful weapons there's powerful zombie, these zombies are known as "special infected" and include zombies with super agility, acidic spit, super strength among many others.

I've personally found left 4 dead 2 to be a very fun and enjoyable game with many just barely made it and action hero moments, especially when you've got a group of friends to play with as the game was made with the intention of co-operative play. I'd highly recommend getting this game and it goes on sale frequently and on occasion is even free to download and keep forever.

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Warface (revisited/ public release)

Warface is a free-to-play first person shooter by crytek (creators of the crysis series) that focuses on player interaction and co-operation. When I last reviewed Warface it was fairly slow and laggy but since then has been refined and patched until it was finally mostly lag free and ran smoothly.

Most of the core assets of the game (user interface, graphics and map design) has stayed the same but there has been changes to the stats of guns and other items as well as other guns and maps added into the game since full release.

The most major change about the game is their choice to switch from using a gaming social media site called g-face and switched it over to steam. This overall was a very smart decision as g-face was a sort of failed at launch type of website that only had warface as a playable game. The switch to steam however helped make the game much stabler (due to being given access to much better servers to host the game on) and a way larger amount of people will see warface on steam vs g-face meaning a higher amount of people will download the game.

The game has more or less remained the same with some nice improvements added to make it even more appealing so if you have a computer that can handle it and you have some time to kill I would definitely recommend you play this game

Sid Meier's civilization 5

Civ 5 is a turn based strategy game where you settle your people and manage your resources until you've built an empire and if you so wish rule the world with an iron fist or coexist peacefully with your neighbors. Throughout the game you get to build your own empire choosing what cultural aspects you want to focus on like science and religion or if you want to be passive or violent and based on those you can develop certain technologies or open up more job opportunities.

Now of course like real life you're going to make friends and enemies usually through diplomacy and "gifts" (bribery) you can get most other empires (which aren't historically accurate since the Mayans can declare war on Washington and the U.S.) to co-operate with you. But there will always be a few empires who prefer neutrality or just downright hate you (usually the Mayans) and with them all you can do is try keep the situation non-violent unless you're sure you can beat them in a war.

The game plays very simply all you need is a mouse but the amount of depth the game has is truly staggering your choice from where you settle to what you research can greatly vary with each game which gives civ 5 amazing replay value.

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