Game Wallpaper and Websites Edition 9

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Clive Barker's Jericho Ps3, Xbox 360 2007 1600x900

 

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Another questionable expedition across the vast interweb to discover some game wallpaper gems of yore and  how gentle the hands of time have been on the original websites.

Heavy Rain - Madison Paige
Ah Yes Madison Paige, and the way she might look at you if you wangled the controller.. sorry.... Heavy Rain is an interactive button manipulating action adventure psychological thriller in the film noir style, released exclusively for the Ps3 in 2010.  For those still reading, "Beyond Two Souls" is the next offering from developers Quantic Dream, due this year.

Official Website still up but not working on either Safari or IE browsers

Clive Barker's Jericho
A supernatural horror, first person shooter, released October 2007 for Ps3 and Xbox 360.  With the premise of the story from the horror master Clive Barker.  Managed to get itself banned in Germany, partly because of it's Nazi S&M tinged demonic slaughter.

Orignial Website gone, but there is Clive Barker's website with info on the the game

Jade Empire
Action RPG released for ye old Xbox April 2005. A sequel?  BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk stated in September 2011 that (Read Intellectual Property for IP) "It's an IP, it's a setting that we're really passionate about, and we still are. Both Greg and I were big believers in the IP... We're just looking for the right way to deploy it.

Website gone but a reference to the title can be found on Bioware's Legacy games Page

Yakuza
Yakuza an action adventure released for Playstation 2 in Japan (Titled Like a Dragon) December 2005 and North America September 2005

Success!!! The original website is Still up!!! along with it's Japanese counterpart.

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Far Cry 3 Wallpaper

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Hi! this is Alf the Helper here... :)

Mr.Elderly is indisposed at present and I can confirm, still without a copy of this console gem.  To cheer him up I put together this selection of Far Cry 3 Wallpaper as found on the wubternet.

Get well soon mr.Elderly

(Mr. Elderly has asked me to relay that rumours of his current state being directly related to the build up of bile having tried unsucessfully to obtain a copy of Far Cry 3 in his local retail stores........
.....is without basis.)

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Fuse Trailer and Wallpaper 2013

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Whilst salivating at the prospect of Santa's arrival, I decided to take a peak at some of the delights awaiting us for 2013 and came across this offering from Insomniac Games (creators of Ratchet & Clank and Resistance).

A reworking of the four-player co-op game once known as "Overstrike",  published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and due March 2013.

What They say....
“a 4-person co-op action shooter that thrusts players into the roles of four elite, covert agents with their own unique skills and experimental weapons.”

“Fuse demonstrates what Insomniac does best: outlandish and gruesome weapons design, over-the-top action and a touch of humor."

"....story-driven, action game where even solo players can experience the unique attributes of each agent by using the game’s LEAP feature to switch between the four characters at will during combat."

Possessing as I do the online co-op prowess and team spirit of a slug, a 4 player co-op is enough to leave me cold, nay catatonic. But that "Leap" feature, which reportedly allows solo players to switch with any AI team character at will, a newly developed game engine and Insomniac's penchant for outlandish weaponry... well who knows, but this is defo going on my must investigate more list for 2013....

Official Game Website

Alf's Game Wallpaper Mashup part 2

 

 

 

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Folowing on from his mildly successful and quite frankly heinous abuse of some radical game wallpaper designs, it is with distinct distaste that I have agreed (for a fee) to upload the latest of Alf's Game Wallpaper Mashups for your critique.  No doubt with enough adverse comment, Alf will abandon his Mashup pursuit and concentrate on some lucid Game Wallpaper work.

Alf The Helper: A fee!?? What fee?
Elderly: You didn't think I was going to post these monstrocities for nothing?
Alf The Helper: Am well... I hadn't thought about.. But Yes!, ...I thought I was helping out!
Elderly: Well your not, So I'm deducting an appropriate fee from this week's wages.
Alf The Helper: But.. I can't afford...
Elderly: Too late they're up
Alf The Helper: : (

Alf's Game Wallpaper Mashups part 1

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Hitman Absolution Wallpaper, Trailer and Facebook Cover

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Hitman Absolution is an upcoming stealth game developed by IO Interactive, and if my count is right, the fifth outing for agent 47.  Set for release for Xbox 360, Ps3 and Microsoft Windows on November 20th. 

Hunted by the police Agent 47 finds himself the centre of a dark conspiracy and must
"embark on a personal journey through a corrupt and twisted world, in his search for the truth"

Apart from the deadly defrocking nuns and the chance to dress as a chipmunk,  Hitman Absolution promises a "familiar and yet significantly different experience from other Hitman games."

Roll the projector there Alf!!

Official Website

Dead or Alive 5 Character Wallpaper

Kasumi

 

Ayane

 

Leifang

 

Hitomi

After the last demented game wallpaper mashup, I am happy to announce that Alf the Helper is once again back on his medication and producing some fanmade Game Wallpaper that has some semblance to normality.

Having locked the little fellow in a room for a day without food or water, he hasn't let me down.  The fact he's gone off and produced 16 of these is... well... proof that a tight employee regime always gets results.

Dead or Alive 5 is the soon to be released (25th-28th September) fifth instalment in the DOA series by Team Ninja (if we ignore the volleybobble outings).  A debut for the series on the Ps3 and featuring guest appearances by members of Sega's Virtua Fighter Team.

The above wallpaper a selection from:
Ayane, Kokoro, Hayate and Akira DOA 5 wallpaper on Just Walls Blog
Kasumi, Christie, Tina and La Mariposa DOA 5 wallpaper on Beauty Re-rendered Blog
Hitomi, Sarah Bryant, Pai Chan, and Mila DOA 5 wallpaper on Rendered Bits Blog
Leifang, Bayman, Hayabusa and Helena DOA 5 wallpaper on Eyesurfing Blog
UPDATE! Dead or Alive Facebook Cover photos on Eyesurfing Blog

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Alf's Game Wallpaper Mashups

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From the demented mind of an obviously under worked employee of this blog, as featured on Just Walls .  May I take this opportunity to apologise to all concerned, but occasionally the little fella forgets to take his medication..... sorry!

 

(...i'll kill him!!)

 

Elderly: Alf!!!! get in here!!!

 

Alf's Game Wallpaper Mashups part 2

Fanmade Assassins Creed 3 Wallpaper

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Ratatooh... Ratonheeennn...Ratteehkeee..ttt..

Elderly: Alf!!
Alf The Helper:  Ratonhnhaké:ton

Also known as Connor Kenway, principal character in the any day now (30/31 October) fifth instalment of the Assassin's Creed series by Ubisoft.  Please forgive Alf, who decided that a temporary loss of imagination was no reason to give up wallpaper painting, resorting to design concepts for The Walking Dead and Modern Warfare 3.

Alf the Helper: sorry! :(

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Game Wallpaper and Websites edition 8

 Auto Assault 2006 size 1366x768

N3 Ninety Nine Nights sized 1280x720

God of War Ps2 sized 1280x960

Red Steel 2006 sized 1366x768

Greetings dear webternet traveller, once again I've set out on my pilgrimage and brought back some essential game wallpaper for you.  In my eternal search for the best, the cheapest and the almost forgotten gems of gaming legend, it appears, that unless there's a series or a franchise, six years can render a game website redundant.  Sniff!
But the images live on....

Auto Assault: Released April 2006 for PC, was a MMOAG combining vehicular combat and rpg elements, set in a post apocalyptic future.  Shutdown 2007 due to lack of subscribers.
Official Fansite still up!

N3 Ninety Nine Nights: Released April 2006, a fantasy hack and slash xbox 360 exclusive.
Website is gone and this is kinda cheating, but...
Website (in Japanese from the Wayback machine)

God of War: Released March 2005 for Ps2, third person action action adventure, with the series still going strong and expecting a new release March 2013 in the shape of God of War:Ascension. 
Official God of War Ascension website

Red Steel: Wii exclusive released 2006, first person shooter with a sequel released 2010.  Original Game website is gone to be replaced with i'ts sequel
Red Steel 2 Site

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Alf The Helper: Mister Elderly, mister elderly!!!!
Elderly: What?
Alf The Helper: I've got a reply from your "Adopt an Alf, everyone should have one" advertisement
Elderly: Never your shi.. kidding me!!
Alf The Helper: No look!!!

(Elderly reads the drawn out missive and sighs....)

Elderly: Alf...they're cannibals!!!!
Alf The Helper: :( but... how the....GULP! Cannibals?
Elderly: ..mind you that is not necessarily a bad thing..
Alf The Helper: huh!?
Elderly: It would open your mind to new experiences.. and erm
Alf The Helper: No frickin way!!!!!! I'm not going...
Elderly:  ..me and my bloody mouth.... :(

Darksiders 2 Wallpaper

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One of the delights of getting older is the opportunity it affords you to regre....

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scuse me....

Elderly: ? .. Alf!! new script!!! I've used this already....
Alf The Helper: Right away mr. Elderly....

It was a hot Summer night and the beach was burning, there was fog crawling over the sa....

Elderly:...ALF!!!! really!??.....Meatloaf?..
Alf The Helper: that's all we got mr. Elderly, you haven't written a new script in months....
Elderly: Right, well that's because,  I'm erm.. very busy at present... okay I'll adlib...

It was a hot Summer night, and in a dark dusty blogger backroom, something stirred.  A small diminutive figure...

? scuse me...

Elderly: Alf can I say small and dimutative in the same sentence...?
Alf the Helper: I don't see why not....

..figure worked feverishly.  A fog came crawling over the sand, encircling the lonely figure.  Listening to his heart he could hear the whole world burning, and he knew that if ever he was going to make the next Wallpaper post on the Elderly Gamer he was going to have to...

Elderly: No this is useless I'm not feeling it...
Alf the Helper: Well they say a picture paints a thousand words...
Elderly: Alf!! genius.....You took the words right out of my mouth!! :)
Alf the Helper: 8(

.......some Darksiders II Fanmade Wallpaper for your delectation

Official Website
Fan site for Joe Madureira concept artist on Darksiders I and II
Darksiders II Wiki
Darksiders II Walkthrough

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Persona 4 Arena Review Summary and Wallpaper

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For Xbox 360 and Ps3, Persona 4: Arena is a narrative heavy, 2D fighting game follow up to the cult hit JRPG series, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona by Atlus.  The game was released in the US on August 7th and a release in the EU.. when they get round to it.. is set for September 7th.

The Plot
Featuring characters from Persona 3 and Persona 4, the game focuses on a fighting tournament that takes place in an alternative reality, best described as the TV World.  In Arena, Players are able to  follow individual characters through story mode, or take the game online to wreak havoc with your fighting skills.

Reception
Famitsu, the best selling Japanese gaming magazine, with four separate reviewers, gave the game a score of 36/40 90%.  Whilst Metacritic gave the Ps3 version a resounding 86% and the xbox 360 84%.

Trivia
The game has earned itself the rather embarassing accolade of being the first region locked game on PlayStation 3.  The reason, according to those that know, is to prevent re-importation. Huh!? the game includes both a Japanese and an Engish audio and apparently Japanese players would have been able to import the Us version at a far lower price than sold in Japan.

Quote of the bunch:
"It weaves the majesty and imagination of one of the best role playing franchises of all-time into the snarling bravado of a one-on-one brawler so effortlessly, one wonders why it's never been done so well until now. -IGN

Reviews Summary
A fantastically realized fighting game
Easily stand out even in the crowded fighting game segment.
Approachable, deep gameplay, staggeringly beautiful.
If you're a JRPG or fighter fanatic with even a hint of interest in the other genre, P4A is an absolute must-buy.
It has a robust story, an interesting system, a magnificent roster, and wonderful music
An elaborate yet engrossing fighter that packs a ton of content suffers from a few design choices.
Mastering the mechanics of this engine involves a lot of time and effort in the training room.
These are fighters you can care about, and this is a fighting game everyone should play.

Official Website (froze in my IE9, fine in Safari)

Alf the Helper: Mr. elderly, mr. elderly!..... there is no  popcorn!!
Elderly: No Alf there isn't..
Alf the Helper: But that means I won't have any popcorn ready for when the viewers arrive
Elderly: You mean you won't have a chance to burn the popcorn again...
Alf the Helper: oh ... yes, right... I see... :(

(....Alf saunters off dejectedly)

Risen 2: Dark Waters, Trailer, Wallpaper and Popcorn

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Ahoy!!! me hearties!! Tis I elderly beneath this rather fetchin pirate suit...itchy.. but fetchin  :) For what  I hears ya say is I dressed in such apparel... arrr!!! tis a good question... Well shiver me timbers, this like this...(cough...splutter..)

....I can't keep this up.... so here's the gen on Risen 2 Dark Waters.  Erm...the  popcorn will be here shortly once Alf finishes his costume preparations....

Risen 2: Dark Waters is a Caribean pirate themed single player action rpg.

Released for Microsoft Windows April 2012, and due on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 3rd August 2012.

The monsters from the deep you encountered in the first title have pushed humanity to the brink of existence. Rumours suggest the pirates of the Southern Islands know a way to stop this terror. Now a member of the Inquisition,  you are sent out to end the chaos.

You play the nameless hero from the first game, starting with a basic stat sheet and an automatic levelling system you must earn and spend experience points to develop your skills.  Risen 2 steers away from the "faction" element of it's predecessor to attempt a more focussed storyline and it's now got guns instead of the old crossbows.

Unfortunately the Windows version got a mixed reception with Metacritic awarding a 69% from 51 critic reviews.

Official Website
Youtube channel, includes some "mood" trailers and "making of" clips

Alf: Popcorns ready :)
Elderly: Alf!!! what are you wearing!!?
Alf: What! this?.. it's my pirate outfit!!
Elderly: ...an off the shoulder.. pirate outfit!?
Alf: Gulp!!!... 8( oops!...erm.. ye old bar wench costume mixup.... my bad! :(
Elderly: .....
Alf: Scuse me...I'll just .....change..  :(

Rosh Online The Return of Karos mmorpg Wallpaper

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Rosh Online The Return of of Karos, is a free to play online mmorpg, and essentially an upgraded version of Karos Online.

Based in a world torn by blood, the once peaceful ROSH council has fallen to the Ismaul clan. Now warriors around the kingdom are taking up arms to usurp the Ismaul and restore the council that once brought peace and democracy to the land,

The game features a faster leveling system, a competive PvE "etreme instance dungeon",  hunting, fishing, and mining to forge powerful armor sets and an ubiquitous, faction warfare element.

Official Game Site


Alf The Helper: Edible game wallpaper, whatever will  they think of next!?
Elderly: No Alf! scrumptious as in ..sigh!....no forget it....
Alf The Helper: I'll get the salt and vinegar....
Elderly: Sigh!!!

Pandora's Tower Wii Game Review Summary

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Released for Wii in Eu and Australia on 13th of April 2012.

Despite an online fan campaign "Operation Rainfall" to release the game for US audiences, no word to date of any such plans by Nintendo

The Plot
Your friend Elena is cursed, doomed to mutate into a demonic abomination unless you can free her from her horrible fate. Armed with the Oraclos Chain you must devour the flesh of the various monsters that inhabit the game's 13 towers.  You play as Aeron and pivotal to the game's multiple endings' is the relationship you nurture with Elena as you progress through the game. The monsters? Giant armored squid, fiery beasts and powerful pachyderms!!

The Scores
Released last May in Japan, Famitsu Magazines gave it a 77% rating, it's Western release scoring a respectable but borderline 74% on Metacritic, with the game's controls  and graphics engine coming under fire.

Quote of the bunch:

"Yet if at times it seems ugly, confused and repetitive, at others it's creative, gripping and wonderfully atmospheric. ." IGN

Reviews Summary
A true mature story of illness and love, a dark, and deep tale wrapped in old-school game design.
Some clever ideas at work here, but a lack of gameplay refinement and bland storytelling fail to make the most of it
Not as monumental as Xenoblade Chronicles but nonetheless you experience an exciting and moving adventure.
This a clunky action title – albeit one with a flicker of genuine emotion at its heart.

Clumsy it may be, but this is the perfect pick-me-up for Wii owners with post-Skyloft blues

With an identity of its own, some clever ideas and a well written story, Pandora's Tower can be quite charming

Pandora´s Tower is a game that takes its time to reveal its own charm and qualities

An average-to-good hack and slash  hobbled by some off the shelf RPG elements and ultimately tiresome - girlfriend management system

Official Website EU

Official Website Japan

 

 

Alf the Helper: Hey mr.Elderly the Amazon guy is back again!!!!

(Elderly enters, delivers a well placed slap to the back of Alf's neck, then leaves...)

Alf the Helper: Ouchhhh!...What!!! What did I do!!?? right!!! well that's the last time I'm telling you about the Amazon guy..... jeescchhhhh!!!!

(Elderly re-enters... Alf runs for cover.... to be continued...)

Witcher 2 Assassins of Kings Game Wallpaper 壁紙

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Obsessed? Me? .....never....

Witcher 2 Official Website

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Mass Effect 3 Game Wallpaper 壁紙 Fond d'écran

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Since November 2007 we've been nursing those save game files, and now the reward, 1,000 variables that will help shape how the final chapter is experienced.  Improved AI, instant melee kills, more conventional grenades, the new femshep, A four player multiplayer co-op,  saving the galaxy from the Reapers for one last time. Please EA don't milk it.

Official Website

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Alf the Helper: So you haven't heard
Elderly: What! haven't heard what!?
Alf the Helper: gulp!.. Game UK won't be stocking the game
Elderly: Ha ha, nice one, very funny.. wait your serious..
Alf the Helper: Sorry Elderly fraid so, here I've got the link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/17210489

Elderly: :(
Alf the Helper: Tea?
Elderly: please.... Alf!?
Alf the Helper: Yes mr.Elderly
Elderly: Any idea if they've shot those sub-prime lenders yet!?
Alf the Helper: ....no mr.Elderly, no they haven't...sorry