In review... PAYDAY: The Heist.

Hello everyone, as you all know the holiday season is coming up and Halloween is just around the corner.

As some of you may not know, this is quite an important time in the video game industry, it gives big publishers a running jump at Christmas and it gives smaller or indie publishers a chance to release their games more around Halloween so they can avoid the big name titles later in the year.

Now a lot of people have been reviewing Batman: Arkam City, don't get me wrong it's a good game, but it saddens me when alot of reviews focus on one thing, because they can miss some real gems.

One of those gems that I will show you today is PAYDAY: The Heist, if you are tired of the shenanigans of the caped crusader why not try playing for the other team once is a while?

Why so serious?

Being a game that is the logical opposite to Batman, you play as one of four clown-masked criminals in a series of heists and other illegal activity.

PAYDAY: The Heist has a very strong emphasis on co-operation bearing some similarities to the popular zombie shooter Left 4 Dead.

During heists you will be given certain objectives that you will need your entire teams help to complete efficiently, these objectives range from... tying up hostages for future negotiation, attaching drills and saws to break through bank doors or planting explosives on a nearby wall to create a get-away route.

With so many roles to play in a team this is defiantly a multiplayer focused game.

(Although it is playable in single player, they are releasing patches to make the AI smarter, but currently they just follow you around and try and keep you safe.)

Don't be fooled though, even if you get a good team together the game can be very difficult, the long arm of the law will do everything in its power to apprehend you and lock you up.

Once a heist start it will be around 1-2 minutes before the police arrive on scene, after that its all down hill, sending it SWAT teams, riot squads, snipers, sometimes even resorting to special forces and FBI agents.

Once the siege begins it isn't really a case of IF you get captured but WHEN, so it's very important to keep moving, get the money and get out.



Games can typically last 30-45 minutes, they can be much longer and much more intense if the police are doing well... I remember a match where we were robbing some drug dealers of their 'hard-earned' cash and the police stormed in, 2 of my buddies were arrested and the other one was shot to bits and on the ground.

After a long shootout I managed to get to my injured partner in crime and get him on his feet, together we fought off the police temporarily, and then negotiated to get our other 2 buddies back by releasing some hostages, the group was back at full strength again and the police were very angry, we got away with the money but we were all sweating bullets on that final chase.

All in all a very good game, on top of all this there is also a leveling system, every time you complete an objective you can Notoriety, every time you hit a certain limit you level up, giving you new items and abilities.

(such as new weapons, body armour, carrying spare ammo, more handcuffs etc.)




One of my only complaints is the lack of ability to change graphics mods, you can change resolution but thats about it, all in all not too much of a problem the game is very well optimized and I havent heard many complaints on how it performs.

Long story very short, if you are looking for something to sit down with friends and have a criminally good time this game is for you

Just dont rob any banks in Gotham... seriously no amount of money is worth it.

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The Battle of Thermopylae, 300.

Well hello everyone, I do apologies for the delay, not only has my computer been not too well, but I thought someone had stolen my wallet, after cancelling all my card it turns back up... always the way isn't it?

Here we are back to our Spartan buddies and their finest hour.

The Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 brave (suicidal) Spartan soldiers held the line against a Persian force of something between 100'000 and 300'000 (i.e. a lot)

Now what most interpritations of 300 don't tell you, is the Greeks had a line infront of the Spartans consisting of 7000 men, with which they held off the Persian invaders for 7 days before the Spartan rear line had to go into the fray, pretty impressive if you ask me, and a shame most people leave it out.

As most of you know 'The Battle of Thermopylae' was mainly famous for the tactic of condensing numbers to remove a significant advantage from the enemy, even though the Spartans were few in number, the 'hot gates' (named not due to the gates of Hades as perceived, but the hot springs that surrounded the area) forced the enemy to fight on equal number.

Now to be brutally honest, I'm not sure how many forces at the time aside from the Spartans could have pulled this tactic off, think about it, fighting the enemy on equal number is a nice boon, but you still have the issue of they can constantly reinforce.

As you keep striking down waves of opponents you're getting tired, and your morale begins to falter.

Yet each fresh faced new group of cannon fodder that assaults you will be eager and energetic.



Basically if it wasn't for the Spartan training of to fight hard and to keep fighting till the end, I honestly don't think they would have made much of an impact.

Well thats all I have to say on one of the greatest battles of history, 300 Spartans and 7000 Greeks VS 100'000 - 300'000 Persians... is not a bad kill ratio at all.

Till next time everyone.