Game Review : Eternal Sonata

Eternal Sonata is both combination three elements, a touching and yet promising storyline, a game with a world of full desires and imagination, and also a game filled with bitter, sweet and tear-dropping musics.

Eternal Sonata was previously made exclusively for the Microsoft XBox consoles., known as Trusty Bell. It receives high rating for a very cartooned game. It received a score of 8.5 upon 10 from Gamespot.com, a famous critic in the gaming world.

Part of the Team
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Prince Crescendo Under Attack
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Eternal Sonata still possess the old RPG game battle system where characters take turns to attack the enemies, so does the enemies. Fulfilling the break gauge could cause the enemies to receive more damage than usual. Combination of sequence attacks could fill the gauge in a fast pace. Although character take turns to attack, the strategy and planning of every move is important, but the most troublesome problem is that a character must take make their moves in a period of time, and as the gamer go deeper into the game. Subsequently, every move that the gamer make will slightly increase the time.

Magical Attacks
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Ranging from physical attacks to magical attacks, Player first view attacks with a bow, the rich color of the game as shown in the picture above would leave gamers not want to stop playing. In addition, the background of the battle scenes are beautifully created, though one of the negative side of the battle scenes is repetition of background.

The soundtrack of the game is very touching, soothing and some can make gamers feel the heat of battles in the game. Even the soundtrack CD is out a few months after the release of the game. The soundtrack is a must buy if gamers love this game as much as I do.

Funny enough, the characters in the game are named after musical instruments, for instances, Claves, Falselto , Jazz and the great deceased musician, Federick Chopin.


Ups:

• Easy to navigate
• Brilliant colours
• Nice storyline (definitely one of the best)
• Nice battle system

Downs:

• Limited exploration
• Might spend too much time training characters
• No turning back if things that are supposed to happen, did not. (might lose some equipments)
• Easily lost in certain scenes
  

For my rating, I'd definitely give this game a 9/10 , with one point taken away because of the time and limitation on exploring maps.

3th : Apple

3th : Apple

Apple is perhaps the most secretive company. It has been a policy to them not to announce and keep their upcoming product a secret. That is why their rival, Microsoft, are having a big trouble tracking their activities.

In the 2010, nothing can be expected from Apple. One thing for sure is the newest released of their product, the IPad. People view IPad as an IPod Touch on steroid. The design is basically like an iPhone but with bigger screen.

The IPad has a powerful processor and graphic subsystem, comes with a capable OS than the iPhone runs, 10.6inch multitouch screen and hace wireless Internet access through Wi-Fi and 3G.

Other than that, all Apple products will be focusing on Intel's latest Core i5 and i7 CPUs. Laptops will be getting thinner and might take on slight design changes and probably see battery life improvements. The Mac Pro desktops will be needing upgrades but the iMac line is already set till late 2010.

Not much updates can be seen on Apple but time will tell.

4th : Microsoft

4th: Microsoft

When Microsoft is being talked, the first thing that comes to our attention will be the Operating System (OS). The Windows has been on the field for almost 3 decades since they first announced a graphical interface OS. Windows OS is the most used OS today if compared to the likes of Apple and Linux.

The newest OS, Windows 7 has been released to the market, but it is heavily promoted during early 2010, and it is still going on. The software has been seen acceptable in the market by its users whom expected these functions on its predecessor, Windows Vista. It has been announced that this OS will be taking advantage of the multitouch, environment sensors, quick booting and better battery life. Not only that, Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) was announced that it will loads faster compared to the others on Web application like Facebook , Youtube and other heavy websites.

The Microsoft Office 2007 successor will be the Microsoft Office 2010. Slight changes in the interface and enhancement in the usability is being focused. Many functions available in its predecessor will still be in used. Not much of a change in the Office.

The one thing that the office offers is the Office Web Apps. It offers users an online platform for sharing and editing, which could keep them from trying out the Google Docs. Users are expect to see a version of this office on the Windows Mobile phones.

Other heavy project like Project Natal will provide gamers on the XBox 360 a new way to control and interact with the consoles. It detects the human movement and it will affect the game play. New consoles for XBox is not expected this year, thus Project Natal will keep the XBox 360 alive this year.

5th : Intel

5th : Intel

After going through the 6th place, Nvidia, lets take a look at the 5th place, Intel. 2009 is a great year for Intel. They secured their place as the world best CPU producer. There were virtually no competition at the high end of desktop market at all. From Core 2 series to Quad Core series, Intel took at big leap into the core i-Series CPU.

The year 2010 would be a great year for Intel. the Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs will take over their older siblings, the Core 2s, slowly but will dominates them phases by phases. However, there are more up to join the i5 and i7, which are the i3 and i9.

The most unique about the i3 is that it will be the first CPU featured with a GPU. This bundled feature will be for costomers to save cost and also paves the way for Intel's CPU-GPU hybrid in the future, making themselves as one of the competitor of Nvidia and ATI.

The i9, which is also known as Gultown will utilize the HyperThreading technology, in a result of hving six cores (12 threads). The i9 would be the best processor at performance slot, but in return, it will need more power supply and also produces more heat, which is not a problem for customer that has a good air ventilation and also the sufficient high PSU. Plus, the motherboards for these CPUs will support SATA 3 interfaces and also USB 3.0 for speedy peripherals.

On the laptop platform, high performances machines is intended for mobile CPUs. The core i-series mobile CPUs will include quad-core, eight-threaded chips as well as ultra-low voltage consumption ones. Core will adjust their speed and power on the fly depending on the work load they're facing.

On the server chips hand, the Nehalem-EX ,with the EX stands for expandable, and Westmere-EP, with the EP stands for efficient performance, architectures carry Core i-series designs into the server space with potential for multi-CPU configurations which would scale to immense processing capabilities. EX chips with 8 cores and HyperThreading each could be combined in 8 way systems with a staggering 128 simultaneous threads running.

Last but not least, the Atom CPUs will evolve with Pine Trail generation. With the Pine Trail, it will replace the current set which are usually found on netbooks. These will also combine the CPU, graphics and memory controller into a single die, and should therefore find homes in even smaller devices with longer battery lives.

My Comment:
Intel will certainly wipe the floor clean this year. With no competitors up to challenge them, Intel will dominate the CPU industry. Without a doubt, Intel is one of the most powerful player in the Information Technology field. Thank You Intel!

Gigantic IT Groups

The Information Technology(IT) took years to evolve, but in such a short 10 years, the IT field can be considered as one of the best revolution in the world. When someone is talking about IT, the term "Computer" is always in his or her mind. Dated back to the 1930s, the actual of the origin of the computing field was established.

The Computing field was never the same in the mid 90s where Internet was introduced to the world. With the World Wide Web (WWW), the computing field changed from a minor field to one of the most important field today. Names such as Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google and NVIDIA became more and more famous.

Let's us review the Gigantic IT Groups on what they are into in year 2010. I'm going to start off with :

6th : NVIDIA

NVIDIA is to be considered as the world biggest Graphics Cards distributor and also creator. Nvidia's most famous Graphics Cards are most probably the GeForce family. As of late, the GeForce find themselves hard to keep its crown on its head although there are a lot of changes throughout the year but their performance stagnated a little of late. Big changes are about to be witnessed by people in this field as Nvidia will make an dramatic entrance to 2010 with its GTX 3xx series. This is because this series will receive totally fresh new architecture. Under the codename "Fermi", it consumes lesser power (voltage) and improves clock speeds and it will fully utilize the 256bit GDDR5 Ram with higher clock speeds and it may even overpowered the current cards available.

Nvidia's workstation card series, Tesla, has been updated into Tesla 20 cards in its architecture. Fermi's complexity is higher than expected, but it can be utilized and used by low-end chips such as entry-level desktop parts. The Tesla version includes full set features for higer double-precision floating points and also correcting errors in the memory itself. Tesla will be found in workstations such as super computers and others. Farmi work natively with C++ programming as heavy loads of GPU processes will be allowed to take place without problems.

Not to forget about Nvidia's introduction of 3D Vision.



The 3D Vision will allow users or gamers to feel the 3D effects of the game. With the technology itself, this particular invention will bring gamers to another level of gaming as Gamers will feel and enjoy their 3D games. However, the compatibility problem is still here, but in 2010, 3D LCD screens are to be expected in the market. LG plans to fully support the project as well to develop 3D LCD Screens for notebook, in which they will bring their 120Hz notebook panels to another level too. Not only that, the 2010 Laptops will be embedded with 3D LCD screens too to allow user to utilize this technology.

First Post - Blog Introduction

This blog is for my assignment which cost 30%. So I hope you guys will like it and leave a comment on any place that needs its improvements. Do suggest on which topic you, my readers want. I'll try my best to cope with the topic that you suggest.

This blog will be used to write things about Information Technology, ranging from Hardware, Software to Games and Big IT Groups like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. I will also be doing reviews on them as well. If it is possible, I will also be doing the Highlight of the Month from certain magazines, such as from CHIP, HMW and others.

Lastly, I'll be modifying the whole blog background and add in other features such as a Chatbox, a list of URL to my other friend's blog and others. Please bare with me for at least a week or two to get things settled down.