Mass Effect

Mass Effect is a military science fiction game based on the third player shooter, developed by BioWare, and released on Xbox, play station 3 & 4, and Microsoft Windows. The original trilogy based on a soldier named Commander Shepard, whose mission is to save the space from the Reapers and their agents- mechanical beings.

The Mass Effect trilogy based on the fictional version of Milky Way toward the end of the 22^nd century. In 2148, humanity found an alien outpost on Mars, and discover that Charon is an alien relic known as a "mass transfer" that empowers quicker than-light travel to different mass transfers situated over the galaxy. Humanity comes into contact with various other space-faring alien species, some undeniably further developed than humans. Humanity's first experience brought about the First Contact War, however the Council, a decision body for the system, mediated to accomplish harmony and invited humanity. Among the species, humanity meets include the Asari, a race of mono gendered creatures intently taking after blue-skinned human ladies; the Salarians, a land and/or water capable species with significant innovative ability; and the Turians, a vigorously militaristic race of raptor-like humanoids who battled humanity in the First Contact War.

Mass Effect game is an action role-playing game. The player alters their type of the game's key character (Shepard for the initial three games, and Ryder for Mass Effect: Andromeda) in light of physical appearance, foundation, and one of six character classes, each class revolved around a couple of specializations in combat, innovation, or "biotic" (enchantment like) aptitudes. This sets up an expertise tree that the player can progress through as their character picks up experience levels through finishing missions. Each game for the most part follows a principle story pathway with purposes of fanning accounts and different side missions, permitting the player to continue through the game as they want. Both story and discretionary crucial regularly include utilizing their boat to travel through the mass transfer to remote star frameworks and investigate planets to discover target destinations. The game uses an over the shoulder point of view much the same as a third-person shooter and highlights a cover system that permits players to deliberately take cover behind objects while battling enemy forces. The player may likewise give requests to the squad individuals, for example, sending them to seek shelter behind an article, scout ahead, regroup or center their fire around an assigned target.

Weapons extend from guns to shotguns, assault rifles, and sniper rifles. Albeit every one of them have boundless ammunition, they overheat whenever terminated constantly for delayed periods. Furthermore, the player can utilize grenades that lock onto targets or level surfaces to be remotely exploded. Shepard and the squad individuals are secured by a health bar and harm retaining shields. The health bar just takes harm once the shields have been crushed, yet environmental hazards like warmth or poisonous operators may legitimately influence the health bar on the off chance that they are not nullified completely by wearing suitable protective layer. The health bar can be reestablished with the utilization of things called Medi-gels, while shields naturally recover when not taking fire for a concise period. A few abilities and gear things can improve the recuperating rate or shield recovery. The player can restore fallen squad individuals with the utilization of the Unity ability. In any case, if Shepard dies, the player must begin the game again from the last spared point.

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The Last of Us

The Last of Us is a 2013 activity experience game created by Naughty Dog and distributed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Players control Joel, a bootlegger entrusted with accompanying a young lady, Ellie, over a dystopian United States. The Last of Us is played from a third-individual point of view. Players use guns and ad libbed weapons, and can utilize covertness to safeguard against unfriendly people and inhuman animals tainted by a transformed strain of the Cordyceps parasite. In the online multiplayer mode, up to eight players take part in helpful and serious ongoing interaction. Advancement of The Last of Us started in 2009, not long after the arrival of Naughty Dog's past game, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Without precedent for the organization's history, Naughty Dog split into two groups; while one group created Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, the other half built up The Last of Us. The connection among Joel and Ellie turned into the center, with every single other component created around it. Entertainers Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson depicted Joel and Ellie separately through voice and movement catch, and helped innovative executive Neil Druckmann with the improvement of the characters and story. The first score was created and performed by Gustavo Santaolalla. In June 2013 Last of Us was released for PlayStation 3 and in 2014 for PlayStation 4.This is where last of us became one of the bestselling video games of all time. They sold over 1.3 million units in their first week and 18 million in April 2018. The game won several awards and in many places it is cited that it’s one of the greatest video games ever made. Several different modes were brought to the game such as single player campaigns with different characters. The sequel continues and last of us part 2 is set for release this June 2020.

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The Unsung heroes of our Society

Lunch with Traffic Warden

During our initial interaction with traffic police warden we talked to one of the traffic wardens, Sub Inspector (SI) Ahmed, who was willing to sit down with us for lunch and talk about his experience. So we agreed on a time and date and decided to meet on 13^th of May. Thus, 13^th May, we had lunch with SI Ahmed Faraz and he explained his thankless job, how he faces abuse by traffic violators daily, and he hasn’t received a promotion in over three decades. At a salary of Rs35, 000 per month, and shifts that can stretch for over twelve hours, it’s a wonder that he and the other traffic policemen continue to show up for work every day. Traffic policemen are routinely harassed by traffic law violators. SI Ahmed explained how the people get mad at him even when they are in the wrong. All kinds of insults and lectures are thrown when the wardens are simply doing their duties. “We tell people to wear helmets, seatbelts, licenses, and they act like it's some kind of crime!” he exclaims. We asked about whether there are any health implication from doing such a strenuous job and explanation that was given soon made us realize that his job is a health hazard. When Ahmed had breathing problems, he was told by the doctor that the amount of dust he inhaled every day on duty was the same was the amount of dust that came off his uniform every day. Aside from falling sick from time to time, the roar of traffic also affects the hearing. We can also attest to the loudness as well. Although we were with the warden briefly, the noise of the traffic was a constant nuisance. There are no breaks either. Ahmed explain how those if there is a morning shift, you arrive at 7:30 and leave at 3:30 in the afternoon. The second shift stays till 11:30pm. If there is a rally, protest, traffic jam or a VIP movement – the nine-hour shift can stretch to 12, 16 or even 24 hours. No day is off, not even weekends. After an insightful conversation over lunch we bid SI Ahmed Faraz farewell and left for our homes with a heavy heart as we realized how that these unsung heroes sacrifice so much for our safety and in return get nothing. We should learn to respect the traffic wardens who are out each day to protect us and strictly adhere to the traffic rules put in place!

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Counter Strike Global offensive

Counterstrike global offensive CS Go is a multiplayer first person shooter game developed by value the owners of Steam gaming engine. It is the fourth game of the series of counter strike and was released for windows, Xbox and PlayStation 3 back in August 2012. This game includes two teams which hare the Counter terrorists and the terrorists. It depends on the game mode, the terrorist must plant the bomb or defend the hostages while the counter terrorists must either prevent the bomb from being planted, defuse the bomb or rescue the hostages. There are mini fun game types in it as well. Value also allows its players to host dedicated servers and can play with the community and their friends. A battle royal mode “Danger zone” was also released in 2018.

Counter strike is praised for its game play and the loyal community which are playing counter strike since their first release. It has drawn in an estimate of 11 million players per month and has managed some high octane tournaments and competitive matches. Many of the matches are sponsored by Valve itself. They have a ranking system in the competitive matches too. Which start from silver one and ends on Global Elite. Global Elite is the highest of all and to reach that rank an individual must at least play a minimum of 1000 hours to reach that level. Counter strike has servers all around the globe which allows players to play on lower latency and get a smooth game play experience. There have been several spin offs titles created by Chinese creators in the market over the years such as Counter strike online series, Counter strike Neo and counter strike Nexon Studio. In 2018 value transitioned the game to a free to play model and now they are focusing on revenue from the skins and cosmetic items in game. Which are of high value and the prices vary from 40$ to 2500$ and even more.

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VALORANT

Valorant is a free-to-play first-person multiplayer shooter for Microsoft Windows, developed and published by Riot Games. The game was announced in October 2019, under the code name Project A, and released on June 2, 2020. Valorant is a team-based tactical shooter and first-person shooter set in the near future. Players take control of agents, characters from a multitude of countries and cultures worldwide. In the main game mode, players either form an attacking or defending team of five players on each side.  Agents have unique capabilities and use an economic system to buy skills and weapons. The game has a variety of weapons including sidearms, sub-machine guns, shotguns, machine guns, assault rifles, and sniper rifles. Automatic weapons such as the "Spectre" and "Odin" have recoil patterns that the player must control to shoot accurately. The game is played over 25 rounds in standard game mode and the first team to win 13 rounds wins the game. The attacking team has a bomb which they need to plant on a building, called the Spike. If the attacking team protects the Spike successfully and it detonates, then they get a point. If the defending team defuses the Spike successfully, or if the 100-second round timer expires, the defending team gets a point. If all of a team's members are eliminated, the opposing team earns a point. The attacking team turns to defending team after twelve rounds, and vice versa. The game is played over 7 rounds in the Spike Rush mode so the first team to win 4 rounds wins the game. To further reduce the length of the game play, load outs are every round at random and each attacking player carries the spike they can plant at any site. It may not be the prettiest modern FPS around, but its visual simplicity allows for outstanding clarity in any war. Valorant makes me want to keep playing until there's nothing left to master with its teeth sunk in this deep.

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BUBBLE TROUBLE

Initially released as a Flash game in May 2007, and as of January 2017 is using HTML 5 which can also be played online and on your mobile. Bubble Trouble was made by Kresimir Cvitanovic. Bubble Trouble is a web browser game (desktop and mobile). We also have the Android and iOS versions.  Bubble Trouble is a great retro shooter game where you control a single character that has to shoot all the bubbles down. The bubbles bounce around the level and get smaller as you shoot them each time you shoot a bubble it splits into several smaller ones you have to take the bounce into account and try shooting the bubbles without them landing on you. You only have a certain time limit to complete each level and you must try to remove as quickly as possible all the bubbles. You have to look out for the power-ups that fall when you break the bubbles too, such as an arrow that raises the bubbles' bounce height. Most of the time the timer clock also falls down which is my most favorite because it increases the time limit. This game has two game modes for single players and also for multi players so you can challenge yourself or play against friends and family. The features of this game are that you can play with your friend; the bubbles will become smaller until they disappear, different power-ups to collect when you shoot a bubble, various balloon colors. In the first level you have to only shoot one ball and as soon as you move to the next levels the sizes and the number of balls increase and also the difficulty level increases too. To play this game you have to use the left and right arrow to move and the space bar button to shoot the balls. The graphics of the game are also really good and the game is very addicting.

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