The Corrupt Regulator Chronicles 2012

These are the 2012 episodes of the "Corrupt Regulator Chronicles" with trailers the full thing can be seen here. 

Left 4 SGC

This campaign features The Hanged Man as Zoey, Shishkebab and Evilghost108 both make their first appearance as Francis/Bill and Louis.

"The song has ended, but the story must always continue..."

After the events at the Sacrifice bridge, The Hanged Man was resurrected thanks to a device labelled "Deus Ex Machina" which resurrected him. 

Now he, Ghost and a bot (and Shish I suppose...) must escape the droning Spanish guy on the radio and go on an adventure which is truly out of this world!

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Payload Hoodoo

Join the Hanged Engineer, EvilMedic108 and Jamunition... the sniper... To celibate the new "man vs machine" update the corrupt set up a TF2 themed game, now... robots are the least of their troubles.

Feature (no trailer was made)

 

Yama

Join The Hanged Man and ShishkebabJS as they are teleported to Japan in the hope that it's better there. As always they were wrong and now they are stuck in a foreign country with the hordes of hell decending uppon them.

 

Trailer

Resident Evil:Outbreak file 1

Join The Hanged Man, ShishkebabJS and The Collector108 (Evilghost108)
Beginning a new story arch based around the left 4 dead 2 survivors, the corrupt regulators find themselves trapped in Raccoon city. The 3 of them must put aside their differences and find a haven that they can call home.

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User titles

Those who are active members of The Corrupt will recieve the following user titles depending on how much they contribute. You can earn these titles by... Posting on the Corrupt Forum or using the Xfire forum, Uploading content to the site/youtube or being an active member who contributes.

Note: You only need to do 1 of the requirements to advance in rank. Remember: These titles are for fun so achievement boosting will be extremely frowned upon and will result in a ban...

Jockey Saddle

Welcome newbie! Now that the official welcome is over, put this Jockey on your back while our more grizzled Veteran users use it as target practice!

Profligate

Well, you sure got that monkey off your back! Now you have new duties of picking up gascans and hauling ass to fill up whatever we need you to fill up! JUST REMEMBER TO NOT TO SET ANY OF THEM ON FIRE!

Survivor

You have proven your dedication to not having your head chopped off. But you will have to do better than survive to succeed in this world... you must THRIVE!

Wastelander

You've got balls as big as bulls, but being big balled isn't going to be enough to thrive! No sir! You will have noticed that there aren't as many wastelanders as there were survivors? That's because those survivors who didn't become wastelanders... are now dead! Keep your eyes peeled and your wits about you... who knows maybe you will find an unopened Twinkie.

Namvet

Well you have proven to be a badass... even if that's because your buddies have all died of old age in the time that it took to get you here... You are now able to talk about the good old days where you could beat things to a bloody pulp without the EU interviening. But, there is still more for you to do...

Regulator

Description: Ah, you've made it to regulator... a lawman beyond the law! Old people and snot nosed kids are told to look up to you and trust you... what a perfect time to take... profitable advantage eh? Until you do you will never be Corrupt...

Corrupt Regulator

Well, you made it son! Congratulations! Now you may wear our emblem with shame like the rest of us do. Go out there and know that you have served us to the point of greatness! Now go out and bask in your glory!

BASK I SAY!

 

Corrupt Prophet

You are a preacher of all things Corrupt! Congrats! Now get out there and spread the word!

 

Corrupt Governor

"A politician is a man/woman who can speak for hours, but never actually say anything." Well that's you, get to work pissing off your constituents and execute the ones that make too much of a fuss. 

 

Corrupt Hero

You are a hero amongst our little community! For your contributions (beyond that of the average user) you have been recognised to have your name put as a defender of our cause! (whatever it is...) You are now a great friend of our people!

Corrupt Legend

You are stuff of legend, due to your hard work toward being an outstanding member of the community! You will be forever recorded as such on the wall of heroes! (Also known as the little chef rest room) Breathe a sigh of proud relief... you sir, Have earned it!

One Man Cheese Burger Apocalypse!

ALL HAIL THEE! ALL HAIL THEE OF GODLIKE STATUS! 

LORD AND MASTER OF THE CHEESE BURGER!

With this rank you are entitled to one virgin sacrifice a week!

 

 

Livid Dead

YOU ARE DEAD!

You have your reputation points in the bag sure... but it doesn't matter now that you are a lifeless corpse! Wait... do dead people normally walk around? Are they always as peeved as you? Oh no... you're LIVID DEAD!

Lurker

Well you're not completely dead... but you may as well be you just lie there... motionless waiting for folks to come near you so you can jump up and bite their hands off. You lazy zombie!

 

Walker

Well you finally got up off of your lazy ass and gone looking for human flesh to eat... Good for you! But you will have to stand out from the rest of the walkers in order to do well...

 

Ghoul

Well you've got some of your humanity back... but you still look like The Hanged Man and smell like arse! Get out there and stick more people's skin on your face! MORE SKIN NEED MORE SKIIIN!

Roamer

Well... back to walking around the wasteland in search of treasure and brains to eat. Still you're doing good! You haven't been shot in the head yet.

 

Glowing one

 

Wow! You're possitivley... glowing! At least you won't need a flashlight anymore... even if that is because you're full of radiation.

 

Reaver

 

You're well feared amongst zombies and humans alike! Well done now EVERYONE hates you! Except us of course... The Corrupt Still love you.

 

Back amongst the living

 

You're one lucky git you know that? Few people if any get the chance to dance on their own grave... might as well take advantage of the situation huh?

 

Corrupt Myth

After overcoming death (and undeath) itself, some don't believe that you exist... but we know better than that don't we?

 

 

Others:

These can only be achieved through certain requirements, some of them may only applicable to one person...

Guardian of forever

Requirements: Users can only bear this title if they have been chosen by our forum's resident Sex1Sn1per. Guardians are just weaker than mods in powers, but get an awesome title!

Description: You have done a great service to our forum! This has caught the eye of our resident guardian who has recruited you for her cause!

Note: Admins are not able to give people this title and it only truly applies on the corrupt forum... Anyone who is a founder or corrupt hero has surpassed this...

Corrupt Founder

Requirements: To be one of 6 people who founded the group.

Description: You are a Corrupt founder! In fact... why are you reading this you are the ones that bloody wrote all this shit out! Oh well just in case your forgot... You were the one that joined (or created) the Steam group in March 2011 and began this mad tale! You are a well respected member of the group and you have the most authority! Just remember not to abuse it...

Note: Only 6 people can have this title (and they all have it). Meaning there can be no more Corrupt Founders... The existing ones are The Hanged Man, Swift Frostsaber/FlightForm/Froststep, Jamunition, Phantasmagoria

and formally Krambo and Drew.

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here are various banners we have used over the years.

Here is The Hanged Man's great kill count! :D

Dear Esther (2008)

Dear Esther

"I have run out of places to climb, I will abandon this body and take to the air, We will leave twin vapour trails in the air, white lines etched into these rocks, I am the aerial, In my passing, I will send news to each and every star."

Its odd going into the library of mods online, you see the difference between mods and games is that a modder can make brilliance with limited resources or utter shit either way it's free so you tend not to care. A game, however, costs money and THAT is when you do care, whether you will enjoy it or not.

Dear Esther is a unique mod for the source engine which takes control of a nameless protagonist referred to as "The Narrorator." The experience takes place on an island off the coast of Britain and focuses on the journey of the Narrorator as he explores this island and shares his thoughts with the player.

I don't think I can tell you any more than that, the premise itself is sort of lost in the experience and YOU have to play it to find it. That doesn't mean all the answers are going to be thrown at you, however, as there a forums full of people who are currently discussing the experience and what it all means right now.

Dear Esther is more like an interactive story; although you don't really interact with anything you walk through this island and explore it deeper and deeper. For me this was like a voice, but not one I could place repeatedly calling my inner desires telling me to explore deeper. The first time you go through this you will not have a clue what is ahead and what secrets are kept in the island.

What I find most intriguing about Dear Esther is the way that the experience works, it's different in the mod to the game and the mod manages to make you feel lonely and isolated. The game fills the island with more detailed scenery which I'm pretty sure doesn't have the same effect. I say this because I have only played the mod, but from what I've watched online of the game itself the mod and game are suprisinngly similar.

By now you have probably noticed that I have referred to it as an "experience" rather than a "game". That's because Dear Esther shows a unique new initiative in which you aren't required to do anything, but walk forward. This makes the whole thing somewhat short, now before you say "if there is no challenge it cannot be a game" first of all you obviously haven't played any of the Call of Duty games and second Dear Esther doesn't really claim to be a "game" or at least not challenging or any other criticisms people throw at it.

Now before you say "You like it (although I haven't established that yet) and you are denying any criticism towards the game!" This is simply not true, the point I wish to get across is that yes Dear Esther isn't what you would call a game in a regular sense it's more like the crossover between a film and a book. It allows you to go at your own pace like a book and look over the careful scenery, but also you cannot control what happens like a film. This is what makes it somewhat interesting, the idea that you aren't able to defy the game (without it being a rail shooter of course). This isn't what every gamer wants either because they are a well read intellect who reads stories which are better than this every night, or they are impatient call of dutards that have to see something explode every 2 minutes in order to call it a "game" *cough* BLACK OPS *cough* either way both of these people are going to have their own definition of what a "game" is and no one's definition is going to be the same.

This is why this is difficult to recommend.

I personally bloody loved this experience, but I don't think everyone in the world will. I can imagine people saying it's too complicated (which has been said on forums) or it's boring or it's not really a game. But I unlike some am NOT one of those fools who thinks that playing a game which utters a word with more than 3 syllables in it makes me an intellect because that is preposterous. However, I will say that you must have some understanding of the English language to play this. Once again I'm not on the "I'm a brilliant intellectual who wears big glasses (which are just a pair of empty frames) and charge people a fortune to live in my shitty council estate!" group, but I agree that it is going to be difficult to understand for people who don't follow metaphors.

Now before people say "you're directing that to everyone who didn't like it." Like some people have said that's not true either. You see I have my own criticisms about this too and you can really only go in blind into something like this. If you try it and don't like it you shouldn't be shot down for it, I know how some people must feel after spending £10 (or nothing if they got the source mod) for something they do not like.

I got Viewtiful Joe back when it was only 6 months old for £10 and after completing the first level I had a sudden realisation that scared me. I realised that during the time that I spent playing this, I could have invested in a hobby like painting, swimming or self harming and quit the game and threw the console with the game inside it out of the window. Now personally I can't fault anyone for liking that game, but I hated it and feel even now like I wasted £10 which I want back. So I can sympathise with people who have bought this game for £10 and found it to be not their ideal game.

Now before anyone says "hold on, isn't this reviewing the 2008 mod?" "Why didn't you pay for the full game?" "Why did you tell me there were naked women on this page?" I lack the funds to get a credit card and therefore can only review what I got, but from what I've seen of the mod and the game there is little difference, other than the obvious differences like graphics.

As I said before I got off track there, I do have some criticisms about this game, for a start there is the fact that it isn't really a game as I have already established. Also I have found myself getting stuck in the map at times and having to use Noclip to get myself out. Another problem I've had with it is the voice over talking over itself if I walk too far ahead. This cannot always be helped, but it can kill the atmosphere that the game works so hard to create and it's replayable, but you can only really experience it once even if the haunting feeling lasts for days.

So would I recommend this? Yes, but to who? That's a tough question, but I think I can help you out...

Look to your left (or right if you are a smart arse) and look at your games collection, what do you see? If you see CoD, battlefield 3, Turok, Haze and any other high paced action game and you thoroughly enjoy these kinds of games and hammer the buttons on the controller to skip the cut scenes, and then you probably will not like this as a game. If you have a copy of ICO on a pedestal with candles around it covered in incense then you are likely to bloody love it.

If you are truly unsure and own Half Life 2 for PC get the mod before buying the game (like what I did) and see if you like it. If you really loved it then the game version is obviously right up your street and if not... wait why am I telling what to do if you don't like it? I'm not a bloody life coach!

Review: Sniper Elite V2 (Demo) by The Hanged Man

Well anyone one  on Steam who actually made the mistake of adding people to their friends list, has most likely had a bombardment of suggestions, for them to get this game's demo.

Sniper elite does exactly what it says on the tin in the fact that
A. You are a sniper and...
B. You are (supposedly) Elite

You are so elite infact that you have rushed ahead of the rest of the British army! Or at least that is the only logical conclusion I can think of to explain the lack of allied troopers in this game. It's as if they developers honestly believe that there was only 1 super soldier on the british side and it was Hitler who quickly wrote in his diary in his darkest hour, that it was an army, rather than admit that he was over thrown by 1 guy...

I then came to the conclusion that you play as Jimmy Mcperson the unknown war hero only described in history exams from students who don't read books.

Anyway back to the point...

The game focuses on you, a lone sniper who must take out the entire German army in world war 2 IE: 5 guys effectivley in a pretty world war 2 environment. This is my main problem with this game, it focuses too much on being pretty when it is infact not much more than a sniper simulator. Remember in Metal Gear Solid (the original) where you had those VR training sessions? Where you played on tiles made out of ones and zeros and had to dispatch diamonds? Well that is honestly how this game feels.

It tries to be somewhat realistic but with no (or very little) atmosphere it doesn't achieve this, which would be sad if it wasn't madening at how much it makes the fecking game lag! I amazingly cannot get this game to run smoothly on quality higher than medium. Now I'm running this on a PC which can pretty much run Fallout: New Vegas on full graphics (if that gives you an idea about it's specs.)

This doesn't feel much different than New Vegas and it still lags out on most PCs that weren't developed by Nasa. This wouldn't be a big deal, however, if the game wasn't what it was a small bargain bin Steam game, but it is and so it should be able to run on any PC owned by a ten year old who doesn't check the specs of a game before buying it.

So as for gameplay itself? It mainly consists of shooting enemies with a sniper (who would have guessed?) Although to achieve this you must master your heart (daww) beat (oh) or your crosshair will be flailing all over the place like George Michael's cock infront of a police officer.

The game rewards you for well placed shots, however, with a bullet time kill cam where it either just shows the bullet penetrate your victim or shows you damage done to internal organs. This makes being accurate slightly more enjoyable (If you are a sick far right wing gun nut who is stroking a shotgun while playing and humming his national anthem).

My main complaint about this is that it only works on headshots (few) and chest shots which makes it so you've seen everything by your third kill. I kind of like doing this when you can shoot an injured Nazi who is being slung over his mates shoulder and is being carried off, (it's ok they're Nazis so they aren't people like us).

Anywho I shot through the injured guys head and shot the other guy through the back! Although, this is great and all I cannot help, but feel that they could make normal kills more sexy? Imagine if everytime you shot an enemy in the knee, he fell to the floor screaming about how his career as a soldier was over and how he will now have to become a guard in Whiterun (ok that old joke isn't and never was funny). The point is this, this kill cam is somewhat exciting at first, but you can only guess that this is going to get old later on in the games life.

The main reason for this feature, however, is simply this: If they didn't do this then everyone would just use a Tommy Gun and storm the enemy (missing out on sniper points, but who even cares? We aren't on Atari) Not only is the Tommy gun more accurate but it's fully automatic.

My main problem with the sniper rifle is half the hits don't count. For basic "Oh look an enemy!" (Points gun) *bang* kind of shooting, it's not bad, nor is it bad aiming at an enemy who is just stood in no man's land picking his nose.

No I tend to struggle when I start actually thinking (thinking with portals if you like...) For example when I see a guard stood behind a car, but I can blatently see his feet sticking out from underneath it. I'm obviously going to aim at the feet, but, you see the problem here is the car is rendered to be a square block! Causing you to miss and I'm not even going to start on the ammount of times, where I shot an enemy 2 times in the chest and neither of the shots counted...

This game feels like 1 of both and it's hard for me to decide, is it...

A. A bargain bin game that tries too hard?

B. A blockbuster game that doesn't try enough?

And this is the conflict that I think of while playing this game, it's not bad for killing time, but it won't be memorable next week. It isn't a bad game per say as it starts off satisfying enough, but this is one where I would suggest getting it either just as a demo or maybe buying it if you spot it under £20 (or £10).

Reviews

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The Darkness II by The Hanged Man
Sniper Elite V2 (Demo) by The Hanged Man
Dear Esther (2008) by The Hanged Man

Review of The Darkness II by The Hanged Man

Disclaimer: What is said here is the opinion of one individual and isn't fact or the opinion of the whole group, this review was based on the playstation 3 version of The Darkness II so it's possible that some things in the graphics, gameplay, ETC may not apply to the Xbox 360 version or the PC.)

Sum up

The Darkness II is a mix of the comic book super hero and mafia crime genre, the game allows you to "take care of business" but with a demonic force to back you up!

Story

This game takes place 2 years after the events of the original game when our protagonist Jackie Estacardo is betrayed by his uncle Paulie who tries to kill him on his 21st birthday but something else happens that night...

For the first time ever Jackie notices something dark and powerful stir within him and soon enough it emerges as a two headed demon known only as "The Darkness." Jackie at first uses the Darkness' power to get revenge on his uncle up until he pays the price for using it's power when he loses the only light in his life his girlfriend Jenny.

From this moment on Jackie cares about nothing else but revenge and through this drive of vengeance he masters the darkness and avenges Jennie at the near cost of his soul.

Jackie since has been keeping the Darkness in check and for two years refuses to use it's power, up until he is attacked by an unusually organised cult. Jackie is once again forced to turn to the Darkness and use it's power to destroy his new found enemies... The Brotherhood.

Gameplay

The story in this game is never dull for a moment although you do have to get information and return home at the end of missions these tranquil moments quickly pass as most people will be eager to get back to the action the game doesn't force you to stay at home longer than necessary.

Although the story isn't as long as the original and in my view not as well written it is still satisfying and is still a great experience going deeper into the mind of Jackie and bringing back all your favourite characters and introducing new ones.

The game cuts back on side quests which filled the original and there are only a few acts, 3 I think which will reduce playing time massively compared to the original. The game was incredibly short in comparison and I did it on a Sunday afternoon in about 7 hours or so (with a lot of dicking around).

There are a few mini games involved nothing as exciting as that crazy old lady that threw coins on the track and told you to pick them up before you got hit by a train, but still a number of games that involve killing pigeons in creative and evasive manors.

The problem is these mini games don't feel like they are worth wasting your time on as you don't get much of an award for doing them (Other than approval from Shale), I'm sure you get an achievement or something for doing some of them or maybe if you do them all but I don't care about achievements.

There are many violent and horrific moments that made the original what it is, it also keeps up with the tradition of making the player an unstoppable nightmarish force of destruction and boy is it satisfying. You can use a number of unlock able Darkness powers and you even get your own minion (who I refer to as Wheatley after Portal 2 because he's English) as well as duel wielding of a wide range of fire arms. The only problem is that I am unstoppable I only died a few times and none of these deaths were from damage one was from fall damage and a few others were story events which I didn't react fast enough to, but other than that this game was so easy on normal I would imagine that easy is a walk in the park.

Graphics

This is one of the things the game is sadly lacking on, I appreciate that they have tried to make it into a comic book style of gameplay as seen in Borderlands. The problem is that it looks somewhat worse than the 2007 original game which was made 5 years before, although the world is well detailed and imaginative it still feels like a late Playstation 2 game or early Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 game.

It is a shame that this may put off the younger Call of duty loving generation from a good experience but for all of the readers out there with a brain I'm sure you don't need good graphics to make a good game.

Lifespan

This game will last you a couple of hours on the single player campaign as well as a number of hours on the coop campaign (which I haven't played yet). This game might be worth playing once or twice because of it's alternative choices, but I wouldn't say it was a brilliant replay value as these didn't feel as if they would alter the game that much or not at all.

Conclusion

In conclusion I would definitely say the Darkness is worth buying I wouldn't regard it as high as the original but it is by no means by any stretch of the imagination bad. This game is like the 300 of gaming sure it's unrealistic but it's gory, brutal, sexy and fun so it's definitely worth checking out even if you just rent it.