Fortune City!
Jul 26th
We all know about zombies! George A. Romero popularised them, Valve are just getting to know them and Capcom… well they’ve battled them time and time before! Dead Rising 2 is the sequel to their 2006 survival horror smash that won action game of the year at the 2006 Spike TV Video Game Awards, amongst a whole host of other accolades by various websites and media conglomerates.
So what can we expect in Dead Rising 2? More chaos! More of everything.
***Game synopsis snippet***
When a zombie outbreak hits America’s new capital of entertainment, Fortune City, it is every man and woman for themselves. But some adapt better than others to survival on Fortune City’s zombie infested strip. Spurned on by the paternal instinct to protect his daughter, Chuck Greene is one such man.
Dead Rising 2 builds on the combat system of Dead Rising where anything that could be picked up could be used as a weapon, by considerably increasing the number of items Chuck will find in Fortune City’s casinos, bars and shops. Just as in the original Chuck will be able to make use of items that range from ‘traditional’ weapons like guns and swords to the more improvised such as More >
Limbo!
Jul 23rd
You could almost be forgiven for thinking that Limbo is something that Tim “The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride” Burton has dreamt up! A fleeting first glance depicts all the elements of these dark brooding stop motion classics and then the nameless boy awakes. His eyes open, burning like white hot pin holes in a darkened empire, the edge of hell then he stands with such fluidity, this is no stop motion animation! This is wonderment on an unparalleled scale.
You play as the nameless boy and begin your journey in the middle of a forest, you are seeking your missing sister and on this journey, this quest you will have to negotiate some rather amazing puzzles, strange savage creatures and some very brutal traps which are sometimes sneakily disguised! Bear traps that could almost be clumps of grass. Trekking through a rather spooky silhouetted forest, climbing trees, swinging on vines, crossing murky, ghostlike waters in a rickety wood boat, through a cumbersome abandoned city, across neon rooftops dropping down floors, leaping over malfunctioning cogs and razor sharp blades in an old fiery factory Limbo is nothing short of Xbox Live Arcade’s game of the year!
The moment you step unsuspectingly onto More >
The collaboration is over, before it ever began!
Jul 22nd
So rumour has it that Microsoft has scrapped plans to have Xbox 360 – PC cross platform gaming, a project that was trialled with FASA Interactive’s 2007 First Person Shooter Shadowrun. According to Rahul Sood, VoodooPC man now Hewlett-Packard man in recent trials the playing field was so unfair that “it would be embarrassing to the Xbox team in general had Microsoft launched this initiative.”
So as a former PC gamer what do I think of this news, this doomed ventured. Well my biggest concern would be, “Why would I want to play with PC gamers..? They only want graphical prowess and not gameplay!”
Well that’s what I thought when I was a PC gamer, and too a degree I still do! Most PC gamers I know constantly worry they are falling behind on technology. A new graphics card comes out, be it NVIDIA or ATI they’ve got to have it! It’s almost like they are programmed with this never ending upgrading mentality, like a vortex it sucks you in…
“You can’t play FPS with a controller, it’s not accurate!” is the common reply.
What a load of cobbler’s, and why this constant FPS retaliation? There are other genres besides FPS, although I will confess More >
Blast test dummies!
Jul 20th
It’s been awhile since I last shredded copious amounts cardboard! So in the tradition of all good First Person Shooters I got locked and loaded, took a few deep breaths before I contemplated taking on a few dummies and more. Advance Combat Training, Running Man!
This is the next slice in Zero Point Software’s forthcoming science fiction spectacular Interstellar Marines. So what do we think of this new slice? It’s fun, vast amounts of fun… even if I still can’t get used to playing with a mouse and keyboard. The dark side of gaming, the console has really taken its toll on my reflexes and playing preferences as a big fat juicy Xbox controller gripped feverishly in both hands seems vastly lacking.
Again it’s the ambience that first gets you, especially ” ITO AI SARA”; Terri “SHODAN” Brosius monolithic tones resonate brilliantly as do the gun sounds, both are frighteningly deep and meaningful, the clicking, the clunking of a hasty reload. The echoing of booted footsteps upon almost surgically clean corridors and grey suffused hangers as you dodge the robots, the yellow ones, the cyan ones!
Bullet, after bullet, robot after robot, the animations are just splendid, and just think this is all happening in More >
Guns, Gadgets and Girls!
Jul 17th
Forgive me for not writing people, I’ve been busy doing very important research of late. First of all researching how good Raven’s Singularity was, is, and secondly seeing how much Battlefield Bad Company 2 you can play in one particular session?
Well the simple answer is… Singularity is a fine game, a little ordinary and predictable in places but well worth a play and Battlefield Bad Company 2, well last Friday (9/7/2010) I racked up over 14 hours solid and still wanted more, but after working an 8 hour night shift before hand, my body was telling me enough was enough after being up for almost 24 hours.
It’s quite a change round from my original write-up in which I scorned DICE’s FPS masterpiece. Yes some backtracking by me, but after some adjustment in game strategy and an almighty multiplayer update of some 400 megabytes, it’s damn right hardcore!
So getting back to game gossip and gaming in general, there’s plenty to go at. Limbo an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive is only days away, (Google it, you will not be disappointed) Medal of Honor another DICE offering, inconjunction with EA Los Angeles is almost upon as well as SOCOM: Special Forces, Call of Duty: Black Op’s and Fallout: New Vegas, More >
