As the release of God of War 3 is nearing fans of the series are trying to keep themselves busy, but how? Well the God of War Collection on the Playstation 3 is how, but that doesn’t help the Xbox 360 owners who don’t have the money to shell out for a PS3 — that’s where Dante’s Inferno comes in. The demo I played on the PS3 last week was very similar to the gameplay you would remember from God of War; in that there is heavy and light attacks as well as magic. You also go along the game collecting souls as you disembody enemies that stagger in your path.
The scene is a tavern, modest if not danky. Theres a clear tense division at the bar, one end a group of french, the other two irishmen. Everything goes well until a certain topic runs foul and a brutal, but fecking brilliant, brawl ensues. Now enough about the aftermath of the world cup qualifiers, let’s talk about Pandemic’s swansong; The Saboteur.
Capcom release another trailer here highlighting their intentions for the latest add-on to the Street Fighter IV series, but is it really enough to be worthy of it’s own gaming spotlight? Street Fighter games have always been known for their updates; so this is indeed keeping with tradition, and it was inevitable to happen once more. Many would argue that these features aren’t enough to warrant their own game, and that Capcom should of considered the DLC option. While that statement has truth to it, this isn’t the end of the content; more shall follow in the coming months as has already in fact. It is all a matter of opinion concerning this argument, but one thing is certain; the game has a lot more to prove that it’s predecessor had to this time round.
Well here we go again, another established fighting game in the beat em up genre making another appearance within the same year as another fighting game in the beat em up genre making another appearance……still with me? Basically what I’m trying to promote here is the fact that Tekken is back with it’s sixth instalment in the series (not including Dark Resurrection), and looks to make up for lost time in order to compete with February’s release of Street Fighter IV. From first impressions it plays and looks exactly how a Tekken has always done, the characters have retained their signature moves, the red mist hit detection is again present, even down to the fact that all of the characters from past games have minced their way back into the arena; added with a few new fresh-faced punching bags, guess it should be the best of all right? Well lets run down a few of the newest key features from the game that I have come across so far, and have the feedback coming from me; a simple boy with his trusty laptop sitting in a kitchen with milk and cookies, ah the simple pleasures.
E3 2008, Ubisoft announced an upcoming survival game titles “I Am Alive” with a interesting launch trailer included.
There, ladies & gentlemen, the press for this game halts. No trailers, no conference, nothing. All we get is a slow, and very vague, leaks of information of which I will now compile into something readable.
1995, I huddle close to the TV as the Ecto-1 screeches out of the Ghostbuster’s HQ and tears down the Manhattan streets with the goddamn iconic theme song playing on and on as my tiny four year old brain laps it all up while my stressed mother shouts at me to “TURN THE F***ING VOLUME DOWN!” But I don’t listen because the silly woman doesn’t understand what the movie I am watching means to me. Simply put, I was a Ghostbusters fan the moment the song hit my TV screen. I watched it dozens, if not hundreds of times, and I forced every single one of my friends to watch it as well, and if they didn’t like it then they weren’t my friends much long after that.
2009, now seventeen and less mature, Atari is kind enough to share with me a copy of the new Ghostbusters game. My expectations are that it’ll be at least decent. In my experience movie based games are rarely something to scream about, but as I put the disk into my PS3 a little voice says “but Jack, it’s GHOSTBUSTERS!” Oh how tight you are my little inside voice, now shut up until the next counselling meeting damn you.
Fanboys be damned, I’ve reviewed inFamous and now I shall take aim at Prototype. Lets see what sort of reaction this gets eh? (I have a bet on the answer) Since the release of both games, Microsoft fanboys have rallied behind Prototype while PS3 fanboys stuck by precious Sony. Now explain to me this, how does a game that is MULTIPLATFORM become Microsoft’s answer to inFamous? Let it be fanboys, just let it be. +Continue Reading
ResumePlay’s big E3 podcast contains host Michael Perry along with Rich Matney, Matt Castelli, Sam Acton, and Stephen Rosenberg. This episode is nothing but E3, listen to our rants and our raves of the big 3 press conferences from this week. Oh, and sorry everyone for having too much Forza and Halo talk . We will return next week with the regular show.
You can’t hold anything against EA anymore. Gone are the days of poor quality franchise titles, made simply for cash in hand. Titles like the Harry Potter series, the even numbered yearly installments of FIFA (Notice how the odd numbers are good, even are bad? Don’t get your hopes up for 2010) but recently they have stepped up their game, examples being Mirror’s Edge, Battlefield: Bad Company, and Dead Space. Personally, I haven’t much love for the three and had some doubt that EA would ever publish a game I’d be excited about.
Considered to be the best game to come out on Nintendo’s purple cube, Resident Evil 4 took the series in a bold new direction and it paid off dearly. Everyone could have guessed at that point the overhead tank controls would be abandoned and move towards this more action approach, which was a great choice. Resident Evil 5 adopts this control scheme and runs with it dropping the the scary aspects of the first titles. Some might view this as the end of the series but I view it as continuing the fresh new beginning that RE4 started. Yes everyone, drop your fears about it not being new enough from the last generation one, this game will surprise you and keep you interested until the very end.
. We will return next week with the regular show.
