If zombie games have taught me anything, there are two ways to survive in a zombie apocalypse. 1) keep to the shadows, don’t let the zombies see you and get to the safe house in one piece. Or 2) run through the zombie ridden enviroment taking out every single zombie with a whole array or weapons and blunt objects till you finally plough your way through to the safe house. As you can probably guess the latter is my favorite, games like Left 4 Dead and Dead Rising to rank highly in my books. So am I excited for the next installment in the Dead Rising zombie apocalypse?
It is very simple to compare a game like Nintey Nine Nights to the Dynasty Warriors games both the games have the same sort of game play and mission based system. The idea behind these games is to take down armies of soldiers and complete objectives to win a war against your foes.
So as you can imagine with these type of games you get a stupid amount of soldiers coming towards you and you have to fight them all off, it is pretty much a whole army vs you. Now in all honesty when I first played these type of games, the whole game and concept didn’t capture my imagination, it didn’t draw me in. You think it would as I do love my hack and slash games but there was something about the Warriors games and indeed the first Ninety Nine Nights (which we will now label N3) .
Ok before anyone asks, no, we are not starting to do film reviews. This is just a one-off film review because lets face it, if you can get anymore video game references into Scott Pilgrim Vs The World then you would pretty much be observing someone playing a video game, and its with that opening statement I give you my Scott Pilgrim Vs The World film review.
I have always had mixed feelings about the Mortal Kombat series. Back on my SEGA Mega-Drive I loved playing Mortal Kombat. Sure I was pretty rubbish at it seeing I was about 8 years old and I was pretty much mashing the joy pad to see what it did (This method wasn’t the best way to execute fatalities). But as I grew up, so did MK and somewhere down the line I lost interest. The games seemed a little slow and maybe even a bit buggy to me. Scorpion and Sub Zero were never the same in my eyes, and the disappearance of Johnny Cage in the later games pretty much nailed it on the head for me.
Ever since the release of the PSP there have been all sorts of rumors buzzing around that Microsoft would eventually create a hand-held Xbox system for the gaming world to enjoy. At games-com, our prayers have been answered…well…sort of.
I have been looking through the Plus XP archive and I have realised that me being the keen FPS player I am, I haven’t mentioned anything about Rage yet. Now seeing as id software is one of the grandfathers of the FPS genre and they have indeed been working on Rage for a long time.
So what is Rage? Are we going to see if this is the next FPS marvel from the original creators of the FPS genre? Well sit back and find out.
Ever since the release of the Wii, the gaming market has seen a radicle change. People who didn’t really have any inclination to play video games (I.E grandparents, old people, boring mum and dad folk) had the sudden urge to pick up a Wii-mote or the Wii balance board and start playing video games. Games such as Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit and Family Game Night were being played in homes all over the world. Then with the introduction to things like Mario Kart to the Wii people everywhere, whatever age were falling in love with gaming once again.
Now when one console developer does it, eventually all of them are going to jump onto the band wagon. This is where PlayStation Move and Microsoft’s Kinect come in. They have been a long time in development, but about christmas time this year, you are going to experience what Microsoft and Sony have to offer. Myself and GuitarGirl24 on the other hand got a sneak preview of what Microsoft’s Kinect has to offer.
Every now and then I get bombarded with politics. Oh look the americans have gone to war and we have gone to help them. Oh look there is a new president person for the American people, oh look I have to tick a box to say which man I want running the country, I’ll just pick the guy with the better hair. To be honest, even though some of it does interest me, most of the time I would rather sit in front of my Xbox and game.
The only time it interests me greatly is when the media blow politics out of proportion. I.E things ridiculous movies or games which some how take things over the edge and make politics enjoyable (yes I am admitting I do like very big explosions over who is running for office).
"Time to go Master Cheif on your ass" Image From IGN.com
So some of you FPS fans are probably every now and again playing the old Duke Nukem 3D, as it’s the only true first person Duke game you have. Previously You have probably been looking at your watch sitting in a darkened corner of your room between bouts of Halo and Duke Nukem 3D staring at your time device for 13 years. Why? This is because you have been waiting for the next FPS game in the Duke Nukem franchise, Duke Nukem Forever, and it had been taking 13 god damn years to make.
But sometime mid-last year you probably gave up hope, with the news that 3D Realms had bitten the dust and that Duke Nukem forever was pretty much buried in the ground forever you probably reluctantly returned back to playing Duke Nukem 3D for the twenty thousandth time and every now and again looking at this trailer and thinking what could have been.
