Ah my beloved Fallout, finally back where it belong; back East in Nevada and Mojave Desert, but not, of course in its original isometric style. But that’s the old school fan in me talking. So what do we have to look forward in this latest standalone incarnation in this post-apocalyptic series?
In this incarnation you don’t start playing as a Vault Dweller, but are instead identified as ‘The Courier’ carrying important information to the New California Republic, a faction that old fans will recognise from Fallout 2 who has now come to dominate the whole of California and is spreading beyond.
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?
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.
Over the last couple of weeks teaser trailers and artwork has begun to appear giving us a small glimpse of the next installment in the highly popular Bioshock series.
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.
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.
Ok so these past few weeks have been Halo: Reach crazy, and to be honest it is totally understandable seeing as this is going to be Bungie’s last outing for the Halo Franchise. Bungie have always said they wanted to leave the Halo franchise with a bang, and what I have heard thus far, they are right on schedule. With things like Forge World and pretty much a play upgrade from several new features, Bungie are defiantly going all out on this one.
Back in October 2009 the Plus XP team was starting to get to its feet, we had the opportunity to hit the Eurogamer Expo in London to get some experience, and the guys at Eurogamer were nice enough to give us press passes. It was from then on we gave some pretty hefty expo coverage, got a few videos in and even met with some key game developers.
It has almost been a year on and we have grown. Of course we will be attending the show this year and getting all the coverage we can. So as we eagerly await the expo, the Plus XP team thought it would be a great idea to have a chat with the man behind the Eurogamer Expo, Tom Champion. So we emailed him, he took some time out of his busy schedule to answer our questions, so sit back and read what the man behind Eurogamer has to say about himself and the expo itself.
