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Jul

Alan Wake Round Up

Categories: Game News
Tags: alan wake, e3, Round up, survival horror

Now to finish my 5 game round up minni series I thought I would talk about a game that I only really caught site of during the E3 Expo.

When I first heard the name Alan Wake. I generally thought it was going to be another snow boarding game. Lord knows why but the name Alan Wake sounds like it needs the words Snow Boarding to be put on the end of it. It wasn’t until i saw the games main logo and the first couple of screen shots that this game as far from that.

The game puts you in the shoes of the famous horror writer Alan Wake. Imagine a peaceful town called Bright Fall where you have gone to escape te hustle and bustle of the city to clear your mind. Dislodge that bit of writers block and relax. Until your girlfriend who you have been on holiday with disappears, The town around you collapses into darkness and you notice that you are following the path of a brand new Novel just like the ones you have written but in real life.

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So game play wise what are we looking at here? Well straight off the bat it is another 3rd person survival horror game. The classic limited bullets an health which I am really looking forward too. Not many games of this generation have used the survival horror genre to its full advantage.

One of the biggest elements of this game that has really caught my attention is the use of light, but not in a lighting sense. In the game, light is your biggest weapon. Once darkness falls over Bright fall that’s when nightmares start coming true and people and objects start getting obsessed. Only armed with a torch that runs out of batteries, Alan will have to use his cunning and problem solving to stay alive in the darkness.

Just to show you the way light is used as a weapon in the game, take a look at the demo showed at E3

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The demo also shows you that the game is set up episodically like you are watching a TV show. This I think is a fantastic way to tell a story such as this in game play. Everybody has done the, ‘you have completed level 1 now go onto level 2′ way of game play. But to actually have the levels set out in a way that seems as though you are playing a TV show. That really grabs my attention and shows the creators have thought about the genre.

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To me Alan wake looks like it is going to set the benchmark for survival horror games to come, by taking the way the story is told an attacking it from a new angle. Also showing the fact that not everything has to be attacked with guns. This one is defiantly on my wish list and I am eagerly waiting for the Q2 2010 release!

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Garv!

Jul

Bayonetta Round Up!

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Categories: Article and Game News
Tags: Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, ps3, Round up, Xbox 360

Greetings hack and slash fans, and gamers alike! Do you like a good slice of gun play in your games? Coupled with a hefty amount of sword fighting? stringing combos together and juggling you enemies till they are a bloody mess? Do you like summoning demons that can rain down on your foes and munching them down like some proverbial giant twix? Do yo also like witches?

If all the answers are either yes, hell yes or god yes then I will introduce you to Bayonetta!

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She is a witch who posses all her magical power in her hair. Sounds a bit crazy I know, but it gets worse. The clothes that she is wearing is actually in fact her hair wrapped around her body to form clothes. Again as I said sound a little crazy if you ask me she has the ability to summon huge demons, these in fact are her hair follicles taking the form of said demons. Sounds odd but believe me looks awesome check this out:

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That Demon she summons about 1 minuet 13 in was her hair. Looks pretty damn impressive if you ask me.

Now more about her and the weapons she can wield: To start off bayonetta has four double barreled revolvers. Like Nero’s blue rose form DMC 4 but four of them. Two for each hand and the other two strapped to her stilettos. Again sounding crazy but opens up a world of amazing gun combos, as you probably saw in that movie at about 36 seconds in she was doing cart whees in mid air while shooting the guns from her boots. This gives combo abilities that DMC couldn’t of pulled off. Bayonetta also has been see wielding a shot gun and a rocket launcher.

As for melee weapons, again the game play movie above gives us an in site of how they may work. If you skip to around 55 seconds in you ca see her wielding an axe similar to the enemy she just defeated, meaning like DMC again you will probably be able to get melee weapons off of significant bosses/enemies. There has also been evidence of bayonetta wielding a glowing whip and two handed katana.

So to me this game is shaping up to be quite an epic hack and slash game. And why am I comparing it to dmc?

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Because one of the lead designers Behind bayonetta is the man who created DMC. He has partnered up with Sega and platinum games to give us bayonetta. So expect allot of similarities between the two games.

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To me bayonetta looks a bit more cheesy than DMC does and i can see her voice getting a tad annoying,but with the story, her voice an the image of a dominatrix Secretary out of the way the core game play of this game is set to be in the same league as DMC. And this i am looking forward too.

Bayonetta will be hitting the Xbox 360 and PS3 this November!

Garv!

Jul

Wolfenstein Round Up

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Categories: Article and Game News
Tags: return to castle wolfenstein, Round up, wolfenstein 3D, Wolfenstien

Ok so I kind of neglected the round up series when I went on holiday, but now i am back i will now Finish it off with 3 more games!

Back when I was about 4 years old a game was released for MS-DOS which popularised the FPS genre. This game was called Wolfenstein 3D. It wasn’t until about 2 or 3 years later I was in front of the PC killing pixelated Nazis in “Can I play daddy” mode.

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Nine yeas later in 2001 I was then happily sitting in front of my original X box console, Again killing Nazis and zombies from the crypt in The game Return To Castle Wolfenstein. The Recent game still offered the nostalgia, still had some references to the original. I was was in a small FPS heaven at the time.

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Now eight years later it is coming back again as of next month we will be returning to World War II Germany to kill some Nazis and of course to kill some zombies. The game that is just being dubbed Wolfenstein promises to mix of unmatched exploration, action and espionage.

You play as B.J. Blazkowicz who is a member of the office of secret actions (OSA). You are sent on a mission into the Reich to discover and find evidence of the Nazi’s possession of a mysterious new power.

Behind enemy lines you discover a power that the Nazi’s are harnessing is of of a parallel dimension known as The Veil.. This dark power will enable the Nazi’s to create a weapon to end the war and possibly the human race.

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But that’s not all, during the game when you are behind enemy lines you will have a mixture of human and veil enhanced weapons at your disposal. Giving you the option of taking the Nazi’s down the traditional WWII way or turning their Veil enhanced weapons against them.

Confirmed weapons for the game are as follows:

MP40 The Nazi Automatic SMG with a 32 clip and a 200 max pouch
Kar 98 A bolt action rifle with a 5 clip and a 30 max pouch
MP45 The automatic assault rifle of the game. Packs a 30 clip with a 200 max pouch
Flammenwerfer aka the flame thrower! this weapon packs a 200 charge with 3 units of continuous fire power
Panzerschreck the Nazi Rocket launcher! With a 500 charge!
Particle Cannon This is one of the veil modified weapons not much is known about it except that it is a beam weapon. (In my opinion maybe some sort of rail gun)
Telsa Cannon A veil electric charge weapon. (maybe something like the lightening gun from the quake series)

Those are the first confirmed weapons of the game. As for enemies you will get the bog standard Nazi infantry men. Also flame thrower troopers, elite guards etc. But you will also get a collection of veil enhanced enemies such as The Altered, which a grotesque creatures who were once human and have been infected badly by the veil, veil assassins who use the dark power to their full advantage, utilising stealth sill and quick reflexes. Veil Heavy troopers, which use the veil for protection and power, and the Desploited. Who are deceased Nazis who have been given veil power and have risen from the dead (yay Nazi zombies!)

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As you can see Wolfenstein has stayed loyal to the series and is still very much with the idea of Nazi zombies. I cannot wait for this game.

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Wolfenstien is due out august 2009. Better save your pennies.

Garv!

Jul

Batman: Arkham Asylum round up

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Categories: Game News
Tags: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Round up

After yesterdays post on Halo 3: ODST I have decided to dedicate the next few posts on games that I think are going to make it big this year! Cunningly calling it the round up series I will be telling you about a few up and coming games that are defiantly on my wish list!

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As comic book hero’s go bat man was never one of my favorites, It was something about the mask with the pointy ears that i thought looks pretty silly. But ever since I watched the movies my estimation of the dark knight has gone up considerably, so now I can safely say that I am not distracted by his pointy ears any more!

Now the main event, Batman: Arkham Asylem! This gem of a game is set in Arkham Asylem (surprisingly) where bat man has just caught the joker and is making it his business that he personally locks him up once and for all. But batman being batman is suspicious, this capture has gone all to smoothly no real hiccups what so ever. Until the joker gets inside the asylum, he breaks away from the hold of the guards and starts creating chaos and its up to batman to once again stop the joker.

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The thing with this Particular aslylem is this is the place where all of Batman’s, Nemesis’s are taken why they are captured. Meaning the joker now has an army of classic Batman villains such as: Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Bane and Killer Croc only to name a few.

To me this is the perfect setting or a game Bringing all the bad guys into one place is a method that nit many games go down these days, DMC3 did it well with Timen-ne-Gru but not many other games use this method they tend to use a variety of places to tell a story.

Now onto game play. Arkham Asylem is a 3rd person action game which uses both stealth and aggression. They key thing to point out here is that the character of batman is and always has been a crime solver so his detective skills are second to none, he is also a whiz with gadgets. So it will come to no surprise that these elements have not been glanced over in the game. Both te gadgets idea and Batman’s detective skills have come together to give the player what is called detective mode, at a touch of a button this will flick down a visor over Batman’s face letting him survey the area he is in. He will be able to pinpoint where each enemy is in a room and what weapon they are wielding. This will give the player the option to takeout the gun wielding guys first then move onto the unarmed thugs.

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But that’s not all, the game has a fully fledged combat system. Rocksteady (the makers of the game) have said that the hand to hand combat system will be different to what you usually see in 3rd person action games. Instead of having the basic attack, heavy attack, etc the player will have moves such as throw, punch, counter etc assigned to the buttons. Meaning that there is potential for much more impressive combos on enemies. Also the game doesn’t have a set amount of combos. Rocksteady boasts that the game will give you the potential of working out and stringing together your very own combos. Which I think could be very interesting.

Batman: Arkham Asylum will be hitting Europe this august. All you dark Knight fans bettr be ready and of corse all new comers are very much welcome too

Garv!

Jul

Halo 3: ODST round up

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Categories: Game News
Tags: halo, Halo 3, Halo3: ODST, Round up, Xbox 360

I feel a bit ashamed really. I now have moved back home and all I have done on this site is one review. Time to put a stop to this!

This September sees the next installment in the popular Halo franchise. Another FPS but this time not with master chief but with a new protagonist.

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The as yet named character is apart of a unique band of specialist marines known as the Orbital drop Shock Troopers (ODST) These guys are brought into new territory to eliminate enemy threat. You may remember the mission in halo 2 called delta halo where the chief was dropped on the new halo ring with the ODST.

Known for their bravery and cunning the ODST or “hell Jumpers” aren’t built like the chief, so this game will implore you to take a more stealthy approach to the game, making good use of cover and taking you enemy by surprise.

So what of the campaign? This game is set on earth just after the events of New Mombasa in Halo 2. You are Dropped in to sort out the hostile situation in the city. But your character somehow is dropped else where in the city and you have to find your team mates, while trying to survive the covenant horde. Apparently the game is going to take a less linear approach to the campaign mode in the previous halo games, leaving the player to make the choice of where to go next.

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Halo would not be halo with a good slice of multiplayer action. Halo 3: ODST does not skimp out, and will ship with all the halo 3 maps to date including the heroic, legendary and mythic map packs . It will also include forge mode and all the other multiplayer so its pretty much identical to what is on halo 3 now.

So is halo ODST going to bring anything new to the multiplayer experience? The game will be introducing a new game mode called Fire Fight. This is reminiscent of Gears of war 2’s horde mode. You have a set amount of lives and kill oncoming waves of enemies simple as that really.

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