Talk about counting your chickens. Assassin’s Creed 2 hasn’t even seen release and we are already hearing about a 3rd installment. Will that many people blindly purchase this game like the did 2 years ago?
Not to be a naysayer, I want Ass2 to be a quality game but I won’t believe it until I play it. A German gaming show named PLAYD had Ubisoft’s Philippe Bergeron on the program who said in regards to a possible Assassin’s Creed 3 setting:
There are two things that come to mind: There is medieval Europe, which would be very interesting trying to play a King Arthur story line. Another one that is a personal favorite of a lot of people on the floor is feudal Japan, which is something that would be very interesting just culturally to discover and I think also to make players discover as well.
Huh. I don’t know which one would be cooler. What do you think?
Coming off the unbridled success of Rare’s Goldeneye for the Nintendo 64, Perfect Dark was pretty much exactly what gamers wanted. Then came the Xbox 360 launch title. Not so much.
Arriving this winter will be an HD remake of the N64 classic for Xbox Live Arcade and these new screen shots really do look nice. Upscaled to 1080p and running at 60 frames per second (FPS would have been a bad acronym choice given the context) this remake should be a great success on XBLA.
Beating the Xbox 360 Modern Warfare 2 Edition to market by about a week, Sony’s PS3 Slim packed with a 250GB hard drive will appear on retail shelves on November 3rd for $350. This will be the largest console hard drive to date but not without its flaws perhaps.
As of now, you can’t download PS3 games to the hard drive, so one might ask why you would need all the extra space? Even if you hoarded DLC from every single game I don’t think you amount to 250GB.
But like Sony always says when referring to the PS3, it’s future proof right?
In an age where high-priced gaming peripheral bundles are becoming standardized purchases, Nintendo is set to release something huge. Enter the Nintendo Wii CyberBike.
Packed with the new Wii game Cycling Sports, this might be the most expensive controller we’ve seen yet. While no price has been determined it’s too bad Nintendo doesn’t release this for the holiday’s as it would be a great way to burn off some of those Christmas calories. This bundle is set to release sometime in January of 2010.
The game itself has some environmental leanings as you try to clean up the earth controlling a variety of vehicles including a Gyrocopter. The CyberBike has also been noted to control the Mario Cart game on the Wii. Could we see this at some trendy LA gym in the future?
Last year on November 19th, the Xbox 360 saw a major interface update in the form of “The New Xbox Experience. This year’s most major update will contain Twitter, FaceBook, and Last.fm accessibility.
Sources indicate that the update will launch in the UK and US on November 17th.
With this update sure to be fun and synergistic, the question people are continuing to ask is where is the web browser at?
Looks like perhaps EA wants to get in on this whole Modern Warfare madness. Isn’t that what Battlefield: Bad Company is? Good thing for EA that Activision doesn’t have an exclusive Modern Combat license right!
The rumblings going around consist of an ex-EA production intern from 2008 posting somewhere that he worked on a Medal of Honor: Modern Combat title doing some design and software engineering. Blah. Other rumor blurbs include a possible real life tie-in to the game via Operation Anaconda, which was an actual mission held in Afghanistan from back in 2002.
The only thing that is confirmed is that there is another “undefined” Medal of Honor game in the works according to EA CEO John Riccitiello. The last game in the Medal of Honor series was Airborne from 2007.
All this makes sense, but we’ll have to wait and see what rises to the top.
I really liked the first Dead Space. I even watched the animated prequel on Blu-Ray. It had decent pacing, some really cool and brutally violent weapons, and atmospheric graphics and sound design. Most reviews I had read said it had taken the true survival horror reigns from RE5 which had somehow turned into an action game. While I think I knew about an inherent sequel given the outcome of the original game, this is the first I’m hearing about it on the web.
This info was leaked though a LinkedIn Job Posting by Visceral Games looking for a lead combat designer. Oops! Apparently in the later stages of pre-production, the core team from the first game is working diligently to improve what was already an awesome game. With the essential gameplay and navigational mechanics in place the game should start to see production in the coming months. The game is being developed for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
Lodging itself up in the PSN demos section is the new Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Multiplayer demo. Encompassing 1.3Gb’s of hard drive space and arriving at 11 Am this morning (PST), the demo really lets you have it all.
Featuring 4 MP maps, 4 competitive modes, and 2 co-op modes, it’s way bigger than what even the beta had to offer. It actually sounds a lot meatier than most demos you’d download.
The demo also lets you try Cinema mode which lets you view and share multiplayer replays. The first Uncharted did not have any multiplayer so this is a significant step taken by developer Naughty Dog to bring Uncharted 2’s replay value through the roof. Let us know what you think!
I am beginning to loathe the words “Not Backwards Compatible.” No PS3 Slim, no PSPgo, and now we have word that MicroSoft’s Project Natal will also not be backwards compatible.
The problem is that a simple patch issued is not enough to make already released games work with the Natal. Developers would have to write some significant code in order for their games to be Natal compatible. It may be safe to assume that developers will not see this as a worthwhile endeavor given the time any money it will cost to write the code.
Is this a big deal to anyone? I have no interest playing already released games Natal style and think games created specifically for it will be the most entertaining.
My buddy really holds dear these certain games that he thinks are going to be awesome. And often he is let down (Assassin’s Creed). He became a bit worried when Ubisoft announced that Splinter Cell Conviction was delayed and believes that the game is going to be total crap. I tried to explain to him that the developers were working hard to make the game the best it could be and the delays were merely going to make the game better in the long run.
At the Tokyo Game Show, Splinter Cell Conviction was shown with great conviction to how much better it’s looking these days. Funny enough, while searching for this video I saw other SCC videos dating back to over two years ago. Ugh.
Just missing this year’s holiday gaming extravaganza, Splinter Cell Conviction will see the light of retail shelves on the 23rd of February 2010. I think this game is going to be awesome just like all the others have been. Clock the video below.
