“We’re calling the game The Punisher: No Mercy because that’s exactly what it is – merciless. For the first time on consoles, you’ll see the Marvel Universe through a first-person perspective in some intense arena-based multiplayer action.” -Zen Studios. Zen Studios is making a first person shooter in Marvel’s The Punisher universe, using the Unreal Engine 3, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 13, 2008
Hidden somewhere under appropriately post-apocalyptic shades of grey and brown, there’s a deep Role Playing Game in Fallout 3. Somewhere. Granted, it’s hard to demonstrate the intricacies of a naturally long game in such a lamentably short period of time, I’m confident that somewhere, somehow, Bethesda has the ingredients for next great blockbuster western RPG. So [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 4, 2008
Dead Space is about serious, mutated crap hitting the fan, in space. There are no shortage of things gone wrong, and the entire demo level we saw (about halfway through the game) was varying tones of brown. Granted, the textures are alright, and a propriety engine built at Redwood Shores and Havok physics are at [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Apparently, October is the month of the shooter/RPG. A week after the PlayStation 3’s release of BioShock, gamers will be treated to the Bethesda developed Fallout 3. Set in a grim, post-apocalyptic Washington, DC, Fallout 3 gives players loads of customization with a ton of innovative mechanics in character development and combat options. Honestly, how can [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 20, 2008
PlayStation 3 owners might be a year behind on the receiving end of things, but the release of 2K’s superb BioShock was announced today. October 21 will see the launch of the filled-with-extra-stuff version of the story-focused shooter/RPG. The bonus goodies, exclusive to the PlayStation 3 version of the game include “Survivor difficulty mode, Trophy support [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Not unlike the films it’s based on, The Bourne Conspiracy is incoherent, repetitious and spectacularly violent. With an amnesia-fueled plot, players take control of secret agent and super assassin, Jason Bourne in, a game that maintains the fast paced action and cinematic elements of the Bourne films to create a fun atmosphere in which to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Plenty of Xbox games focus on player-made-choices in the progression of the story, but it essentially boils down to an illusion that your decisions as the player are changing anything. BioShock, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Fable all allowed us access to a seemingly influential list of choices that ended up being [...]
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