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Post by Consonant*** on Sept 7, 2007 17:25:56 GMT -5
Thanks. I usually try to keep my enthusiasm in check for any beta/previews of games, but I got a little excited after reading this. Too bad I just read another article that said the release is delayed until Q1 2008. =/ Not only does Holiday season rape your wallet, but so does '08 (GTA IV, Burnout...)
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Post by dragon.up.resource on Sept 29, 2007 12:58:23 GMT -5
====================== PC Games Road Map 2007 - Updated 29 Sept 2007 ====================== This is my roadmap for the PC.. quite a good year, earlier we had World in Conflict and Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Half-Life 2: The Orange Box Release Date: Oct 9 Genre: FPS Half-Life 2: The Orange Box includes the original Half Life 2, Episodes One and Two, Team Fortress 2, and an additional single-player game called Portal.
Clive Barker's Jericho Release Date: Oct 23 Genre: FPS Horror writer Clive Barker is collaborating on this horror game set within a walled city in northern Africa that happens to be filled with the souls of slaughtered warriors.
Universe At War: Earth Assault Release Date: Oct 30 Genre: RTS A combat-intensive real-time strategy game that enlists players in an epic struggle to prevent total alien domination of planet Earth.
Hellgate: London Release Date: Oct 31 Genre: FP-RPG Hellgate: London is a first-person role-playing game set in postapocalyptic London.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Release Date: Nov 5 Genre: Shooter The venerable Call of Duty series leaves its familiar WWII battlefields behind to tackle warfare in a modern setting.
Gears of War Release Date: Nov 6 Ganre: FPS Gears of War heads to the PC with five new campaign missions, new multiplayer modes, and more.
Empire Earth III Release Date: Nov 6 Ganre: RTS Empire Earth III continues the series that allows you to build and rule an empire from the ancient world to the distant future.
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Release Date: November Genre: RTS Forged Alliance is a standalone follow-up to Supreme Commander, and it introduces a powerful new alien faction in addition to a new campaign and new units.
Crysis Release Date: Nov 16 Genre: FPS Crysis is a Sci-Fi FPS game for the PC, where mankind must struggle to survive in the face of an alien invasion.
Assassin's Creed Release Date: November Genre: FPS The first game in the Assassin's Creed franchise is set in 1191 AD, when the Third Crusade was tearing the Holy Land apart.
Unreal Tournament 3 Release Date: Nov 19 Genre: FPS Unreal Tournament 3 is the next installment in Epic Games' popular sci-fi shooter series.
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Post by Darryl on Oct 12, 2007 11:05:51 GMT -5
You guys HAVE to try Bioshock
BIOSHOCK
Its really fun. But. No multi-player But it ROCKS.
Personally, i cant wait for Call of Duty 4
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Post by franky on Oct 14, 2007 2:31:23 GMT -5
I just got Prey (for PC and Xbox360) and I am amazed. It's so immersing and definitely not the run of the mill FPS. I've been playing for about an hour and a half. Basically you're a Cherokee Indian who's not really in touch with his culture. I started the game and started touching everything, all the switches and buttons you'd find in normal life work, nice touch of realism. So you're in a bar with your grandfather and GF when aliens attack. Everyone is abducted and taken aboard a spaceship. Reminds me of the movie Fire in the Sky, I get goosebumps! The better your graphics the better this game will be, PC-wise. Anyways I'm holding off on the really good part I believe you have to experience the adventure first hand. There's some nice gee wow stuff I don't want to spoil, but check out a review if you want to have a look. My friend told me to get this game if I wanted something good to play. I had no idea what it was about but I trusted his judgment since we like a lot of the same games. Boy he was right, going to get back to the game.
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Post by marvel26 on Oct 18, 2007 9:03:08 GMT -5
I'm a John Woo and Chow Yun Fat fan so I just had to get Stranglehold.
The game may be short, about 6-7 hours perhaps depending on what difficulty you play at. But it is sweet sweet gun ballet carnage as long as it lasts.
The graphics are fine, they don't suffer from plastic skin syndrome, ie that sheen of gloss found in some games featuring realistic characters. The selling point here is a modified Unreal engine called Massive D, D standing for Destruction. Just about everything in the game world is destructable, so there's no hiding behind a wall forever. Bullets fly and chunks of masonry go flying.
Sound is a mixed bag to me. Music fits well and the voices are okay. Chow Yun Fat reprises his role of Inspector Yuen from the Hardboiled movie and he's the only Chinese character that sounds right, ie a Chinese man speaking in accented english. Other main chinese characters sound a little too good. I have never heard a Hong Kong born and bred thug speak such fluent english. This aplies to cutscenes only. During gameplay Triad members and Russian Mafia shout out in their own NATIVE language, which I found was a nice touch as I could understand the cantonese curses and swears the triad members were hurling at me. I have absolutley no idea what the Russians were screaming about though.
Multiplayer is a joke though. It's like the mode was slapped on simply to say, "Hey this game can be played online too." In theory, yes. It should be fun, with the players being able to use all the abilities they did in the single player game mode. Here's where it breaks down. If one person goes into Tequila Time (Bullet time) everyone goes into bullet time. It's quite jarring to suddenly slow down just walking across a bridge just because another player decided to do a fancy dive out a window while shooting dual pistols
Replayability: If you have an Xbox 360, you can try to the achievements, all other formats can just be played at one's leisure. There are 'unlockables' which are more like purchases. And they're all quite cheap, you'd be able to buy most of the concept art right after finishing the first chapter and the bonus videos after the second. Multiplayer skins are also bought but given the poor multiplayer gameplay, it hardly seems worth the effort. Replaying at Hardboiled difficulty really lets you have it.
Bottom line: If you like John Woo movies, the vintage ones he made back in Hong Kong, and lots and lots of blood, guns and bullets this is the game for you. If not, its a rental at best.
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Post by Avatar Mystic on Oct 25, 2007 11:03:15 GMT -5
Finally an Ace Combat game with online play. Ace Combat 6 was released in stores yesterday for the Xbox 360.
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