Archive for the ‘Adventure’ Category
By: Nick Collins on December 3rd, 2008 am31 11:34 am
Atari has released a trailer for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. Vin Diesel reprises his roll as the voice of Riddick in the 2nd game in this popular sci-fi series.
This trailer is choc-full-o’ clips from cut scenes as well as FPS gameplay. And, if you look closely, the possibility of some 3rd person gameplay. (check it out at the 52 second mark of the video, not sure if this is part of a cut scene, or gameplay… you be the judge!)
After watching this trailer, I can’t wait to get my hands on this. I was a huge fan of Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay on the original Xbox, and enjoy the movie series as well. I hope this game adds to the story and entertainment value of the Riddick saga!
Tell us your thoughts!
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By: Jon Christensen on December 3rd, 2008 am31 4:20 am
Here is a pretty sick deal. If you head over to Amazon right now and purchase the 160GB PlayStation 3’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune pack ($499), you’ll get LittleBigPlanet for FREE!
So not only do you get Uncharted, which is easily one of the best games to come out for the system — you get maybe the best game of the year in LittleBigPlanet. If I already didn’t buy my system on launch, I would be all over this.
If you’re on the fence with this one — act now because there is only 500 of these puppies available.
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By: Jon Christensen on December 3rd, 2008 am31 12:22 am
This could be the best review in the history of video games. Okay, I’m not serious at all, but for some reason I couldn’t stop watching. Gettinggoodatthis on youtube decided to review Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Although, I didn’t like it because of its in depth review — in fact it’s the complete opposite.
I just wonder if this was supposed to be a real review or a fake…
via: gonintendo
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By: Jon Christensen on December 3rd, 2008 am31 12:13 am
It’s official, the Ghostbusters’ video game will be published in June 2009 by Atari. Right after Comic-Con 2008, it was reported the game was dropped by Activision because of their recent merger with Blizzard, even though the game was months away from being release.
By the time the game hits store shelves in June, the game will have been delayed 7 months from its original planned date. We’re hoping the delay is to make sure the game lives up to the name. However, when the game was shown off back in July — it received a decent amount of praise. Maybe with the game being pushed back; it’ll end up being even better…
Ghostbusters: The Video Game will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, PlayStation 2 and DS
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By: Jon Christensen on December 2nd, 2008 am31 2:42 am
Capcom has just released a new video featuring their zombie game Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop for the Nintendo Wii. The game has been criticized for the lack of zombies on the screen at once and we think it has been a fair argument.
However, the latest clip shown above defiantly has more enemies on the screen at once during some scenes. Although sadly, you can’t even compare it to the Xbox 360 version. Also another thing we noticed was when an enemy dies; he/she almost instantly disappears. Which doesn’t help the issue the game is obviously having.
Hopefully the new mechanics introduced to the game will make up for the glaring problems. But don’t count on it.
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By: Jon Christensen on December 2nd, 2008 am31 1:48 am
When Sonic and the Black Knight was announced a little while back, most people including myself we’re thinking; “WTF is Sega thinking?” Seeing Sonic running around with a giant ass sword was almost as weird as seeing him morph into a werewolf.
When the first trailer hit the web, my opinion somewhat changed. I actually thought the game had the potential of being the first good Sonic game in a long time. Although, overtime that could change — it is again a next-gen Sonic game.
However, Sega has released a batch of screens from the game and I once again have the confidence this could be good. Not only that, it appears to be one of the best looking Wii games to date.
Check out the pictures after the break. (more…)
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By: Jon Christensen on December 1st, 2008 am31 12:00 am
Most likely when the year ends, Grand Theft Auto IV will probably win the most ‘Game of the Year‘ awards. Almost every gaming journalist I’ve spoken to all seem to agree Rockstar’s masterpiece will win the prestige honor.
Amazon is offering a terrific deal for the sandbox game. The site is selling GTA IV for only $37.99 for the Xbox 360 and $39.99 for the PlayStation 3. Considering the game is generally retailed at $60, this is a great time to buy the game. So, if you have yet to purchase the Grand Theft Auto IV — you have no excuse now.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 30th, 2008 pm30 9:12 pm
Everyone wants to get in on the LittleBigPlanet craze (well the craze is at least in my head). First we had Konami allowing Metal Gear skins to be available as a DLC for the game. And not to long ago we heard rumblings that disney might be lending some of their famous characters as well.
Now, according to a spanish site, Capcom wants in. The website published pictures of SackBoy dressing up as four separate fighters from their series Street Fighter. Not a bad idea from Capcom considering they just released Street Fighter II HD and right around the corner is their forth installment of the franchise.
Obviously from the picture above, SackBoy will be playing as Ryu, Guile, Chun-Li and Zangief.
As of right now, a price has yet to be listed, but if it’s anything like the Metal Gear Skins; it should be about $1.99.
(via ripten)
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By: Jon Christensen on November 26th, 2008 am30 3:09 am
Guess what console gamers, the hardcore PC gamers get a better version of the game that will probably win ‘game of the year,’ from most sites. Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC is getting a ‘movie editor’ included in the sandbox, and it looks deep. In the video above, Rockstar shows off the feature in a clip montage.
Sure the PS3 version looks ’slightly’ better than Xbox 360 and the 360 has exclusive DLC. I personally would rather would the video editor and would spend additional countless hours toying with it. Oh well, — looks like I might have to re-buy GTA IV.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 26th, 2008 am30 2:09 am
In my opinion, there is no question that EA’s Mirror’s Edge theme song, “Still Alive” could be one of the best original song in video game history. I know it’s not going to sound very ‘manish,’ but I have actually put the tune in my iPod…and listened to it several times.
The song, which is sung by Swedish pop-star Lisa Miskovsky, now has its own music video. The clip features the singer showing off her talent on a roof of a building and obviously it’s inspired by the game.
Check it out up top.
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By: Jon Christensen on November 23rd, 2008 pm30 10:49 pm
The first day I played Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for the original Xbox back in 2002, I found some unforgiving bugs. While I was exploring the open world, I walked up some small rocks and fell in between them. I tried every possible button combination to get out, but to no avail, I realized I was stuck and had no choice — I had to reset the game. At the time I was okay with it. I figured I found a glitch that 99% of players don’t and I was just part of the unlucky 1% who did.
A few hours later I found myself walking up completely different set of rocks and bam — I was stuck once again. After that, I came to the conclusion that the game was full of bugs and I had no choice but to deal with it. Over time, I learned that almost every game from developer Bethesda generally comes out with a bugs and glitches.
When I heard reports that Bethesda’s newest game Fallout 3 had some major issues, I wasn’t surprised. In fact — If the the action/RPG didn’t have any, I would have called the Vatican to see if it was because of some miracle from a higher power.
According to owners of the game, the major bugs are pretty annoying. The game is known to have graphical glitches and also the inexcusable freeze during gameplay.
Thankfully the gaming company understands the players frustrations and a community manager from Bethesda announced on their forums a new patch that is indeed in the works.
“We are currently working on a patch for all three platforms. When I’ve got more details, I’ll let everyone know.”
Its good to know that they are least doing something about problems facing the game. However there is one concerning factor that wasn’t wrote in the statement above. Obviously we want to know when they plan on FIXING the game. To be honest, I’m okay with the occasional ‘graphic bug,’ and I don’t mind to wait for a patch. But when a game freezes as much as Fallout 3, it should be top priority for the developers to make sure they have a patch up and available within a week or two. Especially since they’re known to have issues with almost every game they develop.
(via CVG)
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By: Jon Christensen on November 23rd, 2008 pm30 9:43 pm
Here’s a great deal for all you nutty hardcore PC owners. If you pre-purchase Grand Theft Auto IV right now on Steam, which is out out on December 2, you’ll not only save $10 but also receive Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for free.
Not a bad deal considering you would be getting one of the best games of the year for 10 bucks off, plus GTA (Vice City) that could be arguably the best yet. Again, if you only buy PC games because you paid three-grand on your computer and think consoles were the death of gaming, make sure you at least pick up this offer — it’s well worth it!
Below are the system requirements for GTA IV:
OS: Windows Vista - Service Pack 1 / Windows XP - Service Pack 3
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz, AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHz
Memory: 1.5GB Vista / 1GB XP
Graphics: 256MB Nvidia 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c Compliant Card
Hard Drive: 16GB of Hard Disc Space
Sound Card: 5.1 Channel Audio Card
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By: Jon Christensen on November 22nd, 2008 am30 3:49 am
The first teaser trailer for Batman: Arkham Asylum is now online and boy is it shaping up nice. Although it does not show any kind gameplay, the purpose was to give you an idea of how dark and disturbing Arkham Asylum is — which needs to be an essential aspect of the game.
We would love to call it the first good Batman game, but we can’t. The most important thing the game will need to showoff in the future is the fighting system — until then, we’ll just say we have a crap load of confidence that it will end up being good.
Although, how awesome was the Joker’s laugh at the end of the clip!?
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By: Jon Christensen on November 21st, 2008 am30 3:24 am
People who complain about the level editor in LittleBigPlanet just need to bash something that they don’t have. Of course it’s nothing like creating a mod on a PC, but that wasn’t Media Molecule’s intention. Remember, not everyone is hacker savvy enough to create a Simpsons virtual world while using the Quake engine.
MM’s goal was simple, to have everyone play with a level editor that is easy to use but yet have a lot of depth to it and let the player use their own imagination to create a 2D level. Not to make it complicated and only have a few people enjoy it; we do in fact live in a casual gamer world now. However, I really don’t think the developers thought they would have seen some of the amazing levels that have appeared on PSN. And the video up top is no exception.
A user had the crazy idea remaking Duck Hunt using LBP. Even though it’s not perfect, it’s still incredible nonetheless.
I’m pretty sure the crazy PC gamers and fanboys of the 360 will still say it sucks — but screw them. This is pretty awesome stuff.
Now the BIG question; how long will Media Molecule delete this level from existence?
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By: Jon Christensen on November 20th, 2008 am30 4:42 am
It’s about freaking time, Rockstar Games has finally announced when and what the downloadable content featured in Grand Theft Auto IV when/will be. First, the DLC as expected will be exclusively for the Xbox 360 — thanks in part to Microsoft paying the publisher a bizillion dollars before the game was released.
The content; which is going to be available on Xbox Live February 17, will be entitled “Lost and Damned,” and feature a new star named Johnny Klebitz. Not much is known about Klebitz, besides his involvement in the biker gang “The Lost,” hence the name of the episode.
Co-founder of Rockstar Games Dan Houser, discussed with USA Today about the newly announced DLC:
“Johnny is a very different character than Niko, with a very different background. I can’t go into too much detail on the story, because we try not to give away too much plot before the game is released. But I can say that the story will show you a different side of Liberty City.”
During the original story of Grand Theft Auto IV, Niko did run into ‘The Lost,’ on several occasions. However, that doesn’t mean Niko will play a big part at all during the new story-line, Houser explained to the national newspaper. Although, he does promise a newer/deeper experience out of the DLC, “We feel like we’ve only scratched the surface in terms of the depth and detail…”
Even though we’re sure many of you are disappointed by not having an entirely new island to explore, we should be at least be happy that we’re finally going to get the DLC — and it’s only a few months away. I also wouldn’t rule out the possibility of having new vehicles included with the download. For some reason I have a hunch we could see a tad more than just a story.
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