The creator of the original Resident Evil, Shinji Mikami, has been directing his next project titled Vanquish and last night the first trailer premiered on GameTrailers TV, which I have embedded up top. Apparently, Mikami has been working with the talented Japanese studio Platinum Games, who was the team behind the newly released Bayonetta game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Much like a lot of debut trailers, this one doesn’t show any gameplay; however it does something a tad different and doesn’t follow the exact same unwritten rule of a first trailer. The clip mixes CG, along with real human actors, and is getting some flap for doing it. Some people are quickly to comment that maybe Platinum Games doesn’t have enough faith in their own CG and have decided to use ‘real life characters,’ in hopes to disguise what they can’t do. This is just ridiculous to assume.
If anyone remembers the very first Resident Evil for the original PlayStation back in 1996, they should recollect a lot of the scenes used real-life actors. To me, it looks like Shinji Mikami is once again going back to his roots and doing something similar with actual actors, rather than CG in Vanquish — which is fine by me. However, that doesn’t excuse my hatred for a publisher, Sega in this case, releasing a debut trailer and not showing us gameplay whatsoever. I would rather them give us something rather than some fancy cut-scenes, so we would have more to talk about the next day.
Anyway, when you watch the trailer, America is being heavily attacked by either an alien race, terrorists, or another country. Unfortunately for us Americans, especially for the ones who live in San Francisco, it’s up to an albino Master Chief clone to save the richest country in the world. I say “unfortunately’ because most albinos have poor vision or are legally blind, which — in my opinion — doesn’t bold to well in a devastating war.
A few days ago, it was somewhat made official that LittleBigPlanet was going to have a Pirates of the Caribbean downloadable content pack. The news came from Disney, but we waited for the official word from Sony, and today the company confirmed it.
Owners of LittleBigPlanet will have the opportunity to dress up Sackboy as: “Sack Sparrow,” Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Barbossa, Davy Jones and Tia Dalma. Each costumes will cost $1.99 individually, or if you want all of them in a pack, it’ll set you back $5.99. If you decided to purchase the $5.99 pack, you will have the ability to include water into your user created levels — which is the biggest thing to impact the gameplay of the LittleBigPlanet world, since DLC was introduced. After the jump, check out everything that will be included in the $5.99 pack. If you own the game, you will agree it’s a must buy!
Watch the trailer above.
Quick question to all the ladies… who is hotter? Sackboy’s Sparrow or Depp as the famous pirate? If I was a chick, I would so rather Sack Sparrow.
I wasn’t sure how I felt about Medal of Honor going all modern combat on everyone. If you didn’t hear, Electronic Arts announced last week that their successful series will put the World War II theme on the back-burner and have this newest installment be told in today’s era. It’s pretty obvious the company has seen what their rival, the Call of Duty series, from Activision, and they have experienced nothing but a lucrative bank account since they decided to take the game into the modern times.
Last night, EA showed off to the world for the first time a trailer for the Medal of Honor reboot. After watching it, it’s hard not to compare the title to Modern Warfare 2, not like we weren’t already doing that in the first place. So the question is, how does it measure up to MW2? Well, it’s too soon to know really. But so far, I’m mighty impressed — in fact graphically speaking, it looks as good as Modern Warfare, maybe even a tad better. Of course, EA is only hand picking what scenes look fantastic, so when people do watch it and think Call of Duty, they might think it could be a MW2 killer — that’s kinda the point of the trailer.
But before anyone jumps on the Medal of Honor bandwagon, let some people play it and let the previews trickle down a little bit, before we give it the first-person shooter crown. But it’s definitely something I’m gonna be watching out for in the near future.
During the Video Game Awards, Bungie revealed the first trailer of their last Halo game they’re developing. While not much has been talked about the upcoming Halo: Reach title, we did get some alleged leaked photos of the game in action. Last night, the long trailer somewhat proved those screen-captures were real because if you analyzes them, you would have seen what looked like a Spartan hand holding various guns.
When the trailer aired last night, we saw a whole bunch of Spartans, some with masks and some without. What this ultimately proved is that players who buy the game, will more than likely play as the famed Spartans of the Halo universe, and not a military guy like in the last and perhaps disappointing Halo title, ODST.
Graphically speaking, Halo: Reach looks considerably better when compared to the last two entries of the series. You could probably contribute a number of reasons why this would be. For one, Bungie might have been pushed a little to hard by Microsoft to bust out Halo 3 within the year the company’s competitors, and Nintento, systems were out for a year. So Bungie had a decision — improve the visuals and make it compete with other next-generation titles, or sacrifice that and perfect the gameplay. Obviously, they made the right choice by focusing on how well the game played.
But what Bungie has proven with this latest trailer is they still have it. The game looks like what many of us were hoping Halo 3 would have looked like back in 2007. So combine that with the gameplay of Halo — this just might be one of the best games to come out in 2010.
One of my favorite series of all time is Prince of Persia. When I learned that Disney greenlit a film adaption of the videogame, I was ecstatic beyond belief — especially when you consider the games never sold up to expectations. Ubisoft is obviously banking on the fact the franchise can now finally become a smash-hit, something it should have been years ago. But this time, it should have some momentum because of the movie.
This May, when the film hits theaters, Ubisoft announced earlier in the week that a sequel to the film and videogame of the Sands of Time will be in stores. They decided to debut the trailer at the Video Game Awards, but sadly everything looks CGish.
The only real news to come out of the clip, is the design of how the Prince will look this time around. He looks more like the film character, and less like the star from the Sands of Time videogame.
The big announcement from LucasArts at the Video Game Awards, was the company is planning to release Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. I actually was one of the few who loved the game and thought it had great potencial for a sequel. It’s good to see it has been greenlit.
Hopefully this time around, they can match the gameplay to the story.
Activision teased us with a trailer last week, showing off a cop inside the city of Hong Kong. Some were convinced that it was Stranglehold 2, and if you were one of them — you were wrong. Today, we get to see the full trailer of what this game was, and we now know it was True Crime 3.
The Video Game Awards started off with a bang and revealed by showing off a trailer, that “Batman: Arkham Asylum 2″ is on the way. While not much as far as gameplay was shown, it did prove that the Joker, along with the HOT Harley Quinn, have escape the infamous asylum and destroying Gotham City.
I’ve said it a million times, Crackdown is one of the most underrated games to come out this generation for any system. While it wasn’t an incredibly deep game and the story, quite frankly, sucked — it didn’t need to rely on those aspects. Its main focus was to make a simple, yet fun addictive game, told in an open-world. It was also one of the first games where I felt like a real super hero inside a living breathing city. Where it failed in some parts, it excelled whatever it did right.
When I heard that Microsoft greenlit a sequel for Crackdown, I was ecstatic; however, I’ve forced those feelings to be shelved until I saw a full trailer. I think a sequel has great potential and so much more can be done with the Crackdown universe, however, I’m a tad hesitant if this next installment will match the gameplay. The original developer, Realtime Worlds, is not working on the title because they’re busy coding on the ambitious massively-multiplayer-online game APB. So, Microsoft gave the responsibilities to the newly formed studio, Ruffian Games. While that sounds like horrible news, the team members actually consists of former employees who worked on the first Crackdown — so this just might work in the end.
GT has just released a teaser trailer for Crackdown 2, and they promise to show the full clip at the Video Game Awards on December 12th. So my hopes and fears could be answered that night. As soon as they premiere the video, we should have it on /gamer soon after. Stay tuned.
A nameless videogame trailer has appeared online thanks to GT, and during the clip we are promised it will be fully revealed during the Video Game Awards. While you watch the video, you will notice that the story looks like it will be told inside the city of Hong Kong and that the main character was at one point a cop. Various forums users are believing this mysterious title is a sequel to Stranglehold — which was connected to the film Hard Boiled and was directed by John Woo. However, if you look at the main character, he looks nothing like Chow Yun-Fat, who was the star in both Hard Boiled and Stranglehold. I guess one could say it will be told in the Hard Boiled universe, but I seriously doubt that.
Internet guru supererogatory, believes this unknown trailer is for a Treyarch canned game called Black Lotus, which is set in Hong Kong. According to various outlets, Activision had Treyarch stop the development of Black Lotus to solely work on Call of Duty: World at War and had the Vancouver-based studio United Front Games to pickup where Treyarch left off. So could this be that title? Probably.
More to come when the full trailer premieres at the VGA’s on Spike TV on December 13th.
Strikeforce, an MMA league, just debuted a show on CBS, which featured Brett Rogers pitted against Fedor Emelianenko. Moments ago, EA released the first trailer for the company’s MMA videogame, which we have above. In the clip, EA decided to use the fighters Fedor and Rogers, in hopes of attracting some extra buzz because of the main event on network television.
While it’s hard to grasp exactly how this game will pan out and if it’ll even compete in terms of gameplay with THQ’s UFC game, which came out earlier in the year for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. I can tell you, the first time I watched the trailer — it didn’t impress me like what UFC did when I first viewed it awhile back. Of course, I’m talking solely on the graphics and not the gameplay, as I have yet to try it. However, I did find the animations are a tad more realistic and less stiff, when compared to UFC — so, it really is up in the air if EA can overtake UFC as the best MMA videogame out there.
Again, check out the debut trailer above.
Strikeforce, an MMA league, just debuted a show on CBS, which featured Brett Rogers pitted against Fedor Emelianenko. Moments ago, EA released the first trailer for the company’s MMA videogame, which we have above. In the clip, EA decided to use the fighters Fedor and Rogers, in hopes of attracting some extra buzz because of the main event on network television.
While it’s hard to grasp exactly how this game will pan out and if it’ll even compete in terms of gameplay with THQ’sUFC game, which came out earlier in the year for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. I can tell you, the first time I watched the trailer — it didn’t impress me like what UFC did when I first viewed it awhile back. Of course, I’m talking solely on the graphics and not the gameplay, as I have yet to try it. However, I did find the animations are a tad more realistic and less stiff, when compared to UFC — so, it really is up in the air if EA can overtake UFC as the best MMA videogame out there.
Activision along with Infinity Ward have released the launch trailer for their highly anticipated game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. In the clip above, Activision tries to pump up the viewer by blasting some Eminem as the emotional music to one of the last trailers we’ll see for the first-person shooter. The music choice happens to be from one of the main artist in DJ Hero, which happens to be published by Activision and that probably is not a coincidence.
One thing the trailer proves, is how far Infinity Ward wanted to take the series with this next installment. Not only is the video nuts with the on screen action, but judging by the trailer, it looks as though the player will literally experience the war from the depths of the ocean, to the final frontier, which is space obviously. I’m not sure if playing as an astronaut is going to be possible, but observing what the studio has done in the past — I wouldn’t be surprised.
We’ll find out soon enough when Modern Warfare 2 drops on stores shelves this Tuesday.
Activision along with Infinity Ward have released the launch trailer for their highly anticipated game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. In the clip above, Activision tries to pump up the viewer by blasting some Eminem as the emotional music to one of the last trailers we’ll see for the first-person shooter. The music choice happens to be from one of the main artist in DJ Hero, which happens to be published by Activision and that probably is not a coincidence.
One thing the trailer proves, is how far Infinity Ward wanted to take the series with this next installment. Not only is the video nuts with the on screen action, but judging by the trailer, it looks as though the player will literally experience the war from the depths of the ocean, to the final frontier, which is space obviously. I’m not sure if playing as an astronaut is going to be possible, but observing what the studio has done in the past — I wouldn’t be surprised.
We’ll find out soon enough when Modern Warfare 2 drops on stores shelves this Tuesday.
While growing up, Excitebike was one of those games I played hours and hours for the NES. Sure, it was rather simple but it was one of those titles that captured motocross perfectly, while leaving a lot up to the imagination to the player. Not only that, it was one of the first games I remember that included a level editor; even though it was basic — the thought of creating a full level was kinda innovative for the time.
Today, Nintendo has revealed that a new Excitebike is coming to the Wii and it’ll be available exclusively on WiiWare. Not only that, they released a trailer and even announced it’ll be available online on November 9.
I’m actually happy that Nintendo is only allowing this game to be a download. First the game is cheap, and honesty what made Excitebike fun was the simplicity of the game mechanics. Nintendo easily could used the name and made a crappy 3D full game (see: vs. Excitebike), which would have not felt anything like what the classic title was known for. Thankfully, Nintendo decided to go the cheap way and keep the exact original gameplay, while updating the graphics. Not only that, it’ll feature online multiplayer — joy!
