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.
Up top is a leaked video of the opening of the Halo: Reachbeta that some of you will be playing this spring, just as long as you bought Halo: ODST. Sadly for those expecting to see some gameplay in the clip, you should stop because there isn’t any. The video is a quick tease on how the menu will look.
With that said, what it does do is prove the leaked screens that we posted a few months ago, are indeed real and not fake — which is what most of us thought in the first place. But it’s good to know we can finally confirm the legitimacy of the photos, and not speculate anymore.
If you haven’t seen these photos, check out them by clicking here.
Since the dawn of inventions, everything has been inspired by something else. It’s just the way nature works and videogames are no exception. All of us have no choice but to be okay with that because that’s the way it’ll always be. However with that said, I’m not okay with people bluntly steal/copy from a videogame and call it their own.
Up top is footage from a game called Duludubi Star and I think the Chinese developer who created it, was a little more than inspired by Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. The game follows an unimaginative blue dragon, who collects coins on small planets where its gravity is a staple point in the game, which is the exact premise of Super Mario Galaxy. Hell, even the menus are exactly the same — couldn’t they have at least not make it so obvious and change them!?
Yeah, it’s pretty pathetic. Watch that, and click here to see what Nintendo did with Mario two years ago.
/gamer reader Chris, sent us a clip of Family Guy where it makes a reference to the Grand Theft Auto series. It starts off with Louis encouraging Peter to learn how to drive by playing the famous sandbox title. Obviously the next scene has to show something ridiculous because for the last ten years, that has been the staple point of the show. Now, if you find the show funny, you will probably laugh. But if Family Guy isn’t your thing, you might want to move along.
If you love Mario like the other millions of people roaming this planet, try not to weep while you watch this “uplifting” fan-made Mario tribute. It’s not that I’ll think any less of you as a person if water starts to leak out of your eyes — I for one had a hard enough time holding back the tears — but the problem is you’ll realize that you’re crying for a pixelated plumper. Stuff like that can only be unsafe psychologically because you start to question your own self worth. So I urge you, please watch to be entertained and don’t do anything stupid…
Everyone knows about the old video of a young kid opening up a Nintendo 64 for Christmas. You know, it’s the one where he, and what looks like his sister, goes nuts when they realized they just got what they thought was the gift of a lifetime. Countless videos since then of similar incidents, have made its way online, although they never seemed to capture the magic of the famous N64 one.
The video up top has been making the Internet rounds, which shows a kid going apesh*t because his parents (I presume) gave him an Xbox 360 for Christmas. Some sites are assuming the video is a fake, and the father, or whomever is recording the video, told him to act crazy for the camera. I personally believe its real because I had a similar experience when my Mom bought be a Sega-CD for the holidays. Yes, I know it was a Sega-CD and it didn’t turn out the way I expected — you don’t have to remind me. Although, what’s going to be really funny is he’ll act exactly the same way when he randomly turns on his system, and watches a red circle runs around the ‘on’ button. At least my Sega-CD still works after all these years.
Russian animation studio tvigle, came up with a concept of having two famous videogame stars, Pac-Man & Mario, pitted against each other in an epic battle to the death. But I think it was more about Mario going through his ordinary routine, but suddenly Pac-Man has to be a dick once again, and ruin somebody’s fun.
The direction of the action was crafted beautifully, while the animation was drawn to perfection, and the sound is guaranteed to make you at least chuckle. It’s definitely worth a few minutes of your time.
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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.
