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Archive for November, 2011
JASF: Jane’s Advanced Strike Fighters
Deepak Chopra: Leela
The Deepak Chopra Project helps players let go of their stressful lives and take an amazing journey of mind and body.
Assassin’s Creed Revelations Launch Trailer
What happens when bad-asses get old? They look back into history at the fates of other, long-dead badasses. Watch the latest trailer for the finale of Ezio Auditore’s saga and see how UbiSoft plans on making the gray-bearded assassin go out with a bang.
Game of Thrones action RPG coming from Atlus
Action role-playing game based on fantasy epic gets a publisher, early 2012 release window.
The ongoing A Song of Ice and Fire series has been a favorite among fantasy buffs for more than a decade, and its popularity has exploded with the recent HBO Game of Thrones adaptation. A real-time strategy game based on the franchise from Cyanide Studios hit shelves in September, and now the same developer has a publisher for its in-development Game of Thrones action role-playing game.
Atlus announced today that it will be handling publishing duties for the Game of Thrones action RPG adaptation. The game will feature many familiar locations from the books, and likenesses of some of the actors from the HBO series.
The “30-plus hour” game puts players in the shoes of one of the two original characters with different motivations. As former members of Robert’s Rebellion, players will have to battle through numerous quests as power over the Seven Kingdoms is contested.
On the gameplay front, the title will feature an “active slowdown tactical combat engine” that slows time and lets players make strategic battle decisions. Character interactions and player decisions are also said to have a big impact on the game’s world.
In news that is likely to please fans, Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is directly involved with the creation of the game’s scenarios and story. Cyanide studio director Yves Bordeleau told USA Today, “All the situations and storyline were written under [Martin's] monitoring in order to fit with the story the fans have already read, and thus fulfill their expectations.”
The Game of Thrones action RPG is set for an early 2012 release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
Kark At This: BF3 Expansion Trailer
I’ve spent the last ten minutes trying and failing to make the Battlefield 3 noise with my mouth, but it has too many digital effects over it and my mouth, as I’ve just discovered, is analogue. Such mimicry is my usual reaction to squelchy electronica, and I just watched the trailer for Back to Karkand, the first expansion to EA’s five-million and counting selling lawnmower simulator. Join me below in watching it.
It cleverly takes the classic Battlefield maps (ie: the ones we actually want to play), Strike at Karkand, Gulf of Oman, Sharqui Peninsula, and Wake Island, and takes the new engine and makes them kiss. The are three new vehicles and ten new weapons, too. Bonus: if you pre-ordered the main game, you’ll get it for free, the rest will have to pay £11.99/$15/23.5666666 Peggles.
Scarf Campaign – FIFA Soccer 12 Trailer
Check out this trailer for FIFA Soccer 12 promoting the Scarf Campaign.
FIFA Soccer 12 brings to the pitch a new game-changing Player Impact Engine, which is a physics engine built to deliver real-world physicality in every interaction on the pitch. The Player Impact Engine monitors contact between players in real time, analyzing the force of the collision and the impact on the body to detect real injuries, which will create a deeper and more challenging career mode.
There’s more engaging gameplay due to its revolutionary innovations inspired by the real world of soccer. You will have all-new precision dribbling, which delivers a higher fidelity of touch on the ball for attacking players.
In addition, tactical defending will fundamentally change the approach to defending by placing equal importance on tackling, intercepting passes, and position. Also, CPU players have been infused with pro player intelligence, which provides the next generation of player intelligence and performance to give you the challenge of a lifetime.
Clouded Vision – Rainbow Six: Patriots
The announcement of the distant Clancy-fever-dream that is Rainbow Six: (Angry) Patriots brought back memories of playing the first game in the series, or at least I’m going to pretend it did for the purpose of what I say next. Careful planning, exchanging tactical tips with school chums, watching my elite squad fail to navigate the complex architectural geometry of a door. The memories quite literally did not come flooding back. But when I saw the ‘Vision Video’ for the new game, which serves as a warning of a dire future that can hopefully be averted, I did find myself retreating into memories of better times.
Meet Heavy Rainbow Six: Queasy Terrorism Emotivator.
6,000 copies of Modern Warfare 3 stolen
French news networks are reporting that two masked men stole some 6,000 copies of Activision’s upcoming first-person shooter from a delivery truck south of Paris.
Activision has already suffered a setback this week concerning the upcoming release of the highly anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, with sealed copies of the game surfacing on a number of online auctions two days before launch.
Now, it appears two individuals in France also wanted to get their hands on an early copy of the first-person shooter. French news networks are reporting that two masked men armed with tear gas and knives hijacked a truck near Paris and fled with its cargo, which contained around 6,000 copies of Modern Warfare 3.
If someone from France offers you a copy of MW3, don’t say yes!…Give it to me and i’ll keep it safe
According to a report from TF1 news channel, and as translated by GameSpot, two men crashed into a van transporting a cargo of boxed video game copies near Cr’teil, 10 kilometres south-east of Paris, around 8am yesterday morning. When the van’s driver and occupants left the vehicle after the crash, two masked men used tear-gas and drove away in the van, taking the cargo with them.
According to a Agence France Presse (AFP) report, the van’s cargo contained 400,000 Euros of merchandise, all copies of Modern Warfare 3. The news report estimates the number of copies at around 6,000.
Last week, Infinity Ward representative Robert Bowling spoke for the Modern Warfare 3 developer on Twitter, saying, “No plans to ban legit fans, but try to wait ’til midnight launch on Tuesday to play #MW3.”
Meantime enjoy this NEW awesome trailer!
Jump To Attention: InMomentum Out Now
One of those games that really captured RPS’s attention during its development, InMomentum, is now out. It’s up on Steam for a very decent £5.59 – a price that includes all future DLC by the way. Project lead, Norbert Varga, explained to us, “We don’t sell DLC. That’s not how we roll.”
You can see the game’s launch trailer below.
Despite being out, there’s more to come. Soon Digital Arrow plan to add a level editor, dedicated server support, more options for graphics and key mapping, and they say more game modes. So that’s all good then.
We shall have a review of the game up in the near future. Gosh, we hope it’s as good as it had the potential to be.
Dungeon Defenders
With its numerous game modes and customization options, there’s a lot to do in Dungeon Defenders. Too bad its fundamentals don’t measure up.
Orcs are crazy. All they ever want to do is smash things and terrorize villagers. Thankfully, brave heroes will always be there to help with a carefully calculated combination of turrets and traps.
If you played such games as Orcs Must Die! or Trenched, then you’re already familiar with the mechanics for Dungeon Defenders.
The goal is to protect one or more structures, called cores, from increasingly difficult waves of goblins, orcs, and other high-fantasy fiends. You do this using your character’s unique buildings and abilities, all of which you can upgrade and customize.
Score: 6.5 / fair