Okay, here it is: the first Syndicate trailer. Heavy on the dubstep and men in trenchcoats. Gosh, this makes me realise that the original Syndicate came out in the era before there were generally trailers for games.
- No waving policeman?
- HUD elements at 0:34 look interesting.
- Gosh, they meant that “breaching” enemies thing, at 0:40.
- 0:50: wubwubstep!
- 1:03: a boot stamping on a human face. Forever?
- I like the casually shooting people at 1:16.
- Some men certainly get shot.
- No sign of co-op yet?
- Logo is a bit weak. Looks like Any Old Action Movie font.
X-Men: Destiny has you playing a new recruit amongst comic’s motley mutant band and promises a branching storyline that features a deep element of choice.
The first thing you’ll need to keep in mind about X-Men Destiny is that you won’t be playing as the most famous of mutants. Nope, you’re not going to be tearing people apart with Wolverine, nor will you be taking down enemies using Beast’s overwhelming powers of science and math. In this game, you start as a green recruit and use a little help from friends to get your journey rolling.
Destiny plays like an accessible beat-’em-up with some overarching role-playing elements to add extra substance to the action. We managed to tear our way through the demolished streets of San Francisco with ease, thanks to the game’s fairly simple control scheme, which used two face buttons to mix up Aimi’s light and heavy electrical attacks.
It’s a very easy game to pick up and play, but there are a number of flourishes that add some flair to the action. Our favorites were the times when a text prompt on the screen told us there was one enemy left to take down; we then shattered the text prompt with a ground pound, along with the enemy. Yes, you can destroy both enemies and interface text with the same attack. Pretty cool.
Direct from this weekend’s Tokyo Game Show, the bullet-time heavy, completely gameplay-free trailer for Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3.
Why no gameplay? Well hell, you’ve already seen what Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 looked and played like, and you’ve seen videos of the new combatants in action. Let Capcom’s random CG department have some fun for once. Oh look, we can see inside Spider-Man’s web and right down Morrigan’s cleavage! You can’t buy that kind of sleepy slo-mo excitement. I might have to take a nap.
It’s a battle so titanic that only Tokyo, birthplace of giant mutated monsters, could possibly hope to contain it! This isn’t about Street Fighter X Tekken anymore. It’s all about Rufus X Bob.
Seriously, they could have just released Rufus X Bob and I would have gladly paid $60 for it. Just look at how much fun they’re having in this Tokyo Game Show trailer!
You know all about it, you’ve waited long enough, Dead Island is available NOW! A schlocky, gruesomely fun action role-playing game awaits you on Dead Island. Bring three friends.
Rise of Nightmares will take you into a cinematic world of horrific blood and violence and will be one of the first mature games to hit the Xbox 360 Kinect.
Use your entire body to fight the undead horde with physical brutality. You will navigate through Viktor’s castle with free movement control to uncover the secrets held within. You will delve deeper into the mind of a madman. Combat the undead horde by mastering the different fighting styles and various weapons. Sometimes you will have to sneak around stealthily and also solve puzzles. Rise of Nightmares is an intensely immersive experience that will bring horror to life like never before.
Relic’s manly man-killing simulator – Space Marine – is but a week away from unleashing it’s own brand of intense violence, blood and gore upon the world, and THQ have sent us another video to herald it’s arrival. Here we get to see the “Thunder Hammer” turning orcs into clouds of red mist. Delightful.
Did you try the demo yet? If you liked it, head here to see a carousel of all the different retailers THQ has given exclusive content to, so you can pick which “bonus content” you want to miss out on.
Proper opinion on this coming once it’s been formed (in the Criticism Forges of Mars).
Sega wants in on the Street Fighter IV-led fighting game resurgence. Their entrant? A new version of 2006′s Virtua Fighter 5, Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, scheduled for a downloadable release on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next summer.
Final Showdown is supposed to include “a full overhaul of Virtua Fighter 5′s mechanics, balance and animations, along with new game modes, new dynamic fighting arenas, a massive collection of customizable character items and new characters added to the roster,” according to a press release from Sega.
The new game will offer an optional simplified controlled scheme, arenas with destructible fences and walls that “are different for every round,” new wall-based combat moves, a new single-player mode, a “responsive one-on-one online battle system”, and 19 characters, “including fan favorite Taka-Arashi from Virtua Fighter 3 and an all-new character, Jean Kujo” along with costumes and character items.
