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.
New video footage and photographs from the Guild Wars 2 tourist board have arrived. This time it’s details on the creepy Asura race. I don’t trust those little goblin things. You could say I’m an… Asuracist! Gosh, I’m funny. Take a look at the new footage, and some new screenshots, below.
So, there’s a new Syndicate game. Still not quite sure what to think about that. Anyway, here are the first official screenshots from the title.
EA just sent through a press release confirming the game’s existence, as well as all the information contained in the leaked info we posted over the weekend.
Tiny versions of some of these screens were included in that leak, but here they are in a size where you can actually see what’s going on.
“Our goal with Syndicate is to provide a challenging action shooter for today’s gamers as well as fans of the original. I’m sure they will enjoy and recognize the legacy that made it such a classic,” EA’s Jeff Gamon says in the press release. “Fans of the franchise will recognize many weapons and environments in the game, but in a whole new way. The game also provides a separate and deep 4-player co-op mode featuring missions from the original cult classic, which adds another layer of depth to the overall experience.”
It’s coming for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, and is expected sometime in “early 2012″.
How many trailers manage to accurately convey a design philosophy while also being pretty damn funny? I’ve done some swift calculations on my abaci and mathomancy tells me that the correct answer is this one for Serious Sam 3: BFE. Despite pouring scorn on so many modern gaming conventions, the whole thing is so gleeful that it doesn’t seem spiteful, just completely and incurably insane.
The video says episode 1 and I’ll be very happy to see more of this helpful chap before the game’s release on October 18th. Marketing is not supposed to be this much fun.
Let us walk you through the exciting new puzzle game from the co-creator of Portal. It follows the same room based puzzle format of portal but with different puzzle machanics and a slightly more cuddly asthetic.
A new multiplayer trailer for Mondern Warfare 3 has emerged and fans will be glad to know that Infinity Ward are staying very true to their tried and tested formula. So much so that you could be forgiven for thinking that you were actually watching a Black Ops video. Or a Modern Warfare 2 video. Or a Modern Warfare 1 video!
No word yet on the inevitable map packs but we’ll keep you posted.
“Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Trailer” was posted by Ando on Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:13
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).
Saving the Princess looks almost too easy armed with an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. But that doesn’t mean we’re not overly excited to play Mari0, a side-scrolling that jams Valve’s brand of teleportation into Nintendo’s NES classic.
Developers at the ominous sounding Stabyourself.net are responsible for Mari0, a mash-up of Super Mario Bros. and Portal, a real game that we’d previously seen as a Dorkly-produced joke video.
Traditionally, I enjoy my breakfast while listening to Ravel and watching the labouring classes hurrying back and forth in the street below. That all changed today. I nearly choked on my toasted muffin as my brain attempted to process the contents of The Binding of Isaac trailer. I had assumed Edmund McMillen’s latest would be an inspiring and moving parable relating to the limits of blind faith and infanticide. Turns out I was wrong. It’s actually about a terrifying Man-Baby refugee from an Aphex Twin video going bonkers in a dark room. I should have known. John talked about the game here and there’s no fresh information to digest along with the trailer. But if you can digest the contents of the trailer itself, you have a steelier stomach than I. All this madness can be yours sometime in September through Steam.
Um… wow. Now, I’m hardly an expert on Aliens videogames, but does anyone else think Colonial Marines looks extremely badass? Sure, plenty of games are set in dark sci-fi locales, and plenty of games have monsters pop out at you… but there’s something about seeing the aliens crawling just out of site, like cockroaches, that’s extremely unnerving… especially when they can kill your teammates in the blink of an eye. I don’t find many horror videogames that scary, but this… this looks genuinely a bit unnerving. Although it could probably use a little more Lance, if you ask me. Thanks to David V. for the tip!
