People loved Just Cause 2. With all the crazy grappling/parachuting/action-stunting in Avalanche Studios’ 2010 hit, why wouldn’t they? But Rico Rodriguez’ adventures didn’t have anything by way of online multiplayer, which would’ve made an already good game even better. Oh, well, JC2 lovers can dream of what might’ve been, right?
Developed in partnership with genre master Arc System Works, Persona 4 Arena uses gorgeous, hand-drawn, high definition 2D anime-style fighters and colorful, over-the-top special effects to bring to life characters from the acclaimed, highly popular Persona 3 and Persona 4.
The first footage for Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs all but confirms that the machine in question is not a belly-tickling porcine laughter factory, so there’s my hopes of a My Little Piglet friendship simulator dashed to bits against a dank wall.
You play as a highly trained commando on a sabotage mission, with the action taking place “across beautifully composed sci-fi vistas”. The intention is to make a “visceral, non-stop, run-and-gun action” downloadable title.
Doom 3 modders are recreating Ridley Scott’s Prometheus in the PC game, building models and textures so that players can explore the “alien” planet and structures for themselves. The real question is, would things turn out differently if you were playing instead of watching?
Activision has announced the forthcoming release of Ice Age: Continental Drift – Arctic Games, which will be launched this summer on all major consoles, including the Wii, presumably to tie in with the Olympic Games in London.
To the surprise of not a single soul, I choose to return by gesticulating in the direction of a stylised indie game. Trash TV appears to be a platform game at first but is really more of a puzzler, although a puzzler in which the solution to everything is GUNS. There’s loads of GUNS. Loads.
Overflowing with sex, blood, and rock ‘n’ roll, Lollipop Chainsaw is an un-deadly story of a sweet, killer zombie hunter and her mission to uncover the root of a widespread zombie outbreak. With her wickedly effective chainsaw in tow, Juliet slices and dices her way through waves of the undead, but quickly realizes the horde is only the opening act to a festival of zombie rock lords determined to kill the chainsaw toting cheerleader.
This is a 3-D animation called Super Modern Mario Bros. featuring the first level from the original game ‘modernized’. It’s cute enough to spend a minute watching. Two minutes?
These aren’t just future graphics. These are future graphics going head-to-head, mano-a-mano. This is next gen graphics death match. Earlier this week, Square Enix showed off its graphics created by its brand new game engine tech, the Luminous Engine.Tonight, Epic games unveiled its new game engine, the Unreal Engine 4.Two next gen game engine with two realtime demos.