Down where it's wetter, still where it's better... Rupert gives the verdict on the Xbox 360 version of 2K Marin's return to Rapture.
A few fast and loose thoughts on the press release.
What we like and what we don't like about Bungie's recent info blowout.
Karl-Magnus Troedsson says other multiplayer shooters are "still actually in team deathmatch mode", fail to nurture real teamwork.
Extensive tongue-wag with Activision Producer Kekoa Lee-Creel on Raven Software's upcoming dual-timezone shooter.
N64 classic cleans up a treat in high resolution, hopes to clean up on release day too.
We suit up and strap in for another apocalypse, though this time with an Eastern flavour. 360 version tested.
EA DICE is out to level the playing field a second time. FPS Gamer hunkers down in the woods with an Xbox 360 build.
Down where it's wetter, still where it's better... Rupert gives the verdict on the Xbox 360 version of 2K Marin's return to Rapture.
Valve gives the co-op gaming scene another adrenaline shot in the arm. Our take on the Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead 2.
It's the biggest release of the year. Will it get the biggest score? FPS Gamer's Kristan Reed takes on Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2.
Gearbox's Loony Tunes riff on Fallout 3 is bordering on greatness.
We suit up and strap in for another apocalypse, though this time with an Eastern flavour. 360 version tested.
If the sales charts are to be believed gamers are a pessimistic bunch. Apparently we like nothing more than winding down after the daily grind by transporting ourselves to post-apocalyptic wastelands fraught with mutants, radiation poisoning and the ultimate collapse of civilisation.
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EA DICE is out to level the playing field a second time. FPS Gamer hunkers down in the woods with an Xbox 360 build.
There’s something suspect about the phrase with which the Bad Company sub-franchise is often associated, ‘tactical destruction’. It’s the ‘tactical’ bit, basically. ‘Tactical’ lends ‘destruction’ a veneer of complexity we’re not entirely sure it deserves. Being able to explode cars in people’s faces, or shoot fist-sized lumps out of concrete tank barriers, or level houses from the kitchen windows upwards is undoubtedly a thrill, but there’s not a whole lot of nuance to be extracted.
Talking up the first Bad Company, EA DICE explained to a baying public that its patented Frostbite engine would give players ‘total freedom to be daring and innovative, adapting to and tackling challenges in unexpected Battlefield-style ways’. A less sensational way of wording this – and thus of approaching the highly similar sequel – might be that players have ‘total freedom to blow up stuff to kill people or make them easier to shoot’.
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Down where it’s wetter, still where it’s better… Rupert gives the verdict on the Xbox 360 version of 2K Marin’s return to Rapture.
As a rabidly hardcore fan of the original game, I feel almost duty bound to dislike BioShock 2. In about as much need of a sequel as the Mona Lisa, Ken Levine’s original creative work was a stunningly complete vision, telling a perfectly orchestrated tale of the rise and fall of one of gaming’s most memorable locations. The prospect of a purely commercially-driven sequel drew understandably hushed accusations of cashing in and selling out. Yet as hard as I’ve tried, BioShock 2 is simply too good a game to dislike.
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A few fast and loose thoughts on the press release.
The future's bright?
After teasing the internet rotten last week, Ubisoft’s whisked the dustsheets off a new Ghost Recon game. Specifics on Future Soldier are in short supply right now, with naught but a press release to chew on, but the mere thought of a third tour of duty for Scott Mitchell (assuming he hasn’t fielded a desk job) and co is enough to make us wet the bed.
So what do we know about the title, right now? Well, we know it’ll offer “cutting-edge technology, prototype high-tech weaponry, and state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes” – standard issue features for the battleworn tactical shooter series. But we’re also told that it’ll “go beyond the core Ghost Recon franchise and deliver a fresh gameplay experience, with an unparalleled level of quality that will excite long-time fans and newcomers alike”.
Good news? Sure. The last Ghost Recon was more of a refinement than a reinvention of its predecessor, and it’s high time Ubisoft started pushing some boundaries. But here’s a speculative caveat: the mention of “going beyond the core” and “newcomers” makes it sound a little like the publisher is courting the mainstream market.
We’re pretty down with the mainstream – hey, we review Wii games – but we’re fond of Ghost Recon’s more authentic, less accessible approach to urban warfare, and we wouldn’t want it to go soft. Financial realities presumably dictate that the Future Soldier team branch out from the franchise’s tightly wound fanbase; we just hope they’re able to create a truly scalable product, one which won’t skimp on intricacy and challenge for the layman’s sake.
This is the game soldiers relax with between trips to the Middle East, Ubi. Don’t turn it into Ravin Rabbids.
Press release over the leaf. UPDATE: You can find the announcement trailer on VGTV.
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