Another Resident Evil? Okay, sure. I suppose between next month’s Revelations on 3DS, Operation Raccoon City in March, the Milla Jovavich movie Retribution this Fall, and the animated Damnation, I suppose I can fit in another Resident Evil thing this year. In fact Capcom would have to be crazy to NOT put out Resident Evil 6 this year!
There are two things I like. Naked women and Fallout. I had been aware of the D20 Burlesque show for some time; they do monthly performances where attractive women strip out of nerdy outfits, and this month their theme was “Dystopia”, complete with a piece based on the post-apocalyptic dystopian game Fallout. With my “Pip boy” grasped firmly, I attended the show over the weekend.
Repetition in videogame sequels is naughty. It can lead to boredom and has the potential to ruin aspiring titles and our wallets by displaying a clear disregard for innovation. While Resident Evil 4 completely reinvented the series, Resident Evil 5 seemed to be pretty much the same game with the exception of certain enemies who appear to have been injected with a vast quantity of class A’s rather than Las Plagas. This left many gamers questioning whether the series might turn into the monotonous drag of “Same game, different characters”. So how have Capcom answered these worries? They’re pushing down the trigger on their recliner couches and putting their feet up, handing development of the next title to Slant Six Games. Operation Raccoon City is not Resident Evil 6, but rather a new installment in the series.
Video games, comics, movies, TV, we cover it all here at Player Affinity, now sit up straight you uncultured oafs because we’re cramming some dramatic art down your throats with a review of a science-fiction off-off-Broadway play that’s running in New York City. Advance Man by Mac Rogers is the first play in a series of such works called The Honeycomb Trilogy.
When Crytek handed over the keys to Far Cry back in 2007, it was clear that Ubisoft Montreal were facing a tough challenge. Save for spiritual successorCrysis, the series had been long abandoned by the original creators, surviving only through its cult multiplayer following and exceptional reputation for visual design. Ubisoft inherited the impossible task of having to satisfy the series’ existing fanbase whilst simultaneously reaching for an unaware console market that was still high on Modern Warfare. Meanwhile, Crysis had launched to whirlwind success and was busy shredding home computers with its superlative CryEngine. By the time Far Cry 2 launched in October 2008, expectations were soaring. The pre-release material that had been trailed at UbiDays earlier that year had pushed anticipation to boiling point, with wild promises of unbridled sandbox gaming and unprecedented levels of real-world fidelity.
Friday the 13th is the day you’re most likely to get struck by lightning, run over by an ambulance and stabbed in the face by a bad tempered fella with a hockey mask, so why not do yourself a favor and remain indoors with our top five list of the unluckiest characters in gaming history.
Player Affinity’s PC staff has logged a good thousand hours in Skyrim between us all, and by the time we’ve scoured the land of Tamriel for every last wedge of cheese we’ll be well into 2012. By that time a whole new slew of must-play games will be on shelves waiting to devour our precious time. Here are the ones that we’re most looking forward to playing.
2011 has been a very well-paced year for gamers. We started out with a couple of hits in January and ended with a major release less than a week before Christmas. My favorites this year include horror, comedy, epic RPG’s, downloadable arcade games, and even a DLC pack from a 2010 game that was so good it deserves just as much honor as the full games. Developers are making great games at a faster rate than anyone can play them all, but here are ten that I thoroughly enjoyed.
As we enter the final week of 2011, it’s time for Player Affinity’s PC Department to look back at all of the great games that came out for PC this year and name our favorite ones. Here are Ari Runanin Telle’s thoughts:
It’s that time of year when Federal regulations mandate that all media organizations publish their Top Ten lists. All of Player Affinity’s gaming department will be rolling out our choices for Best Of in these last few days of 2011, and the PC Department is starting off with Fergus Halliday’s choices for Ten Best PC Games of 2011:
