Gamers have been looking forward to getting their hands on Diablo 3 since it was first announced in Paris at Blizzard’s 2008 World Wide Invitational. Since then Blizzard has announced all five of the game’s playable classes and also shown off the game’s Player Versus Player Arena Mode. With this much information about the game out, it’s almost suprising that Blizzard has kept so quiet about a release date.
This month’s big shooter, Brink launches in just a few hours, but if you need something Brink-ish to tide you over until the midnight launch, here are a few games that have similar features. Best of all, one of the games on our list is free, so if you broke the bank on your Brink pre-order you can still find something here to help you kill time.
Recently, EA released it’s earning estimates for the previous fiscal year, as well as it’s predictions for the next. The company forecast that the highly anticipated MMO,Star Wars: The Old Republic would be released sometime in the second half of 2011, though there could be an “outside chance” that it will be delayed into the first quarter of 2012.
Valve is taking it’s sweet time creating Half-Life 2: Episode 3, so fans are eager for any hints at all aboutwhen it will come out, and what sort of experience it will impart. So when Gabe Newell, while discussing Portal 2, mentioned that Portal 2 would “probably” be the last isolate singleplayer experience, Half Life fans became jumpy, since Half-Life is very story driven. When asked to clarify this statement, Newell responded:
These girls may look like they’re made of sugar and spice, but they’re actually made of suppressed rage and hot lead. Decades ago, the idea of a violent young woman struck pure terror in the hearts of our sexist forefathers, but now-a-days, deadly teen girls are a symbol of girl-power coolness, and cliché-subverting action-comedy. They also provide gamers a chance to see which video game developers employ lots of creepy old perverts in their art department.
The next game in the Driver franchise is Driver: San Francisco, which directly following the previous Driv3r, but this time there’s a catch: It will be only a dream! That’s right, as Tanner, the recurring undercover cop protagonist who drives around with his doors locked (usually), the player enters into the game just as he suffers a head-on collision in San Francisco while in pursuit of Jericho (the antagonist from the previous game). Bedridden in a hospital, Tanner’s life of driving invades his dreams as well, allowing for several new mechanics and features not seen in previous installments.
Brink, a new first person shooter developed by Splash Damage, creators of the cult-popular Enemy Territory games, and the more recent Quake Wars, is a new take on a tried-and-true set of gameplay mechanics. Adding parkour and intelligent objective assignment to its long list of features makes for an interesting team-based shooter in and of itself, but when combined with the jump-in, jump-out blending of single player, multiplayer, and cooperative play, makes an oddly enticing combination that is hard to ignore.
