Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past year, you know EA has a
lot vested in Battlefield 3. EA has been very vocal in regards to the
what they want to do with the franchise: sock it to Call of Duty. So
now that Battlefield 3 is out, how does it stand up? Did DICE deliver
some bite to that EA brass bark? The answer, as you might expect, is
complicated.
Welcome to the final installment of our series on games you should play instead of Modern Warfare 3. Some of you may not be old enough to remember it, but long, long ago, in 1997, development started on the biggest hype train to ever hit the rails of the video game industry – even more hype than Modern Warfare 3. John Romero, the genius behind Doom, was set to revolutionize the first-person shooter genre. Released on May 23, 2000, this title remains as one of the most overhyped flops to ever grace this planet. Of course, I’m talking about Daikatana.
Indie developer Infamous Adventures seeks beta testers to track down bugs in their two upcoming releases, a remake of Space Quest II: Vohaul’s Revenge, and a re-mastering of their previous remake, King’s Quest III: To Heir is Human. Their solicitation does emphasize that they need testers dedicated to questing out bugs and providing useful reports, as opposed to getting an early crack at playing these titles.
As far as gritty character studies go, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a recent one quite as good as Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene. The writer/director, wearing both hats for the first time, proves adept at two very difficult things: Structuring a film to maximize tension and emotional impact, and getting an outstanding performance out of a previously unknown actor.
Yee haw, I reckon this here trailer for Reckoning looks right purty, I reckon. I reckon you cowpokes outghtta mosey on down to the bottom of this here page and take a gander at the gamplay footage, I reckon. I can’t quite reckon why the game’s called “Reckoning” when there ain’t no cowboys in it, but I Reckon the folks what made it got a good reason, I reckon.
Like the egg of a
three-toed, snabble-de-frax, we have a treat this week, it’s The Lorax. Whether live-action or drawn,
star-studded or not, the works of the good Dr. Seuss are beloved quite a lot. Before
a pirate was he, Johnny Depp lit up television, now Jonah Hill and Channing
Tatum will give a comedic revision.
got, and for yet another remake, I laughed quite a lot. Third (but not last) is
the creepy ParaNorman of stop motion
fame, like Coraline before, kids call
mommy’s name. Last but not least are haunted house thrills by the tonne, The Innkeepers, you see, promises
low-budget fun. When it comes to movie clips, Player Affinity’s no slacker, we’ve
got animation and laughs – it’s Trailer Tracker.
Battlefield has always offered a different twist on what everyone has come to expect from the modern shooter market. Some of the renditions have been reminiscent of an anime or cartoon. Others offer a small, niche free-to-play experience. Yet others have full scale warfare of epic proportions on a battlefield that feel very much like a war-zone. Many who choose Battlefield as their shooter do so because, rather than a small skirmish, you get the feeling that you are in an actual war. Battlefield 3 does not disappoint in this aspect and goes above and beyond the others to deliver the best multi-player in the franchise and raises the bar for what should be expected from a modern shooter.
Battlefield 3 is extremely focused on multi-player, but that is not to say that single player is completely non-existent. The campaign is rather short, but offers a wide variety of action throughout and is certainly enjoyable. You spend the majority of the game moving through cut scenes that are taken from the present and spend the majority of your game replaying the small snippets they discuss as the story progressing, until it comes to the ending that can be seen coming from some way away. The campaign, as it seems with many of the campaigns of modern shooters, is forgettable, but it is not the focus of Battlefield 3, so for what it’s worth the campaign is a solid addition to this immaculate title.
Jonah Hill stars alongside Channing Tatum in this TV series remake/undercover cop comedy about two police officers and former high school friends assigned to be pose as teenagers in order to find the source of a popular new synthetic drug.
The world of video games is full of monstrous creatures – From the mutant Necromorphs of Dead Space to the blocky terrors of Minecraft, right up to the myriad horrors of the Resident Evil games – and as we enter Halloween weekend, it’s worth taking a look at the very best (Or worst) of them.
Think you have HOP potential? Sony thinks you do! Today, the next phase of the Long Live Play campaign rolls out with the Hall of Play. An obvious pun on Hall of Fame, the Hall of Play is an online lounge designed for gamers. Announced on the PlayStation blog by Scott Steinberg, Hall of Play also includes a Facebook app that will enable you to create your own “To Michael!” video that has been well received as Sony’s new ad campaign starts to get under way.
