Bethesda doesn’t make crap, and neither does id. id has brought great to shooters to gamers for close to twenty years, and Bethesda has devoured hundreds of hours of my precious life with its Fallout series alone. id is the developer behind this week’s big release Rage, and Bethesda will be publishing it. While the post-apocalyptic shooter seems like a sure-fire hit, there are still some things that could mar its success.
If you’ll turn Gears of War off for just a few minutes and pay attention, we’d like to tell you about some of the other games you could be playing now. While you were out slaughtering locusts with your chainsaw, you probably failed to notice all the other great Xbox games that came out last month, so here’s our September Xbox Review Round-up.
In case you didn’t already know, RAGE, the first-person shooter/racing hybrid developed by iD Software and published by Bethesda, will be released tomorrow. If you’re a hardcore iD fan, then you probably already know that the RAGE universe has already been established. A little less than a year ago in November 2010, iD published an early preview of the post-apocalyptic environment with RAGE HD for iOS devices. Not owning an iOS device at the time, I didn’t discover this gem until last week. For $1.99, what does this iOS preview tell us about the imminent “real” RAGE?
Let me start by saying that RAGE HD is, in many ways, not comparable to what will hit consoles and the PC tomorrow. As an iOS game, it’s designed to run for much less sophisticated hardware, so those of you expecting to see console-quality graphics and effects will be disappointed (although it does look fantastic for its platform). However, RAGE HD provides us with plenty of hints as to how the universe will feel, look, and operate.
Okay, the big huge game for September was that thing on the Xbox where you kill monsters using your chainsaw gun. But, while everyone was playing Cogs of Gear on their console, a lot of PC exclusives quietly came out in the last month. Let’s take a look back at some of the titles you might have missed.
According to Bloomberg, Microsoft is planning to partner with Comcast and Verizon to offer subscription-based streaming television service on the Xbox 360. This falls in line with Microsoft announcing Live TV for the Xbox 360 during last year’s E3.
According to sources “With knowledge of the situation,” Microsoft is in talks with two dozen Music, Movies and Sports providers in the U.S. and is expected to sign deals with Time Warner, HBO, Sony Pictures entertainment, Verizon, Comcast and NBC Universal’s Bravo and Syfy channels.
PSN users can now look forward to experiencing the top down indie vehicular gore-fest Zombie Driver. While a specific date has not been given, Pawell Lekki announced on the PlayStation Blog this week that Zombie Driver HD will be coming to PSN soon. The release will be far more than a simple port, including not only re-tuned controls, but all the same free content available for PC, as well as a new re-made campaign featuring twice the content of the original, including new side missions, new enemies, more vehicles and numerous gameplay tweaks.
Web-slinging superhero Spider-Man is
certainly no stranger in the realm of video games, as Peter Parker’s alter-ego
has starred in at least thirty games, from nothing but a red block in his video
game debut on the Atari 2600, to the soon-to-be-released Spider-Man: Edge of Time. As expected, the early Spider-Man games were developed by a
variety of developers, such as Sega and Capcom, along with a multitude of
lesser-known developers.
