Almost three years after the collapse of Flagship Studios, T3 Entertainment has announced that Hellgate: London will be returning to PC gamers as a free to play title. While the game’s name has been shortened to simply Hellgate, it will still be set in a post-apocalyptic demon-ravaged London and players can get a taste of it later this year with a short beta in early June.
Be fearful gamers! The Rapture is upon us! According to a radio evangelist, on May 21st the righteous will ascend to heaven, while sinners are sent to roast in eternal hellfire! Having spent most of our lives playing murder simulators, and teabaging virtual corpses in shooter games, we’re all going to fry! But our salvation is at hand, because I’ve found a list of games we can all play to earn some good karma and maybe buy our way into heaven. Read on as though your soul depends upon it!
So, here it is May 21st, and you’re still on Earth reading Player Affinity while the righteous have all been taken to Heaven in The Rapture. Well, your lifetime of virtual misdeeds while playing murder simulators is obviously the reason why God hates you. Read on to find out which games you should never have played because they endangered your soul.
Twisted
Metal
made its debut at last year’s E3 convention, and now the game is
really starting to break free from the silence. The game’s developer, Eat
Sleep Play, is finally unveiling some details on the reincarnation of
the title on the PS3, and Creative Director David Jaffe has stated
that the team has been hard at work on the project. He claims that
the game, while still in its early pre-release stages, stays true to
the classics and is a fast and ferocious action driving game. The
game sports a brand new look with HD graphics yet still retains the
chaotic and hyper-violent feel of the originals. Of course, there
will be a slew of new features and improvements to the combat system
and other game mechanics, but nothing too altering or extreme.
Needless to say the new face of Twisted
Metal
is an even crazier, over-the-top action game than its predecessors.
Co-op gameplay is certainly nothing new in the gaming world, however, it is very rare that it is executed as well as in Portal 2. Even taking aside what it did right, it smartly avoids several mistakes that other games do not. For me, one of these is actually supporting local coop which is getting very rare these days. Saving individual progress for the player while integrating that into a co-op session is also something that you don’t see a great deal of either. However, it isn’t these things that make the experience what it is, nor is it the superbly polished mechanics, it’s the way the game makes you feel while playing cooperatively that makes it stand out from everything else.
The internet assures me that the world will end tomorrow, which means that we only have a few hours left to enjoy video games. Sure, logic would tell us to go out and buy the most expensive games we can find, since Judgement Day is at hand, and we’ll be too busy roasting in Hellfire to worry about our credit card bills, but let’s just go out on a limb and assume that fiscal responsibility might still be important next week, so we’ll try to find some good games deals. For starters, we have Direct2Drive.com’s Potato Sack- I mean “Indie Sack”.
I was first introduced to FPS games when I played Unreal Tournament. Before that I had been a big RTS player and had been completely oblivious to the world of first person shooters. I recently tried to go back and get into Counter Strike: Source (I had played it once before at a LAN cafe and got myself absolutely destroyed by ‘the regulars’) and found that I really didn’t like what some PC gamers call the best online FPS of all time.
