Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops has a lot going for it. It combines old-school shooters with stealth gaming to put players in control of two operatives who try to take down bad guys in the year 2025. Because it’s set in the near future, it gives gamers access to sci-fi spy equipment, while also employing cover-based gunplay. However all of these great ideas don’t pan out due to numerous tech issues, and some bad design choices.
While Two Worlds 1 was mostly atrocious, Two Worlds 2 was fairly well received. It seemed to have its own little unique charm that people ate up. Apparently, that game sold around 2.5 million copies. Also apparently, Reality Pump (the developers) enjoy adding content to it as there will be a new expansion releasing this September entitled Pirates of the Flying Fortress.
“The story plunges the player headlong into an adventure that is more than astonishing! The good old “Two Worlds” atmosphere waits, which is yet quite different this time around. Exotic flair, new enemies, new settings and new weapons – all fans are in for a shocking surprise!” –Press Release
Tower defense games started out as a mod for Warcraft 3 and have since become a vast genre that is represented on almost all gaming platforms. From Plants Versus Zombies to Defence Grid, there are as many different kinds of tower defense games as there are car crashes in Smallville. Independent developers in particular are having a ball when it comes to this genre and the latest indie tower defense game to hit the digital shelves is Sanctum.
Buckle up nerds, because this weekend has a bunch of great deals on downloadable games for you. Good Old Games has a sale on bundles of Activision adventure games. The Kings Quest, Police Quest and Space Quest franchises are being bundled, and then cut by 30%. You can get these bundles which contain 2-4 games each for $6.99, or you can get all seven bundles (20 games) for $48.93. This is an amazing deal if you never played the classic adventure titles.
Along
with the new Ratchet & Clank title, Insomniac Games’
upcoming third installment to the popular Resistance series
has seen yet another media preview. On April 12 a large group of both
American and European press members in Los Angeles were treated to a
presentation of a new single-player area, multiplayer map, and weapon
that would be featured in the upcoming Resistance 3
game. Along with this fresh material, the video showing the boat
segment along the Mississippi River was also shown. Both of these
levels which are featured in the game’s single-player campaign
feature characters Joseph Capelli and Dr. Malikov as they try to ward
off the Chimeran threat; show some of the new game elements such as
the “weapon wheel” and HUD enhancements.
I know how you feel. I’m dying to get my mitts on the new Portal game just as much as anyone, but I can wait out the coming days until its release because I planned ahead and stocked on some methadone to control my cravings. And when I say methadone, I mean PC games that sorta remind me of the Portal series. If you’re having trouble making it through the remaining torturous hours until Portal 2 goes live on your Steam account, then check out some of these shooter/ puzzle hybrids.
Yesterday I reported that Natural Motion and 505 Games had teased a new Backbreaker game. Today they made it official by announcing that the new Backbreaker game will be titled Backbreaker: Vengeance and will be exclulsive to Xbox Live Arcade.
“Backbreaker: Vengeance takes the intensity and AAA appeal of the originalBackbreaker Football console game and combines it with the pick-up-and-play nature of the multi-million selling iPhone games to create a whole new one-of-a-kind sports experience for digital download on Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360. It takes as its inspiration the wildly popular “Tackle Alley” mini-game in Backbreaker Football to deliver an all-new arcade slant on football.”
