With Crysis 2 coming out this week, it only seems appropriate to look back at the origins of the series: the original Crysis exclusive to PC. Crysis was a graphical tour de force for its time, and offered players tactical shooting bolstered by the “Nanosuit”, giving choice to the gameplay. It’s a landmark for PC gaming to be sure, but does it hold up today 4 years later? The short answer is yes, but Crysis may have gotten even better with time.
While we are
still years away from the end days of physical media, there is one aspect of
the disc-based game that may be on its last legs: the instruction manual.
Speaking with
Kotaku, Rob Semsey, a representative from EA Sports, confirmed that they’d be
taking a cue from Ubisoft and no longer including physical instruction manuals
with their games. No word yet on if this is an EA Sports-only initiative, or if
it will carry over to all EA titles.
With the releases of the God of War and Sly Cooper collections out, and the Shadow of Colossus/Ico and Tomb Raider
collections on the way, it’s apparent to game developers that this sort
of thing is a good idea. While these compilations haven’t made nearly
as much as other games, these games cost much less to produce. All they
really require is a new coat of paint, and maybe a little debugging.
That being said, there are a lot of last generation classics and this
would help them get around that whole backwards compatibility thing.
These are just some of the series that might be worth putting into a
collection.
The F.E.A.R. series is technically a shooter, but it’s also full of horror too. The first game in the series had players wetting their pants every time a little girl walked by (Or so other players tell me). In the latest installment in the series, the development team, Day 1 Studios have added a new cooperative multiplayer mode that has players form a team to run, shrieking, from an un-killable wall of death, while an endless army of armed goons tries to block their escape.
While the next trip to Silent Hill is still a solo journey, there may be some room for friends – but only on Xbox Live Arcade.
In a translated interview from Italy’s Xbox 360 Magazine posted on Hell Descent, Radek Marek, art director on Silent Hill: Downpour, let it slip that while there are still no plans beyond a single-player campaign, “Konami are investigating a separate chapter devoted entirely to the multiplayer. We do not know the details but it should be an XBLA title that most players have to survive in the town of Silent Hill.”
Square Enix’s Gun Loco was announced way back in August and made news mainly because of its wacky, eccentric art style that features some absolutely maddening character models. The characters in Gun Loco are all deranged criminals that have been sent out to a deserted planet to try and regain their freedom by killing off other prisoners.
That crazy game will sadly never see the light of day according to Square Enix’s Japanese site which announced the cancellation of the title. No reason was given for the cancellation, my guess would be that the game was either lacking in quality or Square Enix thought that game was just too ridiculous and would be critically vaporized because of it.
Mark Leung: Revenge of the Bitch is an indie turn based RPG made by and featuring Mark Leung, the creator and star of the College Saga web series. The story follows Mark Leung, a communist and ginseng collector as he is caught in a war between two fanatical religions fighting over the creatively inspired world of Untitled. Thankfully one element of traditional turn based role playing games that Mark Leung has managed to recreate is the length which is easily comparable to a Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy game. The story is a mishmash of generic fantasy and quirky internet humor which steals from everything from Star Wars to World of Warcraft.
