Pop Cap Games is releasing the incredibly addicting strategy game known as Plants Vs Zombies. Plants Vs Zombies is currently on PC, Mac and Xbox 360. For anyone unfamiliar with the game, it plays very much like a tower defense game, simplified with that Pop Cap charm.
In online games, “Tank” usually means a warrior whose job is to soak up damage and hold enemy Aggro while the mages blast away. Well there’s a new MMO where everyone’s a tank, and they don’t need no squishy mages to do the damage dealing!
A lot of great games came out in 2010, apparently. I wouldn’t know because I was replaying, replaying, then once more replaying Mass Effect 2. Every time a new game came out, I always end up putting it to the side in favor of Bioware’s sci-fi sequel. Earlier this week – while removing a barely-touched Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood from my 360 – I realized that ME2 came out a year ago and I’m still playing it. Taking this as a cue, I though I’d dive into some of my backlog to at least experience all those other games I’ve been hearing so much about.
Yesterday I remarked that there was a bit of a trend for Digital Distributors who seem to love discounting the Red Faction franchise; today that continues with Onlive who are selling Red Faction: Guerrilla for five dollars today only. They’ll have a different Daily Deal all weekend, tomorrow it will be Metro 2033, and Sunday it will be Darksiders. They aren’t revealing the prices until the day of, so check back with them each day if you’re an Onlive user.
Let’s face it Western companies, at least for the moment, have the market cornered on first person shooters. Japanese developer Feelplus does little to change that with this uninspired, lackluster effort. The problems are abundant, the concepts are poorly implemented, and the story is lacking in variety.
2K Play has announced the next installment in the Carnival Games franchise, called Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do. This installment in the franchise will use the Kinect for Xbox. The game is being developed by 2K Cat Daddy Games, who are the original creators of Carnival Games. The game is being re-imagined to take full control of the Kinect hardware and will be out this April. The game will feature some of the original Carnival Games mini-games plus a number of new ones.
Nathan Drake is going on yet another adventure on Sony’s newly-announced NGP. Developed by Sony Bend, the team responsible for Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow and Resistance Retribution, the new sequel will see a few interesting (read: gimmicky) control tweaks that take advantage of the NGP’s revamped UI. For example, you can tap on the screen to jump instead of pressing X (although hitting the button is still an option,) you will have to swing the system back and forth to swing on vines, and you will have to trace your fingers over each other on the system’s rear touchpad in order to climb up ropes, “as if you’re climbing a vine with both hands.”
