Creative Director of ID software walks us through some more Rage gameplay and talks a little about the structure of the game. Taking an open world approach for shooters seems to be a popular trend at this year’s E3 and Rage will feature this element.
Human Head Studios revealed some pretty big changes for the Prey franchise today. In the sequel, you’re not playing as Tommy the hero from the first game, and there are no portals for starters. Tommy is still a part of the story but there was no information revealed about that.
Holy crap that was hard to keep up with, I wasn’t expecting so much information to be announced about the game. The vast majority of the it is for Horde mode, which sounds absolutely brilliant. He also hints at the possibility of another Gears title, we already know about the Kinect one, so maybe they will go the prequel route, which would be a pretty great direction for them to go in.
Frank O’Connor
has just revealed some more news regarding the upcoming Halo Anniversary
edition. Perhaps the most important thing being a confirmed release date, the
15th of November. He also confirmed that the multiplayer will use
the Reach game engine, I imagine there will be a lot more details revealed in
August at the Halo fest. Firefight will be in the game and have its own unique
map, the multiplayer will also have 6 traditional maps, so expect to see fan favourites.
It’s obvious from the brief interview with Frank that a lot of the new content
is likely to be found in the multiplayer and unfortunately, is under wraps as
of now. But speculation is half of the fun on events like this, so get to it in
the comments.
If the XBLA platformer had too much testosterone for you, there’s a sequel coming that has all the flowers, ribbons, and make-up you could ever ask for. Ms. ‘Splosion Man adds a Girl Power twist to the exploding person genre and you can get a look at the pink and sparkly gameplay in this E3 trailer. Expect both praise and condemnation from women in all aspects of the media.
Bethesda Softworks’ absolutely huge RPG, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will hit on 11/11/11 for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Set two hundred years after Oblivion, the land of Skyrim has been thrown into civil war after the assassination of its king and is at breaking point. In view of total destruction, the last of the living Dovahkiin must find and take-on the God, Alduin in his form of a massive dragon through what is potentially over three hundred hours of gameplay.
This clears
up a lot of the questions I’ve had about this game. What 343 have done is
essentially made the Reach engine run over the top of the old game. This means
that the gameplay is identical to that of the original Halo, so the pistol is
finally back after 10 years. I was pretty much sold when I saw the assault
rifle packs 60 rounds again, co-op play over Xbox live is also confirmed. There
isn’t anything concrete regarding the multiplayer apart from what was mentioned
about the gameplay. However, it certainly looks a lot more like Reach than it
does the original Halo.
I’ve
never
been able to get into the Mass Effect series, but I can imagine that the
Kinect voice control option is still good news. The implementation of
the
voice control seems like a logical step in order to make the game more
immersive, as playing through dialogue tree sections (something which I
think is
extremely outdated) by actually talking is better (and more “real”) than
just pressing a button.
Using it to command your squad is also a great feature, as manual
controls
rarely do it seamlessly.
I always feel bad for the people that have to demo Kinect
games, I mean you must feel like a bit of an idiot up there. Skip to the two
minute mark if you don’t want to sit through the trailer again and you’ll see
the full thing being operated with Kinect. The result is well, different to say
the least; while it doesn’t look bad what’s being shown just doesn’t seem like
a real Fable game. It’s hard to imagine how exploration will be handled with
this type of game, a core element of any RPG.
Alright, so another Dance Central game is coming out? I think it’s safe to say everyone saw this coming. There was always going to be a sequel to a title as successful as the original Dance Central. The demo shows two people playing, or dancing simultaneously for around a minute. There appears to be a section where one player can exit and the other can do some kind of solo sequence. Confirmed new additions are that of voice control and a campaign mode. All songs from the original Dance Central will be able to be imported straight away which is a great way to bump up the content numbers and something expected by now from the creators of Rockband
