“Trick or treat?” A fair few people will be hearing those infamous words tonight as kids knock on their doors asking for lollies, chocolates and whatever else they can get. While we don’t celebrate Halloween too much here in Australia, that hasn’t stopped Capcom from answering their door with a smile on their face and pouring a brand new Dead Rising 3 trailer into our goodie bag.
In the new Halloween inspired trailer, we get to see some of the various insane weapons and costume options that players will be able to get their hands on when the game launches on November 22nd. Check out the trailer below, and get excited for Dead Rising 3 exclusively on Xbox One in just three short weeks. We recently did an interview with the game’s producer Mike Jones, so check that out here, and remember that for all the Dead Rising news as it becomes available, stay tuned to Capsule Computers.
Chewbacca has his turn at revenge in the depths of the Death Star.
Rovio Entertainment and Activision Publishing have launched the popular mobile game, Angry Birds Star Wars on Xbox360, PS3, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Wii U and PS Vita, and confirmed that Angry Birds Star Wars will be a launch title for Xbox One and PS4.
Jami Laes, Executive Vice President of Games at Rovio Entertainment declared, “Angry Birds Star Wars brings together fans from multiple generations and across two widely loved fictional worlds. The success of Angry Birds Star Wars is a testament to the versatility of these iconic franchises. As a company we want to be where-ever the fans are, so we are thrilled to be partnering with Activision to bring this one-of-a-kind experience to console and handheld gaming fans.”
Obi-Wan Kenobi uses the force to take aim at Pig Troopers.
Angry Birds Star Wars takes players on a captivating adventure across the galaxy, with inventive challenges and tantalising force powers; focusing on the astronomical struggle between the ragged Rebel Birds and treacherous Imperial Pigs. The action-strategy game will feature:
Sharp and Colourful HD visuals
Over 200 stages + 20 exclusive levels
Co-op and Competitive Multiplayer modes
Achievements, Trophies and Leaderboards
Touch-Screen Controls on Nintendo 3DS
Automatic video capture and online sharing with Xbox One and PS4
PS4 applies DualShock 4 controller’s touchpad to offer precision and touch-screen handling
Xbox One offers timed challenges and voice command support and intuitive gesture controls through Kinect
Luke Skywalker trusts his instincts to keep his lead in 4-player competitive mode.
Angry Birds Star Wars is currently available for a retail price of $49.99 for Wii U, $39.99 for Xbox 360, PS3, PS Vita and Wii and $29.99 for Nintendo 3DS. The PS4, Xbox One versions will be available for each console’s respective launch in November, both priced at $49.99.
It was only announced yesterday that the North American Anime Distributor Sentai Filmworks picked up the license for this seasons new fantasy Anime Log Horizon. The Anime has quickly climbed to the top of this season’s ladder with fans absolutely loving the animation as well as the story and characters.It seems like Sentai Filmworks has picked up another good title that is sure to get plenty of sales.
The story follows an event wherein which people playing a video game called “Elder Tale” are sucked into the world of the game. They become their characters and now that the video game is reality, death in the game means death in real life. The three friends Shiroe, Naotsugu, and Akasuki must now play to win and, most of all, play to survive.
They plan on giving Log Horizon a home video release sometime in 2014 with no specific date attached to the release which is normal considering it was just picked up. Keep an eye out on the sight for any and all news to be released in the coming months and head down to our comments section below to let us know what you think about this acquisition.
Paradox Interactive opened the flood gates and let the waters of gaming knowledge rush forth today. They gave up a little information regarding five titles coming up or having content worked on for them. The breakdown can be found below:
Empire building strategy game Europa Universalis IV, developed by Paradox Development Studio, was initially released in August and they’re just getting start on it. A big announcement will be coming next week! In the meantime, you can visit the official website here.
The newest DLC for Crusader Kings II, entitled “Sons of Abraham,” has just been announced. It brings Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to the forefront with papal elections, religions favors, and more! It’s scheduled to launch November 18! You can read more about it here.
War of the Vikings, the upcoming multiplayer close-quarters game, has entered Early Access on Steam. The Huntsman update was just recently added, granting hunting bows and the mighty Dane Axe to warriors thirsty for blood. Tomorrow, the eerie, foreboding map Sanctuary will be released and will only be playable on Halloween! More major updates are coming up soon too! Read more about it here.
If you’re going to go to war, there’s no better way than with the powers of mystery and the elements at your side, but you’re going to need practice! Magicka: Wizard Wars is available on Steam’s Early Access right now and take on other wizards and get that needed practice! You can check out their official website here.
Recently announced, Warlock II: The Exiled is set to be released in Spring 2014. Sequel to the turn-based fantasy wargame Warlock: Master of the Arcane, it will grant you the power to build vast armies to conquer cities while you research the next spell to crush your opponents!
Happy Halloween, everybody! As a little present to you, the team over at Gaijin Games has decided that they will be releasing their game BIT.TRIP RUN for all iOS devices today! BIT.TRIP RUN is the iOS version of the fantastic “endless-runner” game Bit.Trip Runner 2. It features the same art style and sense of humour as well as the way it is played but it’s not just a simple port onto Smartphones, no, it has been tweaked and changed to be a perfect fit on any Apple Smartphone or Tablet so you can play this awesome game on the go whilst also feeling comfortable. If you look closely you may also be able to spot a spooky creature that’s going to be hanging around for Halloween!
BIT.TRIP RUN will be sporting updated features like 3 new worlds, 30 levels, more than 12 brand-new challenges and 15 retro challenges, 40 unlock-able costumes and 3 action-packed boss battles. There are also plans for an update to the game which will include features like: 2 more worlds, 20 more levels, 8 more challenges, 10 more retro levels and an extra 2 boss battles. There’s plenty for you to do in this game that will keep you occupied for hours and hours on end. The game is out now and will retail for $3.99 so head over to the iTunes App Store now to grab your copy!
Square Enix hit another massive milestone today with their latest foray into the MMO market, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. It has been just 2 months since the release of FFXIV and as of today it has reached 1.5 million registered players across Australia, New Zealand, Japan, North America, and Europe.
In a little over a month the first large content patch will be ready to launch and players will finally be able to compete in PvP Arenas as well as delve into new dungeons packed with fearsome creatures and epic loot. When you’re done risking your life for the day though, what better way to kick back than to return to your own personal house, have a sleep, and ponder how to spend all of your hard earned money. Just another exciting, upcoming feature to look forward to while you wait for the hugely anticipated beta release on the next-gen PS4 system in February 2014.
For more information on this huge game with it’s gigantic worlds and hours of playability, check out our hands on preview, or for our thoughts on how the game plays on the PS3, head on over to our review and be a part of the next big subscriber milestone.
It’s strange but not so strange that One Piece’s favourite little reindeer Tony Tony Chopper would be making an appearance in the next Monster Hunter3DS game, we’ve seen Link from The Legend of Zelda’s appearance, we’ve seen Mario and Luigi’s appearance so why not thrown in a fairly huge Anime character into the mix? I, for one, think this is a pretty sweet cameo and while I would’ve liked to have seen a better character like Monkey D. Luffy, I do understand why Chopper was added and I also see how he fits. This collaboration comes as celebration of the fact that One Piece now has over 300 Million copies in print and circulation around the world.
Within the game Chopper will serve as your “right hand man” for a while, he will assist you in fighting monsters as well as cheers you on from the sidelines during smaller hunting missions. He comes equipped with a wooden branch as his weapon and an armour titled “Excited Chopper”. He will work similar to the usual “Felyne” characters that accompany you in previous games and I think he’ll be a fun little addition to an already “chock-a-block” game full of awesome action, awesome adventure and what seems to be a bunch of awesome cameos. It is chalking up to be another great addition to the franchise and I can’t wait for it to be released here in the West which, up until now, has not been given a clear release date.
Namco Bandai Games have only just released a preview video for the upcoming Dragon Ball Z game “Dragon Ball RPG: Boyhood Arc” which, this time around, is for iOS and Android Smartphones. It’s quite an odd one to see, especially with Dragon Ball Z: Battle Of Z’s release only being around the corner, the last thing you expect to see is the release of an Smartphone game. The game covers Goku’s childhood, hence the name “Boyhood Arc” and will have a great deal of characters from the original series returning in fantastic-looking sprite-style for the game.
The game is said to be slip into four chapters which, in total, will cover from the time Goku met Bulma to the defeat of King Piccolo which, for us here in the west, is the entire series of Dragon Ball seeing as it was renamed Dragon Ball Z in the west once this Arc was complete. The visuals are stunning and very remniscent of the “Legacy of Goku” games that were released many years ago on the GameBoy Advanced. Not only do we have the actual preview video for you to see but we also have a small gallery of pictures from the game itself just below so go check them out and pray to Kami that this game gets a Western release.
Who needs to dress up in an itchy, irritating costume and trudge from door to door this Halloween? Konami have got you covered from the comfort of your own home, dishing out the sweetest treat of all, an all new Castlevania game!
A direct sequel to the 2010 action-adventure title, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, this new story set 25 years after the events of its predecessor has a lot to live up to. Taking control of multiple characters, players can use an array of unique, character specific abilities to carve a passage through hordes of enemies. When you’re bored of reducing an army to ash, you can try out the never before experienced “Boss Rush” mode where friends can battle it out to see who fares the best in an epic showdown with all of the bosses in the game on a global leaderboard.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD is now available on PSN for $14.99 in the US. The release date for Japan and the EU has yet to be announced. Check out our review of this game for the Nintendo 3DS here.
Asterix: Total Retaliation Developer: Bulkypix Publisher: Bulkypix Platforms: iPhone (Reviewed), iPod Touch, iPad, Android Release Date:24th October 2013 Price:$1.99 – Available Here
Overview
The “Tower Defence” sub-genre, like so many other sub-genres, has been brought to light by games like Plants Vs Zombies, it has shown the world that these games can not only be enjoyable but humorous too. Unfortunately though it seems as though many developers have, let’s say, emulated the game’s style in order to gain the same popularity. Asterix: Total Retaliation seems as though it has done just this. What was once a popular comic book is now a tower defence game that is almost entirely the same as Plants Vs Zombies. All the original characters have made their way to the “small screen” within the game and I plan on reviewing this in the mind set of a fan of the original series of comics so bare with me as I fight my way through Asterix: Total Retaliation.
Story
It seems as though the game has little to no story, it doesn’t introduce you to any story, it actually just sends you straight into a gameplay tutorial without any setting so I think it’s safe to assume that this game is NOT story driven. I have not read the original comics nor did I ever follow the series or “franchise” at all so you’d think it is fairly hard to assume where the game is based…well, it really isn’t. You play as Vikings and you fight against the Romans who, much like in reality, were the “bad guys” of this time period, if you can call it that. What shocked me a little bit was the fact that they start you off in the game with literally no story.
As soon as you go into the “Story” mode, it just sends you into a tutorial that lasts about three levels and then you’re off on your own. I’ve yet to come into any story that explains anything and I definitely haven’t come across any story that makes me want to continue defending the village. Fact is though; I can see a great deal of the characters from the comics in this game, we’ve all seen a DVD or VHS of “Asterix and Obelix” while walking through a store and the characters represented on front covers do make an appearance so I’ll give them credit for actually having them in but as far as story goes; there really is nothing.
Gameplay
Basically the game plays out like a fairly sluggish Plants Vs Zombies. It’s very harsh, I understand and It’s unfortunate that the developers decided to use the same gameplay layout because it will always be compared to PvZ. You have a grid where you can place certain characters that will defend your line, enemies will begin spawning at random and you have to collect “Potions” that give you points which can be traded for characters to help you defend. That is basically it. Main fighters can only be placed once and they must be moved around to defend other areas where as environmental traps like sandbags and wild boars can be placed multiple times.
There’s also what I would consider to be a “special technique” character that attacks multiple enemies in times of need. I found it boring and I couldn’t help but think that I’d be having a lot more fun with a game that used these mechanics originally and had fleshed them out entirely. You continuously unlocked characters to use and, yes, they were quite interesting but they just weren’t enough to keep me going. Like I had mentioned above; it is the bane of any game to be compared to another but this can be easily stopped by not developing a title so closely to another. Had this game been as polished as Plants Vs Zombies than it would have had a big chance at the Champion Title but this is not the case.
Audio And Visuals
This aspect of the game was probably what actually kept me going with it to be entirely honest. The music was quirky and up-beat, it definitely didn’t put me to sleep like the rest of the game was trying to do. It suited very well and, although I don’t like type of music much, made me enjoy the game that little bit more than I should have. It was very plucky-sounding, it’s use of harps and dated instruments did very well in the setting of the game. The actually sound the characters make weren’t too annoying either, they were subtle and matched the character design. I honestly can’t fault them for this.
Visually I thought this game was stiff and fairly rough but it looked so much like the original comics, to which I did some research on, that I can’t help but imagine that it was done entirely on purpose. It looked like a moving comic of that time and I can say for certainty that it did the original series justice. If only the animation during gameplay was a little better than I deffinitely would have enjoyed it a great deal more. The animation side of the visuals was rough like sandpaper and terribly stiff but I guess you can’t have everything, at least it had a nice style to it.
Overall
I feel like I’m being far too harsh on this game but I have to review it as honestly as I possibly can. It wasn’t a terrible game on it’s own but on a whole it felt like a cheap clone of Plants Vs Zombies. While it felt like a good old comic, it didn’t feel like a nice new game and that’s really what we’re looking for in this day and age. Why nostalgia plays a big part for most people, it doesn’t for people like me who were much too young to have picked up an Asterix comic and remembered it to this day. For the most part this game is playable but if you’re a seasoned mobile gamer I can guarantee you will NOT be able to stop the comparisons in your head and it will effect your enjoyment of the game. It’s unfortunate but true. I have to say though, if you’re a fan of the comics or just the style of comics; pick the game up, it is for a very selected audience and hopefully it will bring some level of enjoyment to them.
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