Capcom has released the Tokyo Game Show trailer for its PlayStation 4 exclusive, Deep Down. The trailer features the game’s intriguing voice acting, beautiful music and a glimpse of the futuristic elements that underlie the story.
Deep Down was also live streamed during a gameplay demo, showing off the game’s combat, UI and controls as the player goes through a dungeon. Check them out below.
The online RPG is almost looking like a polished Dark Souls mixed with Assassin’s Creed’s modern and mysterious atmosphere. Sets of screenshots were released earlier here and here.
NHL 14 Developer:EA Canada Publisher:EA Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 (Reviewed) Release Date: September 10, 2013 Price:$59.99 – Available Here
Overview Creating a yearly sports game is a difficult task. Change too much and you may ruin what made the last iteration of the series enjoyable. Change too little and fans will be distraught that the game is too similar to last year’s, except with an updated roster. While sports fans are generally hard to please, EA’s NHL series has consistently delivered impressive titles over the last few years, and now that NHL 14 has been released with a few new improvements, does it manage to improve on what was found in NHL 13 without going overboard?
Gameplay In many ways, NHL 14 feels like the same game as NHL 13 but not in a bad way. The various skating mechanics and new physics engine introduced in last year’s game have been improved and tuned up for this year’s release with a number of improvements across the board, including some more intelligent AI for the opposing teams’ members which allows them to react more realistically to the player’s attempts to skate past them and score goals.
Right when players begin the game they are given a ‘hospitality setting’ system to choose from where they can select their style of play and what they expect from the game, which adjust various meters within the game ahead of time and can be adjusted at any time. These settings can make the game anything from a hardcore simulator for real life hockey or something with huge hits, amazing saves and shots and more, giving new players an easy way to adjust the game’s settings to match their style with only a few presses of the button.
Outside of some new stick handling tricks, such as a one button deke system that makes for easier deking when trying to pass a defender or trick a goalie out of his skates, most of the gameplay changes in NHL 14 are focused around the checking and fighting systems. Taking advantage of the addition of physics from last year, NHL 14 now has a new way to check other players. While they can still use the hit stick to level an opposing player, they can also do so simply by skating right into them.
This means that there are times you can line a player up just right and absolutely level him, leaving the commentators remarking about how you nearly took his head off with that hit. Of course thanks to the physics system, big hits require proper timing and proper players, a small bump or a smaller player may even send your player to the ground instead. It also is worth noting that it is entirely possible to simply just miss entirely with a hit, leaving you skating into the boards or leaving the player a wide open passing lane.
With the new checking system also comes a new aggression system where big hits will result in some big fights. Over the past few years, every NHL fight has been portrayed in some terrible first person mode and fights often happened randomly. Now if you manage to deliver a huge check to a star player, slash at the goalie after a play or pretty much anything that might tick off a real life enforcer in hockey, you will have a fight on your hands.
Fights happen more organically than before, sometimes happening at the drop of a hat… well gloves to be precise. An opposing player will skate up to your player, or even a teammate, and begin shoving or instigating a fight that, when accepted, backs the camera out and gives the players free reign of a third person fight. The actual fighting remains a bit clunky, as players simply throw jabs and uppercuts with the right stick, dodge with triggers and pull their opponent with the left stick.
If you don’t happen to be in the fight you can simply stand there and watch, or scuffle with another player on the ice and tussle with each other, not actually fight however, as the main fight plays out. It is also worth noting that it is also easier than ever to instigate a fight, as a prompt will appear if one of your teammates happened to take a major hit, got injured or something else happened and you can pressing the prompt will send your player skating over, gloves off and ready to fight.
The fighting system, while nice, seems to trigger fights a bit too often. At the default setting, fights will often happen once or twice a period with even the smallest of things causing the gloves to come off and there are many times, you may not even be able to avoid the fight. Other times however it simply ends with one player shoving the other or sticking their glove in the other’s face.
Outside of the gameplay itself, a new mode has been added and another, while touted as brand new, is a revamped version of Be a Player. Now called ‘Live the Life’ players will take on the role of a hockey player that can either immediately be part of the team, or work their way up from the CHL and be drafted into the AHL/NHL. While this is all the same as before, it is now expanded a bit thanks to various off-ice events where you must answer interview questions, interact with fans, teammates and management, all trying to find a balance between being popular and successful without pissing off your team and family. Doing so can see various rewards, such as higher stats, more time on the ice, less chances of being bumped down to the AHL or traded and other things. It still is a bit bare bones compared to other Be a Pro modes found from EA, but it is certainly a nice improvement.
Also included this time around is an NHL ’94 mode which gives the players fast paced and rule free hockey similar to what was found back when NHL ’94 was released twenty years ago. It is a nice way to spend time and enjoy the game, and a great way to have fun in local co-op. It is unfortunate that EA did not give ’94 an online component, as the online remains as impressive as ever with only a little bit of lag here and there and this is clearly a missed opportunity.
Visuals
The attention to detail in NHL 14 remains as impressive as what was found in NHL 13, with many players looking close to their real life counterparts. Thanks to the fighting refinements it is also entirely possible to end up with black eyes, broken looking noses and swelling in various spots of the face after a fight, sometimes even after a big hit is enough to leave a player looking ragged.
Ice degradation and the stadiums continue to impress and some of the hits players can lay on each other is absolutely devastating at times thanks to the fine tuning of the physics engine and the way that checking has been refined this time around.
Audio The commentary found in NHL 14 remains some of the best in the sports genre as the commentators will almost always accurately call action as it happens and are capable of even giving play by play with the actual names of the players, and I don’t mean only stars like Patrick Kane, but all of them even a few in the CHL.
The game comes with a number of new songs this year and all of which fit the atmosphere of hockey nicely as they play between puck drops and at the menu screens. Add this to the atmospheric sounds found in any hockey rink in the nation and NHL 14 continues to sound like a realistic arena.
Overall EA Sports has found some nice ice to skate on with NHL 14 as it continues to improve and refine what was found in NHL 13 while also expanding on its gameplay options. Checking and fights have been revamped, although fights do seem to happen far too often and can drag on at times and outside of the slightly upgraded Be a Pro and ’94 mode, little else has been added. While not a major jump from last year’s game, NHL 14 does offer a better, more physical experience, though that tends not to be for everyone.
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The Attack On Titan3DS game, The Last Wings, has been getting a lot of attention from Attack On Titan fans and Anime fans in general and, even though we don’t know a great deal about it, I believe people are very interested and very much anticipating it’s release which happens to be in December of this year. Well a fair few screenshots of the game were just released and, while they lack a bit of that Attack On Titan “Umph”, they’re looking pretty good. It was also announced that, in the game, you can choose to play Eren’s, Mikasa’s and Armin’s story. Within those selections you play as the character and take on their roles throughout the series of which it is based off of. There is also a four-player multi-player section of the game where characters are unique and customisable, that should be a great deal of fun! You can see the screenshots that have been released below in our Gallery Section and don’t forget to hit up our comments section below that to let us know what you think of this new game.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has been out for a few weeks now and, yes, people are absolutely loving the all out action…people in Japan that is, there’s no sign of it having a release anywhere outside of the land of the rising sun just yet but I’m hoping it will be soon. Anyway, on to the actual news: It was just announced only yesterday that Old Joseph Joestar and Lisa Lisa have been released as DLC, their download will come with a small campaign which I can assume revolves around them and allows you to unlock them.
It was also announced that the characters Narciso Anasui and Vanilla Ice, from JJBA, will also be added as DLC characters as well as a character named Ikuro Hashizawa who is not from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure but from Hirohiko Araki’s previous Manga series called BAOH. I find that really cool and very interesting, just like how you could be Lars Alexanderson in one of the recent Naruto games just because Masashi Kishimoto came up with a costume design for Tekken. This game will continue getting DLC within the coming months, at least that’s what I think, so stick around for any news and information to come out of this release.
Everything is, kind of, happening at once right now! We’re getting so close to the next season of Anime and some licenses have already been picked up, not only that put today Aniplex USA has released, like I said in the title, a subtitled trailer for both Kill La Kill and Valvrave Season 2! The series was also just picked up by Australian Anime Distributor, Madman, and will be streaming it through their Madman Screening Room starting on the 3rd of October and it will be streamed on the “day and date” that it will be released in Japan. I’m very excited for both of these series’, as is every other Anime fan. Not only have these trailers been released but Aniplex also announced that Kill La Kill, Valvrave The Liberator Season 2 and Magi: The Kingdom of Magic will be streamed on four different sites and streaming services: Daisuke, Crunchyroll, Hulu and their very own Aniplex Channel will all stream these three series’ through their whole run as they are released.
It’s some incredible news that will surely make Anime fans scream in delight! It is set to be an incredible season of Anime, possibly even better and more climactic than the last! You can see the Valvrave The Liberator Season 2 English-Subtitled Trailer just under this paragraph and to see the Kill La Kill English-Subtitled Trailer just scroll down a little bit too our Featured Video Section where it can be watched. The next Anime season is starting in October so get ready! Enjoy!
Both the Japanese side of Nintendo and the Western side have released a video for Pokemon X and Y, here we are coming into the final stretch and we still continue to get more and more from the franchise. These videos are a little bit different to the ones we’ve seen in the past. The first I want to talk about is the Japanese Trailer Video, while no new information or footage has been released within this trailer, it HAS given us a really big overview of everything we’ve seen so far. It shows us Mega Evolutions, full character customisation, some of the new-released Pokemon, etc. It is a basically a trailer that brings all the information we’ve been given into one, nice, little package. That trailer can be seen just below this paragraph:
The second video that has been released is an English Commercial which Nintendo has started streaming. It actually only shows a small part of the gameplay but that’s not what this video focuses on. The video mixes live action and CGI, showing real people with animated Pokemon in locations all around the world. The video is clever because each of the people talking have slightly different accents and are shown to be somewhere different in every shot, clearly this is meant to represent the games worldwide release which is a big deal because a Pokemon game has never been released worldwide on the same date ever before. It’s quirky and interesting and you can check out this video in the Featured Video Section just below this article. Start getting excited because Pokemon X and Y are set for release on October the 12th which isn’t too far away!
Namco Bandai has announced at TGS 2013 that Dark Souls II will arrive on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 11 in North America, March 14 in Europe and March 13 in Japan. The PC version’s release date hasn’t been confirmed and will arrive later on.
North America and Europe will receive a steel book, 12-inch figure, soundtrack, art book and cloth map. Staying true to their tradition of fancy day-one editions, all who pre-order will receive the Black Armour Edition and it will include the steel book and soundtrack.
Meanwhile, Japan will get an exclusive box art with their copy, a miniature weapons set, 100-page art book, special map and soundtrack. Standard editions will also include a map and soundtrack in limited quantities. Images of the various editions can be seen below.
Check out the new trailer along with a huge set of gameplay videos and screenshots below. The first stage of the game’s beta is opening on October 12.
It has been a few months since we heard that Crimson Dragon was going to be an Xbox One exclusive after being delayed numerous times on the Xbox 360. Since then Microsoft has been relatively quiet on the title outside of saying that the game can be played with both the controller and with the Kinect.
Well today a brand new trailer, which can be seen below, showing Crimson Dragon in action was released and can be seen below. While no price has been announced, Crimson Dragon will be a launch title on the Xbox One when it is released on November 22nd.
It looks like Grand Theft Auto V is set to smash all records as far as gaming sales go. So far on launch day alone the game has earned $800 million around the world. Not only is this the highest first day sales of any Grand Theft Auto game, but it is also the highest in the history of Rockstar.
It is also worth noting that this also smashed the record for the day-one sales in general as the $800 million earned by GTA V far surpasses the previous record holder Call of Duty: Black Ops II which earned somewhere in the $500 million range on its first day.
Deep Silver (Saints Row IV) and developer Voxler released some new screenshots today for the upcoming music and rhythm game Let’s Sing and Dance. The game will be an Xbox 360 exclusive for Kinect on Xbox Live and will come with a $9.99 suggested retail price.
Featuring songs such as LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem and Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5, Let’s Sing and Dance will combine singing in tandem with dancing. One or two players can jump in and dance to professional choreography while any number of singers and pipe up in the background.
For more information, be sure to check out their official website here. Also be sure to check out the gallery below for the newly released screenshots.
