The upcoming Luigi’s Mansion game, Dark Moon, will be featuring a new Multiplayer mode which is a first for the franchise. Luigi’s Mansion Dark of the Moon is the upcoming Luigi’s Mansion game for the 3DS console, previously known as Luigi’s Mansion 2.
The designers are plugging the multiplayer as a fun experience with multiple Luigi personalities ranging within a variety of colours. It looks like a lot of fun. Players will be equipped with the updated vacuum and will have enhanced abilities like in the main story.
This looks like a fun addition to an already fun looking game.
Inazuma Eleven fans have reason to be excited as Nintendo have announced during their Nintendo Direct conference that they will be releasing Inazuma Eleven 3 in two different version on the Nintendo 3DS in Summer 2013.
Inazuma Eleven 3 was originally released in Japan on the Nintendo DS but will be getting upgraded exclusively for Europe and Australia to the Nintendo 3DS console under two different versions titles Spark and Bomber respectively. The games will feature over 2200 characters and 350 moves.
What do you think of this huge Inazuma Eleven announcement? Are you excited? Let us know in the comments section below.
Nintendo have finally confirmed when the hotly anticipated Nintendo 3DS Animal Crossing game will hit North American and European stores. Their Nintendo Direct conference has confirmed that Animal Crossing: New Leaf will see a release on the 9th of June, 2013 for North America and on the 14th of June, 2013 for Europe and Australia.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf was released last year in Japan and has since went on to become one of the most popular 3DS games in the country, far exceeding sales expectations and becoming quite the phenomenon.
Are you excited for Animal Crossing: New Leaf launching this June? Will you be picking this game up on launch day? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
During a Nintendo Direct presentation, with a heavy focus on Luigi, Mario Golf: World Tour was announced for the 3DS!
The game will be developed by Camelot, who are known for their numerous Mario based sports titles, including the original Mario Golf on the Nintendo 64 and Gameboy Colour in 1999, all the way up to the recent Mario Tennis Open, also for the 3DS.
Satoru Iwata promises the appearance of many favourite Nintendo characters, with Donkey Kong, Bowser, Wario and Waluigi. Mario and Luigi were the only characters shown as being playable at this point. It will be released in Summer of 2013.
Nintendo have dropped a major bombshell during their Nintendo Direct conference with the announcement of a brand new installment in the popular Mario & Luigi RPG franchise.
The new Mario & Luigi RPG will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS and will be titled Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. The game will focus on Mario venturing into the wild world of Luigi’s dreams. The game is slated to be part of the supposed ‘Year of Luigi’ campaign that Nintendo is running throughout 2013.
What do you think of the announcement of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team for the Nintendo 3DS? Let us know in the comments section below.
Chillingo today launched two brand new games, Rock Runners and Flick Champions: Winter Sports for all iOS Devices and available from the App Store. Rock Runners is a fast paced action platformer in which players swing, sprint and grapple their way over environmental hazards and across extensive levels. Flick Champions: Winter Sports is an arcade style sporting title that allows gamers to play six different mini-games including skating, snowball fights, ice hockey, ski jumping, Slalom and curling.
You can check out both trailers below with the first one being Rock Runners and the second being Flick Champions: Winter Sports, available off the iTunes store here and here respectively for just 99 cents each.
Ace Combat Assault Horizon: ENHANCED EDITION Developers: Project Aces Publisher: Namco Bandai Platform: PC Release Date: Out Now Price: $34.99 (Buy Here)
Overview
The Ace Combat series has been around for a fair few years now, since the Playstation 2 and Xbox era if I recall correctly, and the franchise has generally evolved as the series has progressed. However the games are best known for their adrenaline pumping and high velocity aerial dogfights in fighter jets, which have constantly proven to be fun and rewarding experiences.
When I heard that the title was coming to the PC, particularly this latest in the franchise, I was absolutely pumped to get my hands on it. For the most part this is a fun game, but it has a few flaws that stop it from being completely awesome. What are my complete thoughts, read on below.
Story
The game is set in the modern day and a group of terrorists have created a new kind of bomb known as the Trinity Bomb. You as the player must take to the skies in a counter terrorist operation to take down these Russian terrorists and save the world. Or, you know, ‘Murrica. Because terrorists only care about bombing that place.
What makes the story interesting with Ace Combat Assault Horizon is that the story features American pilots taking on Russian terrorists in a game developed by Japanese developers. This is an incredibly strange combination, but strangely enough, the story works incredibly well. It’s like the producers have worked out how much pro ‘Murrica an audience can take before a game becomes a parody of itself and then avoids it. Hint! It’s very little.
The cast of characters, while being mostly American, are often switched out during certain portions of the story. For instance, when you’re piloting a bomber you’ll be playing as a different pilot in comparison to the helicopters and the jet fighters. Often enough, you’ll be playing as different characters during a mission as well. I can remember a few missions where in one section you’ll be playing as a bomber or a helicopter and then finishing it off in a jet fighter.
The way the characters interact with each other throughout the story gives you a nice sense of camaraderie between the main cast of characters, which helps to build up the tension later on in the story. You can’t help but get into one particularly powerful moment towards the end of the game, it’s like, “what!?”. The story also has a few twists and turns that you can kind of see coming, however, this is an action game and not a game aiming to be high literature, so it can be forgiven.
I quite enjoyed the story of Ace Combat Assault Horizon, which is not something that I was expecting going in. Normally games that seem pro ‘Murrica are complete turn-offs. It was probably because of the Japanese developer without many American ties that made the story more realistic and bearable.
Gameplay
Ace Combat Assault Horizon has some of the most fun dogfighting mechanics that I have experienced in an aerial combat game in ages. The game is just so fun to play as a fighter jet that you can just sit there and go back to play again and again. As a game that features aerial combat, it’s quite important that the aerial combat is actually entertaining. And it is! Which is great.
However, as strong as the jet combat is, the helicopter portions of this game are tedious as crap. Tedious is an understatement to say the most, the helicopter portions of the game are the most frustrating and the most annoying parts in a game that I have played ever in my entire life. It’s so sad to see that a game with such strong fighter combat is marred by a mediocre helicopter mechanic. What makes this quite annoying is that the helicopters are largely inaccurate and the resources you get to work with, while useful, deplete way too quickly. This is especially true later in the game when you have to fight a bunch of helicopters and ground units. I’d be fine with the helicopter portions if they were optional, or were shorter, but they’re not. They’re forced on you. They’re long. And they’re boring.
This is a feature that I quite enjoyed but didn’t quite understand. All vehicles in this game feature regenerative health. This means that you can be on the brink of death with the fire and the flames ejecting from all sides of your vehicle, only to magically repair before your eyes. Now if they took 30 seconds to say it was self-repairing nanobots or something, it’d be fine. But there is no mention of this at all. And I absolutely loved it. Especially in the helicopter portions. Because, really, who wants to sink an hour into a helicopter mission only to have to do it again.
I have to re-emphasise that this is an action game and that there are portions of the game where you get to fly a plane. These are most of the portions of the game. These are the fun portions. Do not let the sound of a couple of missions deter you from the rest of the game which is incredibly fun to play. Just know what to expect.
Visuals
Visually speaking, for a PC game, it is quite dated in visuals. However, when you’re flying around at 2500KMp/h, you really don’t give too much of a damn about how dated it looks. The fun factor just takes over and everything is about the flight and gunning down MiGs.
What was cool about this ENHANCED EDITION of the game is that it comes with a bunch of DLC skins that were available on console with the game from the get go. This means that you get some awesome plane skins of awesomeness. Now, as an Otaku-type, upon seeing these skins based on the idolM@ster series of games I couldn’t resist applying these to every plane that they could be used on. And taking screenshots. Of all of them. I have to admit that flying around in a jet adorned with cute anime girls is quite appealing to me. And to top it off, made every dogfight that much more visually chaotic.
Audio
Ace Combat Assault Horizon has a pretty rockin’ soundtrack. In fact, I think it is one of the things that make this game as fun as it is. It just pulls you right into the dogfighting experience, which is essential for the kind of game that this is.
As I mentioned earlier, this is a game with a pretty American cast as developed by a Japanese developer. Whilst the voice cast are actually American, the game has a level of pro ‘Murrica that is quite low, which adds a lot more believability and seriousness to the title. What the game does to make you care about the characters and story instead is that it treats the characters like actual people and not plot points with pro ‘Murrica dialogue.
Overall
Overall Ace Combat Assault Horizon ENHANCED EDITION is a pretty fun game. I absolutely enjoyed my time with the game and would heartily recommend it to anyone that loves flying, going fast and/or engaging in fun dogfights. Whilst it suffers from a couple of missions that detract from the experience, it is overall a positive experience when you combine all of the elements of the title. Heartily recommended title.
To celebrate the successful launch of Pixel People, and to coincide with Valentine’s Day, Chillingo and LambdaMu Games have released a fact-filled Pixel People Infographic. Find out how many years players have spent in their Utopias, how many clones have been spliced, and much more!
If you haven’t already done so, check out Pixel People now, for FREE. Download it via the iTunes Store, (link here) there is certainly hours and hours of fun to be had mixing and splicing up new and exciting Pixel People!
If you’re already part of the fun let us know what you think of the game in the comments section below!
Seriously it’s been a long time coming. Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 has gotten delay after delay, setback after setback, and now it’s finally going to see the light of day. Today City Interactive announced that development had officially concluded on the sniper simulation title and fans will be able to get their hands on the game March 12th for the US and March 15th for Europe.
CEO of City Interactive Marek Tyminski spoke about the achievement:
“Since release, the first Sniper: Ghost Warrior has sold over three million copies on multiple platforms. Ghost Warrior 2 will deliver an even greater experience for all those fans of the first game, expanding on this dramatic, exciting world of elite military service.”
Stepping into the role of Captain Cole Anderson, players must employ stealth, cunning and patience to nail that perfect shot in the gorgeous jungles of Burma, the war-torn city of Sarajevo and the dangerous Tibet Mountains. Running on the impressive CryEngine 3, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 is shooting for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. Look out for it next month on the 12th and 15th of March for the US and Europe respectively.
Get excited Devil May Cry fans! The much anticipated, highly desired Bloody Palace mode for DmC Devil May Cry is officially coming to your game on the 20th of February. Time to practice that juggling, train for those triple S combos and combine your weapons with devastating efficiency because you’re in for the fight of your life.
Originally introduced in Devil May Cry 3 as a way to get the most out of the game’s stellar combat without having to re-play story missions, the Bloody Palace mode is an essential part of the Devil May Cry experience for any long or short term fan. We here at Capsule Computers thoroughly enjoyed the title, and you can check out our thoughts of the game here.
Inazuma Eleven fans have reason to be excited as Nintendo have announced during their Nintendo Direct conference that they will be releasing Inazuma Eleven 3 in two different version on the Nintendo 3DS in Summer 2013.
