Soon gamers will be able to download the kind of okay Crysis 2 to their Playstation 3 from the Playstation store. This package comes to gamers from November 7th onwards for Playstation Plus members.
Gamers will remember Crysis 2 as the sequel to the incredibly un-optimised Crysis for the PC. The games feature a futuristic exoskeleton that gives it wearer insane abilities, like extra strength, x-ray vision, invisibility and that kind of thing.
So be sure to check out the Playstation Store on the seventh of November and onwards if you’re a member of the Playstation Plus service for your chance to grab this kind of okay game.
The best Grand Theft Auto game, Vice City, will be coming to mobile platforms such as Android and iOS to celebrate it’s 10 year anniversary today. This means that further down along the line, players will be able to check out the App store and the Google Play store to download and purchase the greatest Grand Theft Auto game of all time.
What’s even cooler is that Rockstar have released a limited time store for where players can purchase exclusive good related to the franchise. So make sure to keep an eye on the Rockstar Warehouse for these items. At the time of writing, nothing about the anniversary is yet up, but we can expect that status to change shortly.
On the game, Rockstar had this to say –
“Grand Theft Auto: Vice City gave players the freedom of a massive open-world in one of the most iconic and vibrant settings ever realized in a game,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “It was a defining moment in the series and we’re delighted to be celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with a stunning, updated version for phones and tablets.”
Be sure to keep an eye out for the game on both the Google Play and App Store where it will be released later on throughout the fall.
It is 100% confirmed: Shepard is no more. Although there was hope at the end of Mass Effect 3 – after a certain ending we all speculated over for ages – that Shepard would somehow go on to feature in future core Mass Effect titles, BioWare has shot this dream down.
BioWare Montreal producer Fabrice Condominas stated as much when speaking to VG247 at a recent EA Showcase: “There is one thing we are absolutely sure of – there will be no more Shepard, and the trilogy is over.” Mass Effect 4, as we’ll tentatively call it, may not follow directly from 3 either: “This is really our starting point. Now the Mass Effect universe is vast, and very, very rich. So at this point in time, we don’t even know what kind of time frame we’re going to be in.” It is, after all, very early to be speaking about the future of the franchise in any depth outside of further DLC support, which is on-going, for Mass Effect 3.
Yeah, that means you too FemShep!
On their inspiration and intentions for a new title, Fabrice stated: “So first, we don’t want to make ‘Shepard 2′, or Mass Effect 4 with like, ‘oh there’s no more Shepard but you’re a soldier in the universe’. So this will be a very, very different context for sure, and nothing has been decided on the rest.” With the Omega DLC around the corner, fans of the series will be kept occupied. However, it is definitely bitter saying goodbye to Shepard for good. Hopefully, we will see Shepard outside of subsequent core titles, maybe even in a different medium. Either way, let’s savour what time we have left with the icon, with Omega coming November 27th.
Dying for a sneak peek of Far Cry 3’s island before release? Ubisoft teamed up with legendary Minecraft mapper Michael Lambert of Newcraft City fame to recreate the Far Cry 3 experience on Minecraft. Players will get the opportunity to meet up with characters from the game and explore major locations all from the comfort of Minecraft. There are 50 Easter Eggs spread across the map to discover. The map pack is available for free here. Check out the trailer below.
Far Cry 3 is an open world FPS slated for release on November 29th, 2012 in Europe and Australia, November 30th in the UK, and December 4th, 2012 in North America.
To celebrate the launch of Need for Speed Most Wanted, EA Games and Criterion released an adrenaline packed trailer full of car chases, high speed drifts, metal crushing collisions, and high end vehicles. Check out the trailer below.
Need for Speed Most Wanted is a reboot of the 2005 game of the same title. The 2012 reboot features a connected open world allowing players to compare their performance against friends, police car chases, Kinect support through voice commands, extensive car modification options, and seamless multiplayer action. Need for Speed Most Wanted is available for Andriod, iOS, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Playstation Vita, and the Wii U.
The BioShock Infinite board game that was alluded to with the reveal of a game piece, The Handyman, as part of the Premium and Ultimate Songbird editions of the game, has now been detailed. BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia is being made by Plaid Hat Games, and although no official release date has been revealed, we can assume that it will release in conjuncture with the video game in late February.
Along with the game board, which is a given (duh!), The Siege of Columbia will include the common playing cards and dice, as well as 52 miniatures! Irrational Games were actually the ones who initiated talks of creating a board game with Plaid Hat Games. “Players will play as either the Founders or the Vox Populi and will build up an army to fight for control of Columbia by taking ground and completing important objectives,” says Ken Levine, Infinite’s Creative Director. “The whole while they’ll be using their influence to sway various events that arise. They’ll also find themselves having to deal with Booker and Elizabeth who are running around Columbia creating havoc.” So, it will essentially be based around dealing with that same core conflict that underpins Infinite’s video game storyline.
The HandyMan game piece!
The board game promises to provide opportunities for many twists and turns in the plot that the player may initiate. “In one game maybe the Founders captured Elizabeth but Booker took advantage of an assault by a Vox Populi airship on the Founder stronghold to get her back,” says Dauch. “In another game maybe there is a heated battle for critical control of a district and Songbird shows up just in time to give the Founders the edge they needed to drive out the Vox Populi. In another game when the threat of a skyline collapse looms the Vox Populi may recklessly throw all of their resources into influencing it’s collapse, cutting off the Founders from an assault that could have won them the game, and holding on for a victory.” Personally, not having played a board game for many years, the idea of one with branching story paths is an enticing one.
If you are also excited to take part in The Siege of Columbia, you can get your first game piece, as previously mentioned, by pre-ordering the BioShock Infinite: Premium or Ultimate Songbird editions right now!
Doom 3: BFG Edition Publisher: Bethesda Developer: id Software Platform: PC (Reviewed), Playstation 3, Xbox 360 Release Date: Out Now Price:$39.99 (Buy Here)
Overview
Doom is the most recognisable franchise in all of gaming. It is easily the game that is most responsible for bringing gaming into the public eye by having a theme that was openly criticised by the religious organisations and media at the time for being way too violent. Doom is the number one cause of violence in youth if what they were saying was to be believed.
Does Doom 3: Edition make you want to kill babies like the media would suggest? Read on to find out. (Actually we don’t cover that anywhere in this review).
Story
Doom 3: BFG Edition feature the three Doom games available on the PC platform. This of course means that the game features a total of three similar, yet vastly different stories. This is good for players, as it kind of sets the Doom universe up for different interpretations of the overall story.
Actually, converse to that, it also makes the series lore really confusing. Are these three games a retelling of the same story? Are they direct sequels? Maybe they’re alternate universes? I don’t know and whilst you’re playing it really doesn’t matter all that much.
The basic premise of Doom, if you didn’t know, was that a corporation known as the Union Aerospace Complex (or something, the C might be different) owns a colony on the planet Mars dedicated to research and scientific advancement away from the morals of Earth. However, something goes wrong when creatures resembling Demons come from a dimension similar to, or of, Hell and wreak havoc on the colony. As a soldier of the UAC, it is your job to put a stop to the demonic mess and escape the planet.
In the first two Doom games, this means that you’re playing through episodic content with each one finishing off and the next taking place nearly immediately afterwards. In Doom 3, you have a more traditional advancement system, going through levels until you reach the end of the game. Whilst Doom 1 and 2 have levels, they are much shorter and can be completed in less than an hour. Interestingly, Doom 3 also has expansion packs, which are not a part of the Doom 1 and 2 releases (to my knowledge).
Gameplay
The games themselves are incredibly linear, I mean I often give games a lot of crap for being really linear, but you really don’t realise how linear they are until you go back and play them again later in life. I mean all games are linear, but is how well you mask that linearity that makes a game good. In another time, Doom 3’s linearity would have been masked incredibly well; heck it’s masked more well than most modern shooters like Call of Duty and Medal of Honor. However, making a player backtrack for a key and then going forwards again to go through a door does not make it open. This makes the game feel a lot like a corridor shooter and well, it always has been.
However, it does become a bit more maze-like the further you go in the game. There are more and more elements that you have to travel through, more key mixing, a bit more puzzling and some great platforming sequences. Whilst this applies to all the games, in Doom 1 and 2, it is a bit more basic as you aren’t able to jump.
OH! One gripe I have with Doom 3 is that strafe-jumping is incredibly weird. As a quake player, strafe-jumping is my preferred movement type. In Doom 3 I’m not entirely sure how the jumping mechanics work, do you jump three times in succession for the speed boost? Is the strafe-jumping working but just nulled in Doom? I’m not entirely sure. I know that there is extended jumping in the game and it definitely increases speed, but is it Strafe-jumping? I’m not sure.
Doom 3: BFG Edition has a multiplayer component to it also. However, it is surprisingly barebones. I’m not entirely sure if it’s connecting me to any game with the desired gametype, if there are dedicated servers somewhere that I’m missing or if it’s using Steam to determine which games would be a best fit. All that I know is that I was never matched into a game with a desireable ping, and neither was anyone else playing. This is odd, because id have a free-to-play shooter that does this so much better. Why should paying customers be getting a sloppier multiplayer experience?
Visuals
Back in the mid-2000’s Doom 3 was THE GAME graphically. If you wanted to compare PC’s, you’d use Doom 3 as the benchmarking agent. When id announced that they’d be releasing Doom 3: BFG Edition with graphical upgrades, I was thinking to myself: “Here we go, it’s going to be graphical king again”. However, whilst this is not the case, it would have been nice if there were actual noticeable improvements to the game.
To be honest, if you put the versions of the game next to each other, you could probably tell the difference between the two. However, running from my memory, this game looks exactly the same as it did in the past. It is incredibly similar that I don’t feel this version of the games enhancements should have been as heavily talked up as they were.
I will, however, state that us here at Capsule Computers do not own a Face-Mounted Display and as such have no comment as to how this game plays with it on. It’s cool that the game supports it, but we have no idea how it would run. Apologies.
Audio
The sound in this game is really odd. There are a tonne of problems that really need to be fixed, especially in regards to volume mixing. Sometimes the characters talking will be muffled due to some of the ambient noises in the game. And the game having a lack of subtitles makes this incredibly painful to listen to. This is especially bad when you have to pay attention to details in recordings and videos and you have some gloomy noise playing over the top.
Somehow, the weapon sounds in this game sound excrutiatingly weak. The Shotgun, which is one of the better weapons to use for normal enemies, sounds incredibly weak. I mean, I can get why weapons might need to sound weaker from an atmospheric standpoint (you can’t have the game making you feel over-powered where you could be killed at any moment by demons) but there’s no need to have them sounding incredibly weak either.
Overall
Doom 3: BFG Edition is a great package for anyone who has yet to purchase Doom 3 and its corresponding expansion packs. The two predecessors to the Doom 3, Doom and Doom 2 are a great addition to the package that makes this even more worth your wallet. However, if you already have copies of these it isn’t a must buy. This is, though, the best way to get into the Doom franchise if you’re not already there.
Need a lift? In the Sydney areas? Need a ride that will leave the impression of a lifetime? The Need For Speed Most Wanted Taxi is roaming the streets of Sydney to mark the launch of the game. Members of the press and select consumers will be getting a taxi ride in a converted Lamborghini Gallardo that is roaming the streets from October 29th, 2012 to Saturday November 3rd, 2012.
There will be no fare for this once in a lifetime opportunity. Keep an eye on the twitter hashtag #mostwantedtaxito see where the taxi has been spotted last or if you want to post your pics of your Need For Speed Most Wanted Taxi sighting.
Today Kadokawa Games released the first trailer for Experience, Inc.’s first PlayStation Vita title, Demon Gaze. Now Demon Gaze will play as a first person dungeon crawler and from the screenshots and artwork below there looks like there will be a decent reliance on fan service in the game as not only is one of the main characters shown in a compromising position, a few pieces of artwork also show barely dressed characters.
Outside of the artwork, we are given a brief glimpse at how the battles will look in the game. Those curious about the game’s storyline will be happy to hear that the story will follow a young man named Oz who has lost his memory. Despite his lack of a memory he contains a powerful demonic eye that allows him to capture demons. It is unknown whether Demon Gaze has a shot of being released overseas, but thanks to the lack of region locking on physical Vita games, it will be available as a possible import once it is released in the future.
Funko’s Pop has announced a new line of collectible figurines that are inspired by characters of the upcoming blockbuster Halo 4.
The new lineup includes some returning characters like Master Chief. The full line up is the following Master Chief, both red and blue Spartan Warriors, as well as the unbelievably cute Cortana figure. This line up will be able to join the already released group of Halo vinyl collectibles which include Noble 6 (Halo: Reach) and the fan favorite Grunt (Halo 3).
You will be able to pick these cute collectibles up when they release on November 8 and you can pick up Halo 4 when it launches on November 6.
