EA Mobile pushed their latest take on the classic board game Monopoly. Players have only one goal in Monopoly Millionaire, earn a million Monopoly dollars before your enemies do. This rule set significantly shortens the game of Monopoly. Players will purchase and trade properties, gamble on fortune cards, and upgrade their play pieces to show off their Monopoly dollars. The game is available here for $2.99 at the moment on the iTunes App Store and supports the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
In addition, EA Mobile released the latest trailer for their recently released social gaming take on Yahtzee. World Series of Yahtzee is available for free hereand the trailer can be viewed below.
E.T. The Green Planet Developer: Straw Dogs Studios, Universal Publisher: Chillingo Ltd. Platform: iPhone (reviewed), iTouch, iPad Release Date: October 1, 2012 Price: Free- Available Here
Overview
Celebrating the 30th anniversary and the first time Blu-ray release of E.T. the people over at Straw Dogs Studios and Universal have created a game to celebrate it. E.T. The Green Planet is where you can create your own life on E.T.’s home planet and you play as E.T.! While you take care of the world around you by planting plants, getting spaceships, and so on, you get to experience the life of everyone’s favorite little alien. Now let’s see if this is a good thing or not.
Story
There is no actual story for the game and that is a total draw back. If they would have added in a story about what truly goes on with E.T. around the Green Planet. Even if it would have just been a little scroll through of text, it would have been better than nothing. The fact that they made a movie and couldn’t even come up with a small follow up story in the app is truly disappointing.
Gameplay
The Green Planet is just like many of those games you play on Facebook, an example would be Farmville. The gameplay is quite simple, you plant plants and build gourds so you can expand your garden so you can help save your planet.
You have a wide variety of plants you are able to use and each one is unique in its own way. The time you must wait in order to actually have it grow is excruciating to put it in simple terms. I got bored with the game many times because I would be staring at my screen waiting for the plant to finish growing.
Plants are just the only thing you can build. You also have decorations, space objects, resources, etc. The sad thing is, they didn’t put much importance on these objects because there clearly isn’t enough of them to use. Even then, you still don’t have access to them becuse the levels are so high before you can actually achieve access to them.
Visuals and Audio
The games visuals are a little too small when you are looking at an individual object. I had to squint or put on my set of glasses many times so I would be able to see what plant or decoration I was actually looking at.
There is also a little bit of lag when you start to try and play the game right after it loads up. They do add a nice little touch of visual pleasure with the screen stills you are able to view after you level up. The problem of speed continues with those though because they are also incredibly slow when you are switching from still to still.
The games audio isn’t that bad. The music they use actually make me feel like I am inside the actual movie the game is based on. It has a very cheerful and happy sound too it which transfers over to me and makes me feel the same way. I only wish that they would have added more than one song to the games playlist because you can only stay happy by listening to it for so long. The sound effects for the game is also good because it is clear and precise. I remember turning off the music and just listening to the sounds that were going on all around the world because they all sounded awesome!
Overview
Sadly, E.T. The Green Planet is looking a little green. With the games small objects, lag, and all the other problems, it makes it very hard to actually play the game without wanting to put it down and play something else. The only thing that kept me from not picking the game up again was the audio for the game because that is truly the best part of the game.
The ancient civilization of the year seems to be the Aztecs with the looming 2012 calendar date. Anuman Interactive have created a first person adventure game that recreated the ancient Aztec capital as faithfully as possible with the support and assistance from the French national  museum network, and Aztec experts Eric Taladoire, Director of the Archaeology Research Centre in Sorbonne, France and Leonardo Lopez Lujan, an archaeologist at the Museo del Templo Mayor in Mexico City.
Players take on the role of a young hunter named The Serpent who is falsely accused for the murder of a noble man while the city is plagued by an ancient evil. The Serpent must embark on an epic adventure full of puzzles and riddles to clear his name and save the Aztec people from destruction.
Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of Gold is now available for the iPhone for $0.99 hereor an universal HD version for $3.99 for iPhone and iPad here. A full Mac and PC release for $9.99 will be released soon.
The people over at KontrolFreek have announced a new addition to their accessory family! The FPS Freek Infinity is based off of the UNSC Infinity which is the ship that houses the multi-player and plays a pivotal role in the upcoming blockbuster, Halo 4. Ashish Mistry, the president and CEO of KontrolFreek, had the foll0wing to say:
“Halo 4 is an exciting and much-anticipated AAA game title.We listened to our community of hardcore Halo enthusiasts when they asked us to create a product celebrating the launch of Halo 4. The FPS Freek Infinity is certain to enhance the experience.”
The FPS Infinity pairs the extended ½-inch height provided by KontrolFreek’s flagship FPS Freek line with a thumb-hugging concave surface for maximum control and performance. Adding onto the spirit of Halo 4, the FPS Freek Infinity is in celestial blue which is the first time the company has made a blue one. It is then finished off with a wonderful Halo-inspired design.
‘What does the FPS Freek Inifity change?’ you may ask. The FPS Infinity puts gamers in complete control of their Spartan and makes aiming and strafing much easier during intense multi-player battles. Infinity is perfect for the right or left thumbstick and is optimized for medium to long-range armaments like the Battle Rifle, DMR and Sniper Rifle.
Today Electronic Arts released a handful of new screenshots for Dead Space 3 showing off plenty of dramatic scenes that gamers will be able to experience once the game comes out early next year. We see Isaac trying to survive an attack from a new necromorph, flying through a zero gravity environment and also a bloody message left by one with no hope left.
The screenshots can be seen below in high-resolution and as you can see, there is no reason to be concerned about the “scary” aspect that the series is known for becoming non-existent. Of course the lack of a co-op partner in these images may contribute to that feeling.
October 30th is going to be a day that will literally drain your wallet dry at this point thanks to all of the game releases that are coming out on that day. Now NIS America has revealed that they are adding another title to this already large list of releases with the PC version of Clan of Champions.
As some of you may know, Clan of Champions is known as Gladiator Vs. in Japan and focuses around 3 on 3 gladiatorial fighting where players can be a human, elf or an orc. It is worth noting that although the PC version is being released on Steam on October 30th, a digital PlayStation 3 version of the game is still set to be released later on while the Xbox 360 version of the game was quietly cancelled.
You can listen to Harald up there and stop whimpering about not knowing the release date for XSEED’s Ragnarok Odyssey because the company chose today to reveal that the game will be released on October 30th in North America. The game will be available both digitally and physically for $39.99 but those who feel like dropping a little extra scratch on the title will be able to pick up the Mercenary Edition for $49.99 which includes a 96 page art book/guide, a soundtrack CD with 32 songs, 10 monster cards and some special packaging.
To commemorate this announcement, XSEED released a number of new English screenshots for the game which can be seen below.
It looks like fans of Borderlands 2 won’t have to wait very long for the first piece of storyline DLC for the game, as GearBox Software has just revealed that the first DLC for the game will be called Captain Scarlett and her Pirate’s Booty and will be released in less than a week.
To be a bit more exact, the DLC will be released on October 16th and will cost $9.99/800 MSP depending on your console of choice. Of course if you happen to own the Borderlands 2 Season Pass then this pack will be free of cost for you. As for the DLC itself, Captain Scarlett and her Pirate’s Booty will feature a new area where players will venture into the slums of Oasis and encounter a new currency called “seraph crystals.” A couple images of the DLC including a new sand skiff vehicle can be seen below.
As many of you may know, Capcom has been well known for some rather shady on-disc DLC tactics over the past year and when gamers discovered that Resident Evil 6 has DLC already on the disc that is not available in the vanilla game, obviously people began fuming at the company for pulling the same tactic once again.
Well, apparently everyone can relax a little bit, as Capcom has announced that this on disc DLC such as the “No Hope” difficulty and Ada Wong’s co-op capabilities, was going to be released as a free title update soon and unlocked. It is interesting to see the company state this after the fact however, rather than make an announcement before it was discovered and drug through the dirt. Perhaps said DLC was going to cost something at one point, but thanks to immediate backlash it was quickly made free to stem the tide.
505 Games is excited to announce the launch of its latest game, Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise. Naughty Bear is a title that brings out the true evilness inside a person while personalizing and somehow justifying the death blow. Your ultimate goal is to eliminate the 36 targets in accordance to their “wrong-doings” to Naughty – even though he probably deserved it.
But that’s not all. Along with the launch of Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise, some interesting content is available for you to purchase to increase the cotton bath of destruction. Priced at 240 MSP is a neat little costume revolving around chainsaws and massacres. Yes, you get to relive some slicing and dicing from the 70’s in this DLC rendition appropriately named Paradise Island Chainsaw Massacre for Xbox Live. Don’t fret Playstation lovers, Teddy Krubear will be making an appearance on the Playstation Network for a mere $2.99. Additionally, the Greek god of thunder plays a role in another part of DLC as Mjolnpaw is a mighty hammer that only Naughty can wield for 80 MSP ($0.99).
You can purchase the game now through Xbox Live for 1200 MSP or Playstation Network for $14.99. Don’t forget to check out the DLC in action below, and go massacre some teddy bears.
The people over at KontrolFreek have announced a new addition to their accessory family! The FPS Freek Infinity is based off of the UNSC Infinity which is the ship that houses the multi-player and plays a pivotal role in the upcoming blockbuster, Halo 4. Ashish Mistry, the president and CEO of KontrolFreek, had the foll0wing to say:
It looks like fans of Borderlands 2 won’t have to wait very long for the first piece of storyline DLC for the game, as GearBox Software has just revealed that the first DLC for the game will be called Captain Scarlett and her Pirate’s Booty and will be released in less than a week.
