While Beenox’s The Amazing Spider-Man game may not be featuring any cast members from the movie it’s based on, that hasn’t stopped them from having a stella cast of their own!
Joining the likes of Stan Lee himself if Bruce Campbell, most known for his role as Ash in the Evil Dead series. But what hardcore Spidy fans know him for is for his random cameos in all 3 of the previous Sam Rami Spider-Man films and and video games based on those films. In this interesting trailer, Campbell speaks of his role as “The Extreme Reporter” and his relationship with Spider-Man.
The Amazing Spider-Man: The Video Game is set to swing into stores next week so make sure to pick it up!
A trailer from Lionsgate films has finally debuted for the new live action adaptation for Judge Dredd, known as Dredd. The trailer reveals the drug Slo-Mo which is spreading throughout the futuristic dystopia Mega City One. The Judges who police the streets are authorised with the powers of judge, jury and executioner and it’s up to Judge Dredd to take down the drug and those you deal it. Not to be confused with the 1995 adapatuon staring Sylvester Stallone, this film is all about gritty, dark, violence just the way you like it! Make sure to check out the trailer below for more.
The film is set to be released in 2D and 3D on September 21, 2012.
You should have all seen the live action film Enter the Metro by now (if you haven’t, shame on you, you can watch it HERE). To read about the original film head on over to our article HERE. Enter the Metro really is a true epic.
So, in the spirit for any epic, there is also a behind the scenes featurette showing all the work that went into the movie. And it is quite an interesting behind the scenes look at where it was shot, some of the actor’s screen tests, and the ideas behind certain concepts.
It puts more weight to the film, and helps to show things that you may not have caught the first time around, as well as pinpoint some of the stuff that you couldn’t quite place, such as the importance of the haunting lullaby.
Watch the Behind the Scenes video below, with interviews with various crew members, for a great insight into the short film.
Metro: Last Light is being released on PC, Playstation 3, Wii U and Xbox 360 in early 2013. Keep tuned to Capsule Computers for more information on the game as it comes out.
From the mind of Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is the upcoming Party Wave for iOS developed by Mistwalker and inspired by the great mans self confessed love of surfing and a catch phrase that is apparently shouted out amongst surfers in small swells to all get on board and catch the same wave. While being a fantastic idea for a game I wouldn’t go paddling out to most Australian beaches shouting it out too loudly.
The game itself consists of the 2 main elements of surfing, the paddling and the actual surfing itself. Players will have to dodge a variety of sea life such as dolphins and jellyfish just to get out to the break points, and then have to battle for wave and air space against their fellow riders.
While not being fully complete yet the game should be available in the near future for download on iOS
For a limited time only, Word Trick has been reduced to the low low price of free on the Apple App Store. The free version of the game will come completely Ad-free in partnership with FreeAppADay.com, in celebration of 20 million turns of Word Trick having been played. The CEO of Outplay Entertainment, Douglas Hare has this to say about the games burgeoning success:
“We’re delighted to be celebrating this milestone. Word Trick has proven to be a hit with players from around the world and consistently receives 5 star ratings on the App Store and on Facebook. We look forward to welcoming many more players to the game and our growing Outplay community.”
Word Trick is a popular, take on a classic Word Game where you not only try and create the largest word but also try and connect “trick tiles” in order to create multipliers. The game allows up to four people to play either locally or via multiplayer, with the ability to search for friends on Facebook as well.
Trion Worlds has just released a fact sheet for their upcoming MMORTS End of Nations. The development is being handled by Petroglyph games and being published by Trion Worlds. Petroglyph games are know for their past RTS titles such as Universe at War: End Assault and Star Wars: Empire at War.
The game is expected to be released in the later part of 2012, with no firm release date set yet. Beta registration is currently open on the End of Nations Website, so be sure to head on over there and check it out. Thats enough from me for now, check out the key features of the game below;
Key Features
Experience Premier MMORTS Gaming – From the creative minds behind the original Command and ConquerTM and the people who brought you the groundbreaking new MMO RIFTTM, End of Nations will set a new standard in real-time strategy gaming as the world’s first premium Free-to-Play MMORTS!
Behold The Power of Many – Wage War on an unprecedented scale with up to 56 player PVP matches in a variety of massive online battle arenas that will give you countless opportunities to unite and fight and ultimately impact the fragile hold of power!
Engage in a Persistent Global War– Every battle fought and every victory won affects the delicate grasp of territorial control in an ever-evolving conflict. Quickly move from one combat zone to another as a lone wolf or as a team to truly dominate as you take on the Order of Nations or your rival faction. Online campaign mode allows players to experience the depth of story the embodies the battle for global control.
Build Your Ultimate Army – Earn and unlock new units, abilities, and super-weapons, and customize your army with unique mods, upgrades, and visual designs. No two forces will look or play the same. Field one company and play offensively, choose another mid game if your tactics aren’t working and scout, or play defense – how you play in the heat of battle is up to you!
Climb the RanksofCommand – Choose your Commander Class and advance through the ranks of your faction, gaining new abilities and tactics with every battle. Veterans and new recruits lock horns on even ground as skill and desire decide every battle.
Chillingo and Focus Home Interactive have released both a trailer and the official website for the new mobile game Knights of the Round Cable, which was a big hit at E3 this year. Players can check out the trailer below to see some of the grapple-tastic gameplay for the game that is set to release in July for both Anroid and iOS.
Knights of the Round Cable is simple enough to grasp in terms of gameplay, as the knight swings from anchor to anchor to collect gems, dodge enemies, and ride a gigantic bird as players try to perfect the timing of moving from point to point and change direction on the fly. It’s great to see some fairly innovative gameplay in a mobile game, while still keeping it simple and intuitive hopefully it can keep up the momentum from E3 and it closes in on its release.
Check out the screenshot gallery below and check out information from the games website HERE.
The popular empire building world simulation game is expanding today as 2K Games and Firaxis Games release Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Gods & Kings for Mac and PC. Adding more civilizations, technologies, units, buildings and wonders are just the tip of what is being offered though the expansion. Gods & Kings doesn’t just stop there though, as the title will imply players can now aid in bringing religion to their civilization.
Besides the added units, civilizations, leaders, and religion other tweaks and additions include:
Three New Scenarios – Fall of Rome, Empires of the Smoky Skies, and Victorian steampunk.
Reworked Combat – Combat and AI have been improved for balanced army composition, as well as naval ships being grouped as either ranged or melee.
New Diplomacy Options and Espionage – Now includes the ability to have embassies with other civilizations and spies to engage in different types of opponent government surveillance and tampering.
Two New City-State Types – Mercantile and Religious.
All in all, Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Gods & Kings seems to add a lot of content and game changing additions that should add to the success of the Civilization franchise. Be sure to check out the launch trailer below.
Battlefield 3: Close Quarters Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: DICE Platforms: PC (Reviewed), Xbox 360, Playstation 3 Release Date: Out Now Price: $19.99 (PC – Origin), 1200MSPoints (XBLA), $23.99 (PSN) or in a package with Premium ($49.99 – BF3 Page).
Overview
Battlefield 3: Close Quarters is the second expansion pack to hit the Battlefield 3 franchise. This is the first expansion pack to be released alongside the Battlefield Premium service that has recently been released for Battlefield players on all platforms.
The Battlefield community have had a divided opinion on the new expansion with many of the referencing the terms ‘Call’ and ‘Duty’ quite a bit. I happen to disagree with the players that have been spitting these two words around simply because I have a much broader gaming experience behind me and as a result can compare to much more brilliant titles. Read on to find my full impressions.
Story
Unlike the original Battlefield 3 game, Close Quarters does not add on or expand the original campaign at all. This, I found, was quite unfortunate as a multiplayer only expansion pack can only add so much to the overall Battlefield story. In this case, the amount added was ~0, considering that it was a multiplayer only addition.
I found this to be kind of disappointing as I would have loved to have had even a couple of extra levels in the campaign. I mean the environments in the expansion pack are great and having the same kind of level structure in a two or three level campaign would have been awesome. We were just never given this opportunity.
Gameplay
Gameplay in Battlefield 3: Close Quarters is very close to the original Battlefield 3, which is to be expected considering that it is actually an expansion pack to the game. Mechanically speaking, this is Battlefield 3. However, the game differs from Battlefield 3 in that instead of there being these massive open battlefields and large cityscapes, you have close quarters gun fights inside of various buildings and warehouses.
The game comes with four new maps that greatly change the Battlefield experience. Unlike the first expansion pack and the main package, the maps in this game are a much more tight affair that take place nearly completely indoors as opposed to the great outdoors. A lot of players will liken this experience to that of Call of Duty, but this only because of their own limited experience with games. If they had actually played more than what publishers tell them to, they would have played an awesome game known as F.E.A.R (the first one, because the rest sucked).
Now anyone who had played the original F.E.A.R game will have noticed that the multiplayer maps in that game were all very tight, but also very strategic in nature. You were mainly on the interior of buildings with multiple levels and lots of hiding spots in stairwells and halls that could only really be assaulted in one of a few ways. The maps in Battlefield 3: Close Quarters have these exact qualities that made F.E.A.R the multiplayer experience that it was. So anybody who felt at home in that game will most definitely feel at home here in Close Quarters. To be honest, I don’t think that Close Quarters is a homage to F.E.A.R, but that game and this have the exact same multiplayer qualities that make the game fast, frenetic and an all around awesomely fun experience.
Once again level destruction is back, however it is not of the making a building collapse on itself variety. Instead, players are able to shatter walls and the like to create more opportunities to defeat their opponents. However, most of the damage done to a level is in incidental damage caused by missed rounds colliding with the environment. Having this kind of destruction in a localised area gives you a much better feeling of the tenacity of the combat. Seeing the walls break around you also gives you plenty of visual cues as to the direction of the guy shooting at you so that you can better escape and mount an effective counter attack.
The expansion pack also adds a bunch of new weapons to each players arsenal which have to be unlocked by completing various challenges exclusive to the expansion pack. These weapons carry over to the original campaign and the previous expansion pack also. It is likely that the weapons will move forward to the next expansion pack also.
I thoroughly enjoyed the frenetic close quarters gameplay of Battlefield 3: Close Quarters and you shouldn’t be listening to anyone who likens this to Call of Duty, because they’re wrong.
Visuals
Visually, the game is very similar to the main Battlefield 3 package and the previous expansion pack, Back to Karkand. However, there are a few differences in visual style. In the original Battlefield campaign, things were much more external looking, I.E. it was focused on what things should look like from the outside in. Most of the interiors in the original, with the exceptions of the interior focused maps, were very basic.
In Battlefield 3: Close Quarters the maps are designed from the inside out in that they look like the actual interior of a building that has recently, and frequently, been in use. What I particularly liked about the level design was how the maps were not designed symmetrically, but instead were designed systematically. This creates a lot of choke points and other kinds of various advantages that are up to the players to find an exploit to bring their team to victory.
Another awesome thing about the level design is the colour palette. Now I know that the Battlefield games don’t have the most colourful palettes, but this does not mean that they haven’t used the colours available to them to their fullest. In one map I quite liked how it was really white, with all of the walls being this bright white colour at the start of a match. It’s kind of like foreshadowing in itself in that you know it’s going to get trashed and destroyed by machine-gun fire and the way the destruction alters the feel of the map from this bright-white, almost pure affair to this destroyed greywall with holes punched through it bits falling off. It works incredibly well.
Audio
What impresses me about the Battlefield 3 games are that they have an amazing set of audio that go with them. All the weapons sound weaponish and powerful. Not too much has changed audibly from the main Battlefield 3 experience, so there isn’t really all that much to talk about in this regard. Things are pretty similar, so if you’ve played the original Battlefield 3, you pretty much know what you’re in for in regards to the audio in this expansion pack.
Overall
Battlefield 3: Close Quarters is a fairly fun experience that really enhances the Battlefield series. While Battlefield supremacists may cry about the expansion pack not staying true to the series roots, they seem to ignore that these kinds of firefights are prevalent in wars and as such are an evolution of the series’ premise. Players looking to enhance their Battlefield 3 experience will not regret picking up this expansion pack as part of the Battlefield Premium package, or as a standalone package.
althi. released their latest game today. Marine Zoo is a casual simulation game allowing players to create their own marine entertainment park. Players will be able to keep and raise a variety of adorable fish that will require specialized habitats. Special creatures that can be hosted in the park can be found during special events. The game allows for facilities to be customized to player’s tastes and boasts relaxing ambient music. Marine Zoo has social features built in, allowing friends to visit each other’s parks. The game is online only and will require an active connection to the internet via 3G or WiFi.
Marine Zoo is free to play and is available in Japanese and English. Check it out here.
