That’s right, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, is out now in stores across Australia. Last night over 200 stores across the nation held midnight launches for the title which is without a doubt one of the most hotly anticipated titles of the entire year.
So if you weren’t one of the campers at your local store’s midnight launch, you can now pick up the long awaited Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. If you aren’t sure about picking it up, here are some facts that may entice you to do so:
– More people pre-ordered Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, than any other title in the series history.
– Call of Duty players have fired more in-game bullets than their are stars in our galaxy.
– There are enough people online each day on Call of Duty to fill up 80 of the worlds largest stadiums.
If that isn’t enough to get you pumped for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, you can also pick up the special Hardened Edition that comes packed with some great Modern Warfare 3 goodies, to excite even the most wayward of fans.
Will you be grabbing a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3? Let us know in the shoutbox and comments section.
With the impending release of Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, Konami have released a trailer for the upcoming collection title. The new trailer teams up everybody’s favourite 48-member Japanese Pop Idol group, AKB48, with the crew behind Metal Gear Solid HD Collection.
More specifically, AKB48 member, Haruna Kojima stars in the trailer in which she sneaks about in the cutest way possible. She then reachs a screen in which she writes over in permanent marker to adjust it to say “Spring has come to Kojima Productions”, with Spring being a reference to the “Haru” part of he name, which means “Spring” in Japanese.
What do you think of the trailer for Metal Gear Solid HD Collection? Let us know in the shoutbox and comment section.
I’ve always told everyone here at Capsule Computers that the Umbrella Corporation is a great place, they strive to preserve and maintain the good health of the people. If you’re not aware their main mission statement is this :
Umbrella is working hard to make the technology of tomorrow a reality for today. Through scientific advancement and technological innovation, Umbrella can create a perfect future. We offer you a future you deserve and a future within your grasp.
Now honestly, I don’t know where people are getting their information from saying that Umbrella are untrustworthy and evil, I have to say this is completely incorrect. If you don’t believe me why not check out their official website, They are even looking for ambitious and tenacious people to join them in all sorts of areas for valuable research and development through a range of special projects. All you have to do is fill out the form on their website and they’ll get back to you.
Click on the link just below to take part in this once in a life time opportunity. http://www.umbrellasciences.com/ (please note, the website is a little buggy) – if you get any weird messages like :
/ Umbrella is lying to you / You need to know the truth / Stop the atrocities / They can be exposed
HELP ME UNCOVER THE TRUTH…
Just ignore it and complete your registration. UNESS you really want to click on that other link to uncover the truth.
Thanks and good luck, I hope you get in, I’ve already been called in for an assessment, can’t wait to enhance and enrich the lives of others through the research of Umbrella.
Ubisoft have unveiled a trailer for their follow-up Your Shape: Fitness Evolved game. Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 will provide all new exercises to sculpt and shape a new body for yourself. With a mixture or strength, endurance and cardio workouts, you should be able to find an exercise regime to suit your goals.
For those who played the original Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, it looks to be a more intense workout this time around, with a lot more testing exercises available from the looks of it. The trailer may only be a minute and a half, but manages to show press-ups, lunges and jumps. Get ready to burn those calories on the calorie counter.
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 releases exclusively for Xbox 360 Kinect on 11th November.
Battlefield 3 Developer:DICE Publisher:EA Platforms:PC (Reviewed), Xbox 360, Playstation 3 Release Date:Out Now Price: $58.99 (Limited Edition – Available Here) / $50.99 (Download – Available Here)
Battlefield 3 is the latest in a long line of war based shooters from DICE and EA. The game features a Single Player campaign as well as an extensive Multiplayer component, that really seems like it was the focus of the games development. Unfortunately for the game, the campaign was quite lacklustre in it’s plot and excecution while the Multiplayer was brilliantly designed and a blast to play.
Story: The story in Battlefield 3 is, in my opinion, not at all that engaging. The developers seem to have taken a cue from another popular title that was released during development (Call of Duty: Black Ops), in that your main protagonist is being interrogated by some kind of government organisation. Further, the story is told disjointedly and feature multiple main characters, some of which die in very unfortunate ways.
Throughout the story, you are a part of a small squad of marines (and by small, I mean small; less than a platoon) who seem to be doing more commando/ counter-terrorist work than any hard military jobs. For example, in one part of the story, the main character is made to cover a small group of marines as they begin to raid a shopping mall. While a marine is likely able to work a Sniper Rifle, doesn’t the army have it’s own squad of snipers for that kind of job; somebody specially trained to assist in these situations?
Throughout the campaign, I never really thought of myself as a marine. I frequently regarded myself as a counter-terrorist being made to strike tactically through dark streets and engage with scripted enemies that sometimes seemed like there was more of than in a small town. What really got to me during these tactical moments though, was when you’re required to stealthily take out an oppenent.
In this one part of the game, your squad mate tells you to creep up on this guy standing guard with backturned near a doorway. Being the stealthy guy that I am, I figured that running at him would alert him to our presence and he’d lay waste to us, so I went into prone and crawled up on him. Little did I know that being too stealthy would cause my character to suddenly drop dead for no apparent reason. The next time I did it, I sprinted at the enemy and knifed him to death; it’s amazing how stealth works in this game.
The campaign also features an abundance of cross-eyed soldiers that appear on your team throughout the game. These are men who will waste an entire clip of ammunition in the direction of an enemy and not hit them at all. Even on Easy, your team-mates are pretty much just there for show. Which was unfortunate as I recall team-mates being more effective in the previous PC Battlefield title.
The campaign isn’t all bad, even if it only feels like you’re on a battlefield a small amount of times, as you get to fly around in a jet early on. This was probably the most amazing thing that I have done in this game. It felt amazing! I had so much fun being in the backseat of the jet and missiling enemies that I didn’t care that it was on-rails. Though, I love the feel of flying outside of games, so that may be impacting on how great the section really was. The only thing that bugged me about this section of the game was how they integrated it into the story. The interrogators just bring her up randomly, the main character says he has no idea what they’re talking about, her (the planes gunner) target had no impact on the overall story and the entire set-up was just a ploy to get you into a plane. If they had’ve had a decent storyline, instead of copying the latest fad, they could have found any other significant way to include jet-flying within the game.
My biggest gripe about the story in Battlefield 3 is that none of the main characters are people that you would really care about, and just as you’re sick of not caring, they die. You can obviously tell when a character is going to die, simply by the amount of nonsense that the developers have lumped onto a character to try and get you to care about them in the brief amount of time that you will be playing them. For example, one of the main characters is given a toy by his son. This built to give the character some kind of background to get you to care about his death later. But you don’t, it feels like it was a ploy to force you to like the character and you wind up not really caring because you know he’s going to die anyway.
However big the flaws may be in the single player campaign (not including having to be online to even access it), it is still a pretty fun experience; but it is not so fun to warrant a purchase if you’re a single player gamer.
Visuals/ Audio: On ultra settings, Battlefield 3 is probably one of the most prettiest games on the market to date. On high settings, it is a step above Bad Company 2 on PC. The game does throttle pretty well, so that if you have a lesser graphics card, you will be able to run it with just a little tinkering. I’m actually running an ATi 5770HD and can run it on ultra with anti-aliasing disabled with a pretty decent frame-rate (~30-40 fps, sometimes fluctuates lower). I’m not sure how you’d fare with a lesser card, but leaving the settings on auto or using auto as a guideline should help you to customise your Battlefield experience to it’s fullest.
It is incredibly evident that the developers have put a lot of effort into the graphics of the game as the game looks beautiful, in regards to the environments, and features amazingly detailed skins for soldiers and vehicles. Even the water effects are great.
In regards to audio, Battlefield 3 features an amazing array of weapon sound effects and explosions. The very few pieces of music in the game are incredibly well done and help set the mood quite well. However, I did find the music under-used in the multiplayer, in that it is only playing during the loading screens, but it did feature prominently in the story.
One of the most memorable moments for me audio-wise, is when I was gunning down enemy players in an alley-way and a rocket flew right past my ears. The sounds really added to the immersion of the game and helps draw you into the Battlefield experience.
Gameplay: In this section I will mostly be covering the generic mechanics as well as the multiplayer as I covered most the single player in the story section.
Battlefield 3 plays like most shooters, point, click and kill. But what makes this different is the way in which you conduct yourself on the battlefield. As Sun Tzu would say “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” So in order to do well on the battlefield, one must first have a plan and a method to carry out that plan; as having a method without a plan will leave you incredibly dead. What I really mean is to think about what you’re doing instead of just sprinting in a straight line from conquest point to conquest point.
In the multiplayer the game consists of a few different gametypes. These are Conquest, Large Conquest, Team Deathmatch, Rush, Squad Rush and Squad Team Deathmatch. Each of those gametypes are played across most of the maps in the game, but the playable area may be different depending on the gametype. For example, a team deathmatch map will utilise a much smaller area (one section of buildings, or a section that is best suited to the game type) compared to large conquest, which is likely to utilise the entirety of the map. I will discuss most of the gametypes in greater detail below.
In anticipation of the 18 November release of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 in the UK, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games have released a demo for the game, which is available now on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360. The PC demo is available on the LEGO Video Games page, with a PlayStation 3 demo to follow on PlayStation Network.
There’s no chance to try it on the other formats it will release on – DS, 3DS, Wii, PSP and PC – but it’s the opportunity to try what is probably the definitive version of the game on Xbox 360, PC or PS3 for free.
After developers Frozenbyte released some gorgeous stills of Trine 2 a few days ago, the internet has followed up with some media of it’s own.
Habitual game play commentators Cry and Friends have released a 50 minute video packed with footage from the online co-op multiplayer of the game. Preordering it on Steam right now will get you access to the very same thing, although minus the entertaining banter (wouldn’t that be a cool preorder bonus?).
It looks fantastic, and takes you through the opening moments of the game in tutorial style, with all three playable characters getting a look in. Narration (in game that is) abounds, and if you stick with it long enough you’ll eventually get to see some gameplay outwith the bounds of the tutorial.
There aren’t enough platformers in the world, let alone ones that look this good! And it has bouncy pumpkins, what more could you ask for?
It’s been too long since the last installment in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 franchise – Vegas 2 was released three years ago! After announcing that Patriots was in development just a few days ago, Ubisoft have released a video, although not a normal trailer. In true counter terrorism fashion, the developers over at Ubisoft Montreal claim that they have reason to believe that early footage of the game will be leaked. In order to prevent this from happening they have pre-empted the event and released the targeted gameplay video themselves.
And wow it’s full on. Tackling the touchy subject of home grown terrorism is no easy task, but from this footage, the game looks to be handling it well. The terrorist organisation involved are the Patriots, eerily similar to the Occupy Wall Street movement in their defining agenda – corrupt politicans and corporations have ruined America, and it needs to be taken back.
The footage is not finished gameplay, but includes Heavy Rain like events from an otherwise NPC point of view, a PS3 trophy being won, and of course some action on the part of Rainbow. The game is still years away, with Ubisoft giving 2013 as a release date – but the developers are taking this early release of footage as a chance to start up communication with fans of the series.
What do you think? Can Rainbow 6 take on Battlefield 4 and Modern Warfare 5 in 2013?
Oh, Japan! is a weekly feature in which I chronicle the wierd, wacky and just plain crazy goings on in Japan. Because we all know, Japan is prone to doing things that make us Westerners say “Oh, Japan!”.
This week on “Oh, Japan!” we will be diving into the wide world of sports and for the Japanese what better sport than Baseball? Well, the Japanese take Baseball much more seriously then Westerners.
In this video clip, you will see the very extent these Japanese players go to for the sport they love so very much. This player in particular fancies himself as some kind of ninja. Don’t believe me? Check out the clip below and let out a gasp of shock followed by an “Oh, Japan!
Activision have released a new trailer for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. This new trailer goes into great detail about the game modes and maps that will be included in the game.
Mixed in with footage showing off the various game modes and maps, is interviews with the staff who worked on the game, including people from Sledgehammer Games and Infinity Ward.
You can check out the very interesting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 “Modes and Maps” trailer below. Will you be engaging in modern warfare with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3? Be sure to let us know in the shoutbox and comments section.
