So considering the complete lack of enthusiasm that Activision has shown for X-Men: Destiny, you would think that the game wouldn’t be released for at least a couple more months, maybe not even until 2012. But that is incorrect. In fact, X-Men: Destiny is being released tomorrow and today Marvel has released a launch trailer to remind you that there is in fact another X-Men game about to hit the market.
X-Men: Destiny is being developed by the people at Silicon Knights and players can pick one of three different characters to make choices with to determine their destiny. They will either be able to join the X-Men or the Brotherhood it seems, though shades of gray may be available. So who is going to pick up this title? Let us know!
Hey, feel like planning your character extremely early? Well you can take a look at all of the character perk and skill lists below and start agonizing about how you want to build your character the first time you boot up The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim when it releases on November 11th.
The perk tree powers and race specific bonuses were just recently released by the Elder Scrolls official website, besides the skill description there hasn’t been much detail revealed. On the other hand a lot of these skills should be familiar to those who have played an Elder Scrolls title before, especially Oblivion or Morrowind. What character will you create?
Perk Trees
Speech
Buying and selling price 10% better (5 ranks)
10% price buying from opposite sex
Invest in shops and increase available gold permanently in invested stores
Master Trader – every merchant in world gains 1000 gold for bartering
Buy and sell from any merchant regardless of what they normally buy and sell
Intimidation attempts twice as successful
Persuasion attempts more likely successful
Alchemy
Potions 20% stronger (5 ranks)
Potions for restore health, magicka or stamina are 25% more powerful (maybe ranked)
Poisons 25% more effective (maybe ranked)
Poisons last for twice as many hits
Two ingredients are gathered from plants
50% resistance to all poisons
All negative effects removed from potions and all positive removed from poisons
2 effects of an ingredient are revealed when testing it for the first time (instead of just one)
Illusion
Dual casting overcharges effect for more powerful spell
Cast Novice spells for 50% less magicka
Cast Apprentice spells for 50% less magicka
Cast Adept, Expert, Master etc spells for 50% less magicka (more levels this time around)
Spells work on higher level animals
Spells work on higher level people
All spellcasting (from ANY school) is done silently
Spells work on undead, daedra and automatons
Fear spells work on higher level enemies
Conjuration
Novice for 50% magicka etc (up to Master)
Dual casting overcharges –> greater spell effect
Bound weapons do more damage
Bound weapons cast Soul Trap on target
Bound weapons banish certain creatures (and I think summon creature in their place, not 100% on that though, dodgy recording)
Reanimate undead with 100 more health
Summon 2 Atronachs or reanimated zombies
Summon Atronachs at twice the distance
Summoned Atronachs twice as strong
Destruction
More damage for each school (fire, frost and shock) – ranked
Novice for 50% magicka etc.
Shock damage chance to disintegrate targets if their health is under 10%
Frost damage chance to paralyse targets if health low
Fire damage chance to make low health enemies flee
Place runes 5x farther away
Restoration
Healing spells also restore stamina
Novice for 50% less magicka etc
Healing spells do 50% more healing
Recharging healing spells
More is recharged with each hit with healing spells (unclear)
Spells more effective against undead
Once a day chance to autocast 250HP restoration when health drops low
Magicka regenerates 25% faster
Alteration
Novice for 50% less etc
Alteration spells have greater duration (ranked)
Absorb 30% magicka that hits you
Enchanting
Enchants are 20% stronger (ranked)
Enchanted armour 25% stronger
“Soul gems provide extra magicka for recharging” – again, dodgy
recording but that’s what I heard, even if it doesn’t make much sense
Death blows to creatures but not people trap souls for weapon recharge
Health, magicka and stamina enchants stronger
Extra effect on already-enchanted weapon can be applied
Shock, Frost and Fire enchants 25% stronger (individual perks for each element)
Heavy Armour
Increase armour rating 20% (5 ranks)
Unarmed attacks with heavy armour gauntlets – damage increased by gauntlets’ armour rating
Half fall damage if all in heavy armour
Heavy armour weighs nothing and doesn’t slow you at all
Additional 25% armour if in matching set
25% armour bonus if all in heavy armour (not necessarily matching)
50% less stagger if all in heavy armour
10% damage reflected back to enemy if all in heavy armour
2-handed weapons
2h weapons do 20% more damage (5 ranks)
Attacks with warhammers ignore 25% armour (ranked)
Attacks with battleaxes do extra bleeding damage (ranked)
Attacks with greatswords do extra critical damage (ranked)
Power attacks cost 25% less stamina
Standing power attacks do 25% bonus damage, chance to decapitate
Sprinting power attacks do double (critical) damage
Sideways power attacks hit all targets
Backwards power attacks have 25% chance of paralysis
Archery
Bows do 25% more damage
Zoom in
Zooming slows time
10% crit chance
Move faster with drawn bow
Recover twice as many arrows from dead bodies
50% chance of paralysing for few seconds (might be 15%, can’t really hear…)
Draw bow 30% faster
Sneak
20% harder to detect (ranked)
Sneak attacks do 6x damage with 1h weapons
Sneak attacks with bows do 3x damage
Sneak attacks with daggers do 15x damage (end perk on skill tree)
Noise from armour reduced 50%
No longer activate pressure plates
Sprinting while sneaking performs silent forward roll
Running does not affect detection chance
Crouching can make hostile enemies lose sight of you and search for a target
Sony uploaded a new video earlier today on Youtube and it has caused quite a buzz of speculation. The video doesn’t reveal anything specific but it does contain a very large number of video game references, so many that you can spend quite a long time looking for all the different video game references.
But the most interesting piece of this trailer is the fact that there is some sort of announcement going to be made on October 5th. It is apparently going to be a big one, and with all the references in the video the announcement could be any number of things. Perhaps news for the PlayStation 3, or even the PlayStation Vita? We’ll have to find out next week when Sony makes their big reveal, or in a few days if someone spills the beans.
Was your computer to old to play the relatively unimpressive but pretty looking Crysis when the game first released? Well now is your chance to play the game on your console because on October 4th the original Crysis will be released to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 via digital download for the price of $20. The game will be a Games on Demand version for the Xbox 360 and a normal download for PSN.
Crytek also released the above screenshot to see how things look on the cons, which shows that the quality hasn’t taken much of a hit. So who will be picking this up next week? The $20 price tag is quite enticing for a full FPS, especially one that is just now being released to consoles.
For those who get all angry when they have to stand up and move a little to swap discs, I have bad news for you. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is going to take up two discs most likely when it is released during the first quarter of 2012. For the rest of us, this is no big deal and it is a good sign that CD Projekt RED isn’t cutting any corners as far as content goes.
During the Eurogamer Expo this weekend, CD Projekt RED’s Jan Krzysztof Bielecki was asked a question concerning how many discs the game will require, and Beefjack reports that he said “It’s going to be more than one. And it cannot be three, so… eyah, it’s going to be two discs.” While this may not be any official announcement it is safe to say there will be a multi-disc release.
Ubisoft’s I Am Alive has been a title with quite an ironic name. The title was announced three years ago but has quite literally never been heard from officially since. There have been no screenshots, no videos nor any announcements about the title from Ubisoft, making many wonder about whether or not the title was actually still alive indeed.
But still there has been signs of life for the title and the latest is quite a stirring. The ESRB has given a full descriptive rating for the title, which is something that they do not usually do unless the game is going to be released in the near future. The game was given an M rating and has a few your standard warnings for blood and violence about a player taking over a man who is looking for his family in a post-apocalyptic world. Also about people being taken as pets… Catch the full listing below.
This is an action game in which players assume the role of a man who must find his family in a post-apocalyptic world. From a third-person perspective, players traverse through city ruins and use a machete to kill human enemies in melee-style combat. Battles are accompanied by realistic gunfire, slashing sounds, and cries of pain; characters emit brief splashes of blood when hit. Players have the ability to kill or knock unconscious wounded/vulnerable enemies via finishing moves (e.g., throat slashing, impaling, pistol-whipping); these scenes are highlighted by close-up camera angles and increased player control (e.g., on-screen prompts with button-press sequences).
During the course of the game, players encounter women who can be saved from nearby enemies; sexual mistreatment is sometimes implied in the dialogue (e.g., “These guys kept me as their pet, or mascot, or something.”). One sequence depicts the background silhouette of a man fondling and threatening a captured female survivor; the exchange includes phrases such as “Do you hear me? Don’t touch me!” and “Don’t be like that. You know I can make your life a lot easier if you would just cooperate.” The words “p*ssy,” “f**k,” and “sh*t” can be heard in the dialogue.
League of Legends is a growing community that is available free for online play. Today marks the release of its new map and battle grounds called Dominion. Opposed to the Classic play where you defend turrets that lead up to your base, Dominion plays out like an intense King of the Hill. Searing Scar, the map, requires champions to attain five separate capture points. By capturing one of these areas, you begin to weaken your opponenet’s base crystal. The first team to reach zero life on this crystal loses the game.
Normal game length for the Classic mode is 45 minutes. However, Dominion is very fast paced and averages around 20 minutes. This is due to the increased leveling system and faster gold accumilation. Additionally, newer items have been added just for Dominion mode and cannot be used in regular version.
Check out Riot Game‘s Dominion mode spotlight below!
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Modern Warfare 3 may not be out for a little under a month in a half but that doesn’t mean you can’t find out about the game’s achievements right this minute. The full achievement list has been revealed and posted up at Xbox360Achievements. Now taking a look at these achievements is of course at your own spoiler risk, as there is only one secret achievement.
The other achievements range from multiple achievements in Spec Ops mode, to beating the levels on any difficulty and then on veteran as well as performing a certain task within a specific level which is more or less standard from Modern Warfare 2. Still if you don’t want to spoil the level names or anything like that, perhaps you may not want to take a peak.
Name: Burnout Crash!
Developer: Criterion Games
Publisher: EA
Genre: Racing
Platform: Xbox Live Arcade
Release: September 21, 2011
Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Overview
Apart from having a really fun name to say (I think it’s the exclamation point, it makes it all dramatic and such), Burnout Crash! is also a great racing (or, crashing, really) game. Plus, its set in a city called Crash City, the town planners were clearly just asking for it with that name. Or that’s what I tell myself as I destroy their previously peaceful metropolis, laughing maniacally behind the wheel of my wayward car.
Gameplay
There are six roads on your crash road trip, each of them have several intersections that you unlock as you collect stars. Collecting stars will also upgrade your car and status. While stars might be harder to get in the beginning while you’re getting your crash-legs, they become easier to come by as you become a crash veteran.
There are only two controls for Burnout Crash!, directional and the explode button. When you’re trying to make the biggest possible crash, the explode on order function is a great thing to have.
There are a few different modes in Burnout Crash!, each depending on different things to score or end the crash run on. Normal mode ends when five cars escape your crashing clutches, Pile Up mode depends on you keeping an inferno meter up by keeping the fires on your screen burning bright, and Rush Hour mode has a 90 second countdown clock with a huge amount of cars zipping across your screen just begging to be crashed into.
All the modes start with you heading towards an intersection in a working car and have to collide with one of the cars as you approach the intersection and from there, well it’s what you make it. You can’t technically steer after your first crash, but you can direct your car as it explodes and flies through the air.
Pile-ups are your friend in this game, getting a set-up where you have car remains littered across the intersection are great (in this context). You get bonuses for them catching fire as well, although exploding near them will cause them to disperse or disappear so its best to do this when you’ve got a nice large amount sitting there.
The intersections start off as a standard, easy + shape, and evolve to become more of a pain with more routes to take care of. Making sure that cars don’t escape become more of an effort and requires more tactics, such as pretending crashed cars are cue balls, and conserving your explosions for truly important times.
You get massive bonuses for setting of chain events, or actually employing tactics in your quest to demolish everything. Plus, if you make it far enough through the level you get highly entertaining super features like a tornado that rips through everything and gives you a money bonus and star for your troubles. There are also cars that pass through that have their own bonuses such as an ambulance that gives you an extra life if you let it pass through unscathed, a bulldozer which destroys things in its way, a cash truck which gives you a cash bonus for crashing, a petrol tank (which you can imagine is pretty awesome), and heaps more goodies that make this game even more fun.
In total there are 54 levels, with 5 possible stars for each level. You may find yourself redoing a few levels just to get those stars to get that pretty car to crash or move to the next level. Each level ends with a summary of the amount of damage you’ve caused, how much you’ve earned, and how many stars you’ve earned. Seeing those dollars go up because of the fun you’ve had crashing things is truly a great thing.
One downside to the game is having to re-do levels just for that one star, which is probably annoyingly difficult one to get. However, it really pushes you to get better, whether or not you want it.
Visual
Although from afar the visuals seem to be simple and cartoony, they actually hold up quite well and the style is reminiscent of older, but very good, games. The definition of the graphics managed to do quite well considering the size of my TV screen.
Audio
Burnout Crash! has a decent soundtrack and even though the selection is a little small I didn’t find myself getting annoyed with it at any point. Probably because the songs which have words and are recognisable are played over the menu or when a special feature comes across your screen. The in-play soundtrack chills out in the background and subtly helps you get more engrossed and involved in the game.
Conclusion
Burnout Crash! is one of those games that doesn’t look like much, doesn’t sound like much, but God you can waste hours at a time on it. Tearing myself away from it to write this review was effort enough. With a multitude of levels and great fun of crashing Burnout Crash! is sure to entertain. Until you get tired of the gameplay, which depends on your attention span.
Nordic Games Publishing has today revealed the full tracklist for the upcoming release of We Sing Rock! for Wii. There’s a total of 40 tracks from rock acts like Alice Cooper, Kasabian, My Chemical Romance and Elvis, spanning five decades of rocking history. And Coldplay if you’re into that kind of thing.
A great campaign on the We Sing Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/WeSingGame) revealed the first 15 songs: each day, the page hosted three new videos, showing members of the public humming along to the forthcoming karaoke games’ tracks. Fans of the page were then able to enter a competition by guessing the track being hummed. Although you may have missed the guessing game, it’s worth taking a look back at the willing members of the public humming their hearts out on the street.
The full tracklist is as follows:
Artist Song 30 Seconds to Mars Kings and Queens 4 Non Blondes What’s Up Alice Cooper Poison Bloc Party The Prayer The Cardigans My Favourite Game Coldplay Violet Hill Creedence Clearwater Revival Proud Mary The Darkness I Believe in a Thing Called Love Daughtry What About Now Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar On Me Elvis Presley Suspicious Minds Europe The Final Countdown Evanescence Bring Me to Life Extreme More Than Words Faith No More Epic Franz Ferdinand Take Me Out Free All Right Now Garbage I Think I’m Paranoid Gossip Standing in the Way of Control Heart Alone INXS Never Tear Us Apart Kasabian Underdog KT Tunstall Suddenly I See Limp Bizkit Rollin’ Meredith Brooks Bitch Motörhead Ace Of Spades My Chemical Romance Welcome to the Black Parade The Offspring Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) OK Go Here It Goes Again Panic! at the disco Nine in the Afternoon Paramore Ignorance The Pretenders Brass in Pocket Robert Palmer Addicted to Love Scorpions Wind of Change Sheryl Crow All I Wanna Do Simple Minds Don’t You (Forget About Me) Survivor Eye of the Tiger Tina Turner The Best Wheatus Teenage Dirtbag Whitesnake Here I Go Again ’87
