I was first introduced to FPS games when I played Unreal Tournament. Before that I had been a big RTS player and had been completely oblivious to the world of first person shooters. I recently tried to go back and get into Counter Strike: Source (I had played it once before at a LAN cafe and got myself absolutely destroyed by ‘the regulars’) and found that I really didn’t like what some PC gamers call the best online FPS of all time.
The original Portal came out of nowhere to become a huge hit for Valve and the general gaming community and for considering the games origins as a small scale student project, it’s completely astounding that it had the success that it had. Portal 2 came out last month after over a year of fans anticipating their next taste of GlaDOS and her deadly neurotoxin and test chambers but the development of Portal 2 is a much bigger story than you would expect.
There are some franchises that work hard to retain the elements that made them great in the first place while other franchises are always trying to reinvent themselves. Resident Evil is one of the latter and although the venerable survival horror series has gone in some interesting directions in the last few games, Capcom is trying to go back to the series’ roots with Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.
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NC Soft’s electromagnetic entertainment programme, City of Heroes allows interested persons to masquerade as pulp-fiction heroes, and dime-novel adventurers on the new-fangled international compunet. Now gaming enthusiasts who enjoy playing with electronic thinking machines can dress in a proper fashion with the new Steampunk Booster Pack.
As a gamer of many years, I’ve noticed a very common trend: Trailers for games that do not include gameplay. Oftentimes video game producers will throw up a few cinematic trailers, talk very little about a game, and then release it with so much baseless hype that people are confused as to what the game even is.
Saints Row has always been the twisted cousin of the Grand Theft Auto series. The first two games were generally well received due to the hilariously over the top sandbox gameplay and extensive character customization they gave gamers. Saints Row: The Third is looking to follow up on the things that made the previous two great but is also looking to push the franchise in new directions. One of the biggest changes you’ll see in Saints Row: The Third is that it is no longer set in the city of Stilwater.
