While Codemasters has always been appreciated for it’s work, it’s easy to look at Dirt 2 as it’s American market breakout success. The addition of head to head competitive racing made the off-road racer appeal to gamers in the US, and it was universally praised for it’s entertaining racing model. Now, Dirt 3 is on the horizon, and Codemasters is adding plenty of features to keep the formula fresh.
The original Section 8 was a unique and innovative science fiction first person shooter that set you as a member of the titular Section 8, a space military force of the future which drops in from orbit to protect mankind’s colonies across the galaxy. It recieved generally positive reviews but didn’t quite make the splash in multiplayer gaming that the developer TimeGate hoped it would.
Dragon Age 2 was expected to be a full-bodied successor to the very successful and critically acclaimedDragon Age: Origins, and while a good game on its own merits, it doesn’t live up to the long-standing legacy that Bioware has so carefully cultivated in its many quality titles. I wanted to like Dragon Age 2, but due to its fairly massive reordering of convention, reduced customization and options as well as the sneaky tricks used to artificially extend the length of the game, I was appalled by the tone-deaf approach with which the studio handled the game design. As a result of these changes, Dragon Age has become much more of an action title than Bioware RPGs of the past; I really thought this game should have been a console-only side-story game, much like how the Fallout series spawned abominable Brotherhood of Steel, another action game strained from the (then) corpse of the franchise. Instead, with only enough content to fill a third of what the developers promised, Dragon Age 2 was released as a complete sequel on all platforms.
When your book has the word “game” in the title, and it’s about men with swords fighting monsters, you can be pretty sure that it’ll get a video game adaptation sooner or later. Such is the inevitable case with A Game of Thrones, which recently was adapted into a successful TV show, and now the video game A Game of Thrones – Genesis.
The PC has always been a huge market for bizarre European RPG’s, and in 2008 CD Projekt Red entered the market with The Witcher, an epic story-based RPG adapted from a series of Polish fantasy novels. It blasted its way into the PC gaming scene, gaining a large and loyal following of fans which CD Projekt Red are hoping to impress with The Witcher 2 when it comes out later this month.
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If you’re one of the few people who haven’t played Fallout 3 yet, there’s a great deal this weekend you should see. If you’ve already had your fill of exploring DC’s post-apocalyptic wasteland, then you’ll still probably find something to your taste in these weekend deals.
