So, Ice-T is
cool right? Gears of War 3 certainly is, Cliff Bleszinski outlines some brief details
as to the plot of the campaign and jumps straight into the action. The cast
seemed to be split into separate teams of four, no doubt to accommodate the
addition of four player coop play in the campaign. The huge monster in the
trailer is, unfortunately the one that was in Gears 2, but it doesn’t look as
awful this time around.
Overstrike comes from Insomniac, the guys behind the awesome
Ratchet and Clank franchise. This marks their first multiplatform title and it
looks frikin cool to say the least. One thing the Ratchet and Clank series is
known for are outrageous weapons. This seems to be in full effect here, that
goo gun looks pretty awesome for starters. The upcoming Ratchet and Clank game
is centred around a team and this game seems to be following a similar setup.
Insomniac’s talent at creating larger than life characters is also present
here.
Right off the bat we get a clear declaration that tells us this footage is actual gameplay. Which is understandable after what happened the last time iD software showed their new engine at E3. The game looks phenomenal, no doubt about that. I had heard recently that the enemies in Rage will behave far more intelligently than other shooters, yet after watching this I can’t really see anything that different. They move around a lot, sure, but they don’t seem to do anything other than just run straight at you. These do look like your typical grunt enemies so hopefully we’ll some new bad guys who can back up those rumors.
Farcry 2 was an ambitious game, but it lacked a lot of the elements that made the original and the Xbox installments so much fun. Farcry 3 seems to be going for a much more action-packed experience judging by the gameplay that’s been released. Showcasing far more furious action and some awesome-looking stealth kills, this seems to be bringing back what made Farcry good in the first place.
The always-enthusiastic Peter Molyneux describes the next step forward for the Fable franchise, which has never been able to capture the same magic as its original entry did all those years ago. This entry in the series will be Kinect enabled (who didn’t see that coming) and allows the player to cast spells by drawing shapes on the screen. Molyneux has said they have been working on integrating the Kinect technology for two years and the game has been in development for even longer. This could explain all the bad things I keep hearing about Fable 3…
When it comes to Ninja Gaiden, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone more interested than me. Hayashi has been talking a lot about the game recently and now this is his chance to showcase what his team have been working on. They have been talking about how they want it to play completely different from previous games in the series and these videos seem to show that.
Dracula: The Company of Monsters #10 decides to dance through several time periods within the comic’s universe, and most of them are pretty dull, matching the mostly flat artwork. After a promising ninth issue (and I can feel the hate mail coming my way for saying this), Kurt Busiek’s latest issue may have some pretty cool moments – but not enough to measure up to my expectations, instead managing to irritate me.
The story picks up from the beginning of the last issue with Evan and Dracula torturing Conrad. There’s a flashback explaining more about Dracula’s dark past and events revolving around Evan, and how he devised the plan to trick not only Conrad but Dracula, leading up to the final confrontations between two groups of bloodthirsty vampires and a group of slayers.
Hello you growing in number comic book cybernauts and welcome to another edition of Cyber Monday, your best source for spotlighting the best and interesting digital comics. This week let’s start by going back in time, so far back in time we are talking about the 40’s and close to the beginning of DC comics.
Ubisoft has announced they will be releasing a new game in
the Brothers in Arms series by developer Gearbox which is set to take the series
in a completely new direction.
Brothers in Arms Furious 4 is a gleefully overdone FPS set in World War
II and follows four men who are trying to reach and assassinate Hitler.
Players have special weapons and unusual individual combat abilities, all to fight a secret experimental Nazi army. The four main characters
are a Texan called Crockett who carries a cattle brand, a man called Stitch who
has an electric torture device, an Indian named Chok with a tomahawk, and man known as Montana who has a
chainsaw. The game contains a campaign mode playable with four players in co-op,
and an extensive multiplayer mode.
