New Games/General Gaming

[Jimmy Jupiter]

Preordered DMC4 special edition from Play, only £30 for the 360 version.

[rebelmswar]

I know this genre may be droll to some of you but, do any of you remember the game engine that Sid Meyer made for Gettysburg and was later used on Waterloo Napoleons Final Battle? Is there any games like that coming out soon or are already out?

[Shevchenko]

I know this genre may be droll to some of you but, do any of you remember the game engine that Sid Meyer made for Gettysburg and was later used on Waterloo Napoleons Final Battle? Is there any games like that coming out soon or are already out?

Can't say I now exactly what you're after but you may want to keep an eye out for Empire: Total War, which looks highly promising.

[rebelmswar]

Can't say I now exactly what you're after but you may want to keep an eye out for Empire: Total War, which looks highly promising.

That game does look great, I have been a fan of those types for awhile. The game style I was talking about was like Close Combat in a Napolionic era, you are in control of historic regiments.

[Guest Kamy100]

Resistance 2 has been shown off:

GameInformer and its cover feature is Resistance 2!!!!!!

Checking it out now... will update. (didn't see this on first two pages so assumed it hasn't been posted)

EDIT 1: HUGE cooperative game... EIGHT-PLAYER story-driven campaign along side single-player campaign. SIXTY-PLAYER Competitive modes... HUGE United States Landscapes as backdrops.

EDIT 2: "It is, in short, a tour de force for the untapped might of the PlayStation 3"

EDIT 3: Narrative stays with Hale the whole time... not Rachel. Hale shot down in Iceland, escapes to US and becomes part of program called Sentinels...

EDIT 4: Chameleon.. Stalker with total cloaking ability

EDIT 5: Overcoming stigma that boss encounters don't work in FPS games..

EDIT 6: Eight player coop over PSN, two player local

EDIT 7: CLASSES! Unique character with one of three basic templates... tank with heavy weaponry, special ops for distance (bullseye modified with zoom), medic

EDIT 8: Online matching... standard difficulty discarded for scaled challenges for team skill..

EDIT 9: Partially randomized geometry... levels are different with each playthrough

EDIT 10: again... 60 players online. want sense of epic b attle.. dont want fast-furious gameplay to be focus, more focused on squad v squad.

EDIT 11: will log into smaller four-to-eight man lobbies for each squad... encouraging communication and camaraderie, squad will be tasked witha particular objective. careful level design aims to deliver intense combat zones or small team conflicts that flow within arena of larger battle.

EDIT 12: Dedicated gaming community with stat servers for faster matchmaching than any console game of 2007. full-featured profile pages through myresistance.net will incorporate social networking concepts. open clan and party system to encourage community...no player invites needed.

EDIT 13: Aiming to deliver mobile-phone-quality sound.

EDIT 14: Futher tapped power of PS3... more enemies onscreen, better AI, better lighting and shaders (SCREENSHOTS LOOK AMAZING!!!). More comples normal mapping and detail mapping combine to deliver textures that look amazing from afar and at extremely close distances.

EDIT 15: AI getting a lot more attention.. will scaled on-the-fly to players perspective and viewpoint... aka enemies cloesr to the player will actually have more spohisicated AI routines than those further away. assailants in your direct field of view received heightened intelligence. easily more cunning than before

EDIT 16: listened to complaints... working on solution to long checkpoints and health system. not positive what final solution will be.

EDIT 17: "Our time playing was a blast"... each character class contributes in a unique way and "we loved the strategy-laden medic"... unique sense of teamwork

EDIT 18: Mysterious "Cloven"

EDIT 19: "Resistance 2 will be too epic to dismiss as anything but one of the biggest, boldest, and most high-reaching titles of 2008. It's a game that won't be ignored." [END ARTICLE]

More Pictures:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2277/218526...8ca8ebafa_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/218604...be409f47a_b.jpg

http://i8.tinypic.com/8giptw1.jpg

Edited January 11, 2008 by Kamy100

[Guest Kamy100]

Rainbow Six Vegas 2, out in March. Game is looking really good:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29609.html

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

Is your "Edit" button worn out yet?

Edited January 12, 2008 by Anti-Dingle-Brigade

[Guest Kamy100]

I just copied that from another forum!!

[Cocker]

I am still very interested in this - click

[Nelsta]

This looks intresting.Viking : Battle for Asgard. It's by the same folk that did Spartan : Total Warrior wich i thought was a good game.And this looks like it plays the same so should be good.

[Cocker]

It's by the same folk that did Spartan : Total Warrior wich i thought was a good game.And this looks like it plays the same so should be good.

Agreed, Sparten was a game which was missed by many - which was a shame

[Cocker]

I was looking forward to this but not now - click

[Jimmy Jupiter]

I was looking forward to this but not now - click

Does look fairly ordinary. And I used to make better machine gun noises with my mouth when I was young.

[Cocker]

And I used to make better machine gun noises with my mouth when I was young.

Only when you were young? I feel sorry for you if you have lost the ability over the years because mine still works fine

[Shevchenko]

With all the hype, that looks like an epic fail right there.

Not that I mind, I've not been buying into it at all and won't be itching it play.

BUT! All is not lost, Beautiful Katamari is out for the 360 on February 15th! Wohoo!

[Cocker]

BUT! All is not lost, Beautiful Katamari is out for the 360 on February 15th! Wohoo!

Are you really excited about that?

[Shevchenko]

Hell yes!

My bro gave it to me for the PS2 and I loved it. Crazy, wacky Japanese game and concept but so much fun.

Rolling stuff up into a ball doesn't sound like fun...but damn it, it is!

[Cocker]

I havent tried this because I have deleted the demo but in the new burnout game it looks like it is possible to get behind the barrier so you can wander round the whole city. You need to goto the top of the car park roof and dont go full throttle off the jump on the roof but land on top of a near by house.

Anyway, here is the vid of it being done (there are others but this was the best quality of the ones I could find - for those wondering, the car is different because this is from the jap demo but will still work with ours)

[Cocker]

This should be good - click

[Rovermatt]

This too.

[American Rover12]

anyone getting the new burnout: paradise?

[Cocker]

For me the Demo let me down. I know others will love this but for my car game I think I will wait for Gran Turismo 5 (not prologue)

[Tango]

Has anyone played Crysis yet on the PC? Have ordered it along with a new PC just to play it!

[Jimmy Jupiter]

Anyone remember the Bionic Commando game on the NES? It's being remade for XBLA and PSN

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/846/846125p1.html

There's also a brand new fully 3D sequel coming out but that's much less interesting as it's bound to be rubbish.

[Cocker]

Anyone remember the Bionic Commando game on the NES? It's being remade for XBLA and PSN

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/846/846125p1.html

There's also a brand new fully 3D sequel coming out but that's much less interesting as it's bound to be rubbish.

Yeah, the 3D one looks awful (plus, Bionic Commando was better on the Speccy )