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Sunday, November 25, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Dead Rising: PC version
According to Blue's News, a PC version of Dead Rising is in development. Dead Rising is a popular zombie game, created by Capcom, released last year for the Xbox 360 last year. In it you control the main character over the course of three days in a mall being that is infested with zombies.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Resident Evil: Weapons Trailer
I saw GameTrailers has quite a few new videos on Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles for the Nintendo Wii.
The weapons trailer in particular looks pretty sweet.
The full listing for all of their Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles video is available here: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/3393.html
The weapons trailer in particular looks pretty sweet.
The full listing for all of their Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles video is available here: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/3393.html
Clive Barker's Jericho
I just beat Clive Barker's Jericho this weekend. The game is set in the near future, and you control an elite squad of psychic military operatives trying to prevent Hell from overtaking Earth.
Okay, it does sound a bit corny and cliche, but the game was worth playing. You can cycle through each of up to six characters in your squad, each of whom have unique abilities and weapons. The abilities are used throughout the game to solve puzzles or kill the legions of zombies and demons during your descent into "The Abyss".
The setting, graphics, and sound are all excellent, and create a frightening setting with rivers of blood and limbs and more.
The most frustrating aspect of the game is the allied AI. When you are not directly controlling members of your squad, they seem incapable of using their own abilities, and rarely even shoot at enemies. Fortunately you are capable of instantly bring them back to life. However, this requires you to be within melee range, leading to fights where the entire time is spent running between your incompetent team mates while chain resurrecting them.
Most of the puzzles in the game are frustrating with obscure solutions. The highlights of the game are the story, squad system, and just mowing down the almost endless hordes of zombies and undead with your team.
I wouldn't recommend buying the game unless you are a hardcore fan of zombie games or it is in a discount bin, but if you don't have anything else to play it is definitely worth renting.
Here is Yahtzee's review from Zero Punctuation. He didn't think as highly of it as I do. :)
Okay, it does sound a bit corny and cliche, but the game was worth playing. You can cycle through each of up to six characters in your squad, each of whom have unique abilities and weapons. The abilities are used throughout the game to solve puzzles or kill the legions of zombies and demons during your descent into "The Abyss".
The setting, graphics, and sound are all excellent, and create a frightening setting with rivers of blood and limbs and more.
The most frustrating aspect of the game is the allied AI. When you are not directly controlling members of your squad, they seem incapable of using their own abilities, and rarely even shoot at enemies. Fortunately you are capable of instantly bring them back to life. However, this requires you to be within melee range, leading to fights where the entire time is spent running between your incompetent team mates while chain resurrecting them.
Most of the puzzles in the game are frustrating with obscure solutions. The highlights of the game are the story, squad system, and just mowing down the almost endless hordes of zombies and undead with your team.
I wouldn't recommend buying the game unless you are a hardcore fan of zombie games or it is in a discount bin, but if you don't have anything else to play it is definitely worth renting.
Here is Yahtzee's review from Zero Punctuation. He didn't think as highly of it as I do. :)
Monday, November 12, 2007
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles Video Review
Resident Evil®: The Umbrella Chronicles is a brand new game in the Resident Evil® franchise, with familiar locales from the entire series. This action/shooter hybrid reveals the back story behind the fall of the Umbrella Corporation by exploring locations from Resident Evil 0, 1, 2 and 3 as well as new never-before-seen locations, such as Umbrella’s stronghold.
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles Official Site
Preview: Dead Space
GameSpot has a Dead Space Preview up.
If you're not sure what Dead Space is, here is an excerpt from the GameRevolver Dead Space Review:
There are also video trailers available:
Dead Space Official Site
If you're not sure what Dead Space is, here is an excerpt from the GameRevolver Dead Space Review:
You are Isaac Clarke, a space engineer who specializes in fixing giant mining ships for the Concordance Extraction Corporation, or C.E.C. As most stories of the like go, your company receives a distress call from the USG Ishimura, a “Planet Cracker” class ship that takes dead planets, and destroys them to extract valuable ore for the company. In the assumption that the ship has had a mechanical failure, Isaac gathers coworkers Lt. Zach Hammond, security officer, and Kendra Daniels, local Tech specialist. As you set out to meet with the ship upon the cruiser class Kellion, you soon realize that this is no ordinary distress call. In the classic sci-fi manner, you soon find that the ship has been over ran by a mysterious alien race. After boarding the ship, you are separated from your party and this routine check, becomes a race for your life.
There are also video trailers available:
Dead Space Official Site
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