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Written by Tom and Kieron...
Halo 4 will need 8GB of space for the multiplayer ! So if you have a 4GB xbox, tough!
And a Halo 2 anniversary may be on the way.
Left for Dead 2 DLC is coming out. It has stuff on it...
Final Fantasy VII, will be coming to square enix's online store soon. It will have 36 new achevements and some more stuff I don't understand.
Also Final Fantasy VIII may be announces as they have said big news is on the way...
Activision have announced a shooter, based on the TV show, The Walking Dead.
Playstation all stars is comming out on october 26th here in the UK! More characters are being announced at big events coming up!
Injustice: gods among us gave us the first gameplay footage
Mass Effect 3 is getting Earth DLC coming out on July 17th.
Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to Europe and the US. It has a trailer here.
Trent Renzor is writing music for black opps 2 and Paul McCartney is writing music for the companie Bungie ( we don't know what game yet)
The PS3 is getting a slimmer version, probably announced at gamescom.
A new console is being made called the Ouya. It will be android based and only cost $99 so £65 ish pounds. This will open up a whole new area for games on the cheep and flexable end, meaning it can compete with the big consoles coming out over the next couple of years! Every title will be Free to play. It is designed by Yves Behar.
Developer: Sucker Punch Productions Publisher: Sucker Punch Entertainment Platforms: PS3 Genre: Open world action-adventure Age Rating: 16 Release Year: 2011
So inFAMOUS 2, a game where you play as a guy called Cole who absorbs electricity to heal himself and turn into cool superpowers. He is also an expert at climbing walls. The selling point of this game is that you choose whether to play the game as a hero or an evil villain. This makes your powers red or blue! Big woop, but that's not all. Playing to one side specifically you will unlock different powers and different missions and cut scenes. This does give the game replay ability.
This game has a big step up and is better then the original infamous. They have added collapsing balconies when you blow them up. A new pylon style melee weapon, which is really nice and finally you can upgrade all your attacks and there is loads of new ones. The good news is that they have made a slick and easy quick change menu for the powers. However at points near the end I did want a couple of powers equipped at the same time which should have been possible as one was L1 then R2 and the other was just R2. Yet it wasn't possible, slightly aggravating.
The engine for this game let it down a little as climbing was really fake. It would be better if they had made a super power that helps you climb. Another problem was the enemy AI of the guys with rocket launchers was just annoying as they would just point and shoot blowing their prisoners up or themselves. As soon as they saw you, killing you.
The story was aright although sometimes it was a bit to unbalanced of story to the whole good karma bad karma thing. I did prefer the adventures through the sewers to power up the generator in the original to the new shooting electric bolt shooty thing however it is still a really fun part of the game. A really nice idea in this game is the online level editing and creating which seems to be pretty robust and adds endless game play to the game.
I really recommend this game for the price it is now, not the full price when it came out!
5/10
What would your inFAMOUS powers be? Post answers in the comments Kieron :O
Earlier in the week Nintendo had a direct broadcast and they announced some exiting stuff, the biggest news is here:
3DS XL:
This exists. It will have 90% bigger screens meaning the top screen is now 4.88 inches and the lower 4.18. A longer battery life of between 3.5 and 6.5 hours while playing 3DS games (compared to 3-5 hours for 3DS) and between 6 and 10 hours while playing DS games (compared to 5-8 hours for 3DS). Its battery will take 30 minuets to charge fully. And finally it will have a 4GB SD Card. However it will have the same screen resolution as the original 3DS. Between £180 to £250, give or take a penny, but UK retailers can choose how much to sell it for!It will go on sale on July 28th (22 days earlier than in the US, woop). In red, blue and ( Europe only ) silver.
Next Smash Bros:
The best people from other game companies are colaborating to make this be epic be able to go up against playstation all stars. It will be interesting to see who comes out on top!
Other Nintendo stuff: Fire Emblem Awakening is happening. Professor Lavton and the Miracle Mask is coming with a free new puzzle available every day for a year.
New Super Mario Bros. 2 is getting payed DLC. Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition will have new challenges based on his return to dream land and a historical gallery containg 20 years of concept art and episodes from the cartoon show!
Mass Effect 3 Extended DLC
Was made available yesterday. It wont change the ending but provides additional epilogue scenes and decisions. But it is 1.9 GB!
FarCry 3 has been Delayed
Ubisoft have said that they are delaying the release date of FarCry3 to November 29th ( 6 days before america) as they want to make it better.
COD: MW3 DLC
For anyone that is interested some DLC for MW3 happened. If your interested do your own research ...
The Walkinng Dead Episode 2
come out today.
Tomb Raider Developers, Crystal Dynamics, are working on a new IP for next Gen Consoles Hopefully!
Should be good! (new IP means its not part of an existing franchise)
Developer: Valve Corporation Publisher: Valve Corporation Director: Joshua Weier Writers: Erik Wolpaw, Jay Pinkerton, Chet Falisek Platforms: PC, Mac, PS3, Xbox 360 Genre: Puzzle-Platform Age Rating: 12 Release Year: 2011
One of the most anticipated games of 2011! The best puzzle game I have ever played.
If I had a moan it would be: Why is this a 12, what?, how? if this were rated by movie ratings it would be below a U, it is that child friendly.
Now where to begin. The gameplay is: You are, in single player, a human who wakes up in aperture science, a testing place run by robots. Only you have over slept by a long time and the place is now falling apart. You and your robot sphere thing try to escape with the help of a portal gun. So the portals work so that when you shoot your portal on to a wall and the other on to another you then teleport between the portals when you go through it. This muddles with physics a little but you get used to it. In the game you get sent through many individual tests or puzzles which are sometimes difficult, I would say perfect. In each test there are many other obstacles and guff but I won't tell you what they are, that would spoil the surprise. They are very clever and well used. It is the simplicity and uniqueness of the gameplay the idea of the game that makes it such a hit.
Stephan Merchant
The game does have a story behind it. The writers have got the perfect balance of voice acting to gameplay and story adds lots of engagement to the game. Thumbs up, well done. Now the voice acting. This game has won awards for its well scripted and incredible voice acting. All the characters are very funny. The three main characters for voice over are: Wheatly (your robot friend) voiced by Stephan Merchant, GLaDOS who is voiced by Ellen McLain and Cave Johnson voiced by J.K Simmons. Here is some voice acting from the start of the game when GLaDOS awakens. It has Wheatly and GLaDOS voice acting. It has no puzzle answers in it. Very funny watch it :D. J.K Simmons also has some top notch quotes, but I wont spoil them.
The game also has a Co-Op mode. This is very good and online is via steam and cross platform. Thumbs up valve. However you do have to connect with friends and using the network of that platform would mean we could play with anyone, which I would prefer. So in mode you play are robots, I love the characterising if them they are very likable and you can make them do cool stuff like high 5 or hug. This mode also has the added advantage of being able to be reassembled, so dying doesn't mean you have to start the level again, and I die allot. It has commentary from GLaDOS and is set after the single player ends. You work your way through levels in set chapters all cleverly reachable from the main hub in a fancy way and you can choose what level you want to repeat in each chapter. It is indeed double the portals double the fun.
This game has won many awards and it is defiantly the best puzzle game ever made, well maybe sudoku but shh that's not a computer game.
10/10
Now watch the credits and the amazing GLaDOS song, it is spoiler free (well ish):
Short Stories
Microsoft have announced they will not be attending Gamescon (the gaming convention in Europe) or TGS (the gaming convention in Japan).
Limbo Screenshot
A Screenshot of the Limbo follow up has been released
The Last of Us will not be released until 2013
Dead Space 3 has a co-op controversy with more of a focus on killing things all the time, this might be a bad thing for survival horror fans.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Declassified (the PS Vita COD) will be $50 in the USA and they have released a paragraph about the game. But I'm not going to waste my time looking for it because COD is terrible and the Vita is terrible.
The Amazing Spider-Man is coming out this week and it looks good.
Spec Ops: The Line is also coming out this week.
Rage DLC being made.
Ubisoft Movies
A movie is being made using the themes and possibly characters from Ubisoft's Splinter Cell and another possible movie could be on the themes from their new game Watch Dogs. Personally, I think these could work really well as films as long as they have good scripts.
X-Box 720 Over the weekend some documents were leaked from Microsoft about the next generation console. They call it the X-Box 720. I will be 6-8 times more powerful then the 360. It is likely to be an ATI card for graphics. It will be backwards compatible with 360 games. It has 4GB of memory. Full HD 1080p on most games at 60fps and in 3D. The Kenect 2 will be integrated into the X-Box. It is the same technology as the current kenect but all the cameras have been upgraded and it can now track 4 people. It will cost $299 in the US and probably a lot more here in the UK as stuff always costs more. It will release around the same time and the Playstation 4. In the article they talk about smart glass which wasn't announced until a couple of weeks ago and it was written in 2010 so this is probably legit.
These are storeys from the end of E3 and some tiny little bits from after.
Short Stories
PS Move update for portal 2. Cool :D.
Diablo 3 real money auction house went live yesterday. Good way to rip people off in my opinion. Diablo 3 are also are banning cheaters, hackers and modders for ever!
Assassins Creed 3 Liberation will have more of a stealth theme. The main character Aveline is attacking Spanish Invaders who also happen to be templars it is using the same engine as AC3.
Halo 4 has lots of Multilayer changes: Melee are more brutal, more armour upgrades such as the hard light shield have been added and a kill strike system for more bangs and you can customize your persona. Sounds fun. But I don't have an x-box.
Skyrim Dawn Guard DLC
This is about vampires. In this DLC you can choose to become a vampire or part of the dawn guard which is trying to stop them. If you do join the vampires in blocking out the sun you get a new vampire abilities, you turn into a well that thing in the picture then you can fly and do a short distance teleport thing to name just a few new perks. If you join the Dawn Guard you get cross bows and can summon armoured trolls into help you. You get a whole new perk trees for werewolf's and vampires the cross bows use the same tree as bows and arrows however they are more powerful and has a change to stagger enemies but it takes longer to load. A new dragon shout where you suck your enemies souls out and they become undead and fight for you. There is new dragon bone weapons and a new undead dragon in the realm of trapped souls ( its new and in oblivion ), the keeper of souls is added you will meat him while on the search for an ender scroll. Haha get it play on words because I said meat and I meant meet .. ok don't worry. The new dragons are much stronger. Added mounted combat as a free update, you can use all one handed weapons on horse back, but not magic. There is allot more creatures in the game including hounds which the vampires fight with. It is about 20 hours long not including side quests. Well I became a vampire while playing skyrim and to be honest I just found it really annoying so I got my soul back so I will probably ply on dawn guard it looks incredible. This will come out on X-Box next week. We have to wait for play station. Watch the trailer here.
Next Generation Console News :D Square Exix showed off their Agni's Philosophy demo at E3 using their next generation Luminous Studio engine:
Watch it is 1080p to get the full potential. Other examples are Unreal 4 first and second demo. Ahhh my brain is actually struggling to realise it isn't real; well the dragons and magic cinda give it away. Its amazing. Rumours say the WiiU will have a £279.99 RRP with games the same as all other consoles. I would say that is right providing it comes with a gamepad. Project P100 for WiiU looks good: It is about aliens are attacking earth you have to stop them using group abilities and attacks with pickman like creatures. The new WiiU friend finder will make it easier to find friends then using friend codes for the miiverse good call nintendo. WiiU is coming out in November ... probably.
PS4 will be last new console and probably the most expensive. But they say it will be the best!
So which next generation console are you most looking forward to? please say in the comments.
Kieron :O
A new console is being made called the Ouya. It will be android based and only cost $99 so £65 ish pounds. This will open up a whole new area for games on the cheep and flexable end, meaning it can compete with the big consoles coming out over the next couple of years! Every title will be Free to play. It is designed by Yves Behar.
