Let's start off with one of the
most hyped up cross platform games there has been in recent years, watch dogs,
I'm both looking forward to and wary of Ubisoft's open world adventure set in a
near future Chicago. The game puts you in control of Aiden Peirce a skilled
hacker with a troubled past who is out for vengeance due to losing his family.
As Aiden you'll be able to use his hacking skills in the city to change traffic
lights causing accidents, steal money from npc accounts, cause blackouts to
escape a pesky police pursuit or spy on peoples social status looking if they
have pissed somebody off lately and all this is possible due to the all powerful
monitoring system now installed around Chicago making it the world's first
smart city.
Watch dogs looks good from what
we have seen but it's been in development for a good several years now, it wouldn't
surprise me if the next gen versions are slightly lacking next to some other
titles. The tone of the world doesn't go quite as far to say dystopian but it
definitely try's to convey a sense of a police state where your always being
watched and monitored by someone and I wouldn't be surprised to see some quiet
nods towards the privacy debates always in the news these days, just remember
folks what you put on the internet stays there forever(drunken pictures and
posts included).
Overall I for one can't wait to
play this game from start to finish, hacking my way through Chicago as a
vigilante sounds awesome to me and I can only hope and pray that the first real
next gen open world game will live up to its hype.
Quantum Break a game from the
makers of Alan Wake is an Xbox One exclusive. Time has been broken and can
stutter and stand still with only a few people being able experience time
normally as it passes. There's a couple of reasons why I'm looking forward to
this game first being the fact that's its made by the people who made Alan
Wake, I'm expecting a fantastic narrative and great drama woven into the
gameplay. Secondly Microsoft has announced they will be producing a companion television
series for Xbox video that links in with the game blurring the entertainment
lines even more than they are now. We don't know yet how the game and show will
link up but it's something that could either make the game more interesting or
be the downfall of both of them if not done right, only time will tell.
The game its self is a 3rd person
cover shooter that looks stunning and gives you some fantastic levels frozen in
time to play in. Not only do you have your guns your also imbued with some
temporal powers you can use to manipulate your environment and enemies with
which haven't been shown of yet.
Quantum Break could be a stand
out game for the Xbox one but apart from a few trailers and behind the scenes
stuff from Remedy we have not seen too much gameplay or details so the verdict
is out on it until we know more.
This is my personnel most
anticipated game coming this year due to two reasons. One Alien is one of my
all time favorite films, I love the tension that Ripley gets put through and
the terror that the Xenomorph could be around the corner or in the vent above
you and hearing a screech of a crew member as their killed was what scary was
to me back then. The second reason I'm looking towards it is the fact this is a
survival game in the truest sense of the genre, where games like Resident evil
has taken a more combat and action orientated path there are very few real
scary games out there looking to have you wondering of its safe to go to bed
without checking under it. Alien Isolation puts you in the shoes of Ripley's
daughter Amanda who has gone in search of her mother and finds the same deadly
enemy she encountered on LV422.
Unlike the past few Alien games
this one puts you up against a single Xenomorph and goes back to the Ridley
Scott interpretation of the sci fi horror genre, you have no weapons just a
scanner and your wits to make it out alive. The look of the games adds to the
terrifying tone and the use of lighting and sound is incredible, I'll be
playing this game in the dark with my surround sound cranked right up to add to
the authenticity and do the game justice.
Alien Isolation is the Alien game
we deserve after the lacking Colonial marines.
Indie games have risen like a
phoenix the past few years and they don't seem to be slowing down in popularity
what so ever. One of the most anticipated is Transistor which is down to a few
reasons no less than its fantastic predecessor Bastion. Set in Cloudbank a
futuristic gorgeously envisioned artistic city you play Red, a flame haired
singer who finds an impressive looking electric sword(Transistor) lying next to
the lifeless body of a friend. After picking up the sword Red hears the voice
of her recently deceased friend and is now being pursued by robots after the
Transistor....or her.
It's a an action rpg game with a
truly stunning and visually beautiful art style. Naturally being a sword, combat is the
Transistor's primary purpose and it's here that things get interesting.
Supergiant has introduced an interesting system called Turn, which allows you
to stop time as you choose what Red's next attack or move will be. You're given
at the mercy of an energy meter that depletes with each action, whether you're
moving between cover, attacking with the Transistor or firing a laser beam so
there is some strategy to it.
Then it's a simple case of un-pausing
the action to see how things play out. It kind of feels like that iconic scene
from the Matrix where Trinity stops time to spin in mid-air and deliver a hefty
kick to a hapless cop's face. It's incredibly empowering to watch Red take out
several enemies before retreating to safety in one expertly choreographed
manoeuvre though if you don't watch your energy bar you'll be vulnerable to
attack for several seconds.
It's an Indie game, it looks
absolutely gorgeous and the main character is a red headed singer with a
talking electric sword being chased by killer robots, what more can you ask
for?
Bungie, the developer that brought us the
behemoth of Halo is building this massively multiplayer online role playing
game first person shooter and it honestly looks too big to fail.
Destiny casts you as one of earths last
cities guardians, like all mmo's you will create your character based on one of
three distinct classes which will determine the types of weapons and powers you
will be able to use as well as how you look etc. Then your thrown into the
world where you must battle a myriad of enemies, work up an insurmountable
amount of loot and take part in random player events. Bungie have boasted that
this will be a persistent world with you and your friends always being able to
adventure together somewhere and always have somebody to fight, how this will
work in real life at launch is yet to be explained but from demos and trailers
that have been shown off it looks like Bungie may have struck gold yet again.
In one demo I watched at last year's
Eurogamer expo I seen two players work their way through a massive structure
battling enemies with pistols, machine guns and powers then they both attack a
boss where they are awarded with a cool new weapon. They then exit the
structure meet up with a few more players who appear to be dropped in the world
from there personnel space ship and a random event happens just over the hill
where a couple dozen players all join in to attack a gigantic walking tank bug
thing!
Even though I've only seen demos I've got to
say it still feels like you watching Halo(in a good way). All the weapon models
look great, the combat is fast paced and action orientated like a fps should be
and the sci fi setting is unique and atmospheric.
Destiny is still months away but from what
has already been shown it looks like Bungie has done it again and that there
really is life after Halo for them, Destiny looks great and I'm sure it will be
huge I'm just hoping that will translate into it being a great mix of fps and
mmorpg in a cohesive gaming experience.
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