Q3 Werewolves and Ghosts
In a world full of first person shooters, developers often need to shake things up a bit to make their game stand out among the crowd. We saw this successfully done with Bioshock last year, as well as Team Fortress 2, both of which scored high in the gaming community due to their uniqueness and originality. So, where does one go from here? How about a modern day shooter with werewolves and giant flying gryphons -- and maybe throw in a few ghosts and demons for good measure? It's the kind of thing you'd expect to see after the opening of Pandora's Box, which is what the game's story line is based upon.
Originally titled Legendary: The Box, the game centers around the actions of art thief Charles Deckerd who believes that he is taking on a routine smash-and-grab job when he obtains the infamous Pandora's Box. While further details of the game's story are being kept under wraps, we do know that he opens it at some point and thus somehow becomes the only person that can close it. Legendary is being developed by Spark Unlimited who brought us the award winning Call of Duty: Finest Hour. While this is a nice accolade, Spark is also responsible for polluting the FPS genre with its lackluster 2008 title, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty. One can only hope that the developers have learned from their mistakes, and judging by how the game looks in action, they may just be on the road to recovery. As an FPS buff, I'll definitely be keeping a watchful eye when Legendary opens the box later this year. Expect a full review.
It's been twenty-four years since Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson teamed up to rid New York City of its pesky paranormal pests in the popular film, Ghostbusters. [Ed: And 19 years since the bastard stepchild Ghostbusters II.] Late this year, we will once more be able to ask the question: "Who ya gonna call?" No word yet on whether or not we'll get a "catchy" new jingle, but the original cast of the film is reuniting to lend their voices and likenesses to Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
In a story written by stars of the film Aykroyd and Ramis, you play as a new recruit who joins Ghostbusters International, a franchise of the original Ghostbusters establishment. No sooner do you get your foot in the door than the city becomes infested with ghostly activity. Prepare to get slimed! While the extent of the actors' involvement in the game is not yet known, already released media assures us that a boss battle with the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is confirmed. Even after two decades, there are fans of the original movies, and technology may finally be at the level where we can truly get a great ghost-busting game. We'll see if there's any substance to this game or if it's just a bunch of fluff from Mr. Stay Puft -- presumably just in time for Halloween.
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BladeVenom - Thursday, May 8, 2008 - link
This is the list I use. http://www.systemwars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=...">http://www.systemwars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=...A DRM warning about Mass Effect and Spore.
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DigitalFreak - Thursday, May 8, 2008 - link
No way in hell I'll be buying Mass Effect or Spore with that DRM.mmntech - Thursday, May 8, 2008 - link
Agreed. I was looking forward to Mass Effect on PC. I feel like I wasted $170 on the HD 3850 I bought to play it. PC gaming is dead and DRM is the box they're burying it in.There were two huge games missing from the list. The first is LittleBigPlanet which is probably one of the most anticipated PS3 games coming out this year. The Force Unleashed is another big one, even just from a technical standpoint with Euphoria and DMM. 2008 is going to be a good year for consoles. I'm glad I finally caved in and bought one rather than suffering with PC and SecuROM.
Heatlesssun - Friday, May 9, 2008 - link
You're making way to much of the SecureROM thing. I've got a couple of games using it, Call of Juarez and DirT and I'm not having any issues on Vista, both x86 and x64.Also you're failing to realize that most PC games are available via a download service, which use net authentication schemes. PC gaming is far from dead. With out PC's, there'd be no hardware to go into consoles as consoles are loss leaders. AMD and nVidia wouldn't make it on console sales alone. They need to be able to sell dedicated GPU's to make money and have some for the R&D that ends up in consoles.
Viva la PC Gaming!
EddieTurner - Thursday, May 8, 2008 - link
Was reading about that earlier. Man, what a freakin' killjoy. Somebody whould be shot for making that decision.Spacecomber - Thursday, May 8, 2008 - link
I latch onto a handful of PC games a year that I play, and I recognize that there are many other games out there that I'll never get around to playing, especially since I have no plans on a picking up a console any time soon. So, it's nice to have a kind of overview of the electronic gaming universe. I'll never be able to explore it all, but I'm sure some of these new games will find there way onto my hard drive.PrinceGaz - Thursday, May 8, 2008 - link
That sums up my feelings too. I only play a few games but play them a lot. I also have no need or desire to buy a console for the sort of games I like most, and judging from the fact that 12 of the 16 games listed are shown as getting a PC release (and one or two of the other four may well get a PC release later on), PC gaming is far from dead.Griswold - Thursday, May 8, 2008 - link
Well said.Rocket321 - Thursday, May 8, 2008 - link
I really liked the article, keep them comming!vexingv - Thursday, May 8, 2008 - link
This list makes me hesitant to put a $500 investment into buying a PS3 solely to play MGS4 and GTA4 (which will probably be ported to PC). So many of these games are multiplatform and being released on the PC as well. However, I'm concerned whether the PC ports are even comparable to their console counterparts as the PC is hardly the lead platform anymore and usually winds up as the bastard child.