Well somebody forked over a bit of green for this exclusive release window. Rock Band 2 is coming first to Xbox 360 and later this year for the PS3. Other platforms? Unknown at this time. Looks like Harmonix is doing a lot of things right with their sequel.
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I grew up a Blizzard RTS player. I still am. I wasn’t able to get into any of the Command and Conquers — they never clicked with me. It’s been many years since the original Red Alert and I’ve grown to accept different games now. So I may give EA’s upcoming Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 a legitimate chance. Or maybe not.
Anyways, enough talk, here are five screenshots from the PC build.
Dead Space is a new sci-fi horror game from the folks at Electronic Arts. I don’t know much details about it, but it looks decent. It gives me the Doom 3 vibe, but creepier and with a mounted flashlight. Anyways, take a look at some of these scaled screenshots. Don’t ask me why they’re 1920 x 1080.
Dead Space is scheduled for a Halloween release for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
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Battlefield: Bad Company, the console exclusive spin-off of the Battlefield series, is a game I had no interest in. The modern warfare genre was blindsided by Call of Duty 4 and for good reason; the game plays phenomenally. Fortunately for DICE and EA, Call of Duty 4 doesn’t tread over the entire modern warfare territory; they’ve left the large landscapes and vehicular based combat arena wide open. I asked our dear friend, Robocrotch, to try out the game on the Xbox 360 while I awaited the PSN release. Since this week’s Playstation Store update was late, I got my hands on it last night and gave it a whirl. Is it as bad as Robocrotch so bluntly stated? I found half of it to be terrible and the other half? Competent.
It’s been confirmed. A day after the teaser site was unveiled, EA/Crytek have confirmed that Crysis Warhead is coming this autumn. It’s a “parallel story during the events of the original game” — in other words: an expansion for the PC.
More details this summer.
Surprising. Doom 4? On id Tech 5? I guess I should be excited, but after their last outing, I’m not too sure. Doom 3 was alright, but it was terribly flawed. The space marine sub-genre spawned from Doom, so it’ll be interesting to see why id Software will conjure up. Doom 4 will take place on Earth. As for release date? Since they’ve just begun hiring more people, I doubt the project is very far along. (BTW, where’s Rage?)
Either EA’s web servers are shit or a lot of people are checking out the Sims 3 site, because that website has been slow-to-unavailable for the entire day.
I’d just thought I’d let you all know.
I guess people really cannot wait until March 19th. InfiniteSims put up some scansof the latest PC Gamer UK’s coverage of The Sims 3. I perused it and came away intrigued. It looks like an evolutionary step and I guess for Sims fans: that’s a good thing. I noticed that you can make obese people now as well.
I hope the system requirements aren’t too hefty. I want this game to succeed. Why? It’s a whole lot better than those mini-game compilations other devs are churning out. The Sims brings out a lot of excellent work including mods and machinima videos.
Well it looks like we won’t have to wait for the big reveal on March 19th for some free Sims 3 information. CVG wrote up a brief synopsis of PC Gamer UK magazine has in store for its subscribers which you can read here. Here’s a small quote:
“let Sims wander freely through a town, take in the sights, not be constrained by the prison-like ‘lots’ of old games. He wants to turn the game into an open world, where Sims can stroll, meet their friends, go to work, interact with each other. And piss themselves in the gym. It’s GTA: Pleasantville.”
I am intrigued by its open world nature and how the artificial intelligence will play out.
Surprise! There’s a Sims 3 coming. The only reason why I’m surprised is that it may be competing against Spore. Why would they do such a thing? My guess would be that EA has run out of expansion pack ideas and are looking to repeat the process with new Sims franchise. That’s just me being cynical, but there must be some truth into that.
There’s not much info to latch onto at the moment since only a teaser site was revealed stating that more info is coming later this month.
I cannot say that I am a fan of this franchise, but I respect it for its easy to pickup sandbox gameplay. Millions of people love the franchise and flock towards its many expansions like flies to fecal matter. I’m looking forward to the info because I’m honestly curious as to what they will change (or not change).
I guess we’re going to find out on the 19th.
Update: Games For Windows April/May magazine has the exclusive first look on the new game.