@Iroquois_Pliskin
Yeah, and Splinter Cell and Rainbow 6 and Winback... they all had cover mechanics. Even 2d games had duck mechanics
Big difference is - Gears cover mechanics made a major change on the simple cover mechanics: It's not just the ability to choose between aiming or blindfire ,but most importantly how one can dynamically run & dive to cover (be it a waist level cover or a wall), how the character remains sticky to the cover while moving, and also...
Exactly. Considering the last Tony Hawk games, I have no idea why they included that game and not the C&C announcement.
C&C + Frostbyte + Bioware ? Bring it on!
Did anyone even read the article? He's actually complaining shops don't force you to wait in line before you buy/sell stuff!
Get your facts straight: Gears cover mechanics was already revealed in E3 2005 - a good ~2.5 years before Uncharted came out.
And since uncharted 3 was in full production for about 2 years (as ND themselves mentioned), they had plenty of time to "be inspired from (AKA copy) that mechanic.
when it's done
I actually guessed the 6th-7th reason: Zombies/Survival game. This is such an original concept which we haven't experienced in any games before. There should be more zombie games in general because this sub-genre has so much to offer.
Outland is awesome and offered for a mere 5$ this weej on both XBLA and PSN.
I also tried the demos for some of the other games in this list but wasn't overly impressed with them.
Actually, you got the facts upside down: comparing multiplatform games show that PS3 standards are on average slightly lower (off by a few points)...
Only it's not.
It's definitely in engine of course: you can see that from the leaf textures. But it's a supersampled shot with max LOD: just like we see in almost every PR shots in todays games.
The "year of the playstation" phrase probably already made up by some fanboyish outlet back in 2006.
2007 was supposed to be the "year of the playstation": They year where it will crush the Xbox and Wii opposition, have a hundred exclusives in the lineup, and win back the king status from the PS2 era.
Yet every year sales didn't take, some exclusives were post-ponded and some others tanked. Since then we hear every year that next year will be t...
Makes send. The previous video also shows the biohazard sign, which is basically what RE is called in Japan.
Some of these games are not even announced, and many don't really have a 2012 date set yet. Some missing titles I noticed are XCOM, The Tom Clancy games, and Brothers In Arms (Funny, I just noticed Gearbox alone has 3 FPS games planned for 2012). It's going to be a crowded year...
If I had to go with my top 5 they would be:
Borderlands 2 - cause the first game rocked
Bioshock Infinite - cause Ken Levine knows his stuff
Syndicate - For the good ...
Samsung is a manufacturer and a brand. Why would microsoft pay them if they don't want the premium of paying for the Samsung brand name? It doesn't make sense.
After all, MS designs the console in the first place, and the components are made by OEM manufacturers.
Paying Samsung to do the whole manufacture process just doesn't make sense because it will be a lot more expensive. Even Samsung outsources most of the internals of their hardware to other manufacturers in...
Questioning Metacritic bias only shows oneself bias. Metacritic only aggregates reviews and sometimes their methodology is questionable (like their A-F conversion to numbers system), and some of the aggregated sites are less than stellar (although you can't expect every review outlet and internet website to have the high writing quality as more mature magazines like Edge and GamesTM) but it it not just PS3 exclusives that thake the hit: Wii exclusives, Xbox exclusives, PC exclusives and m...
To save you all the bother of reading this "Article" which is basically a grocery list:
Playstation 3
Batman: Arkham City - $49.96
Battlefield 3 - $49.96
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - $51.99
Dark Souls - $49.99
Dead Island - $46.99
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection - $39.96
Rage - $39.99
Resistance 3 - $39.99
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - $49.99
Funny comment, coming from someone who just replied to me in another conversation saying "Screw Metacritic. I'm done using it as a grade"
I guess it's ok to "screw metacritic" and reviews in general when a PS3 exclusive has a 60 average, but use it for bashing an Xbox 360 game that has an 85 average.
Better read those reviews again, as the vast majority of them praised this game. Or better yet - just play it yourself and especially co-op wi...
@VampiricDragon
I just love it how people use partial information to support their biased opinion...
Why oh why did you compare the Dragon Age 2 Xbox 360 version with the disgaea PS3 version which had far less reviews? At least compare apples to apples...
http://www.gamerankings.com...
Not to mention that on Metacritic DA scores 82 VS Disgaea 81:
Skyrim is probably the best game I played this year in terms of [number_of bugs] / [hours played].
Yes, I had a single game breaking bug here and a single crash there - but that spread over 48 hours of playtime (and counting).
And the funny thing is, I've seen similar number of bugs in 5-10 hours linear games - so that says something. People tend to misunderstand the equation: a very lengthy game * many people playing = plenty of bug reports. You won'...
@TBM:
You really didn't care about the big Xbox UI overhaul a few years back!?
We had the blade dashboard before that which was pretty neat, but as more and more games came out it became cluttered and really hard to navigate. The new interface was a bless, and the numerous tweaks added over the years (content streaming, divx suppport, installing games to the HD etc) were a great touch.
Obviously this article is trolling and there's no point being "...
Dude, 4 of the top gaming franchises at least include some kind of take on zombies:
- The headcrabs/zombies in Half Life
- The flood in Halo (which when thinking about it, is basically a zombie apocalypse game in galaxial proportions)
- The necromorphs in Dead Space
- All the creatures in the Resident Evil series (and at least some of these are AAA games)
And then there's L4D, Dead Rising, RDR undead nightmare. You could even play a zombie ...