E3 2012 blogposts continue! Now with more scifi and returning classics! First up a look at the upcoming Halo 4! Microsoft said a lot regarding this one. I'm sure everyone's got their own opinion on this game. I just hope it gets a more science fiction-ysh and interesting story (not just something fanboys notice, but something mind blowing and engaging for everyone!).
Something closer to Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay rather than Quake 3 Arena hopefully - story-wise.
Anyways, this new game will take some cues from recent adventure/platformer games such as Assassin's Creed and Uncharted. More cinematic, it does look quite impressive. I'd have preferred the series to continue on Crystal Dynamic's Legends/Anniversary/Underworld's path. At least we still got them behind the series, right?
It doesn't look that far from past TR game though. Only sans the jumping around.
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RE is back with Resident Evil 6! Tons of new details regarding the new story have surfaced!
The atmosphere seems to draw some inspiration from both past and present RE games. The game looks graphically gorgeous, much better than the series ever been so far.
New villain, Ada Wong back, Sherry all grown up and it seems we'll get about 6 lead characters this time around! This one will be out on October 2 for both Xbox 360 and PS3.
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Activision's Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is back on the frontline with an all-new badass video:
Capcom released some brand new trailers featuring their upcoming new "big" titles, at their very own private Convention, "Captivate 2012". Check this out for some zombies, snow action and devils that might be crying... First up his Resident Evil 6, finally revealed thanks to this (second) trailer!
RE6 which is looking quite promising so far. Looking great and sheduled for October 2. Amongst the new tidbits, it seems that the young Sherry Birkin from RE2 is making a comeback!
Looking nice! B) Can't wait! Expect this one for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
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Next up is a surprise Lost Planet 3!
Whoaa... I wasn't expecting this one :P I still have yet to play LP2, but I loved LP1, so I'm all for it.
This one's aimed for mid-2013. It's a return to the snowy planet, with a prequel story taking place before LP1. Exactly what fans were originally expecting from LP2, since everything seemed to point out that the story should focus on the father of the original game's protagonist at some point to explore the early days of the "lost planet".
And last but not least, it's the return of Capcom's Devil May Cry series, I series, I'll confess, I never tried until now but will probably catch on with the recently released "HD Collection" - with the "rebooted" DmC: Devil May Cry by the talented Ninja Theory studio (Enslaved).
I know fanboys are gonna rage about this one, but this feels pretty mysterious and intriguing. It might actually be quite a fun title! Gameplay wise it does look great. The story will either be some meta self-referential parody of the series or something gritty/emo-ysh.
Anyways, something worth keeping an eye on.
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And that is all. I was expecting some info regarding Dead Rising 3 as well, but without luck...
So it is finally official! Capcom has finally announced Resident Evil 6, released a trailer for it and given a release date.
RE6 is coming up at the end of the year, on November 20. It will feature a return to basis with a more urban environment (hooray!), more classic elements/story/character and the return of RE1's Chris Redfield and RE2's Leon S. Kennedy.
And here's the trailer!
This is looking pretty great so far!
Still using the RE4/5 3rd person over the shoulder. It was obvious they would continue to follow that route ()though part of me which they coulda found a compromise, like Ubisoft's Cold Fear)
I also see the artstyle is a bit more realistic, so Chris doesn't look as over-the-top/gigantic/super-muscular as he was in RE5.
Here's the official pitch:
It has been ten years since the Raccoon City incident and the President of the United States has decided to reveal the truth behind what took place in the belief that it will curb the current resurgence in bioterrorist activity. Due to be by the President’s side is his personal friend and Raccoon City survivor, Leon S. Kennedy, but when the venue suffers a bioterrorist attack, Leon is forced to face a President transformed beyond recognition and make his hardest ever decision. At the same time, Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance member Chris Redfield arrives in China, itself under threat of a bioterrorist attack. With no country safe from these attacks and the ensuing outbreaks, the entire world’s population is united by a common fear that there is no hope left.
It's time to check out some news regarding upcoming Survival Horror titles~ First up, the classic franchise Resident Evil will be back with the new installment Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City!
I'm glad to see so many familiar faces!
Awesome! Glad too this shaping up nicely^^
Also, yay! The "real" Jill Valentine! I missed her^^
Carlos' got a brand new face it seems. And HUNK!! Heck Yeah!!
This co-op squad-based shooter is looking sharp, for a release date on March 20 next year.
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Next up, a newcomer!
Amy is another upcoming survival horror, a more classic one developed by a fresh new French-based studio. VectorCell is developing and the title will be published by Lexis Numerique. (in most of EU at least).
Unlike the recent Resident Evils by Capcom, the approach is less focused on action (which is a great thing!) and more on tension and suspense, and horror itself.
And what is exactly this title's own gimmick (like most iterations of the genre tend to do)? Amy will mix dark survival horror with one long cooperative escort mission. The traditional zombies will, of course, be part of the threat here, once again.
Story wise it's settings take place in 2034. Lana, our main character, is (and I quote:) "a gal that is starting to turn zombie from a space virus that crashed into her home town. She gets help with her condition from an unlikely partner, an eight-year-old autistic girl named Amy. When Amy is around, the inner zombie calms down."
Here's a trailer which showcases the gameplay. Fighting won't be the main aspect here for a change. Stealth and careful planning will be the key word here.
So far it's looking great! The camera looks a tad awkward for now, and the gameplay's a bit stiff, but the developing team's a bit rough so far and I'm sure the more concerning problems will be fixed in time no doubt. The game will be out next year on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3!
In this episode we (under our own will) review an infamous and highly requested villain from Capcom. Does this villain give birth to a new virus or is it a weak strain?
Here's some new news regarding upcoming new Fighting games.
And here to introduce you this, a newly released poster for the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken, on time for the recently announced characters. Love the art here^^ (besides Kuma...ugh...)
First, some new gameplay video of Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 showcasing the new additions, Dr. Strange (Marvel) & Nemesis (Capcom's Resident Evil series)!
Hey gang! How have you been this weekend? What did ya guys and gals do?
I've been meaning to go back to Resident Evil 5. Well, to finally finish it, but I'm never motivated enough (plus playing it solo is really boring/awful). And I really wanted to have it done to finally put that final RE review out as well.
So instead I started playing the pretty bad Deadly Premonitions instead, which turned out pretty epic! The gameplay's clunky, the story bad, the acting nonsensical and the graphics "last gen", but it's the sums of all these parts that really make this experience worthwhile! Destructoids gave it 10/10. I'd call it "Game of the Century!"
Playing Deadly Premonitions is fun, but it's a huuuuge and very slow game so it's gonna take me easily over 20 or more hours to finish it. That's why I play it on small doses every now and then.
Meanwhile, I've also been playing other stuff, like some Star Wars games I've yet to complete. And I've finally finished Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands! Expect the review coming up one of these days! I started disliking the whole game and concept behind it..but in the end, I gotta tell ya, I sort of liked it. Not great mind you, but good enough^^
I've been watching plenty of Studio Ghibli movies.. (well, all of them to be precise!) On a suggestion by my brother, I watched this weekend another anime, the immensely popular Paprika. Usually I'm not a big fan of modern animes, but I really digged the look of this one. It sort of ended in an "Evangelion-like" climatic ending. But much more comprehensible. (kinda funny saying that, considering most of Paprika is quite complicated and ambigous...)
So it happened again. Capcom just announced a new edition of one of their fighting games. This time it's...
Deadpool's still on the cover!
Meet Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3!! While SF4 was reedited as the Arcade Edition over a year later, for MVC3 (released this February) it hasn't been even 10 months and the update's already coming up! First, let's have a look at the reveal trailer:
So, what do we have here?
"The epic rematch looms in the distance as Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 prepares to take the battle to all-new heights. With new iconic characters from the Marvel and Capcom universes, 48 characters on disc, a refined fighting system and new modes, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 continues the Capcom fighting game legacy when it releases this November for the low MSRP of $39.99."
A dozen or so new characters, including Strider and Firebrand from the Capcom side and Ghost Rider and Hawkeye from the Marvel universe.
New modes! New balance! And that's already a lot more than what SSF4AE got :P And, even new costumes like these:
And you know what? The rest of the cast even got leaked! Enjoy:
Which will had Doctor Strange, Frank West (Dead Rising), Iron Fist, Nemesis (Resident Evil), Nova, Phoenix Wright, Rocket Raccoon and Vergil!
It's only missing Squirrel Girl and would have been super happy with this update! Anyway, this is looking far more diverse and better than the actual MVC3, I might finally play it again! (seriously though, it might be the fighting game I've tuned in the less playtime...I even playtime a lot more hours of Fighter's History or Galaxy Fight than this one! talk about a deception..)
If the new characters are fun and the new balanced system more intuitive I might actually go back to Capcom. (the latest Mortal Kombat's been rocking my "fighting" time)
Today's Daily Sketch Challenge was drawing "Alice" from the Resident Evil movies. I couldn't convince myself to draw her... So this is what I did instead
Seriously though, don't expect me to draw anything from the Resident Evil movie again! I'd watch thousands of bad cheesy B-movies back to back instead of the RE movies! I'd watch the worst Jean Claude Van Damme & Nicolas Cage movies in ones sitting instead of those! I'd take all the worst badly acted Raspberry Awards winners back to back instead! At least those are funnies. I. DO. NOT. LIKE. THEM.
(...) And one more (the last?) E3 post for the day!While people have been liking or dissing the new Wii U, my fears have been confirmed...it's not retrocompatible with the Gamecube! (time to replug the GC...) Now the question is, will we be able to transfer saves/profiles/etc from Wii to Wii U?
Back to the games.
I posted some stuff about Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City yesterday. Here's the game itself running:
Looking much better than I thought it would! Not sure I'll get it, but at least it seems decent enough.
And since we're on Resident Evil, here's once again the other one, Resident Evil: Revelations:
Looking much better than, dare I say, the actual Resident Evil 5! Why couldn't Capcom do that on home systems at first... And YAY! Hunk is back to be a badass (and a pain in the ass)!
Speaking of Capcom, did you guys check the Devil May Cry reboot?
Too much angst...can't...handle...the angst...GYAAH!! At least the "special effects" look nice on the street. *positivie comment of the day* We'll be able to go from "classic Dante in a SF4-ysh visual to Emo-Dante at will!
Looks pretty bad and lackbuster... Aww... :/
Capcom made also available trailers for their upcoming fighting titles:
Launch trailer for the re-re-re-re-release of SF4, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition. (kiddin'! Calm down you SF-nerds!)
And...
The Street Fighter X Tekken Trailer!
Alright!
Though, as much of a SF I am, kinda more waiting for Namco's take on this...
It's kinda funny how Capcom made this video about the SF guys kickin' the heck outta the Tekken guys :P
Let's see something else.
Anarchy Reigns (Max Anarchy in Japan) is being developed for the Xbox 360 and PS3 by PlatinumGames and published by SEGA.
Can't wait for this "Mad World 2"!
Speaking of anarchy, here's the latest entry in this famous fun zombie series:
This Dead Rising 2 - Frank West edition is turning out quite nicely.
Dead Rising 2: Off The Record will be out later this year.
Here's something some people don't know about, have forgotten or may even not expect:
It's a new entry in the XCOM series (similar to the classic Fallout games) which has been reimagined as a 3rd person action western RPG (kinda like the modern recent Fallout entries). Shaping up quite nicely...and very scifi-ysh! Though I can imagine fans having quite a hard time with this evolution...
Here's SEGA latest rail shooter with zombies and monsters to shot down in a creepy setting...which is not an House of the Dead, almost but not really. Rise of Nightmares
It kinda surprise me they didn't want to cash-in the "House of the Dead" label and brand recognition and name this with a new ip...
After the fright, the bright! Here's the new Kirby Wii, after checking out yesterday the DS one.
Fun, bright, colorful! A hit already!
And to continue on this theme, here's the latest trailer to Sonic Generations!
*let the haters hate!* This looks amazing, gorgeous! Woow!! *in his best Keanu Reeves voice once again*
Do you know the movie Top Gun? Did you know that since the Nes days they've continued releasing new versions of the game, year after year?? Here's the latest one to date:
It's called Top Gun: Hard Lock and will be out early next year on the "next gen" systems.
Inversion by Saber Interactive. The guys who made the time travelling-gimmicky Time Shift a couple years back.
This time the gimmick's gravity!
And finally, let's close this topic with Q? Entertinment new Child of Eden. Which is sort of a (spiritual) sequel to Sega's Rez on the Dreamcast:
A gorgeous innovative modern shooter. Playable with Kinect..or not! :)
(...) So, lotsa things happened since I last blogged about the Expo on this blog.
A new Nintendo System, the Wii U, which will be a much more powerful HD Wii in a way. With big mainstream "adult" titles such as Alien Colonial Marines, Metro Last Light, Ninja Gaiden 3 and even some mysterious titles such as Assassin's Creed (is it an exclusive one? the original/a remake Assassins' Creed 1? Assassin's Creed Revelation only they forgot to put in the rest of the title?) and Tekken (Tekken Tag 2? A new one? A remake of the original classic?). This new system has a very special type of controller, more like a tablet than an actual controller, with buttons + sticks. Featuring a screen which kinda makes this controller a sort of handheld system, only 1 player will be able to use it on a Wii U, the others will have to use "classic" Wiimotes.
Meanwhile Sony showcased their new PSP2, sorry, the VITA. Or PSVita, or PSV..anyways I'm just glad they didn't keep their previous temporary acronym NGP ("Next Gen Portable") which will always stand for me for Neo Geo Pocket :P Me and tons of retro gamers around the world.
What d'you guys think? Well, I for one am not really a fan of accessories or systems. It's the games that count. (same goes with movies and 3D, home released and Blurays or DVDs.. the content is always more important than the container) They'll all have to offer more than 5-10 good titles to interest me :P First let's start quickly with a Wii U (how do you say that? Way-you? Wee-eww?) reveal trailer:
It's backward compatible with all existing Wii games, and apparently supports existing Wii hardware too. I'm guessing (and hoping) the same goes with Gamecube stuff. (or I'll have to replug the GC!) And hopefully we'll be able to transfer our game saves/profiles/etc in some way... It's pretty gimmicky, but I guess that's the way technology is evolving into. The controller doesn't surprise nor impress me much.. I guess that was bound to happen. *reads/watches too much scifi stuff*
Enough!
On to the games now!
Nintendo had lots of trailers/announcement regarding its other new system, the 3DS. Including a Metal Gear Solid, a Starfox and a Mario Kart 3DS. Let's check out the others not as much people will look into:
Kid Icarus: Uprising, looking nice, if a bit pixelated. (but I guess that goes with most 3DS titles... to force people to use the 3D to smooth things out)
Here's now Super Mario. Simply Super Mario. From the same team that made Galaxy.
Woah! Not much a fan of Mario usually (and I don't get "blinded" by Mario's legacy, nostalgia and fanboysm when judging one) but this looks great! Why couldn't they make one like this on the Wii directly?
Everything I always wanted Mario 64 to be!! (yeah, I admit it, I never liked it much...too much uncontrollable for my tastes and serious lack of sidescrollin' around..)
And here's another Mario:
Yeah, I said I wasn't gonna post those big name games...but I guess I lied :P
At least this one's Paper Mario 3DS!
Looks nice.
I doubt I'll get it (at least at full price!)
But nice.
Meanwhile on Capcom's side:
It's Resident Evil: Revelations!
For the 3DS also.
(all the good games are coming up there?)
Unlike Mercenaries, which is all about shooting action, Revelations is all about survival horror, the very genre Resident Evil established. We actually think of Revelations as a direct sequel to Resident Evil 5 and it will be full of new, innovative ideas and characters
Capcom sees this one as the true actual new RE game. Or at least, that's how they're trying to sell us this one.
And if you're not convinced, here's another title:
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. Much like Resident Evil: Mercenaries on the 3DS, it's a multiplayer spinoff title. This one is based around the events of the classic RE in Raccoon City.
Like a sort of Left4Dead take on the series.
Back to Big N.
Link is back in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Looking lovely, sharp, bright, colorful.
Love the feel, the graphics...
I'm expecting a Wii and Wii U releases. Like Twilight Princess. The question now is, which system was it developed for, and where is it being ported to in a rush.
Mario, Sonic & co are brought back together one more time, in...
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games!
Another one, right!
....And one more time it's gonna sell a million copies.
And here's another sequel, this one to a much more loved "Mario" game:
That's right! Next Level Games is developing a Luigi’s Mansion 2. Worry not, Shigeru Miyamoto is even on board!
Aww... :/