Jul
22
E3 has come and gone and I now know exactly why I will be dirt poor by the end of the year. The amount of software that I must have for the PS3 (and to a lesser degree my PC). With videos linked to the titles and in no Particular order…
- Fallout 3 - PS3 Blu-Ray: I never played the first 2 isometric games that came out oh so long ago but the moment someone offers me a post-apocalyptic action-rpg using the Oblivion engine you have my money. The time stop mechanic where you can select what bodypart you want to shoot your rocket launcher at is a stroke of brilliance.
- Mirror’s Edge - PS3 Blu-Ray: A first-person parkour (free running) game where gun play is kept to a minimum (and you unlock a trophy/achievement if you never fire a bullet during the game), this genre creating spectacle is a sight to behold. Unless you’re not the person playing it; a lot of people have said that while the game doesn’t sinspire nausea while playing it, they have felt motion sick when they weren’t playing it. I don’t like to share anyways.
- Dead Space - PS3 Blu-Ray: This and Mirror’s Edge are both EA published games, and the fact that I want not one but two games from the behemoth means that things have to be changing inside the company. This is an over-the-shoulder horror-action game where the developers have been saying that you have to dismember the creatures if you want them to stop attacking. Headshots are so 1998.
- LittleBigPlanet - PS3 Blu-Ray: This game is the game of 2008. You might not be too aware of it unless you’re a PS3 owner but rest assured, you will have no choice but to come over and play this game on my couch with me. No more words, but more and more and more video (last one is where they created the Sony Powerpoint in the game, which is way more entertaining than your standard bar graph). Watch them all, or I’ll sick a Killzone-esque Sackboy on ya!
- WipeoutHD - PS3 Downloadable: This game was playable at 1080p and 60 frames per second last year, but Sony let it slip that there’s a game-breaking technical problem with the game that they haven’t been able to solve. I owned the first game on my Saturn way back when so I’m praying that this download-only Playstation Network game arrives before the end of the year.
- Pixeljunk Eden - PS3 Downloadable: I’m not entirely sure what the game is about, but it seems the goal is to swing around with two other friends (on my couch, natch) polinating plants. It almost looks like it has a bit of a racing mechanic, as player swing around spiderman style trying to grab the pollination bits to make the flowers. Something about it has me hooked… it also has the ability to record video play of the game and upload it to Youtube, very cool.
- Fat Princess - PS3 Downloadable: Say what? The goal of the game is to capture the other team’s princess (or catch your own, I’m not sure) and bring her home. Thing is, the team in the castle holding the princess is consistently supposed to fdeed her pounds of food and cake to fatten her up, making it harder to carry her home. There are multiple classes of players, and it’s a 16 vs 16 online Playstation Network game, think Team Fortress 2 meets Castle Crashers meets Zombies Ate My Neighbors.
- Left 4 Dead - PC Steam: 4 player zombie killing co-op multiplayer from Valve and the people who programmed Counterstrike’s bots. The game has a heavy emphasis on actual co-operation as you do not want to be left alone for long. The zombie spawn points are procedurally generated so you’ll never get stuck in the same choke point twice, so each play through will require new tactics and on the fly decisions. I’ll be g etting this one on PC and will be playing with my fellow Ectomites.
- Rock Band 2 - PS3 Blu Ray: What, you need me to say more than just the name of the game? It will not only come with 84 master track recordings, and extra 20 free downloadable songs near the launch, and not only will it be compatible with all the songs I paid to download for the first game but for under $5 I’ll be able to put all but a couple of songs from the first game onto my hard drive so I can play them from within Rock Band 2. Fuck yeah.
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