Halo 3: ODST was a side project developed by the Bungie community to give more insight on soldiers under the UNSC. These Orbital Drop Shock Troopers had a small part in Halo 2, but that was where their involvement ended. This game gives players a chance to be an ODST instead of a supersoldier, like the Master Chief in other Halo games. By going from being a small endeavor to a full-sized game, ODST was the top selling game for Xbox 360 on a worldwide scale.
Sony’s Playstation 3 console has had its ups and downs since its initial release at the close of 2006. A few solid titles helped their holiday push and carried them through Sony’s transition into the next-generation console war. When Sony published “Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune” from developer Naughty Dog they had their first original content classic. Since its release, fans have been clamoring for more of the brazen treasure hunter. With Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Naughty Dog has listened to their audience and responded with a resounding enthusiasm to please their fans.
In recent years, Electronic Arts has consistently published high-quality and well-designed games that have crossed genres and broken boundaries because of their accessibility. Their bread-and-butter staple series of franchise sports games set the bar early for the way they build intuitive interfaces for the dedicated followers who keep them in business. Spreading this formula into their “BIG” line (like NFL and FIFA street), they showed that they could do just as much damage with arcade style action/sports combination’s; and the more recent Black Box has further improved the dynamic of the “Skate” series and it’s revolutionary analog control. There latest game is called Brutal Legend.
If you did a search for “game rentals netflix“, or something similar, you may be disappointed to learn that Netflix does not have an online video game rental service at this time. Don’t be.
I always used to buy any video games that I wanted to play. I never even considered the idea of using an online video game rental service, even though I’ve been renting DVD movies online for several years now. But games are expensive and I don’t have the money to spend on them like I used to. As I look through my game collection, I realize that I have wasted a lot of money on games that have barely been played and some that will probably never be played again. Why do I keep spending $30 to $60 a piece for these games?
The average PS3 owner does not need an introduction Ninja Gaiden Sigma, one of the system’s most popular action games, though it’s a essentially a refined port of the original Ninja Gaiden on the last-gen Xbox. Still, it was a very well done port with some great new content. Having said this, fans should be delighted to hear about the new Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, which is scheduled to be released in Q4, 2009, and will be an updated port of the next-gen Ninja Gaiden II. That’s right, the Ninja Gaiden II for Xbox 360, initially released as a console exclusive. If this isn’t good news for fans of the Ninja Gaiden franchise on PS3, I don’t know what is.
Eldar Saga happens to be the third installment in the Valhalla Knights series. I won’t lie to you. The first game in the series, which was released on the PSP in 2007, was pretty much horrible; or so every major video game reviewer agrees. And, believe it or not, Valhalla Knights 2 was unanimously considered far worse. The game’s issue? Well, game play. The graphics may be stunning, and the customization may be deep, but the game play itself is that of the incredibly tired and innovation-needy dungeon crawler. Mind you, not all dungeon crawling rpg’s are bad, but Valhalla Knights 1 and 2 were. Still, I suppose I would do well to give Eldar Saga the benefit of the doubt, especially considering that this time around developer K2 is taking an almost entirely different approach in terms of game play.
Dreamkiller is a new PC/Xbox 360 game currently in development by Mindware Studios, the creators of the popular first-person shooter Painkiller. Not ringing a bell? That’s understandable. When Painkiller was released five or so years ago, it mostly served as a very well produced throwback to classic shooting games like Quake and Doom. As you may imagine, the main concept behind Dreamkiller is very, very similar in that regard.
As fans of the franchise will be happy to know, the popular World War II team-based shooter series shall soon return with Battlefield 1943. It’s with this installment that the Battlefield series will return to it’s roots for the first time in years. Thankfully, the franchise has experienced quite a few refinements since then, so if all goes well then Battlefield 1943 may be everything that Battlefield 1942 should have been.
Ever since World Of Warcraft, almost no Massively Multiplayer Online game has come out that really turned people’s heads. Why? Because, while WoW may be, in essence, a very typical RPG, Blizzard’s massive budget and experienced development team allowed them to produce it all on a massive and epic scale. In other words, everything classic MMORPG’s have done in the past World Of Warcraft takes and does a little better. That’s why so few MMO’s have really made an impact since then. People are afraid to directly compete WoW. At this point, the only way to really break the barrier and make progress in the MMO genre is to produce a game that does everything World Of Warcraft has done and expand on that with some entirely new content and features that bring the player even deeper into the gaming experience. Unless I am wrong, there is a small chance that Heroes Of Telara could be a step in that direction.