Great games this month too. especially Fallout 2
dead space and another edition of the guild 2 seems nice
SACRED 2 – Fallen Angel - aRPG - October 12, 2008
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway - FPS - October 07, 2008
Everlight: Power to the Elves - Adventure - October 12, 2008
Exodus from the Earth - FPS - October 07, 2008
The Guild 2: Venice - Online RPG - October 07, 2008
FIFA 09 - Sport - October 01, 2008
Saint's Row 2 - GTA-like - 2008/2009?
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches - Adventure - October 15, 2008
Shaun White Snowboarding - Radical Sports - October 16, 2008
X3: Terran Conflict - Space Sim - October 17, 2008
Pro Evolution Soccer - Sports - October 14, 2008
WWII Battle Tanks: T-34 vs. Tiger - Tank Sim - October 17, 2008
NBA 2K9 - Sports - October 20, 2008
NHL 09 - Sports - October 20, 2008
Bully: Scholarship Edition - GTA & Skool Daze-like - October 20, 2008
Europa Universalis III Complete - TBS - October 20, 2008
Dead Space - TPS - October 20, 2008
EverQuest: Seeds of Destruction - MMORPG - October 21, 2008
A Vampyre Story - Adventure - October 21, 2008
Far Cry 2 - FPS - October 21, 2008
Fallout 3 - RPG - October 28, 2008
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - RTS - October 28, 2008
█ - Released █ - Not released █ - Delayed
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky & Crysis Warhead
Lots of FPSes released nowadays, still waiting for Fallout 3 though.
Just one month to go....
Pure is a pretty cool racing game to try out too.
Just started working, so everything seems to has come to an halt.
Just one month to go....
Pure is a pretty cool racing game to try out too.
Just started working, so everything seems to has come to an halt.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Spore, a complete letdown
Spore is now on sale in Australia.
Dont get hopes up too much, its just another overhyped game.
But then again, its for everyone so I guess that evens out.
Tried Spore out, it was fun to start with :-
Cell Phase
The idea is to feed on monsters, grow bigger, and as a result gain DNA with which you can alter your creature. You can gain up to 5 new parts.
The good:
- well animated
- easy to control
- simple to grasp
- the new parts do make a nice difference here
The bad:
- at this stage, creature design is in its infancy and there's not many options
- it's pretty repetitive - you eat, grow, design, eat, etc.
- too few DNA points stop you from building creatures similar to the ones floating around you.
- too simple in essence
Creature Phase
Here you really start to make your creature grow. There's hundreds of parts to collect here and a lot of combat (if you chose to).
The good:
- the combat is similar to WoW's system - you select an enemy and then proceed to use "skills"
- upgrading parts is quite fun - as you gain new limbs, your skills go up as well
- you can tweak your creature a LOT more than before and you feel more in control now
- UFO attacks!
- great animations in cut scenes - the 2001 spoof scene is great
- gigantic epic creatures roam the planet pretty cool to see, but not when they start chasing ya
The bad:
- the combat gets extremely repetitive. You only have 3 skills, two of which can be used in combat.
- terrible controls - often your creature will refuse to turn, will refuse to respond to your actions, will refuse to eat, etc.
- poor graphics - this is sub WoW graphics and those are already 3-4 years of age. I don't mind cartoony but that doesn't mean p**s poor textures, terrible shading, clipping, etc.
- the world is too artificial in design: nests at the same distance from each other, spawning carcasses for you to loot, etc.
- skills gained from limbs do NOT stack
- your creature is often too slow in doing what you tell it to: if you push the attack button, it will often wait a few seconds which can mean death
- death doesn't give you a punishment
Tribal Phase - Civilisation
Here it starts playing like an RTS, you collect food and wage war against other tribes while designing buildings and clothing for your tribesmen. Moves on to a more technological phase where you fight with tanks, ships and aircaft instead. Nukes are awesome :D
Space Age
Here is where it seems like they gave up making the game. You are the only space craft in the whole game for your race. You get to trade and fight and ally tens over other aliens from other worlds and with only one against all. Gets REALLY repetitive and tedious as you have to manage and build a whole universe of colonies for your race by yourself, just one tiny spacecraft. And with more colonies you establish, you get pirate attacks where you have to fend off by yourself, which means you have to travel over to the other side of the universe all the time just to defend as your race counts on you to save them.
Another disadvantage is that cutomization aspect of the game is compleatly irrelevant to the gameplay, it's purely cosmetic. And as a result, what was supposed to be this games biggest selling point simply isn't there.
And as quoted:-
'Spore Will Change the Way People Look at Games Forever,' Claims Creator Wright
by Chris Faylor Sep 05, 2008 11:20am CST tags: Spore
As Electronic Arts prepares to unleash Maxis' long-awaited life simulator Spore, creator Will Wright has noted his belief that its emphasis on player-made content will have long-term effects in the realm of video games.
"Spore will change the way people look at games forever and change hopefully the perception people have of their own creativity," he told the BBC.
Launching this Sunday in North America and already available elsewhere in the world, Spore (PC, Mac) tasks players with creating their own life form and then helping it evolve from a single-celled organism to a space-dominating race.
The complete game follows the release of the free Spore Creature Creator toolset, which resulted in all sorts of various monstrosities. The full version of the toolset hit retailers for $10, and has been among the best-selling PC games since its debut.
Both Wright and EA hope that Spore will be another cultural mega-hit, much like Wright's ultra-successful The Sims franchise. That brand became so popular that EA created a dedicated Sims division.
And while expansion packs and high sales are likely, Wright's hopes for the series extends into the realm of films and a television show. "Spore potentially has a wider net to cast [outside of video games] than The Sims did," he noted earlier this year.
In addition to PC and Mac, Spore will also arrive on Nintendo DS and iPhone by Sunday, though those releases will respectively focus on tribal warfare and cellular life instead of multiple evolutionary phases.
Dont get hopes up too much, its just another overhyped game.
But then again, its for everyone so I guess that evens out.
Tried Spore out, it was fun to start with :-
Cell Phase
The idea is to feed on monsters, grow bigger, and as a result gain DNA with which you can alter your creature. You can gain up to 5 new parts.
The good:
- well animated
- easy to control
- simple to grasp
- the new parts do make a nice difference here
The bad:
- at this stage, creature design is in its infancy and there's not many options
- it's pretty repetitive - you eat, grow, design, eat, etc.
- too few DNA points stop you from building creatures similar to the ones floating around you.
- too simple in essence
Creature Phase
Here you really start to make your creature grow. There's hundreds of parts to collect here and a lot of combat (if you chose to).
The good:
- the combat is similar to WoW's system - you select an enemy and then proceed to use "skills"
- upgrading parts is quite fun - as you gain new limbs, your skills go up as well
- you can tweak your creature a LOT more than before and you feel more in control now
- UFO attacks!
- great animations in cut scenes - the 2001 spoof scene is great
- gigantic epic creatures roam the planet pretty cool to see, but not when they start chasing ya
The bad:
- the combat gets extremely repetitive. You only have 3 skills, two of which can be used in combat.
- terrible controls - often your creature will refuse to turn, will refuse to respond to your actions, will refuse to eat, etc.
- poor graphics - this is sub WoW graphics and those are already 3-4 years of age. I don't mind cartoony but that doesn't mean p**s poor textures, terrible shading, clipping, etc.
- the world is too artificial in design: nests at the same distance from each other, spawning carcasses for you to loot, etc.
- skills gained from limbs do NOT stack
- your creature is often too slow in doing what you tell it to: if you push the attack button, it will often wait a few seconds which can mean death
- death doesn't give you a punishment
Tribal Phase - Civilisation
Here it starts playing like an RTS, you collect food and wage war against other tribes while designing buildings and clothing for your tribesmen. Moves on to a more technological phase where you fight with tanks, ships and aircaft instead. Nukes are awesome :D
Space Age
Here is where it seems like they gave up making the game. You are the only space craft in the whole game for your race. You get to trade and fight and ally tens over other aliens from other worlds and with only one against all. Gets REALLY repetitive and tedious as you have to manage and build a whole universe of colonies for your race by yourself, just one tiny spacecraft. And with more colonies you establish, you get pirate attacks where you have to fend off by yourself, which means you have to travel over to the other side of the universe all the time just to defend as your race counts on you to save them.
Another disadvantage is that cutomization aspect of the game is compleatly irrelevant to the gameplay, it's purely cosmetic. And as a result, what was supposed to be this games biggest selling point simply isn't there.
And as quoted:-
'Spore Will Change the Way People Look at Games Forever,' Claims Creator Wright
by Chris Faylor Sep 05, 2008 11:20am CST tags: Spore
As Electronic Arts prepares to unleash Maxis' long-awaited life simulator Spore, creator Will Wright has noted his belief that its emphasis on player-made content will have long-term effects in the realm of video games.
"Spore will change the way people look at games forever and change hopefully the perception people have of their own creativity," he told the BBC.
Launching this Sunday in North America and already available elsewhere in the world, Spore (PC, Mac) tasks players with creating their own life form and then helping it evolve from a single-celled organism to a space-dominating race.
The complete game follows the release of the free Spore Creature Creator toolset, which resulted in all sorts of various monstrosities. The full version of the toolset hit retailers for $10, and has been among the best-selling PC games since its debut.
Both Wright and EA hope that Spore will be another cultural mega-hit, much like Wright's ultra-successful The Sims franchise. That brand became so popular that EA created a dedicated Sims division.
And while expansion packs and high sales are likely, Wright's hopes for the series extends into the realm of films and a television show. "Spore potentially has a wider net to cast [outside of video games] than The Sims did," he noted earlier this year.
In addition to PC and Mac, Spore will also arrive on Nintendo DS and iPhone by Sunday, though those releases will respectively focus on tribal warfare and cellular life instead of multiple evolutionary phases.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Romance Of The Three Kingdoms - RELOADED
Its my most awaited game since the jap version was released and patched in chinese. RELOADED cracked and released this game a full 6 days ahead of its North American Street Date.
Description: Rediscover an ancient civilization with an explosive history in the most stunning edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Set during the end of China’s Han Dynasty and the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D., RTK XI presents the most visually captivating evolution in the history of the series. Blurring the line between video games and art, RTK XI features visuals evocative of classical Chinese ink-paintings along with debates and duels rendered in real-time 3D animation.
As the ruler of a kingdom, each player will have complete control over their territories. More than 40 base commands give players the power to govern cities, manage their personnel, practice diplomacy and much more. Complete freedom to develop markets, shipyards, outposts, forts and military units expand on the already substantial benchmarks established by previous editions of the series. Furthermore, players will watch the era come to life through the uniquely individual personalities of the more than 780 officers and supporting characters they will encounter.
Players will need to dig deep within to prove themselves adept at both the military and political arts in order to bring China under one rule. Domestic affairs, diplomacy and warfare are all conducted on a single vast 3D relief map, dramatically bringing to life the eight massive scenarios that lie before them.
Features:
- Vivid 3D scenes inspired by classical Chinese ink paintings. Domestic affairs, diplomacy and warfare are seamlessly integrated and conducted on a vast 3D map of China.
- Turn‐based gameplay lets you plan your strategy then execute war tactics for improved control of your military campaigns.
- New Technique System that rewards you with points every time you command your men ‐ points which can then be used to learn special skills that improve the abilities of your forces.
- Drive or lure enemies into devastating ambushes with the Advanced Tactics System. Link tactics together for maximum damage.
- Duel and debate with enemy officers in 3D. Demonstrate your brilliance with the revamped debate system.
- Over 40 base commands allow you to govern cities and districts, manage personnel; conduct diplomacy and more.
- Create‐an‐officer mode features 24 customizable character attributes.
- Step-by-step tutorials for beginners.
- Stirring original score composed by Yoshihiro Ike.
System Requirements:
- Pentium®III 1GHz
- Windows® XP/Vista PC
- 256MB RAM
- 2GB Hard Drive Space
- 1024×768 High Color display
- 32MB VRAM, DirectX 9.0c or higher 3D accelerator Video Card
- 16‐bit stereo 44KHz Sound Card
- mouse and keyboard
Release name: Romance.Of.The.Three.Kingdoms.XI-RELOADED
Size: 3.39 GB (3,637,088,906 bytes)
Genre: Simulation/Strategy
Protection: SafeDisc
File names: rld-spore
Reviews, info: Gamespot, IGN, Homepage
Developer, distributor: KOEI Corporation
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Spore-RELOADED
The game allows the player to develop a species from a microscopic organism to its evolution into a complex animal, its emergence as a social, intelligent being, to its mastery of the planet and then finally to its ascension into space, whereupon it interacts with alien species across the galaxy. Throughout gameplay, the player’s perspective and species change dramatically.
CREATE Your Universe from Microscopic to Macrocosmic - From tide pool amoebas to thriving civilizations to intergalactic starships, everything is in your hands.
EVOLVE Your Creature through Five Stages - It’s survival of the funnest as your choices reverberate through generations and ultimately decide the fate of your civilization.
EXPLORE your world and beyond - Will you rule, or will your beloved planet be blasted to smithereens by a superior alien race?
Minimum System Requirements:
- 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
- 512 MB RAM
- A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
- At least 6 GB of hard drive space
Release name: Spore-RELOADED
Size: 3.39 GB (3,637,088,906 bytes)
Genre: Simulation/Strategy
Protection: Securom
File names: rld-spore
Reviews, info: Gamespot, IGN, Homepage
Developer, distributor: Maxis
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
September Releases
More delayed games heading towards sept. Spore and RoTK XI are good games to look forward to. Lots of great games coming this month. Stay tuned.
American McGee's Grimm: Godfather Death - Adventure - September 4, 2008
Galactic Civilizations II: Endless Universe - Strategy - September 5, 2008
Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI - Turn based strategy - September 5, 2008
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - FPS - September 5, 2008
Spore - Simulation - September 5, 2008
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - Action - September 5, 2008
Digital Combat Simulator: Black Shark - Simulator - September 8, 20008
Everlight: Power to the Elves - Adventure - September 9, 2008
The Price is Right (2008) - Logical - September 9, 2008
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals - Adventure - September 10, 2008
American McGee's Grimm: The Devil and His Three Golden Hairs - Adventure - September 11, 2008
Combat Mission: Shock Force - Marines - Strategy - September 12, 2008
Warfare - RTS - September 12, 2008
Crysis Warhead - FPS - September 12, 2008
Righteous Kill - Puzzle - September 12, 2008
Showdown: Scorpion - FPS - September 14, 2008
Rock University Presents The Naked Brothers Band: The Video Game - Action - September 15, 2008
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People -- Episode 2 - Adventure - September 15, 2008
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust - Adventure - September 16, 2008
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition - RPG - September 16, 2008
Igor: The Game - Action - September 16, 2008
Line Rider 2: Unbound - Arcade - September 16, 2008
American McGee's Grimm: Beauty and the Beast - Adventure - September 18, 2008
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning - MMORPG - September 18, 2008
STCC The Game - Racing - September 19, 2008
Voltage - Racing - September 19, 2008
Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest - RTS - September 19, 2008
Tim Stockdale's Riding Star - Simulator - September 19, 2008
Neverwinter Nights 2 Adventure Pack: Mysteries of Westgate - RPG - September 19, 2008
Sword of the Stars: A Murder of Crows - Strategy - September 19, 2008
The Guild 2: Venice - cRPG - September 23, 2008
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization - Turn based strategy - September 23, 2008
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway - FPS - September 23, 2008
King's Bounty: The Legend - cRPG - September 23, 2008
LEGO Batman: The Videogame - Arcade - September 23, 2008
Pure - Racing - September 23, 2008
Pipe Mania - Puzzle - September 23, 2008
Collapse: Devastated World - TPP - September 26, 2008
Dark Horizon - Simulator - September 26, 2008
Adam Syndrome - Adventure - September 26, 2008
Barbie Fashion Show: Eye For Style - Simulation - September 26, 2008
Etch A Sketch - Productivity - September 300, 2008
The Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft - Adventure - September 30, 2008
█ - Released █ - Not released
American McGee's Grimm: Godfather Death - Adventure - September 4, 2008
Galactic Civilizations II: Endless Universe - Strategy - September 5, 2008
Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI - Turn based strategy - September 5, 2008
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - FPS - September 5, 2008
Spore - Simulation - September 5, 2008
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - Action - September 5, 2008
Digital Combat Simulator: Black Shark - Simulator - September 8, 20008
Everlight: Power to the Elves - Adventure - September 9, 2008
The Price is Right (2008) - Logical - September 9, 2008
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals - Adventure - September 10, 2008
American McGee's Grimm: The Devil and His Three Golden Hairs - Adventure - September 11, 2008
Combat Mission: Shock Force - Marines - Strategy - September 12, 2008
Warfare - RTS - September 12, 2008
Crysis Warhead - FPS - September 12, 2008
Righteous Kill - Puzzle - September 12, 2008
Showdown: Scorpion - FPS - September 14, 2008
Rock University Presents The Naked Brothers Band: The Video Game - Action - September 15, 2008
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People -- Episode 2 - Adventure - September 15, 2008
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust - Adventure - September 16, 2008
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition - RPG - September 16, 2008
Igor: The Game - Action - September 16, 2008
Line Rider 2: Unbound - Arcade - September 16, 2008
American McGee's Grimm: Beauty and the Beast - Adventure - September 18, 2008
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning - MMORPG - September 18, 2008
STCC The Game - Racing - September 19, 2008
Voltage - Racing - September 19, 2008
Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest - RTS - September 19, 2008
Tim Stockdale's Riding Star - Simulator - September 19, 2008
Neverwinter Nights 2 Adventure Pack: Mysteries of Westgate - RPG - September 19, 2008
Sword of the Stars: A Murder of Crows - Strategy - September 19, 2008
The Guild 2: Venice - cRPG - September 23, 2008
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization - Turn based strategy - September 23, 2008
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway - FPS - September 23, 2008
King's Bounty: The Legend - cRPG - September 23, 2008
LEGO Batman: The Videogame - Arcade - September 23, 2008
Pure - Racing - September 23, 2008
Pipe Mania - Puzzle - September 23, 2008
Collapse: Devastated World - TPP - September 26, 2008
Dark Horizon - Simulator - September 26, 2008
Adam Syndrome - Adventure - September 26, 2008
Barbie Fashion Show: Eye For Style - Simulation - September 26, 2008
Etch A Sketch - Productivity - September 300, 2008
The Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft - Adventure - September 30, 2008
█ - Released █ - Not released
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