Xbox 360 gets the demo on Aug. 16; PS3 gets it on Aug. 17. It’ll pack two singleplayer missions.
Interception Course: Take to the air as a Russian pilot sent to intercept a group of stolen aircraft high above the Caucasus Mountains, a hot spot on the world conflict radar, you will be playing a Russian pilot in this mission part of the new multinational cinematic story narrative in H.A.W.X. 2.
Seek and Destroy: Playing from the perspective of the elite U.S. HAWX squadron deployed to settle conflict spilling over in Africa, you are tasked with taking out specific targets with smart ammunition at night. Take off from a carrier under the cover of night and strike against a weapon smuggling operation using precision guided laser bombs
The full game arrives in Europe on Sept. 3 and the U.S. on Sept. 7. Versions also are coming for the PS3 and Wii.
Crytek has confirmed that Crysis 2 will be shipped to store shelves in North America on March 22nd and for our neighbors across the big pond, their release date is three days later on the 25th of March. Be sure to pre-order your copy today, and if you do be sure to check out the collectors edition. If you aren’t sure what the collectors edition has to offer or need a refresher on what it has just click here to see.
Crysis 2 will be on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC, and 3D where available.
With a release date of 2011 Dirt fans are going to be real excited over the upcoming news Codemasters will start releasing for their latest iteration of the series. They have released some screenshots of the game and it looks to be going off road in as weather patterns as possible. Besides the fact that the screens look gorgeous already, I guess we’ll need to wait for more info about the game as it comes in.
News broke out yesterday that a new Bioshock was in the works and by none other then the team that made the first one. Well if you need any more explanation on what might be going on and where we’re at in Bioshock Infinite, then here’s the teaser trailer to shed more light on this mystery. Without giving to many spoilers away we do know the sisters or something familiar to it have new found powers and this adventure is being take to the sky’s, take a closer look for yourself.
It hasn’t been that long since Bioshock 2 came out, I mean considering it was about six months since its release, but nonetheless Ken Levine and team at Irrational Games have been working hard at the next Triple A blockbuster up and running. Bioshock: Infinite takes you away from the world of Rapture and puts you up into the city of Columbia. Columbia is the new world above the old world, a vast floating city riddled with patriotic American flags and propaganda. Columbia seems like a city from the Revolutionary War era, steam punk-esk flying machines soar through the sky. Rather than the murky dark and haunting look of Rapture, Columbia is bright, beautiful and full of life… Although reality is skewed and is somewhat twisted and civilized at the same time. Newly upgraded Big Daddies are still here to make someones life a little more difficult than it originally was. Instead of a large mining drill connected to their hand, a functional mechanical prosthetic is in it’s place. There’s much to see and experience throughout Columbia, these are just a few of the things that we get to see from the trailer. Columbia may be a beautiful city on the surface, but I’m sure there is a dark, ugly, and positively monsterous side lurking in the belly of this beast. Expect more information to come since this is still a work in progress from Ken Levine and Irrational Games, and you can count on us to bring you the news.
As a part of Summer of Arcade for Xbox 360, Castlevania: Harmony of Despair has been one of the long awaited titles I have been looking forward to. Being able to play an old school styled Castlevania game like Symphony of the Night and choosing one of six characters from the many different series just seems so appealing. I may not be one of the biggest fans of Castlevania but none the less I am one and have been since playing the very first Castlevania in arcades on the old cabinets. This game however just didn’t translate as well as I’d hope.
If you guys have followed the series before, there are many unique and stand out characters. In HoD you get to play as some of those characters again, such as Alucard, Soma Cruz, Jonathan Morris, Shanoa and Charlotte Aulin. Each with their own abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. It’s great to play as so many characters which means a lot of replay value, but the only problems that I see will be burning out Castlevania, and grinding levels to get certain items or souls that you want to get. With that said each character builds up with respective rare items to be found as a bonus.
Multiplayer online co-op has to be one of the best ideas in HoD. Team up with friends to tag team big labyrinths and even bigger bosses. There are good and bad things to online co-op however. If one person opens up a chest everyone obtains an item, of course everyone may not get the same item but this helps from everyone having to go into the same areas over. Also once you die it’s not automatically game over, you get to roam around the level as one of the bone throwing skeletons with a halo, and if you’re lucky enough you get to be revived by your teammate. The bad is that connecting to games isn’t the easiest thing to do. Many times I was either kicked, rooms weren’t able to connect, or rooms would just idle in the waiting for team menu screen. When I did find a co-op room that had a bunch of people ready to play it went along great.
Unfortunately there are only six levels, but the levels are vast, which introduces the zoom in and zoom out feature. Players can zoom in to single room display, 3x display and full map display. The zoom system gives you the ability to watch where your partners are on the map and where you can meet up with one another to battle through to the boss. Unfortunately there are areas on the map where you wont be able to reach unless you’re a certain character, or have a teammate to help you get to that area because of certain co-op switches or higher levels to get to. Also the higher the levels, the more challenging it gets. It’s unfathomable to think that you can solo this entire game alone, although it is very possible with the right equipment and a lot of time. I mean there are stages where bosses and traps can kill you with one shot, and enemies can stun you over and over again. This is all on normal mode though and after you complete the game the first time around hard mode is unlocked. This is where a larger variety of weapons and items can be obtained.
This game is fun to play, but only with other people online. Soloing HoD feels somewhat of a chore than a game, expect to die many times before beating a boss, many of the equipment menu stuff doesn’t make sense, when zooming the camera fully makes it look like a PS1 title and expect to farm alot through each level. If online multiplayer is not in your cards or your not a true Castlevania fan we’re not sure if its a great buy for $15, especially since the game does not support local multiplayer and we’re not sure why. Teaming up with friends and strangers alike is great, there are tons of things to enjoy in the online co-op mode. Also with downloadable content on the horizon expect to have more characters and more levels to come from the entire series of Castlevania.
The guys over at Treyarch and Activision have stepped up their game a little bit this time around for their Prestige and Hardened edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops. The Prestige edition will come with a working RC car complete with a camera that provides TFT color video and audio to the person operating the RC car, Black Ops medal, and four additional co-op maps. The Xbox 360 orders will also receive an avatar costume. The Hardened edition of the game will come with all of the previously mentioned items except for the replica RC car from game. No prices have been announced for either of the packages but most likely they will be priced around the Modern Warefare 2 Prestige and Hardened edition pricing.
Alan Wake is one of the more unique games to be released on the Xbox 360 this year, and when the game was released in April anyone who bought the game new got an extra code to download free DLC in the form of a new “episode”. The episode is now available for download, titled “The Signal” the new chapter in the story follows Alan Wake right after the end of the last episode, and although not much is answered it is still nice to control Alan again as he searches for answers.
As the episode starts off with Alan as he begins to lose his footing in reality, and as the episode goes on you clearly realize that things are getting even more crazy this time. Without spoiling too much of the story Alan revisits several of the places he’s been to in the game but in a very different way. The story doesn’t add a whole lot to the overall story but it still adds a new dimension to it that fans of the game are going to want to see.
The gameplay is still the same as the orignal game except now there are more objects Alan can use in the enviornment to fight enemies. Other than the environment tools not much else is added to the gameplay, but then again the mechanics of the controls were solid.
Overall The Signal is a worthwhile DLC, if you bought the game new then you get it for free so there is no question of value. Even if you bought the game used then the DLC will be about $7 which is still worth it.
What’s Las Vegas without Wayne Newton? You can’t have Danke Shoen, without Wayne Newton, and you can’t have all the glitz and glamor of a Vegas show without seeing Wayne on one of the billboards. So to celebrate the spirit of Vegas in New Vegas the guys over at Obsidian have decided to bring him in as voice actor to be the voice of a pre-programmed DJ. Other voice actors have also been revealed. Friends star Matthew Perry will be voicing a mob leader, Zachary Levi from the show Chuck plays an pragmatic member of The Followers of the Apocalypse, and Felicia Day will also appear as a Brotherhood of Steel scribe.
With a very unique way to play on one of the latest racers this year, Split/Second it would seem Black Rock Studios is not done with this version yet. They plan releasing three DLC packs in the coming weeks that will include new liveries and new vehicles. The third pack will be given away for FREE as a thanks to the fans and not to mention the will release a big DLC in September that will include a new environment. No other details were mentioned from their facebook page where this was announced but we’re sure to hear more soon.
