Here is the latest trailer for the single player campaign for Crysis 2. It’s the typical your the last of the best of the best and you have some major ass-kicking to do to save the world. It appears to show some game footage but not nearly as much as we see in the prior trailers for the mulitplayer.
The mulitplayer demo for the PC will be out on March 1, as the console demo was released earlier this year. The game is scheduled for release on March 22 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PCs.
L.A. Noire is Rockstars latest open-world game, it’s a crime based drama set during the golden age of Hollywood. It is based around real-world crimes, all set in a recreated Los Angeles.
The trailer looks amazing with great cinematic visuals and the topper is the motion scan technique they developed for this game, which uses 32 cameras for facial recognition. It all should work to make an immersive world where the characters will give small tells when being questioned, which gives the protagonist new tools for solving crimes. And if they game-play is what we normally get from Rockstar, there will be lots of hours lost in old LA.
The game has a scheduled release in May 2011, on both X-Box 360 and Play Station 3.
Red Dead Redemption, the latest game from Rockstar San Diego, is an open world action adventure, set in the old west. Rockstar has borrowed on its tried and true formula for creating entertaining games and transported the player into a past realm. The sandbox style of play should make for a wide array of things to do, with the standard main missions, and side-quests throughout the large expanse.
The story is entertaining and well laid out, the cut scenes are very well directed and it plays out like you would think of a Hollywood movie with unlimited budget and Jack Black as the star. The voice acting is top notch, with Jack Black being himself, Tim Curry does an excellent job as the villain, also with other voices you will recognize. The music playlist is rocking, with many ‘80s metal bands, if you bought your metal on vinyl then this game will be music to your ears.
You play Eddie Riggs a displaced roadie who can walk, run, use axe, and an ax (stringed). He can take to the air during stage battles for a top down command view. There is no ability to jump which can be frustrating when you get stuck in an area and have to summon the deuce or reload a check point. I’m sure Eddie Riggs would say something like, “Jumping is for sissies in spandex and makeup.” It does seem to be a button masher in combat, even though you can use some combos and solos for attacks and buffs. The Deuce is a very welcome addition since the map is large and running would be a bore. It has a nitro boost and other upgrades that can be added at the motor forge. The upgrades include primary and secondary weapons as well as engine and ramming abilities. The motor forge is also where you can spend your fire tributes for axe and ax enhancements.
The latest installment of the Wolfenstein games is going live tomorrow, (on all major platforms) the reviews are up around the web, and they look as if the series that helped spawn the FPS genre is still on the ball. It’s mainly a single player campaign, but as we know from the prior games, the multiplayer is top-notch, and we will know soon if this latests installment still has it, (I will have to play it before I render my verdict). Gamespot discussed multiplayer with Matt Wilson, the lead game designer of Endrant Studios (which built the online component).
