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Truly, I wonder if there can be a game to damned compelling, emotionally demanding and downright beautiful. You might have played Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Brothers in Arms and god knows what else they spat at you, but you haven’t played intense World War II till you’ve played Medal of Homer.
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Star Trek is always one of those series in which its new products continually cost more than the previous ones. Rumors are surfacing that the new HD version of the original Star Trek TV show series will cost $217 for season 1!
But don’t worry because Bethesda Software has announced a new game called Star Trek: Conquest and boy it’s going to be cheap! The PS2 version is $19.99 and the Wii version is $29.99! Those prices are so low that you have to wonder if Bethesda is giving gamers a bargain or if Star Trek: Conquest is really a bad game…
From its description though it seems like a lot of fun. Imagine last year’s Star Trek Legacy, but with the ability to manage your fleets and admirals, building support structures, researching technology, and engaging your enemies in combat. It’s in combat when the game turns into a real-time ship blasting game.
With the Wii version in battle gameplay, you aim your laser cannons with the Wii-mote and maneuver your starship with the nun-chuck. When you’re building up your resources you use your Wii-mote to control your ships.
Unlike Star Trek Legacy, Conquest takes place only in The Next-Generation era. You can control Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian, Dominion, and Breen forces, to control the Galaxy one planet at a time.
You won’t have to wait that long for this title as it’s coming out Holiday 07.
What if I reviewed Lord of the Rings Online, Ancient Sparta, Infernal, Stalker, Tomb Raider Anniversary, Hitman Trilogy, Zendoku, Armored Core 4, Bullet Witch, and Shining Force EXA? Would it be possible to do it under 6 minutes? Yes, yes it is, but that might not necessarily be a good thing…
Today, Activision announced their new partnership with Gibson Guitar Corp., the worlds leading musical instrument manufacturer and leader in musical technology. With this new agreement in hand, Activision will be featuring some of Gibson’s best guitars in the upcoming Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Fans can expect more than 20 classic and modern Gibson Guitars as well 80 finishes to use! And hell yeah – fans will be doing it all with their new wireless Gibson Guitar controllers.
The game will allow you unlock the following “battle axes” in-game:
Gibson:
Epiphone:
Kramer:
Bass Guitars:>
These wireless controllers will be available for all consoles. The Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii versions of the controllers will be using Gibson’s Les Paul model, while the PS2 version will see the classic Kramer.
The exclusive Gibson guitars will include innovative features such as removable faceplates that will allow fans to personalize their guitars, and a new button color design will be integrated for an even greater authentic feel and rock experience.
As you can see, Guitar Hero fans are going to have a field day.
Read on to find out what the guys Gibson Guitar and RedOctane said, as well as to find plenty of photos of the new wireless controllers (the one above is for the Wii, if you didn’t guess).
Continue reading “First glimpses of wireless guitars for Guitar Hero 3 (all platforms!)”
I reviewed SplitFish Games’ Edge FX for the PS2. This accessory makes your PS2 controller like a PC setup. But is that a good thing? Watch the full video review in the Product Video Review section of The Pipeline.
I reported a couple of days ago on the BBFC and Irish Film Censor Office’s decisions to effectively ban Manhunt 2 in the United Kingdom and Ireland by refusing to rate the game, citing “casual sadism” and “callous violence”, and the ESRB’s decision to rate the game “Adults Only”. Since then, Sony and Nintendo have both reaffirmed their policies (which I was unaware of at the time of the last article) of refusing to license “AO”-rated games, or to even let them play on their systems. Universally, these boards and companies are treating this game as an imminent threat to society, and that is not an exaggeration on my part.
This should put a burr beneath the scrotum of any adult who feels that we have a certain right to decide what forms of entertainment are suitable for our own consumption. As an American, I applaud the constitutionally-enforced inability of the ESRB to ban this game, but am saddened and disturbed by Nintendo’s and Sony’s decisions to disallow games designed for responsible, mentally-capable adults. According to figures from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), sixty-nine percent of American heads of households play computer and video games, and the average gamer age is 33. Of all gamers, only 31% are under age 18, with 44% falling between 18-49 years of age, and 25% aged 50 years and over. Quick addition tells us 79% of all gamers are adults, yet these companies, boards, and committees find this adult content intolerable, and in some cases illegal. This is disheartening to me in a way I can’t begin to express to you.
But I digress. Before I lose you on this one, I wanted to share with you GAMERS FOR GAMING, a cause championed by Jim Sterling and David Houghton, two of my new favoritest tea-sipping bad-asses over at Destructoid.com. They’ve attached themselves to this story like a couple of rabid wolves may attach themselves to… another rabid wolf… attached to… freedom of expression? I dunno, metaphors aside, these guys are working on getting our thoughts and feelings across to everyone who is working to stifle our freedom to choose, the freedom of media, and the freedom of expression in art. Fight with us. Follow along. This affects us as gamers, as consumers, and as free people. It’s not a little issue. It’s not about one game, but about everything that ratings boards and law makers can take from you in the future once we start down this slippery slope. There are so many reasons to get in on this, I’ll not try to innumerate them. Get involved.
A very special thank you to the people with the voice that have taken up this torch. It’s good to see gamers getting involved in something worthwhile.