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I’m feeling a little Trekkie today so I’ve posted both Star Trek Legacy and Star Trek Tactical Assault trailers in the Xbox 360 Game Videos and DS Game Videos sections on The Pipeline.
While Bethesda Software never gave us a review copy of Tactical Assault, they did send us one for Legacy. If you’d like to read our review check it out here.
For those of you fans who were around when David and I were doing weekly Podcasts you might remember me raving about a 360 title named Too Human. The game is Silicon Knights’(creators of Gamecube Lovecraftian title Eternal Darkness newest title. The game follows the Cyber-god Baldur, who is indeed the Norse god Baldr(god of peace amongst other things), who fights along side his brothers and father to stop a horde of giant Robots who aim to kill all of the humans. The game is very much tied to Norse Mythology, both in story, characters, and art style, but the big difference is the cyber-punk flair of sorts.
But I digress, the reason why I’m making this article is because since that Podcast the development’s fallen to the shadows, or as Denis Dyack puts it, the Ice Bucket. At last year’s E3 Silicon Knights rushed to get a playable version of the game out to spur hype, and that’s exactly what it was, rushed. The game suffered from frame rate issues, an underdeveloped Camera system, and intentionally brain dead enemy AI. The game slipped from the spotlight that it got from a then recent issue of EGM. I bring you to 2007, where the game’s starting to show promise again.
Videos pop up of the refined game, interviews start again, and the Silicon Knights Blog comes back to life. Videos of a now refined camera control system appear, along with fast and fluid videos of Too Human’s Baldur fighting the robotic menace. The beautiful scenery that was shown in the February EGM issue once again shows itself. There’s no release date for the game as of right now, but the game shows much promise so far. I congratulate Silicon Knights and Mr. Dyack on hanging in there to bring us gamers another beautiful story driven title. I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
A little more Too Human for those interested
Today Capcom held their annual Gamer day in San Francisco. As usual they took the time to announce several titles for the upcoming year, along with other big announcements. Amongst the announcements was Lost Planet going to the PC, a Harvey Birdman game for the PSP, and the official announcement of the third Gyakuten Saiban game(AKA Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) being released in america under the title Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney- Trials and Tribulation.
Much more was announced, but I gotta say these Attorney games are what really caught my attention. I loved the original Phoenix Wright, along with the sequel, and Harvey Birdman’s just beyond awesome. I just hope that Harvey Birdman ends up being a more adult Phoenix Wright instead of some boring Platformer or something of that nature.
A few more big announcements from Gamer Day 2007.
Activision announced today that Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360 is getting downloadable content! Read official annnouncement in The Pipeline under News.
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With all the tracks upgraded to the Guitar Hero II feature set, including co-op gameplay with lead, rhythm and bass guitar options, the songs will be available to download in packs of three, for 500 points per pack. In addition, fans will be able to assume the identity of their favorite Guitar Heroes with exclusive theme packs available for 150 points, and gamer pics for 100 points, respectively.
Remember that Dinosaur hunting game Turok? Well so do I! And remember all of those really bad sequels that came out after? Me, too! Do I want to remember those? Probably not. The fact of the matter is that there is going to be another Turok. But wait, there’s a catch. It looks like this one may not suck that much, or even suck at all. In the new OXM magazine there is an article about the new Turok and it actually seems to be looking pretty good. Some of the cool additions are being able to lure the dinosaurs to where enemies are and watch them devour the evil bad people and stealth kills which switch the camera to a 3rd person point of view so that you can watch the carnage. Let’s be real, who doesn’t want to watch themselves stab a velociraptor in the throat? Anyways, hopefully this game will bring back the franchise and encourage others to bring back franchises that died long ago.
The third video documentary on Halo 3 has been added to The Pipeline under Developer Interviews! This video reveals what Halo 3 will look like in multiplayer form! Check it out.