Who has time for year-long Season modes when arguably the best part about sports games is talking trash with your best friend/roommate/girlfriend? Toeing the line between the ridiculous arcade-y action of NBA Jam, franchise ballin’ and hip hop culture is NBA Ballers: Chosen One, the third iteration in Midway’s popular hoops series for the PS3 and 360. Judging by the near-finished version we sat down with, we’re confident
Yes, that's your chin that's twelve feet off the ground and that's our chunky fist propping it up. Sho-ryu-ken! You know what Street Fighter's all about, from the first baby steps mashing the SNES pad to the intricate magic of SF III's parry system - it's all about knocking people out of their socks. And Street Fighter IV is going to knock a hell of a lot of socks off. Oh yes.It's taken Capcom a long time to come to SFIV (a good 10 years since
We’re officially excited about The Outsider - despite the fact that it’s still a loooong way off yet. Penciled in for ‘09, Frontier’s plans for its all-action freeform thriller are so large it’s going to take all that time and more for them to realise its obvious potential. Big cheese David Braben refers to it as the first true open world game, where you genuinely do have freedom of choice over what you do and
Connor, Duncan and now Owen MacLeod. Is it us or is this two MacLeod’s too many? Well not according to Eidos, as the revealing of Highlander illustrates. Apparently, there’s a lot of material left to mine from a franchise that has struggled to relive the appeal of the 1986 Lambert live-forever-slasher. We even miss the mullet. The game is being scripted by David Abramovitz, who has worked on the Highlander TV show, so expect plenty
With heavyweights like Halo 3, Call of Duty 4 and Gears of War owning the first three slots on Xbox Live's "most played" rankings, it's easy to forget about the game that sits at #4. The original Rainbow Six Vegas, however, has been a multiplayer favorite for over a year, and for good reason. More tactical than trigger-happy, the terrorist shooter offers a paced and precise alternative to the all-out arcade feeling of its competitors.
Question: What’s better than Virtua Tennis 3? Answer: Virtua Tennis 4. What else is better than Virtua Tennis 3? Sega Superstars Tennis - which replaces Tim Henman’s potato-faced grin with Ulala licking her lips at you before hitting the ball in a five-shaped star (Space Channel 5, get it?) while glittery pink stars explode and aliens dance everywhere. This is tennis gone mad.The concept is Sega-like in its simplicity. Take a
In Mirror’s Edge, you play as Faith, an acrobatic gunslinger hell-bent on beating the city’s forces in as stylish a way as possible using the entire city as your playground. There are no restrictions - you can go anywhere. Fences and walls are there to be jumped over. The city is pristine and clean-looking, with a real sense of underlying menace. From what we’ve seen, it looks a little like Neo’s ‘virtual’
Shedding the TOCA name, GRID (known as Race Driver: GRID in Europe) looks to redefine a genre already somewhat redefined by Codemasters’ excellent Colin McRae: DiRT. “The first big change is that this isn’t a TOCA game. We don’t feel the TOCA prefix is relevant any more to the content we’re including and the racing experience we’re aiming to deliver,” explains Ralph Fulton, Codemasters’ chief
Back in the day, Sonys MLB series had some hardball competition from EAs Triple Play franchise. To stay ahead of 2Ks MLB series, Sony has spent the last 3 years refining its long running slugger into latest effort, MLB 08 The Show. While Sony is sticking to its formula of great-playing baseball and further deepening its innovative Road to the Show mode, the preview build looks like it may have what it takes to get the call up to the Bigs.
As sure as ARod loves blonde strippers, MLB 08 has a
Although this is the second trip to the streets of Vegas, the games story actually plays out parallel to the last game. How does that work? As Bishop, youll be heading up a second team working alongside Logan Kellers, winding into the main story to work through the casinos, after playing out a bit of back story first while Logans team was busy in Mexico. Youll finish up after the events of the last game, wiping out Alvarez Cabrero - hopefully.
Here are some bite-size info chunks to whet your
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