The “loose lips sinks ships” philosophy of many publishers tends to mean that many games are locked up tighter than a Quakers teenage daughter, developed almost in isolation from their fanbase. Which is why its refreshing when we see mighty teams such as Liverpool-based Bizarre Creations toil away so freely with their most loyal fans on their website, bizarreonline.net. Its the sign of a truly passionate games development team who fervently believe in what theyre creating, and not
Project Gotham Racing 3 was one of the greatest launch titles for the Xbox 360, but it wasn't much of a sequel. While the graphics were obviously sharper, the gameplay hadn't really improved from previous games in the franchise. We were simply too busy drooling at all the shiny next-gen graphics to notice.
Fortunately, the developers at Bizarre Creations aren't content to shovel more of the same to their fans. That's why Project Gotham Racing 4 is being designed as a true upgrade, with
Aerial shooters like the Ace Combat series are in an understandably short supply. It's hard to relate to flying death machines, even if they do look badass as hell. This makes creating and pushing out a space shooting game even harder - with no Star Wars or Star Trek license to carry the action, it all boils down to piloting pretty ships through an empty void, occasionally stopping to blow something up with pretty pink-and-purple missiles.
For the most part, that's exactly what Project
Rightly or wrongly, hoodies have something of a bad rep - the wearers of the much-maligned garments being widely blamed for the majority of society’s ills.Thanks to Vivendi’s forthcoming Prototype, that reputation is set to get a lot worse. While the craze of happy slapping has thrown up some appalling acts of immoral behaviour, we’ve yet to see a clip where 15 people are sliced in half with a flick of the wrist. Yep,
If performing an elbow drop onto a tank from 200 feet in the air, after leaping from a skyscraper, can’t grab your attention, then the world is a wrong place. This move is just one of many attention-grabbing elements of Prototype that was recently demoed by Activision. The game itself has had a potted development history.
When we were a kid taking a trip to the Big Apple, we imagined streets full of screaming people, mutated monsters, and cops in riot gear trying to keep things in order. Then we imagined transforming parts of our body into sinister weapons, before launching 50 feet into the air and elbow-dropping a tank, smashing it to a smoldering wreck.