The funny thing about inventing a genre of videogames is that, until it becomes completely played out, every game that emulates your formula is going to be attached to your name. Games that feature a wide-open, freely explorable world, for example, will have a hard time avoiding the label of "Grand Theft Auto clone," especially if their worlds are littered with vehicles to steal and drive.
In the six years since Grand Theft Auto III, a slew of games have tried to become "the next GTA," but so
We hear his name is Rot, and that his eccentricities are infamous amongst game collectors. We hear that this is just what he does. We hear his U2 cover track. We see a god.
We hear his name is Rot, and that his eccentricities are infamous amongst game collectors. We hear that this is just what he does. We hear his U2 cover track. We see a god.
The funny thing about inventing a genre of videogames is that, until it becomes completely played out, every game that emulates your formula is going to be attached to your name. Games that feature a wide-open, freely explorable world, for example, will have a hard time avoiding the label of "Grand Theft Auto clone," especially if their worlds are littered with vehicles to steal and drive.
In the six years since Grand Theft Auto III, a slew of games have tried to become "the next GTA," but so
Check out this latest batch of Scarface: The World is Yours screenshots, which reveal just how much detail is going into Vivendi's virtual update of the legendary gangster movie.
Radical, the developer responsible for Scarface, has lots of experience with open-ended game worlds, having produced The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction and The Simpsons: Hit & Run, both of which were solid free-roaming experiences.
Even if you're bored of all possible combinations of guns, gangsters, grit,
Tony Montana's second coming looks better and better every time we see it, having gone from a lame, ugly Grand Theft Auto ripoff to a slick-looking drug-lord simulation in the space of a year. The new Scarface: The World is Yours trailer is the best look we've had at the game yet, laying out the plot while treating us to plenty of screaming, cursing, explosions and flashy Scarface-style viciousness.
Better still, a huge tiger totally mauls a guy. And it's apparently a pet tiger you can buy.
Expectations are running high for Second Sight. It's from the people behind the superb Timesplitters series, and clearly owes the FPS a visual debt. It's a more strictly plot-driven affair than the time travelling epic, though. You are John Vattic, the unfortunate soul who emerges from a coma at the start of the game. At this stage, you don't even know your own name. Total amnesia restricts your knowledge of events to a series of terrifying flashbacks: Siberia, covert operation - you know the
Second Sight plunges you headlong into a baffling world of paranormal activity, amnesia, sinister human experimentation and - yes - guns galore.John Vattic is having a bad day. A very bad day. Emerging from a coma in a sinister US medical facility, he doesn't even know his own name, let alone what he's doing here.Cue the flashbacks, then: Siberia, covert operation, unsettling new psychic powers. It's enough to send a man unhinged. Oh, and you'll be stumbling, shellshocked, across a sinister
For many older gamers, it was the ultimate football game and now Sensible Soccer is making a comeback for PS2, Xbox and PC.
Set for release early next year to coincide with its 15th anniversary, Sensible Soccer will feature the same lightening-quick action and signature physics-defying banana shots, as well as a brand new look. From the shots provided you'll see that the players, while retaining massive heads, are now cel-shaded.
Original SS creator Jon Hare has been brought on to the
2K Games has released some new screenshots for its upcoming shooting title, Serious Sam II.
The original Serious Sam, while not providing much of a cerebrum workout, was crucially loads of fun thanks to the quick and simple action that gave you an almost never-ending stream of enemies to blast away, while running around like a mad loon.
This frantic pace will continue this time around too, with developer Croteam promising to cram even more enemies on screen at one time.
If non-stop,
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