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Name: Ninja Gaiden Sigma II
Developer: Team Ninja
Availability: PS3 Exclusive
Genre: Action/Adventure
Description:
We always hear from developers that they've upped the scale, scope and all-round epic nature of their game for the sequel. So and so game has twice as many levels, another has bigger bosses, another includes some new moves. Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is a game that has more variety than you could ever imagine, a storyline that spans the globe, enemies so diverse you expect something new around every corner, combat so brutal you'll be wincing until the closing credits and a style that is effortlessly cool. Ninja Gaiden 2 was more bad ass than its predecessor in every conceivable way, and this PS3 exclusive refresh is even better... for the most part.
If you haven't been following the Ninja Gaiden series over the past few years you probably aren't prepared for how difficult Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is, even if it's definitely easier than the 360 original. It's still on a completely different level to current genre favourite God of War. To put Ninja Gaiden 2 into perspective, I was able to beat God of War and its sequel fairly comfortably on the default difficulty - on the easiest difficulty Ninja Gaiden 2 almost made me gnaw my fingers off at certain points. Newcomers will definitely appreciate Sigma 2's more forgiving gameplay, but unless you're 100 per cent focused don't expect to make it very far.
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Name: inFAMOUS
Developer: Sucker Punch
Availability: PS3 Exclusive
Genre: Third Person Sandbox Action
Description:
Like this? Then try this: Prototype, Saints Row 2, Assassin's Creed, Crackdown, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Star Wars: The Force UnleashedWikipedia wrote:Infamous is a sandbox video game, combining elements of platforming, shooting, puzzles, and role-playing game elements. The player controls Cole and primarily interacts with the world of Empire City through Cole's newly gained electricity-based powers that are used for movement, offense and defense in combat, and either for better or worse in dealing with the citizens of Empire City.
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Name: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Developer: Kojima Productions
Availability: PS3 Exclusive
Genre: Action/Adventure
Description:
Like this? Then try this: Splinter Cell series, Thief seriesMetal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, commonly abbreviated to MGS4, is a stealth action video game developed by Kojima Productions. In MGS4, the player assumes the role of Old Snake, utilizing stealth, CQC and traditional combat techniques. The OctoCamo suit mimics the appearance and texture of any surface, decreasing the probability of Snake being noticed. The Solid Eye device highlights items and enemies, and can operate in Night Vision and Binocular mode. Metal Gear Mk.II, later substituted by Mk.III, offers CODEC functionality and a means to the in-game menu for a large part of Snake's mission. It can be remote controlled to stun enemies, provide reconnaissance and interact with the environment.
Metal Gear Solid 4 is set five years after the Big Shell incident, in 2014. The world economy relies on continuous war, fought by PMCs, which outnumber government military forces. PMC soldiers are outfitted with nanomachines to enhance their abilities and control the battlefield. The control network created through these nanomachines is called Sons Of the Patriots (SOP), and Liquid Ocelot is preparing to hijack the system. Snake accepts a request from Roy Campbell to terminate Liquid, with Otacon and Sunny providing mission support from the Nomad aircraft.
Metal Gear Solid 4 includes the Starter Pack for Metal Gear Online. MGO features up to 16 player online tactical battles and incorporates several gameplay elements from MGS4, including the SOP system that allows players to have a visual confirmation of their teammates' position and battle status.
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Name: Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Developer: Evolution Studios
Availability: PS3 Exclusive
Genre: Racing
Description:
Like this? Then try this: Burnout Paradise, Pure.MotorStorm: Pacific Rift is a racing video game by Evolution Studios. The game moves away from the desert environments of the original title and relocates itself in a lush island environment, full of interactive vegetation. It also includes monster trucks and four-player split-screen capability. Monster trucks are able to ride over cars (except big rigs), break most vegetation, and destroy structures. Bikes also have new capabilities so they can bunny hop and the driver can duck.
The 16 tracks are set around volcanic mountainsides, beaches, jungle, caves, and a run-down sugar factory.
Another new feature in Motorstorm: Pacific Rift is the presence of water in the form of rivers, pools and waterfalls. Water also cools down car's engines, which presents a whole line of new tactics.
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Name: Dead Space
Developer: EA
Availability: Multiplatform
Genre: 3rd Person Sci-fi Horror
Description:
Review:The Dead Space experience is all about surviving in its sci-fi world through strategic dismemberment, so experience the horror before the Necromorphs dismember you. After all, you are never truly safe in Dead Space. When an immense mining ship, the USG Ishimura, comes into contact with a mysterious alien artifact in a remote star system, its communications with Earth are mysteriously cut off. Engineer Isaac Clarke is sent to repair the Ishimura's communications array, but he arrives to find a living nightmare. The ship is a floating bloodbath, the crew unspeakably mutilated and infected by an ancient alien scourge. Clarke's repair mission becomes one of survival as he fights not just to save himself, but to return the artifact to the planet at any cost.
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Name: Fallout 3
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Availability: Multi Platform
Genre: RPS (Roleplaying Shooter) First or third person
Description:
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Winner of over 80 Game of the Year awards!
Description:
Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world – radiation, Super Mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. From Vault-Tec, America’s First Choice in Post Nuclear Simulation.
Story:
Vault 101 – Jewel of the Wastes. For 200 years, Vault 101 has faithfully served the surviving residents of Washington DC and its environs, now known as the Capital Wasteland. Though the global atomic war of 2077 left the US all but destroyed, the residents of Vault 101 enjoy a life free from the constant stress of the outside world. Giant Insects, Raiders, Slavers, and yes, even Super Mutants are all no match for superior Vault-Tec engineering. Yet one fateful morning, you awake to find that your father has defied the Overseer and left the comfort and security afforded by Vault 101 for reasons unknown. Leaving the only home you’ve ever known, you emerge from the Vault into the harsh Wasteland sun to search for your father, and the truth.
Key Features:- Limitless Freedom! – Take in the sights and sounds of the vast Capital Wasteland! See the great monuments of the United States lying in post-apocalyptic ruin! You make the choices that define you and change the world. Just keep an eye on your Rad Meter!
- Experience S.P.E.C.I.A.L.! – Vault-Tec engineers bring you the latest in human ability simulation – the SPECIAL Character System! Utilizing new breakthroughs in points-based ability representation, SPECIAL affords unlimited customization of your character. Also included are dozens of unique skills and perks to choose from, each with a dazzling variety of effects!
- Fantastic New Views! – The wizards at Vault-Tec have done it again! No longer constrained to just one view, experience the world from 1st or 3rd person perspective. Customize your view with the touch of a button!
- The Power of Choice! – Feeling like a dastardly villain today, or a Good Samaritan? Pick a side or walk the line, as every situation can be dealt with in many different ways. Talk out your problems in a civilized fashion, or just flash your Plasma Rifle.
- Blast ‘Em Away With V.A.T.S.! – Even the odds in combat with the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System for your Pip-Boy Model 3000! V.A.T.S. allows you to pause time in combat, target specific body parts on your target, queue up attacks, and let Vault-Tec take out your aggression for you. Rain death and destruction in an all-new cinematic presentation.
- Mind-Blowing Artificial Intelligence! – At Vault-Tec, we realize that the key to reviving civilization after a global nuclear war is people. Our best minds pooled their efforts to produce an advanced version of Radiant AI, America’s First Choice in Human Interaction Simulation. Facial expressions, gestures, unique dialog, and lifelike behavior are brought together with stunning results by the latest in Vault-Tec technology.
- Eye-Popping Prettiness!* – Witness the harsh realities of nuclear fallout rendered like never before in modern super-deluxe HD graphics. From the barren Wasteland, to the danger-filled offices and metro tunnels of DC, to the hideous rotten flesh of a mutant’s face.
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Name: Burnout Paradise
Developer: Criterion Games
Availability: Multiplatform
Genre: Racing
Description:Burnout Paradise is the seventh game in the Burnout video game series. It was released in January 2008. It has an open world set in the fictional Paradise City. For races, players may take any route to get to the destination. Races and other events are started by stopping at any of the 120 traffic lights around Paradise City and applying the accelerator and brake at the same time.
There are two different types of crash based on the car's condition after the crash. If the player's car manages to retain all four wheels, and not break its chassis, the player may drive out of the crash and continue playing; this is called a "driveaway". If a player's car loses any of its wheels, has the engine damaged too much from an impact, or winds up outside of the game's map, the car is in a "wrecked" state and the player will have to wait until his car is reset.
Burnout Paradise is also available for download on the PlayStation Store. A large number of DLC packs, most initial ones being free, have added day-and-night cycles, motorbikes and trophies to the game, as well as endearing the Burnout community and fans to the game's developers, Criterion.
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Name: Borderlands
Developer: 2k Games
Availability: Multiplatform
Genre: RPS (Role Playing Shooter)
Description:Borderlands is an original First Person Role Playing Shooter that combines the intuitive reward systems of action role playing games and the frantic-paced shooting combat of first person shooters. The game features a groundbreaking content generation system allowing for near endless variety in weapons and item drops. Borderlands allows for 4 players to share the same game experience simultaneously online in co-op gameplay. Players can freely join or leave each other's games at anytime, or choose to play in the full single-player mode. These feature, along with a rich and deep fiction that touches upon the mysteries buried beneath the surface of a danger-filled planet, combine to form a breakthough experience that challenges the conventions of modern shooters.
Co-Op Engineered Game Designed:
Borderlands is built from the ground-up to be an exciting and intuitive co-operative multiplayer experience that rewards players for investing in specific co-op skills. Split screen is also supported.
FPS Action Meets RPG Character Progression:
Players can choose one of four distinct characters and earn experience and gain proficiency in a number of specialties as they do battle with enemies. Upgrades can be invested in a wide variety of special abilities, allowing players to create a fully customized character that is tailored to their playing style.
Radical New Art Style:
Fresh and distinctive visual style combines traditional rendering techniques with hand-drawn textures to paint a unique and eye-catching spin on the First Person genre.
Intense Vehicular Combat:
Get behind the wheel of and engage in intense vehicle-to-vehicle combat.
Frontier Planet:
Search the wasteland planet of pandora for the legendary Alien Vault. Fight your way through bandits, discover nine native (and agressive) creatures, and help the few settlers on the planet in your search for a Vault rumored to contain a great prize - if it even exists!
Gun List:
Choose from an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of weapons, each with their unique manufacturers, specifications and advantages. A revolutionary new content generation system produces almost infinite tools of destruction
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Name: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Developer: Infinity Ward
Availability: Multiplatform
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Description:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (also referred to as simply Modern Warfare 2) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. Similar to previous installments within the Call of Duty series, the player assumes the role of various characters during the single-player campaign, changing perspectives throughout the progression of the story. Modern Warfare 2 is set five years after the conclusion of Call of Duty 4.
Modern Warfare 2 features a cooperative mode entitled Special Ops, which consists of independent missions similar in design to the "Mile High Club" epilogue mission from MW1. The online multiplayer mode of Modern Warfare 2 retains the same experience points and unlockable reward system as that of Call of Duty 4, with game modes that include Free-For-All, Search & Destroy, Demolition, Domination, Team Deathmatch, and Capture The Flag.[20] However, Modern Warfare 2 introduces several new features. Aside from new weapons, equipment, and perks that are now able to be upgraded to "pro versions"
Like this? Then try this: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: World at War, Killzone 2
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Name: Dragon Age: Origins
Developer: EA Games/Bioware
Availability: Multiplatform
Genre: RPG
Description:"Before BioWare amassed a following among console gamers with games like Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, and Mass Effect, the developer already had a significant fanbase. These gamers loved the studio for its work on the PC series Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights – tactical, story-driven RPGs with an emphasis on party mechanics. No developer did that style of game better in those days, and Dragon Age: Origins proves that BioWare isn't giving up the crown. Dragon Age brilliantly combines the genre's old-school conventions with a few modern twists to create one of the most addictive and expansive RPGs of its kind."
Dragon Age: Origins is a dark heroic fantasy set in a unique world. As the spiritual successor of BioWare's popular Baldur's Gate series of games, it uses a pause-and-play tactical combat system. Play in over-the-shoulder mode, or the more tactical top-down view. Dragon Age: Origins features a stunning amount of cinematic dialog. Players will be able to acquire unique party members. These party members will have their own motivations for accompanying the player.
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Name: Assassin's Creed 2
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Availability: Multiplatform
Genre: Action-Adventure
Description:Assassin's Creed II is an action-adventure video game, continuing the story of Desmond Miles [voiced by Nolan North] and the "Animus", a machine which makes it possible for the player to view the genetic memories of his ancestors, a long line of assassins. In Assassin's Creed II, the machine is used to view the memories of a young nobleman-turned-assassin named Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the late 15th and early 16th century in Italy, during the Renaissance.
Assassin's Creed II takes place in an open world with nonlinear gameplay, allowing the player to roam freely within several regions throughout late 15th century Italy, such as Venice, Florence, and the Tuscan countryside. The missions in the game now have an expanded variety, with different structuring. For example, a mission may have the objective to escort someone, but may change to a chase and assassination. Investigation is less explicit, and instead missions may follow people and/or a narrative. There are roughly 200 missions in this game; about half are part of the main storyline.
Like this? Then try this: Assassin's Creed, the Hitman series
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Assassin's Creed 2 Wikipedia Page
Assassin's Creed 2 Metacritic Page [91]
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Name: Red Faction: Guerrilla
Developer: THQ
Availability: Multiplatform
Genre: Action/Adventure
Description:In Red Faction: Guerrilla, the player takes the role of a Alec Mason as he assists the Red Faction to disrupt and overthrow the Earth Defense Force (EDF) on Mars. This is presented to the player in a third person perspective, a departure from the series' previous two games which were first person shooters. Developer Volition changed the camera perspective to help the player see and appreciate the surroundings as they are destroyed.[4] Much of the game centers around the game's Geomod 2.0 engine, which allows for buildings, cover, and other structures to be dynamically destroyed. In many cases, destroying buildings will leave behind salvage, the game's form of currency, which can be used along with salvage rewarded by completing missions to unlock and upgrade weaponry and technology. During the campaign, the player is equipped with a sledgehammer-like weapon, along with up to 3 other weapons or explosive devices. The player also has the opportunity to control armed vehicles such as tanks and walkers for more destructive options.
The game plays in an open world representing a terraformed area of Mars' surface. The world is divided into six distinct areas, and the player must successfully free each area from EDF control before moving onto the next. Should the player wander into as-yet-unfreed areas, they will be attacked by EDF forces. The player can traverse on foot or by hijacking one of the numerous vehicles that travel its surface. Navigation is provided by a mini-map and a GPS indicator which directs the player. In order to liberate an given area the player must complete a variety of missions to reduce the EDF's presence. At the same time, the player can complete various side missions, such as rescuing hostages, and delivering vehicles. Players may also be rewarded with salvage for completing these tasks. Other actions, such as letting civilians die, will lower morale, while actively killing civilians will lower morale faster. Should the player engage EDF forces in an area with high morale, civilians will likely join the fight alongside the player. Once the player has worn down the EDF presence in a sector to zero, a final mission will be available allowing the player to completely secure the sector. Once this has been completed for a sector it will be freely traversable, with no danger of EDF conflict (with some exceptions).).
Multiplayer:Red Faction: Guerrilla's multiplayer mode uses similar role-playing elements as introduced in Battlefield 2. As the player engages in more matches, they gain experience points that will grant them bonuses; most of which take the form of superficial bonuses such as the option to add more features to character models or altering aspects of their player emblem, and have no impact on the game. Other bonuses grant players access to additional gameplay modes.
The multiplayer modes also use Geomod 2.0 and the same weapons available in the game. An added feature exclusive to the multiplayer mode however, are special backpacks that grant players a unique, temporary power. Such powers include the ability to run faster, fly, burst through walls, or send out a concussion wave. Another additional device in the multiplayer games is the Reconstructor, a weapon-like object that uses nano-technology to rebuild destroyed structures. It is a key device in game modes which require players to attack or defend specific structures. There are six game modes, including typical multiplayer modes such as individual and team deathmatch and Capture the flag. Other modes focus on attempting to destroy or preventing the destruction of structures. "Siege" for example requires one team to try to destroy buildings controlled by the other as fast as possible. After a set period of time, or once all targets are destroyed, the roles are reversed, and a new round begins. The team that manages to destroy all targets the fastest wins the round.
Along with online multiplayer, there is an offline only "pass the controller" multiplayer game mode for two to four players called "Wrecking Crew". Wrecking Crew features several different modes, all of which are based around causing as much damage by oneself in each round with a set amount of resources (such as ammo, time, or both).
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Name: Heavy Rain
Developer: Quantic Dream
Availability: PS3 Exclusive
Genre: Interactive Drama
Description:When you're saying anything at all about Heavy Rain, the first thing you need to say is that it's bold. Quantic Dream has set out to produce an interactive noir thriller that's truly cinematic in scope with masses of tension, very human (and flawed) characters and multiple branching pathways for players to wind their way along. So, a quick plot rundown – a difficult job without giving away spoilers but, here we go: in Heavy Rain the basic aim is to save someone from death and to catch the person who put the victim in the position whereby they could die. Oh, and the perpetrator happens to be a serial killer. He or she is "The Origami Killer". You achieve these tasks by conversing (if you're not a fan of the Mass Effects or Monkey Islands of the gaming world, you may want to stop reading now) and by completing "quicktime events". Unlike most games, you control five characters: a father, a female journalist, a male FBI profiler, a male private eye and one further character. You do this in different parts of the game, not simultaneously. With the control system, it must be said that Quantic Dream has produced an imaginative and pleasant-to-use method of getting the most from the PS3 controller. It has also got to be said that Heavy Rain is probably the first game where a developer has had the gumption to make the motion capabilities of the PS3 controller properly useful. As well as certain basic movements for getting about the game, you'll use the Sixaxis at certain moments to follow on-screen prompts that can be deceptively tricky. Getting them wrong can mean anything from failing to sit down to sudden death. Death in Heavy Rain is unlike that which you see in other games. There is no miraculous resurrection - once a character is dead the game continues without them, adjusting the plot to accommodate their untimely departure. You can actually allow all the playable characters to die and still see the ending of the game, such is the branching nature of the story. Heavy Rain could well draw you deeper into a game than you've ever gone before.
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Name: Bioshock 2
Developer: 2K Marin and Irrational Games
Availability: Multiplatform
Genre: FPS Action-Adventure
Description:
BioShock 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Marin and Irrational Games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles, and the Windows operating system.
The game is set in fictional dystopian city Rapture, in a steampunk alternative history 1968, eight years after the events of BioShock. The protagonist and player-controlled character is a Big Daddy, a being that has had its organs and skin grafted into an atmospheric diving suit.
BioShock 2 features a story driven multiplayer mode where the player takes on the role of a citizen of Rapture. Set in 1959, just before the events of BioShock, the player chooses to take on the role of a splicer fighting in Rapture's civil war.
Like this? Then try this: Bioshock, System Shock 2
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Bioshock 2 Metacritic Page [91]
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Name: Darksiders
Developer: Vigil Games
Availability: Multi-platform
Genre: Hack and slash, action-adventure
Description: Darksiders is a single-player action adventure in which the player takes control of War, the first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse..
In third-person perspective, the player engages in combat, puzzles and exploration. The world is divided into separate locations with many areas at first initially inaccessible until War regains many of his lost weapons and abilities.
In the present day, armies of demons and angels fall to earth, destroying everything in their wake. In the midst of the chaos, War is summoned to Earth to bring order.
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]Developer: Studio Santa Monica
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: Action Adventure
Description:
There are a number of game franchises that can be described as “console-sellers”; exclusive games that can help make the decision between one platform and another. The importance of these games has diminished somewhat in recent years, with fewer exclusives, and online 'friends' being a bigger deciding factor. However, every once in a while, an exclusive title comes along that causes gamers who chose the other system to despair. The most recent example was Mass Effect 2 for the Xbox 360. The PS3 has its latest in the form of God of War III.
Unlike the previously mentioned Mass Effect 2, GOWIII has kept close to its roots. The gameplay has only minor tweaks, most of the main characters have made appearances already in the series and the plot follows a structure reminiscent of its predecessors. The story picks up where the second game left off withKratos attacking Mount Olympus, hell-bent on killing all gods that cross him, with the behemoth Titans in tow. Like its predecessors, GOWIII starts as it means to continue; one giant set-piece after another. The pace of the game is measured, with few “lulls”, and each encounter on your journey is memorably epic.
The most striking aspect of GOWIII is the visuals. I am not just talking about graphical prowess, but size. There are moments in the game where you will gasp at the sheer epic size of the environments you traverse, the enemies you fight and the allies you fight with. Throughout, the game engine performs like a Ferrari, making it all look so easy, never showing the cracks.
If there is one flaw, one miniscule chink in the armour, it is the aforementioned predecessors. We have seen a lot of these things before; we have seen what happens when you hammer the circle button while on the back of a Cyclops; we have seen the unfortunate demise of a Gorgon. While the phrase, “If it ain’t broke…” comes to mind, one has a niggling feeling that Sony Santa Monica have avoided risking any major changes, which is both commendable and disappointing. However, this is nit-picking. GOWIII is one of the most exciting games on the PS3, a thrill-ride of truly epic proportions and a certified “console-seller”
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Name: Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Developer: Dice
Publisher: EA
Availability: Multi-platform
Genre: First Person Shooter
Description:Gameplay in Bad Company 2 resembles that of the original and is set in various environments from South America and the mountainous regions along the borders of Russia. Like its predecessor, Bad Company 2 features destructible environments. The system is dubbed "Destruction 2.0," and the level of destruction is extended—players can now completely collapse a building as opposed to only blowing out walls. The video game also introduces bullet drop, a gravitational effect that causes shots from most weapons to drop over long distances.
Bad Company 2 features 15 vehicles, including new additions, such as the UH-60 Black Hawk, a quad bike, a two-man patrol boat, a personal watercraft, a ZU-23 mounted on a BTR-D armored personnel carrier, and a UAV helicopter controlled via remote computer terminals. Players can now hold up to three rifles, along with grenades.
Multiplayer however is where the fun begins. With four choices on how to play the game (Assault, Medic, Engineer, Recon) the player is sent into a 12 vs 12 battle in Rush (attack or defend stations) or Conquest (capture the flag). Other game modes include Squad Deathmatch where four squads of four players try to be the first to reach 50 kills to win and Squad Rush where a squad of four tries to attack or defend against another squad of four. Where this game is different from others is the use of vehicles. The players can take hold of tanks, helicopters, quad bikes, jet-skis and light armour vehicles to help them achieve the objective.
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Name: Red Dead Redemption
Developers: Rockstar San Diego, Rockstar North
Availability: Multi Platform
Genre: Action/adventure/sandbox
Description: The game is set in the fictional American Old West territory and follows John Marston, a former outlaw, while he tries to free his wife and son, taken by government agents, by capturing and killing his former gang members.
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Name: Bayonetta
Developer: Platinum Games / Sega
Availability: Multi Platform Title
Genre: 3rd Person Action / Slash 'em Up
Description:
Bayonetta is a witch. Her suit is made of hair for some not immediately apparent reason. She uses it as a weapon too. Nothing in Bayonetta really makes much sense, but it's brilliant so it doesn't really matter.
With the emphasis on 'over the top' in 'over the top action', Bayonetta is the natural progression of the action genre. The spiritual successor to the Devil May Cry series, this game takes the foundation and gameplay mechanics set down by DMC, God of War and others and turns it right up to 11, but figures 11 isn't enough, then turns it up to like 100. Letting you play the kick-ass parts other games show you in cut-scenes, Bayonetta ramps up the scale and silliness of the genre. While the combat system may initially seem like button-bashing, it soon reveals itself to be much more than that, with a depth extremely unusual for 3rd person beat 'em ups. Game changing weapons, split second dodges, wicked weaves, witch time, remixed enemy types, crazy combos, juggling - the game is constantly throwing surprises at the player. Harder modes illustrate the game at it's purest (and I'd strongly recommend heading straight onto hard mode once you've bested normal), but there's an automatic mode for beginners which lets you witness the sheer madness of the game without having to learn endless combos.
Add in truly epic boss battles, a suitably cheesy J-Pop soundtrack, and more videogame homages than you can keep up with (Hang On! Viewtiful Joe! After Burner!), Bayonetta is the game God of War wants to be, but isn't quite silly enough to be.
Like this? Then try this: Devil May Cry, Darksiders, God of War. They'll all seem a wee bit slow after Bayonetta though.
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Name: Call of Duty: Black Ops
Developer: Treyarch
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Multiplatform
Genre: FPS / Action Adventure
Review:
Treyarch have long been the underdogs of the Call of Duty family. They received undue animosity from COD fans around the world when Activision hired them to create games for the series. They were admonished for even daring to 'compete' with Infinity Ward, the original developers. They were shouted down over their valiant but ultimately average first attempt at a new-gen entry in the series [Call of Duty 3]. In the end, it was tough being Treyarch.
When they got the opportunity to prove themselves, they released World at War, 'another WWII shooter'. However, this was the only glib criticism that could be flung at it. Using a tweaked version of the Modern Warfare engine, they created a worthy entry in the franchise, giving us a solid single-player experience with a decent story, an exciting co-op mode in the form of fighting Nazi zombies and a multiplayer mode that rivalled the mighty MW.
However, Infinity Ward were still the fan favourites, so Treyarch still needed to prove themselves... and they have done so, with Black Ops. Again, we get a single-player mode; not to be sniffed at; written by David S. Goyer no less [Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, the new Superman reboot], with Sam Worthington and Gary Oldman as voice talent. We get a revamped zombie mode, with new maps and a twin-stick shooter mode called Dead Ops.
The selling point, however, is the multiplayer. There are no more nukes and no more 12+ kill streak rewards, which almost eliminates the problems MW2 had with 'glitchers' and 'boosters'. We now have a new currency system, where skills and teamwork are rewarded with money. This simple change allows for many more, including; Wager matches where betting increases the rewards and risks; the buying of weapon attachments from the moment the weapon is unlocked; weapon personalisations like camo, logos and clan tags. Each of these small but long sought-after changes add up to deliver a MP mode that surpasses that of Infinity Ward's effort.
Ther are problems, of course. Wager matches tend to become a haven for campers, the RCXD [exploding radio-controlled toy car] is earned far too early and the single-player, while enjoyable, is again, criminally short.
While not perfect, Treyarch have proven themselves with Black Ops.
9 / 10
Like this? Then try this: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare [Multi], Call of Duty: World at War [Multi]
Links:
Call of Duty: Black Ops Wiki
Call of Duty: Black Ops [Metacritic Score] [89]
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