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EGM December 2008 reviews + rumors
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twinturbo2 said:
Undercover reviewed by John. Feels like a greatest hits package of NFS since Underground. Has cars from Carbon and the cop gameplay from Most Wanted. You can free roam or jump to a race instantly through menus. Difficulty ramps up high with aggressive cop AI, as well as opponents. It could deter people from progressing at a certain point. The game introduces a leveling system that requires 'grinding.' Leveling boosts your driver skills and your ability to buy upgrades and cars. If you have enough cash to upgrade but a low level, you can't buy it unless you want to use real money (cue MS points screenshot). So you can grind or microtransact you way through the game.
theinfinityissue
Member
these terms, in this context, are mutually exclusive.
I trust cliffb to make a fun shooter, but I don't expect that he'll be able to scare me, ever.
Of course, due to the near-death of survival horror, I'd be thrilled to be proved wrong.
cw_sasuke said:
Well waiting for 2010 to release something on Wii might be a little too late. It could still have about 1 year left of lifetime in Japan, if the rumors of the next Nintendo console being in 2011 are true.
And for the rest of the world, after a localization process, the game well could be just behind the next console's launch, so that could hurt on sales.
Besides SE is letting escape a big opportunity of reuse their old PS2 engines, they well could have been making some seuels or spinoffs from PS2 titles and releasing them on the Wii, the market is there to be exploited and no one but Namco and Marvelous are going to exploit it.
Reusing their existing engines would as well helped them to fund their HD games, big budget portable games, and help preparing them towards next-gen, which they should already be looking into.
Might have just been a big overlook from SE, or we just might get surprised and they will show a couple of decent games for Wii next month at the Jump Festa.
cw_sasuke said:
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End War is simply a proof of concept. If Ubisoft gives Massive the freedom to consider that technology and the time to create at the level Massive is capable of... THEN we'll have the console RTS that can bring the whole package together.
Tom Clancy's: WiC for consoles has HUGE potential. End War is a poor man's Ground Control imo.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Wait, so they bitched about the difficulty, too? :lolWario64 said:
Endwar controls like WiC + Unit cards (pretty similar to Wic though) + voice commands.Mindlog said:
Endwar is onto the right thing for console strategy controls, WiC just does everything outside of that better (I think it's a good thing Ubisoft picked up the dev for future console strategy games).
Sgt. Killjoy
Member
oh damn, i think i have to buy Korg now.
charlequin
Banned
cw_sasuke said:
That's because you apparently spend your time running around like a headless chicken that likes to complain about poor Wii software support instead of paying attention. The game is not cancelled.
Psychotext
Member
1: GAF never goes OTT about games ever, and certainly never overhypes them.kbear said:
2: Posting negative impressions in an official thread is a good idea, and is always a smart thing to do.
charlequin said:
SE support for Wii has been week til now imo, no discussion there. Their upcoming lineup for the platform also don`t show any highlight. I hope it isn`t canceled, thats all, after all i believe in dragonas words
To be honest, that would be more or less in line with my expectations. They haven't ported the Crystal Tools just for fun, they could use a big Wii game, and a Wii title that's part of FNC/ FFXIII might help the brand in Japan. Maybe it still is Crystal Bearers (more or less - same team, same basic concepts), but reworked once again from the ground up, with a different scenario and title.-Kh- said:
OldJadedGamer
Banned
Oblivion said:
Depends on who the reviewers were. Was Shane on the LBP review?
Flying_Phoenix
Banned
Mushroom Men performed as I expected.
RpgN said:Hmm...I'm not sure if this is a sarcastic post, but you can expect everything to happen these days
I don't know why would you think I'm being sarcastic
I'm usualy serious about SE stuff lol. But let's believe in charlequin, and hopefully the game will be shown next month.However, now I would like a Kawazu game for the FNC project.
There are still 3 undisclosed games (Actually I think 2 if one of them is Haeresis) from the original project target shown back in 2006
Having 2 (or 3) spots open, and given the statement that SE wants different directos to work on different games of the project, it isn't too far-fetched to think that the CC team (Kawazu) was given one game.
See? I wasn't being sarcastic
Shin Johnpv
Member
Wario64 said:
If this is true, SE is officially mentally retarded and hates money.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
great month as far as reviews go.
I'm really curious about the Tecmo Bowl scores. Did it get those scores because there are flaws in the game that make it only average, or was it a case of people not being able to appreciate the more old-school style and gameplay?
I can't at all say this from personal experience, but I've heard a few rumbling that a lot of game engine stuff was actually, finally fixed/changed. Again, don't take my word for it, just repeating what I've heard. I may have heard wrong.
Ken Masters said:
I can't at all say this from personal experience, but I've heard a few rumbling that a lot of game engine stuff was actually, finally fixed/changed. Again, don't take my word for it, just repeating what I've heard. I may have heard wrong.
RpgN
Junior Member
-Kh- said:I don't know why would you think I'm being sarcastic
However, now I would like a Kawazu game for the FNC project.
There are still 3 undisclosed games (Actually I think 2 if one of them is Haeresis) from the original project target shown back in 2006
Having 2 (or 3) spots open, and given the statement that SE wants different directos to work on different games of the project, it isn't too far-fetched to think that the CC team (Kawazu) was given one game.
See? I wasn't being sarcastic
Sorry sorry! We have a lot of sarcastic people here, so I get a little confused sometimes.
It might be it, we're just going to have to wait I'm afraid. It sounds really awesome. They would be the ones to use the full power of the wii on a nova crystal universe. It would certainly make many fans happy.
Flying_Phoenix
Banned
-Kh- said:
I agree with this completely. This isn't 1996 anymore, video games take a LONG time to make now. Even games that were planned early in the Wii's life have yet to be released (Fragile, Oboro Muramasa Youtoden) or have just been released (ToS DoTnW). And neither of those are really "big budgeted games" imagine how long a game the caliber of Nintendo's games would take? And for the PS3/360 its even worse. DMC4 and MGS4 finally saw release this year after being announced practically as long as the platforms themselves, and don't even get me started on Final Fantasy XIII.
My point is that it takes FAR longer to develop games in this day in age. And it is probably very well a reality that developers are developing big name games for the Wii now especially since third parties are following Nintendo's wing of "announcing games a mere few months before their release" as shown with Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Tenchu IV, Kizuna, etc. Not to mention the games that have been leaked that are not yet announced such as Hudson's survival horror game and Izuna Eleven Wii from Level 5. I mean hell EA just said that they JUST started to shift their support to the Wii not too long ago. This isn't because they just realized it but more so that they had to finish all of the games they were already developing in the first place.
So if Nintendo is supporting the Wii for a long time like they say then don't expect all the meat to come until at least another year (3-4 years to create the average big game). Or they can release big games at the tip of the Wii's life cycle and start fresh and early on the Wii's successor.
SaggyMonkey
Member
Wow, C's for EndWar? It's my favorite console rts, yet. (and better than most PC ones too)
Wii Will Rock U
Banned
Wario64 said:
Wow, I mean, WOW. That just may keep me from selling the PSP aside from the two games I actually own for the system (Patapon and Fan Fiction...errmm...I mean FFVII: Crisis Core)
And a Steamboat Willie level as DLC would be really fantastic.
Fanboydestroyer
Member
Pretty good review scores for the games I want. But I'm very sad that Crystal Bearers appears to be cancelled. I have no intrest what so ever in that other game that I guess is taking it's place. Crystal Bearers looked really cool. Bummer
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
jett said:
Normally when a person passes on information about various upcoming and unannounced products from a company on a fairly frequent basis, it's not a major leap to assume that other information from them about the same company should probably be trusted.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
LittleBigPlanet PSP could work, but there's a lot of shit they need to cut out, like the right analog controls for hand waving and the tilting controls that control Sackboy's head. But the actual gameplay seems suited for a handheld.