Team Fortress 2. Used to be the butt pocket joke for whenever a game took forever to be released. Now it is tantalizingly redone and looking better than ever. They did a few films before where the classes spoke about themselves, and now the soldier gets his turn. I never thought a cartoony game would make me think “amazing graphics” again, but this one does.
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Minesweeper movie trailer
Aug 12
This will be the best game-to-movie ever. Look out Uwe Boll!
I really need to get a Wii.
As I’ve said on here a million times, I’m not much of a console gamer. Or at least, I don’t really consider myself one. I played all the classic Atari, Coleco, and Nintendo titles, but things got banal and monotonous for me after the Sega Genesis, and even that console had a vast pit of crappy games to go with the few gems.
I got the Xbox only after it had been out awhile, had dropped in price, and specifically to use as a media player/linux pc platform. I never even bought the PS or PS2, although I’ve played them a few times.
But there are three genres of games I prefer on consoles: Driving, Sports, and Fighting. Those just aren’t as fun on a PC, and translate much better to sitting in front of the TV with a controller.
My favorite fighting game series is Soul Calibur. I bought that game immediately after buying the Xbox, and it is definitely my most played Xbox title. It had stunning graphics and animation back then, and still looks and plays damn good today.
And now comes Soul Calibur: Legends for the Wii. We all know about the controller and we anticipate great things to be done with it. A couple weeks ago the trailer for the new Lego Star Wars on the Wii showed a first taste of what lightsaber battles could be like. But I had no idea they were going to integrate a Soul Calibur title to be used with it. This series stresses melee weapon combat, and does it better and more varied than any other fighting game. Now we can wear ourselves out swinging the staff or whipping Eve’s sword. I can only picture good things ahead. At least, after I finally get ahold of a Wii.
This game is looking better and better. Between this and Team Fortress 2, I think my FPS needs will be covered for awhile.
The video has a bunch of gameplay as well as a developer talking about all the new character building and “perks” entered into this new version of the classic game. If you didn’t see the previous videos, COD4 is no longer centered around WW2, but around modern and even futuristic combat.
Notice how he says “For all those playing Call of Duty 2 online…” ? Yeah, because they were idiots for not including Call of Duty 3 on the PC.
The Fallout 3 teaser trailer has been released, along with a general release date announcement of Fall 2008.
It is not our fault that we, as gamers, see a trailer for an upcoming game with impressive graphics and say to ourselves, “That must be just some cutscene, that isn’t how the game actually plays/looks”. It’s not our fault because for a decade or more that’s been the truth with nearly every trailer or teaser released. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
It looks like those days are somewhat over. Sparked by next-gen consoles, game developers are pushing the limits on the hardware to make stunning games. One of the first we’ve seen was in Gears of War for the XBOX360, which, when released matched the trailers in look and feel. At least for current expectations, games look good enough to make their own cutscenes.
But still, old habits die hard, so last year when the first trailer for Assassin’s Creed were released, they looked just a bit too cinematic and reactive to be true gameplay. As such, while the trailer was very impressive, it got shoved in the back of people’s mind as just a pretty cutscene. Fortunately, now we find that the game truly plays much like the trailer. (I say much because some of the angles of the trailer aren’t really seen in gameplay).
As the launch date of fall of this year approaches, and UbiSoft has their showcase gathering in Paris called Ubidays, more trailers and gameplay have been shown, and all of them are impressive. They back up the gameplay by showing, well… gameplay.
Thank goodness this isn’t console only, because I still haven’t purchased any nextgen consoles, and am planning to beef up my PC a tad this summer.
There’s still a trailer for a game I can’t believe is indicative of real gameplay, even though there have been countless suggestions that it will be, and that’s the stunning Killzone 2 trailer released before the PS3 went to stores. It will be hard to keep my money in my wallet if it truly looks and plays that way. And if it does, it may shake the trailer cynic out of me.
