I am generally not the one person to follow the trend when it comes to releasing my blogs. I would suppose that in that sense I’m an anti conformist blogger, which would then make me a conformist because many other don’t do what I don’t do. It’s a complicated circle but I generally do that.
In this case, however, I decided I would continue the age old trend of celebrating (or demoralizing) the releases shooting out this year. It seemed like a perfect time and there are quite a few I am more than utterly giddy about:
First up: Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Adam Jensen looks like a total bad ass, doesn't he?
The Prequel to two of the greatest games in history of choose your own adventure type games. 25 years before the events in Deus Ex, when biomechanical augments are all the rage for humans and the nanotech augments that were popular in both the first two games haven’t been designed yet. Taking the helm of Adam Jensen, the player will roam through five cities, including Shanghai and Detroit while tracking down clues in which to solve a conspiracy, which is always the main plot point to every DE game.
You can expect to find many mysteries, thousands of choices, cool upgrades and weapons coming down the line in this installment. The Development and Publishing assignments switching up, Edios will be developing while Square Enix will be publishing it.
The release date is scheduled for early 2011 and I know I wont be able to get my hands on the game when it comes out but I know I will be picking it up on the Xbox 360 and expect many sleepless nights when it comes down to playing it.
Next up something I not truly excited about but know that many others are just clamoring to get their clammy little hands on a copy. Epic Games child from the loins of Cliffy B himself, Gears of War 3 will be released late 2011, at this moment November 25 2011.
Gamers will once again take control of one B.A.M.F. Marcus Fenix in a new section of his messed up world of Sera. It takes place 18 months after the end of Gears 2 and now the world is slowly becoming more threatening as some parts of the Locust are evolve into a terrorize force that threatens both sides of the war front.
This time around, Epic has decided to allow females to join the party in the form of 3 female playable characters, Samantha Byrne, Anya Stroud, and Bernadette Mataki. They are also tossing in all new weapons to the party, to you know, liven things up in the heat of battle. Including incendiary grenades, a double barrel shotgun, and even a weapon that can take down an enemy in one hit, dubbed the One Shot.
With four player co-op campaign, the multiplayer many people loved from the second game this game will probably be an amazing end, if it is a trilogy, and I know fans will enjoy for another few years to come. Oh yeah and Carmine is not dying.
Third up to bat, another series I’ve been only half invested in due to inability to grab a good copy. The Elder Scrolls series sees it fans into a brave new venture in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim where both the developer Bethesda and the player take on their greatest challenges.
The most amazing looking Elder Scrolls game could be one of Bethesda's Greatest challenge
I read the thorough article in this months Game Informer and was very impressed by what I saw coming from the developers who brought the Fallout series as well as Elder Scrolls series. Past outings in their games have been… well compared to gaming standards these days a bit under par but still great games none the less. This time around, both the graphics and the premise are upon epic scales seeking to break every boundary they ever placed before them throughout the years. I do hope there is a reduction in the amount of glitches in which we have seen in the past games, because I sadly had to end my recent playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas due to glitches that would not let me proceed, I was more than annoyed with the game so I returned it. So here’s hoping.
This time around we finally push forward through the prophecies of the Elder Scrolls and past the events we have been so delicately dancing around for year and years on end. This time, it’s the rule of dragons coming to light and only certain people can come forward to defend the world from an oppressive and destructive rule of the vile dragons.
They have added in new battle features such a dual wielding both weapons and magic, upgrading the way the player levels up in terms of perks, skills, and what we focus on instead of clumping the gamer into one particular group or another. They even went so far as to design a whole new “effect” program in terms of in whatever you do in one small town will have grandiose consequences. Say you drop your sword in the streets of an old town instead of selling it at the shop, in some cases it could just lye there throughout the seasons becoming rusty and broken, or in other events a boy could come running up to you with it ask if you dropped it and would want it back. In a third account, two men could come across the sword at the same time and proceed to fight and possibly kill each other over it. Which is my oh so favorite of scenarios in my opinion. Pretty much every little thing you do is recorded and used against you all over the world, which is the way video games SHOULD treat their worlds.
In every regard, Skyrim sounds like an amazing premise and hold great potential. Here is hoping that the guys over at Bethesda keep up the progress and continue to surprise us upon release day in November.
This year looks promising and I know I didn’t put but three of the recent releases but current work loads makes me lack the time to write up any more but I will post below a list of the games I’m most excited about this year.
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Max Payne 3 (supposedly)
Star Wars Old Republic
Portal 2
Bulletstorm
Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Dead Space 2
Mass Effect 3
Infamous 2
