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When one thinks of this industry’s true tech-driven developers, one doesn’t have to think too hard. Count them on one hand — id, Epic, DICE, Valve and Crytek. When these teams reveal their games, the titles often feel more like tech demos than game demos. Last night in San Francisco, Crytek debuted Crysis 3, and it was very much like seeing a tech demo.
The PSP role-playing game Heroes Phantasia takes nine popular fantasy and sci-fi anime — Blood+, Read or Die, My-HiME, s-CRY-d, Darker Than Black, Slayers Revolution, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Rune Soldier Louie and Sgt Frog — and mixes them into one giant cross-over adventure. And while fans of these shows will no doubt be excited to play as their favourite characters, the question remains: is there a good game buried beneath the fan-service or is it all flash and no substance?
Sporting a story-driven solo campaign and an immersive snow-covered setting, Capcom’s early Xbox 360 offering, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, stood out in a sea of samey sci-fi fraggers and me-too military shooters. Sadly, its sequel abandoned the very things-rich narrative, icy environments that helped its predecessor rise above the predictable lock-and-load pack. Thankfully, the recently revealed third instalment seems to be getting the series back on track.
Listen: all you gamers who grew up on Dungeon & Dragons, R.A. Salvatore or Gauntlet should be reading DC Comics’ Demon Knights. Written by Paul Cornell, the monthly series throws together a motley crew of medieval adventurers out to defeat powerful necromancers for personal reasons that vary wildly.
Kingdom Hearts is one of those series whose quality varies wildly from game to game. Sometimes they are nothing but near pointless filler while others are as solid as the numbered iterations in the series. Much like the “even-number Star Trek films curse”, fans of the series believe those Kingdom Hearts titles released on Nintendo consoles are doomed to be inferior. So does the 3DS’ Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance prove the pattern true once again or drop it like a bad habit instead?
