This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: “I will take bullets for you,” it read.
The motion picture beats the still image again. Sure, today’s new Battlefield 3 screenshots were impressive. But this trailer, showing a 64-player battle in the game’s Caspian Sea level, looks better.
Combining the slingshot controls of Angry Birds, the swordplay of Fruit Ninja, the gorgeous Unreal Engine-powered graphics of Infinity Blade, and the dark fairytale them of the film Pan’s Labyrinth, The Dark Meadow is the sort of iOS game nightmares are made of.
The Polish super-team building the cyberpunk FPS Hard Reset must think it’s 1996 or something. The game is a PC exclusive, has no multiplayer, and although it was announced last month, it’s coming out later this year. That’s how things used to get done around here.
Firefall is an upcoming co-op shooter for the PC, made by Red 5 Studios, which is helmed by the guy who was team lead on World of Warcraft. So it should know what it’s doing when it comes to online gaming.
It certainly looks like it does, as this gameplay trailer is a blast. If you’ve ever liked Starship Troopers and/or Tribes, there should be something to like in all this.
It should be out sometime towards the end of the year.
A video game built around an investigation into a series of brazen attacks by a Mexican drug cartel, which culminates in an attack on US soil, may sound like a timely take on the escalating violence in United States’ border towns.
