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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land If this new “Desperation” trailer for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena doesn’t get you excited about Starbreeze’s upcoming continuation of the Riddick saga, then this probably isn’t the game for you.
G4 got their hands on the first four minutes of Starbreeze’s Chronicles of Riddick follow-up, Assault on Dark Athena, featuring our favourite psychotic killer doing what he does best – lurking in shadows.
Seems Wheelman has hit some traffic on the way to store shelves. The Vin Diesel vehicle won’t make its previously scheduled February release date, but is now locked in for a March 20th arrival.
Vin Diesel’s well-cultivated Hollywood tough guy image isn’t going to be helped by Midway’s Christmas card, which is heavy on Wheelman promotion and Santa suits. We’re guessing Vin’s agent got a call today.
Midway is finally ready to give us a solid release date on Wheelman, which means our long struggle for another video game featuring the likeness and voice of Vin Diesel is finally over! Wheelman well be hitting stores simultaneously in North America and Europe on February 16th, with plans to be available in Australia on February 27th. It just misses Valentine’s Day, but nothing says “I love you” quite like a pre-order of Wheelman for the Xbox 360, PS3, or PC.
A few weeks ago our intern Jim got some hands on time with Wheelman, the latest game to feature Vin Diesel. In this video, mission designer Mark Thompson walks us through one of the first missions and what we can expect when the game comes out. The slow motion in car sequence actually looks pretty good. I don’t know if Wheelman will be another Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher bay, but hey, it’s always possible. The game is scheduled to ship Q1 2009 on Xbox360, PC, and PS3.
Last stop on the Midway tour today is a look at Wheelman, the movie-licenced game based off the upcoming movie staring Vin Diesel. You know, the one that was delayed until next year? In any case, I got behind the wheel this morning and gave it a go. Look, I know it has Vin Diesel, but I’ll make this as quick and painless as possible.
As the title implies, there’s a lot of driving in this game. About 80% of it is you in a car holding down the right trigger button (or as I like to call it, the “go” button). The other 20%, you’ll be on foot. I didn’t get to see any ‘on foot’ gameplay, but I imagine you’ll be doing the same thing when you’re in the car. Shooting and fleeing. The overall graphics are good – the cars obviously look better than anything else in the game – but there were a few cases when the frame-rate did drop. Nothing horrible, mind you, but lets see if the delay helps the team polish that up.
