Total War: ROME II Campaign map

A nice long look at the campaign map and some new gameplay

The guys over at Gamespot had Al Bickham from Creative Assembly over, to talk about Rome II and show off some new stuff.

We got to see how massive the new Campaign map is, as well as some new features and of course some nice battle footage. 

I feel the need to Conquer it all

During the video/interview Al Bickham hinted at some new multiplayer features that were being "tested" right now, more info is bound to come about that at a later date.
He also mentions that they are trying to make the minimum specs around the same as they were for Shogun 2, that way people with low end machines can still enjoy the game at a good framerate.

As I've said before, I am looking forward to Rome II quite a bit!

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Directors Cut no longer Wii-u exclusive

Damage Control after Deus Ex: "The Fail" ?

It seems that Square Enix has decided to make Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut for all platforms now ,and one would surmise that this is some form of damage control.

Everyone were outraged when the revealed the Directors Cut would only come out on Wii-U, and now with the recent announcement of Deus Ex: The Fall, that will only come out on Tablets/iOS, It seems like Square is desperate to not throw more blood in the shark infested waters.

Obviously it's a good thing that everyone else will be able to play the DC, but again : It's clearly an attempt to gain some good grace back.

Score!

"After our Director's Cut announcement we received an overwhelming response from the community asking us to bring this ultimate edition of Human Revolution to other platforms," said Stéphane D'Astous, General Manager of Eidos-Montréal.

"We're thrilled to accommodate that request. We can now say with pleasure, 'You asked for this!'"

 I'll most likely play it but there is now way in hell I am going to pay a full retail price for it.

Battlefield 4 Can DICE redeem themselves?

Well maybe, it looks good so far.

The only thing they need to give out info on is Squad-size (6 man squads is something we want back) Seems to be 5-man squads in the video, and if they have been stupid enough to make the Commander mode only accessible on tablets (hopefully not)

Anyways, I'll let this video talk for itself :

And here is the Commander mode trailer:

I'm actually aboard this particular train

DICE Hearts Battlefront

Hoth + Lasers + ATAT Foot in a few seconds long teaser

Well it's official , DICE is making the next Star Wars: Battlefront.

And they revealed this with something that looked like it came from Vine ,a mega short CGI teaser on Hoth, lasers, explosions and an ATAT foot.

ALL ABOARD!

TitanFall

Futuristic Infantry and Mech combat

The last game to be shown off at Microsofts press conference was "TitanFall".

I'd describe it as if, Lost Planet , Call of Duty and Hawken had a threesome and the love child that was born got named TitanFall.

Luckily it's not Xbone exclusive, it seems it will be out on PC as well.

The gameplay they showed, featured infantry combat in first person (with "jetpacks) where you fought over "capture points" ,from what I could hear, the voice over said something a long the lines of "Secure that terminal, we need to get the guns off-line ,we are getting torn to pieces up here" .

In the skies above the combat zone 2 massive ships were flying around (Reminded me of good old Battlefield 2142), taking fire from said guns on the ground, these ships also appear to deliver your "Titans" which are mechs that can be called-down and then piloted by you.

All in all it looks interesting, however as usual, I'm sceptical until I get "hands-on".

CHOO CHOO

Xbone Price "Let's Fuck over Europeans"

Big company Math 499$=499€

So the Xbone is coming out in November 2013, as we all knew before, now we know the price will be 499$ in the US, and 499€ in EU ,429£ in the UK, BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK NOT? , everyone knows that 1$=1€=1£ Right?

Sheesh.

CHOO CHOO

RYSE, Xbone exclusive

RYSE shows of the kinerrrrr QTE's

RYSE was a game that had been on my radar since E3 2011, they showed off a "concept teaser trailer" then.
It's an XBOX-ONE exclusive as well it seems.

Old trailer

However what we were showed just now , was a bunch of Quick-time events and pretty graphics.

I hate QTE's, well let's see how the hell the kinect works for it.

CHOO CHOO

Metal Gear Solid : The Phantom Pain (Xbox One)

Snake get's to play in a dynamic open world

The next instalment of the MGS game series, will let you roam free in a massive open-world environment.

A trailer shown at the conference opened with Snake and another character riding horses through a desert. Through conversation, it is revealed that Snake is headed to Afghanistan. According to the trailer, the game will feature new kinds of stealth elements, various modes of transport and a realtime weather system.

CHOO CHOO

 

Dragon Age 3 at E3

Mark Darrah Executive Producer for Dragon Age Franchies hint's at DA 3 at E3

Earlier today the EP for the Dragon Age Franchise Tweeted  "Watch the @EA conference tomorrow at 1pm PST for something new from @DragonAge"

Dragon Age 3 is the next instalment in the Dragon Age series, and since it will be running in the Frostbite 3 Engine, one would assume that it will be out for PC, and next-gen consoles.

Concept Art

EA's press conference can be found over Here, and sadly I'll be watching it, mostly to see if DICE can redeem themselves with the Battlefield 4 Multi-player.

There's a quite neat "all in one" countdown site for all the E3 press conferences over Here as well.

CHOO CHOO

Watch Dogs E3 trailer leak

CGI-Trailer for E3 leaked

According to All Games Beta, the E3 trailer for Ubisofts new game Watch Dogs has been leaked, and is available as a direct DL from their site.

It's a CGI-trailer which shows off the protagonist: Aiden, going after a guy who's involved with Human-Trafficking, it shows of some of the "gameplay" elements albeit in CGI.

"Give me four seconds and a clear signal," Aiden says in the trailer. "I'll get in and you'll never know. But I want you to know. You're not anonymous. I've seen your kind before."

If they show off some proper gameplay on E3 I'll be a bit less reserved, Watch Dogs looks good and the concept sounds good, but I want to see the -whole- thing in action first.

 

To Hype or not to Hype, That is the question

 

Deus Ex: The Fall

New Deus Ex game teased via Twitter and Youtube

Yesterday it was discovered that Squre Enix had registered several domain names related to "Deus Ex The Fall".

And about 14 hours ago Eidos-Montréal tweeted out "Are YOU ready for The Fall?"

12 of hours later the official Deus Ex youtube channel had a new video uploaded.

They also tweeted out this "Who is Ben Saxon?" and Ben Saxon is one of the two protagonists in the book "Deus Ex: Icarus Effect" which was released in 2011.
Link to the Wiki with info on Ben Saxon can be found here

Now before the video was uploaded and only the Tweet was out, some sites logically assumed we would see something at E3, however the video has "05/06/13" plastered over it, and that does not correlate to E3 which kicks off June 11th.

Well I'm excited, and I hope they manage to pull something great off, but for the love of god Eidos, make sure to include ways to beat bosses other than direct confrontation in the -standard first run- of the game, and not some "Directors cut" that only comes out as a gimmick for -one- console.

Who is Ben Saxon?