Filed under: Features , Sony PlayStation 3 , Microsoft Xbox 360 , First Person Shooters
This hands-on report is based on the Xbox 360 version of the game, though the developers assure us that the PS3 version will be nearly totally identical.
While I might not be the biggest Bond fan, and only watched Casino Royale because the Blu-ray came free with my PS3, Quantum of Solace was probably the most interesting game in Activision’s Leipzig lineup. Going in with very few expectations and, to be honest, tiny interest in the title, I was impressed and intrigued with what I saw. It’s simple to dismiss QoS as just another licensed movie game that’ll inevitably suck, but that’s certainly not the case here.
The first section of the game that I played was set in the sewers of Sienna, where I’m chasing someone (the developers weren’t allowed to say who). The first thing you notice about the game is that the environments are gorgeous. For...
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Microsoft pulled Halo announcement for a stupid reasonFrom: gamingcity.info
Post Date: 2008-07-18 04:59:16
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 , E3 , Business
Even the L.A. Times is caught up in Bungiegate - and it’s getting (some) answers. The paper spoke with Xbox senior VP Don Mattrick , who told its writers that Microsoft decided to omit the announcement of the next Halo universe game from its pre-E3 press conference … to save time.
As the story goes, Microsoft’s presser was originally planned to run two-and-a-half hours, but Mattrick wanted to get it down ...
more Joystiq E3 hands-on: Geometry Wars 2From: gamingcity.info
Post Date: 2008-07-18 04:58:46
Filed under: Arcade , Retro , Microsoft Xbox 360 , Action , E3
Some would say Geometry Wars Retro Evolved was Xbox 360’s best launch game — it beat early hyped games like Perfect Dark Zero, Call of Duty 2, and Kameo to win the heart of 360 early adopters, despite the fact that it was 2D and a cheap XBLA version of a game that had previously been included with Project Gotham Racing 2. It held the record for a long time as the system’s most-downloaded game, and tha...
more New mode in Rock Band 2 is like Wii MusicFrom: gamingcity.info
Post Date: 2008-07-17 22:05:48
In case you haven’t heard yet, you can’t lose in Wii Music . Sure, you can bob your head around and make notes higher or lower, but there are no real constraints to the game. Recently, it came to Joystiq’s attention that there’s a new mode in Rock Band 2 called “No Fail Mode.” As the subtitle plainly recommends, there is no way to fail out of a song while utilizing the mode. Sounds like Wii Music , doesn’t it?
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