Thursday, 4 June 2009

More E3

Tekken 6

From th sounds of it, this has had a rubbish 3d brawling subgame added, and aside from that is exactly the same as every other Tekken game, which is all people who still play Tekken want anyway so I'm sure they're all jizzing themselves over this.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

No new info but there's a trailer:


Black Wii and red DSi


Only scheduled for japan at the moment, that black Wii is handsome as fuck.

Batman: Arkham Asylum

By my reconing it's been about ten years since the last really good comic book based superhero game (Spider-man for the PS1 if you're wondering) so we're fucking due another. This looks fucking amazing, with gritty, visceral punches and badass sneak attacks.

There are silent takedowns if you sneak up on enemies and a Detective Mode which you you to sneak about and jump between rooftops and shit. It looks totally authentic and fucking awesome.

Blur

This looks amazing. Bizarre creations (of PGR fame) have decided that racing games are too elitist and techy and have decided to combat this by making an arcade racer with mental powerups in it. Admittedly, the powerups are of the not too clever variety and include things like “speed boost” and “shove other cars out of the way” but that's not the point. It's a team capable of making proper driving games doing something arcadey and fun and will kick ass.

Gran Turismo Portable

Confirmed to be very similar graphically to GT4 and totally faithful to the series, this apparently suffers a little from the lack of analogue buttons. Still, it's very impressive to see that they've actually got this running and it's one of a slew of PSP games making the handheld look like a less shitty proposition.

Metal Gear Rising and Arcade

Rising has been revealed to be multi-platform and coming to Ps3 and PC as well as 360. They've also revealed the subtitle “lightning bolt action”. Apparently it's being made by a new team of younger devs, so maybe Hideo has finally found someone as batshit mental as him to direct this one.


Konami also showed Metal Gear Arcade, which is an arcade version of MGO played in a booth, in stereoscopic 3D, with 3D glasses. Shame the game it's based on is wank.

White Knight Chronicles

Finally coming to the US soon, and hopefully europe afterwards. This is an RPG by the sexually awesome Level 5. Apparently it's going to be rammed with extra shit, including all the current Japanese DLC on the disc and some targeting improvements.

The best addition though is Georama, the main feature from the criminally under-appreciated Dark Cloud and Dark Chronicle. It's basically a town building subgame and adds a nice extra layer to the RPG formula.

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