PSN Review – Journey
thatgamecompany is frequently deemed 1 of the very best indie developers in existence, especially following their function with the phenomenal Flower. With that a lot pressure to reside up to, their next venture, Journey is right here. But does it reside up to expectations?
The premise of Journey is simple – there’s a mountain with a heavenly light shining from its peak and you have to travel towards it. The game never tells you that’s what you have to do, and, other than letting you know what the controls are, offers no instruction as to where you require to go or what you need to have to do. But it doesn’t require to, you are quickly drawn towards the mountain, the only substantial landmark you’ll see at the start off of the game, and further obstacles and pathways are self-explanatory. The lack of a HUD, wellness bar and GPS-style map all serve to improve thatgamecompany’s most recent title, helping you forget that you are playing a ‘computer videogame’ and letting you appreciate Journey unadulterated.
But whilst it doesn’t look like any game ahead of it, Journey does have more ‘traditional’ game elements than Flower, with significantly of the game getting their take on platforming and basic puzzles. You play as a humanoid cloth creature who does not speak other than by emitting rhythmical notes when you press circle. These notes influence the planet about you, generating altars glow, breathing life into other cloth beings and freeing them from imprisonment. Cloth is a large portion of the game – not only are the animals and plants produced out of cloth, but the undulating sand itself moves and acts like a piece of cloth and the land is dotted with what look like giant sewing needle pinheads.
Despite much of the game being based in the desert, life is surprisingly abundant. Little cloth beings float in the air, grouped like schools of fish, moving as a single physique as they circle a rock or half-buried creating. Emit a note near them and they’ll charge up your scarf with power, permitting you to fly until the power runs out. To lengthen your scarf and enable for more power to be stored, you’ll want to discover glowing symbols that are dotted around the game planet. All of this is optional, though, as you can total the complete game with no paying significantly attention to your scarf length (even though getting able to fly tends to make the game less difficult).
Yet another creature you will encounter in the vast expanse of the desert looks like a easy (but lovely) piece of cloth, but acts much like a dolphin, playfully diving in and out of the sand about you while chirping musical notes. As you free them from a variety of types of captivity, the cloth-dolphins help you, pointing out areas to go and lifting you over obstacles. The creatures’ AI is flawless – they act just like you’d envision a true animal would, while staying out of the way and not obstructing your progress.
The Boondock Saints Videogame to be Announced at SXSW
It appears that we can expect to see a video game based on the 1999 film The Boondock Saints later this year. A flyer for SXSW ScreenBurn, discovered by Joystiq, lists “Cast of The Boondock Saints: Announcement with Vital Mass Interactive” at an occasion on March 11th. The Vital Mass Interactive website attributes a banner stating, “The Boondock Saints Video Game,” and leads to a page titled Road To E3 which only provides the following data:
Essential Mass Interactive (CMI) just awarded interactive improvement rights to the well-liked franchise, The Boondock Saints, by Creator/Director Troy Duffy, with an established Facebook fan base of over four million and growing!
New UFC Trainer workout pack released
THQ have today confirmed the release of a new DLC workout pack for UFC Private Trainer, priced at 800 MS Points for the Xbox 360.
Featuring current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones, the DLC workout pack consists of 5 new workout routines and 15 new Hit the Mitts drills.
The pack is readily available now on the Xbox Reside Marketplace for 800 Points.
WOKING, UK – 22nd February, 2012 - THQ Inc. today announced availability of a new downloadable workout pack for UFC® Individual Trainer: The Ultimate Fitness System, the company’s notable interactive fitness product released in June 2011. The content providing, obtainable exclusively by way of Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment technique from Microsoft, will feature present UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones as part of five new workout routines and 15 new Hit the Mitts drills. The downloadable workout pack is obtainable now worldwide for a suggested obtain price of 800 Microsoft Points.
UFC Personal Trainer: The Ultimate Fitness System is available now at retailers worldwide on KinectTM for Xbox 360, PlayStation®Move for the PlayStation®3 pc entertainment system and the WiiTM technique from Nintendo. For a lot more data on UFC Private Trainer: The Ultimate Fitness Program, please pay a visit to www.ufcpersonaltrainer.com, facebook.com/ufcpersonaltrainer and twitter.com/UFCPT.
UFC Undisputed 3 review
There is an old saying that states that we ought to ‘never fix some thing which is not broken’.
Nonetheless a lot of tiny concerns some gamers mentioned that there had been in UFC Undisputed 2010, it was not a complete failure. Taking such a complicated and progressive sport such as MMA, and successfully transcribing to a videogame has been no modest feat for THQ, and the time and effort that went into UFC Undisputed 3 has absolutely paid off.
Whenever a game becomes part of a franchise (and THQ’s UFC range undoubtedly is now), the only other MMA game you can genuinely compare it to is any other game inside that franchise. Ever given that UFC fans have been in a position to play as their favourite MMA stars in game, gamers have been desperately trying to master the complicated take downs with the scarily hard submission program, and the above-mentioned ‘small issues’ to conquer the planet of Mixed Martial Arts.
New Videogame Releases For the Week of 2/7:Downloadable Bonanza
The Simpsons Arcade comes to consoles 20 years after the truth, even though the a lot-anticipated (by yours truly, at least) Gotham City Impostors and Shank two make their debut. Oh, and Kingdoms of Amalur may just be the finest open globe game that does not have Elder Scrolls in the title.
Title: Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning
Platform(s): Xbox 360, Computer, PS3
I’ve been playing 38 Studios/Big Massive Games’ Kingdoms of Amalur for a handful of hours now (maybe ten or a lot more), and the trajectory of my knowledge was something like this:
Hour one particular: “Oh, okay. This game sure is… vibrant. Vivid? Yeah, that appears to be the prevailing look here.”
The 2011 NY Videogame Critics Circle Awards Winners Announced
Final week, the New York Videogame Critics Circle announced 2011 slate of winners, crowning Bastion with two awards (a single for music, one particular for Finest Indie), although showing some really like for Sony’s “Michael” ad campaign (you know, the 1 where Kratos, Snake, and a bunch of other game heroes go to a bar). You can uncover the complete lineup of winners immediately after the jump.
Manhattan Award for Most NY Centric Game: Crysis two
Battery Park Award for Finest Handheld Game: Super Mario Land 3D
Tin Pan Alley Award for Very best Music in a Game: Bastion
A Train Award for Very best Mobile Game: Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP
Herman Melville Award for Very best Writing in a Game: Portal two
UFC Undisputed 3 DLC announced
Nowadays it was announced that THQ and the UFC have extensive downloadable content plans for the forthcoming UFC Undisputed 3 videogame. With a season pass in the works and a wide range of new fighters, historic UFC fights, career boosts and early access to unlockable content material, it appears that players will have a wide assortment of alternative when it comes to content material.
“UFC Undisputed 3 is providing an unbelievable downloadable content material providing to our fans about the world,” UFC President Dana White stated. “They will be able to play as numerous of UFC’s rising stars, as nicely as have the opportunity to relive a quantity of wonderful fights in UFC history.”
UFC Undisputed 3 is currently scheduled for release on 17thFebruary, 2012 for Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 method and the demo is readily available on PSN and Xbox Reside.
Press release with DLC pack details and rates beneath:
THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) and the Ultimate Fighting Championship® organisation nowadays announced extensive downloadable content material plans and a Season Pass System for UFC® Undisputed™ three, the forthcoming installment in the critically acclaimed mixed martial arts (MMA) videogame franchise based on the UFC®. The content material offering, currently scheduled to consist of a wide variety of new fighters, historic UFC fights, profession boosts and early access to unlockable content, will be readily available via Xbox Reside® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment technique from Microsoft and PlayStation®Network for the PlayStation®3 personal computer entertainment method. UFC Undisputed 3 is presently scheduled for release on 17thFebruary, 2012 for Xbox 360 and the PlayStation three system.
