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Ok let’s start at the beginning with Skylanders first before I get into Disney Infinity, when Activision brought out Skylanders – Spyro’s Adventure two years ago it was a huge gamble from Activision. The idea that players would buy a game and use related figures to expand the experience seemed too expensive and very risky since it would look like a money grab. Not only did the experiment work, but it also created a big franchise.
Disney is a juggernaut with its vast library of television and film characters which most people know. The game is split into two modes, each with different mechanics. The first is Play Sets, which takes the world of a movie or series and transforms it into an adventure with appropriate tasks. Though each play set differs in content and focus, the basics are similar.
You’re given an open world to explore with no load times, but the worlds are quite small, so don’t expect Saints Row type game. You’re free to do as you please, and there are plenty of side-quests to occupy your time. There’s also a litany of world-specific collectibles and achievements. Specific missions propel the tale forward, and they are the most important aspect if you want to progress. While the sets can be played solo, you can also play them in co-op. Due to the split-screen nature of co-op, players can play together or independently as long as they stay within the same area of the map.
Included in the starter pack are three play sets with three corresponding figures. The first play set is Monsters University with Sulley. Instead of doing an adaptation of the movie events, the game focuses on a nebulous time within the movie universe, so it’s spoiler-free for those who haven’t seen the film yet. The Monster University game begins at the start of Fear-it Week, when Monsters University and rival school Fear Tech compete in a series of tasks and games to rack up points. With school pride on the line, it’s be up to you to clean up the mess caused by Fear Tech students and then travel to their campus to create some mischief.
Monsters University is set up with a focus on stealth and platforming rather than combat. Though you fight a few Fear Tech bullies with toilet paper guns, paintball guns and a charge move, scares are your main mode of offense, and they are more effective when you sneak up on an unsuspecting target. When you aren’t scaring students, you’ll set up gag items that launch an unsuspecting student into the air, get him painted or send him down a sewer. Beyond this, you’ll collect stuff and do fetch quests, like painting over rival posters, dressing up students or getting rid of toilet paper and banners from your campus
The lack of dedicated combat limits the appeal of this play set, but it’s perfect for those who just want to goof off. There are lots of people you can throw for no good reason, and the focus on prank traps really opens up once you obtain more traps that you can chain together. There are even ramps and half-pipes on which you can perform bike tricks.
You won’t be doing anything complicated, but it’s a nice diversion. The variety of fetch quests keep the player engaged since the game spaces out activities before they start to repeat. There’s rarely a time when you don’t feel like you have anything to do, and when you consider the size of each location, that’s a good thing.
With Pirates of the Caribbean making up the second play set of Disney Infinity, and with this play set it provides an alternate take on the second and third films. Playing with the included Captain Jack Sparrow figure, you race against time to stop Davy Jones from obtaining the treasures required to rule the seas. You want the same treasures to stop the Kraken that Davy Jones controls.
The Pirates of the Caribbean play set has straightforward platforming action. You’ll solve light puzzles or jump from ledge to ledge to reach higher places or find hidden treasure chests. Swordplay is your main form of combat, and you’ll duke it out with Davy Jones’ crew. You have secondary weaponry in the form of pistols and bombs, but their reload times are quite long, so you have to mix things up to make your attacks effective.
Do you like sport, and do you have an Xbox? If the answer is yes to both how would you like to win a 3 month subscription to the Eurosport Player service? Oh, we we have 18 subscriptions to give away!
The Eurosport Player service gives you unlimited access to live streaming of the Eurosport channels, all the videos available in the country you connect from, plus bonus live feeds.
And did I mention we have 18 3 month subscriptions to give away?
So all you have to do to win a copy is to click on the Contact Us link here or at the top of the page and tell us you want to enter the Eurosport contest.
Just retweet the message below, and make sure you are following @aedney on Twitter.
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Usual contest rules apply, and the 18 winners will be selected at random and will each get a 3 month subscription.
And you can enter more than once, and via any or all of the different entry methods, just only one entry per day, per method will be accepted.
In order for you to redeem your 3 month subscription code you must be a UK resident and already have Xbox Live Gold account.
The contest closes Sunday 20th October, so good luck.
Good luck and thanks to Xbox for the codes.
Back to it’s origins is the theme for the final DLC pack in the season pass for Black Ops 2. With two out of four multiplayer maps being re-imaginings and the new zombie map starring familiar faces, is this faithful fan service, or are they on the cusp of stagnation?
Frost takes place in a snowed over European city, with a dreadfully narrow bridge, of which no-one dares cross due to ample sniper coverage. Flanking routes adorn the sides, giving players who have a sense of survivability an avenue to travel. A central, frozen canal river resides perpendicular to the general passages of combat, providing a quick; sneaky way to cross the breadth of the map, often undetected. Several rooms overlook high-traffic areas, perfect for sitting quietly in a corner; frustrating the run ‘n’ gunners. Several long lines of sight grace this map making a long range assault rifle or LMG a useful choice for the majority of encounters.
Pod, an atypical example of how visions of utopia often, in media at least, turn into a literal warzone. An overgrown palette of clambering vines and dilapidated structures provide the setting for a good mixture of close and mid-range combat. A natural looking environment makes a change from the fashionable ‘clean’ look of some previous maps and creates an almost believable theatre. Small pods are dotted about in predictably tactical positions, overlooking entrances and each other, often giving you something to shoot at. The outer skirts hold some particularly nasty lines of sight for those who love to exploit the head glitch spots too.
Dig is the first of two remakes in Apocalypse, taking it’s inspiration from the classic World at War map: Courtyard, it’s frenetic outdoor corridors house some ferocious SMG and shotgun battles, whilst the wily may find solace via clambering to a vantage point. Blindly charging into the centre will reward you with a killcam faster than you can scream an obscenity as there are many canny places to hide and spy around the outskirts. If you do plan on taking the aggressive stance, you’d better brush up on corner peeking as the square map is somehow filled with them. With many clamber points; being able to take unpredictable routes throughout the map, objective based games can be surprisingly more tactical, the downside being the inevitably large amount of deaths from behind!
Takeoff is the final multiplayer map on offer, reminiscent of the original Black Ops map Stadium from the First Strike DLC. Favouring verticality and large open areas ripe for air superiority, it’s a snipers paradise. Or in other words, frustrating! Easily defendable vantage points are rife, making certain game-types a nightmare to traverse between objectives. My best survival technique involved a silenced SMG, and sticking to the outskirts at all times, manly! Domination is hectic to say the least, but then, Domination is always hectic! With a couple of power points under your teams control, the enemy shouldn’t stand a chance.
Origins, by far the packs largest draw, sees the original gang banding together again in a new zombie adventure. With a 1000 ft. roaming robot, wonder weapons aplenty and an all new Easter egg to discover, most players will find solace here. Multiple individual generators powering small sections of the map as opposed to the classic ‘power on’ switch, allows a little more exploration and planning that can go into the starting phase. Set in the era of WW1, trenches and no-mans land are the suitable battlegrounds of Origins. Again, a lot of new material, and lore, has been implemented into zombies. New elemental staffs can be created, a giant tank can be ridden around on and new armoured zombies will destroy you if you’re not geared up properly. A whole slew of secrets awaits those with four players, patience and a penchant for exploration, perhaps there’s even an end besides dropping dead at the hands of the horde?
Despite the always on par zombie offering and the entertaining, if not a little tired multiplayer maps, with Ghosts just around the corner, you’d probably be better off putting the cash towards that instead. Although a solid offering, it’s timing of release was simply too late in the games life-cycle to warrant a purchase from many but the hardcore. Without any special features or new playlists on offer, the resounding bang it deserves to go out on, ends up as more of a fizzle to mark the end of one of the best shooters of this generation.
Reviewed on PS3, also available on Xbox 360 and PC.
Dark Horse Comics proudly announces its next hit video game tie-in series, The Witcher, based on the critically acclaimed games by CD Projekt RED.
From Paul Tobin, the Eisner Award–winning writer of Bandette, with art by Joe Querio (Lobster Johnson, B.P.R.D.) and covers by Dave Johnson (100 Bullets), comes a riveting comic based on The Witcher, a series of dark fantasy RPGs with a character-driven, nonlinear story set in a gritty living world and inspired by a series of extremely popular novels that have been translated into nineteen languages. The comic series introduces a new adventure featuring Geralt of Rivia—a witcher, one of the few remaining monster hunters.
Traveling near the edge of the Black Forest, in the land of the Angren, monster hunter Geralt meets a widowed man whose dead and murderous wife resides in an eerie mansion known as the House of Glass, a place of endless rooms where horror waits around every corner. Geralt will have to use all his witcher prowess to solve the manor’s mystery and survive.
With the two Witcher games already available, fans can get to know Geralt even before the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2014 on PC, Play Station4, and Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft. The Witcher games have collectively earned over 270 awards and sold more than five million copies worldwide.
The Witcher #1 will be available for purchase on March 19, 2014, in comic shops everywhere!
Irritum, the first release from sole indie-developer, Nick Padgett is a 3D puzzle-platformer that focuses on the sensitive issues of depression and suicide, and we have 20 copies of the game to giveaway.
Irritum is a game revolving around the concepts of depression, and suicide. The player finds themselves in purgatory with no memory of their past life. Two mysterious beings, Cassus and Sollus, guide the player in their journey of discovery, and lead them either to retribution or oblivion. The only thing you know is to keep moving forwards, either collecting your memories in each level or ignoring them completely. Either discover the purpose of Irritum, or escape it.
The gameplay for Irritum is a 3d platformer with a puzzle-like twist. The player must use inter-dimensional planes to reach the end of each level, but they can only have one plane activated at a time. For example, the player can activate red platforms and interact with them as normal, but when blue is activated, the player will float through red platforms as if they did not exist. The player also has the ability to create a ghost of themselves that is immune to damage, and reverse gravity at their will to overcome difficult obstacles.
Irritum is available now for £7.49 for the PC, Mac and Linux.
Here is a trailer for Irritum:
So all you have to do to win a copy is to click on the Contact Us link here or at the top of the page and tell us you want to win a copy.
Usual contest rules apply, and the twenty winners will be selected at random and will each get a code for the game.
And you can enter more than once, just only one entry per day will be accepted.
The contest closes Saturday 19th October, so good luck.
Good luck and thanks to Nick Padgett for the codes.
Given some of the recent technical issues during these first days of GTA Online, and now that things are starting to look much smoother (touch wood!), we are planning to provide a special stimulus package for all who have played or will play Grand Theft Auto Online this month.
We will be dropping a cool half a million GTA$ in the GTA Online bank accounts of all players this month, starting as early as next week.
‘Don’t Spend It All in One Place!’
In order to keep the current worldwide in-game economy balanced, we will be providing this GTA$ to players via two deposits of $250,000. We will announce specific dates as soon as possible, but are currently hoping to be able to make the first deposit by the end of next week (after we’ve confirmed that issues causing game progress loss have been fixed) with the second installment to happen by the end of the month. For players who experienced cloud server errors, connection issues, and lost game progress and characters in these first days of GTA Online, we hope this GTA$ helps to facilitate a fresh start or makes your continued life in Los Santos and Blaine County extra sweet.
Below are a few more details on how it will work. Stay tuned for tips on how to make the most of GTA$ cash, info on ways and places to earn more cash fast, as well as updates on all the new GTA Online content additions we’re working on for this fall and beyond.
Xbox One is hitting the road later this month, to offer you the chance to experience a new generation of games before the console launches on 22nd November. Fans will be able to go hands-on with the incredible selection of blockbuster titles including “Forza Motorsport 5”, “Dead Rising 3”, “Ryse: Son of Rome”, “Killer Instinct”, “Battlefield 4”, “FIFA 14” and more.
Coming to London and Manchester, “The One Tour” is an invitation for all UK gamers. The tour will begin in the capital from 25th October through to 3rd November, before heading to Manchester from 18th – 27th November. Register now at xboxonetour.com to choose a date and time for your Xbox One hands-on session, but hurry – tickets will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
UK Xbox Brand Marketing Manager, Marianne McLardy said: “The One Tour provides the opportunity to put Xbox One directly into the hands of thousands of gamers from across the country and we can’t wait to let people try it out. With launch just a few weeks away, it’s the perfect time for fans to experience the blockbuster line-up of games coming to Xbox One from 22nd November – those that want to take part should register now to avoid missing out.”
If you can’t make the London or Manchester dates, don’t worry. Xbox One will also be playable as part of the “Area One” and “Test Drive” tours, with more dates to be announced soon. Additionally, fans in France, Italy and Spain will also be able to get their hands on the Xbox One line-up at the Xbox booths at Milan Games Week (Oct 25 – 27), Paris Games Week (Oct 30 – Nov 3), and Madrid Games Week (Nov 7 – 10). For more information on the tour, please visit xbox.com/en-GB/onetour
Dishonored: Game of the Year Edition is now available at retail for £29.99 / €39.99 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and on the PC for £24.99 / €29.99.
Developed by Arkane Studios, Dishonored: Game of the Year Edition – the definitive compilation of the award-winning first-person action game that won more than 100 Game of the Year Awards – includes the full game as well as all of the game’s official add-on content: Dunwall City Trials, The Knife of Dunwall, The Brigmore Witches and Void Walker’s Arsenal.
You can now Pre-Order the Killer Instinct Arcade FightStick Tournament Edition 2 for Xbox One now at:
Watch the video from E3 this year showing off the Mad Catz TE2 Arcade Fightstick.
New Screenshots for Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW!
Here are a few new screenshots of the upcoming Adventure Time game, Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW out on Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U this Autumn.
Danish development studio Full Control today revealed the first chapter expansion for Space Hulk, the 3D digital turn based strategy game based on the best-selling board game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Scheduled to launch in late 2013, the Space Wolves chapter expansion will includes a three missions based on the classic “Fangs of Fenris” campaign, that first introduced the ferocious warriors of the Wolf Guard into Space Hulk.
In celebration of the announcement of the new expansion, Full Control will launch their first Steam sale on Saturday 12th of October, where Space Hulk will be discounted by 33% for 24 hours. To purchase Space Hulk during the sale please visit the offical Space Hulk site at: http://www.spacehulk-game.com/ or via digital distribution service Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/242570/
“When it came to selecting the first expansion chapter for Space Hulk we felt that the introduction the Space Wolves would be both a great addition to the game, and a nod to the fact that our studio is based in the heart of Scandinavia – the Viking kingdoms of the past”, said Thomas Hentschel Lund, CEO of Full Control. “Devastatingly ferocious in attack and immovably resolute in defense, the Wolf Guard will be a fantastic addition to the Space Hulk universe introducing new gameplay styles and methodology into the classic turn based action”.
The three mission campaign “Fangs of Fenris” uses the elite Wolf Guard Terminators of the Space Wolves chapter. The campaign was originally posted in White Dwarf magazine #200 from 1996, and is now making the leap to the digital game. The chapter will also introduce new weapons including the Frost Blade, Frost Axe and Wolf Claws.
Today, Ubisoft announced that Rabbids Big Bang will be released on 17th October on iOS, Google Play and Amazon at the price of 69p.
The Rabbids are making space their new playground in this physics-based game on smartphones and tablets. Players will pilot the wacky creatures using jetpack boosts and the gravitational force of planets to avoid catastrophic accidents, fly around obstacles and explore the edges of the galaxy. for more information on Rabbids Big Bang please got to the Facebook page
With the upcoming launch of Skylanders SWAP Force from Activision on 13th October, 2013 in North America and 18th October in the UK, Activision has brought the world of Skylands to life for one special day in Times Square and invited fans to participate in the “SWAPtoberfest” event.
James Marsden awards a Skylanders SWAP Force starter pack to Ethan W. during the Skylanders SWAP Force launch event in Times Square in
New York City on October 10, 2013. (Photo by Donald Bowers/Getty Images for Activision)
Kids who visited Times Square on SWAPtober 10th had the chance to be among the very first to play the game before it’s available at retail this coming Sunday. SWAPtoberfest featured Skylanders SWAP Force-themed activities, photos with Skylanders costumed characters as well as chances to win a Skylanders SWAP Force Starter Pack and special Skylanders-themed merchandise. Adding to the excitement, actor James Marsden (“Anchorman 2”) hosted the event and joined emcee Zach Gordon (“Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” “Pete’s Christmas”) for the event.
Kids take in all the activities of “SWAPtoberfest” – a life sized build out of the world of Skylanders in the middle of Times Square in New York to celebrate the Oct. 13, 2013 launch of Skylanders SWAP Force. (Photo by Donald Bowers/Getty Images for Activision)
Available for Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 on 13th October and the 18th October in the UK and day-and-date for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Skylanders SWAP Force introduces an all new innovative play pattern – swapability – that lets gamers reconfigure the top and bottom halves of 16 new SWAP Force characters by mixing and matching their powers and moves into more than 250 unique combinations¹, and then bring them to life in the game.
