HALO The Master Chief Collection will be available very soon and we have some HALO 2 Anniversary Edition multiplayer gameplay to share with you.
All footage was captured on the Xbox One running at 1080p at a special preview event run by Microsoft.
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HALO The Master Chief Collection will be available very soon and we have some HALO 3 multiplayer gameplay to share with you.
All footage was captured on the Xbox One running at 1080p at a special preview event run by Microsoft.
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HALO The Master Chief Collection will be available very soon and we have some HALO 4 multiplayer gameplay to share with you.
All footage was captured on the Xbox One running at 1080p at a special preview event run by Microsoft.
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After the unfortunate closure of THQ, the videogame supercross world could potentially have turned to ruin. Instead however, Nordic games pulled Rainbow studios into its arms and re-established the company once more; in doing so, proudly presenting: MX vs. ATV Supercross.
During this year’s Gamescom event, I was fortunate enough to visit the MX vs. ATV stand for a chance at playing the pre-release version; despite my ineptitude, I left pleased, looking forward to its release. Fortunately, not much has changed since then in terms of the game’s mechanics, modes and customisability options. After claiming that MX vs. ATV was made ‘by passionate riders and gamers, for passionate riders and gamers’, it’s clear to see that influence on both sides have equally rubbed off.
Races comprise of up to 12 players across 17 tracks, with some sporting both vehicle variants; lining up at the start of an event with all manner of engines roaring can make for an interesting start. Before each race you can choose to ride either the bikes or the ATV’s, the motocross bikes tend to be a fair amount nippier round the corners, at the expense of an increased chance to potentially fly off into the wheels of another racer. Whereas the ATV’s sacrifice cornering ability for all out power and speed; with the obvious advantage of being able to land jumps on four wheels instead of two.
Whilst it’s easy to pick up and play, there are several nuances to Nordic’s racer which can make the difference between winning in style and just plain finishing third. In this iteration, it’s all about the right thumbstick and how it controls the balance and pitch of the rider. Smoothly landing jumps and throwing your weight into corners is only the first step however. Mastering the dampeners and spring levels is key to gaining the most height and momentum. Also thrown in are the intricate yet showy tricks you can perform in mid-air, lending an element of flash to your victory, provided you land them of course! Whilst it’s good that the real focus is on the racing, it can be a little disappointing to not get rewarded for pulling tricks off mid race, still whilst firmly holding the lead.
The ‘easy to play, hard to master’ mantra is expanded further, not only due to the selection of both bikes and ATV’s, but also incorporating real time track deformation too. Meaning getting into the groove, as it were, can often be beneficial later in the race as corners can be taken at a higher speed. Despite still holding a fairly arcade-y handling mechanic, most of the vehicles, along with their respected upgrades, do feel different too, and even if it is only slightly, it encourages you to often try something new.
The depth of the customisability is impressive too, with over 80 licensed motocross manufacturers lending their names and products to the game. Everything from the gloves of your rider to the suspension system of your bike can be altered, making a nice change from the current slew of racers out right now.
For all the great things regarding MX vs. ATV Supercross, there are unfortunately some negatives too. Whilst it’s always necessary to have a career mode in a racer, no racing game can seem to get it right; it’s never more apparent than here. Finishing a race simply progresses you towards the next one with there being little to no interaction with the player whatsoever; ultimately ending up as a case of race, win, repeat, ad nauseam. The generously portioned 17 tracks to race on does little to quell the sense of repetition either. Granted, there’s only so different dirt tracks can be, but after spending a while on the game, you’ll pine for some diversity. The game modes, whilst representing the standards of the genre, do little to mix things up either, the only variance coming of whether you race in singleplayer, split-screen or online.
In terms of presentation, Supercross once again has its ups and downs. The riders themselves look fantastic, with fabric shifting in mid-air and riders getting slowly blathered in mud as the race progresses. Whereas the leaning animations are as stilted and wooden as the crashes are unspectacular, lacking any form of impact or force. The crowds look as though they’re moonlighting from a previous generation of consoles and the menus are a little sluggish and bland too. Audio wise, the game presents you with an odd, yet somewhat suitable playlist, comprising of rock and dubstep to accompany the constant revving of engines.
Hopefully this won’t be the last we see of the MX vs. ATV universe as there is true promise in the series. The addition of some more modes to play about in, alongside more variation in track design and locales would go far; and bringing the sport to the current generation of consoles would do it the world of good too. Having said that, the mechanics themselves are mostly solid and the accessible yet complex control method can be very rewarding. Fans of the sport should probably pick this up, if for no other reason than to see the amount of attention gone into the customisation aspect of the game. For everyone else, MX vs. ATV Supercross is a solid racer that rewards mastery of its controls and mechanics, before unfortunately succumbing to repetition a little earlier than it should.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released two new developer diaries giving you an inside look at the making of LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham. Check out how the developers at TT Games bring more than 150 DC Comics characters to life in an in-depth behind-the-scenes character video. And don’t miss your chance for a sneak peek at the creation of the title’s stunning gameplay mechanics in the second video.
In LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, the Caped Crusader joins forces with the super heroes of the DC Comics universe and blasts off to outer space to stop the evil Brainiac from destroying Earth. Using the power of the Lantern Rings, Brainiac shrinks worlds to add to his twisted collection of miniature cities from across the universe. Now the greatest super heroes and the most cunning villains must unite and journey to different Lantern Worlds to collect the Lantern Rings and stop Brainiac before it’s too late.
The ultimate super hero game for the entire family, launches 14th November on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii U, 3DS and PC.
The DreamToys list has been announced by The Toy Retailers Association. The list is the most accurate predictive list of which toys will dominate the wish lists this Christmas. The list has been broken down into ten categories and 12 Top Toys.
“The 2014 DreamToys list is the perfect illustration of how the toy industry continues to innovate and evolve – creating new lines every year whilst finding new and ever increasingly creative ways to reinvent established brands. If the predications are right, and 2014 turns out to be a bumper year, the biggest credit has to go to the toy makers and their endless creativity and imagination,” commented Gary Grant, chair of the DreamToys committee.
The ten categories are:
* are the Indicates one of the 12 Top Toys
Tech Tastic! – From robots to talking birds, technology in toys continues to evolve, these toys are some of the best examples:
AirHogsRC Rollercopter Spin Master £44.99
Flutterbye Deluxe Light-Up Fairy Spin Master £39.99
Furby Boom-Crystal Series Hasbro £64.99
Kidizoom Smart Watch* VTech £39.99
LeapBand (assorted) LeapFrog £29.99
LeapTV LeapFrog £119.99
MiP Trends/WOW WEE £98.99
My Friend Cayla* Vivid £58.99
Teksta T-Rex Character £59.99
Xeno Flair £79.99
Zoomer Spin Master £79.99
Zoomer Dino – Boomer* Spin Master £99.99
Wheely Good Fun – cars, trains and fantasy play are always high on the Christmas wish lists; this selection has something for every age group:
Fisher-Price Thomas and Friends TrackMaster Avalanche
Escape Mattel £39.99
Hot Wheels Super Loop Chase Race Mattel £44.99
Mega Bloks Thomas & Friends 1-2-3 Count with Thomas Mega Brands £12.99
Fisher-Price Thomas and Friends Motion Control Thomas Mattel £39.99
Hugs n’ Heroes – From the perfect baby to the ultimate super hero, these toys make fantasy play magical, all they need is a child’s imagination:
Baby Annabell Learns to Walk Zapf Creation £49.99
Barbie & The Secret Door Princess Alexa Doll Mattel £24.99
Barbie Malibu House Mattell £99.99
Dragons Giant Fire Breathing Toothless Spin Master £34.99
Emotion Pets- Bruno Flair £69.99
Little Love Baby Talk VTech £29.99
Marvel Super Hero Mashers (assorted) Hasbro £21.99
Monster High Freaky Fusion Hybrids Dolls Mattel £26.99
(assorted)
My Little Pony Equestria Girls Twilight Sparkle Hasbro £22.99
Ninja Turtles Movie Figures (assorted) Flair £9.99
The Collectables – These lines fire the imagination and feed the passion:
Little Live Pets Bird Cage* Character £19.99
Minecraft Animal Mob Pack Character £19.99
Minecraft Figures (assorted)* Character £7.99
My Magical Mermaid Water Wonderland ZURU £24.99
Shopkins Small Mart Flair £19.99
Let’s make– Making and creating has been a big theme this year in toys, this selection ranges from food to knits – it’s good to share!
Chill Factor Ice Cream Maker Character £12.99
Cra-Z-Knitz Ultimate Designer Knitting Station Character £29.99
Cra-Z-Loom Bracelet Maker Character £14.99
DohVinci Style and Store Vanity Hasbro £19.99
Play-Doh Cake Mountain Hasbro £19.99
Sew Cool Sewing Studio Spin Master £34.99
Build the World – from castles to spaceships the construction choice is endless:
City Mobile Police Unit LEGO £29.99
Disney Princess Cinderella’s Romantic Castle LEGO £59.99
Friends Heartlake Shopping Mall LEGO £79.99
Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Batman Man-Bat
Attack LEGO £19.99
The LEGO Movie – Benny’s Spaceship, Spaceship,
SPACESHIP!* LEGO £79.99
Toys 4 Tots – Toddlers today get to have some serious fun:
Doc Mc Stuffins Get Better Talking Mobile Flair £59.99
Fisher-Price Laugh and Learn Crawl Around Car Mattel £69.99
Fisher-Price Little People Skyway Mattel £39.99
Peppa Pigs Muddly Puddle Jumbo Jet Character £19.99
Peppa Pig Weebles Wind & Wobble Playhouse Character £29.99
Toot-Toot Animals Safari Park* VTech £39.99
My Go! – From chickens to moustaches, the board game continues to bring the whole family; these are a selection of the best:
Bop It! Beats* Hasbro £21.99
Bunny Jump University Games £19.99
Chicken Charades University Games £19.99
Don’t Take Buster’s Bones John Adams £19.99
Elefun & Friends Mousetrap Hasbro £19.99
Gooey Louie John Adams £19.99
Hotel Tycoon Esdevium Games £24.99
LOGO Grab Vivid £13.99
Moustache Smash Spin Master £17.99
My Monopoly Hasbro £21.99
Simon Swipe Hasbro £21.99
Ready to Rumble – Hero or villain, these toys lets their imagination soar:
Nerf Demolisher 2-in-1* Hasbro £44.99
Nerf Rebelle Agent Bow Hasbro £29.99
Nerf Zombie Strike Crossfire Bow Hasbro £21.99
Star Wars Rebels Inquisitor Lightsaber Hasbro £29.99
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Web Slinging
Spider-Man Hasbro £34.99
Transformers Flip N Change (assorted) Hasbro £22.99
Transformers Stomp and Chomp Grimlock* Hasbro £89.99
Frozen’s the Word – The epic journey of the fearless princess continues here in the land of toys with this highly popular selection…
Disney Frozen Elsa Classic Dress Rubies £14.99
Disney Frozen Snow Glow Elsa* Jakks Pacific £34.99
Disney Frozen Ice Skating Doll (Assorted)* Mattel £29.99
Disney Frozen Magical Lights Palace Mattel £44.99
Disney Frozen Olaf the Snowman Mattel £14.99
Disney Frozen Sparkle Dolls (Assorted)* Mattel £16.99
Watch the first footage of the new first person mode to be made available for the new version of Grand Theft Auto V for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. This new mode shows players the host of changes made to the game to accommodate this new perspective, including the creation of an optional first person cover system, a new targeting system, a more traditional FPS control scheme, and integrating thousands of new animations into the existing game. It’s also available at the touch of a button so you can easily switch back and forth between perspectives.
First person mode will be available in both GTAV and GTA Online.
Grand Theft Auto V for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC features hundreds of additions and enhancements including 1080p resolution at 30FPS on PS4 and Xbox One (4K compatible on PC).
Grand Theft Auto V for will be available on Xbox One and PS4 18th November and on PC 27th January, 2015.
It’s rare to find a game that you’re not convinced by, but then, in the final months before release, get really excited for. This was very much the case with Sunset, after its uninspiring reveal at E3 2013. Microsoft devoted plenty of time to Insomniac’s baby, but it wasn’t until E3 June of this year that we really saw what all the fuss was about, and that fuss was about fun.
With no reservations, I’m happy to say that Sunset Overdrive is the best fun I’ve had on an Xbox One, and an absolutely essential purchase.
Insomniac games hasn’t really delivered during the past few releases for PS3, nor for its first Multiformat release, Fuse. Resistance was slowly dying as a franchise, and Fuse was met with a lukewarm reception. Sunset was perhaps Insomniac’s last chance at a truly AAA game – and you can tell they went all-in.
Visually, the unique, intrusive graphical style speaks volumes for the kind of game you’re going to play, a mixture of Amped’s bombastic presentation mixed with the nearly cel-shaded appeal of Borderlands, but with the colour, contrast and brightness turned up to 11. Offering a small, if well populated open world with a solid 30fps, Sunset shows you Sunset City from the off – and what it hints at, and what becomes very apparent, Is that Sunset City isn’t just a city; it’s playground.
Rogue Energy Drink. Overdrive Delirium XT, zombies. It’s a predictable plot, but one which will mean nothing in the story of your time with Sunset – it’s not so much about the plot, but how you decide to play. Yes, there is one, and it’s pretty weak, but the tongue in cheek jokes, mixed with slightly outdated pop culture references of the script are a delight.
All of this doesn’t really mean much until the first time you grind, and expand this new found amazing ability to grinding from one building to the next, switching to underneath enemies, and back into the grind above with the press of a button, before laying on a barrage of fucking mental ammunition to destroy your targets. That’s when you realise that Sunset Overdrive is the bastard son of Jet Set Radio Future, and a riot to play.
Hidden among the aforementioned ‘story’ there’s a solid risk-reward system for the more hard-core among you, with style points increasingly allowing you to ‘amp’ your abilities, and effectively modifying your guns. When you’re dealing with guns that fire teddy bears, you know you’re going to lay down some fire, and do it with a smile.
You’re looking at a good 10-14 hours for the single player for the average gamer (I played across a few evenings), but it may be a little shorter for some. Chaos Squad co-op missions will increase its shelf life in your collection, but while that’s an interesting compliment to make the game more social, it’s not nearly as satisfying as the main game,
Sunset Overdrive is another cracking addition to Xbox one’s line-up this Christmas, and a worthy exclusive in its own right. A game that may have just rescued Insomniac from turning to non-AAA development, Sunset is an endorsement of the vision Insomniac had for the title from the very beginning. Microsoft should be commended for backing this to the hilt; a game in which it’s hard to describe in that easy one-line marketing pitch.
Actually, I think that’s easy. It’s bloody brilliant.
Today Sony has given all the PlayStation Plus subscribers a sneak look as to what is coming to the PlayStation 4 games will be added to its Instant Game Collection come this December and January of next year.
Starting this December, the PS4 owners with a PlayStation Plus subscription will be able to play Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition and Secret Ponchos for free. Adding Injustice to the collection will make the first AAA Blu-ray title to join the Instant Game Collection for PS4.
Then in January, the PlayStation 4 exclusive standalone add-on inFAMOUS First Light will be available, to add to your collection as well. With The Swapper will also be made available in January which is a cross-buy title for PS4, PS3, PS Vita.
What do you think of the titles coming up for PlayStation Plus for December and January.
Watch the new trailer for Far Cry 4’s showing off the story to the game, While travelling to Kyrat to fulfill your mother’s dying wish, you find yourself in a middle of a civil war between the Golden Path and the tyrant Pagan Min. But in order to win this fight, you must break the stalemate between Amita and Sabal, the two leaders of the Golden Path. Will you make the right choice?
Far Cry 4 will be available worldwide on 18th November for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC.
