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Jon Rana
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A trim chap who is alarmingly adept with a pack of cards. Oh and he greatly enjoys writing about lots of different things...including monkeys...and various varieties of cheeses.
ID and Bethesda have been awfully quite this past month or so about their FPS-RPG budget busting title ‘Rage’. With ridiculous sums of money being pumped into the game and a generous window for ID to actually complete it, expectations are high.
So here we go again. Treyarch are rushing around working on yet another ‘quick’ patch to amend issues with the zombie leaderboards that some Xbox owners have been complaining about. It appears the problem sprung up in unison with the First Strike DLC map pack, downloaded by thousands of players at the beginning of this month exclusively on Microsoft’s console. Player’s high scores aren’t registering properly on the leaderboards according to reports.
The latest uber-slick trailer for Crytek’s big sequel to the most graphically complex game ever made is up on the net and causing a bit of a storm. Just look at the way the EA logo shifts and clicks! Ahh I’m a sucker for eye candy. Aside from being the most tired movie cliché of all time the trailer does a pretty decent job giving off a sense of game scale, and advertises the limited edition almost well enough.
What seems like more than an entire generation of gaming ago the lunatic geniuses behind Twisted Metal brought us the fabled monster brawler ‘War Of The Monsters’. The game was a lesser known classic that offered up some horrendously enjoyable destruction deathmatches between 60ft monsters. Hopefully some of you will remember but just to recap for those who can’t, it came out in 2003 on the PS2 (remember that machine?) and it was awesome.
Activision’s Sledgehammer studios have been putting up job listings on their site to get more development muscle behind what will be Call Of Duty 8. The advertisement reads: "The candidate will help Sledgehammer Games deliver a 95+ rated Call of Duty game 'bug free' meeting the high expectations of gamers today."
Other than sounding incredibly nerdy and presenting myself as a hopelessly childish robot fanboy, I think I can swallow my pride and tell you how much I enjoyed this game. I feel that despite its niggling flaws, High Moon Studio (published by Activision we should note) managed to finally NAIL that core fantasy of being an ass whooping super mech with neon miniguns and sat nav- like vocal chords.
Activision have finally confirmed that PS3 owners will in fact be getting the First Strike DLC map pack for Black Ops after all – ooh how nice! I thought we were just getting the in game bugs instead? PS3 owners will be able to once again hand over some cash to Activision on March the 3rd for the maps (including the new zombie map Ascension).
Activision is on the case when it comes to making money and mercilessly killing off the less cash lusty developers, and after yesterday confirming they’re cutting another couple of IP’s (Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero) the monster company from creative hell are all set for the next step.
Yikes that’s one hell of a scary headline, and perhaps we are conditioned to react unfairly simply because Naughty Dog and Nathan Drake are father and son to most gamers. So the news that Sony’s world class developers aren’t going to be handling the good stuff on the NGP (PSP2 for those who haven’t heard) it might suddenly make you scream and tear your finely brushed hair out.
This time EA/Epic are giving us a juicy palette of colours that FPS temporarily forgot, further demonstrating that People Can Fly are enjoying their rebellious creativity. We’ve got some dramatic sweeping shots, up close bloodbaths, and guns that look like they’ve fallen out the rear end of a kaleidoscope.