I remember playing the 1942 arcade game when I was a kid, it was awesome. Now we’re getting a HD remake of the original. For years I thought this was exactly what the Pacific theater of war was really like.
So, I got this email from Capcom stating that the long-awaited Rocketmen: Axis of Evil will be released on XBLA and the PSN. 800 points on LIVE, $10 on PSN. But, I’ve never heard of this long awaited game… (more…)
Bionic Commando: Rearmed looks sweet as hell. Seriously, I don’t understand why there aren’t more 2D side scrolling games released on the latest consoles. Once everything hit 3D, it’s like there was no real going back. Imagine how cool a 2D Castlevania, Mario, or Sonic game would look if they did something like this on a current gen system. But no…it’s like most companies have relegated 2D to handhelds.
I think way more people are excited about Rearmed then the 3D one. I don’t even know what the 3D Bionic Commando remake is called, because I don’t even care. I know it won’t be as sweet as Rearmed, especially with the two player co-op.
In PixelJunk Eden you collect pollen to make plants grow. It’s all 2D and the graphics look pretty sweet. Eden will be the third in the PixelJunk series of games for the Playstation Network. Looks interesting, to say the least. In all honesty I can’t tell what’s going on, really.
Bionic Commando for the NES is basically totally awesome. The Japanese version placed the character in a battle against futuristic Nazis. The final boss was Adolf Hitler, who had been resurrected by evil scientists. Unfortunately, the U.S. version had all of that removed, but it was still a fun game. I remember playing this a lot as a kid and loving it.
This new remake, Bionic Commando Rearmed (available on PC, XBLA, PSN) looks really nice. Seriously, from the video it looks very well done, the graphics look totally sweet. I wonder if it will have all of the future Nazi stuff included. It is scheduled to be released in Spring of 2008. Here’s the whole press release:
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Wayyyy back in the olden days, when Warcraft III was all the rage and World of Warcraft was just a glimmer in Blizzard’s eye (OK, not that long ago), I used to love playing Warcraft III custom tower defense games. Basically, packs of monsters would run down a path trying to get to your base. You would try to kill them all by building towers along the sides of the path. If too many got by, you lost. The more you killed, the more money you got, the better towers you could get. Of course the monsters would get tougher and tougher, and if you missed any you wouldn’t get the money for killing them, and it was a downward spiral from there. There’s tons of different towers that you can make, some towers are better against certain types of monsters while others slow down the monsters so your towers have a longer amount of time to kill them.
Pixel Junk Monsters is basically tower defense, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. The music is pretty rad. And old old tower defense games didn’t have a crazy looking builder like this game, you just had a crappy peon.
Is it bad that one of my major reasons for wanting a PS3 is this game (there are plenty of other reasons, not saying this is the ONLY reason)? . (more…)
