Platinum Games’ (Bayonetta, Mad World) latest game, Vanquish, is a third-person shooter featuring a cover system similar to Gears of War and the ability to slow down time. Looks pretty interesting, I like the jet pack allowing the player to move quickly to get under cover. Also, an important warning. Elect a female president and next thing you know San Francisco is gone and Russia has a robot army.
Probably the best trailer I’ve seen out of E3 this year. I didn’t play the first game and had no intention of playing the second until watching this, which kind of sold me on the idea. Did Vader really expect like seven storm troopers to kill him?
Horde Mode in Gears of War 2 was pretty fun. Fighting wave after wave of enemies with three of your closest friends is always a good time. But Epic was all like “What’s even cooler?” How about playing as waves of bad guys trying to kill the good guys? Pretty awesome. There’s a level up system that allows players to unlock higher level bad guys as they gain more experience. And just because you’ve unlocked, say, the Berserker doesn’t mean you can start the round playing as one. You use tickets, gained from killing COGs, to choose which type of enemy you want to spawn as. The tougher the bad guy, the more tickets it costs.
I don’t know why they didn’t have it as four humans playing the COGs vs. four humans playing as the Horde, which would take it to 11.
Easily one of my top ten games gets a totally awesome E3 trailer. Judging by the video, I like where they’re going, with the run down, partially destroyed areas overgrown with plants…looks sweet.
Also interesting that Gabe Newell announced this at Sony’s event, saying the PS3 will have the best version.
Looks really nice, and the space combat seems pretty awesome. I’m glad they decided to add that aspect in, I think it makes the game play a bit more unique then previous installments.