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.
Cloud vs. Samus vs. Master Chief, all fighting as super deformed sprites. What more could you want? Card Sagas Wars is a game that uses the M.U.G.E.N engine, a 2D fighting engine that allows users to create backgrounds, characters, and other game objects. I’m suprised Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony hasn’t put a stop to this yet, actually. Nintendo especially seems to frown on “homebrewed” games using their characters. Anyway, the game looks really cool, and whoever did all that artwork did an amazing job. You can check out the official site here.
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: (more…)
I’ve been interested in Warhammer 40K for awhile now, but never really got into plain old Warhammer. I don’t know why, it just hadn’t done it for me…until now. This trailer really looks nice, I wonder what the actually game play graphics will be like. I honestly knew nothing about the game, so I did a little research. (more…)
Recently I’ve been playing Dawn of War: Dark Crusade a bunch. I really like how many different races there are and the gameplay is just generally very fun. With so many races I wonder how much balance there is overall (I’ve only played the single player campaign, I assume playing online I would notice any imbalances more). Warhammer 40k: Soulstorm will add to the current number of races, featuring two new additions: the Dark Eldar and the Sisters of Battle. The expansion is due out June, 2008.
At least I think that’s gameplay…what the hell is this. Where did the skeleton come from? Seriously, I don’t understand what’s going on. I think I want to play it, just to try to figure out what’s happening.
If you haven’t heard of Spore yet, it’s Will Wright’s latest awesome game. First Simcity, then The Sims, now…Spore. You basically control every aspect of the evolution of a species from microscopic through ruling the galaxy. The awesomeness doesn’t really come across in one sentence, I know, but it is, trust me.
Anyway, Wright is saying Spore is on track for it’s spring 2008 release. That’s great. Totally radical.
5 games, one (orange) box, $59.99. It’s such a great deal…Half-Life 2, HL2 Episode 1, HL2 Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. How can you go wrong? (more…)
