Evo
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Well, looks like a good year ahead for PC gaming, many awesome new titles in the works.
The main game to catch my eye is Spore, seems destined to be one, if not THE most innovative PC games of the year (assuming it comes out this year)
BF2 seems to be getting ever better, a new patch in the works out soon that the community hopes will fix many bugs and enhance the gaming experiance overall. However, the much debated 'booster packs' give us more reasons to question EA's motives with the Battlefield brand. Are they going to continue expanding the brand in new interesting ways and work with the community, or will they sit back on their success and let the money pour in from us punters.
Moving on we have STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, a game that is sure to be reaching a DNF legacy, that is unless the dev's actually give us some in game footage and hard details on a release date, not just a rough idea from THQ.
The new Medal of Honour seems to be shaping up nicely, EA appear to be taking a new approach to a much maligned game in recent outings. Hopefully they can reinstill the freshness that gamers are yearning for, and maybe even knock CoD2 off the WWII top spot.
This year also will see the major launch of Episodic Gaming, with Vavle recently confirming that Aftermath will be called Half-Life 2: Episode One, this seems to be the way the gaming industry is moving with Sin Episodes another highly expected title. Episodic Gaming also ties in the new online-delivery system that was grasped with open hands by Valve and their Steam tech. EA has now followed on releasing BF2: Special Forces as a download and in the shops, and the new booster packs on downloads only.
Creative Assembly, makers of the critically acclaimed Total War series plan to release one more Rome expansion, called 'Alexander' via an online delivery system, though details are few and far between on how they will manage this. Creative Assembly have also announced Medieval Total War 2 a move praised by fans of the series eager to gain revenge on the Papacy.
Other points of interest are two new game engines set to lock horns over the coming months, Epic's new UE3 engine with UT2007 as the lead title, and Crytek's Crysis engine due a couple of months after UE3. While UE3 will most certainly set the standard of game engines for the near future, Crysis may topple it with plans to utilise the latest incarnation of DirectX due for release with Vista.
All in all, several major things to note down for the coming months, and this is just what i have thought of from the top of my head. All written by me Evo, comment away!
The main game to catch my eye is Spore, seems destined to be one, if not THE most innovative PC games of the year (assuming it comes out this year)
BF2 seems to be getting ever better, a new patch in the works out soon that the community hopes will fix many bugs and enhance the gaming experiance overall. However, the much debated 'booster packs' give us more reasons to question EA's motives with the Battlefield brand. Are they going to continue expanding the brand in new interesting ways and work with the community, or will they sit back on their success and let the money pour in from us punters.
Moving on we have STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, a game that is sure to be reaching a DNF legacy, that is unless the dev's actually give us some in game footage and hard details on a release date, not just a rough idea from THQ.
The new Medal of Honour seems to be shaping up nicely, EA appear to be taking a new approach to a much maligned game in recent outings. Hopefully they can reinstill the freshness that gamers are yearning for, and maybe even knock CoD2 off the WWII top spot.
This year also will see the major launch of Episodic Gaming, with Vavle recently confirming that Aftermath will be called Half-Life 2: Episode One, this seems to be the way the gaming industry is moving with Sin Episodes another highly expected title. Episodic Gaming also ties in the new online-delivery system that was grasped with open hands by Valve and their Steam tech. EA has now followed on releasing BF2: Special Forces as a download and in the shops, and the new booster packs on downloads only.
Creative Assembly, makers of the critically acclaimed Total War series plan to release one more Rome expansion, called 'Alexander' via an online delivery system, though details are few and far between on how they will manage this. Creative Assembly have also announced Medieval Total War 2 a move praised by fans of the series eager to gain revenge on the Papacy.
Other points of interest are two new game engines set to lock horns over the coming months, Epic's new UE3 engine with UT2007 as the lead title, and Crytek's Crysis engine due a couple of months after UE3. While UE3 will most certainly set the standard of game engines for the near future, Crysis may topple it with plans to utilise the latest incarnation of DirectX due for release with Vista.
All in all, several major things to note down for the coming months, and this is just what i have thought of from the top of my head. All written by me Evo, comment away!
