The Expendables 2 Videogame Hands On

Just a few days before it debuts in the USA the film “The Expendables 2” starring Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li and Jason Statham along with most of the action heroes of the 90’s as Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren and the legendary Chuck Norris, as part of the marketing we have this action game called simply The Expendables 2 Videogame.

The game is available on the PSN and Xbox Live from July 31 and will cost $14.99

First of all I want to tell you that being a game based on a movie there have very low expectations, since most of these titles are of poor quality due to the short development time and with haste to be ready earlier or at least by the pair of the film and to prove that the statistics do not fail, The Expendables 2 is no exception, as it is far from being a quality game.

We begin by selecting the game mode that can be online/offline for up to 4 simultaneous players which gives an extra and there are not many titles that allow us to play with three of our friends on the same console, each with a different character and talking about characters I would point out something that surprised and disappointed me at the same time, the characters to choose from, which are Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), Yin Yang (Jet Li) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews). The first thing I said was where is Lee Christmas (Jason Statham)?? As one of the main characters I think is a big mistake  to leave him out of the game for whatever reason, but ok I can survive with the others, except with Ceaser or so I thought, but just starting the game and realize that all characters have 2 different weapons which gives a unique style to each one, Ceaser carries a grenade launcher, which in my opinion, is the best weapon of the 4.

Speaking a little more of the game style , which is action-shooter viewed from above, like Dead Nation or the latest game from The Ghostbusters, where you move your character with the left stick as point and shoot with the right stick, but this is where another of the flaws of the game as in the various games of the genre it has a “laser sight” which helps us know what we are aiming at, here unless we are using the snipergun, most of the time we will be shooting enemies without being certain of where we are aiming at, making it more difficult to hit our goals and more when you try to shoot one of the barrels or the snipers who are on top of the towers, we can make melee attacks, somersaults to avoid the shooting, throwing grenades and even covering up which is rare for the style of play but can save us on more than one occasion.

A highlight is the special move for each character which can be run collecting emblems of The Expendables and will let us attack an enemy while the camera zooms in to show us how our character in turn, shoots him point-blank, which to be honest is very satisfying.

During the game there are some times that we will be shooting from a helicopter, a technique used in games of old school but still working to get us out of the main style and give some variety to the game.

Turning to the graphics, the game is far from satisfactory, because to be a game from the current generation it looks like from the first Xbox or PS3, some texture looks really bad and what about the thousands of soldiers that we face which are all exactly alike.

Regarding the audio seemed decent, just with the extra to have the real voices of the actors giving a touch of personality to each one.

To conclude I would like to comment that The Expendables 2 Videogame is available for PS3, Xbox 360 or PC and just as  the film I think is nothing spectacular but it accomplishes the goal to entertain for a while, it’s up to you to decide if 3-4 hours of game are worth to buy it, as being very repetitive I do not think you spend more time.

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Prince of Persia reboot leak images

We found out that Ubisoft is working on a reboot of the Prince of Persia franchise and now we got this screenshots from something called PoP Project Zero 2.

A few months ago Ubisoft comment about a game in development called Project Zero that was about the Prince of Persia series but in the present time, with Project Zero 2 we can imagine that the first idea has been discard, also in the leak we’ve got this other images from something that could be like a trailer of the game but unfortunately they don’t show much about it.

Finally what do you think of this new Prince of Persia project wich has a Assassins Creed like style.

Metal Gear 4 will get trophies support in August

Today it was announced that Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots will receive an update which will add trophies, that on the 25th anniversary of the series.

This is the list of trophies which will be add, also some people speculates that some trophies related to the plot are yet to be revealed, appearing as hidden trophies to not ruin the surprises.

Expected to be in early August when this update is available for all fans of this great saga.

Bronze	You enjoy all the killing, that’s why.	Killed many enemies in one area, and vomited.
Bronze	Divine Wind	Caused a “divine wind” using the Tanegashima.
Bronze	Hands Up!	Held an enemy soldier at gunpoint and performed a body check.
Bronze	Emotion Control	Controlled an enemy soldier’s emotions using an Emotive Magazine.
Bronze	Hurt me more!	Shocked an enemy soldier using Mk. II/III.
Bronze	Drum Can Addict	Knocked an enemy soldier flying using a Drum Can.
Bronze	That Tune Is His Mind Control Music	Played Oishii Two-han Seikatsu and made one of the BB Corps dance.
Bronze	Overhead view — just like old times…	Used overhead view on Shadow Moses Island.
Silver	SUNLIGHT!	Obtained the Solar Gun.
Silver	I Just Don’t Fear Death	Caused ALERT status while wearing the Corpse Camo.
Silver	Where I Can See Ya	Located enemy soldiers using the Scanning Plug.
Silver	Ghost Photography Addict	Snapped at least 5 shots of ghosts on Shadow Moses Island.
Silver	FaceCamo Addict	Obtained 10 or more types of FaceCamo (excluding types obtained via password).
Silver	Can you feel my power now!!!?	Took control of an enemy soldier’s body using the Mantis Doll or Sorrow Doll.
Silver	Are you an Otaku too?	Viewed all model posters.
Silver	You’re pretty good.	Got kissed by Ocelot during the final battle.
Gold	Flashback Mania	Viewed all flashbacks.
Gold	Sounds of the Battlefield	Obtained all iPod® tracks (excluding tracks obtained via password).
Gold	I am THE expert on weapons, equipment and cutting-edge technology.	Obtained all weapons (excluding weapons obtained via password).
Platinum	The Legendary Hero	Obtained all trophies.

New Tomb Raider Reborn Teaser Trailer

Heres a new teaser trailer of the highly expected Tomb Raider reboot announced for 2013, Crystal Dynamics and Square-Enix release it as a part of the complete trailer that’s gonna be shown in the E3 2012.

It just look great and it will be available for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC also there is a rumor that a Wii U version is in development.

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Dragon’s Dogma PS3 Hands On

Today I had the opportunity to give a serious look at Dragon’s Dogma, Capcom’s new game for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, which was released on May 22, 2012.

And so it all began
The story is about a young man named Arisen who was fighting a dragon, it rips his heart, literally, this kills the hero but inexplicably remains alive, now known as the “enlightened” you must go in search of the dragon to fulfill your mission and get your heart back, you will have to go through several obstacles and sometimes against the good or evil as your mission goes beyond the interests of others in order to achieve your final task, save yourself and save the world.

Who am I?

As usual in most games of the genre, your character has no defined face, giving us the freedom to create one at will in order to feel identified with it, we can change sex if we want to be a women, could be tall, short, strong, weak, effeminate male and other mixtures that can be done due to the variety that gives us the creation mode, not forgetting to decide the “job” or “class” that can vary between “fighter” “strider” or “mage”.
In addition to creating the main character we’ll have the opportunity to create our “pawns”, also selecting the class and genre, in Dragon’s Dogma you have the opportunity to be accompanied by several AI-controlled characters but with the ability to give simple commands like “help” that makes any of the NPC who have joined cast a healing spell or use a healing item on us, “here” to make your fellow get to your position and “attack” that send them against our nearest enemy.

Taking the best from various genres
You could say that is an Action / RPG open world, something like Skyrim but with a little of Monster Hunter-like action, this can be seen from the first moment we take control of our character and see that the camera it’s  in 3rd person just like in the hack and slash games, we also have the ability to jump and in terms of combat, using a button to weak attacks and another button for the stronger attacks, which gives great variety and flexibility to make combos, not to mention the powers that we have access by holding L1 or R1 combined with the attack buttons, one thing that struck me is that we can pin your enemies and leave them at the mercy of the attacks of our partners or have them hold while we finish them off.

Day or night
During the game time is changing, so if we leave a town in the day to perform some task is likely to go through the sunset and it’s dark, this will make the enemies stronger as well as we need to be equipped with a flashlight if you do not want to be surprised by different creatures in the dark.
Beautiful scenario
One of the strengths of Dragon’s Dogma is the graphics, which were performed using the engine MT Framework owned by CAPCOM but adapted for an open world, resulting in landscapes that look great in our HD displays and also runs smoothly when played on consoles giving a very respectable frame rate despite everything that’s happening at the same time.

Epic enemies
We can’t forget to mention the boss battles which look great, with dragons flying through the air, besides the giant trolls have a battle with a Chimera in a cave and another with a Griffon in the open. The detail that I liked during fights with the bosses is that we can hold the button get a hold of these creatures in order to achieve damage in specific areas or just for make attacks with greater force.

Conclusions

After all Dragon’s Dogma manages to be a good game that may be able to attract those who already squeezed the most of Skyrim or are looking for an experience lighter and more accessible, as well as curious is the fact that along with this game will come bundled a code to download the demo of Resident Evil 6 which for many will be reason enough to buy it, I think it’s worth giving it a try despite several details with the camera that hopefully are corrected in the final game.

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Sly Cooper Thieves in Time for PS Vita

Heres the new trailer of Sly Cooper Thieves in Time that shows us how it will use the PS Vita functions like the SIXAXIS or the Dual Analog Sticks, also will be compatible with Croos Game Saves in case you may want to continue playing it on the PS3.

More details of Resident Evil 6

A few days ago Capcom released some extra details on Resident Evil 6, which will be available this October 2 worldwide.

As we know the game is divided into 3 main characters Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield and Wesker’s son who now we know is called Jake Muller.

Another thing that has been revealed is that Jake is some type of mercenary who gets involved in this conflict because Sherry Birkin, the blonde coming out in the trailer, hired him to investigate the case of virus-C knowing that he is immune.

We also learned that Chris comes from a mission in China that don’t ended very well and in which it is believed that Ada Wong was involved, giving it a context for the scene where Chris is attacking Ada while Leon defends her.

Something else about the game is to be including a multiplayer Mercenaries style, accessible from the first day of release without an extra purchase as DLC.

To conclude let you know that Hiroyuki Kobayashi, producer of the game, said in an interview that for now, no version of Resident Evil 6 will be release for Wii-U, but this is only “for now” so maybe in the future we can see RE6 in Wii-U.

Uncharted 3 patch 1.11 in a few days

It has been reported in the official Playstation blog that at the end of this month will a 1.11 version of the Uncharted 3 patch, which includes several changes to the multiplayer mode, the most important are list here:

. – The Lab, which has already been seen in Uncharted 2, where we have a series of games in different modes, played one after another to give variety to the game.

. – Elimination Mode containing treasures of Team Deathmatch.

. – Message of the day, it returns the message of the day with news, tips and other information.

. – Advanced Settings where you can change the respawn time and the weapons we want to use.

. – Leaving a game before finalizing will be counted as a defeat in your score.

The developers of multiplayer Robert Cogburn and Justin Richmond commented that went from version 1.09 to 1.11 because 1.10 had only minor changes and decided to wait until a more complete version.

Get ready to download this updated as it becomes available to use the new features.

Heavy Rain PS3 Review

A serial killer, a police officer and a desperate father are the ingredients that give rise to the plot of Heavy Rain, a PS3 exclusive game developed by the team of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in collaboration with Quantic Dream.

A perfect life ……
You wake up in your bedroom, the sun coming through the window, you look out into the garden, take a shower and remember that it is the birthday of your son Jason, the eldest, your wife took him shopping with his brother Shaun, when they return to home it is time for the food but you give yourself time to get out and play around with the boys.

This is how it all begins in Heavy Rain, a game with a style very different from others that it could be called interactive movie before considering it a videogame but that would be very little to describe what actually is, an unforgettable experience .

Trying to avoid spoilers I can tell you that the story revolves around a serial killer plaguing the city, all seen through 4 different characters that at some point their paths cross to give us different angles of this story so we can get to solve the case of “The Origami Killer.”

Why can’t I run?

The first thing you will notice right after taking control of one of the characters is that you can not run or jump, or hit, just simply walk, observe and interact with some objects, but here is where the primary detail of Heavy Rain comes in, that at all times you will be deciding whether or not to do various activities, which may have consequences for subsequent events trying to give you the feeling that you get real life when making decisions, these range from your character to bathe or get to work or both or neither and continue the story without a problem until you get to some more complex decisions where the life of the characters will be at risk.
Some times in the game we have the freedom to explore different areas, in these parts you have the possibility to hear the thoughts of our characters with the touch of a button in order to understand better and know what their reactions to different situations are.

You’ll need good reflexes

There are several action sequences where we will be pressing the buttons that appears on the screen or perform certain movements with the sticks to put your character to do different moves, some even used the forgotten Sixaxis and a few  time ago was added the compatibility with the PSmove to try to give a better experience when playing.

Some may think it is a slow game but we must consider it is the way that the developers want for us to assimilate all that is happening in this complex story and to get the desired sense of drama.

Reality or Virtual Reality

A highlight is the graphic look, which not surprised cause it was developed by a specialist motion capture study, what they managed to do with the faces of the characters within the game was something to be considered among the best in the world to capture facial feelings into virtual models.

During the loading screens between the different scenes show us the faces of the character you control in a close up and this is where we can appreciate the amount of detail with which they were made.

Why play it?

As I said earlier, beyond a game is a life experience, you just need to go with the story of this fantastic psychological thriller that will keep you hooked and will not let you release the control, the game is made for you to be enjoyed like a movie only with the small detail that lasts between 8 to 10 hours depending on your actions, so I think that if you finish it in about 4 or 5 days you will have all the information still fresh in your memory.

Why NOT to play?

Just to begin, ¿am I playing?, There are several times when we will be mere spectators of a film in HD, along with several loose middle parts where the story progresses very slowly and in my case I played it in Spanish of Castile, and several animations are not in rhythm with the sound.

This is MY end

Actually I became a fan of the game since I finished it, but I encourage you to keep the story has you get it in the first try and stay with that version as your own Heavy Rain, talking with others who have played it I realized that all had a different ending and I think that’s what makes it special, the feeling that everyone has their own end.

Ihighly recommend that you play it and doesn’t matter if you just rent it for a weekend, what matters is not to miss the opportunity to enjoy it.

GAMERSCORE   9/10

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Assassins Creed 3 Gameplay trailer

For all those who have not seen it, here’s the first trailer for Assassins Creed 3 where we can see some gameplay of the upcoming game from Ubisoft, where the main character is struggling against some redcoats using different weapons like the bow, the tomahawk in a assassin’s symbol shape or a spear.

One part of the video shows a bear attacking the assassin, but the question is:

¿This scene will be playable or only part of a cut scene?

Assassins Creed 3 will be available on October 31, 2012.