EscapistMagazine.com got to sit down with Ryan Mattson of Red Fly Stdios where he gave them a demo of the gameplay for Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars for the Wii. He goes over alot of the influences for the games art design and overall style, I was suprised to know that much of the games lighting effects were heavily influenced by the horror film “Creepshow”. The combat is also shown for a bit, and also take note that there is no on screen HUD to be seen, your life is represented by the top of your mushroom head which diminishes as you take damage. Check out the video and see why it is one of the must own platformers of 2008.

This epic 2:24 trailer from E3 for the upcoming Sonic Unleashed game has Sonic fans drooling! Not only does it look amazing, but it also shows off the long awaited footage of Sonic in werewolf form that we have so eagerly anitcipated. Watch for yourself and you be the judge, but as he imagined it slows down out blue friend alot as opposed to his ’speed of light’ gameplay which is shown. Overall it looks to be possibly the best looking and playing Sonic game offered up since the 16-bit generation.

Though he hates the gory shooters, Shiggs sure as hell is not ignorant to them. The man is a student of the industry. Watch as he gazes, sips bottled tap water, and gazes some more.

Wonder what he’s thinking here. Besides the snide stuff.

Mirror’s Edge is a game that is making many gamers look twice, not only for its amazing graphics, but for its imaginative new idea on gameplay. I will let the E3 Developer walkthrough video do most of the explaining, but the game basically boils down to you playing as the character “Faith” who is a runner who delivers packages across rooftops, think a carrier-pigeon only as a person. The main focus of the game is the extreme platforming elements that have you leaping across skyscrapers and city buildings in the most daring ways. The game will be available for the PS3 and 360 this fall. Check out the video and prepare to be amazed….platformer fans this is what we dream we can do ourselves in real life!

Mega Man 9 might seem like a step backwards to some, but not the legion of fans out there that just cannot wait to get their hands on what they never though would have ever happened, an actual 8-bit Mega Man game in the style of the original 2 games. This video gives you a brief look at the story and gameplay, as well as reasons for Capcoms decision to go back to the series roots rather than give it a more flashy look. Also the title is now confirmed to be coming to WiiWare, PSN, as well as XBLA. Talk about a full treatment!

Спокойно, днес E3 2008 приключва така че това е пред последният “Daily Recap”

E3 ‘08: Daily Recap – Ден втори!
E3 ‘08: Daily Recap – Ден първи!

It was close for awhile, but then SONY blew it up and just stole the show hands-down. E3 should be about games and Sony delivered on that more than the competition. The gaming news that Microsoft presented was a blow and I’ve stated that several times, but it wasn’t enough to win them the show. FFXIII is a nice get for Microsoft, but its a multi-platform game and they wont even be releasing it in Japan, and it probably wont be out even for another couple years. Nintendo was lack luster, but the games they showed had great potential. I would personally put them in 2nd place with Wii music and the line up they have for the DS, but what’s coming out for Sony in 2008 and the near future makes them the clear winner.

-blip74

Everyone has a review as of what took place from Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony, so here are my thoughts; I’m not going to rate or grade the conference like everyone else, but I’m going to try and shed some light as to what took place from all three major players. First up we had Microsoft and I thought their press conference was boring. They focused a majority of their time praising themselves with numbers and not showing games. The games that they did show for the console were not too impressive, and the impressive things that we did see were seen previous to the show. The new interface that they will be rolling out and avatars, to me was a sign that their current dashboard is prehestoric and their playing follow the leader. Lips is a very cool idea and definitely sounds a step above SINGSTAR, but will the game deliver or will MSicrosoft just be giving us lip service? Their show stopper was the announcement that FFXIII will be on Xbox 360. Now that’s big, but not HUGE. The game will still be exclusive in Japan and the PlayStation will still have FF VS. exclusive to the PlayStation 3. I see the move as a way to negate PlayStation sells in North America and Europe, but it was a blow to Final Fantasy fans and does put the question out there, “will the game be dumbed down?”
Ninetendo’s press conference presentation was worse than MS, but I think they had a better showing of games. Most of the games unveiled were predicted “Animal Crossing online and STAR OCEAN” but what took place on the DS even knowing that they would have a strong showing was HUGE. GTA, GUITAR HERO, POKEMON, and Chinatown on the DS and Wii music stole the show from MS in my opinion. Just being aware of how the Guitar Hero and Rockband franchise has taken off, Wii music is going to be instant gold.
It was now Sony’s time to shine and truthfully they had a lot to prove after being given a HUGE BODY BLOW with FFXIII and the demonstration with Wii music was genius.
Sony lead off their show with RESISTANCE 2 and so much has been seen from this title they needed to show us something BIG and they did. The boss battle with the Leviathan was a step above the Gears of War 2 Showing in my opinion. I enjoyed how they had the demonstration of LittleBIGPlanet to present the dry portion of their conference which was cool. THE PSP WAS KILLER. The announcements of RESISTANCE: RETRIBUTION, PATAPON 2, Super Stardust Portable, and the list goes on. The PlayStation store is going to get some serious content with RATCHET and CLANK FUTURE: QUEST FOR BOOTY, SIREN: Blood Curse, and Videos. They also announced a price drop for the 80GB PS3 and a new PSP RATCHET and CLANK SIZE MATTERS bundle. There was so much from Sony including the new home spaces and their show stoppers were both M.A.G. and God of War III.
In general I wasn’t that surprised as to what took place at E3 other than I would have thought Microsoft would have showcased the multi-platform games more, but it was Sony. The only multi-platform game we saw from MS was Resident Evil 5.

-blip74

Лол, добре че E3 е само веднъж годишно… иначе не ми е ясно как ще смогвам на инфото

Ето ги и новият трейлър на Far Cry 2 (с леко закъснени от моя страна):

Трейлърът е много стилен и добре направен а.к.а. много ме кефи
Някой да има представа коя е песента?

А ето и последното интервю, в което L. P. Pharand хвърля повече светлина върху мисиите, дължината на играта, мап едитора и разни други нещо