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15 dec. 2008

VGA Trailers

A whole bunch of new trailers for the Video Games Awards — unfortunately formatted for TV: one minute each, and little to no real information contained.

God of War 3 (the most expected, obviously): the camera looks more dynamic, and I wonder if that’s because most of the video shows QTE sequences or the third game abandons the fixed camera and gets its inspiration from Prince of Persia. I figured the transition to PS3 should preserve God of War’s perfect gameplay and knock you out on the visual side, but it looks like they’re doing the opposite: the graphics are okay, but nothing to write home about.

Uncharted 2: bah… it’s a sequel. With no gameplay at all. And Drake’s face has never looked so unrealistic.

Watchmen: it’s an interesting idea to have the game taking place in the 70’s, before superheroes disappeared, but it can also give the most generic action game ever. It will all depend on the story, and I’m not expecting that much for a game tied to a movie adapted from a comic book — for starters, the way they use the Unreal Engine is anything but original.

Terminator Salvation: I wouldn’t want to be seen hoping again that a movie-based game could be good, but the violent, merciless confrontation of Skynet versus the human resistance would be a good setting for an utterly mundane, perfectly competent shooter (which I’m saying as a good thing). Particularly when it’s coming from the same studio as GRAW and the new Bionic Commando.

Brütal Legend: I don’t care for Jack Black, and have never really played a Tim Schafer game (my loss, I know), so I’m not going to be part of the general buzz around this game. We’ll see.

GTA IV The Lost and the Damned: the story and missions of GTA IV weren’t exactly its strong points, and I’m even less interested in bikers than I was in gangsters, so… I’d just like them to talk about what the DLC will bring to multiplayer, because that’s the only thing that will make me decide to buy it.

 

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