So here we have a trailer for a game from the folks that brought Mortal Kombat back from the dead last year, yes it's another fighting game, but look... it's all about DC superheros... slapping each other about a bit.
I say "a bit" - Superman can punch someone INTO. OUTER. SPACE.
For more details, check out this interview with Ed Boon, co-creator of Mortal Kombat and the Creative Director of Nether Realm Studios:
Well it looks like the Quantum Geek has become another E3 reveal blog, as I've got another game for you here that really jumped out at me. Look, it's E3 for crying out loud. We're geeks. We get excited by this stuff...
Paul already posted about Assassin's Creed 3 (which I'm loving the look of, but I'm not convinced on the visuals of the assassin robes/native look...), but Ubisoft also had this little gem on offer. The premise is outstanding, and potentially more frightening than Silent Hill if people are as worried about identity theft and information warfare as the telly says they are. I can't help but think that this one might just be the next big IP franchise, if the game is as good as it looks. Here's the gameplay video, if the teaser whet your appetite sufficiently.
Looks good, right? A little Assassin's Creed, a little GTA. Great character design, up to and including a coat that thrashes in the rain delightfully. But the puzzle-solving-through-dodgy-use-of-technology looks to be the real draw.
And just to prove that this blog isn't just for video-game geeks, here's the first thing that I thought when I saw it: Man, I really want to play Vampire: the Masquerade again. I've got a killer idea for a Tremere with the Path of Technomancy...
I must admit, I've never payed the first Assassins Creed, I read all the previews and was deeply excited by the prospect of playing a 12th century Assassin, but was put off from buying it once the reviews came out - the concerns seemed to be that the graphics were gorgeous but the mission's were highly repetitive. Ubisoft addressed these concerns 12 months later with the release of Assassins Creed 2, set 400 years after the original it introduced a new Assassin, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the Batman of resonance Italy with a penchant for sticking pointy metal objects into people, usually with fatal results.
Ezio's story spanned three games, the last of which came out last year and so now Ubisoft are ready to move the franchise on to a time period, a new continent and introduce a new Assassin, Connor Kenway who's going to get all stabby stabby during the American Civil war:
I love Assassin's Creed - it's only one of two games which I pre-order on an annual basis (the other one being Call of Duty) so I'm really looking forward to this, but I must admit I'm going to miss leaping off those roof tops in Venice.
Whilst I'm on the subject of Venetian rooftops, if you've played any of Ezio's adventures you'll know just how damn good the original score by Jesper Kyd is, this is a gem of a mashup by YouTuber Intox7792 which I stumbled across over the weekend, it combines three tracks from Assassin's Creed 2 together to create something that's greater than the sum of it's parts - it's only had 388 views so far, so take a listen & if you like it, spread the word...
Okay, time for my first post. A first post is always going to be somewhat problematic, even just in deciding what to write about; "anything geeky" is a pretty wide mandate, after all. What medium do I go for? Comic-books? Games? Films? And then what franchise? I'm mildly obsessed with everything from Final Fantasy VII to Game of Thrones, after all...
Star Wars. I'm always safe with Star Wars.
So back at the start of June my brother let me know about this; given my love of all things Star Wars - and particularly my love of all things Star Wars bounty hunters - it seemed like something I should know about. Now, thanks to E3, we finally have a bit of solid information to go on.
Turns out it's a Star Wars version of Uncharted. Let me make that extra clear, for those of you at the back not paying attention. They have mixed this;
With this;
It's early days, but this is potentially more win than my body has room for. For more information, head on over to IGN. Need further reason to geek out completely? CT-1313 was an alias used by Boba Fett himself in the novel Boba Fett: Maze of Deception, according to Wookieepedia. Read into that what you will...
Well, t'was E3 this week and although the majority of the media briefings were a bit on the dull side (I want GAMES Microsoft, not apps or a new music store...) it did see the release of some excellent new trailers, not least this one from High Moon Studios for their forthcoming Fall of Cybertron.
Now is it just me or is this better than all of Michael Bay's efforts combined?
I need this game, August can't come soon enough...
