It seems that Heavy Rain has caught the eye of more than just some gamers. New Line Cinema is trying to figure out if they want to make a Heavy Rain movie. It's all just some speculation, but considering that Heavy Rain is more along the line of a movie than most other games, this might actually happen.
Although this leaves out a pretty large size of the PC gaming community, I feel that this sort of change had to happen eventually in order for the industry to grow. At least Avalanche didn't try to make a scaled down, but inferior, version of "Just Cause 2" for XP users, and in that respect I fully support this decision.
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I loved both of the Motorstorm games on the PS3, and I'm a racing game fan in general, so this is great news for me. I'll be sure to post any new information I gather about Motorstorm 3 as it's unveiled...until then... Who's up for some Pacific Rift?
It seems to be a growing trend to have Steam/Valve handle a games updating and patching process. I for one am all for Steam doing the more technical aspects of digital game sales. It doesn't require for studios to get a whole separate team, and they can also spend more time cranking out actual content.
Final Fantasy VII is considered by most to be the best in the entire Final Fantasy series, and so its no surprise that fans have been asking for a remake. It seems whenever there's a new Final Fantasy nearing release, this debate for an FFVII remake comes up. It usually ends with Square Enix saying that they want to explore newer concepts rather than remake an old title, but this time we're getting a different answer. Earlier this week Producer of FFXIII, and Director of FFVII, gave the fans a little bit of hope.
Borderlands got a new tag line at the end of last year, Best selling new IP of 2009. It turns out that 2009 wasn't the only year that Borderlands was doing well, because its still selling... a lot!
Gearbox has also been supporting their game very well with new DLC packs coming out every 2 or so months. To keep in the spirit of things, Gearbox has just released some new screens of their latest and greatest DLC pack entitled "The Secret Armory of General Knoxx’s". This DLC will add a new tier of unique weapons, new eniemes, and raise the level cap.
Lead Designer Sam Bass commented on this issue, The player progression system works "across single-player, multiplayer and skirmish and all the information is stored in a server. So if you go to another machine -- friend’s house, Internet café -- whatever, you can login with your profile and all the stuff you’ve unlocked is accessible to you there. It all lives on a server so you can’t really do dedicated servers with that."
However, with Battlefield: Bad Company 2 it seems that releasing the modding tools isn't going to fit in the scheduled time line. Patrick Bach, senior producer on Battlefield Bad Company 2, said that they'd rather focus on making a fantastic game rather than "a buggy game with average gameplay but with modding possibilities."
“We just unveiled this thing about seven months ago at E3, so it’s an entirely new category of games and entertainment. We are still in codename status, and we haven’t shown any of the actual games. There’s a lot more to share.”
“Destruction and scarring of the environment: they’re universal themes that have been around forever. Our take will be unique,” added executive producer Nathan Camarillo.
The premise of Heavy Rain is to try and solve a mystery murder case through the eyes of several different characters. In the demo you play as a private detective and an FBI agent, both of whom are in completely different parts of New York City where the story unfolds.
What really stood out to me was the seem-less flow which Heavy Rain moves at. Every action that you do on your controller feels so natural that I could have almost played through the entire demo without any button pop-ups, and I would have known what way I should move the analog sticks.
Because Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was my Game of the Year in 2009, I am extremely excited to jump back in for some more 3rd person action. Although I'm really excited for this DLC pack, the one thing I would like the most, is new online Co-op missions.
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