Dead Space 3 has been officially announced by EA, yay! And judging by the first leaked screenshot it looks like it might have co-op in it. I don’t know that I want Tim to hear my squeal like a girl when things jump out at me.
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Dead Space 3 has been officially announced by EA, yay! And judging by the first leaked screenshot it looks like it might have co-op in it.

I don’t know that I want Tim to hear my squeal like a girl when things jump out at me.

Yay for Netflix

For some odd reason I had the desire to watch the Stargate SG-1 series from the beginning and couldn’t find a decent torrent to download. It’s not unexpected given the series is over a decade old but I was dismayed none the less. I turned on my Xbox and thought oh I’ll try Netflix and what do you know they have the entire series, every single episode, to stream straight to my Xbox. Quite delighted I have to say.

Mass Effect 3

I bought Mass Effect 3 the day it came out back at the beginning of March but when I played it I couldn’t get into it. I think I have this weird thing where when I buy a game (rather than rent it) I feel I shouldn’t complete it to quickly because it will somehow have been a waste of money. Don’t ask why my brain processes purchases of games this way but it does. I’ll blast through a rental in a couple days no bother but I feel like if I spent $60 on a game I should get a few months out of it? What’s just stupid is that it’s not that I’ll play it slowly, I’ll just wait a couple weeks/months and then blast through it. It makes no sense at all.

Anyway I’m thoroughly enjoying ME3 and I think I’m heading towards a conclusion now. What I find fun is seeing how my game variates from Tim’s. We both chose to save the Geth (cos we’re nice people) but in my game the Geth went on to destroy the Quarians while in Tim’s they did not. That’s obviously based on some earlier decision we both made differently but I think it’s brilliant that there is such variation in the game. I can go back and make different choices and have different things happen. You certainly can’t do that with a book.

I had no interest in multiplayer for Battlefield 3, until this image. Now I’m gonna play it just to jump off this.
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I had no interest in multiplayer for Battlefield 3, until this image. Now I’m gonna play it just to jump off this.

Will the Xbox 360 Kinect be able to recognise Scottish accents at launch? It says it recognises English but we all know thats a whole different language.

So after months of Microsoft saying “Pricing hasn’t been announced for Kinect, it may not be $149”, it’s just been announced at….$149. What the fuck? So after people said that $149 was too much you still went ahead and priced it that anyway?

Even worse is the UK pricing, £130. You can get an Arcade Xbox 360 for less than that. And Sony’s Move bundle is only £50. I don’t see this working out well for Microsoft.

E3

E3 is upon us! For those not in the know E3 is a week-long entertainment expo where all the big names in the games industry show off their games and wares coming out over the next year. Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all use it as platform to showcase why their console is the best of the lot.

Microsoft showed off their new motion tracking peripheral Kinect which will allow people to play games without using a controller. It looks pretty cool but I think it’s only gonna work with simple games which don’t interest me. A cool aspect of it is that it allows you to navigate menus and such with either voice or gestures. Very Minority Report. In terms of games the ones I am most looking forward to is of course Halo: Reach but it’s followed closely by Gears of War. I loved the first two Gears games and I’m interested to see how it’ll end. Unfortunately Microsoft spent most of the rest of the time showing off their Kinect games and yet it didn’t even get priced. Not a smart move. And instead of announcing the price they decided instead to reveal a new remodelled Xbox 360, something that doesn’t seem at all necessary. 

Sony did pretty much the same thing as Microsoft and hyped up their motion controller Move which is rather like the Wii controls. It had more advanced games than Kinect and is being implemented in games like Killzone 3 and SOCOM which are FPSes. Apart from Kinect Sony also had a lot more games on show and I think my most anticipated FPS is not Reach but Killzone 3. I loved Killzone 2 and can’t wait to play the next chapter early next year. Sony also one-upped Microsoft by announcing the price of Move: $49.99 and $29.99. I don’t see Kinect coming in at less than this.

Nintendo I have no interest in and as such didn’t pay much attention to. I think they’re just mostly doing rehashes of their regular characters. Oh and a remake of Goldeneye but with Daniel Craig instead of Pierce Brosnan. Cos that won’t suck at all.

I think Dead Space 2 is my most anticipated game of the next 12 months.
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I think Dead Space 2 is my most anticipated game of the next 12 months.