Posts Tagged ‘stealth’
Splinter Cell: Conviction pre-order exclusive revealed
Players who are planning on reserving Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction from GameStop will be receiving an exclusive in-game semi-automatic shotgun. The website reads, “If you prefer the rugged sophistication of a manual shotgun, but also enjoy the convenience of an automatic, then this is the shotgun for you! Available for online and in-store customers while supplies last.”
Online customers will receive an e-mail with a code to input into the game, while store customers will receive a game card. Either way, it’s still the same code. You can pre-order the game at GameStop. Splinter Cell: Conviction comes out this October for the Xbox 360 and PC.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker coming to the PSP
It looks like Sony has finally taken a hint and contracted one of their most loyal developers, Konami, to give the PSP’s game library a little wake up call — Recently announced during E3 is Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, a PSP exclusive that isn’t a port in any way shape or form.
Peace Walker apparantly takes place 10 years after the happenings of Metal Gear Solid 3 and stars none other than Solid Snake. The best part, however, is that Hideo Kojima will be diverting his attention away from the Xbox 360 Metal Gear to focus completely on Peace Walker which means it’s sure to be a hit.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will be released for the PSP sometime in 2010.
Batman: Arkham Asylum Poison Ivy trailer
Eidos has released another super villain trailer for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum game. This time, it’s Poison Ivy’s turn to showcase her “uncanny ability to control plants.” Everytime I see one of these trailers for the game, I am reminded how powerful the Unreal Engine 3 can be.
Batman: Arkham Asylum will be hitting stores by the end of the Summer for the PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 consoles.
Ubisoft launches Splinter Cell: Conviction teaser site
Those anxiously awaiting the release of Splinter Cell: Conviction will be happy to hear that Ubisoft has recently launched a teaser site for the game.
However, they won’t be very happy to hear that the site doesn’t display much infromation other than the above insignia followed by the text: Site currently under investigation. If you have any information on Sam Fisher, please report it here. VOMACOIFINNOCNT.
Hmm, what could that mean? Perhaps some hints at the plot, perhaps some random nonsense who knows. We’ll have to wait until this holiday season when Splinter Cell: Conviction is supposed to hit shelves.
Velvet Assassin Game Review–Please Shoot This In The Back Of The Head
So Velvet Assassin finally managed to show itself, despite a long string of delays and various excuses as to why nobody could manage to lay hands on it. And now that it’s finally out, is it any good? Is it worth your rental or purchase dollar?
My answer? Not a chance. If it were possible to put a game on trial for war crimes, I would happily sit on the prosecution on this one.
You’ll play as Violette Summer, a British secret agent in the field in the declining days of World War II. Violette is a lovely, charming lass with plenty of genteel English charm, and she’s also a trained instrument of death and mayhem. She got that way after her husband, an RAF pilot, died in combat. Feeling she needed to do something to atone for her loss–and get a note of vengeance in the bargain–she went in for MI6 training and thus came out a spy. She’ll be neck deep in Germany with no support from the English government whatever, and she’ll be doing as much damage as possible to help bring about the end of the Nazi regime.
But she’s not REALLY in Germany right now–she’s actually in hospital right now, dying from massive injuries sustained in her spying efforts. And you’re reliving her missions through a series of flashbacks.
This all sounds fairly innovative, of course, reliving your missions backward through an unusual perspective, but the problem is–the BIG problem, why I’d cheerfully put this game up in front of a firing squad, is that the gameplay is incredibly tiresome.
On the one hand, they’ve put some innovative concepts in here, such as a “morphine mode” which slows down your memories and allows you to engage in killing on a rampant scale, temporarily. And of course, as numerous other gamers have already suggested, playing an attractive female character in third person vantage has some advantages of its own. Admittedly, as advantages go, these are pretty minor at best, and frankly, of limited appeal.
The disadvantages are much, MUCH more tragic—mainly, this is a game that requires a lot of sneaking around, especially in the early stages, and I have never been one to enjoy the sneaking around. I’m going toe to toe with NAZIS. I expect to be able to bust some serious caps up in some fascists. One particularly annoying segment in the beginning required me to jam a knife in a Nazi while his partner wandered off. If after doing the killing on the first one, you don’t get the body sufficiently hidden in sufficiently rapid fashion, you’ll be attacked by the second. You’ve only got the assassin’s knife you’ve been using all along, and that’s not going to do a whole lot of good against the German with the grease gun.
And that in a nutshell is the biggest problem with Velvet Assassin—entirely too much sneaking around. If you recognize games like Assassin’s Creed (that one even HAS the word assassin in it), or Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell or No One Lives Forever, well, that’s not a surprise. I kind of caught that one myself. Oh, sure, some people can’t get enough of stealth action games like this, and for some, the adventure and romance of being a spy in World War II is just entirely too much to resist. Depending on your very specific tastes, you’ll either love this game or wish it’d never been made.
Velvet Assassin Gone Gold
Replay Studios today sent out word that its stealth-action take on the WWII exploits of British agent Violette Szabo has gone gold. Dubbed Velvet Assassin, the game lets players take control of the agent as she takes out Nazi soldiers during the war.
The game is due out on PC and Xbox 360 on April 30. However, several retailers are currently listing the game as shipping out a few days earlier – April 28.
Assassin’s Creed 2 Teaser
Confirming that the game is indeed in development, Ubisoft has launched the official website for Assassin’s Creed 2. Although it is barren in terms of content, it does offer a brief tease.
Currently all parts of the site other than the weird Da Vinci wallpaper/video are off limits.
Assassin’s Creed 2 is not expected until next year. Ubisoft is yet to officially announce the game.