Friday, December 23, 2011

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Latest Gaming and MMORPG Updates

The Best of 1UP 2011: Previews

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 03:15 AM PST

If you read previews to learn what to play, this list is pretty much worthless, since seven of the 10 games listed below are now for sale and our reviews for those would probably serve you better. But since we love back patting and are comfortable enough opening the vault for you to make fun of things we said earlier in the year — continuing this week’s theme of listing the best 1UP content from 2011 — here are 10 previews we think hold up and remain worth reading now that the year is (basically) over.

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  • I Played Skyrim Wrong, but It Felt So Right

    A pride of point with
    Skyrim is how sandbox-y it is. You’re dropped into the world of Tamriel, and can decide your own fate from then on. Do you follow the main quest to slay the elder dragon? Or do you work for the Thieve’s Guild? Maybe murder homeowners and stuff their corpses
    with potatoes? In this preview, we tested this openness by going completely off-path and off-script. We had no use for the plot spoiler guidelines, because we were too busy doing other stuff in this preview.


  • Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition is Arcade Perfection

    “Hey,” you might say,
    “that headline sounds more like a review title than a preview title.” But that’s just how confident 1UP’s Jose Otero was after seeing Capcom and Iron Galaxy’s XBLA/PSN port of one of the best 2D fighters of all time.


  • BioShock Infinite Jumps From 1912 to 1983 And Back

    BioShock Infinite
    picked up more or less every major award at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo — for good reason, considering how well its skylines and combat seemed to mix together in a fascinating world-in-the-sky.


  • Six Things We Want to See in Final Fantasy XIII-2

    Halfway through the
    year, Jeremy wrote an article highlighting 6 changes that could elevate Final Fantasy XIII-2 far beyond its predecessor. Well, it’s time to get your pitchforks out, because witchcraft is the only way that we could have predicted these major enhancements which
    have almost all found there way into FFXIII-2. The sequel is shaping up to be the first hit of 2011, and 1UP seemed to know why a long time ago.


  • Setting the Stage for Skyward Sword: A Legend of Zelda Primer

    No series is as obsessed
    with its own history as The Legend of Zelda, and this trend certainly hasn’t changed with Skyward Sword. And, given that the game takes place at the beginning of the much-disputed timeline, it has a sizable amount of history to establish. Check out Jeremy’s
    extensive preview to find out how the latest Zelda echoes its extensive legacy.


  • Marvel vs Capcom 3: Ultimate Character Guide

    Hard-fighting expert
    Neidel Crisan waxes eloquent over Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, offering a preview that remains useful long after the game’s launch thanks to its dual function as a character guide and in-depth how-to for the game’s basics and more subtle mechanics alike.


  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Choose Your Own Gameplay

    This 1UP preview goes
    the choose-your-own-adventure route by offering two player perspectives. Will you take the steathly route and follow Jeremy Parish or run in the fray Guns Blazin’ with Theirry “Scooter” Nguyen?


  • 20 Things We Learned About Batman: Arkham City

    Seeing a live gameplay
    demonstration of a new game for the first time can be an overwhelming experience. Besides seeing what the heck the game is like for the first time, in the case of sequels, we also have to absorb all the shiny new features and tweaks as well. For this writeup
    of Batman: Arkham City, rather than tease it out over regular prose, we break down 20 new facts we gleaned from our first demonstration.


  • E3 2011: Dark Souls Will Kill You

    Months before Dark
    Souls released to critical acclaim, we had a hunch it was going to be something special. When we saw the game at E3 back in June, series director Hidetaka Miyazaki described the game as “spicy, but edible.” These words offer a brief, but deliciously apt portrayal
    of all that is Dark Souls– a devilishly hot dish that you gladly devour through the pain.


  • The Witness is a “Longform Game” From the Guy Who Made Braid

    Jonathan Blow, the creator of Braid, invited our own Matt Leone to his house to spend some serious time getting to know his newest game, The Witness.


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Warface goes to Russia

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 03:15 AM PST


According to foreign reports, Crytek’s very first online title, Warface, will be reaching Russia sometime next year. The publisher and operator of the game will non other be Mail.Ru, which recently acquired Dragon Nest Russia (link) as well. While the Korean market is one location, nothing has been confirmed other than the servers for Russia and China.

Developed using the latest CryEngine 3, Warface is currently in Closed Beta phase in China hosted by Tencent Games, taking a short break before the next phase continues. Let’s hope the login issue is solved so I can grab some footage :)


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Review: Trine 2 is a Whole List of Synonyms For "Beautiful"

Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:15 PM PST

In a season riddled with life-changing mega-sequels, Corpse Party couldn’t have arrived at a worse time — especially on a platform so ravaged by the deadly tag team of piracy and disinterest. With its distinctly fan-made presentation and digital-only availability, XSEED’s latest isn’t going to turn heads like the Uncharteds and Modern Warfares of the world; though, in the case of Corpse Party, this lack of attention just might be for the best. While most of our modern gaming blockbusters seek to offer either awkwardly bloodless violence for the sake of the coveted catch-all Teen rating or Bruckheimer-esque glorification of combat, the folks at Team GrisGris obviously didn’t suffer under these same publisher pressures. Corpse Party doesn’t seek to cast the widest net possible with a series of escapist power fantasies that gently nudge players down a path of rewards; from the outset, the game wears its heartlessness on its sleeve, dispatching characters in ways that have yet to debut in your nightmares (but soon will). This glorified visual novel may resemble a B-tier Super Nintendo game on the surface, but nothing else I’ve played over the past 25 years has been so relentlessly brutal, bleak, and terrifying.

Though Corpse Party looks like an ancient JRPG, trappings like hit points, an inventory, and tile-based movement only exist as lip service; the “game” portions of Corpse Party act solely as a conduit for the narrative. Like Phoenix Wright and 999, Corpse Party is a visual novel, though it looks and plays decidedly more “gamey” than other entries in the genre. Instead of transitioning from static scene to static scene from a first-person perspective — typical of the genre — the game employs 2D sprites and an overhead perspective, providing players with a more familiar means of input. And since you’re tasked with controlling a group of defenseless teens, combat simply isn’t an option; the few foes found in the game most often kill with a single touch, making their presence more disturbing than any turn-based ghost battles ever could.


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