Showing posts with label sandbox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sandbox. Show all posts

Monday, June 23, 2008

Lets try not to have this game suck.


Spider-Man had a short run of awesome. The last few Spider-Man games were really bad and inexcusable. Much like that last movie. The past few Spider-Man games showed is that that sandbox games does not always make for great game. With great environment comes great responsibility.

At the New York Comic Con they had a huge booth showing off the new game, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. A big screen with really vague images and obvious cut scenes from the game played all day at the booth. They showed no game play at all. But they did free posters, I got one it is even autographed. Some Spanish guy, he was friendly. His name was not Jose. I will remember when I finally put up the pictures from the NYCC. The above picture is what he signed.

Nothing like listening to game creators talk about their games (every Bourne Supremacy game trailer), but if the game play is going to be this fluid, I am going to give it a shot, hopefully we will see a demo soon.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Hulk want new pants too!


Over the years how many Hulk games do you think there are? Six total, five of which were on console. Who knew?

The Hulk is awesome, he is big and green. I will see the new Incredible Hulk movie, but I really was more excited about the game once I saw some of the game play. I was able to speak with a Sega representative demoing the game, came right out and said, "We based the game play on Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, and stayed away from the previous movie tie-in, who the hell wants to be Banner?" It is a real easy statement to make that movie tie in games suck. However in recent times the game industry seems to be trying real hard to make the movie tie ins better. The Incredible Hulk is one of those games.

A sandbox brawler, with collecting elements.

Not every sandbox games needs to be a crime based game, or a "cop gone bad" game. The judgmental masses are not allowed to complain about the Hulk showing kids how to destroy things. We can only hope that the youth would be able to lift and throw cars.

This is an everyone game, anyone can pick it up, button mash and get some entertaining results. There is a certain amount of Tony Hawk finesse that seems to work to its advantage, making the controls and the movements more fluid. You get a real sense of mass and presence in the game.

Like other sandbox games it is easy to pass and play this game around a room of friends. With plenty of unlockable costumes, and an extensive move gallery Incredible Hulk will keep perfectionists busy for a long time.