Thos of you who are longtime readers might remember my review of New Super Mario Bros. Wii last fall. To summarize, I felt the multiplayer was chaotic and messy, though fun at times, and it didn't feel very cooperative to me at all. I still stand by that review, though others obviously feel differently. Apparently, I'm not alone in my assessment of that title: Kotaku's Stephen Totilo mentions many of the same issues.
It's time for an Xbox Live Co-Op night, and in what's just past our two year anniversary of these events we've been doing with Microsoft, we decided to go big. Big. Hulking. Robots. That's right it's time to roll out and co-op through Transformers: War for Cybertron!
Remember the days when you had shelf after shelf of new games. Well, for some of us we’re still there, but as the gaming industry moves toward many more full game digital downloads, will we miss the cases and shelf art, or welcome the extra space in our gaming rooms?
We've got a ton a Kane and Lynch 2 news today for you, so strap yourself in for one intense ride. In fact, intense is proclamation for the game. We've used it before and now the team at IO Interactive are using it in their latest developer diary describing their goals for the game. Number one on the list? You guessed it - an intense experience. The team also describes how they really focused on community feedback from the first game to improve things like the cover system, AI, co-op and more.
Don't let the episode title fool you, we cover WAY more than Epic Games' outspoken president! There's a ton of Halo Reach news to go over, a litany of new console releases from Microsoft, Kinect's price was announced, and we once again take news about Killzone 3's (lack of) co-op with the grain of salt it deserves. We stuff all of this and more into a nice, hour-long package, and there's even a surprise ending!
Don't worry PC gamers - we know you just got Star Craft 2 with its own versions of space marines, but Relic has some big beefy soldier goodness for you too. Today they have announced that their game, aptly titled Warhammer 40K: Space Marine, will be coming to your custom rigged neon glowing PCs in 2011 alongside the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version.
Borderlands has been a real co-op juggernaut. It's one of our forum users' most beloved titles, and it's easy to see why. A great shooter with super-customizable RPG elements, all set in a gorgeously rendered world, with split-screen and online co-op... ah, yeah, that's what we're talking about. For Xbox Live Gold users, Borderlands is even better this week, as all three DLC packs are available for the low price of 400 points, AKA 5 bucks. That's half off, just like Mad Moxxi's clothes in the pic above. (Way to tie it in, eh?) So, if you're a Borderlands fan who likes to stretch the value of your gaming dollar, it looks like this is your week. Maybe with the savings we can all pitch in and buy Moxxi a t-shirt...
Look, lets be honest. Two Worlds - it blew hobos big time. I know it, the internet knows it, Meta Critic knows it, even Southpeak games who published it...well they know it - but won't admit it directly. So what do you do? You create a sequel!
Once upon a time there was a science fiction RPG that started playing Spore on the PC, and they grew up happily and had a beautiful baby called Darkspore. The great minds of Maxis, behind the Spore PC game that allowed users to make their own alien ecosystems wants to take the action up a notch. By joining forces with Bioware, the developers responsible for RPG’s like Knights of the Old Republic, and Mass Effect*, Maxis hopes to make a real hit in the RPG realm.
Sony Online Entertainment has announced an exclusive agreement with Firehouse Games to publish their puzzle/brawler Slam Bolt Scrappers. "Puzzle brawler?" you say. Yes indeed. The game is a bit like Smash Brothers meets Tetris meets tower defense all with a fun and over the top art style. The on screen action is a bit chaotic, something I can attest to having played the game first hand at PAX Prime last year, bit strategy is still the key to winning. At the time Slam Bolt Scrappers was actually an Xbox Live Indie game but Sony has since snatched it up.
IO Interactive has revealed the achievement and trophy list for Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days. It's a very co-op friendly list with 5 specific co-op achievements and trophies and over 600 Gamerscore worth of story based achievements earnable in co-op. The remaining score and trophies come from Kane and Lynch 2's online multiplayer modes including Arcade, Under Cover Cop, and Cops and Robbers.
