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Possibly intended to be seen first at the upcoming E3 event, the trailer for EA’s new game was leaked today. Battlefield: Hardline is a game that takes place on the tough streets of the city Omaha, taking the usual Battlefield formula and applying it to the new setting of ‘war on crime’ You play as the law of the city and you can choose to be as righteous or crooked as you wish while fighting crime or potentially your fellow officers.
The trailer is over 7 minutes long and details aspects of the multiplayer mode, gadgets that can be used as well as the story for the single player mode. Multiplayer mode is to be criminals vs cops, and the trailer emphasises that it is all about teamwork within your squad as well as tactical movement and co-ordination. Modes will include hostage situations and heists, as well as chases and a ‘capture the flag’ type game with a pile of money acting as the ‘flag’. The Visceral Games team joins in to provide the story for the single player mode, about a young Miami detective who teams up with other cops and criminals to get revenge on former partners. The trailer says it takes cues from police dramas, with each level being like an episode and left on cliffhangers at the end of each.
Also noted are the open-world feel of levels, re-designed enemy AI and the fact that a lot of the surrounding environment is dynamic and most importantly for a game of this genre; destructible. There will also be a large range of military weaponry available in-game for use, including pistols, machine guns and weapons of a much more explosive nature; along with gadgets to help players move about the maps quicker and a lot of vehicles to pilot around the map.
Unfortunately, as this article was being written up, the trailer was taken down from where it’d been posted on Youtube so we can’t actually show you the trailer. If you missed it, you’ll just have to wait until EA actually release it themselves. Judging by the date on the official website, it’s probably going to be June 9th so you don’t have long to wait.
Today I decided to take a look at the game T.E.C. 3001. While this game has been on Xbox Live Indie Games for quite a few years, it recently came out on Steam. T.E.C. 3001 is an endless runner game where you play a robot that needs to collect leftover energy for humanity.
There are a few ways to play this game. There is both Singleplayer and Multiplayer modes. Unfortunately Multiplayer is only Local. So there is no playing with friends unless they are in the same room as you. Anyway, in Singleplayer, you can either do the Campaign Mode or the Endless Mode. The Campaign Mode consists of 41 levels which vary between 3 different race types: Speed Run, Drag Race, and Free Run.
The first mode, Speed Run, is a mode where you are set to 3 lanes on a track and you dodge obstacles by just movie left or right. You can also can jump and slide under obstacles as well.
The second mode, Drag Race, has you stuck to the middle of the track, you can’t move left or right. You need to reach the end within a certain time. To do this you need to activate boosts as you run over them. Each time you hit it right you get an extra boost. If you activate it too early or too late you get slowed down. You are also required to jump or slide under obstacles as you run as well.
The third mode, Free Run, is probably the harder of the modes. This mode gives you free movement anywhere on the track. These levels usually have multiple paths you can go, a lot of times making you jump from one path too another to get around obstacles.
You will have to manage your speed on some rounds for if you are going too fast or too slow it can mean the death of you. For example if you are going too fast around a sharp bend you are most likely to go flying off the edge. If you end up being too slow at a certain jump you may not make it to the next platform.
Another way to play the game in Singleplayer is the Endless Mode. This is basically a Free Run mode where you try to last as long as you can. As you go, you end up getting faster and faster till almost everything is just a blur around you.
As I mentioned earlier there is also a Local Multiplayer mode where you can play split screen vs a friend. You can race on all three of the modes in game: Free Run, Drag Race, and Speed Run.
T.E.C 3001 is a good game to hop on and off if you are craving some high octane fun. This game can get frustrating at times when you can seem to beat a level. Some levels, especially the Free Run ones, can be really challenging at times, but when you finally beat them you can’t help but feel a sense of accomplishment. You would most likely find yourself going back to older levels to try to get better scores.
The gameplay, the music, and the general look of T.E.C 3001 make this an awesome game to have in your collection if you are looking for a challenging, high energy game. Also it is pretty cheap ;).
You can buy it on Steam, as well as on the Xbox 360 though the Xbox Live Store.
A multi-layered series that looks back to the formative years of Ryu and Ken as they live a traditional warrior’s life in secluded Japan. The boys are, unknowingly, the last practitioners of the ancient fighting style known as “Ansatsuken” (Assassin’s Fist). The series follows them as they learn about the mysterious past of their master, Goken, and the tragic, dark legacy of the Ansatsuken style. Can their destiny be changed, or will history repeat itself?
Well, time for our first on demand/youtube review and what a doozey of a review aswell…
Season 1 of Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist, the follow on to the Youtube short from 2010, Streetfighter: Legacy, which showed a night time fight between Ryu and Ken and got the whole of Street Fighter fandom around the world salivating for a real live action Street Fighter spectacle (especially after the travesty that was Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li)
This is very much a prequel to the First Street Fighter: World Warriors game/story and the years of Ryu (Mike Moh) and Ken Master (Christian Howard) training, aswell as the young life and training of their Sensei Goken (Akira Koieyama) and his brother Goki (Gaku Space), and his betrayal of Gotetsu (Togo Igawa) to become Akuma (Joey Ansah), the Demon of the No Hado!
The first thing that strikes straight away is the choreography of the training and fight scenes. The training is utterly wonderful to watch and the fight scenes, especially the CGI added for the ingame moves, like the Hadouken and ShoRyuKen look cool.
Filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria, the locations are stunning too, the perfect backdrop for the training of two young world warriors into the video game characters we’ve been knocking heads with for nearly 30 years now
What I WASN’T expecting, yet supremely surprised about was the introduction of Ken’s father (Mark Killeen) in Episode 4: A Rough Night, a boxer, who spends a day training with Ryu and Ken and showing them a few of his moves. What really stood out most in this episode was the bond and training these actors and fighters have, the moves and dialect is fluid and warm and the fighting/training is quick and beautiful to watch aswell.
But they also get a taste of street fighting at a local bar against some American GI’s (and leave them in a mess of course) in this episode, of course we see Ken in full flow offering large bets, while Ryu looks out of his depth and uncomfortable being thrown into the ring. Everything we know about these characters is there and real.
The real stand out throughout the series though is Goken, more than just their teacher, he’s a father figure and one that is respected and loved by both teenagers, and the flashbacks to his own training and trials with his brother Goki under the training of Gotetsu is part of the Street Fighter legacy that hasn’t been deeply looked into before now and it was good to get to know.
Goki’s transformation into Akuma is good to watch aswell, almost a rocky level montage of his body falling apart under the power of the No Hado and his transformation into the demon Akuma is great to watch.
The one thing that I don’t get with this series is why its even a series. All 12 episodes were released right away and at 9/10 minutes an episode, I have to ask why… If this was released on DVD/BluRay as a feature length episode, like , Then I would buy it in a heartbeat.
Here’s hoping Machinima see sense to release it as a movie.
Now, to get back into the dojo myself, this gave me a definite recharge to my No Hado!
Earlier brought along a fine example of why you shouldn’t really believe everything that you see on the Internet…
Far Cry 4 was announced last week by Ubisoft so they could begin the ball rolling on hype for the game before E3 came along and the game’s announcement potentially got swallowed up amongst the other news that would be coming out of that event. Set in a region of the Himalayas called Kyrat, a place of breathtaking scenery and wildlife under the rule of a tyranical self-appointed king, players were going to have to use their wits and whatever they could to get through the game.
So when a trailer surfaced this morning, claiming to be Far Cry 4’s first trailer and showing a fly-over of mountains surrounded by blizzard which ended with the camera supposedly flying into the mountain before showing the game’s title, some certainly thought that it was Ubisoft releasing a little more information to follow up on the announcement of the game last week.
However that wasn’t the case. First the trailer got taken down from Youtube by their copyright infringement system, and then a little research proved that the trailer was a fake, the footage ripped from a BBC advertisement for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. What a shame.
What we do know for sure though is that Far Cry 4 is due out on November 21st. So we should be getting some real trailers online soon.
