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It wouldn’t be a Call of Duty game if there wasn’t some map or mode that involved zombies and asked you to survive against waves of them. Black Ops 3’s is coming in a few weeks time at the same time as the game, although that means it’ll release a week after Halloween. Not that a delay is a bad thing, it’s preferred to having a game with bugs out in the market.
The map, entitled “The Giant” asks players to survive against zombies, but also hellhounds and giant robots using a variety of special weaponry to hold back the hordes. It’s a reimagining of a classic map ‘Der Riese’ and will involve the characters of Dempsey, Nikolai, Takeo and Richthofen as they fight to return to their own worlds.
Check out the trailer for it below, filled with a lot of slow-motion zombie shooting:
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will release on November 6th and players can gain access to The Giant bonus map on day one with a purchase of the Collector’s Edition or the Season Pass.
Starting off as always with a review of games I’ve covered in the past, Home Free has 6 days to go until campaign end and has reached its next stretch goal; adding cats to the cities for your low-poly puppies to interact with although it won’t be possible to play as a cat. As expected Aberford didn’t reach its funding target in time, and pretty much all of the projects from the Round-Up of Oct 9th have more than half of their totals to make up in just under two weeks.
Of last week’s selection only GOAT ARMY is close to target, having less than €300 to make up in 29 days.
First up is a little mobile game with a simple task: set alight and burn corpses of monsters and fallen heroes to gain loot for your master. Also you play as quite a cute but angry looking little fire-spitting robot and that’s just cool.
Crematory Bot tasks you with charring the corpses being produced by a war without letting a single one past, collecting loot pick-ups as well as upgrading The Bot through collecting enough scrap pick-ups then using them to generate a randomly selected upgrade for The Bot. Each corpse will have some different attributes and you’ll even get to face ‘boss-level’ corpses. Makes a difference to play a game where your ‘enemies’ are technically already dead!
Crematory Bot has made nothing of its goal yet, but it has a target of only $300 to make in 27 days.
This game’s page describes it as “a love letter to platform games”. As someone who grew up with a number of good platformers, that’s appealing.
Super Axe Boy will feature a combination of 2D and 3D levels, sometimes switching between the two perspectives in the same level. The creator is advertising that the game could be available for many platforms both computer and console but the console versions are only going to be made if their stretch goals are met in time. It’ll feature pop culture references and some leaning on the forth wall and has a silly story that sees our hero and his sidekick Bebop as the sole people not abducted by beaver-like aliens for the purposes of slave labour/meat products.
Super Axe Boy has a target of €25,000 of which €5,297 has already been raised with a further 26 days to go.
I admit it, this one caught my eye because the hero is an anthropomorphic kick-ass rabbit. Who doesn’t like battle bunnies?
Dusty Raging Fist is a beat’em up action game with 3 player co-op play, both locally and online and is actually the sequel to a 2014 Steam game; Dusty Revenge. It follows the heroic lapine Dusty and his allies as they fight their way through levels, using their hands and feet to fight as well as picking up elemental power pick-ups to use against foes as well. The three have been sent on a quest to acquire elemental powers from the world’s Guardians to fight an evil that resides in the dark Catacombs.
Dusty Raging Fist has 27 days to go and has made $3,988AUD of its $60,000AUD target so far.
Wrapping it up with a tabletop board game with miniatures this week, one that includes a group of players working against one ‘game master’ player. Those are always fun.
Fanthoms is described on its Kickstarter as “a cooperative adventure game, with miniatures, in which a group of players fight against hordes of undersea monsters controlled by a game master”. It features either a campaign to help players grow their characters and acquire skills to help them deal with the undersea terrors and hull breaches or a number of stand-alone scenarios that have been included in the game for game masters who are a little less sure of crafting their own. Each game comes with five character miniatures, several monster miniatures, a series of weapon cards and a foldable game board, although you can only receive this core game if you back at $60 or higher.
Fathoms has 26 days to go to make a $35,603 goal (I know, it’s not a nice rounded number for once) and has made $5,022 so far.
Overwatch has been keenly watched since Blizzard announced it to the public.
Now dates have been announced for the beta and despite originally thinking otherwise, it seems that the closed beta for the game will be deployed at the same time for both the Americas and Europe while Asian players unfortunately will need to wait a little longer to gain access.
“We were able to complete setup and testing of our beta servers for Europe sooner than anticipated. As a result, we’re happy to report that we will be launching the Overwatch Closed Beta in both the Americas and Europe gameplay regions on October 27.” Blizzard blogged about the beta.
To better stress-test the servers, Blizzard will be gradually inviting more and more players to let the servers slowly fill up to give them enough information to see when problems with connections begin to occur. Asian servers are still undergoing set up and will be opened to players at a later date.
Anyone interested in joining in with closed Beta should go to the Overwatch site and sign up/ Then wait and keep your fingers crossed that you get chosen.
It seems that the people at inXile are keeping themselves busy right now. They’ve just filed a new trademark on top of all the other projects they’ve got going on right now.
Spotted by RPG Codex, the trademark is for ‘Autoduel’. Autoduel was also the name of an Origin Systems vehicular RPG that was released around 30 years ago, set in a dystopian future-America and had players battling through gang-infested highways. Just the sort of thing that’d appeal to an audience that was recently quite thrilling by a new Mad Max movie and its related game release.
inXile are currently known for being the ones behind the big Wasteland 2 update, called Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut as well as currently being in the middle of developing not one but two other RPGs funded by Kickstarter – Torment: Tides of Numenera and The Bard’s Tale.
Nothing has yet been announced, but RPG Codex’s tweet of the discovery was retweeted by Brian Fargo of inXile that suggests that something is in the works.
And so in today’s “didn’t see that coming” news, alcohol company Carlsberg have done a deal with game studio Bethesda to produce a type of beer associated with the upcoming Fallout 4 game. Unsurprisingly it’s called “Fallout Beer”.
Other than the label and the fact that it is officially endorsed by Bethesda, there doesn’t really seem to be any link to the Fallout series or any of its games, past or present. From what we’ve heard of Fallout 4 there doesn’t seem to be a connection either, but that game’s yet to be released so maybe it’s a hint of something to come? It’d be a pretty long shot though. More likely is that this is Carlsberg’s attempt to target the adult gaming audience.
“This is something of a world-first,” Carlsberg UK Corporate Affairs Director Bruce Ray said. “Adult participation in videogaming is a truly social activity, on a par with cinema and music. We’re proud to work with Bethesda to produce a beer Fallout fans can enjoy.”
Fallout Beer is available in packs of 12 for £30, and will only be available in the UK. In case you’re interested in a video game tie-in that has been described to taste “hoppy” with a “floral aroma”.
