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Sunset Overdrive was on full display during Microsoft’s E3 Show, and the game is shaping up to be a rather unique experience. The gameplay showcased the player hopping, grinding and zipping around some expansive environments. Bright and colorful with a firmly tongue in cheek sense of humor, the game appears to be a light hearted third person romp featuring massive destruction and hilarious gunplay. No surprise considering Insomniac is the studio behind the title. The game is set to feature 8 player online co-op in it’s “Chaos Mode” when it launches on Xbox One on October 28, 2014
The rumors of Halo 2 Anniversary weren’t only true, they were better than true.
Master Chief will indeed return on Xbox One with a remastering of his epic 2004 sequel – arguably the most anticipated and beloved game in Xbox history – and he will hit Microsoft’s newest console with the original Halo 2 multiplayer completely intact.
Microsoft and 343 Industries will, in fact, release Halo: The Master Chief Collection on November 11 – nearly a decade to the day since Halo 2’s November 9, 2004 arrival – and it will include Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2 Anniversary, Halo 3, and Halo 4. All will run in 1080p and 60 frames per second and include their full multiplayer suites in their original forms, with the added bonus of running on dedicated servers. Oh, and it’s also packing your ticket to the Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta that begins in December 2014, as well as the digital film Halo: Nightfall, an episodic release that will premiere on November 11 and run in multiple weekly installments
Lets take a look at what was announced…
The main part:
All four Master Chief Halo games on one disc Custom playlists that allow you to string together missions across multiple games Halo 5 beta key included
All four games – developed as a collaboration between 343 Industries (user interface, online infrastructure, etc.), Saber Interactive (Halo 2 Anniversary campaign), and Certain Affinity (multiplayer) will ship on a single, $60 Blu-ray disc; the individual games will not be available as separate digital downloads. You’ll run a single master user interface, from which you can queue up anything you want. All campaign levels are unlocked from the get-go, and playlists created and curated by 343 will allow you to experience moments from across all four campaigns in a variety of ways. For example: want to play all the Warthog levels in every game? Jump into that playlist and you’ll be able to do just that.
Meanwhile, multiplayer matchmaking will offer the usual assortment of playlists you’ve come to expect from Halo games – Team Snipers, Rumble Pit, etc. – and let players vote on which map they want next. But what’s cool is that you may be presented with three choices that span three different games. Say, Halo: CE’s “Wizard,” Halo 2’s “Lockout,” and Halo 3’s “The Pit.” Whichever gets the most votes is the game that MCC will launch, after which you’ll be taken back to the multiplayer lobby with your friends. Finally, the Extras menu is home to the Nightfall digital feature as well as the launch pad for December’s Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta. It will run from December 27, 2014, and end on January 22.
This Collection packs a whopping 4,000 Achievement points, as they’ve been allotted 1,000 per game from Microsoft. Some of those will be exact replicas of their original Gamerscore-earners, but some will be new, too.
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Personally, I’m looking forward to the collection, keep an eye on the Sanitarium.FM website for more news as we get it!
The trailer for Dragon Age: Inquisition was shown off earlier on the E3 stage as part of the Xbox presentation today.
The trailer was narrated by the main character, a person touched by ‘chaos’ and living in a world in constant turmoil. In the game you play this character, being hunted by forces who wish to restrain you due to the powers you control, through a huge world filled with interesting places and fascinating characters and dangers.
Dragon Age: Inquisition is due out in the autumn for the Xbox One, Xbox 360, Playstation 4, Playstation 3 and PC.
On the stage at E3, a new game play video for the Assassin’s Creed Unity game was shown off as part of the Xbox presentation today. In it was shown off the setting of France during the Revolution, just as the working classes hungered for the lives of the nobility and demonstrated the co-op function of the game which was revealed yesterday in a banner at the event.
In it the player used the skills the Assassin’s Creed franchise is known for to get inside a palace with three other players, quickly and silently making their way through to a ball where the target noble and main target was quickly and swiftly dispatched. The screen was mostly set on one player but changed towards the end to show a four-way split-screen view that hankered back to old days of local multiplayer gaming.
Assassin’s Creed is an open-world stealth and attack game due to come out on the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC later on this year.
Turn 10 took the stage at #3 2014 to announced the Nurnburgring is available FREE for all Forza 5 owners. Then, they went on to create massive puddles of drool by showing off Forza Horizon 2 in action. The game is going to run at 1080p at 30 FPS. And best of all, it will be launching on September 30, 2014. Coincidentally, this is just ahead of Sony’s Driveclub launch.
