Red Faction: Armageddon Details, Media Released

Red Faction 4 has been known to exist in some form for some time now, and many have even known the supposed title of this game, because of some registered domains that were dug up. Recently Red Faction: Armageddon was announced this month before E3.

Volition will once again take the reigns on this title as the game’s events will take you back to Mars, and sees characters underground, much like the first game in the series. It’s also a third person action title like 2009’s Red Faction: Guerrilla, and so far has been compared to Dead Space or even Doom 3, looking at the screenshots and the trailer which have been made public.

In the game you’ll play as Darius Mason, grandson of Alec Mason from RFG, and destroy environments as in tradition in Red Faction games with Geo-Mod 2.0 tech, with some physic based weapons like a Magnet Gun, and you’ll get to try all this out in singleplayer and co-operative modes. According to a THQ press release, the game is set underground 50 years after the events of RFG, because the surface has been rendered uninhabitable, and there’s a war on.

The game should be out next year, with the game scheduled for a March 2011 release date, with the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 as set platforms.

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Sources: Red Faction: Armageddon trailer, images surface [Destructoid]

Red Faction: Armageddon Details, Media Released

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Screenshots, Trailer Coming

These screenshots are said to be taken from a trailer, which will arrive today, Friday, for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a prequel to the first game released in 2000.

Although not developed by Ion Storm, who did the first two games, it’s being worked on by Eidos Montreal, who also picked up Thi4f, or Thief 4, with the last entry in that series also developed by Ion Storm.

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Source: Deus Ex: Human Revolution shots get out [VG247] via All Games Beta

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Screenshots, Trailer Coming

Latest Medal of Honor Screenshots

Some new screenshots for Medal of Honor were released by EA the other day. It’s said that these screens are really just from one of the trailers released for the title, and not from actual gameplay.

I think the foliage, you know – the flowers and the bushes - looks hideous by the way.

Latest Medal of Honor Screenshots

Fallout: New Vegas Box Art and Screenshots

The box art for Fallout: New Vegas was released recently, and you can see it for each version of the game to the right.

People all over agree that Fallout 3’s box art was better. But this one is the final version, so there won’t be any changes. Just deal with it. The game inside the box should be a killer one anyway.

And there are some new screenshots for the game too:

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Source: Here’s the final Fallout: New Vegas box art [Bethblog]

Fallout: New Vegas Box Art and Screenshots

Rage gets a Release Window, New Screenshots, Similar to Borderlands?

On this day: 5 May 2010 - May Day; 5 May 1992 – Wolfenstein 3D

All has been quite on the subject of Rage – id Software’s first real developed game since Doom 3, and the first original IP since Quake.

But some news hit recently about the post-apocalyptic themed title, and it was concerning a release date.

Bethesda, the publisher says that the game should be out next year. In other words, 2011. For a while there we were expecting it to come this year. All the versions of the game – PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 – will be released simultaneously.

Tim Willits of id Software gave reasons why the title would not see 2010:

“Because we haven’t even hit alpha on this thing yet. But we’re working very hard and we’re getting close to that. But it’s important that we get this right. There’s nothing worse than pushing something out before it’s ready.

And the great thing about Bethesda and Zenimax is the executive management has the faith in us to give us the resource that we need to do the right game. Because, trust me, it would be horrible if we were to release it and it was bad.

As you saw, it’s running well on the 360. There are some graphical things that John’s working through, that he’ll get fixed. But the engine’s pretty solid.”

There was also talk about the fact – and I’ve thought this for some time – that Rage looks quite similar to Borderlands. I also thought Fallout 3 as well, seeing as some claim that’s the game that clinched the deal between id Software and Bethesda’s parent company, ZeniMax, last year.

But the Design Director on the game, Matt Hooper, stepped in to give his take:

"I can see fans drawing comparisons -- and people naturally want to draw parallels between existing things -- but no, we're not just making another 'Doom' here. It's something new for us."

Rage is not a procedural landscape with heavy RPG elements and a billion weapons. It's a very crafted, focused, action shooter with a level of attention to detail that's just off the charts."

We knew we wanted to have vehicles, and that we could make a kick-ass shooter, so the two came together in a very natural way for the team."

We've got a finely crafted weapons, really creative engineering items like deployable turrets and remote controlled bombs. It's all about creating a rich universe to use the array of weapons and options at the player's disposal."

It's not a bad thing that people draw comparisons. I just hope that people get more information and see demos and really realize what makes Rage so unique. Even if this post-apocalyptic wasteland seems familiar at first."

In addition to all this, there’ve been some new screenshots released for the game as well.

 

By the way, if you local SA gamers, or those in the UK even, happen to watch GameFace on Tuesdays, last night you would have heard from Julia Hardy that they will doing a feature on the game sometime soon.

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Sources:

RAGE Gets Release Window, New Screenshots [Shacknews]
Rage delayed until 2011, confirms id Software [VG247]
'Rage' Developer On 'Borderlands' Similarities [multiplayerblog.mtv.com]

Rage gets a Release Window, New Screenshots, Similar to Borderlands?

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Details, Concept Art

Some of this info that’s been released recently from Ubisoft has been known of for some time, including the release date, which is “Fall 2010”, and that it will be released for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. The PC version is to arrive later on, and there are also Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP versions planned.

As for other details, it seems as though in addition to the optical camo and shoulder mounted mortar, there will also be air and ground drones, I suppose similar to the UAVs in Bad Company 2. There will be devices like these and others based on real prototypes in use by the military, like exoskeletons [think Stalker – those dudes with the suits].

The game is said to take place 15 years in the future, the 2020’s, and the singleplayer campaign is said to span a generous sounding 14 missions – about the standard set in previous Ghost Recon titles. You can play the campaign on your own, or in co-op mode.

And there’s some new artwork that’s popped up on the net. There were a few screenshots and so on that I’d seen before, so I just posted the artwork here.

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Sources:

“Ghost Recon Future Soldier Details Emerge: 'You Are an F-16 on Legs” [Shacknews]

Gamingbolt.com [concept art]

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Details, Concept Art

New X-Com Title Confirmed, FPS Title Called XCOM, First Screenshot

A rumour that’s been around a long time is that another series of games from the 90’s, X-Com, will be getting a modern resurrection of sorts. 2K Australia is planning to make another X-Com title, but with a twist: it will be an FPS, or first-person shooter, title this time.

For a while, it was suspected that 2K Boston, now known once again as Irrational Games, the team who worked on the original BioShock, would be working on this title. But Ken Levine is adamant that he has a game in development that is the first in a new IP.

2K Marin, developers of BioShock 2 was then also widely reported as the team handling this new title, referred to as XCOM, but it’s been said that 2K Australia is the lucky bunch that will head development on the project. 2K Marin and 2K Australia are sister studios, along with 2K Novato, 2K California, and 2K Canberra. 2K acquired the license to the IP from Atari a few years back.

2K president Christoph Hartmann:

"With BioShock 2, the team at 2K Marin proved themselves as masters of first-person, suspenseful storytelling, and with XCOM they will re-imagine and expand the rich lore of this revered franchise. Players will explore the world of XCOM from an immersive new perspective and experience firsthand the fear and tension of this gripping narrative ride."

Teaser site write-up:

XCOM is the re-imagining of the classic tale of humanity’s struggle against an unknown enemy that puts players directly into the shoes of an FBI agent tasked with identifying and eliminating the growing threat. True to the roots of the franchise, players will be placed in charge of overcoming high-stake odds through risky strategic gambits coupled with heart-stopping combat experiences that pit human ingenuity – and frailty – against a foe beyond comprehension. By setting the game in a first-person perspective, players will be able to feel the tension and fear that comes with combating a faceless enemy that is violently probing and plotting its way into our world.

There are some concerns about this whole XCOM FPS business though, seeing as X-Com: Enforcer, a TPS [third-person shooter], was a flop. The games before this were turn-based strategy titles similar to Jagged Alliance or Fallout, except they had you fighting against UFOs and aliens and such.

This new XCOM will be available for PC and Xbox 360.

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Sources:

Press release

“X-Com 'Re-Imagined' as FPS by BioShock 2 Dev” [Shacknews]

New X-Com Title Confirmed, FPS Title Called XCOM, First Screenshot

Stalker Silliness [Screenshots]

Here are some screenshots I took from Clear Sky last year and more recently Call of Pripyat while playing them. The screens are accompanied by captions too. Why did I do this. I don’t know…

“There’s an emission going on outside? Damn right. There’s one going on in here too!”

“Ooh! We’ve never done it by a train station before!”

“Why the hell did you stick the grenades to the bottom of the crate?”

“To stop them rolling about.”

“Teddy?! I sleep with my rifle motherf*cker!”

Stalker Silliness [Screenshots]

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Screenshots, Details

A bunch of screenshots for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier hit the net recently. Thanks go to The Lost Gamer for originally having them up. You can check them out at the bottom of the post.

As you can see in some of the pictures, and in the trailers for the game released recently, the game will feature cloaking or optical camouflage. In Official Playstation Magazine, this was explained further by Studio producer Adrian Lacey:

“People always say, ‘It doesn’t exist’. It’s existed for about five years; we were looking at it for previous Recons.

Imagine a suit covered in cameras. It films what’s around you and projects it back on your suit. You don’t disappear. You’re not invisible. It disturbs your perception, breaks up your silhouette.”

Also, soldier exoskeletons and shoulder-mounted rocket launchers are some other gadgets that will be in the game.

The game will be out later on this year for PS3, 360, DS, PSP and Wii, with a PC version probably coming afterwards, at some other time.

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Sources: The Lost Gamer - VG247

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Screenshots, Details