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Overturn: Mecha Wars out on Wii Ware today
Filed in GamesRocker Plus by John Constantine at 15.49pm on 12 February 10
Overturn: Mecha Wars is a tournament-based game where two challengers go head-to-head. The tournament consists of six classes: Rookie, Novice, Elite, Ace, Grand and Master classes. Games take place within closed battlefields with the contestants controlling futuristic machines equipped with a host of high tech weapons.
The aim of the game is to blast your opponent using the 19 available weapons, while trying to avoid their incoming attacks, ending up as the last one standing. Each of the eight machines has its own unique features with selectable weapons that increase as the player progresses through the tournament. The game will also give players the ability to customise their favourite Mecha once parts have been unlocked.
The game can be played by one or two players (split screen) locally or with two to four players via Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Overturn can also be played by using the Wii Balance Board and utilises the Wii Remote speaker, allowing the player to experience WiiWare games in a unique and exciting way.
Check the trailer out below...
Check back as GamesRocker Plus will have an exclusive review.Matt Allard’s Top Ten Games from 2009
Filed in GamesRocker Plus by Matt Allard at 18.36pm on 11 February 10
1. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – PS3 – Xbox360 – PC
Massively hyped and unlike many other over hyped games, COD:MW2 managed to live up to expectation. Single player campaign is intense but short, Multiplayer is as addictive as ever and now there is a new co-op mode to boot.
2. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – PS3
The highest rated exclusive this year has to be U2:AT. Great script, visuals, acrobatics and gunplay, makes for an excellent single player experience. Now add in the fact that there’s a great multiplayer keeps U2:AT just off the top spot.
3. Batman: Arkham Asylum – PS3 – Xbox360 – PC
If this top ten was based on the single campaign alone, Batman would be top. Finally there is a dark and fantastically realised superhero game, Batman actually plays like Batman, stealthily with loads of gadgets but still double hard in a fistfight, Just a shame there’s no online play.
4. Street Fighter lV – PS3 – Xbox360 – PC
For those old enough to remember the good old days of the SNES this will throw you straight back in to the early 90’s, but with enough tweaks and changes to make it feel fresh and new. For those born nearer to the 90’s this will be a fantastic new beat-em-up experience.
5. Age of Empires: Mythologies – Nintendo DS
Not one of the big releases for 2009 but definitely one of the best. The AOE team know how to make a solid turn based strategy game. Mythologies add to the mix with Norse, Egyptian and Greek mythologies, to create an extremely deep and long lasting experience.
6. Valkyria Chronicles – PS3
Another little known title and another strategy game, I’m not a big fan of strategy games but this is another game that really stood out in 2009. Anime style visuals with a great combination of real time/turn based strategy, with long lasting appeal.
7. Dragon Age: Origins – PS3 – Xbox360 – PC
When was the last time you felt really drawn into a video game world? DA:O sucks you in and keeps you there. A hugely ambitious Role-playing game that on the whole works very well.
8. Resident Evil 5 – PS3 – Xbox 360 – PC
So it’s not Resident Evil as we know it, but RE5 took the improvements from RE4 and made an all out action game. Great polish with good replay value. The online modes are a good first time effort as well.
9. Little Big Planet – PSP
It’s amazing to think that Sackboy is a year old already, when released on the PS3 it arrived to much critical acclaim, it is truly a unique platforming experience. Unfortunately it did not come with much commercial success. LBP for the PSP is just as good as the PS3 version but I don’t think its sales are going to do much to help the failing PSP
10. Fifa 10 – PS3 – Xbox360 – PC – DS – PSP
Fifa dominated the football genre, that is until Pro evolution soccer came on the scene, Pro Evo became the critics choice for football games. Fifa 10 has really stepped up this year and not only caught up with Pro Evo but also far surpassed it. Maybe we’re going back to Fifa dominated world.VIDEO: Just Cause 2 ‘Freedom and Chaos’ Trailer
Filed in GamesRocker Plus at 23.50pm on 10 February 10
With over 400 square miles of some of the most incredible gameplay locations ever seen, Just Cause 2 gives you the freedom to take on the world in more ways than you can possibly imagine. Freedom to decide where to go: snow-topped mountain ski resorts, sun-kissed tropical beaches, beached oil tankers in the middle of a desert, floating brothels or lost Japanese WWII soldiers on ‘skull’ island.
Freedom to accept any mission: work for any of the three island factions, choose from almost 200 missions, challenges, assassinations and more. Freedom to bend reality to your cause: surf jet fighters into oil rigs, ‘helicopter hop’ from the burning wreckage of your aircraft and hijack your pursuer, devastate heavily defended military installations with nothing but your grapple and a snappy one-liner. Just Cause 2 gives you the freedom to make the game your own. This is your Just Cause.
As Rico Rodriguez, the Agency's most powerful weapon, players must take on the island of Panau and its military regime in order to track down Rico's former boss and mentor, Tom Sheldon, who has gone rogue with millions in Agency cash and intel. Using a unique grapple and parachute combination, there is no vertical limit as the air becomes your playground: grapple a passing plane in flight, hijack helicopters, BASE jump from the tallest buildings or mountains and leave a trail of chaos and destruction in your wake. Just Cause 2 offers players the freedom to attack missions any way they choose and, with over 100 vehicles and countless upgrades and collectibles, the choices for relentless adrenaline-fuelled action are limitless.Wii are not amused
Filed in GamesRocker Plus by John Constantine at 23.13pm on 09 February 10My Xbox is broken so I really haven’t had much to write about so far this year. I’m pretty sure if I got in there with a hoover I’d have it up and running again but it would only last a few weeks then it would happen again. It hasn’t ‘Red Ringed’ yet, I kinda wish it would. Put me out of my misery already, please. I will inevitably replace it, whether I do so with a new Xbox or with a PS3 is the question. Until then I will enjoy a game-less existence.
After the initial FIFA shakes which lasted a few weeks and still pop-up every time I see an advert for it or its [now] inferior cousin Pro-Evo, I considered that now would be a fantastic opportunity to invest some time in my dusty, pointless Nintendo Wii. I hit a few game shops to see what they had of interest and was quickly reminded why my Wii hasn’t been turned on in over a year. I am not a 12 year old girl so the hundreds of Pony styling games didn’t interest me. I’m not a middle aged mother of 4 so the cooking hints game had no appeal and everything else just looked shit. I toyed with the idea of picking up FIFA 2010 for a cut-price rate of £19.99 but I thought better of it. I bought the first Wii FIFA and enjoyed the gimmick for 20 minutes before condemning it to the back of my shelf. What did I expect? It was endorsed by Michael Owen! When he played for Newcastle!?!?!
There are always rumours of a Wii game for the adult market that will actually be competitive but as far as I can tell; it’s yet to be released. No More Heroes had a charm but its farming levels were the stuff of nightmares. How such a dull conception makes it out of testing is beyond me. The Mario titles are all exceptional but as I get older I find myself less and less motivated to have every colour under the sun, on screen at the same time jump, spin, explode and scream at me all at the same time, while flashing puppies in giant pink shoes giggle and shout cutesy gibberish that I’m supposed to read off the screen all the while attempting to suppress an epileptic fit that will invariably leave me seeing mushrooms, dinosaurs and monkeys in my sleep for the next six weeks. Funny that.
While entertaining a self-imposed gaming hiatus I find more time for reading and...well. No. That was a lie. I’m watching The Sopranos from start to finish and it’s way better than reading. Everything in The Sopranos is a metaphor pretty much, in series one Anthony Jr plays Nintendo 64. In one scene he loses to Tony at Mario Kart before being to told to turn it off and go to bed. In later episodes he plays darker games, more violent games on the PS2 and Xbox. There are significant moments in which Anthony draws for the video games and they’re generally significant games. The use of the console in culture and media, so perfectly summarised by a TV show which really has nothing in dialogue to suggest so. But it so perfectly captures the escapism afforded by quality gaming every time it’s used. Over analysed? Maybe. It did get me thinking about the tracking of my life through the visuals of video gaming though. I’ve always been excited by the jumps in game technology but a point came in the mid-to-late 90s when I reluctantly accepted the fact that the next few years of development were going to go over my head.
When games entered the third dimension with Sega 3D and later Saturn, I wasn’t particularly excited. The idea of 3D was too far in the future for my mind to comprehend. Hollywood had been animating [poorly] in 3D for a few years but I doubted we’d see properly rendered characters and environments that look like real life any time soon. I believed it would happen, the evolution of 16bit graphics on the Mega Drive assured me the potential was there. As kids the first question about a new console was “What bit is it?” Master System’s 8bit, Mega Drive’s 16bit, Saturn’s 32bit, Nintendo 64’s 64bit, in hindsight, the progression was actually pretty swift. It didn’t feel it at the time though. My point being that between Sega Saturn and Playstation 2 I didn’t consider there to be much development in 3D rendering. I was told “Wait until you see these graphics” about every other game, while enjoying each era’s graphics for their own unique charms [in it’s prime Nintendo 64’s graphics, while blocky, were brilliantly shaded and you were never in any doubt what console you were playing] I lost touch with the level of development I’d been so interested in as a young boy.
The quality of animated visuals being produced today I don’t think I expected to see in the period we have done. I don’t think there can possibly be a media industry that has developed to the extent the gaming industry has done in the time scale it has. More pure than the music business and Hollywood combined I’m pretty sure it’s the media most of us will be measuring our life by in years to come.
I'm rambling. Good to be back. This new website looks pretty fancy.Rockstar Games immortalise Canadian moustache in Red Dead Redemption
Filed in GamesRocker Plus at 22.58pm on 08 February 10Rockstar Games just sent over a press release announcing that the winner of their Movemeber charity event, Charles Leece spent the month of November cultivating an impressive moustache for a character in the hotly tipped Red Dead Redemption (out April 27th on Xbox 360 & PS3). The moustache'd man will be an outlawed villain who will also be found on a Wanted Poster bearing his image. Wanted posters will trigger bounty hunting missions within the game.
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