First up Infamous 2 has a release date. The sequel to the 2009 PS3-exclusive will be released on the PS3 on June 7, 2011. The game will be set in the city of New Marais which was inspired by New Orleans. We will once again control Cole McGrath who looks a little bit different but nowhere near as much as he did before they brought him to where they are now.
I enjoyed the first Infamous though it's not one of my favorite PS3 exclusives, it was still a strong title that used Assassin's Creed style exploration mixed with super-powers and (limited) choices which was a cool idea. A fun game and I'll definitely give this one a rental.
Id Software's FPS adventure game, Rage, got a new trailer this week titled "Untethered." The trailer is exciting but I'm worried that it's looking a little too much like Fallout 3 and New Vegas. It's probably not a coincidence that it's being published by Bethesda and I'm hoping that it will create an identity of its own when it's released. Rage will be released on September 13th in North America, September 15th in Europe, and September 16th in Australia.
OTHER NEWS
I've got two other news items. First up Telltale Games, who are currently making the Back to the Future episodic downloadable games are currently working on a Jurassic Park series of episodic games and a Walking Dead series. The Jurassic Park game will be cleverly titled: Jurassic Park: The Game, while the Walking Dead game does not yet have a name.
Currently not much info on the latter but there was new information about the Jurassic Park game which was announced in June of last year. The game will be comprised of QTE's. Telltale Games has cited Heavy Rain as being their primary influence and will use that style of gameplay. The story will be completely original and it will focus greatly on the characters.
Telltale is known as possibly the only studio that has executed the nature episodic gaming correctly so it will be interesting to see what they do with these two products. The first episode of Jurassic Park: The Game will be released on PC and Mac in April of this year with them coming to consoles at an unspecified date.
Finally, EA has announced a special prize for all gamers who pick up Dragon Age II if a certain condition is met. The demo will be coming out on Tuesday and if more than a million people download and play it before March 1st, BioWare and EA will be place two special items in the game.
The items aren't much but they'll provide poetry from a refugee of Lothering when the Darkspawn hit it (from the Origins if you're confused) and give a look into what it was like through dreams and reminiscence through the poems. Reading the poems will also give you extra money and XP depending on which one you read (how you get money from reading a poem, I have absolutely no idea).
To let EA know that you've downloaded and played it and to add to the tally, you must be logged into your EA account while you play. If you don't have an EA account you can go to their site to register, it's free. So do that and download the Dragon Age II demo. I'll personally be giving my thoughts on the demo between Wednesday and Friday depending on when I complete it.
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| Who is your voice Lady Hawke? I'm very curious. |
Dead Space 2 review tomorrow.
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