OmenUK
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This has a Next Gen look to it, not saying it's going to be delayed that much, but it certainly looks like it's going to be the one of the best games on the PS3 and maybe even on the X-Box too.
On one of the trailers at Comic Con (or maybe gameplay footage itself I can't remember) after the hit goes down and the character escapes from the crashed cars it went to another character being ordered to watch over them, makes you wonder if that is a multiplayer aspect or whether your actually playing as different characters.
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I'm fully expecting that a few developers and studios will be working on early builds of games awaiting the kits for the next gen consoles. If you look at the two Batman games from Rocksteady as an example, with their last game being released last year you'd say any follow up (which seems unlikely as Arkham City is supposedly the last one) would be late 2013. Would expect then that they will be working on something for the next gen consoles, Batman or not and would be a good chance for them to get out the blocks early with a decent game, and given the reviews of their last two games they are certainly very popular among both gamers and reviewers.
What I personally would like to see if less reliance on old franchises, more new franchises, fresh ideas/titles, the next generation consoles , certainly the PS3 and WII, have the opportunity to make big leaps forwards, the PS3 with regards to the screen resolution and graphics quality, and for the Wii maybe a final understanding of having to get on terms with their competitors to not be left behind with games that seem to aim only for the younger market and families and seem to ignore the core of gamers.
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Thanks
Good to see you again, Omen.
Thanks gtagrl
Good to see you again, Omen.
Now we have grandma and grandpa.
You're not that far behind us !!
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As someone that uses the Glitchspot *ahem* I mean Gamespot forums, you don't know illiteracy until you look at some of the dumb bastards clogging up there with their unerring display of a complete and utter lack of intelligence and the complete and utter lack of any ability to string more than three words together without making some lazy attempt at using text speak rather than proper spelling.
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you mean illiterate surely?
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I'm Jim and I'm an Alcoholic .... oh fuck AA forum is the next link... shit....
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I'm Jim, I'm 40 and from the Wirral, UK (the bit between Liverpool and North Wales) and I'm originally from Liverpool. I've been around for ages, from the old Red Dead forums, and the Rockstar Network site through toRockstar Spy and now here.
I've been gaming I guess since about 1984 (first games I played were on the old ZX81, and have been playing the Playstation since the original console.
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Yes, yet another Resident Evil has been announced to be released on: 20th November 2012. This one looks set to go back to the genre's core traditions.
Resident Evil 6 takes place in various locations including a town called Tall Oaks, and in China. Leon Kennedy is working for the Government on behalf of the US President after his help cleaning up Racoon City (10 years ago). The US President has arrived in Tall Oaks to reveal the truth behind Racoon City, and Leon Is flown in to meet up with him.
In RE6, the T-Virus Zombie Bioterrorism outbreak has made a come back, and it has the same traditional feel as the first wave of Resident Evil games.
The stories take place at different location culminating in the final part/s of the main three stories finishing in China (so far as we know), There are five confirmed separate stories to play Chris Redfield (and his companion Piers Nivans), Leon Kennedy (and his companion Helen Harper), Jake Muller (and his partner Sherry Birkin), Ada Wong (solo story unlocked after finishing the main three run throughs), and the Prelude (which I assume is unlocked after finishing Ada's story. The three companions are playable if your playing co-op.
The main three stories cross over so at some points two different stories merge and you will have for example Leon and Sherry teamed up, and Jake and Helen teamed up.
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I 've been buying the WWE games since the PS1 when it was still the WWF but last years (WWE 12) I absolutely hated, probably the worst game for me in the whole series, never liked the controls one bit, I doubt I'll be bothering with WWE 13, attitude era roster additions or not.
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So I've been playing it a couple of hours now and I have done enough to just about give a basic review of what I think.
Essentially, the game plays a lot like SR3 in terms of controls/gameplay/physics/driving - it actually almost feels like a re-skinned SR3 to be honest. As the other reviews have mentioned, the story is pretty engaging, the voice acting is convincing, the melee combat is great and the atmosphere of the Hong Kong they have created feels pretty believable. There are some pretty cool features that you have probably heard about in the other reviews, so I won't into them.
However, I have a few major issues with the game as it stands:
- Mainly, the game feels very unpolished. It's quite hard to describe, but hose who have played SR3 will know what I mean; basically it feels as if, despite being a sandbox game, you can't access 90% of what you see. For example, many alleyways (very famous to HK) are blocked off by walls or trash and stuff; 99% of buildings are just images with no interiors, and those with interiors are clones of each other. But perhaps most annoyingly, the game forces you to stay on the street level, which is incredibly sad considering HK has one of the most impressive skylines in the world. Wherever you are in the game, you can look up and you're surrounded by thousands of balconies, perches, and alcoves that would be perfect for exploring and sniping from.
- Secondly, the radio/soundtrack is quite frankly dire. I personally thought SR's radio stations were bad, though this games selection makes the SR radio look like a GTA game's radio. I understand there's a lot of HK/Chinese music in the game, which is fine! The problem lies with the dull Western songs that have been picked. Hell, I didn't even notice one song that played that I have heard before. More importantly though, the actual radio system seems to be pretty bugged. When you toggle stations it takes up to a few seconds for the game to process the button you have pressed, and sometimes it will change to the exact station you were already on - this means that you often end up hammering the change station button and then suddenly the game bursts through the stations two seconds later.
- Thirdly, as of yet, I haven't got my hands on any guns - which is a shame. I have however engaged in plenty of melee combat with and without weapons. The melee combat itself is the only thing that sets this game above other sandbox games. The best way to explain it would be a slightly less responsive version of the system Rocksteady used in the Batman: Arkham games. Sure it can get fiddly with some odd response times regarding some counters, but in general it feels real nice to kick the shit out of a group of people in Sleeping Dogs. The melee weapons are even better, I've found a couple of knifes, a crowbar and a tire iron so far - and all have been very fun, and pretty gory. The main issue I have with the melee items, and perhaps the guns (I'm not sure as of yet), is that you can't hide them. If you pick up a knife, you have to drop it, or carry it around on full display - it would have made sense to be able to stash it in your pocket - and to be honest, to me this really ruins the 'undercover' focus of the game.
- Finally, despite the city being richly detailed with bustling markets and civilians going about their daily lives whether fishing down by the docks, haggling with DVD vendors, or just generally gassing away; I can't help but feel the city still feels a bit vacant. For example, you can go to the major market in North Point, but there's only a couple of stalls you can actually approach to buy things, and when you're surrounded by hundreds of vendors offering you all sorts of black market goods it's hard to not feel a bit disappointed. Moreover, as mentioned earlier, outside of the markets there are only a small handful of different stores available to you, a few clothing stores, some herbal medicine places and about a hundred massage parlours scattered across the map. I just feel that they could have included more stuff to do; perhaps random shops where you could extort or rob the owners, or even just a wider variety of clothing and accessories stores.
I managed to to pick the game up for £32.99 shipped, which is good for a new title, but perhaps still a little steep for this game. My advice would be to either wait till it drops to about £20/£25 (which won't be long due to the lack of MP), or rent the game for a few nights (as it only takes about 20 hours to complete to 100%). All in all a good game, but still, despite being released four years before, GTA IV remains the best sandbox crime game to date.
I've been playing it most of today and have to confirm Samurai_tbag's review as being very very accurate, only thing I would add is that there is no way to change the difficulty level so if your struggling on one specific mission you either have to keep going until you manage to complete it, or quit and lose any progress, not that far in but had this problem once, and imagine it will be a recurring problem the more the story progresses and while I understand the need to not make everything overly easy to complete seems like some are too easy while others are too difficult.
I actually had heard of a few of the Western song's on the radio BUT the majority of more well known are really old songs (25-35 years old) and while the choice is eclectic there's seemingly very little choice for those not into asian music.
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I've been watching out for this since the chatter began a few days before the first announcement, and I can't wait. Excited when I heard it was being developed by Naughty Dog as been a fan of the Uncharted series, so for me they're one of the few game companies who I'd look out for new games from. Seen most if not all of the video's that have been released since and each one has done nothing to deter me from wanting to pre-order it.
Interesting few thing are the fact that the secondary character Ellie will act independently of the main character Joel, as seen in one of the video's, so should be good to be able to concentrate on the enemies you are facing rather than having to go back and lead your companion to where you need them to be, and the non-regeneration of health too is going to be a nice change, means being more tactical but also with being able to play the game in different ways your going to want to go back and re-play it I imagine.