Bungie ushered in a whole new game play element for the Halo franchise with Dual Wielding in Halo 2; now, Infinity Ward is looking to do the same with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Robert Bowling, of Infinity Ward, confirmed this today via a Twitter post:
Just walked off stage. Crowd was amazing, went insane chanting “pick it up!” when I stumbled over Dual-wield Deagles. lol – Akimbo confirmed
Will this be a huge change to the game? Or will it simply be added candy to what promises to be a stellar experience?
Rare has released some images of the re-vamp they are working on for Perfect Dark–the best game Rare has ever done (my opinion). Gamerbytes by way of NeoGAF has posted the results of Rare’s handywork when compared the original N64 visuals–and it’s looking pretty good. Personally, I’d love to see a Perfect Dark / GoldenEye double pak for $10 bucks. That would surely make up for Grabbed by the Ghoulies.
GiantBomb has a new piece up today on the upcoming Gearbox Software game, Borderlands. I have been looking forward to this game for a couple years now. I got nervous when they up and switched the entire art style mid-development, but looking at the video, I’m getting excited again.
Four player drop in/drop out co-op, millions of gun combinations based on the loot you acquire, RPG/shooter melded goodness. Borderlands. October. Give it a try!
Just in case you weren’t aware, the FEAR 2 demo went live today. I have played through it 3 times and counting…
I loved the first FEAR, and this one seems to be a mega ton more of what I loved. If the demo is any sign of what lies within the final product, FEAR folks are in for a wild ride.
Nazi zombies! Castle Wolfenstein revisited! Videosift is showing footage of the bonus mode in Call of Duty 5, accessible when you beat the single player campaign. Much like ‘horde mode’ in the new Gears of War, waves of baddies come at you as you try and shoot them. This game just went to a must buy for me!
Players also earn money in this mode to upgrade weapons and to buy barricades, similar to Counter Strike.
As if anyone should be surprised, Bungie is trying to get more of your money. A lot more. Most of you will remember watching the “Keep it Clean” trailer a few weeks ago that was a teaser for a Halo 3 campaign add-on. It looks like the stinker news is that it is not going to be an add-on, but rather a whole separate game. A direct quote from a Bungie press release states that, “Halo 3: Recon is a standalone expansion”. This means that it is not DLC for Halo 3, but will be sold on disc in the stores. So for anyone who was saving up 1200 MS Points (space bucks), go ahead and spend them on that Hannah Montana theme that you’ve been wanting for your dashboard. The good news about this whole thing is that there is multiplayer involved. Let the teabagging commence. You can read more details about this here and here.
Tomorrow, September 23rd, Bungie is going to release Auto Update 2 for Halo 3. The major changes for players will be some new achievements and a revised ranking system. More details after the jump.
*****UPDATE***** This no longer works since they patched the game. Sorry.
This video for Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is for all the achievement junkies out there and for people like me under normal circumstances would never level up due to not playing multiplayer a lot. This video is done by the folks over at Next Gen Walkthroughs. This site is where I get a lot of my game help whenever I get stuck on games. They do walkthroughs for games like COD4, Gears of War, Halo 3, and a lot of other games. They take video footage of the best paths that they have found to get through games on the hardest difficulty. Veteran for COD4, Insane for Gears and Legendary for H3. In any case, this is a video showing how to get easy experience points so you can level up in no time on R6V2. There might be better ways to get to Elite in multiplayer but this is a pretty good way to unlock all of the A.C.E.S. classes which in turn unlocks the “Weapon Collector” achievement. Something the video doesnt mention, is that if you wait until they get on the turret before you shoot them, then you get points toward the “Assault” category. If you walk up close to them and shoot them with the shotgun or the Desert Eagle, you get points towards the “CQB” category. Enjoy.
