Sucker Punch showcased some of Cole’s new powers and gameplay elements to IGN today at Gamescom.
In IGN’s write up, they mention a new power called Kinetic Pulse, which is basically the electrical version of StarKiller’s Force Grab/Push powers. Also, a new gameplay element was revealed–environmental destruction. It seems Cole’s powers will have a greater effect on the environment than the previous game. Towers, columns, and possibly other structures will fall when you let loose with Cole’s powers.
This sounds great. Sucker Punch could really make some serious strides in the “moral choice” side of the game. I can imagine story and side missions where–regardless of the good or bad decision you make, reckless use of your powers could cause the opposite intent of your actions. For example: You take on a mission to protect a housing structure from attack, but you inadvertently damage the building, or hurt inhabitants you were trying to protect by not using your powers effectively. There are some very cool aspects of the “moral choice” gameplay element that could be really pushed if Sucker Punch pursues it like I hope they do. This is a D1C for me regardless, but I’m hoping Sucker Punch takes it that much further.
NamcoBandai released some additional screenshots of Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 at the Gamescom convention in Cologne, Germany. GameSpot has several of the images up on their site, with links to gameplay videos.
Graphically, it looks slightly better than the previous outing–which isn’t surprising. My concern is the gameplay. Hopefully, they pull a few pages from the Tenkaichi Dragon Ball series of games. While I found the combat a little more complex than it needed to be, it was spot on. I found the first Raging Blast seriously lacking in comparison through oversimplification, that drained most of the fun from the game.
Hopefully NamcoBandai will find the gameplay sweet spot that made Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm so much fun. This series deserves it.
The last couple of months have been pretty busy. I’ve moved, and have been given new responsibilities at my job. To top that off, my wife was recently injured in an accident. Needless to say, finding time to play games have been difficult, if not outright impossible. When I did get some time to play recently, I played some downloadable titles that are modern reminders of why I love this hobby.
We are all back as we team up to bring you another great episode of GamerHusbands Radio. With yet another slow week, we go over a little gaming news, but mostly we respond to your Hate mail and LoveSack emails. So sit back, relax and enjoy yet another episode of GHR!
Alfred takes a week of as the Three Amigos (GHRSuperman, Bumblb19, and TeeTocks) bring you a great episode of GamerHusbands Radio. We go over a lot of Love Sack we received, GHR Superman talks about some games that he’s been paying that may just surprise Alfred as to what he thinks about them. And of couse we have the 3 on 4. Don’t miss this uncut and fun packed episode of GHR!
With the fast approaching release of Halo Reach, we ask ourselves ‘is the price of the ticket really worth the ride on the hype train?’ We also talk about the newly released Madden 11 demo, and we compare it to NCAA 11. Which do you think is better? Email us at Contact@gamerhusbands.com. And don’t miss a single minute of this episode of GHR!
As gamers we’re used to vaporware. Duke Nuke ‘Em Forever has been coming out forever. The Phantom was a vaporware console that never saw the light of day. Now we have an improbable story that has turned into a real console.
A few years ago a handful of people on the GP32X.com Forums got together and decided to work on creating an open source handheld gaming system. They then realized that this endeavor would cost more money than they could afford so they sold pre-orders for these units. If I had heard of this back then, alarms would have rung loud about this being a scam. Fortunately I didn’t because these guys did it!
After several years they have created a handheld device that is a mixture of a PC and a console. It has a completely open source operating system. It’s a perfect emulator for old Atari, Commodore 64, old PC games, old arcade games, Nintendo and Playstation games. Most emulators will work on this device. It can be used to surf the web and even do some word processing.
They’ve sold out of their initial pre-order run and are taking orders for the next batch. It’s amazing to see a project like this make it all the way to production. Congratulations to the Open Pandora crew.
In this episode of GamerHusbands Radio we talk a lot about… well not a lot, but we do have a great time as we go over some of the lastest games that we have played, and a few emails that we received. And Teetocks ask a great question, “Does NCAA 2011 have all the ads that EA is know for? You’re sure to enjoy this episode GHR!
So the poll for the RDR Posse contest mentioned ages ago is finally up in the forums: Vote here
Choose wisely, you get one vote and it’s final. Voting ends July 28th and winner will receive a MW2 PS3 Controller. How does MW2 relate to RDR, um…don’t ask…it’s free stuff yo. So get voting and sorry for the loooooooooooong delay.
Also, HUGE thanks to JDsBlackbox for the donation of this prize.
In this episode of GamerHusbands Radio, we talk about the new Xbox ‘Slim’ briefly, Alfred talks about Final Fantasy XIII again, and we talk about the possibility of a future with only one gaming console. So make sure you listen to every minute of this episode. This is GHR!
