Games Revue

Another preview of the upcoming Arkham Asylum Batman game, this time featuring plant based villain Poison Ivy. Again they have derivated from previous character designs but the result is still interesting.

Here’s a preview of fan favourite character Deadpool in the upcoming Marvel Ultimate Alliance game.

BULLEEEETS!!

Marvel Ultimate Alliance (wii)

Marvel Ultimate Alliance (ps3)

And some comics if you want to know more about Deadpool, the merc with a mouth

Deadpool Classic, Vol. 2

he also plays a part in the marvel Wolverine animated movie and the live action one, though the fans were not happy at how he was depicted in that one

The latest entry from the Valve software series of mini movies highlighting their Team Fortress 2 characters has been “leaked” (Yeah right!) and you can see it right here right now

This is a good one

Stalin’s got some moves!

Yeah so apparently this is some kind of rts alt history game where you take Stalin’s army and defend yourself from a Martian invasion. Harry Turtledove would love it.

Second Contact (Colonization, Book 1)

A trailer from the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum game featuring everyone’s favorite psycho fangirl, Joker’s sidekick Harley Quinn

Like most fans of the classic Harley look I’m not totally sold but she doesn’t look too bad. And the game looks neat.

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Harley Quinn: Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes

As you can see her classic look is very different

Batman Adventures: Mad Love

At least she has the same voice actress as in the animated series even if her outfit has been Tim Burtonized

Question: how do you rescue a game franchise from having been subjected to an Uwe Boll adaptation?

Sega had to find the answer to this question for their popular rail shooter zombie franchise, house of the dead, and they seem to have found the answer in those masters of rescuing dying careers, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.

No they’re not involved in House of the dead: Overkill, but the influence of their co-authored 2007 gore-masterpiece Grindhouse is pretty clear and blatant (It’s not plagiarism, it’s an homage) directly from the beginning of the trailer.

Trying to make a rail shooter into an actual movie is a trend that seems to have been abandoned ever since they stopped actually filming video with real actors for them as opposed to full 3d, but it looks like the idea has found it’s day in the sun once again.

A must have if you like campy, over the top action movies and gore.House of the Dead: Overkill

House Dead Overkill Hand Cannon Wii

Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror – Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)

And for completeness sake, here’s the unreleased beta version of resident evil 4, featuring a scary assed supernatural enemy called the Hook Man. Apparently this cancelled version would head more into supernatural territory instead of the sci-fi biohazard trappings of the previous RE games, but in the end the change of directions was scrapped and we ended up with the parasitical Plagas instead

Apparently some of the elements of RE4 were incorporated into Devil May Cry, though obviously the hook man was not one of them

Oh lord they made a watchmen videogame, Alan Moore is going to flip out. His beard will consume us all.

May the lord have mercy upon us.

This is My Milwaukee. Is on the surface, a tourist promotional website/video, extolling the virtues of the town of Milkwaukee. Then as you watch it it starts getting weird, with references to the “event” and “cleanup” and “godseed fragments”

People speculate it’s a viral marketing creation such as Halo 2′s I love Bees designed to drum up interest in a new game that may be coming out soon.

Or maybe it’s some art project completely unrelated to video games. Who knows?

In this video Sepiroth from final fantasy VII (Originally at least) fights two other dudes I don’t know. I’ve lost track of new characters in FF games, they add so many every time…

The 3d quality certainly has improved a ton from the bobbleheads of the original game.

This is a trailer to some new game or maybe movie… the distinction between the two has drawn rather thin in the last few years