Games Revue

Portal 2 Teaser Trailer.

Looks like we’re having another round of Aperture science training!

Still no word on a possible Half Life connection, but we can hope.

Marvel Vs Capcom 3 Gameplay Video Mega Man Legends Stage.

A preview of the upcoming Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 showing off the gameplay. No big surprises here. Deadpool’s voice clips are funny (He does a Shoryuken too, just like in the comics, and breaks the 4th wall shouting “You pressed the wrong button!” if he dies) although they probably will get old quickly with all the repetition.

Metal Gear Solid Rising E3 Debut.

Kojima is trolling us as usual, so there’s no Solid Snake in the new Metal Gear game, and plenty of Raiden for our sins.

On the other hand at least it’s cyborg Raiden this time rather than naked femme looking Raiden with girlfriend troubles, by the looks of it, so we’ll forgive him this time, like we always does. He does love us, really, he doesn’t mean to hurt us. *sniff*

Anyway, gameplay seems to be focused on the concept of “cutting” with your awesome cyborg super katana, apparently everything in the enviroment or nearly everything is going to be destructible in highly specific ways, which looks like it has the potential for some amusing gameplay moments.

It seems the “controversial” taboo this game was set to break is that of dismemberment, since Raiden is seen turning several enemies into sushi. While the mechanics are new and innovative, the idea of instagibbing an enemy has been around since Quake so I doubt it’s really going to be such a big deal.

Could be wrong though!

Auditorium

is a gorgeous looking flash game, a sort of particle simulation puzzle set to music, also available for download on the iphone. A neat way to while away a few minutes, though the music gets tiresome after a while.

Portal is FREE!.

YES, it’s true. Free as the air, or is it beer, I can never remember.

For mac or PC, free to download until may 24th!

In the unlikely chance that you don’t actually own it already, go click that link asap!

Looking good. It seems they chose to make a sequel of sorts to the actual movie rather than adapting the movie itself. Interesting choice.

The intertubes are abuzz with the new Marvel vs. Capcom teaser trailer, featuring Ryu vs. Wolverine, Morrigan vs. Iron Man (Can Tony Stark possibly resist a succubus??) and Hulk vs. Chris Redfield.

Speculation is rife as to what other characters will be playable, old standbys like Spiderman are almost assured to make an appearance but there are so many possibilities and so far all we have to go on are some silhouettes in the Marvel Logo. Deadpool possibly? Who knows?

Run Jesus Run a.k.a. The 10 Second Gospel.

Made in 4 days for the Experimental Gameplay Project – theme “10 seconds” is a short (Literally, 10 seconds) browser game made under specific constraints, with retro sprites and a very cheeky attitude to the subject matter (Although not really disrespectful, I don’t think)

Spy Party is an up and coming new game by Spore’s Chris Hecker with an original and unprecedented game mechanic.

Two players face up in a situation familiar to all from Spy thrillers and movies. The sniper and the spy. A party is in full swing but among the guests is an enemy agent, concealed as a civilian, and carrying out a specific task. The sniper needs to positively identify the enemy spy and take him out. But he only gets one shot, and one chance to get it right.

“SpyParty is an asymmetric multiplayer espionage game, dealing with the subtlety of human behavior, character, personality, and social mores, instead of the usual spy game explosions and car chases.”

The key to the gameplay is a kind of moving realtime turing test. The spy needs to conceal himself among the computer controlled NPCs, while the sniper needs to identify the patterns of movement or actions that reveal which of the partygoers he’s watching through his scope is in fact the rival player.

Graphics are still in rough playtesting mode, since the actual game release is still an estimated 2 years away.

Keep abreast of developments to Spy Party at it’s official page

Spore

In this L4D mods the zombies have been replaced by something a lot scarier – Teletubbies!!