This brilliant reimagining of the spooky series’ progenitor is a breath of fresh air that will stick with you despite its shortcomings.
Score: 8.0 / great
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But what will The Last Story be about?
Mistwalker, the studio established by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, is working on a new game for the Wii.
That’s according to a website which has just popped up. There’s nothing much to see other than a fancy title image, the Wii logo and the unsurprising letters “RPG”.
The game is called The Last Story, which doesn’t come as much of a surprise either – Nintendo trademarked said name last September.
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Konami's action arcade shooter available for PS3
Mass Effect 2! MAG! Tatsunoko vs. Capcom!
This week’s biggie is Mass Effect 2, at least for those people that own a PC or Xbox 360. I’m not going to bang on about it, as we’ve done quite enough of that in our shambles-slash-podcast. Check out our 10/10 Mass Effect 2 review if you really must know more.
And there are other games of note this week. Take MAG, the multiplayer shooter for PS3. This is genuinely groundbreaking for a console game; 256-player battles online with a pseudo-MMO framework to level-up within. Zipper’s creation may not appeal to all, but certainly all should take heed.
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom should provide a breath of fresh air for Wii owners this week. It’s a fighting game by Capcom; a rare addition on Wii by a company that does fighting games. Look out for our review soon.
Moore’s focusing on Natal/Arc this year.
Peter Moore’s revealed that EA Sports has “nothing at all” to offer 3D gaming this year.
“No, no, no. I have a point of view and that’s about as much as we have,” Moore told GamesIndustry.biz. “You’ve rightly pointed out that, from Howard Stringer down, Sony has made it a strategic imperative for the company. And when Sony does something of that nature then we as a company need to sit up and take notice.
“But believe me there’s nothing going on right now that would say I’m ready to demo a 3D sports game. Nothing at all.”
Book 1 has new skirmishes.
Turbine has detailed the next Book update to The Lord of the Rings Online. This takes the MMO version of the Tolkien saga into Volume III: Allies of the King with Book 1: Oath of the Rangers.
Four Skirmishes will be added at Dol Guldur, the fortress from last year’s Siege of Mirkwood mini-expansion. They’ll be playable in a new 12-person mode. There’ll be an additional Skirmish called the Depths of Nûrz Ghâshu as well.
The level cap for crafted items will be increased to 65, and a new epic quest line involves marshalling Rangers scattered across the Northlands to meet the shadow spreading over Middle-Earth.
Live servers open today.
With the Star Trek Online servers opening for pre-ordering players today, and the game’s official launch next week, Cryptic has detailed its plans for the space MMO in its first two months.
The launch-day patch is relatively small – a major update was made a week ago, just before the end of open beta – but Cryptic is already planning the first major content update for the game.
“We’re already working on it and itll be out before you know it,” producer Craig Zinkievich said in his recent state of the game post. More player-versus-player options, exploration missions for the Klingon factions, more ground-based “fleet actions” (Star Trek Online’s equivalent of large-scale public quests), extended ship customisation and extra playable species are promised.
Pub’s future will be internally-made games.
Codemasters has thrown bank robbery game Hei$t in the bin.
The ramifications of this move are that Codemasters will, by-and-large, no longer publish externally created games.
“After a much extended development period, Hei$t has been terminated as a project and removed from our release schedule. Codemasters is focusing its future portfolio on high quality titles that will, in the majority, be developed and produced by our internal studios,” read a company statement.
Codemasters’ decision comes after external games like Rise of the Argonauts and Damnation scored badly and crashed commercially. Big 2009 successes for the publisher were Ashes Cricket 2009 (external – Transmission Games), DiRT 2 (internal), Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising (internal). Overlord II (external – Triumph Studios) failed to make a significant impact on the UK chart, despite reviewing well.