The lighting in dark spaces is great. It hides the more aged textures and level design.
"Don't touch my magical arm dude!"
The beginning levels were ugly and monotonous. I think these are the only computers in the game.
The well lit areas aren't as impressive. This is the very beginning of the game.
You go back in time, fighting Nazis then crusaders as you as you progress towards your final enemy, God's first born, which in this story is not Jesus.
Using the leech ability on enemies causes them to become motionless. It was the easiest way to progress through the endless waves of demons and monsters.
These flying dudes were hideous looking. All the enemies were. There's just too many of them.
These children from the Crusader period were nasty little monsters; reminded me of John Carpenter's The Thing.
Games getting cancelled, or indefinitely postponed is never exciting, especially when the game in question is a sequel to a franchise you want to see more of.
Before I get started, and for the record, Half Life 3 has not been formerly announced, but Half Life 2 Episode 3 has, and it is nowhere to bee seen. Prey 2 has been indefinitely postponed. The Last Guardian is in dire trouble. Nothing of that game, Brothers in Arms, or Ryse was seen at this year’s E3. Where is Sony’s Agent? Where is Beyond Good and Evil 2? Some of these games are rumored to be next generation now, while others, like Prey 2 and the Last Guardian, we may never see again.
Well, I’ve decided to make a list of five games that did formerly got the axe, but I wish had not. Here they are. And here’s hoping that the aforementioned games don’t get sent to the chopping block, if they haven’t already.
Aliens RPG:
I recently completed the 2010 Aliens vs Predator game. It was fun. But it wasn’t an RPG, a genre that usually promising more gameplay time than 6 to 8 hours. Would an Aliens RPG game have been like Alpha Protocol? The same developer was making it. Or would it have been more like Fallout New Vegas? That could have been amazing.
Gamespot had this to say about the game’s cancellation: “After weeks of promising that information would be forthcoming, Sega was quick to confirm the project's demise. ‘At this point, Sega has no plans to move forward with the Aliens RPG,’ a rep told GameSpot. ‘The Aliens franchise offers us so much content to choose from that we feel it important to take a step back and carefully consider the type of game we want to release.’”
Gearbox is still making Aliens: Colonial Marines for Sega. I hope that game releases. It seems like it will. But you never know for sure. Here’s leaked footage of the Aliens RPG. It’s hard to see (really hard) but it’s all there is of the game.
Halo Chronicles:
I think this video says it all. You can tell Peter Jackson had very little idea of what he was actually going to do, because by what he says he hadn’t actually done anything yet except talk about Halo. No one involved even had a name for it. I think it was just vaporware; news to take attention away from Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft needed something to huge so they used Halo, and shoehorned this into the X06 event. Watch as two Peters disappoint millions of Halo fans.
Indiana Jones:
I remember reading about this game in the Official Xbox Magazine when I was in high school years and years ago. It was going to have awesome physics! That’s the only information that ever really came out about the game, as you can see in this sole trailer.
Project Offset:
I only recently ran across this game. I don’t think I ever saw anything about it when these videos were originally released because it was for PS3. If I did know about the game before, I had completely forgotten about it over the years. Of all the games in this article, this is the one I would pick to come out if I had only one to choose. The only information I could find about the game were a few official trailers.
Tiberium:
I’m interested in Command and Conquer. I was a big fan of Red Alert 2 when I was younger, so this FPS version looked promisingly fun. I remember hearing interviews about it on Gamescoop a few years ago. But, apparently this game wasn’t living up to EA’s quality expectations and it was axed. Here’s some gameplay.
Your history plays a role in how people treat you during the first quarter of the game. I chose Freelancer.
A look at how you can improve your skills. Martial Arts, Pistols, and Assault Rifles was my route.
Dialogue decisions really do play a huge role in how the story plays out.
The beginning levels originally turned me off to the game. The level design in all of AP is rudimentary, but I got over it about halfway through because the story overshadowed it. My pipe dream while playing was keeping the AP story, but having the gunplay and graphics replaced with Mass Effect's gunplay and graphical prowess. If that were the case, AP would be a Superb (100/100.)
AP likes to show you the ladies. It's a bit humiliating how much the game objectifies them.
Like I said before, the game really wants you to talk to ladies, every dialogue decision you have with them determines whether or not you can have intercourse.
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I've decided to spice up my Pile of Shame Reviews to include interesting opinion pieces and reviews of video game novels. I'm calling the opinion pieces "Side Notes." This first one is titled Five Games You Probably Missed But Need To Try.
This gal was the most fun to play as. That's some side-boob if you couldn't tell.
You can't really tell in this image, but water is falling from an overhead grate. This is the very beginning of the demo. It set the tone appropriately.
Lighting and particle effects look great. That fireball is a power that the ninja 'Church' can use to burn any enemies who come near.
This demo looks and feels great. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I look forward to seeing if the full game can continually deliver that.
I love how Church looks holding the sword and pistol.
When I saw that Weyland-Yutani logo and heard that familiar ping of my motion tracker I was engrossed.
It wants your baby.
This game has some beautiful vegetation.
Even the metal corridors look great and come alive. This should remind you of a scene from Aliens.
Predator view of some ruins.
Predator temple.
I saw Prometheus a few days before I started this game. This scene in the game reminded me of one of the cringe-worthy moments from the film. Thing is, this game came out first.
You on the left and the AvP schlock version of Weyland on the right, voiced by Lance Henriksen, who was Bishop in Aliens and Alien 3.
