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New Drakensang MMO trailer! Top-down fantasy action for free!

Got to be said- Drakensang is looking awesome. Like Bigpoint’s successful Battlestar browser game, we’re talking about a free to play online game with hardly any download required. If like me you enjoyed the lesser Diablos like Titan Quest, this should be a very interesting prospect. Here’s the latest info…

 

The Otherworld has cast its shadow over the once peaceful kingdom of Duria, and the descending dragon legions can only be kept at bay by combining forces! Bigpoint’s new Drakensang Online trailer (http://www.bigpoint.com/) masterfully illustrates the action-packed, online battles that players will soon face in their browsers. Loads of other game details and pictures about the free-to-play MMO await interested fantasy fans on the official website www.drakensang-online.com/. Now the community can come together on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/drakensangonline/) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/drakensang/) and get an exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpse into the development of Drakensang Online, for example, with the first community video filmed in the Bigpoint studio in Berlin.

 

Drakensang Online combines the best game elements of an action RPG with an MMORPG and makes it possible for players to enjoy all these spectacular features directly in their browser without any annoying client download or installation. Players don’t only jump into the world of Drakensang Online faster, but also experience breathtaking battles more intensely and at a quicker pace than in classic MMORPGs. The dynamic combat system based on direct collisions and hit detection will make the game more transparent, eliminating complicated stat calculations and replacing them with direct combat values. In addition to immersive duels, Drakensang Online, in contrast to standard action RPGs, emphasizes complex character development and teamwork, while delivering an in-depth and shared game experience to RPG players. In this massive world, players can meet up, get to know each other and form alliances in public spaces like the capital city of Kingshill.

 

A key point of interest in Drakensang Online’s development is the revised game rules, which promise RPG fans the depth of play that they’ve been hoping for, while maintaining the flexibility needed for an ever-expanding online world. The flexible skill system offers players the chance to define their own personal style of play. Players can modify their character’s basic skills through the use of different elements – turning a simple energy ball into a frostball or turn a normal explosive attack into a meteor. Each character class will have wide array of elements to choose from, which will continually be expanded upon – thus granting different skills, strengths and weaknesses to every player. This will motivate players to find other fighters who compliment each others’ skills and assemble a powerful team. Together with unique equipment for each character class, the player will be able to customize their character’s appearance and skills the way they want. Besides the endless customization options, Drakensang Online tells a profound and enthralling story. A vast sum of quests to complete, items to be found, battles to win and distant lands to explore are all part of the player’s experience in the kingdom of Duria.

 

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Bulletstorm 1 Minute Review

Howdy folks, here be a one minute video review of Bulletstorm! (it’s good)

Bullet storm PC

From People Can Fly and Epic games comes an FPS  with a twist.

Game play is based on killing with skill, making special kills that award the player with points, which are then used to modify weapons and get ammo. The more creative your kills, the better result.

This system is extremely tongue in cheek and has the violence fett ish angle covered. Get points for shooting an enemy in the anus. Get points for killing several enemies at once. The unique situations you are asked to set up get increasingly difficult and it certainly is rewarding when you pull off a tricky kill.

The combinations of skill kills are increased by the ability to kick people into a slow motion dive and drag people towards you with a device called a leash. These two are enough to make the game feel unique and it certainly is fun toying with people before killing them.

The frail plot revolves around a team of soldiers out for revenge when they find out that they have been used to kill innocent enemies of the state. The rest of the story is lost to insults and curses. If you like creative swearing and coarse oafish behavior, occasionally joined with self pity, you will love bulletstorm.

Between the points system for special kills and the coarse humour, Bulletstorm feels like an FPS version of Mad world. This is a mindless game, but packs hours of laugh out loud entertainment for those of us who love a good blood bath.

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RAGE comic book set for June release!

Greetings earthspawn. As the European multiplatform release date of RAGE gets closer (September 16^th), more teaser content is being released by the info-harpies at Bethesda…

The latest is the announcement of a RAGE comic book, which follows the newly updated RAGE website (if you haven’t been yet, http://www.rage.com/) that reveals more gameplay information. On the site you can also check out an original song composed for the game, ‘Burning Jacob’s Ladder’ by Mark Lanegan of Queens of the Stone Age fame!

The comic is being published by Dark Horse and will become available June 22. It’s a three issue series written by Arvid Nelsion (Rex Mundi) and pencilled by Andrea Mutti (DMZ). The events in the comic will be set prior to the game but should provide some insights into the game’s storyline and universe.

The game’s creative director Tim Willits has been directly involved in the comic’s creation and takes a bleak stance on the post-apoc vibe: ‘one woman discovers that the survival of humankind doesn’t necessarily mean the survival of humanity. The Earth has been devastated by a collision with an asteroid, with a tiny fraction of the population surviving in life-sustaining Arks buried deep below its surface. Those who survive emerge to find a wasteland controlled by a global military dictatorship called the Authority. But a rescued scientist learns that the Authority has lied to her and the other survivors about how this new world came to be.’

Pretty straightforward fare of course and it’s likely that the grittiness will be watered down by the schlock trigger happy style of the game, but if you like being a pissed off Mad Max mutant sort of person then it should be the setting for you.

Those of us who have played RAGE on the iPhone/iPad will know that the game’s vibe is heavily geared towards a gore and black comedy mash up- but also promises pretty visuals and a certain sleek style, perhaps somewhere between Bulletstorm and Borderlands. The new site tells us much more about the actual gameplay involved in RAGE, from the locations to the weapons. My favourites have to be the Wingstick ‘handheld guillotine’, somewhat like a razor boomerang, and the crossbow- I’ve never disliked a game with a crossbow.

Everything looks good so far and I love this recent game to comic trend- two lovely geeky formats that can only complement each other. Roll on September.

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