Spec Ops: The Line is an unremarkable shooter with a few interesting points. I read recently that professionals write what they need to and hobbyists write what they want to. The statement is true yet short sighted, much like this game. I didn’t play the multiplayer and my criticism is only held towards the single player campaign. Spec Ops: The Line isn’t a fun game, but the story has some interesting points that are undermined by plot holes and bad mechanics And it does that thing I love where the opening screen is the starting shot of opening gameplay al la God War and Infamous.
This is where we put out some info about the games we think are going to be somewhere between decent and awesome that release today or later this week. Typically we skip over the heavy hitters. Sorry Call of Duty, but 8 million people usually already know about your release date.
Developed by Big Huge Games and 38 Studios and published by EA and 38 Studios. Reckoning is a stylized open world RPG romp featuring writing by R.A. Salvatore, best known for his work on AD&D Forgotten Realms novels including the creation of fan favorite Drizzt Do’Urden, as well as art design by Todd McFarlane (Spawn).
Developed by Obsidian and published by Bethesda. Obsidian took what Bethesda did with Fallout 3 and turned it on its head creating a crazy world of consequence with no black and white path to victory. This version includes all the DLC.
Developed by Digital Extremes and published by 2K. Digital Extremes has developed and co-developed such legendary titles as Bioshock and Unreal as well as the cult favorite Dark Sector. Darkness 2 is based off of the comic license from Image Comics. The game protagonist Jackie Estacado is basically the middle of a mob war as he possesses the demonic darkness, who is voiced by Mike Patton (Mr Bungle, Faith No More, The Fantomas, the angry personality orb from the first Portal, the creatures from I Am legend, zombies in Left 4 Dead, no I’m not a fan <-sarcasm <-professional journalistic writing). The game itself is a first person shooter enhanced by darkness powers including ripping off car doors and using them as shields, creating minions, eating people for health, things like that.
Its being almost universally blasted in the reviews but I’m willing to bet these guys or these guys will have something different to say about it. I don’t even want to try to list all the companies involved in this game but we’ll just say Gearbox finished it and 2K published it.
Alice Madness Returns – 360, PC, PS3
Developed by Spicy Horse and published by EA. If you didn’t know, American McGee is an actual person and does work at Spicy Horse. McGee is best known for doing the original PC adventure platformer, American McGee’s Alice.
Child of Eden – 360
Developed by Q Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. This is the spiritual successor to Rez. Works with Kinect. Will be released for PS3 at a later date.
Spec Ops: The Line is an unremarkable shooter with a few interesting points. I read recently that professionals write what they need to and hobbyists write what they want to. The statement is true yet short sighted, much like this game. I didn’t play the multiplayer and my criticism is only held towards the single player campaign. Spec Ops: The Line isn’t a fun game, but the story has some interesting points that are undermined by plot holes and bad mechanics And it does that thing I love where the opening screen is the starting shot of opening gameplay al la God War and Infamous.
