Bayonetta's extremely stylish design is bolstered by a not-entirely-unique but extremely polished fighting system that is as deep as you want it to be.
Sony today confirmed the release date of ModNation Racers. The game will hit the United States on May 18th. Sony is also aiming to release the game on the same week in PAL territories. The PAL cover of the game was also released today. A special bonus to some of the user created characters from the beta right on the cover.
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Some new information for people that pre-order at certain locations in the United States. A pre-order from Gamestop will get you Kratos from God of War and a Kart of Chaos. A pre-order from Amazon will get you Ratchet and Clank characters to race with. And finaly, a pre-order from Best Buy will let you race with Nathan Drake from Uncharted along with a Jungle Jeep. Continue for screens and also the US box-art.
It's hard not to be cynical about a game like Dante's Inferno. What it represents is an unholy plural marriage between a pillar of Western literature, a religion that over a billion people still observe today, and a 100% obvious ripoff of a hot commodity action video game. Playing through the game, it's hard to claim that rape isn't occurring before your eyes in some form or another. Like, EA's Visceral Games studio is sexually violating Sony's acclaimed God of War series, and in the process kind of directing its defiled body into performing subsequent debasement upon Dante Alighieri's epic poem and the Catholic Church. Some serious inverse gangbang of intellectual property appears to have taken place in its inception, a consecutive rape multiplier bonus scored across several parties. This is a crime in which you, as the player, are now a willing accomplice. Of course, like many other egregious slights against God and man, Dante's Inferno is actually pretty fun.
Hudson Software is preparing to release a new title for the Nintendo Wii and DS titled Rooms: The Main Building. While I'd heard very little on the game up until previewing it, I was immediately intrigued by the promise of a new puzzle game – one of my favorite genres. While the preview copy of the Wii version didn't feature all of the modes and levels, there was more than enough there to whet my appetite for this quirky title.
If I had to choose one director with an truly unmistakable style, it would have to be Tim Burton. One only needs a few seconds of footage from any one of his films to know it's a Burton flick. Eye popping gothic visuals, mixed with quirky dark characters, and more often than not, Johnny Depp are the pillars upon which he's built his legacy. His take on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland stories fulfills all of those tenets, but lacks the charm of a Nightmare Before Christmas or Big Fish.
Over a month ago, Zipper Interactive released MAG, a really massive FPS with up to 256 players. Today Sony and Zipper Interactive officialy unvealed the next SOCOM title for the PS3, due out in the fall of 2010. Teaser trailer will be unvealed tomorow.
Sony has released a video and some images of it's new Little Big Planet mixed with Mario Kart game, ModNation Racers. The game is set to release later this spring.
I've never put a game into the disc tray of my Xbox 360 with more preconceived notions than I did with Bayonetta. I had heard nothing but good things about it, but couldn't get past a personal stigma brought on by the overtly sexual design of the titular character. In the past, games like Dead or Alive: Extreme Beach Volley Ball have been made in the hopes of cashing in on the sexiness of the characters, and in doing so, forsook game play. So I chalked it up to the possibility that the young men who grew up with strange feelings brought on by cartoons like Sailor Moon might be writing these reviews, but nonetheless I fired the game up. What followed was possibly the most convoluted, ridiculous story ever told in a game juxtaposed with what might be the greatest action game mechanics in recent history. Make no mistake, when you break through all the in-your-face sex appeal of Bayonetta, you'll find that this is just a great game, plain and simple.
With spring soon to be upon us all, we can be happy that it's going to start off with a great selection of games. This article doesn't include every game to be released in March, just the ones on our radar. It should give you a handy list of the titles that you might be interested in, or should be. From movie tie-ins to industry blockbusters, you shouldn't have any trouble finding something to play this month.
