Thursday, September 4, 2008

New awesome upcoming PC games

This end of the year line up of games is huge. 2007 sure kicked ass but 2008 is gonna do that even better. I am talking only about PC games, let alone considering all platforms. Lets take a look at the major ones which are bound to be pure awesome, releasing in or around november (It is possible that some of these releases can get shifted to next year).

Grand Theft Auto IV (Open World Sandbox)
Reference: All GTA games have been great.
Why will be awesome? Didn't you ever think... ok, GTA is good, but if it looked a little better it would have been so much better. Well now, there you go. GTAIV is truly next gen. And not only that, the city is your favourite 'Liberty City' with interactive elements increased. Its shooting has also been worked upon well and it doesnt feel like a turd as it felt in older GTA games. GTAIV had been sold like crazy on consoles with every game website giving it 10/10 rating (that doesnt happen in million years) and its heading to PC.. Isaac Awesomo!

Far Cry 2 (Open World FPS)
Reference: FarCry's awesomeness is awesome.
Why will be awesome? FC2 is not going to be in a green beautiful tropical island but in a hot african village sorta place. It is supposed to be truly open ended, there is only 1 level in the whole game, 1 single huge level. There is only one objective given to you in the begining which you have to accomplish in whichever way you can.

Crysis Warhead (FPS)
Reference: Last year's most beautiful game Crysis and 2004's hit FarCry.
Why will be awesome? Mainly because its based on the same revolutionary engine Crysis was based on: Cryengine2. Also because Crysis Warhead is claiming that its visuals will be similar but performance will be much better.

Prince of Persia (Open World Action Adventure)
Reference: Prince of persia sands of time, warrior within, two thrones
Why will be awesome? Its an altogether fresh game and not a sequel. We all remember the great level design of old prince of persia games, but this time there are 3 main features. First of all its open world, developers claim you can follow any path to reach your destination, second, combat is 1 on 1 with enemies, enemies are mostly big ones i.e. mini-bosses. Third that it's visuals are artistic, non photorealistic. Just see the fantastic abstraction in the screenshot.

Need for Speed Undercover
(Racing)

Reference: NFS games (except ProStreet) have been rocking!
Why will be awesome? NFSUC is going back to its roots of telling a stylish blockbuster story like in NFSMW or NFSC etc. and ditch the simulation style racing of NFSPS. Best part is, have you seen Die Hard 4.0? rmr Maggie Q? She is the NFS girl this season! :O

Left 4 Dead (FPS)
Reference: Its by Valve (makers of Half Life games, Portal etc.)
Why will be awesome? L4D is a 4 player Co-op (play the whole game co-operatively with total 4 players) zombie shooter. You are trapped in a city full of zombies and you have to escape sticking together. Its by Valve, so it will be good anyway.

Project Origin (Horror FPS)
Reference: FEAR
Why will be awesome? Project Origin is sequel of FEAR... and FEAR was the most scary game I have ever played. Honestly, it was scarier than some best horror movies I have seen, since in a game, you are inside the fking atmosphere :O. And thus, its sequel is not a miss.

Mirror's Edge (First Person Action Adventure)
Reference:
Why will be awesome? You see the genre name? Thats a genre this game is going to create. We all have played action adventure games in 3rd person mode (Prince of persia, Tomb Raider etc.) but how about playing them in 1st person mode? No one has done this before, and thats the reason this game is gonna rock.


Tomb Raider Underworld (Action Adventure)
Reference: Tomb Raider games are adventorous and Lara Croft is a dream of every guy out there.
Why will be awesome? Well its a new Lara Croft's adventure. We dont get to be the part of her adventure every now and then you know. Secondly, every Tomb Raider game in the past have been a hit since gamers always wanted to see how Lara looks in the upcoming generation graphics. TRU is supposed to have killer visuals and we all are waiting to have a look at how sexy she is created this time.

Battlefield Heroes (FPS)
Reference: Remember all the multiplayer hours you had fun with the battlefield games?
Why will be awesome? Well 2 reasons, first of all its a cartoon shooter i.e. it looks are similar to those of an animated movie. A good multiplayer military shooter which the battlefield series is always good at. And that its a free game! :O

Call of Duty 5 - World at War (FPS)
Reference: Of course all the previous 4 call of duty in which none of them were flawed.
Why will be awesome? The related work speaks why this will be entertaining too. And oh wait, this call of duty game is going to have 4 player Co-op! omg!

Mercenaries 2 - World in Flames (Open World 3PS)
Reference: Similar to Battlefield games
Why will be awesome? Well, hearing the game's name I was not that excited but seeing the trailor I was thrilled. It is a (sorta) military shooter with 2 player Co-op. The game has just too much explosions. (Its out already!)

Legendary (FPS)
Reference:
Why will be awesome? A man opens a pandora box kept in meuseum and it unleashes monsters on the planet... ohkay, thats a cliche, how many times will games use that same story again and again? BUT when you will see the trailor, you will see how monstorous those monsters are, how destructive they are. There was a monster larger than buildings made out of the debri of fallen houses, cars and buildings; cars flying, buildings crumbling down, flying creatures tearing humans apart, Man! Its a total apocalyptic game! Never have I seen disaster shown in such vivid manner in a game. Has to be played!


Prototype (Open World Action Adventure)
Reference:
Why will be awesome? You will be a character who has the abilities to copy the appearances of anyone around (thus hide very easily) and you have special destructive abilities, and you are left open in a open world city. Do what-the-fk-ever you want now. I see that evil smile coming on your face

me doesnt plays RTS and RPG games, otherwise I would have written about
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3, Diablo 3, Fallout 3, Spore

Some more interesting games to look forward to:
Borderlands, Cryostasis, Burnout Paradise, Guitar Hero 4, Pure, Necrovision, Saints Row 2

24 comments:

Abbulugadu said...

respects :)

team said...

Release dates would have helped people like me.

I am really looking forward to Mirror's edge. First person adventure with out guns would be awesome.

I do not think COD5 is going to be as good as COD4 wince infinity ward is not the one developing COD5.

ZenWalker said...

Seems like you are getting loads of time there to keep up with these things :P

Suhail said...
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Vivek said...

Can we have a PSP game list too :)

Anirudh said...

When will you have Prince of Persia and Call of Duty with you by ? Will come and take them from you :)

Shiben Bhattacharjee said...

@team OOhhh, totally 4got! but you know they get delayed mostly, :(
@zenwalker hehhee, well done in free time of cors :)
@suhail hey no need 2 delete it man, i just dont play RTSes so dint write about it :)
@Vivek oh! rite, wud like 2 do that someday
@Anirudh sure thang man, where do u live?

BullzY said...

did you handover your pc to the server room by any chance? no other pc in the campus can handle these games orb! :D

shashikanth said...

woh my gaaawd ... GTA IV , fc2 , pop .. 2008 is not that bad afterall .. .
@sarika ....upgrade ur pc kid :D...

obelix said...

take it from someone who plays gta4 on an xbox360 hooked up to a projector with surround sound - it rocks

fc2 - yes nice

crysis - dont care that much - got bored finishing the first one

pop - yay-ness. havent played a pop game in a long time. didn't have the enthu to play the 3 things that came in the middle

nfsu - i really pray they make it fun. it should get the adrenaline flowing, not the same pussy-ass thing that was there in pro-street

bf heroes - dont really care. am not in college anymore - cant enjoy these types of games

cod5 - if its as good as cod4 ... imbaness

spore - not looking so good / fun. ign blasted it

Shiben Bhattacharjee said...

@obelix:
Crysis Warhead cleans all mistakes that were there in Crysis, atleast thats wat they claim. Also I liked their presentation.

Pop: dude play sands of time, plz!

NFSUC: i hav full faith it iwll rock!

BF Heroes can be played online, thats the thing about it! of cors u not in college, neither iz me.

COD5: well, I always wanted 2 play a cod game in Co-op and thats wat this game is giving 4 the 1st time.

@bullzy: CVIT owns all h/w man, not wid me ne more :(

@shashikanth: yeah man, 2008 is rocking!

Reeteshifier said...

Nice List :D But I highly doubt that Mirrors edge is the first firs person action adventure game..

There might be some really obscure game out there.. I have this gut feeling :P but oh well, this one of the first high budget one you can say,and its by DiCE the people who did the Battlefield games :D

But.... the main question is... will you be able to play those games now with your 8400? :P

Shiben Bhattacharjee said...

lol, no man, they wont work on the puny 8400, i will manage a good card somehow. If nothing, will buy a good pc :)

Reeteshifier said...

oooh and forgot to say one thing, I hope you get Left4 Dead, coz i sure will buy that thing!

The game will be quite bad to play alone.. I mean literally, the game will be around 7.5-8.5 level only, but even then I will buy it for the awesomeness of it :D

So be sure to tell me if and when you buy it :D it will run pretty well in your 8400 thats for sure!

And for some reason by seeing the controls and stuffs of mirrors edge, that game is also looking a 7.5-8.5er with it being mostly near the lower margine, everyone is wishing if the game would have been 3rd person because.. well there hasnt been a good parkour game yet :P

I am still wondering how the controls will be, if its everything clickity clicks then its going to be uber ____

Shiben Bhattacharjee said...

yeah dude, L4D should b played online, i mean its 4 player co-op is its major strength.

I hav lota hopes with Mirror's Edge. I am sure it is gonna be good... 7.5-8.5er works for me :D

mahesh@iiit said...

awesomee mann...btw ever since u've left the college the gaming has come down...no 7.32..no new games...no new gaming videos...no nothing...

are u gonna come back or what??

yeah i think mirrors edge is gonna break some barriers for its revolutionary gameplay (i sure hope so :P)

Shiben Bhattacharjee said...

oh dude thats terrible :(
Wheres Gargoyle and masked-menace? they did some good d/ling of games

mahesh@iiit said...

yeah got mercenaries 2 nd spore recently...mercenaries 2 isnt working on my laptop...crashing as soon as it starts :(

Reeteshifier said...

Mirrors edge for PC delayed to 2009 :S

Shiben Bhattacharjee said...

it sux, although when i got the news I knew thats exactly wats gonna happen

Reeteshifier said...

Yeah , you even Mentioned that while posting the blog :P Delays have gotten very common.. its just that we dont know when it will be announced and how long a delay it will be :(

Shiben Bhattacharjee said...

yeah man, sad stuff. I think 360 and ps3 versions are gonna release at the normal time. pc version got delayed, :(

Anonymous said...

Nice blog dude! only release dates and possible spec requirements would make it better - to let me know if I need to upgrade or possibly just cry!

Nice reviews, keep it up!

Shiben Bhattacharjee said...

hey anon, who iz u man? lemme know :)

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