A very telling and well thought out post by Andy. I’ll be leaving my comments over at his site for continuity when this thing hits the fan 
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Jim over at RPS has an excellent write up on the potential of a “World of Evecraft” style game. I totally agree.
Finally, the studio is asking that Epic be forced to surrender all profits garnered by Gears of War as a result of misconduct.
And the reason,
“That advantage was nowhere more evident than at E3 2006, where Gears of War was awarded ‘Best Game in Show’ and garnered nothing but laudatory press,” the suit reads. “By contrast, Silicon Knights–one of the only other developers to publicly display a playable demonstration of its game–saw Too Human roundly criticized in the videogame press for its technical problems and generally unpolished appearance. The damage to Silicon Knights caused by Epic’s misconduct was manifest, because E3 attendees were able to compare Too Human with another game running ostensibly the same game engine, Gears of War, with vastly superior results.”
So it all comes back to E3 2006 again. First they blamed the press now they blame the engine. I seem to remember another Unreal Engine 3 game called Rainbow Six: Vegas coming out in late 2006 and being very successful. Funny that.
This game has been in and out of development for 8 years. Something tells me they have bigger issues internally than they care to admit.
From Xbox.com about the spring update,
- Added H.264 video support: Up to 10 Mbps peak, Baseline, Main, and High profiles with 2 channel AAC LC.
- Added MPEG-4 Part 2 video support: Up to 5 Mbps peak, Simple Profile with 2 channel AAC LC.
Potential for x264 and Xvid compatibility me thinks! Hells yes!
There is something about the no holds barred hate towards the PS3 over at UK:RESISTANCE that just warms the cockles of my heart. A fine fine website.
What’s not to love about this game? Like Total Annihilation did back in 1997 it completely renews the RTS genre once more and takes it in a totally different direction to anything else on the market or currently in development. As we have seen with other genres, games are splitting up into distinctly different sub-genres and now it’s the turn of the RTS. Games such as Company of Heroes and Supreme Commander while both RTSs take radically different approaches to the fundamentals of the genre.
Total Annihilation was a game I played for at least 3 years after release and up until the relatively recent releases of Dawn of War and Company of Heroes I felt the RTS hadn’t moved beyond it. This week it has taken a massive bound due to the vision of Chris Taylor and remnants of Cavedog. I really do not feel I can do the game justice in a single post here today so as I play through more of the campaign and experiment with the multiplayer I will record my thoughts. I urge you all to spend some time this week digging into ‘SupCom’ because this kind of thing only comes round once every 10 years.
While playing the new Lumines Live add-on packs last night I thought to myself “Why can’t I earn achievements on additional content?”. A few hours later and thankfully my questions were answered over at Gamerscore Blog. Looks like future downloadables will be dishing out achievements as well with 250 extra points for retail games and 50 for live arcade titles. Unfortunately it only applies to games released from now on so no points for completing Lumines VS CPU mode but good news none the less.
Ok now this is funny. My 360 has it’s own blog! Get yours here.
These are my Top 5 games on any platform this year. Being a transition year between console generations has been tougher than I expected on the release cycle. Early 2006 and summer 2006 were particularly sparse for releases, leading to a high number of titles launching in the Christmas season.
On a personal note 2006 was a year where I played very little between the months of January and May. Finishing up that degree seems so long ago but it involved going cold turkey for several months to get it done. With new releases on the level I mentioned this resulted in only needing to catch up on a small number of titles luckily enough.
This list is composed of games released in 2006 which I played, so anything which I didn’t spend time with is not included. I don’t see this as a problem as games which I don’t choose to play wouldn’t have made this by their very nature anyway. Argue all you like by the lack of Zelda Twilight Princess but it simply didn’t move the genre forward and ultimately was the reason for me not getting a Wii.
The two games perched far and away at the top of this list did move their respective genres forward. Both Gears of War and Oblivion are huge technical and creative achievements that have set the bar obscenely high for what games can do. If you play any two games this year it must be these.
1. Gears of War
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