Halo Wars and the RTS genre

Your going to like this upcoming title if you find the Idea of Halo, and you enjoy Real Time Strategy games. The game has real potential that can wow players who enjoy the zoomed out battlefield idea. If you sat in your room and played with little army men as a kid and you don't know too much about RTS (Real Time Strategy) then read this.

The RTS Genre is a commanding units kind of genre. In war games you order troops from an overhead view and fight against the enemies using built in-game tactics, upgrades, or you can try your own ideas. Usually the single player is very basics oriented in the way that it shows players how to play throughout the game. The multi-player, hopefully online, is usually quite entertaining and intense. PC RTS games are the ancestors of the genre, but now we've seen a few RTS games out on consoles like Battle For Middle Earth II, and Comand and Conquer. Now you will be seeing 4 new and big RTS games on the Xbox 360, Halo Wars, World in Conflict, Supreme Commander, and Civilizations Revolution.

There are other kinds of real time strategy, although few of them. Viva Pinata is considered a strategy game, and as far as my 35 hours into the game went, it was in real time.

The reason so many people prefer RTS games on the Computer is because a mouse is a lot easier to use then an analog stick. You'd be suprised how far developers are going to try and make better Console RTS games. Take Tom Clancy's End War for instance, the game is a brand new concept that brings the camera view closer in, and makes the battle more specific in where you are. Ubisoft, the developer of all Tom Clancy games is taking a big rsk in making this game, but where would the industry be if everything stayed the same?

No More Heroes IGN says.....

Ign.com gave No More Heroes a dissapointing 7.8 but as we've seen with games like Assassins creed, Gamespot scored it higher and gave it a 9.0. We will review the game and not consider other sites as a balance beam, hopefully.

Announced Games!?

Gears of War 2 in 08? Resident Evil 5? Banjo 3? Alan Wake out in 08? Will we see Animal Crossing for Wii? Mario Kart? These are all questions that will be answered in 2008, but the wait is too long for some thats why we can Confirm that Super Smash Bros. Brawl wil release in 2008, so far it's said to come out in March. Grand theft Auto 4 is releasing 08 in the second quarter of the year. Metal Gear Solid 4 is confirmed for 2008 but when it s released in the year we don't know, most likely in the first half. Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is Confirmed and is most likely to come out in March.

Jade Empire 2 Does Exist!

Yes Fans are hyped but it will be a long wait for this one, while bioware has two projects to tackle including Jade Empire 2 and Mass Effect 2, because we all know there's a Sequel.

WARZ BEGUN?

The big question this year when it comes to the consoles is not who sells more games like microsoft or more consoles like Wii, but who delivers the best quality experience?



Well I've sat down with WIi Fans and PS3 fans and as the Admin for G-noise and a 360 owner I have to say the battle this year for the ultimate experience is tight, and sometimes the quality of one game (super smash boros. Brawl) for Nintendo can beat 20 Microsoft games as far as quality goes. And who said quality comes behind Quantity, if you look at Xbox 360's Line up of exclusives there is Fable 2, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Ninja Gaiden 2 and hopefully Alan Wake and Too Human. these are all exciting titles to release but can they together beat Nintendo's Powerhouse, most popular game. Sony has Metal Gear Solid 4, Little Big Planet, SOCOM, Gran Turismo 5, and a lesser known Infamous. Many People are Hyping Killzone 2, but do we not all recall the first one kind of being bad?

Sony and Microsoft share something more powerful than Nintendo's classic series' and that is Multi Platform Games. Games that come out on both PS3 and X360 are games that are really the best bunch of games in the current generation of games, think..Oblivion, Rainbow Six Vegas, Call of Duty 4, Orange Box, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1,2. These games combined with the Exclusives are plenty to show non-Wii gamers that they can have fun, without those classic games that they hold some hold dear.

The Key for Sony is to equalize their multi platformers to make sure that their market recieves the same or better gameplay then the Xbox Market. They need to make sure there aren't any crazes like with Madden 08 when people said that the Xbox version had a better frame-rate, and look better all around.

Xbox 360 needs to be more reliable online, and Microsoft could give us some more Action oriented games. First person shooters can last a long time, so when Microsoft releases 20 in one year players tend to move to Sony's Action oriented, and more balanced games.

Wii just needs a little more Quantity, sure everyone'll forgive Nintendo if they only release Super Smash Bros Brawl as their Big Guns of the year, but they need to get Games like Endless Ocean and No More Heroes out in the open for their market to see. Preferably Nintendo will come out with more Hardcore titles and seek diferent breeds of gamers that hide in their moms basements playing Warcraft.

As I said Multi Platform games are owning the current-gen, I mean games coming out like Grand Theft Auto 4, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Fallout 3, Devil May Cry 4, Battlefield Bad Company, Street Fighter 4, Soul Calibur 4, Army of Two, Resident Evil 5, Saints Row 2 and many more.

Well we'll see through the end of the first quarter of second quarter of the year an uprising of Nintendo, with Super Smash Bros. Brawl in March, but a huge uprising of the Multiplatforming Market that has never been so big. Now that Microsoft and Sony Have this advantage over Nintendo it's a bigger battle and moretechnological consoles Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 will shine a lot more through the fall and the end of the year.

Burnout Paradise IGN Says...

IGN SAYS: 8.8

Yes Burnout Paradise is releasing on January 22nd, and will be giving you our review and a score, just letting you know that IGN.com has given this game an 8.8 and making sure that we can always compare our reviews with bigger sites to show a sense of guideline or to be able to talk about why we might happen to disagree with a review.

Devil May 4 vs. Ninja Gaiden 2

Devil may Cry 4 is a follow up on the 3 Devil May Cry's which feature a main Character called Dante. He being a demon fighter whos a bit egocentric has quite the attitude and really shows how you cn put good gameplay with a less seriouos character and a good story on the Sony Playstation 2 and Be successful. Now in DMC4 there's a new character who incedently looks exactly like Dante. His Name is Nero. Dante usually fights with an over sized sword and wields a fw guns while hes at it. Now with Nero in the picture he's got a special hand which can do some new tricks, as well as a sword and some guns. The story of the game is not to be revealed because spoilers aren't everyones cup of tea, but you'll really enjoy this one, and it's not necessarily timed right after Devil May Cry 3, (could be in between 1-2 or 2-3) as far as the stories timeline goes.

Ryu Hayabusa is a Ninja fighting for revenge and you'll see in videos that he is really angry with his enemies, otherwise he's just sick. This is Ninja Gaiden 2 and you'll notice how much of a gory beat-em-up this game is, but a very hard game. Ryu Hayabusa is the coolest ninja of all time and he is going to prove something with all very cool weapons such as ninja stars, swords, wolverine like claws (longer than wolverines) and ninja staffs, ect. The first three games of Ninja gaiden did not let anyone down but were never the most popular games.


Comparing the two is a bit harder than I expected. I noticed that in Ninja Gaiden you do have to pause the game to switch weapons, and Devil May Cry 4 is weapon change in real time. Hey you know some people like to take a break, and you might need to after chopping opponents in half, their heads off (ect). Devil May Cry is quite rewarding compared to Ninja Gaiden where you kill an enemy and the bar at the top might fill up and say "Carnage" or "pwmage" or something to that effect. Ninja Gaiden will have a feature more exciting than I thought at first, but it will have a fighting element where you can cut an enemies lims off, but they'll comtinue runing, shaking or crawling their way to you. Devil May Cry has not been said to have this feature, but if you play both you'll see that the physics in Devil May Cry are more freelance, where ninja gaiden everything thats done might be hard but is at least humanly possible, at least most things.

What do you have to say about the biggest action games coming to 08 Consoles?

Dark Sector is pushed back

A less well known game that many editors believe is a clone of Gears of War although they've added an element which is the three bladed ninja star-like thing to throw at enemies. The 1up team claim it is the Emo version of Gears of War. I think it's the best looking third person shooter for 08, but to look even more forward into 09 we will see the release of Resident Evil 5. this will show some competion and hopefully an incentive for developers to make a brilliant game.

Kingdom Under Fire Flops Everywhere!

Kingdom under fire flopped all over the web so a review on G-noise is unlikely. But you can look forward to Burnout Paradise Reviews, and other talk this month. Hopefully we'll see the next few months pickup in gaming and we'll see titles like Super Smash Bros Brawl and Devil May Cry 4 and Dark Sector in February.

No more Heroes

No more Heroes looking pretty good! Suda 51 the developer of No More Heroes made a game called Killer 7 which was an excellent game but no one knew it existed. Killer 7 was a game which was an aquired taste and really only a few who played it liked it.

Now we have seen videos of the Japanese version with no gore, but the North American Version is supposed to be bloody and gory. The game looks fun, with exciting wiimote combos, and something everyone might not be all for is the Freeze frame. I think that the freeze frame is more than required to give you the time to complete the wii remote action.

No more Heroes looks a lot like a beat-em-up game and it looks like a must rent game, and hopefully a buy.