Upcoming games from PAX East 2013 – Part II
Taking a look at gameplay for some of the popular titles at pax east, Boston. Links included for most of the games if you are interested fell free to check them out. This list covers titles that will be available for PC.
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Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Release date – North America on August 20, 2013
Platforms – Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii U
Genre – Action Shooter
Link – Official , Wiki
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist is an upcoming action-adventure stealth game from Ubisoft and the seventh instalment of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell series. There will be voice integration with Xbox 360’s Kinect peripheral. Blacklist also introduces a new gameplay mechanic called killing in motion, allowing the player to highlight targets and take them out in quick succession, with a new fluidity while on the run. Ironside isn’t returning as Fisher because Ubisoft needed an actor that was “physically capable” of a motion capture performance hence Johnson was hired for the job.
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Remember Me
Release date – June 2013
Platforms – Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 PC
Genre – Action
Link – Wiki , Facebook
Remember Me features exploration, platforming, stealth, and melee combat. The game introduces the mechanic of ‘memory remixing’: entering and rearranging a target’s memories to manipulate them. Players accomplish this by replaying a memory and modifying details to change the target’s recollection of the outcome.
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Marvel Heroes (Free 2 Play)
Release date – June 4, 2013
Platforms – Mac PC
Genre – Action MMORPG
Link – Official
The MMORPG will be similar to its sister game Marvel Super Hero Squad Online. Characters such as Iron Man, Captain America, Deadpool and Wolverine will serve as characters that players can unlock in the game. The lead writer of the game is Brian Michael Bendis, who has written a number of major Marvel comics. The plot will revolve around the super villain Doctor Doom and various Marvel superheroes. Gameplay will be very similar to that of the action RPGs Diablo and Diablo II. Marvel Heroes will be free-to-play. While micro-transactions will be used to fund and support the game, players will not need to spend money to access the full game.
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Transistor
Release date – Q1 2014
Platforms – Unknown
Genre – Action Strategy Role-Playing
Link – Wiki , Official
Red, a young singer, has come into possession of the mysterious Transistor. The Transistor is a powerful talking sword. The Process wants both her and the Transistor and is relentlessly pursuing her. The game combines free movement in real time with a turn-based strategy mode. When Red’s action bar is filled she can enter planning mode. From there the player can map out a series of movements and actions to take (each consuming a bit of the action bar) and then execute them with super-speed. Afterwards Red must dodge enemies until her action meter fills again.
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GRID 2
Release date – 28 May 2013
Platform Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 PC
Genre – Driving/Racing
Link – Official , Wiki
Grid 2 is an upcoming racing video game, currently under development by Codemasters. The sequel to Race Driver: Grid. The game is slated to include numerous real world locations such as Abu Dhabi, Paris, numerous United States locations, and many more, and will also include automobiles spanning four decades. In addition, it will include a new handling system that developer Codemasters has dubbed ‘TrueFeel’, which aims to hit a sweet spot between realism and accessibility. Races will not include a first person cockpit view, as Codemasters claims only 5 percent of players used this view in the first game.
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Saints Row IV
Release date – August, 2013
Platforms – Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 PC
Genre – Action-Adventure
Link – Wikia
Continuing the story of the Third Street Saints, with the head of the Saints has been elected to the Presidency of the United States. Saints series gets a new twist with a catastrophic alien invasion, and the aliens have transported the Saints to a bizarro-Steelport simulation. Wield gargantuan superpowers and fight to free humanity from alien granddaddy Zinyak’s mental grasp. Escape the simulation that’s trapped the Saints crew, or die trying. Saints Row IV lets players delve into an arsenal of alien weaponry and technology alonngwith superpowers to fight.
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Lost Planet 3
Release date – August 27, 2013
Platforms – Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 PC
Genre – Action Shooter
Link – Wiki
The game is the prequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition and Lost Planet 2 takes place on the same planet of E.D.N. III albeit before the events of the first two games. The game’s gameplay will be more similar to the first game with a story-driven adventure rather than the second game which replaced the story-driven narrative with a simple co-op and grind-heavy campaign. Using the game’s mission-based mechanics, players can choose to take on core quests that progress the story, or side-quests to help out fellow colonists on the planet. The game will allow players to openly explore areas in a style similar to role-playing games with the ability to talk to non-player characters, obtain side-quests, upgrade equipment and build their own bipedal rigs using items gathered throughout the campaign.
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Thief
Release date – 2014
Platform – PC, New Xbox, PlayStation 4
Genre – Action-Adventure
Link – Official, Wiki
Players control Garrett, a master thief, as he intends to steal from the rich. Similar to previous games in the series, players must use stealth in order to overcome challenges, while violence is left as a minimally effective last resort. Gameplay is choice-driven, with players having a number of possible paths and approaches in a given level. Players may use the environment to their advantage, as well as pickpocket characters. Thief is set in a fictional world inspired by Victorian and steampunk aesthetics. Garrett, a master thief who has been away from his hometown for a long time, returns to it, a city named ‘The City’, and finds it ruled over by a tyrant called ‘The Baron’. While The City is infested by a plague, the rich continue to live in good fortune, and Garrett intends to exploit the situation to get rich.
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Ray’s the Dead
Release date – Q3 2013
Platforms – PC
Genre – Adventure puzzle
Link – Official
In Ray’s The Dead, you take on the role of Ray, the newly arisen zombie! In this single player, story driven Action-Stealth-Puzzler, join Ray as he makes the most unlikely friendships and builds a diverse zombie army on his quest to find out how he was killed, why he was resurrected, and most curiously, why this giant bulb is sticking out of his head! It’s 80’s setting evident in every last detail, Ray’s the dead will take you on a quest unlike any you’ve seen before!
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Sully
Release date – Late 2013
Platforms – PC, Mac, Linux and PS Vita
Genre – Comedy jRPG
Link – Official
Sully: A Very Serious RPG is a jRPG-style game made by some plucky Americans trying to bring back the “lighthearted romp” to an increasingly serious genre. Join Crystal and Darin as they deal with their last summer together before going to different colleges, and the adventures they have trying to make sense of growing up in a jRPG world. Pre-order a copy for $9.99! ($5 off!)
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