I have, however, taken it upon myself to share with you some of the highlights of todays news. This is just a short list of some of the games that are going to ensure I'll have an empty savings account by Christmas.
Halo: Reach and Halo 3: ODST
We'll start this off with two Halo based games. You didn't actually think that the Halo series was over just because Master Chief finished the fight, did you? Of course not. First up is a suprise from E3, Halo: Reach. Seeing as how this was just announced today, not much is known about what the game will entail, but for those of us Halo fans out there who know the backstory to the games, the planet Reach was once the military hub for the United Nations Space Corps (UNSC) until the Covenant showed up and blew the entire place to hell. It's also where almost all of Master Chief's fellow SPARTAN soldiers were lost. My money says that this game will feature multi-player SPARTAN campaign modes galore.
The only downside, it does't come out until some time in 2010
Next up is Halo 3: ODST. This game takes place during the events of Halo 3 (hence the title), but instead of playing the all powerful Master Chief you'll be playing one of the UNSC's highly trained Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODST). Since you aren't a SPARTAN in this Halo game and aren't blessed with super strength, an awesome super powered suit or the help of a sexy A.I chick named Cortana, you're going to have to be a bit more careful than you've been before. Word has it that this game will focus heavily on multi-player based squad tactics in order to complete your missions.
As an added bonus, rumor has it that the purchase of Halo3 : ODST will grant you access to the online beta for Halo: Reach. How's that for some added incentive?
Dead Rising 2
THe Original Dead Rising Game was a huge success for Capcom. It was a simple premise really. Stick a player in a shopping mall filled with Zombies, make everything in said mall available as a weapon to use against the zombies, and then let the player go to town on a zombie killing rampage. It really is the simple things that work best, isn't it? Well, for Dead Rising 2, take that same basic premise except this time replace the shopping mall with the downtown Las Vegas strip . . . complete with casinos, bars, nightclubs and more. If you love killing the undead, this game is definitely for you.
Left 4 Dead 2
Speaking of killing massive amounts of the living dead, video game publisher Valve will not be outdone by anyone else and has announced the release of their own undead slaughtering game. Left 4 Dead 2 is the sequel to the suprisingly huge success that was the original Left 4 Dead game. Again proving that simple concepts work best, the game centered around four players who had to work together as a team to survives the hordes of fast moving undead that came at them from every direction. This time around, expect a lot more of the same stuff that made the first game successful. More characters, more maps, more new boss zombies . . . . the sky's the limit.
My favorite thing though, hands down, has to be the inclusion of melee weapons into the game. Players will now be able to wield chainsaws, axes, baseball bats and even frying pans agains the legions of zombies that are attacking them. I only have three words to say to this . . . . Hells Fucking Yes!!!
LEGO Harry Potter
If zombie killing isn't your forte and you much prefer games that aren't all about blood or violence, then I give you LEGO Harry Potter. Made by the same people who brought you the wildly entertaining LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Indiana Jones games, this new game will be covering all of the events of the Harry Potter book series. And of course, they'll be doing it in the totally adorable LEGO form. I can't wait to see what LEGO Voldemort looks like.
And now I bring you the single greatest game trailer that I've seen in a long, long time.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
I'm just going to say this right now . . . thank God for Bioware! Ever since the travesty of an MMO called Star Wars: Galaxies was overshadowed by the amazingly awesome RPG Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR), Star Wars fans have been begging and pleading for Bioware to be given the chance to make a proper MMO based on the Star Wars universe. Well, it looks like someone sold their soul to the right supernatural being because Lucasarts listened and Star Wars: The Old Republic was born.
Coming out only on the PC, and probably not until the end if next year (if we're lucky), The Old Republic takes place thousands of years before the events of any of the Star Wars films. It's back in the time when the Sith were as plentiful as the Jedi and the two sides were at war for control of the galaxy. This video is the first cinematic trailer that has been released for the game which gives us any sense of the plot, and great caesar's ghost if this isn't the most amazing bit of Star Wars fight scene I've ever seen . . . I don't know what is.
God Damn!!! I just cried a bit. I'm not ashamed to admit it. This video moved me to tears with it's awesomeness. Now I am only left wondering why George Lucas didn't just hire out the guys over at Bioware to write the scripts for all three Star Wars prequels. They would have made a set of films truly worthy of the mantle of Star Wars.
Oh well, at least I have this beautiful bit of video to fawn over. I will watch it over and over and over again as I chant to my self, "There is no Jar Jar. There are no Midichlorians. There is only The Old Republic." Maybe if I say it enough, it will become true.
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